Erving Goffman Archives

The Erving Goffman Archives
Documents and Papers
Erving Goffman's Ancestors, From the Averbach Family Reunion Album, 2007 Anne Averbach Goffman's Family, From the Averback Family Reunion Album, 2007 Frances Goffman Bay, Tribute on the Occasion of Her Walk of Fame Induction, 2008 Frances Goffman Bay, Canadian Hall of Fame Nomination, 2008 Max Goffman, Obituary, 1954 Frances Goffman Bay, Obituary, 2011 Erving Goffman's Obituary, The New York Times, 1982 Erving Goffman's Obituary, The Philadelphia Inquirer, 1982 Erving Goffman, The Role of Status Symbols in Social Organization, 1948 Erving Goffman, Some Characteristics of Response to Depicted Situations, 1949 Erving Goffman, Draft of Ph.D. Thesis Statement, 1952 Erving Goffman, Communication Conduct in an Island Community, 1953 Erving Goffman, The Service Station Dealer, 1953 Erving Goffman, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, The Edinburgh Edition, 1956 Erving Goffman, Goffman in Shetland Erving Goffman, Resume, 1963 Erving Goffman, Resume, 1979 Erving Goffman, Graduation Address at the University of Manitoba, 1976 Erving Goffman, MacIver Award, 1961 Erving Goffman, Honorary Degree Awarded by the University of Chicago, 1979 Donald Levine, Statement on the Occasion of Goffman's Honorary Degree at the University of Chicago, 1979 Angelica Schuyler Choate, The Personality Trends of Upperclass Women, 1950 Erving Goffman-Irving Louis Horowitz, Correspondence, 1965-1975 Erving Goffman-Everett Hughes, Correspondence, 1955-1978 Everett Hughes, Syllabus for Introduction to Field Methods, 1947 Erving Goffman-Dell Hymes, Correspondence, 1967-1982 Everett Hughes, Audio File with a Letter to Goffman, 1970 Erving Goffman-Thomas Sebeok, Correspondence, 1961-1980 Erving Goffman, Leter to Diane Bjorklund, 1981 Erving Gofffman, Letters to Bob Emerson and Alexander Morin, 1970, 1981 Erving Goffman, Letter to Tom Scheff, 1973 Erving Goffman, Letter Acknowledging Honorary Degree at the University of Chicago, 1980 Erving Goffman, Letter to Peter Nardi, 1981 Erving Goffman, Letter to Horst Helle, 1982 Erving Goffman, Syllabus and Readings for Class on Society and Perosnality, 1960 Erving Goffman, Syllabus and Readings for Class on Communication and Social Contact, 1960 Erving Goffman, Readings for Class on Public Order, 1969 Erving Goffman, Readings for Class on the Ethnography of Symbolic Forms, 1970 Erving Goffman, Readings for Class on Social Interaction, 1972 Erving Goffman-Michael Delaney, Exchange on Frame Analysis, 1973 Harold Bershady, Exchange with Goffman on the ASA Panel, 1982 Michael Delaney, Term Paper for Goffman's Class, 1970 Michel Delaney, Midterm Exam for Goffman's Class, 1972 Sherri Cavan, Term Paper for Goffman's Class, 1962 Sherri Cavan, Final Exam for Goffman's Sociology Class John Lofland Files, 1982-1983 Tom Goffman, The Medical Industrial Complex, 2003 Tom Goffman, Consultation Chaos, 2004
Goffman's Publications
E. Goffman, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life E. Goffman, On Face Work E. Goffman, Behavior in Public Places E. Goffman, Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates E. Goffman, Interaction Ritual: Essays in Face to Face Behavior E. Goffman, Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity E. Goffman, Relations in Public: Microstudies of the Public Order E. Goffman, Strategic Interaction E. Goffman, Frame Analysis E. Goffman, Forms of Talk E. Goffman, Gender Advertisement E. Goffman, The Goffman Reader E. Goffman, The Neglected