Dmitri Shalin Interview with Saul Mendlovitz about Erving Goffman entitled "Erving Was a Jew Acting Like a Canadian Acting Like a Britisher"

Authors

Saul Mendlovitz, Rutgers University

Editors

Dmitri N. Shalin

Document Type

Interview

Publication Date

7-28-2009

Publication Title

Bios Sociologicus: The Erving Goffman Archives

Publisher

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

First page number:

1

Last page number:

47

Abstract

This interview with Saul Mendlovitz, Dag Hammarskjöld professor at the School of Law, Rutgers University, was recorded over the phone on December 29, 2008, and January 7, 2009. Dmitri Shalin transcribed the interview, after which Professor Mendlovitz read the transcript and gave his approval for adding the present version to 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; Sociologists; Symbolic interactionism

Disciplines

Politics and Social Change | Social Psychology and Interaction | Sociology

Language

English

Permissions

Dmitri Shalin transcribed the interview, after which Professor Mendlovitz read the transcript and gave his approval for adding the present version to the Goffman Archives.

Publisher Citation

Bios Sociologicus: The Erving Goffman Archives, ed. by Dmitri N. Shalin (UNLV: CDC Publications, 2009).

Repository Citation

Mendlovitz, S. (2009). Dmitri Shalin Interview with Saul Mendlovitz about Erving Goffman entitled "Erving Was a Jew Acting Like a Canadian Acting Like a Britisher". In Dmitri N. Shalin, Bios Sociologicus: The Erving Goffman Archives 1-47.
Available at: https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/goffman_archives/49