Relations In Public: Microstudies Of The Public Order
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In Relations in Public: Microstudies of the Public Order, Erving Goffman turns an unflinching sociological lens on the seemingly mundane rituals of everyday life — the nods, glances, territorial gestures, and unspoken codes that govern how human beings navigate shared public spaces. Goffman dissects the invisible architecture of social interaction, arguing that public order is not maintained by law or force alone, but by an intricate, largely unconscious choreography of behavioural norms that individuals perform and enforce upon one another moment to moment. A landmark work in microsociology and symbolic interactionism, this volume cements Goffman's reputation as one of the twentieth century's most original and penetrating social theorists. His prose is precise yet richly observational, blending rigorous analytical frameworks with vivid, almost novelistic attention to human detail. Building on his earlier masterworks The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life and Stigma, this study pushes further into the ethics and politics of co-presence — raising quietly radical questions about what it truly means to share a world with strangers.
Author: Erving Goffman
Format: Paperback
Genre: Anthropology
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In Relations in Public: Microstudies of the Public Order, Erving Goffman turns an unflinching sociological lens on the seemingly mundane rituals of everyday life — the nods, glances, territorial gestures, and unspoken codes that govern how human beings navigate shared public spaces. Goffman dissects the invisible architecture of social interaction, arguing that public order is not maintained by law or force alone, but by an intricate, largely unconscious choreography of behavioural norms that individuals perform and enforce upon one another moment to moment. A landmark work in microsociology and symbolic interactionism, this volume cements Goffman's reputation as one of the twentieth century's most original and penetrating social theorists. His prose is precise yet richly observational, blending rigorous analytical frameworks with vivid, almost novelistic attention to human detail. Building on his earlier masterworks The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life and Stigma, this study pushes further into the ethics and politics of co-presence — raising quietly radical questions about what it truly means to share a world with strangers.