Situations E. Goffman, The Interaction Order: 1982 Presidential Address E. Goffman, The Insanity of Place E. Goffman, On Fieldwork E. Goffman, Response Cries E. Goffman, Felicity's Condition E. Goffman, The Arrangement between the Sexes E. Goffman, The Nature of Deference and Demeanor E. Goffman, Embarrassment and Social Organization E. Goffman, The Neglected Situation E. Goffman, Symbols of Class Status E. Goffman, On Cooling the Mark Out E. Goffman, Review: Tobati: Paraguayan Town E. Goffman, Review: Children's Humor: A Psychological Analysis E. Goffman, Review: Human Problems of a State Mental Hospital E. Goffman, Bibliography (HTML) E. Goffman, Bibliography (PDF)
Goffman in the News
The New York Times, Articles Citing Erving Goffman, 1961-2008 Glen King, Well Chosen Title, 1958 Sidney Harris, Public Blind to Mental Sickness, 1962 S. Duvall and E. Duvall, Is Hazing Limited to Colleges, 1965 S. Duvall and E. Duvall, Swindlers Frequently Make Use of Psychology, 1968 Anderson Herald, Patients Being Seen Made by Hospitals, 1968 Joyce Brothers, Daughter Looks Like Hippie, 1968 Joyce Brothers, Etiquette Demands Discussed, 1968 Joyce Brothers, Boy Friend Wants to Sky Dive, 1968 Joyce Brothers, Is This Your Problem?, 1968 Joyce Brothers, Gestures Do Talking, 1969 Joyce Brothers, Sunglass Wearing Thought, 1970 Joyce Brothers, Good Manners Social Forum, 1970 San Antonio Light, Tilting Shoe Means Shoo!, 1969 Time, Exploring a Shadow World, 1969 Julius Fast, Masking Emotions Guards Space Zones, 1970 Robert Rheinhold, UC Faculty Leaders Start Drifting Away to the East, 1969 S. I. Hayakawa, Mentally Ill Don't Complain, 1971 Max Lerner, Pay for the Madman, 1972 Christopher Lehman-Haupt, 'City Police' is Low Key Look at Philadelphia's Law Enforcers, 1973 Dr. Goffman Will Lecture at Gettysburg College, 1973 Editorial, Aging Idiots Gloomy World Forecast for Grads, 1976 Dr. Goffman, Convocation Exercises, 1976 Ellie Grossman, Etiquette Topic of Study, 1984 Jack Rosenthal, Body Language Relates More Than Mere Words, 1987 Dennis Jarrett, The Tipping of America, 2000 Judy Gerstel, Sophie Freud: Psychoanalysis Is Not Useful, 2003 E. Goffman, Horoscope by Holiday, 2004 J. Senior, Obama and the New Age of Candor, 2009 Erving Goffman, Wikipedia
Biographical Materials
Daniel Albas, 2010 Angelo Alonzon, 2014 Peter Archibald, 2014 Carl Backman, 2009 Eli Bay, 2009 Howard Becker, 2007 Bennett Berger, 1973 Marshall Berman, 1972 Harold Bershady, 2009 Esther Besbris, 2009 Joel Best, 2007 Elizabeth Bott Spillius, 2010 Carol Brooks Gardner 2008 Meyer Brownstone, 2009 Sherri Cavan, 2008 Aaron Cicourel, 2009 Dan Cisin, 2015 Adele Clark, 2009 Walter Clark, 2009 Randall Collins, 1986 Paul Creelan, 1984 Arlene Daniels, 1983 2009 Richard Daniels, 2009 David Dickens, 2007 Robert Dingwall, 2008 Russell Dynes, 1983 2009 Frederick Elkin, 2009 Robert Erwin, 1992 Gary Alan Fine, 2000 2009 Andy Fontana, 2007 Renée Fox, 2008 Gertrude Frankelson, 2009 David Franks, 2008 Eliot Freidson, 1983 William Gamson, 2009 Carol Brooks Gardner 2008 Arnold Glass, 2009 Charles Glock, 2008 Frances Goffman Bay, 2009 Jeffrey Goldfarb, 2008 Leo Goodman, 2009 Alvin Gouldner, 1970 Allen Grimshaw, 1983 Joseph Gusfield, 2008 Robert Habenstein, 2008 Gerald Handel, 2009 Samuel Heilman, 2008 Travis Hirschi, 2012 Horst Helle, 2009 Arlie Russell Hochschild, 1990 Ruth Horowitz, 2007 Joan Huber, 2009 Dell Hymes, 1984 Jonathan Imber, 2006 John Irwin, 2007 Gary Jaworski, 2000 Rachel Kahn-Hut, 2009 Avron Katz, 2001 Luis Kriesberg 2009	Lester