Relations In Public

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Erving Goffman was Benjamin Franklin Professor of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania until his death in 1982. He is recognized as one of the world’s foremost social theorists and much of his work still remains in print. Among his classic books are The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Interaction Ritual, Stigma, Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity, and Frame Analysis.

Philip D. Manning is professor and chairman of the department of sociology and criminology at Cleveland State University. He is the author of Freud and American Sociology and Erving Goffman and Modern Sociology.