Frame Analysis: An Essay on the Organization of Experience

by Erving Goffman, Bennett Berger

Overview

Erving Goffman will influence the thinking and perceptions of generations to come. In Frame Analysis, the brilliant theorist writes about the ways in which people determine their answers to the questions “What is going on here?” and “Under what circumstances do we think things are real?”

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780930350918
Publisher:	Northeastern University Press
Publication date:	05/30/1986
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	600
Sales rank:	931,517
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 1.60(d)

Editorial Reviews

Frame Analysis is a rich, full, exceedingly complex book based on familiar data: clippings, cartoons, novels, vignettes from the cinema and legitimate stage. The argument rests on distinctions, on the one hand, between what is taken to be real from the perspective of the observer in any situation and actual occurrence and, on the other, between fabrication, internal and sometimes collusive misinterpretation of a situation by one person for another, and simple errors in framing and self-induced alterations.”—American Journal of Sociology

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