Goffman's Contributions to Sociological Thought
BOOKS, ARTICLES AND DISSERTATIONS
  1. Some Characteristics of Response to Depicted Experience, M.A. dissertation, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago, December 1949.

  2. 'Symbols of class status', British Journal of Sociology 2(4), November 1951, pp. 294-304.

  3. 'On cooling the mark out: some aspects of adaptation to failure', Psychiatry: Journal for the Study of Interpersonal Processes 15(4), November 1952, pp. 451-463.

  4. 'The Service Station Dealer: The Man and His Work', report prepared for the American Petroleum Institute, mimeographed (Chicago: Social Research Incorporated, 1953).

  5. Communication Conduct in an Island Community, Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago, December 1953.

  6. 'On face-work: an analysis of ritual elements in social interaction', Psychiatry: Journal for the Study of Interpersonal Processes 18(3), August 1955, pp. 213-231.

  7. Book review of E.R. Service and H.S. Service, 'Tobati: Paraguayan Town', American Journal of Sociology 61(2), September 1955, pp. 186-187.

  8. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh, Social Sciences Research Centre, 1956).

    Reviews:

    Psychiatry: Journal for the Study of Interpersonal Processes 19 (2), May 1956, pp. 209-211 (Helen S. Perry).
    American Sociological Review 21 (5), October 1956, pp. 631-632 (Kaspar D. Naegele).
    American Journal of Sociology 63 (1), July 1957, p. 105 (Gregory P. Stone).

  9. 'The nature of deference and demeanor', American Anthropologist 58(3), June 1956, pp. 473-502.

  10. 'Embarrassment and social organisation', American Journal of Sociology 62(3), November1956, pp. 264-271.

  11. 'Interpersonal persuasion' in Bertram Schaffner (ed) Group Processes: Transactions of the Third (1956) Conference (New York: Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, 1957), pp. 117-193.

  12. 'Some dimensions of the problem' in Milton Greenblatt, D.J. Levinson and R.H. Williams (eds) The Patient and the Mental Hospital (New York: The Free Press of Glencoe, 1957), pp. 507-510.

  13. 'Alienation from interaction', Human Relations 10 (1), January 1957, pp. 47-59.

  14. 'On some convergences of sociology and psychiatry', Psychiatry: Journal for the Study of Interpersonal Processes 20 (3), August 1957, pp. 201-203.

  15. Book review of D.R. Cressey, 'Other People's Money', Psychiatry: Journal for the Study of Interpersonal Processes 20 (3), June 1957, pp. 321-326.

  16. Book review of I. Belknap, Human Problems of a State Mental Hospital, Administrative Science Quarterly 2 (1), August 1957, pp. 120-121.

  17. 'The characteristics of total institutions', Symposium on Preventive and Social Psychiatry (15-17 April 1957) (Washington D.C.: Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, 1958), pp. 43-84.

  18. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (New York: Doubleday & Co., Anchor Books, 1959; London: Allen Lane, 1969; Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1971). Enlarged edition of 8.

    Reviews:
    Contemporary Psychology 6, 1961, pp. 432-34 (Daniel R. Miller)
    American Anthropologist 64, 1962, pp. 190-91 (Lloyd Fathers)

  19. 'The moral career of the mental patient', Psychiatry: Journal for the Study of Interpersonal Processes 22 (2), May 1959, pp. 123-142.

  20. Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates (New York: Doubleday & Co., Anchor Books, 1961; Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968).
    Comprising 'Preface', 'Introduction', 'On the characteristics of total institution' (a reprint of 22), 'The moral career of the mental patient' (a reprint of 19), 'The underlife of a public institution: a study of ways of making out in a mental hospital', and 'The medical model and mental hospitalization: some notes on the vicissitudes of the tinkering trades'.