Kurtz, 2011 Gladys Lang, 2009 Kurt Lang, 2009 Marshall Ledger, 1982 Charles Lemert, 1997 Donald Levine, 2009 Victor Lidz, 2008 John Lofland, 1984, 2009 Dean MacCannell, 1983 1990 2009 Peter Manning, 1976 2007 2008 Philip Manning, 2000 Gary Marx, 1984 Gail McGregor, 1986 David Mechanic, 1989 Gladys Meirovits, 2013 Saul Mendlovitz, 2008 Peter Miller, 2010 Calvin Morrill, 2008 David Nasatir, 2010 Jane Allyn Piliavin, 2009 Elizabeth Pogoda, 2022 Mark Piliavin, 2009 Judith Posner, 1978 Jane Prather, 2009 Laurel Richardson, 2014 Robin Room, 2009 Jay Ruby, 2015 David Sapir, 2014 Magali Sarfatti-Larson, 2009 Thomas Scheff, 2006 Emanuel Schegloff, 1992 Thomas Schelling, 2015 Jordan Scher, 2004 2009 Deborah Schiffrin, 2009 Marvin Scott, 2010 Gino Segre, 2010 Vladmir Shlapentokh, 2008 James Short, 2013 Arlene Skolnick, 2010 Neil Smelser, 2009, 2009b Rodney Stark, 2008 P. M. Strong, 1983 Ann Swidler, 2010 Leonard Syme, 2011 Edwrd Tiryakian, 2011 Ralph Turner, 2009 Roy Turner, 2010 J. Verhoeven, 1993 Ruth Wallace, 2009 Jack Whalen, 2008 Simon Johnson Williams, 1986 Yves Winkin, 1992 1999 Audrey Wipper, 2009 Jacqueline Wiseman, 2008 Dennis Wrong, 1990 2010 T. R. Young, 1971 Marly Zaslov, 2009 Eviatar Zerubavel, 2008 , 2019
Critical Assessments
F. e F. Bascaglia, Postfazione F. Basaglia, A Cura de F. e F Basaglia, Morire di Classe, La condizione manicomiale fotografata da C. Serati e G. Cardin C. Battersilll, Erving Goffman as Precursor to Post-modern Sociology H. Becker, The Politics of Presentation: Goffman and Total Institution H. Blumer, Action vs. Interaction: Relations in Public - Microstudies of Interaction Order by Erving Goffman P. Bock, The Importance of Goffman to Psychological Anthropology L. Boltanski, Erving Goffman et le temps du soupçon P. Bourdieu, Erving Goffman, The Discoverer of the Infinitely Small L. Bovone, Ethics as Etiquette: The Emblematic Contribution of Erving Goffman D. Brown, Goffman's Dramaturgical Sociology T. Burns, Erving Goffman S. Cavan, Review of "Gender Advertisements" S. Cavan, When Erving Goffman Was a Boy: The Formative Years of a Sociological Giant D. Cefari, Goffman's Micropolitics. The Interaction Order as Public Order M. Cerulo, Il problema della realita nella sociologia di Erving Goffman M. Cerulo, Da Simmel al 'Colegio invisibile": differenze e contributi nella costruzione del frame goffmaniano K. Charmaz, Premises, Principles, and Practices in Qualitative Research: Revisiting Foundations K. Charmaz, Looking Backward, Moving Forward: Expanding Sociological Horizons in the Twenty-First Century J. Chriss, Toward an Interparadigmatic Dialogue on Goffman J, Chriss, Looking Back on Goffman: Excavation Continues J. Chriss, Spain on Status and Space: Comment J. Chriss, Habermas, Goffman, and Communicative Action: Implications for Professional Practice J. Chriss, Review: Some Thoughts on Recent Efforts to Further Systematize Goffman I. Cohen, Autonomy and Credibility: Voice as Method (with Mary Rogers) R. Collins, Goffman and Garfinkel in the Intellectual Life of the 20th Century R. Collins, Goffman in the Intellectual Life of the 20th Century R. Collins, The Passing of Intellectual Generations: Reflections on the Death Erving Goffman P. Colomy, J. Brown, Goffman and Interactional Citizenship L. Corder, The Utility of Erving Goffman's Theoretical Perspective, Metaphorical Models, and "Serious Ethnography" W. Corsaro, Review of Goffman's Forms of Talk J. Cresswell, A. Hawn,Drawing on Bakhtin and Goffman: Toward an Epistemology That Makes