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12 - Erving Goffman and Dramaturgical Sociology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 December 2020

By
Philip Manning
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Peter Kivisto
Peter Kivisto
Affiliation:
Augustana College, Illinois
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Summary

The first part of this chapter reviews Goffman’s intellectual context in terms of the dramaturgical model and its significance in Goffman’s work overall. The second part compared dramaturgy to ethnomethodology before turning to the work after Goffman, particularly the signaling theory championed by Diego Gambetta.

Philip Manning received his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1989. He is a Professor of Sociology at Cleveland State University. His work concerns social theory and intellectual history, particularly the history and practice of symbolic interactionism. He recently completed an NSF project that designed a user-friendly way to store passwords in games and is currently exploring ways to increase federal grant success in small universities.

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DramaturgyethnomethodologyHarold GarfinkelErving Goffmansignaling theorysymbolic interactionism
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The Cambridge Handbook of Social Theory , pp. 226 - 249
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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