Erving Goffman

Branaman, Ann

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“…Goffman, who offered different approaches to symbolic interactionism, which Mead (1934) worked on and then conceptualized by Blumer (1937), stated that the concept needed to be more transparent and criticized. Goffman, who is close to Mead and Blumer in his approaches, has studied the structure of the social world (Branaman, 1997). The basis of their work is the simple actions and interactions that form the base of the creation of Chicago School representatives.…”

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The Effects of Interactions in Virtual Communities on Social Media in the Shaping and Reproducing of Cultural Memory, Neighborhood Identity, and Culture

Sarıkaya¹

2023

Communication Papers

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This study aims to reveal the effect of virtual communities in social media on the reproduction of cultural memory, neighborhood identity, and culture. Another aim of the study is to investigate the potential of virtual communities to shape cultural memory, continuity, and social structure and to discuss the impact of individuals who can actively produce and share content in virtual communities on neighborhood identity and neighborhood culture. For this purpose, three research questions were put forward. RQ1: “How does interaction occur in social media, different from communities in the physical environment?” RQ2: “How are cultural memory, neighborhood culture, and identity rebuilt and shaped in the context of communication and interaction that emerges in social media virtual communities?” RQ3: “In virtual communities in social media, what is the potential of subcultures to influence or contribute to communities on a macro scale with the resulting interaction?” The theoretical approach of the research consists of Mead (2019), the representative of symbolic interactionism, and Goffman's (1978) self-society relationship with the presentation of the Self. In addition, cultural memory, neighborhood identity and culture, and the concept of the virtual community were mentioned, and the coding made for the research was directed in this direction. As a sample for the study, comments were obtained on the Tatavla'dan Kurtuluş’a virtual community on Facebook between 30 May and 30 December 2022 (n:1134), and these comments were analyzed by Van Dijk's discourse analysis method. According to the findings, the communities formed by the coming together of the selves in the micro context ensure the continuity of the neighborhood identity and culture that has been eroded in the virtual environment. However, the impact of these communities on face-to-face relations and institutions remains limited.

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“…One main feature distinguishing Gofmann from Mead and Blumer is his position as a structuralist. According to him, individuals live in a pre-existing society and have almost no power to change anything (Branaman, 1997). Addressing his studies in this direction, Goffman made essential contributions to social theory.…”

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The Effects of Interactions in Virtual Communities on Social Media in the Shaping and Reproducing of Cultural Memory, Neighborhood Identity, and Culture

Sarıkaya¹

2023

Communication Papers

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“…See, for example: Baert (1998, pp. 75-82); Branaman (2001); Burns (1992); Ditton (1980); Drew and Wootton (1988); Fine and Smith (2000); ; Jacobsen (2010Jacobsen ( , 2015; ; Miller (1984; Mohren (2008); ; ; ; Scheff (2006); ; Smith (2006Smith ( , 1999; Treviño (2003); Willems (1997); Williams (1983.…”

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Current Perspectives in Social Theory

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“…This is especially so when we consider that such practice was grounded in notably wide reading across disciplines and in world literature, a highly developed analytical manner that was inseparable from a notable literary talent in composing published texts, and an open-mindedness about the gathering of data sources in ways that some today find methodologically much too promiscuous. Can there today be a Goffmanesque form of social science, including a form of social theory, in any meaningful sense of that term (Branaman, 1997), when the man himself was just so particular, if not also in some ways downright peculiar?…”

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Beyond the “inimitable” Goffman: from “social theory” to social theorizing in a Goffmanesque manner

Inglis,

Thorpe

2023

Front. Sociol.

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Erving Goffman's status as a great social scientist today seems relatively secure. Many commentators highlight his extraordinary capacities to pinpoint the fine-grained details of human behavior in the “interaction order”. But if Goffman's brilliance in this respect was deeply rooted in his various and interlocking personal, existential, social, and intellectual idiosyncrasies, and his intellectual practice is inimitable, the degree to which anyone else could, or should try to, imitate Goffman's intellectual practice today, remains an open question. This is especially so when we consider that such practice was grounded in notably wide reading across disciplines and in world literature, a highly developed analytical manner that was inseparable from a notable literary talent in composing published texts, and an open-mindedness about the gathering of data sources in ways that some today find methodologically much too promiscuous. The paper initially considers these issues: the multiple “Goffmans” that exegetes and commentators have identified; how such persons have claimed Goffman to be essentially of one or more theoretical persuasions; and how various social theorists have drawn upon Goffman's work. It then moves on to argue that a Goffmanesque kind of social theorizing, is not only possible (if difficult) today, but also vital too. Such theorizing insists on the ongoing role of literary-intellectual and metaphorical ways of thinking and writing, at a time when these are becoming apparently less crucial in studies of human interaction. No matter how technologically advanced such studies may become, they still require some of the intellectual and literary flair that Goffman brought to his scholarly doings. Goffmanesque theorizing can inform new insights into various domains, including the very nature of social change.

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Erving Goffman

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The Effects of Interactions in Virtual Communities on Social Media in the Shaping and Reproducing of Cultural Memory, Neighborhood Identity, and Culture

The Effects of Interactions in Virtual Communities on Social Media in the Shaping and Reproducing of Cultural Memory, Neighborhood Identity, and Culture

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