Philip Manning
Biographic Data
| ID | 3660010 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Philip Manning |
| GIVEN NAMES | Philip |
| FAMILY NAME | Manning |
| SIGNATURE | MANNING P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cleveland State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 612 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Erving Goffman and Dramaturgical Sociology
The first part of this chapter reviews Goffman’s intellectual context in terms of the dramaturgical model and its significance in Goffman’s work overall. The second part compared dramaturgy to ethnomethodology before turning to the work after Goffman, particularly the signaling theory championed by Diego Gambetta. Philip Manning received his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1989. He is a Professor of Sociology at Cleveland State University…
Freud as a Social and Cultural Theorist: On Human Nature and the Civilizing Process
Planning for Currency Exchanges: Sociology Going Forward
The Rise of Big Data Policing: Surveillance, Race, and the Future of Law Enforcement
F reud, S igmund
The entry gives a brief biographical sketch of Freud, followed by an account of Freud's topographic model that emphasizes the different ways that psychoanalysts can access repressed memories. There is also a discussion of the powerful role of transference followed by a discussion of Freud's later structural model that introduces the tripartite model of the id, ego, and superego. Freud's later work took a sociological turn by emphasizing the tensi…
Supportive Interchanges
Remedial Interchanges 1
Normal Appearances
Normal appearances have only an indirect relation to the notion of expectation, whether in the statistical or normative sense of that term. The relation suggested between normal appearances and proper appearances must be qualified. This chapter describes the maintenance of normal appearances over an extended period of time by means of concealing most of the operation and coercing small but crucial performances from persons for whom these acts are…
The Individual as a Unit
The Territories of the Self
Tie-Signs
Relations in Public: Microstudies of the Public Order
Originally published in 1963, Relations in Public is widely regarded as the foundational text for the study of face-to-face interaction. It is Erving Goffman's first and most systematic contribution to the field of microsociology, offering a comprehensive treatment of the delicate, complex, and largely unnoticed rituals that permeate everyday social life. This new edition includes a substantial introduction by Philip Manning, which explores the k…
Goffman and Empirical Research
The Ethnographic Spiral
The Ethnographic Spiral: Reflections on the Intersection of Life History and Ideal-Typical Analysis
Following Gananath Obeyesekere, himself following Max Weber, this essay argues that ethnographers do not really study social worlds or even social groups. Instead, they move back and forth between abstract models and life histories: according to Obeyesekere, "... my thoughts are conditioned by the data that I deal with, as the data themselves are conditioned by my abstractions." (Obeyesekere, 1990, p. 3) Sometimes, ethnographers present abstract …
Three Models of Ethnographic Research: Wacquant as Risk-Taker
Three versions of ethnographic research are presented. I call the first of these the “consensus model,” a widely accepted and standardized approach that combines the theoretical assumptions of Blumer’s formulation of symbolic interactionism and a set of data-gathering procedures. Mitchell Duneier’s work is an example of this model. The second approach, the “comparative model,” uses the consensus model while simultaneously developing an abstract, …
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
Review of One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
Freud and American sociology
Although Freud's impact on social science - and indeed twentieth-century social thought - has been extraordinary, his impact on American sociology has been left relatively unexplored. This ground-breaking book aims to fill this knowledge gap. By examining the work of pioneers such as G.H. Mead, Cooley, Parsons and Goffman, as well as a range of key contemporary thinkers, it provides an accurate history of the role Freud and psychoanalysis played …
Reinvigorating the Tradition of Symbolic Interactionism
Philip Rieff's Moral Vision of Sociology: From Positive to Negative Communities - and Back
In this article I present Rieff as a theorist and moralist of cultural change. The trajectory of his work is from the elusively descriptive to the elusively prescriptive. Descriptively, Rieff identifies the elements of what he calls our current 'negative communities' and contrasts them with moribund 'positive communities' and their 'therapies of commitment'. He believes that, among others, Weber and Freud both recognized that negative communities…
Preserving Philip Rieff: The Reputation of a Fellow Teacher
