Goffman and Social Organization: Studies in a Sociological Legacy
Author: Greg Smith File Type: pdf Erving Goffman is considered by many to have been one of the most important sociologists of the post-war era. His close observation of everyday life and his concern with the ways in which people play roles and manage the impressions they present to each other led to his pioneering creation of a new dramaturgical perspective for sociology. His later analysis explored the field of deviance and many of his works in this area are now considered as sociological classics, including Asylums, The Presentation of the Self in Everyday Life and Stigma. This collection brings together many of todays leading sociologists to pursue and build upon the diverse aspects of Goffmans legacy.The contributors present chapters on key topics of Goffmans work. Issues covered include * mental illness and institutionalism* the incorporation of literary intertexts in Goffmans writings* Goffmans relationship to ethnomethodology* the singularity of Goffmans ethnographyRanging from his critique of institutionalization to his understanding of the minute details of face-to-face interaction, this collection reveals the richness of Goffmans own work as well as his contribution to sociology today and will be essential reading for students and academics alike.
Author: Dick Houtman
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That relation has long been conceived in antagonistic terms, privileging spirit above matter, belief above ritual and objects, meaning above form, and inward contemplation above outward action. After all, wasnt the opposition between spirituality and materiality the defining characteristic of religion, understood as geared to a transcendental beyond that was immaterial by definition? Grounded in the rise of religion as a modern category, with Protestantism as its main exponent, this conceptualization devalues religious things as lacking serious empirical, let alone theoretical, interest. The resurgence of public religion in our time has exposed the limitations of this attitude. Taking materiality seriously, this volume uses as a starting point the insight that religion necessarily requires some kind of incarnation, through which the beyond to which it refers becomes accessible. Conjoining rather than separating spirit and matter, incarnation (whether understood as the word becoming flesh or in a broader sense) places at center stage the question of how the realm of the transcendental, spiritual, or invisible is rendered tangible in the world. How do things matter in religious discourse and practice? How are we to account for the value or devaluation, the appraisal or contestation, of things within particular religious perspectives? How are we to rematerialize our scholarly approaches to religion? These are the key questions addressed by this multidisciplinary volume. Focusing on different kinds of things that matter for religion, including sacred artifacts, images, bodily fluids, sites, and electronic media, it offers a wide-ranging set of multidisciplinary studies that combine detailed analysis and critical reflection. **
Author: Bonnie Bernell
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Tips, tricks, and practical strategies for large women living joyfully now! - Draws on Interviews with large, lush, womanly women - Offers practical solutions to challenging situations regularly confronting larger women - Offers solid strategies and celebrates the joy of being healthy and bountifull ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Women can put life on hold waiting until they achieve the thinthinnerperfect body, or they can create a rich, full life right now, no matter what their size. Advising you not to live the media image, Bountiful Women is celebratory in tone and offers solid strategies that can be adopted by resilient women, and celebrates the joy of being both healthy and bountiful.
Author: Barbie Zelizer
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What Journalism Could Be asks readers to reimagine the news by embracing a conceptual prism long championed by one of journalismis leading contemporary scholars. A former reporter, media critic and academic, Barbie Zelizer charts a singular journey through journalismis complicated contours, prompting readers to rethink both how the news works and why it matters. Zelizer tackles longstanding givens in journalismis practice and study, offering alternative cues for assessing its contemporary environment. Highlighting journalismis intersection with interpretation, culture, emotion, contingency, collective memory, crisis and visuality, Zelizer brings new meaning to its engagement with events like the global refugee crisis, rise of Islamic State, ascent of digital media and twenty-first-century combat. Imagining what journalism could be involves stretching beyond the already-known. Zelizer enumerates journalismis considerable current challenges while suggesting bold and creative ways of engaging with them. This book powerfully demonstrates how and why journalism remains of paramount importance. **
Author: Glauco Cambon
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Contemporary with the Romantic generation, peer of Keats, Holderlin, and Goethe, and forerunner of Valery and Pound, Ugo Foscolo is nevertheless little known outside Italy. In an endeavor to discover this exemplary European poet for English-speaking readers, and to rediscover him for Italian readers, Glauco Cambon examines both textually and contextually Foscolos major works and their inextricable connection with his life, his philosophy, and his aesthetic principles.Originally published in 1980.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author: Julia Reinhard Lupton
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This volume focuses on hospitality as a theoretically and historically crucial phenomenon in Shakespeares work with ramifications for contemporary thought and practice. Drawing a multifaceted picture of Shakespeares scenes of hospitalitywith their numerous scenes of greeting, feeding, entertaining, and shelteringthe collection demonstrates how hospitality provides a compelling frame for the core ethical, political, theological, and ecological questions of Shakespeares time and our own. By reading Shakespeares plays in conjunction with contemporary theory as well as early modern texts and objectsincluding almanacs, recipe books, husbandry manuals, and religious tracts this book reimagines Shakespeares playworld as one charged with the risks of hosting (rape and seduction, war and betrayal, enchantment and disenchantment) and the limits of generosity (how much can or should one give the guest, with what attitude or comportment, and under what circumstances?). This substantial volume maps the terrain of Shakespearean hospitality in its rich complexity, demonstrating the importance of historical, rhetorical, and phenomenological approaches to this diverse subject. **
