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Showing 1 to 20 of 98 for “"Goffman"”.
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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.
… 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 the …
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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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Investigating religious identity in family discourse in Saudi Arabia : a study of moral order, narratives, power and solidarity
… Sociolinguistic research including framing (Goffman, 1974), positioning (Davies and Harre, 1990), stance-making (Du Bois, 2007), and alignment (Goffman, 1959) to uncover the various practices by which Muslim identity is (co-)constructed and negotiated. It also draws on narrative analysis …
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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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The Captivity of Opportunity: The Conversation Surrounding Church-Going Hispanic Immigrants
… through the lens of social stigma theory (Goffman, 2009) and intergroup contact theory (Pettigrew, 1998; Berg, 2009), the current research illuminated the marginalization of this population. Ultimately, participants narrated that the challenges that they face are far outweighed by the …
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“They Talk the Talk but They Don’t Walk the Walk”: A Qualitative Inquiry into Police Officers’ Perceptions of Stress and Stress Management
… the “me” or the socialized aspect of the self (Goffman, 1969) when constructing their perceptions of stress and stress management in order to protect their image and avoid stigmatization. Policy implications based on these findings are presented at the end of the study, along with directions for …
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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 only …
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Managing More Than Just Athletes: Impression Management Among Canadian High-Performance Sport Coaches
… in impression management. Impression management (Goffman, 1959) is defined as how individuals attempt to influence how they are perceived by others. Guided by intersectionality, phenomenology and utilizing semi-structured interviews, this study highlights eight interviews to examine how race and …
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The production of treatment courts : an organizational evaluation of job roles, dynamics, and power
… the courtroom workgroup. Drawing from Lipsky and Goffman, we see the complexities of these working conditions and the experiences of the workgroup. Semi-structured interviews with treatment court workgroup actors helped illuminate perceived job roles and team dynamics among these individuals.
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The Construction of Tang Wei as a Star in contemporary China: Performance, Context, Reception and Politics
… 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 the …
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Strategy and ritual in institutional encounters: a linguistic ethnography of weekly meetings in the British Embassy in Brussels
… It draws on the sociological writings of Goffman, the philosophical work of Durkheim and Turner, the political ideas of Marx and Weber and many others.
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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 shootings …
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Assimilative demands: The psychological impact of legal decisions on lesbians’ lives
… associated with a stigmatized identity (Goffman, 1963). This research investigated the covering demand in lesbian-identified women drawing on four related literatures: acculturation, discrimination, stigma, and self-concealment. The objectives of this research were to examine the impact …
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The Social Organisation of Off-Course Betting: An Ethnographic Perspective
… approach (which draws heavily on the work of Goffman) the world of the gambler, as located in such settings, is revealed in a clear and understandable way. Such an approach maximised the strengths of an interpretive approach and allowed for an understanding of what gambling means to bettors …
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Análises bibliométricas da produção científica dos grupos de pesquisa sobre física do estado sólido na América Latina
… is based on the mathematical model described by Goffman when searching an indirect method of information retrieval (see part 3) On the basis of the foregoing analyses the growth and development of the scientific production along the period studied came to be known. The distribution pattern of …
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Interdisciplinaridade na pós-graduação: estudo de seu impacto na produção de teses e dissertações do Programa de Pós-Graduação em História das Ciências e das Técnicas e Epistemologia da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
… of the Program. For this analysis we used the Goffman Transition Point formula, Bibliometrics methodology, Research area of Information Science, in order to identify words with semantic content among the analyzed material. The results demonstrate the efficiency of the application of the Law …
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,,Ehf, ekkert helvítis frí'' - Hvernig sjálfstætt starfandi listamenn á Íslandi koma sér á framfæri á samfélagsmiðlum
… og félagslegra þátta sem horfa þarf til. Kenning Goffman um sjálfsframsetningu greinir félagslega hegðun listamannanna á samfélagsmiðlum og skoðar framkomu listamannanna í félagslegu samhengi. Niðurstöðurnar gefa til kynna að samfélagsmiðlar geti reynst mikilvægir í starfi sjálfstætt starfandi …
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Changing From The Physician-Patient To The Physician-Consumer Relationship: Examining Consumer Involvement In Medical Interactions
… 1981; Cegala, Cegala, 1984; Cegala, 1989; Goffman, 1963; Parrot, 1995; Petty & Cacioppo, 1979; Petty, Cacioppo & Goldman, 1981; Villaume & Cegala, 1988). In this study, involvement is defined similary to Cegala (1981) as levels of attention in face-to-face interpersonal interaction between …
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The effect of electronically mediated sound on group musical interaction: A case study of the practice and development of the Automatic Writing Circle
… of Gregory Bateson on schizophrenia and Irving Goffman on Situationism are brought together to create a new understanding of the term "schizophonia". This rehabilitated concept is proposed as the key to a creative exploration of new situations and discontinuities which make up group performance …
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