Frame Analysis
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What does it mean to make sense of a situation — and who decides what sense is? In Frame Analysis, the sociologist Erving Goffman presents a rigorous and groundbreaking examination of the social frameworks through which individuals organize and interpret their lived experience. Drawing on a vast array of examples from everyday life, theatre, sports, and media, Goffman argues that reality itself is not a fixed given but a continually negotiated construction, shaped by the frames — cognitive schemata — that people apply to make events meaningful and intelligible. Published originally in 1974, Frame Analysis stands as one of the most ambitious and intellectually daring works in twentieth-century sociology and social psychology. Goffman's signature style — meticulous, playful, and relentlessly observational — strips away the taken-for-granted assumptions underlying human interaction, revealing the extraordinary complexity beneath the surface of the ordinary. A landmark in microsociology and symbolic interactionism, this work challenges readers to question the very foundations of social reality and ask: when we say something is real, what frame are we already standing inside?
Author: Erving Goffman
Format: Paperback
Genre: Society & culture
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
What does it mean to make sense of a situation — and who decides what sense is? In Frame Analysis, the sociologist Erving Goffman presents a rigorous and groundbreaking examination of the social frameworks through which individuals organize and interpret their lived experience. Drawing on a vast array of examples from everyday life, theatre, sports, and media, Goffman argues that reality itself is not a fixed given but a continually negotiated construction, shaped by the frames — cognitive schemata — that people apply to make events meaningful and intelligible. Published originally in 1974, Frame Analysis stands as one of the most ambitious and intellectually daring works in twentieth-century sociology and social psychology. Goffman's signature style — meticulous, playful, and relentlessly observational — strips away the taken-for-granted assumptions underlying human interaction, revealing the extraordinary complexity beneath the surface of the ordinary. A landmark in microsociology and symbolic interactionism, this work challenges readers to question the very foundations of social reality and ask: when we say something is real, what frame are we already standing inside?