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Erving Goffman.
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ISBN: 0415355915 0415355907 9780415355919 9780415355902 9780203002346 9781134252626 9781134252664 9781134252671 Year: 2006 Publisher: London Routledge

Order and agency in modernity
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ISBN: 0791487776 1417520507 9781417520503 0791455408 9780791455401 0791455394 9780791455395 9780791487778 Year: 2003 Publisher: Albany State University of New York Press

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In this unique analysis of three prominent theorists of modern sociology, theory is understood as implicitly, but importantly, reflecting especially modern problems of individual and social life. From the grand-theoretical systems of Talcott Parsons to the unique symbolic interactionism of Erving Goffman and the radically mundane ethnomethodology of Harold Garfinkel, a wide variety of noted sociological theories have addressed central issues of sociology against the backdrop of modern society. When this modern backdrop is brought into the foreground of analysis, sociological theories assume new depth and breadth and new historical significance. The author outlines features of the modern experience, drawing upon neglected cultural theorists of modernity, and then shows how these features of modernity are reflected and incorporated in the scholarship of Parsons, Goffman, and Garfinkel. The result is an original and eclectic analysis that illuminates previously overlooked dimensions to modern sociological theory, and suggests new possibilities for meaningful and rewarding comparisons between theoretical traditions.

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