Interaction ritual;: Essays on face-to-face behavior - Hardcover

Goffman, Erving

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0202300706 ISBN 13: 9780202300702

Publisher: Anchor Books, 1967

Synopsis

"Not then, men and their moments. Rather, moments and their men," writes Erving Goffman in the introduction to his groundbreaking 1967 Interaction Ritual, a study of face-to-face interaction in natural settings, that class of events which occurs during co-presence and by virtue of co-presence. The ultimate behavioral materials are the glances, gestures, positionings, and verbal statements that people continuously feed into situations, whether intended or not. This is an interesting account of daily social interaction viewed with a new perspective for the logic of our behavior in ordinary circumstances.

About this title

From the Back Cover

In a brilliant series of books about social behavior, including The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Asylums, and Stigma, Erving Goffman has exposed all that is at stake when people meet face to face. Goffman's work, one of the great intellectual achievements of our time, is an endlessly fascination commentary on how we enact ourselves by our responses to and our readings of other people.

About the Author

ERVING GOFFMAN is the author of, among other works, Interaction Ritual, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Asylums, and Stigma. He is Benjamin Franklin Professor of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania.

Edition details

• Publisher: Anchor Books
• Publication date: 1967
• ISBN 10: 0202300706
• ISBN 13: 9780202300702
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 270