Erving and Ira Were Counting Cards When a Couple of Biggest Men They Ever Saw Walked up Behind Them and Said, “We Don’t Want Your Play, Partner”

Authors

Walter Clark, Alcohol Research Group

Editors

Dmitri N. Shalin

Document Type

Interview

Publication Date

8-7-2009

Publication Title

Bios Sociologicus: The Erving Goffman Archives

Publisher

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

First page number:

1

Last page number:

21

Abstract

This conversation with Walter Clark, former researcher at the Alcohol Research Group, was recorded over the phone on July 17, 2009.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; 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

Clark, W. (2009). Erving and Ira Were Counting Cards When a Couple of Biggest Men They Ever Saw Walked up Behind Them and Said, “We Don’t Want Your Play, Partner”. In Dmitri N. Shalin, Bios Sociologicus: The Erving Goffman Archives 1-21.
Available at: https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/goffman_archives/13