tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4058766287077382431.post7506508047733405632..comments2024-03-13T04:57:22.459-04:00Comments on Understanding Society: Goffman's programmeDan Littlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15953897221283103880noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4058766287077382431.post-54345336298956558792010-09-07T22:28:26.047-04:002010-09-07T22:28:26.047-04:00Although Goffman investigated many important issue...Although Goffman investigated many important issues of social psychology, it seems that the research progress of social psychology is slow now. It is slow in terms of buidling up a research paradigm; it is fast in terms of coming up with solutions to social problems. Although human behavior is much more complicated than behavior of any other objects to study, we might need to take a new perspective to do research in social psychology, a perspective in addition to perspectives of Popper and Kuhn.Siyuan Songnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4058766287077382431.post-11585777777012331482010-09-07T11:54:13.082-04:002010-09-07T11:54:13.082-04:00BB -- thanks for the feedback. I don't think I...BB -- thanks for the feedback. I don't think I could summarize Goffman's discoveries in a thousand words. My best effort is provided in the bullets : Goffman's research almost always takes the form of detailed descriptions and interpretations of limited social spaces that permit answers to one or more of these questions. My own sense of his most important contribution is what he has to say about the mental structures that guide social action -- the scripts, schemes, frames, and orienting sets of social assumptions that he infers from the observed behavior. But other readers would possibly pace the emphasis elsewhere -- for example, on the specific insights he sheds on the locales of behavior -- mental hospital, village, factory floor, restaurant.Dan Littlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15953897221283103880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4058766287077382431.post-5851542370092998332010-09-06T18:16:43.644-04:002010-09-06T18:16:43.644-04:00This is a nice description of Goffman's work. ...<i>This is a nice description of Goffman's work. </i><br /><br />Actually the quoted passage (as well as your entire post) is a pretty good description of how Goffman did his work. I don't know anything at all, however, about his actual work: what he actually discovered or concluded.Larry Hamelinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08788697573946266404noreply@blogger.com