When Dad Told Him about the Award, Goffman Replied, "Make Sure the Presentation Is in a Small Room So It Will Look Like a Lot of People Are There"

Authors

Carl B. Backman, Auburn University

Editors

Dmitri N. Shalin

Document Type

Correspondence

Publication Date

11-10-2009

Publication Title

Bios Sociologicus: The Erving Goffman Archives

Publisher

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

First page number:

1

Last page number:

2

Abstract

Dr. Carl Backman, professor of sociology at Auburn University, wrote these memoir and gave his permission to post it in the Erving Goffman Archives.

Keywords

Goffman; Erving; Interviews; Social interaction; Symbolic interactionism

Disciplines

Politics and Social Change | Social Psychology and Interaction | Sociology

Language

English

Publisher Citation

Bios Sociologicus: The Erving Goffman Archives, ed. by Dmitri N. Shalin (UNLV: CDC Publications, 2009).

Repository Citation

Backman, C. B. (2009). When Dad Told Him about the Award, Goffman Replied, "Make Sure the Presentation Is in a Small Room So It Will Look Like a Lot of People Are There". In Dmitri N. Shalin, Bios Sociologicus: The Erving Goffman Archives 1-2.
Available at: https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/goffman_archives/3