Marvin Scott Warned Me That Goffman Did Not Like People Writing About Him, That We Should Only Write About Dead People

Authors

Andy Fontana, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Editors

Dmitri N. Shalin

Document Type

Correspondence

Publication Date

9-21-2007

Publication Title

Bios Sociologicus: The Erving Goffman Archives

Publisher

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

First page number:

1

Last page number:

1

Abstract

Dr. Andreas Fontana, Professor of Sociology at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, wrote this memoir at the invitation of Dmitri Shalin and gave his approval for posting the present version in the Erving Goffman Archives.

Keywords

Biography; Goffman; Erving; 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

Fontana, A. (2007). Marvin Scott Warned Me That Goffman Did Not Like People Writing About Him, That We Should Only Write About Dead People. In Dmitri N. Shalin, Bios Sociologicus: The Erving Goffman Archives 1-1.
Available at: https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/goffman_archives/21