Tag: Erving Goffman
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From Being to Society: How Philosophy Gave Birth to Sociology
The history of sociology is often presented as the story of a new science born in nineteenth-century Europe to study industrialization, urbanization and capitalism. While this account is not wrong, it misses a deeper intellectual transformation. Sociology did not emerge from nowhere. It emerged from a long philosophical struggle over the nature of reality itself.…
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Dramaturgical perspective: understanding everyday life
The term dramaturgical perspective was first adapted into sociology from the theatre by Erving Goffman, who developed most of the related terminology and ideas in his 1959 book, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. Together with ethnomethodology and symbolic interactionism, is one of the most relevant perspectives in the field of qualitative research. Before…
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Research perspective in the field of qualitative research
A simple glance on the cartoon does not leave room for doubt. Whatever your perspective, whatever your research´s results. In the field of qualitative research there are several approaches. These are different in their theoretical assumptions, in the way we understand the object of study. There are three mainstreams: symbolic interactionism, ethnomethodology, dramaturgical perspective. They…