Document Type : علمی - پژوهشی
Authors
1 Department of Social science, Faculty of Law & social science, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran
2 University of Tabriz
Abstract
Unlike many sociologists who studied economic and productive forces, religion, historical transformation, social stratification, voting behavior, or other macro-social phenomena, Goffman was interested in exploring the mundane, often quite everyday features of society and the primitive forms of social life were, as they were. He was neither an outstanding methodologist nor a traditional theorist, but he succeeded in combining theory and method in a unique form of sociological practice with a unique focus that had not been fully seen before
This article seeks to study sociologists who, as the intellectual heirs of Irving Goffman, have used his ideas and concepts in their theories. Goffman benefited a lot from the giants before him in sociology. Inspired by the theories of Georg Simmel, he concentrated his interest in social forms as well as the molecular processes of social life. Goffman adopted the concept of ritual from Emile Durkheim, which he used to clarify his concept and the moral dimension in everyday life interactions. From George Herbert Mead, he became interested in symbolic communication between people. Goffman also took many ideas from existentialism's take on the absurd nature of modern life, as well as from animal behaviorism (especially the idea of developing personal territories). On the other hand, Goffman's theories specifically influenced many social thinkers around the world, including Anthony Giddens, Michel Foucault, Nicolas Lohmann, Sigmund Bauman, Pierre Bourdieu, ethnomethodologists, sociology of emotions, and the works of Randall Collins and Jonathan H. Turner.
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