SOCIOL 2S06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: American Sociological Association, Frances Bay, Erving Goffman

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCIOL 2S06
• Professor: David Young

Document Summary

Frances bay was his sister a canadian actress given a star on. @ u of t in sociology then went to university of chicago for graduate studies. 1949 and phd 1953 this is how he became associated with the chicago school. Took position as a visiting professor at the university of california at. Berkeley 1958 -> position turned into something permanent, much longer than he had intended to be there his career began to develop quite rapidly -> 1959 he published presentation of self in everyday. This built off his ph. d. dissertation in a general theory of face to face interaction. Because of his book he became promoted a number of times -> by 1962 he became a full professor. He continued his career and his next major publication was. Stigma published in 1963 in the book he tried to extend his ideas from the first book and apply them to the phenomena of stigma.