Lived Experience Visible A. Dal Lago, Life as Gambling, or, What I Think I Learned from Goffman by Gambling in Las Vegas M. Delaney, Goffman at Penn: Star Presence, Teacher-Mentor, Profaning Jester M. Delaney, Erving Goffman: Professional and Personal Timeline M. Delaney, Erving Goffman's Early Years: Reflections of Family and Friends A. Daniels, A Tribute to Erving Goffman M. Davis, Review of Frame Analysis M. Davis, Georg Simmel and Erving Goffman: Legitimators of the Sociological Investigation of Human Experience M. Jo Deegan, Goffman on Gender, Sexism, and Feminism: A Summary of Notes on a Conversation with Erving Goffman N. Denzin, Frame Analysis Reconsidered (with Charles Keller) M. Dirda, Waiting for Goffman J. Diski, Think of Mrs. Darling C. Drew, Erving Goffman: Exploring the Interaction Order (with a. Wootton) R. Dyness, Goffman as Organization Man H. Farberman, Review of Goffman's Forms of Talk G. Fine, Erving Goffman (with Philip Manning) G. Fine, Erving Goffman (with Greg Smith) G. Fine, Claiming the Text: Parsing the Sardonic Visions of Erving Goffman and Thorstein Veblen G. Fine & D. Martin, Sarcasm, Satire anfd Irony as Voices in Erving Goffman's Asylums E. Freidson, Celebrating Erving Goffman *M. Gambino, Erving Goffman's* Asylums and Institutional Culture in the** Mid-Twentieth Century United States W. Gamson, Goffman's Legacy to Political Sociology W. Gamson, Review of Frame Analysis P. Giglioli, Forword to the ERQ Special Issue on the 100th Anniversary of Goffman's Birth R. Handler, Erving Goffman and the Gestural Dynamics of Modern Selfhood R. Handler, What's Up Dr. Goffman? Tell Us Where the Action Is H. Helle, Erving Goffman: A Symbolic Interactionist? T. Hood, Review of Goffman's Gender Advertisements D. Hymes, Erving Goffman F. Jameson, On Goffman's Frame Analysis G. Jaworsky, Goffman's in Spies and Espionage: The University of Chicago Context G. Jaworski, Erving Goffman as Sorcerer's Apprentice G. Jaworski, Erving Goffman: The Reluctant Apprentice G. Jaworski, On Loyalty and Betrayal in Postwar Social Science T. Koroleva, The Online Erving Goffman Archives L. Lacaze, La théorie de l’étiquetage modifiée, ou l’« analyse stigmatique » revisitée L. Lacaze, Herbert Blumer et l'interactionnisme symbolique Ch. Lemert, "Goffman" J. Lofland, The Sociological Legacies of Erving Goffman J. Loffland, Early Goffman: Style, Structure, Substance, Soul R. Kelly, Scenes of Everyday Life: Solidarity Rituals and Shared Reality Constructs in Erving Goffman (with R. Rieber) D. McCarthy, Erving Goffman and Our Time G. Mcgregor, A View from the Fort: Erving Goffman as Canadian P. Manning, Review: Erving Goffman and Modern Sociology Ph. Manning, Erving Goffman (with Gary Fine) Ph. Manning, Erving Goffman and Modern Sociology Ph. Manning, Drama as Life: The Significance of Goffman's Changing Use of the Theater Metaphor Ph. Manning, Erving Goffman (with Gary Alan Fine) Ph. Manning, Blumer, Goffman and Psychoanalysis Ph. Manning, Review: Erving Goffman G. Marx, Erving Goffman at 100 G. Marx, Role Models and Role Distance: A Remembrance of Erving Goffman S. Maynard, Goffman, Garfinkel, and Games M. Merritt, Erving Goffman, An Interdisciplinary Anthropologist at Work P. Miller, The Long-Term Resonance of Erving Goffman's Observations B. Mizstal, Normality and Trust in Goffman's Theory of Interaction Order A. Mubi Brighenti and A. Pavoni, Goffman Back in Town. On New Relations in Public G. Nunberg, Review of Goffman's Forms of Talk A. Rawls, Situating Goffman's «Interaction