BEHAVIOR IN PUBLIC PLACES

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Free Press, May 1, 1963 - Psychology - 248 pages

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Contents

The Problem
3
Introductory Definitions
13
UNFOCUSED INTERACTION
31
Copyright

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About the author (1963)

Erving Goffman, an American sociologist, received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He is known for his distinctive method of research and writing. He was concerned with defining and uncovering the rules that govern social behavior down to the minutest details. He contributed to interactionist theory by developing what he called the "dramaturgical approach," according to which behavior is seen as a series of mini-dramas. Goffman studied social interaction by observing it himself---no questionnaires, no research assistants, no experiments. The title of his first book, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (1959), became one of the themes of all of his subsequent research. He also observed and wrote about the social environment in which people live, as in his Total Institutions. He taught his version of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania; he died in 1983, the year in which he served as president of the American Sociological Association.

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TitleBEHAVIOR IN PUBLIC PLACES
AuthorGoffman
PublisherFree Press, 1963
ISBN0029119308, 9780029119303
Length248 pages
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Psychology / Interpersonal Relations
Social Science / Sociology / General
  
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