Author: Andre Vauchez
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In this towering work, Andre Vauchez draws on the vast body of scholarship on Francis of Assisi, emphasizing in particular the important research of the last 30 years. He creates a complete and engaging portrait of the saint, then explores how the memory of Francis was shaped by contemporaries who recollected him in their writings. Vauchez completes the book by setting Poverello in the context of his time, bringing to light what was new, surprising, and even astonishing in the life and vision of this man.The first part of the book is a fascinating reconstruction of Franciss life and work. The second and third parts deal with the myriad textshagiographies, chronicles, sermons, personal testimonies, etc.of writers who recorded aspects of Franciss life and movement as they remembered them, and used those remembrances to construct a portrait of Francis relevant to their concerns. In the final part of the book, Vauchez explores those aspects of Franciss life, personality, and spiritual vision that were unique to him, including his experience of God, his approach to nature, his understanding and use of Scripture, and his impact on culture as well as cultures impact on him.** In this towering work, Andre Vauchez draws on the vast body of scholarship on Francis of Assisi produced over the past forty years as well on as his own expertise in medieval hagiography to tell the most comprehensive and authoritative version of Franciss life and afterlife published in the past half century.After a detailed and yet engaging reconstruction of Franciss life and work, Vauchez focuses on the myriad textshagiographies, chronicles, sermons, personal testimonies, etc.of writers who recorded aspects of Franciss life and movement as they remembered them, and used thoseremembrances to construct a portrait of Francis relevantto their concerns. We see varying versions of his life reflected in the work of Machiavelli, Luther, Voltaire, German and English romantics, pre-Raphaelites, Italian nationalists, and Mussolini, and discover how peace activists, ecologists, or interreligious dialogists have used his example to promote their various causes. Particularly noteworthy is the attention Vauchez pays to Franciss own writings, which strangely enough have been largely overlooked by later interpreters.The product of a lifetime of study, this book reveals a historian at the height of his powers.**
Author: David Roberts
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An award-winning author and veteran mountain climber takes us deep into the Southwest backcountry to uncover secrets of its ancient inhabitants. For more than 5,000 years the Ancestral Puebloans Native Americans who flourished long before the first contact with Europeans occupied the Four Corners region of the southwestern United States. Just before AD-1300, they abandoned their homeland in a migration that remains one of prehistorys greatest puzzles. Northern and southern neighbors of the Ancestral Puebloans, the Fremont and Mogollon likewise flourished for millennia before migrating or disappearing. Fortunately, the Old Ones, as some of their present-day descendants call them, left behind awe-inspiring ruins, dazzling rock art, and sophisticated artifacts ranging from painted pots to woven baskets. Some of their sites and relics had been seen by no one during the 700 years before David Roberts and his companions rediscovered them.In The Lost World of the Old Ones, Roberts continues the hunt for answers begun in his classic book, In Search of the Old Ones. His new findings paint a different, fuller portrait of these enigmatic ancients thanks to the breakthroughs of recent archaeologists. Roberts also recounts his last twenty years of far-flung exploits in the backcountry with the verve of a seasoned travel writer. His adventures range across Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and southwestern Colorado, illuminating the mysteries of the Old Ones as well as of the more recent Navajo and Comanche. Roberts calls on his climbing and exploratory expertise to reach remote sanctuaries of the ancients hidden within nearly vertical cliffs, many of which are unknown to archaeologists and park rangers. This ongoing quest combines the shock of new discovery with a deeply felt connection to the landscape, and it will change the way readers experience, and imagine, the American Southwest. 16 pages of illustrations**ReviewAn utterly fascinating, beautifully written and elegiac exploration. ---Douglas Preston, #1 New York Times best-selling author Engaging . . . enjoyable reading. ---Alex Heard - Pasatiempo Full of insights . . . Roberts captivates the reader with the thrill of finding artifacts. ---Durango Herald A funny, witty and highly personal account. ---Sandra Dallas,Denver Post Stimulating, provoking, mournful. . . . [Roberts] has a deep and infectious passion for the landscapes, history and people of the Southwest. ---Gerard Helferich - Wall Street Journal [H]as the pull and excitement of a suspense novel and appeals to a wide range of readers interested in this region s deep past and great beauty. -----Booklist, Starred review The rare sequel that stands alone yet also takes its rightful place as a classic alongside its predecessor volume. -----Mitchell Zuckoff, author of Lost in Shangri-La Part ethnographer, part archaeologist with healthy doses of skeptical enquirer, curiosity seeker, and professional mountain climber mixed in this talented writer navigates the secret canyons and hidden watercourses of the American Southwest in search of a lost civilization. ------Alex Beam, author of American Crucifixion The Murder of Joseph Smith and the Fate of the Mormon Church About the Author David Roberts is the author of Alone on the Ice, twenty-six books about mountaineering, exploration, adventure, and Western history and anthropology.