As Goffman Was Talking about Remedial Interchanges, He Took a Glass of Water and Spilled It on Rosenberg’s Lap

Authors

Samuel Heilman, City University of New York

Editors

Dmitri N. Shalin

Document Type

Interview

Publication Date

4-27-2009

Publication Title

Bios Sociologicus: The Erving Goffman Archives

Publisher

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

First page number:

1

Last page number:

29

Abstract

This interview with Samuel Heilman, Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the City University of New York, was recorded over the phone on December 1, 2008. After Dmitri Shalin transcribed the interview, Dr. Heilman edited the transcript and gave his approval for posting the present version in the Erving Goffman Archives. Supplementary information appears 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; Sociologists; 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

Heilman, S. (2009). As Goffman Was Talking about Remedial Interchanges, He Took a Glass of Water and Spilled It on Rosenberg’s Lap. In Dmitri N. Shalin, Bios Sociologicus: The Erving Goffman Archives 1-29.
Available at: https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/goffman_archives/34