Introduction: interpreting Goffman's sociological legacy / Greg Smith -- Erving Goffman : what is a life? The uneasy making of an intellectual biography / Yves Winkin -- Fine romances : two arrangements between the sexes in public places / Carol Brooks Gardner -- Role distance and the negational self / James J. Chriss -- Sundered selves : mental illness and the interaction order in the work of Erving Goffman / William Gronfein -- Ethnographic coats and tents / Philip Manning -- The omnipotence of the actor : Erving Goffman on 'the definition of the situation' / Wes Sharrock -- Reading Goffman on interaction / Rod Watson -- Non-person and Goffman : sociology under the influence of literature / Andrew Travers -- Claiming the text : parsing the sardonic visions of Erving Goffman and Thorstein Veblen / Gary Alan Fine
Summary
This collection brings together many of today's leading sociologists to pursue and build upon the diverse aspects of Goffman's legacy and to discuss key topics of his work
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-215) and index
