Dmitri Shalin Interview with Audrey Wipper about Erving Goffman entitled "Goffman Was Very Original from the Beginning, He Had His Own Way of Seeing and He Stuck to It"

Authors

Audrey Wipper, University of Waterloo

Editors

Dmitri N. Shalin

Document Type

Interview

Publication Date

5-10-2010

Publication Title

Bios Sociologicus: The Erving Goffman Archives

Publisher

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

First page number:

1

Last page number:

20

Abstract

This conversation with Dr. Audrey Wipper, Professor Emerita at the University of Waterloo, was recorded over the phone on September 23, 2009. After Dmitri Shalin transcribed the interview, Dr. Wipper edited the transcript and 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. Wipper edited the transcript and 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

Wipper, A. (2010). Dmitri Shalin Interview with Audrey Wipper about Erving Goffman entitled "Goffman Was Very Original from the Beginning, He Had His Own Way of Seeing and He Stuck to It". In Dmitri N. Shalin, Bios Sociologicus: The Erving Goffman Archives 1-20.
Available at: https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/goffman_archives/74