Philip Rieff, the author of Freud: The Mind of the Moralist, The Triumph of the Therapeutic and Fellow Teachers, is a consequential and important American social theorist whose emphasis on moral structures and cultural limits has become - and to a great degree, always was - out of fashion. This article and the four that follow attempt to demonstrate the significance of the writings of Philip Rieff for contemporary social theory. Our contention is…
Credibility, Agency, and the Interaction Order
There are two ways of reading Goffman-as a theorist of trust and ritual accommodation, that is, as a theorist of the interaction order, or as a theorist of deception. I suggest a way of making these two readings compatible, by arguing that Goffman was interested in what I call the 'production of credibility.' Credibility is the quality of being believable, and this quality is integral to both trust and deception. Viewed in this way, Goffman explo…
Erving Goffman
Fuzzy description: Discovery and invention in sociology
Erving Goffman and Modern Sociology
Relations in Public: Microstudies of the Public Order
Originally published in 1963, Relations in Public is widely regarded as the foundational text for the study of face-to-face interaction. It is Erving Goffman's first and most systematic contribution to the field of microsociology, offering a comprehensive treatment of the delicate, complex, and largely unnoticed rituals that permeate everyday social life. This new edition includes a substantial introduction by Philip Manning, which explores the k…
Erving Goffman and modern sociology
Credibility, Agency, and the Interaction Order
There are two ways of reading Goffman-as a theorist of trust and ritual accommodation, that is, as a theorist of the interaction order, or as a theorist of deception. I suggest a way of making these two readings compatible, by arguing that Goffman was interested in what I call the 'production of credibility.' Credibility is the quality of being believable, and this quality is integral to both trust and deception. Viewed in this way, Goffman explo…
Goffman and Empirical Research
Reinvigorating the Tradition of Symbolic Interactionism
Erving Goffman
Three Models of Ethnographic Research: Wacquant as Risk-Taker
Three versions of ethnographic research are presented. I call the first of these the “consensus model,” a widely accepted and standardized approach that combines the theoretical assumptions of Blumer’s formulation of symbolic interactionism and a set of data-gathering procedures. Mitchell Duneier’s work is an example of this model. The second approach, the “comparative model,” uses the consensus model while simultaneously developing an abstract, …
Shyness, Self-Confidence, and Social Interaction
This paper describes the behavior of shy and self-confident individuals. Although there is a literature concerning the causes and consequences of shyness and self-confidence, nobody has systematically investigated what such people actually do. This paper reports findings obtained in a laboratory about conversational strategies used by shy and self-confident men and women. Participants were chosen from introductory courses at a midwestern universi…
Semiotics and framing: Examples
The Rise of Big Data Policing: Surveillance, Race, and the Future of Law Enforcement
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
Review of One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
Philip Rieff's Moral Vision of Sociology: From Positive to Negative Communities - and Back
In this article I present Rieff as a theorist and moralist of cultural change. The trajectory of his work is from the elusively descriptive to the elusively prescriptive. Descriptively, Rieff identifies the elements of what he calls our current 'negative communities' and contrasts them with moribund 'positive communities' and their 'therapies of commitment'. He believes that, among others, Weber and Freud both recognized that negative communities…
Preserving Philip Rieff: The Reputation of a Fellow Teacher
Philip Rieff, the author of Freud: The Mind of the Moralist, The Triumph of the Therapeutic and Fellow Teachers, is a consequential and important American social theorist whose emphasis on moral structures and cultural limits has become - and to a great degree, always was - out of fashion. This article and the four that follow attempt to demonstrate the significance of the writings of Philip Rieff for contemporary social theory. Our contention is…
Fuzzy description: Discovery and invention in sociology
The Police of France
Negotiating Control: A Study of News Sources. Richard V. Ericson , Patricia M. Baranek , Janet B. L. Chan
Erving Goffman and modern sociology
Erving Goffman
Semiotics and framing: Examples
Shyness, Self-Confidence, and Social Interaction
