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Erving Goffman

1922 - 1982

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Erving Goffman (11 June 1922 – 19 November 1982) was a Canadian-born American sociologist, social psychologist, and writer, considered by some "the most influential American sociologist of the twentieth century". In 2007, The Times Higher Education Guide listed him as the sixth most-cited author of books in the humanities and social sciences. Goffman was the 73rd president of the American Sociological Association. His best-known contribution to social theory is his study of symbolic interaction. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Erving Goffman is the 8th most popular sociologist, the 17th most popular biography from Canada (down from 10th in 2019) and the most popular Canadian Sociologist. Learn more about Erving Goffman's academic impact at Rankless.

Erving Goffman is most famous for his book "The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life." In this book, he argues that social life is a performance, and that people are constantly presenting themselves to others in different ways.

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Among SOCIOLOGISTS

Among sociologists, Erving Goffman ranks 8 out of 79. Before him are Émile Durkheim, Pierre Bourdieu, Theodor W. Adorno, Anthony Giddens, Robert K. Merton, and Georg Simmel. After him are Talcott Parsons, Marcel Mauss, Norbert Elias, Ulrich Beck, Karl Mannheim, and Immanuel Wallerstein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Erving Goffman ranks 20. Before him are Aage Bohr, Pierre Cardin, Ava Gardner, Erich Hartmann, Gérard Philipe, and Jack Kerouac. After him are Hans Georg Dehmelt, Philip Larkin, Charles M. Schulz, Christiaan Barnard, Imre Lakatos, and Alain Resnais. Among people deceased in 1982, Erving Goffman ranks 20. Before him are Khalid of Saudi Arabia, Philip K. Dick, William Giauque, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Vasily Chuikov, and Karl von Frisch. After him are Stanford Moore, Louis Aragon, Gilles Villeneuve, Glenn Gould, Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, and Barack Obama Sr..

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Erving Goffman ranks 17 out of 1,622. Before him are James Cameron (1954), William Giauque (1895), Frank Gehry (1929), Jim Carrey (1962), Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874), and Michael J. Fox (1961). After him are Jack L. Warner (1892), Gilles Villeneuve (1950), Glenn Gould (1932), Margaret Atwood (1939), Saul Bellow (1915), and Marshall McLuhan (1911).

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Among SOCIOLOGISTS In Canada

Among sociologists born in Canada, Erving Goffman ranks 1. After him are Ernest Burgess (1886).

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