Editors
Dmitri N. Shalin
Document Type
Interview
Publication Date
2-25-2009
Publication Title
Bios Sociologicus: The Erving Goffman Archives
Publisher
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
First page number:
1
Last page number:
5
Abstract
This conversation with Jack Whalen, Principal Scientist at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), in their Computing Science Laboratory, was recorded on August 1, 2008, during the ASA meeting in Boston. After Dmitri Shalin transcribed the conversation, Jack Whalen corrected the transcript and gave his permission to post the present version of the exchange in the Goffman archves. 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 “[?]”. The interviewer’s questions are shortened in several places.
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, Jack Whalen corrected the transcript and gave his permission to post the present version of the exchange in the Goffman archves.
Publisher Citation
Bios Sociologicus: The Erving Goffman Archives, ed. by Dmitri N. Shalin (UNLV: CDC Publications, 2009).
Repository Citation
Whalen, J.
(2009).
Dmitri Shalin Interview with Jack Whalen about Erving Goffman entitled "I Read Presentation of Self, and It Was Like Nothing I Ever Read – “Oh, My God, That Is Sociology?”". In Dmitri N. Shalin,
Bios Sociologicus: The Erving Goffman Archives
1-5.
Available at:
https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/goffman_archives/73