The Goffman Course - Softcover

Hood, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1959930540 ISBN 13: 9781959930549

Publisher: Authors' Tranquility Press, 2024

Synopsis

The essays in this book call attention to the ideas developed in the writings of Erving Goffman. The authors relate Goffman's ideas to the writings of philosophers and sociologists. This book consists of essays presented as lectures to undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. The context was a special class during which students were reading the published work of Erving Goffman and writing about what they were reading. Some Students enrolled as philosophy students and others as sociology students. Professor Hood and Professor Van De Vate often handed out printed versions to the students on the day they were presented. Dr. Hood took these printed versions to prepare the manuscript in a continuous form. The Lectures themselves were presented some years apart, since the two departments agreed to offer the course only occasionally. The essay were designed to stimulate questions about what Goffman concludes, as well his techniques of observing and analyzing social life.

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About the Author

Tom Hood, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, joined the faculty at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville in 1965. Current research and writing interests include social suffering and collective distress, the social psychology of appearance and the attribution of character, the work of Erving Goffman, and environmental movements in America. His published research on the Billy Graham crusade in Knoxville and his works on the social psychology of experiments have been reprinted and widely cited.
 
Professor Dwight Van de Vate Jr., PhD (deceased), a deeply respected member of the Philosophy Department at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, taught there for over thirty years. Dwight's favorite technique was to ask a student to use a concept in a question. One of Dwight's writings, which reached book length, is Romantic Love - A Philosophical Inquiry, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1981.

Edition details

• Publisher: Authors' Tranquility Press
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1959930540
• ISBN 13: 9781959930549
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 262
• Editor: Van De Vate Dwight