The Open Access version of this book available at www.routledge.com/9781472482587 has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. This book is about Erving Goffman’s frame analysis as it on the one hand was presented in his 1974 book Frame Analysis and on the other was actually conducted in a number of preceding substantial analyses of different aspects of social interaction such as face-work impression management fun in games behavior in public places and stigmatization. There was in other words a frame analytic continuity in Goffman’s work. In an article published after his death in 1982 Goffman also maintained that he throughout his career had been studying the same object: the interaction order. In this book the author states that Goffman also applied an overarching perspective on social interaction: the dynamic relation between ritualization vulnerability and working consensus. However there were also cracks in Goffman´s work and one is shown here with reference to the leading question in Frame Analysis – what is it that’s going on here? While framed on a microsocial level that question ties in with the interaction order and frame analysis as a method. If however it is framed on a societal level it mirrors metareflective and metasocial manifestations of changes and unrest in the interaction order that in some ways herald the emphasis on contingency uncertainty and risk in later sociology. Through analyses of social media as a possible new interaction order – where frame disputes are frequent – and of interactional power the applicability of Goffman’s frame analysis is illustrated. As such this book will appeal to scholars and students of social theory classical sociology and social interaction. |Framing Social Interaction Continuities and Cracks in Goffman’s Frame Analysis | Sociology
