Erving Goffman: from the perspective of the new sociology of knowledge

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- On the rationale for this monograph -- The interaction order as leitmotif and overarching theme -- Erving Goffman and the new sociology of knowledge -- Notes -- Chapter 1: Erving Goffman: "Marginal man" and "key sociological thinker" -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Intellectual formation and influences -- The sociological classics -- Émile Durkheim -- Georg Simmel -- The "classical" Chicago School of Sociology -- Robert E. Park -- William I. Thomas -- The second generation of Chicago sociology -- Everett C. Hughes -- W. Lloyd Warner -- "The time when labeling began" -- Symbolic interactionism -- Ethnomethodology -- Linguistics -- Phenomenology -- Ethology -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Methodology and procedures -- The postulate of the freedom from value judgment, and the primacy of ethnographic fieldwork -- "Theory on some crude and vulgar level": Analytical concepts and conceptual frameworks -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Social situations and the self -- Interpersonal Rituals -- The theatrical stage, role play, and role distance -- Spoiled identity and total institutions -- Notes -- Chapter 5: Normality and its frames -- Primary frameworks, keyings, and deceptions -- Gender frameworks -- Conversational frameworks -- Note -- Chapter 6: Reception and influence -- Note -- Literature -- I Writings of Erving Goffman -- Articles -- Note -- II Secondary Literature -- Chronology -- Note -- Index

Introduction -- Erving goffman: "marginal man" and "key sociological thinker" -- Intellectual formation and influences -- Methodology and procedures -- Social situations and the self -- Normality and its frames -- Reception and influence -- Literature -- Chronology -- Index.