Dmitri Shalin Interview with Dean MacCannell about Erving Goffman entitled "Some of Goffman’s Guardedness and Verbal Toughness Was Simply a Way of Giving Himself the Space and Time That He Needed to Do the Work That He Really Loved"

Authors

Dean MacCannell, University of California, Davis

Editors

Dmitri N. Shalin

Document Type

Interview

Publication Date

12-5-2009

Publication Title

Bios Sociologicus: The Erving Goffman Archives

Publisher

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

First page number:

1

Last page number:

37

Abstract

This conversation with Dean MacCannell, Professor of Environmental Design at the University of California Davis, was recorded over the phone on July 7, 2009. The initial exchange lasting a minute or so is reconstructed from memory. Breaks in the conversation flow are indicated by ellipses. Supplementary information and additional materials inserted during the editing process appear in square brackets. Undecipherable words and unclear passages are identified in the text as “[?]”.

Keywords

Goffman; Erving; Interviews; Social interaction; Sociologists; 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

MacCannell, D. (2009). Dmitri Shalin Interview with Dean MacCannell about Erving Goffman entitled "Some of Goffman’s Guardedness and Verbal Toughness Was Simply a Way of Giving Himself the Space and Time That He Needed to Do the Work That He Really Loved". In Dmitri N. Shalin, Bios Sociologicus: The Erving Goffman Archives 1-37.
Available at: https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/goffman_archives/46