Dmitri Shalin Interview with Robin Room about Erving Goffman entitled "Only Someone Who Had Trouble with Sociability Would Be So Keen an Observer"

Authors

Robin Room, University of Melbourne

Editors

Dmitri N. Shalin

Document Type

Interview

Publication Date

7-29-2009

Publication Title

Bios Sociologicus: The Erving Goffman Archives

Publisher

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

First page number:

1

Last page number:

23

Abstract

This conversation with Robin Room was recorded over the phone on July 16, 2009. Robin Room is a Professor in the School of Population Health of the University of Melbourne and the Director of the AER Centre for Alcohol Policy Research at Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Centre, Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia. After Dmitri Shalin transcribed the conversation, Dr. Room edited the transcript and approved posting the present version in the Erving 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

After Dmitri Shalin transcribed the conversation, Dr. Room edited the transcript and approved posting the present version in the Erving Goffman Archives.

Publisher Citation

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

Repository Citation

Room, R. (2009). Dmitri Shalin Interview with Robin Room about Erving Goffman entitled "Only Someone Who Had Trouble with Sociability Would Be So Keen an Observer". In Dmitri N. Shalin, Bios Sociologicus: The Erving Goffman Archives 1-23.
Available at: https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/goffman_archives/56