Orders» in Durkheim's Social Fact Lineage A. Rawls, The Interaction Order Sui Generis: Goffman's Contribution to Social Theory S. Riggins, Beyond Goffman: Studies on Communication, Instiution, and Social Interaction R. Perinbanayagam, Dramas, Metaphors, and Structures R. Perinbanayagam, The Definition of the Situation: An Analysis of an Ethnomethodological and Dramaturgical View A. Persson, Ritualization and Vulnerability A. Persson, Why Goffman Never Made it into the Swedish Textbooks A. Persson, Framing Social Interaction: Continuities and Cracks in Goffman's Frame Analysis M. Pettit, The Con Man as a Model of Organism: The Methodological Roots of Erving Goffman's Dramaturgical Self E. & P. Pochoda, Erving Goffman C. Prince and J. Wynn, Festivalgoers as Players. Group identity in Goffmanian Games G. Psathas, Theoretical Perspectives on Goffman: Critique and Commentary G. Psathas, Why Goffman Was Not an Ethnomethodologist R. Rettie, Mobile Phone Communication: Extending Goffman to Mediated Communication F. Ranci, How Cryptocurrencies Illustrate Erving Goffman's Take on "False Consciousness" F. Ranci, Simboli di appartenenza a una classe sociale – Sul rinfrescare le idee al pollo F. Ranci, Forgetting Erving Goffman, and Others, Comes at a Price F. Ranci, The Unfinished Business of Erving Goffman: From Marginalization to the Center of American Sociology V. Romania, Goffman in Dixon. Ethnographer or Performer? V. Romania, Imaging Social Distance after Covid-19. A Goffmanian Perspective V. Romania, Ervnig Goffman et la seconda scuola di Chicago P. Rosenberg, Review of Goffman's Frame Analysis D. Sapir, Walker Evans and His Documentary Style" T. Scheff, Goffman on Emotions: The Pride-Shame System T. Scheff, The Goffman Legacy: Deconstructing/Reconstructing Social Science T. Scheff, *The Structure of Context: Deciphering Frame Analysis* T. Scheff, *Can Concepts be Grounded? Goffman's Way* T. Scheff, *Concept Formation: Goffman and Beyond* T. Scheff, Cooley and Goffman on the Ubiquity of Shame T. Scheff, *Goffman Unbound!: A New Paradigm for Social Science* T. Sheff, Parts and Wholes: Goffman and Cooley T. Scheff, Getting Unstuck: Interdisciplinarity as a New Discipline E. Schegloff, Goffman and the Analysis of Conversation E. Schegloff, Confirming Illusions: Toward an Empirical Account of Action R. Sennet, Review of Four Books by Goffman D. Shalin, Erving Goffman: The Social Science Maverick. Assessing the Interdisciplinary Impact of the Most Cited American Sociologist D. Shalin, Erving Goffman, Fateful Action, and the Las Vegas Gambling Scene D. Shalin, Interfacing Biography, Theory, and History: The Case of Erving Goffman D. Shalin, Goffman on Mental Illness: ‘Asylums’ and ‘The Insanity of Place’ Revisited D. Shalin, The Place of "Asyums" in Goffman's Research Corpus D. Shalin, Goffman's Self-Ethnographies D. Shalin, Goffman's Biography and the Interaction Order: A Study in Biocritical Hermeneutics D. Shalin, *Erving Goffman as a Pioneer in Self-Ethnography?