Relations in Public

By Erving Goffman

Book Overview

Until recently, to be in a "public place" meant to feel safe. That has changed, especially in cities. Urban dwellers sense the need to quickly react to gestural cues from persons in their immediate... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465068952
• ISBN13: 9780465068951
• Release Date: September 1971
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 396 Pages
• Weight: 1.83 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Greetings and Salutations!

This is a phenominal book on social interactions and situations therein. I did a graduate thesis on adolescent greeting and salutations and this was absolutely vital to the study. Goffman uses cumbersome but quite entertaining footnotes all over the place. (some pages have more footnotes than actual writing) He focuses and those interchanges that are supportive and then remedial and analyzes all the little quirks contained within. It is a very well done study, and very well written.