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    Communication Conduct in an Island Community

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    Author(s)
    Goffman, Erving
    Contributor(s)
    Winkin, Yves (other)
    Collection
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    Language
    English
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    Abstract
    Canadian-born Erving Goffman (1922–1982) was the twentieth century’s most important sociologist writing in English. His 1953 dissertation is published here for the first time, on the hundredth anniversary of his birth. The remarkable study, based on fieldwork on a remote Scottish island, presents in embryonic form the full spread of Goffman’s thought. Framed as a “report on a study of conversational interaction,” the dissertation lingers on the modest talk of island “crofters.” It is trademark Goffman: ambitious, unconventional in form, and brimmed with big-picture insight. The thesis is that social order is made and re-made in communication—the “interaction order” he re-visited in a famous and final talk before his 1982 death. The dissertation is, as Yves Winkin writes in a new introduction, the “Rosetta stone for his entire work.” It was here, in 360 dense pages, that Goffman revealed, quietly, his peerless sensitivity to the invisible wireframes of everyday life.
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    https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/60113
    Keywords
    Social, group or collective psychology;Sociology;Communication studies
    DOI
    10.32376/3f8575cb.baaa50af
    ISBN
    9781951399092, 9781951399085, 9781951399108, 9781951399078
    Publisher
    mediastudies.press
    Publisher website
    https://www.mediastudies.press/
    Publication date and place
    2022
    Series
    Public Domain Series, 3
    Classification
    Communication studies
    Sociology
    Social and cultural anthropology
    Pages
    237
    Rights
    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
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    • This project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 683680, 810640, 871069 and 964352.

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