* The “Insanity of Place” Revisited D. Shalin, Signing in the Flesh: Notes on Pragmatist Hermeneutics G. Smith, Erving Goffman G. Smith, Goffman and Social Organization: Studies in a Sociological Legacy G. Smith, Chrysalid Goffman: A Note on "Some Characteristics of Response to Depicted Experience" G. Smith, Review: Gender Advertisements G. Smith, Erving Goffman (with Gary Alan Fine) M. Smith, Goffman's Legacy P. Strong, The Importance of Being Earnest: Erving Goffman 1922-1982 Time, Review of Goffman's Relations in Public U. Tuhus-Dubrow, What Masks Signify C. Tucker, Erving Goffman: A Comparative Analysis J. Verhoeven, Erving Goffman's Frame Analysis in Relation to Modern Micro-sociological Paradigms J. Verhoeven, Backstage with Erving Goffman: The Context of the Interview M. Wax, Erving Goffman and Chicago Sociology L. Wacquant, L'habitus de Goffman J. Wedel, Ladies, We Have Been Framed! Observations on Erving Goffman's The Arrangement between the Sexes" S. Wineman, Erving and Alice and Sky and Elisabeth C. West, Goffman in Feminist Perspective C.K. Williams, A Poem for Erving Goffman S. Williams, Appraising Goffman Y. Winkin, Erving Goffman. The Travelling Hermit Y. Winkin, Erving Goffman: What is a Life? The Uneasy Making of an Intellectual Biography Y. Winkin, Baltasound as the Symbolic Capital of Social Interaction Y. Winkin, The French (Re)presentaton of Goffman's Presentation and Other Books Y. Winkin, Les moments e leurs hommes S. Worth, Introduction to Goffman's Gender Advertisement Library of Congress, Holdings of Books by and about Goffman University of Manitoba, Holdings of Books by and about Goffman
Comments and Dialogues
Note from Frances Goffman Bay and Esther Besbris to Goffman Scholars, 2010-2011 Remembering Sherri Cavan, 1938-2016 Horst Helle on Goffman, Simmel, and Chicago, 2014 Laurel Richardson on Erving Goffman and Goffman Archives, 2014 David Levine on American Sociologists of Jewish Descent, 2014 Vincent Colapietro on Erving Goffman and Goffman Archives, 2014 Peter Miller, The Perilous Journey of the Self and the Salvation of Private Life, 2013 Richard See Comments on Erving Goffman, 2012 Marx, Cavan, Wiseman, Glass, and Shalin on the Goffman Archives, Confidentiality, and Privacy, 2009 *Cavan-Shalin on Goffman's "The Insanity of Place" as an Exercise in Self-Ethnography, 2009* Cavan-Glass on Qualitative Research and the Ethics of Participant Observation, 2009 Arnold Glass on the Goffman Project, Malleable Self, and Enduring Character, 2009-2010 Arnold Glass on Angelica Schuyler Choate, 2010 Cavan-Shalin on Sky's Master's Thesis, 2009 Harold Bershady on Michael Delaney's Dissertation, 2009 Victor Lidz on Goffman at Penn, 2009 Peter Manning on Erving Goffman, 2007 Gary Marx on Goffman the Teacher, the Scholar, the Man, 2008 Michael Schwalbe on Racism, Gendered Being, and Authenticity, 2008 Arthur Stinchcombe on the Goffman Project, 2008 Dmitri Shalin on Goffman's Biography and the Interaction Order, 2008
Correspondence
The John Lofland Files (Blumer, Fine, Irwin, and Other Sholars Assessing Goffman's Legacy) Dmitri Shalin-Sherrei Cavan, 2008-2009 Blumer-Shalin Correspondence, 1975-1985

* The Erving Goffman Archives (EGA) is the web-based, open-source project that serves as a clearing house for those interested in the dramaturgical tradition in sociology and biographical methods of research. The EGA is located in the Intercyberlibrary of the UNLV Center of Democratic Culture, http://www.unlv.edu/centers/cdclv/archives/interactionism/index.html. Postings on the website are divided into several overlapping sections: “Documents and Papers,” “Goffman's Pulbications,” “Goffman in the News,” “Biographical Materials,” “Critical Assessments,” and “Comments and Dialogues.” For inquiries regarding the EGA projects, please contact Dr. Dmitri Shalin, shalin@unlv.nevada.edu. When you cite the materials collected for the EGA, please use the following reference: Bios Sociologicus: The Erving Goffman Archives, ed. by Dmitri N. Shalin (UNLV: CDC Publications, 2009).