Editors
Dmitri N. Shalin
Document Type
Bibliography
Publication Date
7-2011
Publication Title
Bios Sociologicus: The Erving Goffman Archives
Publisher
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
First page number:
1
Last page number:
34
Abstract
Like creating a mosaic, the bits and pieces of Erving Goffman’s life yield a picture of a complex man who lived in troubled times and through his writings changed the way whole generations saw the world. Looking at that life I chose to focus on his boyhood, from childhood through adolescence. My purpose is here descriptive, an ethnography of a childhood recounting events of Goffman’s early life and placing them in their social, historical and cultural context. That done, I will have a few words to say about the themes that I see in this narrative as well as some apparent connections between events of his boyhood and subsequent events in his adult life.
Keywords
Biography; Goffman; Erving; Sociologists
Disciplines
Politics and Social Change | Social and Behavioral Sciences | Sociology
Language
English
Publisher Citation
Bios Sociologicus: The Erving Goffman Archives, ed. by Dmitri N. Shalin (UNLV: CDC Publications, 2009).
Repository Citation
Cavan, S.
(2011).
When Erving Goffman was a Boy. In Dmitri N. Shalin,
Bios Sociologicus: The Erving Goffman Archives
1-34.
Available at:
https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/goffman_archives/89