Dmitri Shalin Interview with S. Leonard Syme about Erving Goffman entitled "Erving Looked at the Room and Announced, “I See Everyone Is Observing the Rituals of Mourning”"

Authors

S. Leonard Syme, University of California - Berkeley

Editors

Dmitri N. Shalin

Document Type

Interview

Publication Date

2-28-2012

Publication Title

Bios Sociologicus: The Erving Goffman Archives

Publisher

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

First page number:

1

Last page number:

15

Abstract

This interview with S. Leonard Syme, Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, was recorded in Las Vegas on October 12, 2011. Dmitri Shalin transcribed the interview, after which Dr. Syme 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

Dmitri Shalin transcribed the interview, after which Dr. Syme 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

Syme, S. L. (2012). Dmitri Shalin Interview with S. Leonard Syme about Erving Goffman entitled "Erving Looked at the Room and Announced, “I See Everyone Is Observing the Rituals of Mourning”". In Dmitri N. Shalin, Bios Sociologicus: The Erving Goffman Archives 1-15.
Available at: https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/goffman_archives/68