Goffman in Las Vegas:  Gambling, Fatefulness, and Risk Society


UNLV Gaming Research & Review Journal
Vol. 20, No. 1, Spring 2016


Guest Editor
Dmitri N. Shalin


Contents

Bo J. Bernhard
Foreword to Special Issue

Dmitri N. Shalin
Erving Goffman, Fateful Action, and the Las Vegas Gambling Scene

David D. Schwartz
Erving Goffman's Las Vegas: A Changing City

Michael Green
Las Vegas as a Symbol:  Goffman and the Competing Narratives of the Sin City

Stephen Lyng
Goffman, Action and Risk Society:  The New Subjectivities of Risk

Jeffrey J. Sallaz
From Vegas to the World Stage: Goffman: Strategic Interaction on a World Stage

Philip Manning
The Evolution of the Concept of Social Action: Parsons and Goffman

James F. Cosgrave
Doubling Down on Goffman: A Commentary on Dmitri Shalin’s ‘Erving Goffman, Fateful Action, and the Las Vegas Gambling Scene’

* 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 three partially overlapping sections:  “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:  The Erving Goffman Archives, ed. by Dmitri N. Shalin (UNLV:  CDC Publications, 2009).