Goffman Was an Intense Perfectionist about His Writing, Putting Sheet after Sheet into the Typewriter and Then Throwing Each Away

Authors

Ann Swidler, University of California - Berkeley

Editors

Dmitri N. Shalin

Document Type

Correspondence

Publication Date

7-13-2010

Publication Title

Bios Sociologicus: The Erving Goffman Archives

Publisher

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

First page number:

1

Last page number:

3

Abstract

Dr. Ann Swidler, Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, wrote this memoir at the request of Dmitri Shalin and gave her permission to post the present version 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

Swidler, A. (2010). Goffman Was an Intense Perfectionist about His Writing, Putting Sheet after Sheet into the Typewriter and Then Throwing Each Away. In Dmitri N. Shalin, Bios Sociologicus: The Erving Goffman Archives 1-3.
Available at: https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/goffman_archives/67