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Now although he had little or nothing to say about class or power or revolution, he was considered by many to be the most influential

sociologist of the 20th century he was Irving Gotman find out more.

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Last week I mentioned an email I'd received from a third year social science student who was urgently seeking references to any thinking allowed programs on major sociological theorists.

Well, I was able to tell her that help was close at hand. We'd be repeating a series of

editions of thinking aloud which focused on particular theorists. Last week we began with

Walter Benjamin. Today it's the turn of Irving Goffman.

Goffman's work is an essential stimulus and reference point for anyone interested in the

subtleties of personal interaction or in the character of such total institutions as

prisons or boarding schools or in the manner in which we make sense of what is going on in the world

around us. But I on in the world around us.

But I have in the case of Irving Goffman to add a brief personal note.

From the moment back in the 60s at Leicester University when Anthony Giddon suggested I should read his most familiar

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