Erving Goffman: The Reluctant Apprentice

Jaworski, Gary D.

doi:10.1525/si.2000.23.3.299

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“…Although it has limitations, the “European” reading of Goffman as principally a theorist of the interaction order offers a useful way of highlighting part of his contribution to sociological thinking. By contrast, the “American” reading of Goffman raises a different but also important set of issues concerning his relationship to both symbolic interactionism and Hughes (see Jaworski 2000) and to ethnomethodology and Garfinkel. Giddens's reading assumes that Goffman's ideas are easily compatible with Garfinkel's.…”

Section: The Interaction Order and Deceptionmentioning

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Credibility, Agency, and the Interaction Order

Manning

2000

Symbolic Interaction

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There are two ways of reading Goffman—as a theorist of trust and ritual accommodation, that is, as a theorist of the interaction order, or as a theorist of deception. I suggest a way of making these two readings compatible, by arguing that Goffman was interested in what I call the “production of credibility.” Credibility is the quality of being believable, and this quality is integral to both trust and deception. Viewed in this way, Goffman explored the ways in which people make their actions convincing to other people. Although Goffman's analysis of the interaction order did not need a theory of the self, his work actually contains two quite different theories of the self: one linked to role analysis, one to his analysis of mental illness. I argue for the latter at the expense of the former. I conclude that Goffman both initiated substantive work about the interaction order and contributed to a synthesis of a theory of the interaction order and a theory of the self.

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Section: The Interaction Order and Deceptionmentioning

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Credibility, Agency, and the Interaction Order

Manning

2000

Symbolic Interaction

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“…Claiming not to take “the term dramaturgy … all that seriously,” he labeled his approach a “structural Social Psychology [that was] closer to the structural functionalists, like Parsons or Merton,” and described himself as a “cultural relativist” and “a positivist basically” (pp. 320, 322, 324, 325; see also Jaworski 2000:303).…”

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Sociology of Humor and a Critical Dramaturgy

Paolucci

Richardson

2006

Symbolic Interaction

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Goffman's analytic framework can provide tools useful for a critical theory of modern society. While commentators have remarked on Goffman's apparent technical neutrality, a sociology of humor can help reveal his critical thrust. Using a latent content analysis, we demonstrate how several frames found in Jerry Seinfeld's humor are both dramaturgical and covertly critical. We use these themes to illuminate the critical analyses of modern social life provided by Goffman's method.

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“…As a philosopher Burke is difficult to pigeonhole and his enthusiasms range widely. His most significant contribution was the development of dramatism as a means to analyse human relationships and in this he was a key influence on Erving Goffman (Jaworski, 2000). A major concern was with motivation.…”

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Perspective by incongruity in the performance of dialectical ironic analysis: a disciplined approach

Watson

2019

Qualitative Research

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The importance of dialectic to sociological thought has been recognised by many of the discipline’s most eminent thinkers. Adopting a dialectical world view infused with irony provokes insights revealing logical contradictions, so opening up possibilities for the development of alternative interpretations of the social world. There is, however, very little in the way of method to support the development of dialectical irony as a key analytical tool for the social sciences. This article seeks to remedy this deficit. Drawing on three key examples (trained incapacity, functional stupidity and interpassivity) the article examines Kenneth Burke’s ‘perspective by incongruity’ as a means for interrogating the dialectical moment, so contributing towards the development of dialectical ironic analysis within a methodology of humour.

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Erving Goffman: The Reluctant Apprentice

Cited by 25 publications

References 10 publications

Credibility, Agency, and the Interaction Order

Credibility, Agency, and the Interaction Order

Sociology of Humor and a Critical Dramaturgy

Perspective by incongruity in the performance of dialectical ironic analysis: a disciplined approach

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