Erving Goffman Born: 11-Jun-1922 Birthplace: Manville, Alberta, Canada Died: 19-Nov-1982 Location of death: Philadelphia, PA Cause of death: Cancer - unspecified Remains: Cremated, ashes in family's possession
Gender: Male Religion: Jewish Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Sociologist, Author Nationality: Canada Executive summary: The Presentation of Self Sociologist respected for his analysis of human interaction in routine social behavior, which he termed "micro-sociology." Proposed that routine social interactions such as gestures and gossip indicate that humans naturally strive to formulate identities. Father: Max Goffman (retail sales clerk) Mother: Anne Averbach (homemaker) Sister: Frances Bay (actress, b. 23-Jan-1919, d. 15-Sep-2011) Wife: Angelica Choate (one son) Son: Thomas (physician) Wife: Gillian Sankoff (one daughter) Daughter: Alice (sociologist)
High School: St. John's High School, Winnipeg, Canada (1941) University: University of Manitoba (attended, 1941-43) University: BA Sociology, University of Toronto (1945) University: MA Sociology, University of Chicago (1949) University: PhD Sociology, University of Chicago (1953) Teacher: Ass't Prof. of Social Sciences, University of California at Berkeley (1958-59) Teacher: Assoc. Prof. of Social Sciences, University of California at Berkeley (1959-62) Professor: Social Sciences, University of California at Berkeley (1962-68) Professor: Ben Franklin Prof. of Anthropology and Sociology, University of Pennsylvania (1968-82)
National Institute of Mental Health Scientist (1954-57) National Film Board of Canada (1943-44)
ASA MacIver Award 1961
Guggenheim Fellowship 1977-78 ASA Mead-Cooley Award 1979
National Book Critics Circle Award 1981, for Forms of Talk American Academy of Arts and Sciences American Anthropological Association American Sociological Association President (1981-82) Canadian Ancestry
Jewish Ancestry
Russian Ancestry
Ukrainian Ancestry
Naturalized US Citizen
Author of books:
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (1959) Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates (1961) Encounters: Two Studies in the Sociology of Interaction (1961) Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity (1963) Behavior in Public Places: Notes on the Social Organization of Gatherings (1963) Interaction Ritual: Essays on Face-to-Face Behavior (1967) Strategic Interaction (1969) Relations in Public: Micro-Studies of the Public Order (1971) Frame analysis: An essay on the Organization of Experience (1974) Gender Advertisements (1979) Forms of Talk (1981)
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