Editors
Dmitri N. Shalin
Document Type
Interview
Publication Date
7-19-2009
Publication Title
Bios Sociologicus: The Erving Goffman Archives
Publisher
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
First page number:
1
Last page number:
31
Abstract
This interview with Jordan Scher, M.D., Ph.D., Honorary Member of Vienna Psychiatric Society, was recorded over the phone on March 17, 2009. Dmitri Shalin transcribed the interview, after which Dr. Scher edited the transcript, added a historical note on N.I.M.H., and approved posting the present text in the Erving Goffman Archives. 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; Psychiatric hospitals; Social interaction; Sociologists; Symbolic interactionism
Disciplines
Politics and Social Change | Psychiatric and Mental Health | Social Psychology and Interaction | Sociology
Language
English
Permissions
Dmitri Shalin transcribed the interview, after which Dr. Scher edited the transcript, added a historical note on N.I.M.H., and approved posting the present text in the Erving Goffman Archives.
Publisher Citation
Bios Sociologicus: The Erving Goffman Archives, ed. by Dmitri N. Shalin (UNLV: CDC Publications, 2009).
Repository Citation
Scher, J.
(2009).
Dmitri Shalin Interview with Jordan Scher about Erving Goffman entitled "Erving Disavowed Psychiatric Functioning at St. Elizabeth’s, and I Explored Role-Playing and the Presentation of Self in Schizophrenia". In Dmitri N. Shalin,
Bios Sociologicus: The Erving Goffman Archives
1-31.
Available at:
https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/goffman_archives/58
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