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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Erving Goffman"”.
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Testing Gouldner's coming crisis theory: on the state of contemporary sociological theory
… George Homans (exchange theory), Erving Goffman (the dramaturgical wing of symbolic interactionism), and Harold Garfinkel (ethnomethodology). The findings provide illuminations of both the past and current state of sociological theory.
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Face-Work Within Blogs: The Use and Modification of Real World Rituals Within a Virtual Setting
In his Essay "On Face-Work" Erving Goffman identifies the rules for a number of face-to-face interaction rituals. Among these rituals are two ways of correcting participants within an interaction. The first correction ritual, the interchange, allows offending interactants a chance to save face. …
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Avoiding Stigma by Doing Sexuality: A Qualitative Study of Self-identified Bisexual Men and Women
… on the symbolic interactionist theory of Erving Goffman and the framework by David Orzechowicz, this qualitative project looks at the ways in which bisexual individuals “do sexuality.” I interviewed fifteen self-identified bisexual individuals. I found that participants “do sexuality” not …
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The Construction of Tang Wei as a Star in contemporary China: Performance, Context, Reception and Politics
… field of performance studies. The thesis employs Erving Goffman?s notion of ?social performance? (1959) and Richard Schechner?s concept of ?in-between identities? (1985) to position Tang?s on- and off-screen persona and performance within and without the Chinese ideological context. By examining …
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Open Fire: A Portrait of Gun Control in U.S. and International Newspaper Articles after the 2011 Arizona Mass Shooting
… media framing theory, first introduced by Erving Goffman, which asserts that the media portray certain items in a way that affects awareness, salience and tone of those items. There has long been debate about media framing especially as it pertains to the framing of violent events. Mass …
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Wearing Yourself or Dressing the Part: Navigating Workplace Dress Codes as Queer, Androgynous Women
… theoretical perspective that is informed by both Erving Goffman and Judith Butler, I analyze the women’s decision-making around managing their appearance for work, and the relationship they perceive between their clothing, queer identity, and sense of self. I also explore the multiple challenges …
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The Performance of Refugeehood on Social Media in an Era of Superdiversity: A Digital Ethnographic Study of Arab Refugee Identities and Literacies on YouTube
… including notions from Mikhail Bakhtin, Erving Goffman, and Pierre Bourdieu, the study analyzes YouTube videos by two refugee YouTubers from Syria, who have been resettled in Germany and Sweden. By investigating their use of language and other semiotic resources on the social media …
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La coopération roumaine au développement : exercice d'approche goffmannienne
… mobilisé l’un des concepts clés du sociologue Erving Goffman – le faceworking – afin de rendre compte le plus finement possible du processus d’acquisition des rôles dorénavant dévolus aux différents acteurs nationaux impliqués dans l’aide roumaine. Nous démontrons que si les protagonistes …
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“It's not voluntourism”: unpacking young people's narrative claims to authenticity and differentiation in the international volunteer experience
… informed by the dramaturgical perspective of Erving Goffman and the field of whiteness studies. I further situate findings within the context of late or liquid modernity.
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„Almenningsgatan.“ Iðkun athugasemdakerfa
… og hópa, Richard Bauman um flutning og samhengi, Erving Goffman um hegðun, Michel de Certeau um ráðagerðir og undanbrögð og Robert Glenn Howard um samskipti á netinu. Auk þessa styðst hún við samræðusiðfræði Jürgen Habermas og við svör við spurningarlistum sem aflað var í þessum tilgangi. …
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The relationship between specialist and non-specialist identities in a dialogical art practice
… research differ because instead of strictly observing the social and psychological aspects of participants the works are trying to create conditions that influence them heuristically. The theoretical foundation for my research methodology is dialogue as defined by M. M. Bakhtin and Paulo Freire …
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What is it that is going on when children collaborate to make art What is it that is going on when children collaborate to make art in a primary school workshop? A frame analysis.
… his book Frame Analysis (1974), the sociologist Erving Goffman develops an approach to illuminating what is going on in social encounters. Goffman looks very closely at micro-meanings embedded in social interaction. His methods are examined and interpreted in order to create a form for answering …
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Performance or Presence? Examining the Private Parts of Australian Medical Education
… of clinical and other relations. Drawing on Erving Goffman (1959), Arthur Frank (1995) and Donald Winnicott (1986), I establish that medical work needs to be more deeply understood as a process that requires both a specialist and objectifying movement away from common humanity, and also an …
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A uniform not uniform : an ethnography of police clothing, performance, gender and subculture in neighbourhood policing
… through the lens of their uniforms. Using Erving Goffman as a theoretical framework, along with the complementary work of Judith Butler (1993; 1999) and Malcolm Young (1991; 1992), this thesis contributes to the theoretical debate on the influence of the police uniform on the wearer; …
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The lived experiences of people with schizophrenia prescribed atypical antipsychotic medication
… phenomenological approach, utilising the work of Erving Goffman. The emergent five core concepts from the data were analysed using Burnard’s content analysis. Patient accounts reported a loss of identity and a loss of control over their lives. Stigma from the public and the media continues to …
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Intersectionality: A critical qualitative exploration of the experiences of LGBTQ persons with disabilities at the collegiate level
… of George Herbert Mead, Herbert Blumer and Erving Goffman.</p> <p>A critical qualitative approach was adopted for this study because this methodology supported the exploration of the systemic barriers that exist for LGBTQ persons with disabilities in higher education, while advocating for …
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Os limites da internação psiquiátrica forçada de usuários de drogas ilícitas à luz da Proteção Internacional dos Direitos Humanos
… Initially, the works of Michel Foucault and Erving Goffman are used as a theoretical reference, in order to verify how the merger between Legal Knowledge and Medical Knowledge turns to the users of illicit drugs, while power speeches imbued with body and minds’s docilization techniques, as …
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A room with a view: Exploring the impacts of early school leaving and imprisonment on a cohort of working class men, participating in an adult education project in Dublin, Ireland.
… Emile Durkheim (1833, 1933), Max Weber (1922), Erving Goffman (1959), Paolo Freire (1970), Raewyn Connell (1995, 2005), John Scott (2000) and many others to show the importance of identifying the lived experiences of the group of research participants.
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Att bygga broar över kulturgränser : Om svenskars kommunikation med icke-svenskar vid arbete utanför Sverige
… In particular, the theoretical horizons of Erving Goffman and Jürgen Habemas serve as useful analytic tools in interpreting the experiences told by members of the different professional cultures. In this context, the conceptual foundation of "national cultures" associated with Geert Hofstede …
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Theatrical bodies and madness: a case study of a theatre playground in a South African forensic psychiatric hospital
… I draw on the work of Michel Foucault and Erving Goffman in order to conceptualise a history and critique of psychiatry, and to contextualise how colonial psychiatry developed in South Africa. I compare manifestations of power and control that are part of forensic psychiatric practices with …
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