Editors
Dmitri N. Shalin
Document Type
Interview
Publication Date
6-20-2009
Publication Title
Bios Sociologicus: The Erving Goffman Archives
Publisher
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
First page number:
1
Last page number:
49
Abstract
This conversation with Jacqueline Wiseman, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego, was recorded over the phone on December 15, 2008. After Dmitri Shalin transcribed the interview, Dr. Wiseman corrected the transcript and gave her approval for posting the present version in the Erving Goffman Archives. 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 interview, Dr. Wiseman corrected the transcript and gave her approval for 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
Wiseman, J.
(2009).
Dmitri Shalin Interview with Jacqueline Wiseman about Erving Goffman entitled "Having a Genius for a Friend". In Dmitri N. Shalin,
Bios Sociologicus: The Erving Goffman Archives
1-49.
Available at:
https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/goffman_archives/75