Tag: Erving Goffman

  • Erving Goffman: Memories, method and metaphors

    Erving Goffman: Memories, method and metaphors

    If you do sociology or, indeed, any social science whatsoever, you’ll come across the work of Erving Goffman. I have done too but never engaged with it as much as I should have done. This was brought back to me when I talked with somebody who once shared a taxi-ride with Goffman and chatted with…