Goffman’s Version of Reality

Crook, Steve; Taylor, Laurie

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“…Goffman understood and acknowledged the limitations of his approach (cf. Crook and Taylor, 1980), but I would suggest that there is yet another twist to the spiral: the ridicule was itself a kind of test, intended to differentiate the careful reader who understood the value of the work despite its limitations, from either the superficial devotee or the obdurate critic. In all his work, Goffman demonstrated an extraordinarily high level of vocational commitment while demanding a similar level of interpretive commitment on the part of his readers.…”

Section: Cynicism and Vocational Commitmentmentioning

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Erving Goffman’s presidential address on ‘The interaction order’: Rhetorical combat and the display of vocational commitment

Rosenberg

2019

Journal of Classical Sociology

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Erving Goffman’s posthumously published essay, ‘The interaction order’, which was to have been presented as a presidential address at an annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, is usually taken to be an attempt at a systematic summary by Goffman of his key ideas. This article suggests the address can also be understood as a profoundly personal and deeply scornful critique by Goffman of the varieties of mainstream sociology and the pretensions of its practitioners. Incorporated into that critique is a simulacrum in which Goffman demonstrated what a systematic treatment of his work might look like had he actually been inclined to generate one. In that respect, ‘The interaction order’ transcends the boundaries of what we ordinarily expect to find in an academic address: it is simultaneously an artful display of Goffman’s real vocational commitment to sociology, a contribution to the rhetorical debate in which he engaged with the practitioners of orthodox versions of sociology and a brief but significant demonstration of some aspects he considered distinctive about his own form of sociology.

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Section: Cynicism and Vocational Commitmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Erving Goffman’s presidential address on ‘The interaction order’: Rhetorical combat and the display of vocational commitment

Rosenberg

2019

Journal of Classical Sociology

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“…Steve's first publication was a chapter in an edited collection on Goffman (Crook and Taylor, 1980). His major scholarly works included four books: Modernist Radicalism and its Aftermath: Foundationalism and Antifoundationalism in Radical Social Theory (Crook, 1991), Postmodernization: Change in Advanced Society (Crook et al, 1992), an edited collection on Adorno (Crook, 1994), and a co-edited volume on environmental issues called Ebbing of the Green Tide?…”

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On the Everyday Life of a Significant Sociologist

Germov¹

2004

Journal of Sociology

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This article provides a brief overview of Stephen Crook's scholarly and professional work as a prelude to the articles by Malcolm Waters and Jan Pakulski and Bruce Tranter. His scholarly work particularly focused on the theorization of social differentiation and social order in studies of everyday life. Through the critical appraisal of postmodernist approaches, he developed his own postfoundational radicalist approach that transcended the determinism of unitary meta-narratives, but also avoided relativistic and atheoretical descriptions of the plurality of 'the everyday'. Yet the everyday relevance of sociological practice was a defining feature of Steve's weltanschauung, epitomized in his professional service and role as a public intellectual.As the memoria 1 to Stephen Crook attest, he touched many lives in his roles as colleague, teacher, mentor, researcher, social theorist and professional sociologist. The decision to dedicate my Presidential Address to Steve's life work was not only to honour him, but was based in a firm belief that he had made a major impact on our discipline. His approach to blending interests in social theory with empirical research, and applying sociological knowledge to 'make a difference' are exemplars of sociological practice.Steve always urged sociologists to show the utility of sociological theory and research by engaging with issues of importance and relevance to people in their everyday lives. He was not of the 'doom and gloom' school of sociology, but rather was of the 'glass half-full' variety. For him, this did not mean breaking with sociology's radical project -of seeking out 'alternative

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“…In view of Goffman's (1981a) own dismissal of strong structuralist interpretations of his sociology, it is worth seeking another source which also stresses the facticity and determinacy of interactional forms but which does not lose sight of the delicate tension between the demands of structure and agency characteristic of Goffman's position (cf. Crook and Taylor, 1980). Recourse to Simmel's thinking on the 'dignity' of the forms of sociation may prove instructive here.…”

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

Smith

1989

Hum Stud

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Goffman’s Version of Reality

Cited by 16 publications

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Erving Goffman’s presidential address on ‘The interaction order’: Rhetorical combat and the display of vocational commitment

Erving Goffman’s presidential address on ‘The interaction order’: Rhetorical combat and the display of vocational commitment

On the Everyday Life of a Significant Sociologist

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

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