    Reviews:
    American Sociological Review 27 (4), August 1962, pp. 555-556 (Harold F Pfautz)
    Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 344, August 1962, p. 185 (B Hollingshead)
    American Journal of Sociology 68 (3), November 1962, pp. 366-69 (William Caudhill)
    British Journal of Psychiatry 116, 1970, pp. 111-112 (H.C. Beccle)

  21. Encounters: Two Studies in the Sociology of Interaction (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1961; Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972)
    Comprising 'Preface', 'Fun in games', and 'Role distance'.

    Reviews:
    Social Forces? vol ?, year ?, p. 347 (Brian Sutton-Smith)
    American Sociological Review 27 (93), June 1962, pp. 436-437 (Milton Bloombaum)
    American Journal of Sociology 68 (1), July 1962, pp. 125-126 (Robert J Potter)
    Contemporary Psychology 8, 1963, pp. 71-72 (Harold H. Kelley)
    American Anthropologist 65, 1963, pp. 1416-1417 (Edward M. Bruner)
    Sociological Quarterly 5 (1), 1965, p. 95 (Sister Mary Elizabeth Dye)

  22. 'On the characteristics of total institutions' in Donald R. Cressey (ed) The Prison (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston Inc., 1961).

  23. Behavior in Public Places: Notes on the Social Organization of Gatherings (New York: The Free Press, 1963; London: Collier-Macmillan, 1969).

    Reviews:
    Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences 355, 1964, pp. 140-141 (Samuel W. Bloom)
    American Journal of Sociology 69 (6), May 1964, pp. 679-680 (Arthur L. Stinchcombe)
    American Sociological Review 29 (3), June 1964, pp. 427-428 (Louis Schneider)
    Sociological Quarterly 6 (2), Spring 1965, pp. 186-187 (Charles L. Mulford)

  24. Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1963; Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968).

    Reviews:
    American Sociological Review 29 (5), October 1964, pp. 770-777 (Melvin Seeman)
    Social Forces 43 (1), October 1964, pp. 127-128 (Melvin L. De Fleur)
    Contemporary Psychology 10, 1965, pp. 30-32 (Leona Tyler)
    American Journal of Sociology 70 (5), March 1965, p. 636 (Eugene Weinstein)
    Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences 357, 1965, pp. 148-150 (Leonard Berkowitz)

  25. 'Mental symptoms and public order', Disorders of Communication, Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Disease, Research Publications, 42, pp. 262-269.

  26. 'The neglected situation', American Anthropologist 66 (6 part 2), December 1964, pp. 133-136.

  27. Interaction Ritual: Essays on Face-to-Face Behaviour (New York: Doubleday & Co., Anchor Books, 1967; Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972).
    Comprising 'Acknowledgements', 'Introduction', 'On face work', 'The nature of deference and demeanor', 'Embarrassment and social orgnization', 'Alienation from interaction', 'Mental symtoms and public order', and 'Where the action is'.

    Reviews:
    American Sociological Review 33 (3), June 1968, pp. 462-463 (Edward A. Tirjakian)
    Social Forces 47 (1), September 1968, pp. 110-111 (Bernard N Meltzer)
    American Journal of Sociology 76 (3), November 1969, pp. 725-726 (Everett C Hughes)
    American Journal of Sociology 77 (1), July 1970, pp. 177-179 (Fred L. Strodtbeck)
    British psychology journal? vol ?, after l972?, pp. 346-368 (Laurie Taylor)

  28. Strategic Interaction (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1969; Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1970; New York: Ballantine Books, 1972).
    Comprising 'Expression games: an analysis of doubts at play' and 'Strategic interactions'.

    Reviews:
    'Morals are the message: the work of Erving Goffman', Psychiatry and Social Science Review 4 (9), July 1970, pp. 17-19 (John F. Lofland)
    Contemporary Psychology 15 (12), 1970, pp. 722-724 (Robert C. Carson)
    American Sociological Review 36 (1), February 1971, pp. 135-136 (Carl J. Couch)
    American Anthropologist 74, 1972, pp. 8-10 (Edwin Lemert)
    Sociology 6 (2), May 1972, pp. 311-313 (Laurie Taylor)
    American Journal of Sociology 79 (4), January 1974, pp. 1004-1008 (Guy E. Swanson)

  29. 'The insanity of place', Psychiatry: Journal for the Study of Interpersonal Processes 32 (4), November 1969, pp. 357-388.