This paper describes the behavior of shy and self-confident individuals. Although there is a literature concerning the causes and consequences of shyness and self-confidence, nobody has systematically investigated what such people actually do. This paper reports findings obtained in a laboratory about conversational strategies used by shy and self-confident men and women. Participants were chosen from introductory courses at a midwestern universi…
Fuzzy description: Discovery and invention in sociology
Erving Goffman and Modern Sociology
Erving Goffman and Modern Sociology
Erving Goffman
Credibility, Agency, and the Interaction Order
There are two ways of reading Goffman-as a theorist of trust and ritual accommodation, that is, as a theorist of the interaction order, or as a theorist of deception. I suggest a way of making these two readings compatible, by arguing that Goffman was interested in what I call the 'production of credibility.' Credibility is the quality of being believable, and this quality is integral to both trust and deception. Viewed in this way, Goffman explo…
Philip Rieff's Moral Vision of Sociology: From Positive to Negative Communities - and Back
In this article I present Rieff as a theorist and moralist of cultural change. The trajectory of his work is from the elusively descriptive to the elusively prescriptive. Descriptively, Rieff identifies the elements of what he calls our current 'negative communities' and contrasts them with moribund 'positive communities' and their 'therapies of commitment'. He believes that, among others, Weber and Freud both recognized that negative communities…
Preserving Philip Rieff: The Reputation of a Fellow Teacher
Philip Rieff, the author of Freud: The Mind of the Moralist, The Triumph of the Therapeutic and Fellow Teachers, is a consequential and important American social theorist whose emphasis on moral structures and cultural limits has become - and to a great degree, always was - out of fashion. This article and the four that follow attempt to demonstrate the significance of the writings of Philip Rieff for contemporary social theory. Our contention is…
Freud and American sociology
Although Freud's impact on social science - and indeed twentieth-century social thought - has been extraordinary, his impact on American sociology has been left relatively unexplored. This ground-breaking book aims to fill this knowledge gap. By examining the work of pioneers such as G.H. Mead, Cooley, Parsons and Goffman, as well as a range of key contemporary thinkers, it provides an accurate history of the role Freud and psychoanalysis played …
Reinvigorating the Tradition of Symbolic Interactionism
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
Review of One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
Three Models of Ethnographic Research: Wacquant as Risk-Taker
Three versions of ethnographic research are presented. I call the first of these the “consensus model,” a widely accepted and standardized approach that combines the theoretical assumptions of Blumer’s formulation of symbolic interactionism and a set of data-gathering procedures. Mitchell Duneier’s work is an example of this model. The second approach, the “comparative model,” uses the consensus model while simultaneously developing an abstract, …
The Ethnographic Spiral
The Ethnographic Spiral: Reflections on the Intersection of Life History and Ideal-Typical Analysis
Following Gananath Obeyesekere, himself following Max Weber, this essay argues that ethnographers do not really study social worlds or even social groups. Instead, they move back and forth between abstract models and life histories: according to Obeyesekere, "... my thoughts are conditioned by the data that I deal with, as the data themselves are conditioned by my abstractions." (Obeyesekere, 1990, p. 3) Sometimes, ethnographers present abstract …
Goffman and Empirical Research
F reud, S igmund
The entry gives a brief biographical sketch of Freud, followed by an account of Freud's topographic model that emphasizes the different ways that psychoanalysts can access repressed memories. There is also a discussion of the powerful role of transference followed by a discussion of Freud's later structural model that introduces the tripartite model of the id, ego, and superego. Freud's later work took a sociological turn by emphasizing the tensi…
Supportive Interchanges
Remedial Interchanges 1
Normal Appearances
Normal appearances have only an indirect relation to the notion of expectation, whether in the statistical or normative sense of that term. The relation suggested between normal appearances and proper appearances must be qualified. This chapter describes the maintenance of normal appearances over an extended period of time by means of concealing most of the operation and coercing small but crucial performances from persons for whom these acts are…
The Individual as a Unit
Sociology (19 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Epistemology (9 works) · Social science (8 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice (6 works) · Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity (5 works) · History (5 works) · Psychoanalysis (5 works)