Snapshots ?sub specie aeternitatis?: Sinunel, Goffman and formal sociology

Smith, Gregory W. H.

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“…Always the teacher, Hughes (1969b:426) suggested that while Goffman may never take up the study of such institutions, “others should try it.” Hughes did not realize, or, perhaps, care to admit, that Goffman's focus on the “neglected situation” (Goffman [1964] 1968) deliberately departed from Hughes's institutional frame of analysis (see Helmes‐Hayes 1998). In this respect, and as Greg Smith (1989, [1989] 1994) has shown, Goffman, not Hughes, faithfully followed Simmel's microsociological method.…”

Section: Phase Two: Concealing the Apprenticeshipmentioning

confidence: 63%

Erving Goffman: The Reluctant Apprentice

Jaworski

2000

Symbolic Interaction

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The intellectual relationship between Erving Coffman and Everett C. Hughes is explored in the context of an apprenticeship model derived from correspondence between the two sociologists. Coffman is identified as a "reluctant apprentice" because his work and his letters to Hughes display a tension between a striking originality and a fidelity to his "master." Three phases of their ambivalent relationship are described and an explanation for Coffman's reluctant acknowledgment of Hughes's influence is briefly explored.

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Section: Phase Two: Concealing the Apprenticeshipmentioning

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Erving Goffman: The Reluctant Apprentice

Jaworski

2000

Symbolic Interaction

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“…Consistent with the social behaviorism and sociological formalism (Smith, 1994) that informs Goffman's approach to the sociology of the interaction order, central attention was accorded forms of interaction (face-work, performances, role-distance, etc.) rather than a primordial self-other relation.…”

Section: The Other In the Interaction Ordermentioning

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Enacted Others: Specifying Goffman's Phenomenological Omissions and Sociological Accomplishments

Smith

2005

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Erving Goffman's distinctive contribution to an understanding of others was grounded in his information control and ritual models of the interaction process. This contribution centered on the forms of the interaction order rather than self-other relations as traditionally conceived in phenomenology. Goffman came to phenomenology as a sympathetic but critical outsider who sought resources for the sociological mining of the interaction order. His engagement with phenomenological thinkers (principally Gustav Ichheiser, Jean-Paul Sartre and Alfred Schutz) has to be understood in these terms. The article traces basic differences in analytical focus through a range of phenomenological critiques of Goffman and a comparison of salient aspects of Schutz's and Goffman's writings. While the contrasts have perhaps been overplayed, I conclude that Goffman's thinking about others probably owed more to his pragmatist roots than to his later encounters with phenomenology.

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“…If Smith's (2000Smith's ( [1989) discussion was mainly driven by an attempt to explore the similarities and echoes between the sociologies of Simmel and Goffman, Murray S. Davis (1997) offered a portrayal of their relationship designed to highlight the different paths taken by the two. Davis maintains that the work of both Simmel and Goffman served to legitimate the study of human experience and thus to give human beings "more ontological weight" (1997:386; Davis's italics).…”

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Georg Simmel

Smith¹

2017

The Interactionist Imagination

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Snapshots ?sub specie aeternitatis?: Sinunel, Goffman and formal sociology

Cited by 20 publications

References 29 publications

Erving Goffman: The Reluctant Apprentice

Erving Goffman: The Reluctant Apprentice

Enacted Others: Specifying Goffman's Phenomenological Omissions and Sociological Accomplishments

Georg Simmel

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