A Sociology of the Absurd

• Author(s): Stanford M. Lyman, Marvin B. Scott,
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Pages: 244
• ISBN_10: 0930390857
  ISBN_13: 9780930390853
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Social Science / Sociology / General ,

Description:... This work provides a crystallization and particularization of a school of sociological thinking variously called "creative sociology," "existential sociology," "phenomenological sociology," "conflict theory," and "dramaturgical analysis." The result is a methodological synthesis of the "dual" visions of Erving Goffman and Harold Garfinkel.
This book equips the reader with a framework for providing adequate descriptions of those face-to-face encounters that make up everyday life. This edition includes essays not found in the first edition, as well as a new introduction that locates it in the spectrum of contemporary theorizing.