To My Surprise Goffman Called Himself a Functionalist, But His Former Students Assured Me That He Was Only Playing With Us

Authors

Rachel Kahn-Hut, University of California, San Francisco

Editors

Dmitri N. Shalin

Document Type

Correspondence

Publication Date

1-1-2009

Publication Title

Bios Sociologicus: The Erving Goffman Archives

Publisher

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

First page number:

1

Last page number:

2

Abstract

Dr. Rachel Kahn-Hut, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of California San Francisco, prepared this memoir and approved its posting in the Erving Goffman Archives.

Keywords

Biography; Goffman; Erving; 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

Kahn-Hut, R. (2009). To My Surprise Goffman Called Himself a Functionalist, But His Former Students Assured Me That He Was Only Playing With Us. In Dmitri N. Shalin, Bios Sociologicus: The Erving Goffman Archives 1-2.
Available at: https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/goffman_archives/39