Editors
Dmitri N. Shalin
Document Type
Interview
Publication Date
11-30-2008
Publication Title
Bios Sociologicus: The Erving Goffman Archives
Publisher
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
First page number:
1
Last page number:
56
Abstract
This interview with Sherri Cavan, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the San Francisco State University, was recorded over the phone on November 30, 2008. Dmitri Shalin transcribed the interview, after which Dr. Cavan edited the transcripts and gave her approval for posting the present version 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 “[?]”. The interviewer’s questions are shortened 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
Cavan, S.
(2008).
Having Been Goffman's Student I Am Drawn to Voltaire’s Dictum, "To the Living We Owe Respect, to the Dead We Owe Only the Truth". In Dmitri N. Shalin,
Bios Sociologicus: The Erving Goffman Archives
1-56.
Available at:
https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/goffman_archives/10