  30. Relations in Public: Microstudies of the Public Order (New York: Basic Books, 1971; Harper & Row, 1972; London: Allen Lane, 1971; Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972).
    Comprising 'Author's note', 'Preface', 'The individual as a unit', 'The territories of the self', 'Supportive interchanges', 'Remedial interchanges', 'Tie-signs', 'Normal appearances', 'Appendix: The insanity of place'. A reprint of 29.

    Reviews:
    'Weird but brilliant light on the way we live now', New York Times Book Review 27 February 1972, Section 7, ps. 1, 2, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18 (Marshall Berman)
    'Action vs. interaction', Society 9, April 1972, pp. 50-53 (Herbert Blumer)
    Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences 401, 1972, p. 206 (Kurt W. Black?)
    Social Forces 51 (4), June 1973, pp. 504-505 (Ralph H Turner)
    'Civilization: contents, discontents, malcontents', Contemporary Sociology 2 (4), July 1973, pp. 360-66 (Stanford M. Lyman)
    Contemporary Psychology 18 (7), July 1973, pp. 305-307 (Kenneth J. Gergen)
    Sociology 7 (3), September 1973, pp. 468-469 (Rom Harré)
    Sociological Quarterly 14, Winter 1973, pp. 135-143 (Peter K. Manning, Randall Collins, Joel Aronoff)
    American Anthropolgist 75, 1973, pp. 945-947 (Niels W Braroe)
    Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic 37 (6), 1973, pp. 645-658 (Loretta Class)
    American Journal of Sociology 79 (5), March 1974, pp. 1339-1341 (David A. Rothstein)
    New York Review of Books 20, 1 November 1973, pp. 29-31.

  31. Frame Analysis: an Essay on the Organization of Experience (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1974; New York: Harper and Row, 1974; Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1975).

    Reviews:
    Cornell Journal of Social Relations 9 (2), Fall 1974, pp. 277-279 (Ed Hackett)
    New York Times Book Review 16 February 1975, ps. 21, 23, 25, 26 (Philip Rosenberg)
    Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 420, July 1975, pp. 218-220 (Guy E. Swanson)
    American Journal of Psychiatry 132 (10), 1975, pp. 1093-1094 (Irving Schneider)
    Contemporary Sociology 4 (6), November 1975, pp. 599-607 (Murray S. Davis, William A. Gamson)
    New Society 15 January 1976, pp. 117-118 (Laurie Taylor)
    Library Journal 100 (6), 15 March 1976, p. 100 (Joseph B. Juhasz)
    Theory and Society 3 (1), Spring 1976, pp. 119-133 (Frederic Jameson)
    Sociology 10 (2), May 1976, pp. 329-334 (Jason Ditton, W.W. Sharrock)
    Contemporary Psychology 21 (5), 1976, pp. 332-333 (Eugene Weinstein)
    American Anthropologist 78, 1976, pp. 866-870 (Niels W. Braroe)
    Sociological Review 24 (4), November 1976, pp. 917-927 (David Jary and Gregory Smith)
    Sociology and Social Research 61 (2), 1977, pp. 246-247 (Daniel Glaser)
    American Journal of Sociology 82 (-), 1977, 136l-1364 (Peter K. Manning)
    Communication Research 4 (4), 1977, pp. 485-492 (Stephen W. Littlejohn)
    Philosophy of the Social Sciences 9 (1), March 1978, pp. 67-86 (Judith Posner, Ian Craib)

  32. 'Replies and Responses', Working Papers and Prepublications of the Centro Internazionale di Semiotica e di Linguistica, University of Urbino, Italy, Series C, 46-47, September-October 1975, 42 pp.

  33. 'Gender advertisements' Studies in the Anthropology of Visual Communication 3 (2), Fall 1976, pp. 69-154.

