Erving Goffman

Erving Goffman
Erving Goffman
Born	11 June 1922; Mannville, Alberta, Canada
Died	19 November 1982 (aged 60); Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Nationality	Canadian; American;
Education	St. John's Technical High School
Alma mater	University of Manitoba BSc; University of Toronto B.A.; University of Chicago M.A., PhD;
Known for	Total institution; Various symbolic interactionist concepts: Dramaturgy; Interaction Ritual; Stigma; Sign vehicle; Tie signs; Impression management;
Spouses	Angelica Schuyler Choate-Goffman; Gillian Sankoff;
Children	Thomas Goffman; Alice Goffman;
Relatives	Frances Bay (sister)
Awards	Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1969; Guggenheim Fellowship, 1977; Cooley-Mead Award, 1979; Mead Award, 1983
	Scientific career
Fields	Symbolic interactionism
Institutions	National Institute of Mental Health; University of California, Berkeley; University of Pennsylvania; American Sociological Association; American Association for the Abolition of Involuntary Mental Hospitalization
Thesis	Communication Conduct in an Island Community (1953)
Doctoral advisor	W. Lloyd Warner
Other academic advisors	Anselm Strauss
Doctoral students	John Lofland, Harvey Sacks, Emanuel Schegloff, Eviatar Zerubavel

Erving Goffman (11 June 1922 – 19 November 1982) was a Canadian-born American sociologist, social psychologist, and writer, considered by some "the most influential American sociologist of the twentieth century".

In 2007, The Times Higher Education Guide listed him as the sixth most-cited author of books in the humanities and social sciences.

Goffman was the 73rd president of the American Sociological Association. His best-known contribution to social theory is his study of symbolic interaction. This took the form of dramaturgical analysis, beginning with his 1956 book The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. Goffman's other major works include Asylums (1961), Stigma (1963), Interaction Ritual (1967), Frame Analysis (1974), and Forms of Talk (1981). His major areas of study included the sociology of everyday life, social interaction, the social construction of self, social organization (framing) of experience, and particular elements of social life such as total institutions and stigmas.

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