Goffman Told Me, "It Is Really Hard to Do That Kind of Thing Well," and That Was About all the Advice I Ever Got from Him

Authors

Joel Best

Editors

Dmitri N. Shalin

Document Type

Interview

Publication Date

7-23-2008

Publication Title

Bios Sociologicus: The Erving Goffman Archives

Publisher

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

First page number:

1

Last page number:

6

Abstract

This interview with Joel Best was recorded on August 13, 2007, during the ASA Annual meeting in New York. Dmitri Shalin transcribed the audio recording and Joel Best edited the text and gave his approval for posting the present version in the Erving Goffman Archives. Breaks in the conversation flow are indicated by ellipses. Supplementary information appears in square brackets. Undecipherable words and unclear passages are identified in the text as “[?]”. The interviewer’s questions are shortened a bit in several places.

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

Best, J. (2008). Goffman Told Me, "It Is Really Hard to Do That Kind of Thing Well," and That Was About all the Advice I Ever Got from Him. In Dmitri N. Shalin, Bios Sociologicus: The Erving Goffman Archives 1-6.
Available at: https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/goffman_archives/7