Interaction Ritual - Essays on Face-to-Face Behavior (Paperback)

In a brilliant series of books about social behavior, including "The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Asylums, "and "Stigma, "Erving Goffman has exposed all that is at stake when people meet face to face. Goffman's work, once of the great intellectual achievements of our time, is an endlessly fascinating commentary on how we enact ourselves by our responses to and our readings of other people.
From the exemplary opening essay of "Interaction Ritual," "On Face-Work," --a full account of the extraordinary repertoire of maneuvers we employ in social encounters in order to "save face"--to the final, and classic, essay "Where the Action Is,"--an examination of people in risky occupations and situations: gamblers, criminals, coal miners, stock speculators--Goffman astounds us with the unexpected richness and complexity of brief encounters between people. For Goffman, as for Freud, the extreme cases are of interest because of the light they shed on the normal: The study of the trapeze artist is worthwhile because each of us is on the wire from time to time.

General

Imprint:	Pantheon Books
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	1982
First published:	1982
Authors:	Erving Goffman
Dimensions:	183 x 108 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	270
ISBN-13:	978-0-394-70631-3
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > General Promotions
LSN:	0-394-70631-5
Barcode:	9780394706313

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