Gary D Jaworski
Biographic Data
| ID | 112172 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gary D Jaworski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gary D |
| FAMILY NAME | Jaworski |
| SIGNATURE | JAWORSKI G D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Fairleigh Dickinson University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0337-4545 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Symposium on Erving Goffman and the Cold War , by Gary D. Jaworski
The symposium on Gary D. Jaworski's book Erving Goffman and the Cold War is based on an "Author meets Critics" event held at the European SSSI 2024 Conference in Pisa. After a brief introduction by Dirk vom Lehn, Gary Jaworski briefly suggests his motivation for writing the book. Subsequently, three Goffman scholars, Greg Smith, Chiara Bassetti and Stacey Hannem critically engage with the text, before Gary Jaworski offers his response to the crit…
Author’s Response to Commentators
Paranoia and American Social Theory
On loyalty and betrayal in postwar social science, mainly in Chicago
This article examines the writings on loyalty and betrayal of sociologist Erving Goffman and political scientist Morton Grodzins. Both thinkers made unique contributions to the understanding of those topics while simultaneously offering critical appraisals of early Cold War America. Examining these writings in historical and intellectual context, and reading them against each other, reveals important elements of this work that are worthy of a fre…
Goffman's Interest in Spies and Espionage
Erving Goffman's interest in spies and espionage is widely recognized in commentary on his work. Where did this interest come from? While the context of Cold War America provided the broad cultural horizon of this work, deeper roots may be found. Goffman's contact with two University of Chicago professors, Edward A. Shils and Douglas Waples, both of whom served in U.S. intelligence organizations during World War II, also shaped Goffman's interest…
On Unmasking
Erving Goffman as Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Erving Goffman
The intellectual relationship between Erving Goffman and Everett C. Hughes is explored in the context of an apprenticeship model derived from correspondence between the two sociologists.
Georg Simmel and the American Prospect
On the Practice of Sociology
Pitirim Sorokin rose from a peasant childhood in Russia to become a major figure in the history of sociology. However, he was considered both a pioneer and an outcast. This text includes essays by this controversial thinker which range from his early Russian years to his final work in the 1960s. His early American works are considered to have opened new vistas in rural sociology, social stratification, and theory, and won him the chairmanship of …
Contested canon
Simmel on culture
Time for Life
Park, Doyle, and Hughes
Erving Goffman's writings on etiquette and front are read in the context of a tradition of Chicago school studies on such topics. Robert E. Park formed this tradition from two strains of thought: one based on the writings of Herbert Spencer, and the other on that of Georg Simmel. A review of writings by Park, and by his students Bertram W. Doyle and Everett C. Hughes, provides a basis for analyzing Goffman's original contributions to the traditio…
Simmel in early American sociology
Pitirim A. Sorokin's sociological anarchism
Essay published in the History of the Human Sciences, Vol. 6, No.3, pp.61-77. Article discusses the contrary nature of Sorokin's work, with special emphasis on his links to the anarchist tradition
The Historical and Contemporary Importance of Coser's Functions
Lewis Coser revealed recently that latent motives for doing much of my work are probably formed in the vicissitudes of my life and (Rosenberg 1984, p. 52). In addition, Coser has published several autobiographical writings (Coser 1988a, pp. xi-xx; 1988b). Together these writings can be taken as an invitation to pursue a contextualist interpretation of his sociological oeuvre. This Paper offers one modest contribution to such an undertaking: an ex…
Classicism and Romanticism in the Sociology of Time
The sociology of time has recently witnessed a shift in its underlying theoretical preferences. Early work emphasized system balance and the primacy of the social: a sense of optimism pervades these writings. In contrast, more recent analysts emphasize time's tyranny and the primacy of the individual; a gloomy pessimism pervades these writings. This paper analyzes representative writings of each period in order to demonstrate the shift. The curre…
Simmel’s Contribution to Parsons’ Action Theory and its Fate
Robert K. Merton as postwar prophet
Robert K. Merton's Extension of Simmel's Ubersehbar
It has been over a decade since the publication of the important study, Influence on American Sociology, by Donald N. Levine, Ellwood B. Carter and Eleanor Miller Gorman (1976). In the intervening years, the project of understanding the reception of Georg Simmel's thought by American sociologists has not progressed very far. Little has been accomplished beyond clarification of the role Simmel's writings played in the early work of Talcott Parsons…
Children of Fantasy
Erving Goffman
The intellectual relationship between Erving Goffman and Everett C. Hughes is explored in the context of an apprenticeship model derived from correspondence between the two sociologists.
