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Remembering Erving Goffman, Aaron Cicourel Feb 2009

Remembering Erving Goffman, Aaron Cicourel

Bios Sociologicus: The Erving Goffman Archives

Aaron Cicourel, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of California San Diego, wrote this memoir and gave his approval for posting the present version in the Erving Goffman Archives. The memoir was received on February 18, 2009.


I Became Aware That Many Students Looked Up To Erving, Gerald Handel Feb 2009

I Became Aware That Many Students Looked Up To Erving, Gerald Handel

Bios Sociologicus: The Erving Goffman Archives

Gerald Handel, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at The City College and The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, wrote this memoir at the request of Dmitri Shalin and gave his approval for posting the present version in the Erving Goffman Archives. The memoir was received on February 11, 2009.


He Was A Heck Of A Nice Guy, Kind Of Shy, And The Kids Liked Him, Robert Habenstein Jan 2009

He Was A Heck Of A Nice Guy, Kind Of Shy, And The Kids Liked Him, Robert Habenstein

Bios Sociologicus: The Erving Goffman Archives

This interview with Robert Habenstein, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Missouri, was recorded over the phone on December 23 and December 29, 2008. Dmitri Shalin transcribed the interview, after which Dr. Habenstein and Dr. Patricia Morrow Habenstein approved posting the present version on the web. Breaks in the conversation flow are indicated by ellipses. Supplementary information and additional materials inserted during the editing process appear in square brackets. Undecipherable words and unclear passages are identified in the text as “[?]”. The interviewer’s questions are shortened in several places.


Dmitri Shalin Interview With Victor Lidz About Erving Goffman Entitled "Remembering Erving Goffman", Victor Lidz Jan 2009

Dmitri Shalin Interview With Victor Lidz About Erving Goffman Entitled "Remembering Erving Goffman", Victor Lidz

Bios Sociologicus: The Erving Goffman Archives

Dr. Victor Lidz has given his permission to post this communication on the EGA site.


Erving Goffman Was A Brilliantly Imaginative, Original Sociologist And A Pathmaking Ethnographer, Who Had A Deep And Lasting Influence On The Students Who He Mentored In His Distinctively Challenging Way, And On The Discipline Of Sociology To Whose Development He Was Fervently Committed, Renee C. Fox Jan 2009

Erving Goffman Was A Brilliantly Imaginative, Original Sociologist And A Pathmaking Ethnographer, Who Had A Deep And Lasting Influence On The Students Who He Mentored In His Distinctively Challenging Way, And On The Discipline Of Sociology To Whose Development He Was Fervently Committed, Renee C. Fox

Bios Sociologicus: The Erving Goffman Archives

This interview with Renée Fox, Annenberg Professor Emerita of the Social Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, was recorded over the phone on November 28, 2008. After Dmitri Shalin transcribed the interview, Dr. Fox edited the transcript and approved posting the present version on the web. Breaks in the conversation flow are indicated by ellipses. Supplementary information and additional materials inserted during the editing process appear in square brackets. Undecipherable words and unclear passages are identified in the text as “[?]”. The interviewer’s questions are shortened in several places.


Introduction, Dmitri N. Shalin Jan 2009

Introduction, Dmitri N. Shalin

Bios Sociologicus: The Erving Goffman Archives

We would like to bring to your attention the Erving Goffman Archives (EGA). Located on the web site of the UNLV Center of Democratic Culture, this web-based, open-source project serves as a clearing house for those interested in the dramaturgical tradition in sociology and biographical methods of research, http://www.unlv.edu/centers/cdclv/ega/index.html. The EGA collect critical studies and biographical materials about Erving Goffman and his era. Postings on the EGA web site are divided into several overlapping sections: “Documents and Papers,” “Biographical Materials,” “Critical Assessments,” and “Comments and Dialogues.”The biographical section contains previously published materials, as well as new interviews and memoirs.


At His Bar Mitzvah Erving Gave A Little Speech That He Wrote Himself And That He Called “Ode To Mother”, Frances Goffman Bay Jan 2009

At His Bar Mitzvah Erving Gave A Little Speech That He Wrote Himself And That He Called “Ode To Mother”, Frances Goffman Bay

Bios Sociologicus: The Erving Goffman Archives

This conversation with Frances Goffman Bay was recorded over the phone on January 1, 2009. After Dmitri Shalin transcribed the conversation, Frances Goffman Bay read the text and approved posting the present version in the Goffman Archives. Breaks in the conversation flow are indicated by ellipses. Supplementary information and additional materials inserted during the editing process appear in square brackets. Undecipherable words and unclear passages are identified in the text as “[?]”.


To My Surprise Goffman Called Himself A Functionalist, But His Former Students Assured Me That He Was Only Playing With Us, Rachel Kahn-Hut Jan 2009

To My Surprise Goffman Called Himself A Functionalist, But His Former Students Assured Me That He Was Only Playing With Us, Rachel Kahn-Hut

Bios Sociologicus: The Erving Goffman Archives

Dr. Rachel Kahn-Hut, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of California San Francisco, prepared this memoir and approved its posting in the Erving Goffman Archives.