  34. 'Replies and responses', Language and Society 5 (3), December 1976, pp. 257-313.

  35. 'Genderisms', Psychology Today 11 (3), August 1977, pp. 60-63.

  36. 'The arrangement between the sexes', Theory and Society 4 (3), Fall 1977, pp. 30l-332.

  37. 'Response cries', Language 54 (4), 1978, pp. 787-815.

  38. Gender Advertisements (Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Press, 1979; New York: Harper and Row, 1979, Introduction by Vivan Gornick; London: Macmillan, 1979, Introduction by Richard Hoggart.) Slightly modified version of 1976a.

    Reviews:
    Mew York Times Book Review 24 April 1979, ps. 9 and 54 (Anne Hollander)
    New Society 31 May 1979, pp. 528-529 (Jason Ditton)
    Choice 16 (7), September 1979, p. 921 (Anon)
    Social Forces 58 (1), September 1979, pp. 383-386 (Derral Cheatwood)
    Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 446, November 1979, pp. 198-199 (Edward L. Bernays)
    Sociology 14 (2), May 1980, pp. 315-316 (Annette Kuhn)
    Sociological Review 28 (2), May 1980, pp. 442-444 (Pauline Hunt)
    Sex Roles 6 (2), 1980, pp. 311-313 (Shirley Weitz)
    British Journal of Sociology 31 (3), September 1980, pp. 450-451 (Gregory Smith)
    Theory and Society 10, 1981, pp. 139-159 (Todd Gitlin)
    American Journal of Sociology 87, 1981, pp. 746-747 (Sherri Cavan)
    Sociology and Social Research 65, 1980, pp. 345-47 (Barbara Rosenblum)
    Contemporary Sociology 11 (6), November 1982, pp. 605-607 (Thomas C. Hood)

  39. 'Footing', Semiotica 25 (1/2), 1979, pp. 1-29.

  40. Forms of Talk (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981; Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1981.) Comprising 'Introduction', 'Replies and responses' a reprint of 34, 'Response cries' a reprint of 37, 'Footing' a reprint of 39, 'The lecture', 'Radio talk'.

    Reviews:
    The New York Times Book Review 10 May 1981, p. 11 (Geoffrey Nunberg)
    The New York Review of Books 28, 16 July 1981, pp. 43-44 (Christopher Ricks)
    Times Literary Supplement 18 December 1981, p. 1455 (Roy Harris)
    Times Higher Education Supplement 1 January 1982, p. 9 (John Heritage)
    Society 19, August 1982, pp. 84-85 (Eviatar Zerubavel)
    Sociology 16 (3), August 1982, pp. 453-55 (P.M. Strong)
    Sociological Review 30 (3), August 1982, pp. 520-521 (David Jary)
    Contemporary Sociology 11 (6), November 1982, pp. 603-5 (Harvey A. Farberman)
    Yale Review 71, 1982, pp. 274-279 (Patricia Meyer Spacks)
    Etc. 39, Winter 1982, pp. 394-399 (Moshe Botwinick)
    Language in Society 12 (1), March 1983, pp. 77-82 (Michael Stubbs)
    Language 59 (2), 1983, pp. 429-431 (Susan U. Philips)

  41. 'A reply to Denzin & Keller', Contemporary Sociology 10 (1), January 1981, pp. 60-68.

  42. 'Program committee encourages papers on range of methodologies', ASA Footnotes 9 (6), August 1981, page 4.

  43. 'The interaction order', American Sociological Review 48 (1), February 1983, pp. 1-17.

  44. 'Felicity's condition', American Journal of Sociology 89 (1), July 1983, pp. 1-53.

  45. 'Microsociologie et histoire' in Philippe Fritsch (ed) Le Sens de L'ordinaire (Paris: Editions du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1983), pp. 197-202 (intervention orale non reecrite par Erving Goffman).

  46. 'On fieldwork' (transcribed and edited by Lyn H Lofland), Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 18 (2), July 1989, pp. 123-132.
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