Dmitri Shalin Interview with Ruth A. Wallace about Erving Goffman entitled "Goffman Really Was Going out of His Way to Help People Who Were Different"

Authors

Ruth A. Wallace, George Washington University

Editors

Dmitri N. Shalin

Document Type

Interview

Publication Date

3-3-2010

Publication Title

Bios Sociologicus: The Erving Goffman Archives

Publisher

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

First page number:

1

Last page number:

10

Abstract

This conversation with Dr. Ruth Wallace, Professor Emerita of George Washington University, was recorded over the phone on January 11, 2009. After Dmitri Shalin transcribed the interview, Dr. Wallace approved posting the present version on the web. 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 interview, Dr. Wallace approved posting the present version on the web.

Publisher Citation

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

Repository Citation

Wallace, R. A. (2010). Dmitri Shalin Interview with Ruth A. Wallace about Erving Goffman entitled "Goffman Really Was Going out of His Way to Help People Who Were Different". In Dmitri N. Shalin, Bios Sociologicus: The Erving Goffman Archives 1-10.
Available at: https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/goffman_archives/72