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Erving Goffman: The Reluctant Apprentice
Author(s) -
Jaworski Gary D.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
symbolic interaction
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.874
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1533-8665
pISSN - 0195-6086
DOI - 10.1525/si.2000.23.3.299
Subject(s) - apprenticeship , ambivalence , dramaturgy , sociology , context (archaeology) , originality , epistemology , psychoanalysis , psychology , aesthetics , social science , philosophy , history , linguistics , qualitative research , archaeology
The intellectual relationship between Erving Goffman and Everett C. Hughes is explored in the context of an apprenticeship model derived from correspondence between the two sociologists. Goffman is identified as a “reluctant apprentice” because his work and his letters to Hughes display a tension between a striking originality and a fidelity to his “master.” Three phases of their ambivalent relationship are described and an explanation for Goff‐man's reluctant acknowledgment of Hughes's influence is briefly explored.