My Father Used to Refer to Erving as “Goofy Goffman”

Authors

Eli Bay

Editors

Dmitri N. Shalin

Document Type

Interview

Publication Date

4-11-2010

Publication Title

Bios Sociologicus: The Erving Goffman Archives

Publisher

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

First page number:

1

Last page number:

11

Abstract

This conversation with Eli Bay was recorded over the phone on January 11, 2009. After Dmitri Shalin transcribed the conversation, Eli Bay edited the transcript and approved posting the present version in the 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 “[?]”.

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

Bay, E. (2010). My Father Used to Refer to Erving as “Goofy Goffman”. In Dmitri N. Shalin, Bios Sociologicus: The Erving Goffman Archives 1-11.
Available at: https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/goffman_archives/4