The contemporary Goffman / edited by Michael Hviid Jacobsen

Includes bibliographical references and index

Goffman through the looking glass : from 'classical' to contemporary Goffman / Michael Hviid Jacobsen -- Goffman's greenings / Yves Winkin -- Labelling Goffman : the presentation and appropriation of Erving Goffman in academic life / Michael Hviid Jacobsen and Søren Kristiansen -- Continuities in Goffman : the interaction order / Peter K. Manning -- Goffman's textuality : literary sensibilities and sociological rhetorics / Greg Smith and Michael Hviid Jacobsen -- Goffman, still : spoiled identities and sociological irony / Charles Lemert -- Reconsidering gender advertisements : performativity, framing and display / Greg Smith -- New Goffman : Robert W. Fuller's politics of dignity / Thomas J. Scheff -- Recognition as rituialised reciprocation : the interaction order as a realm of recognition / Michael Hviid Jacobsen -- Protean Goffman : Erving Goffman and the new individualism / Ann Branaman -- 21st-century interaction order / Richard Jenkins -- 'Unboothed' phone : Goffman and the use of mobile communication / Rich Ling -- Question of calculation : Erving Goffman and the pervasive planning of communication / Espen Ytreberg -- Goffman and the tourist gaze : a performative perspective on tourism mobilities / Jonas Larsen -- Erving Goffman and everyday life mobility / Ole B. Jensen -- Close strangers : patient-patient interaction rituals in acute care hospitals / Dag Album

'The Contemporary Goffman' highlights the continued relevance of Goffman to sociology and related disciplines - to theoretical discussions as well as to substantive empirical research - through contributions dealing with a variety of topics and themes