Contested canon
Erving Goffman as Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Goffman's Interest in Spies and Espionage
Erving Goffman's interest in spies and espionage is widely recognized in commentary on his work. Where did this interest come from? While the context of Cold War America provided the broad cultural horizon of this work, deeper roots may be found. Goffman's contact with two University of Chicago professors, Edward A. Shils and Douglas Waples, both of whom served in U.S. intelligence organizations during World War II, also shaped Goffman's interest…
Simmel in early American sociology
Classicism and Romanticism in the Sociology of Time
The sociology of time has recently witnessed a shift in its underlying theoretical preferences. Early work emphasized system balance and the primacy of the social: a sense of optimism pervades these writings. In contrast, more recent analysts emphasize time's tyranny and the primacy of the individual; a gloomy pessimism pervades these writings. This paper analyzes representative writings of each period in order to demonstrate the shift. The curre…
Pitirim A. Sorokin's sociological anarchism
Essay published in the History of the Human Sciences, Vol. 6, No.3, pp.61-77. Article discusses the contrary nature of Sorokin's work, with special emphasis on his links to the anarchist tradition
Robert K. Merton's Extension of Simmel's Ubersehbar
It has been over a decade since the publication of the important study, Influence on American Sociology, by Donald N. Levine, Ellwood B. Carter and Eleanor Miller Gorman (1976). In the intervening years, the project of understanding the reception of Georg Simmel's thought by American sociologists has not progressed very far. Little has been accomplished beyond clarification of the role Simmel's writings played in the early work of Talcott Parsons…
On the Practice of Sociology
Pitirim Sorokin rose from a peasant childhood in Russia to become a major figure in the history of sociology. However, he was considered both a pioneer and an outcast. This text includes essays by this controversial thinker which range from his early Russian years to his final work in the 1960s. His early American works are considered to have opened new vistas in rural sociology, social stratification, and theory, and won him the chairmanship of …
Robert K. Merton as postwar prophet
Park, Doyle, and Hughes
Erving Goffman's writings on etiquette and front are read in the context of a tradition of Chicago school studies on such topics. Robert E. Park formed this tradition from two strains of thought: one based on the writings of Herbert Spencer, and the other on that of Georg Simmel. A review of writings by Park, and by his students Bertram W. Doyle and Everett C. Hughes, provides a basis for analyzing Goffman's original contributions to the traditio…
Children of Fantasy
Simmel’s Contribution to Parsons’ Action Theory and its Fate
Robert K. Merton as postwar prophet
Robert K. Merton's Extension of Simmel's Ubersehbar
It has been over a decade since the publication of the important study, Influence on American Sociology, by Donald N. Levine, Ellwood B. Carter and Eleanor Miller Gorman (1976). In the intervening years, the project of understanding the reception of Georg Simmel's thought by American sociologists has not progressed very far. Little has been accomplished beyond clarification of the role Simmel's writings played in the early work of Talcott Parsons…
The Historical and Contemporary Importance of Coser's Functions
Lewis Coser revealed recently that latent motives for doing much of my work are probably formed in the vicissitudes of my life and (Rosenberg 1984, p. 52). In addition, Coser has published several autobiographical writings (Coser 1988a, pp. xi-xx; 1988b). Together these writings can be taken as an invitation to pursue a contextualist interpretation of his sociological oeuvre. This Paper offers one modest contribution to such an undertaking: an ex…
Classicism and Romanticism in the Sociology of Time
The sociology of time has recently witnessed a shift in its underlying theoretical preferences. Early work emphasized system balance and the primacy of the social: a sense of optimism pervades these writings. In contrast, more recent analysts emphasize time's tyranny and the primacy of the individual; a gloomy pessimism pervades these writings. This paper analyzes representative writings of each period in order to demonstrate the shift. The curre…
Pitirim A. Sorokin's sociological anarchism
Essay published in the History of the Human Sciences, Vol. 6, No.3, pp.61-77. Article discusses the contrary nature of Sorokin's work, with special emphasis on his links to the anarchist tradition
Simmel in early American sociology
Park, Doyle, and Hughes
Erving Goffman's writings on etiquette and front are read in the context of a tradition of Chicago school studies on such topics. Robert E. Park formed this tradition from two strains of thought: one based on the writings of Herbert Spencer, and the other on that of Georg Simmel. A review of writings by Park, and by his students Bertram W. Doyle and Everett C. Hughes, provides a basis for analyzing Goffman's original contributions to the traditio…
Contested canon
Simmel on culture
Time for Life
Georg Simmel and the American Prospect
On the Practice of Sociology
Pitirim Sorokin rose from a peasant childhood in Russia to become a major figure in the history of sociology. However, he was considered both a pioneer and an outcast. This text includes essays by this controversial thinker which range from his early Russian years to his final work in the 1960s. His early American works are considered to have opened new vistas in rural sociology, social stratification, and theory, and won him the chairmanship of …
Erving Goffman
The intellectual relationship between Erving Goffman and Everett C. Hughes is explored in the context of an apprenticeship model derived from correspondence between the two sociologists.
Erving Goffman as Sorcerer’s Apprentice
On Unmasking
Goffman's Interest in Spies and Espionage
Erving Goffman's interest in spies and espionage is widely recognized in commentary on his work. Where did this interest come from? While the context of Cold War America provided the broad cultural horizon of this work, deeper roots may be found. Goffman's contact with two University of Chicago professors, Edward A. Shils and Douglas Waples, both of whom served in U.S. intelligence organizations during World War II, also shaped Goffman's interest…
On loyalty and betrayal in postwar social science, mainly in Chicago
This article examines the writings on loyalty and betrayal of sociologist Erving Goffman and political scientist Morton Grodzins. Both thinkers made unique contributions to the understanding of those topics while simultaneously offering critical appraisals of early Cold War America. Examining these writings in historical and intellectual context, and reading them against each other, reveals important elements of this work that are worthy of a fre…
Paranoia and American Social Theory
Symposium on Erving Goffman and the Cold War , by Gary D. Jaworski
The symposium on Gary D. Jaworski's book Erving Goffman and the Cold War is based on an "Author meets Critics" event held at the European SSSI 2024 Conference in Pisa. After a brief introduction by Dirk vom Lehn, Gary Jaworski briefly suggests his motivation for writing the book. Subsequently, three Goffman scholars, Greg Smith, Chiara Bassetti and Stacey Hannem critically engage with the text, before Gary Jaworski offers his response to the crit…
Author’s Response to Commentators
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