Erving Goffman
A major theorist of power
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7104585 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard Jenkins (University of Sheffield, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 157-168 |
| Publication date | 2008-07-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Power (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1754-0291 • E-ISSN: 1754-0305 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17540290802227577 |
| OpenAlex | W2041966653 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 30 |
| References cited | 30 |
This article argues that Erving Goffman's interactional sociology offers many useful insights into what power is and how it actually works, and that in addition to his other reputations we ought to think of Goffman as a significant theorist of power. A critical Goffmanian approach potentially allows us to comprehend the normal, diffuse ubiquity of power while according full recognition to the practices of individuals, whether self‐conscious or habitual, rule‐observant or improvisational. How Goffman's understanding of power may help us to understand the contemporary realities of the early twenty‐first century is also discussed
Aesthetics · Critical theory · Dramaturgy · Epistemology · Improvisation · Power (physics · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Critical Realism in Sociology · Philosophy · Psychology · Social and Cultural Dynamics
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Students’ experiences of the Cambridge supervision system
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Meeting, talk and text
Re(dis)covering Goffman
Framing Social Interaction
Co-production in community mental health services
The role of the councillor and the work of meeting
Goffman in the Gallery
The Unlived Life Is Worth Examining
Experiential knowledge in mental health services
Revisiting the Total Institution
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Erving Goffman's presidential address on 'The interaction order
Youth athlete learning and the dynamics of social performance in Norwegian elite handball
Turning to Space
Power
Erving Goffman
Strategic Interaction
Erving Goffman
Stigma
Encounters
The social construction of reality
The coming crisis of western sociology
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
After Virtue
Relations in Public. Microstudies of the Public Order
Goffman on Power, Hierarchy, and Status
Erving Goffman
Gender Advertisements
Models of Man
The Coming Crisis of Western Sociology
The constitution of society
After virtue
The Poverty of Postmodernism
The Disciplinary Society
Symbolic interactionism and the concept of power
The Interaction Order
Asylums
Relations in Public
Rethinking Ethnicity
| Unique citing works | 30 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,88 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2026 (17) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 30 |