Encounters
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
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What does it truly mean to be present with another person? In Encounters, the legendary sociologist Erving Goffman presents two landmark essays—Fun in Games and Role Distance—that dissect the subtle, often invisible rules governing human interaction in face-to-face social situations. With razor-sharp precision, Goffman argues that social encounters are not mere casual exchanges but are instead highly structured performances, governed by tacit norms and complex role obligations that individuals navigate moment to moment. Building on the dramaturgical framework that made his earlier work The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life a landmark of 20th-century social thought, Goffman illustrates how individuals maintain, negotiate, and sometimes subvert their roles within social gatherings and focused interactions. His analysis of role distance—the ways in which a person signals detachment from the very role they are performing—remains one of the most cited and influential concepts in modern sociology and social psychology. For anyone seeking to understand the hidden architecture of human togetherness, Encounters is an indispensable and quietly revelatory text.
Author: Erving Goffman
Format: Paperback
Genre: Anthropology
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
What does it truly mean to be present with another person? In Encounters, the legendary sociologist Erving Goffman presents two landmark essays—Fun in Games and Role Distance—that dissect the subtle, often invisible rules governing human interaction in face-to-face social situations. With razor-sharp precision, Goffman argues that social encounters are not mere casual exchanges but are instead highly structured performances, governed by tacit norms and complex role obligations that individuals navigate moment to moment. Building on the dramaturgical framework that made his earlier work The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life a landmark of 20th-century social thought, Goffman illustrates how individuals maintain, negotiate, and sometimes subvert their roles within social gatherings and focused interactions. His analysis of role distance—the ways in which a person signals detachment from the very role they are performing—remains one of the most cited and influential concepts in modern sociology and social psychology. For anyone seeking to understand the hidden architecture of human togetherness, Encounters is an indispensable and quietly revelatory text.