scholarly journals Notas sobre el pragmatismo de Erving Goffman y su concepto de estigma

2021 ◽  
pp. 83-96
Author(s):  
Tomás Torres López
Keyword(s):  
Chicago School ◽  
Final Part ◽  
Philosophical Perspective ◽  
Erving Goffman ◽  
Secondary Element ◽  
Canadian Sociologist

El presente artículo trata las influencias del pragmatismo en el concepto de Estigma de Erving Goffman. El objetivo principal es develar el influjo de la corriente filosófica norteamericana en la configuración de uno de los conceptos más importantes de este sociólogo canadiense. Para ello, el texto aborda algunos de los postulados más destacados de G.H. Mead y de la Escuela de Chicago, particularmente de algunos de los exponentes del Interaccionismo simbólico. En términos metodológicos, se realizó una revisión hermenéutica de los textos más relevantes de los autores analizados en miras de hallar en ellos los conceptos que permitan construir un puente de diálogo entre perspectivas. En la parte final del texto, se puede apreciar que el pragmatismo no es sólo un elemento secundario en la obra de Goffman, sino que se encuentra en el centro de la configuración del concepto de estigma. -- This essay treats the influence of the pragmatism on the concept of stigma from Erving Goffman. The main objective is to show the influx of this philosophical perspective in the configuration of one of the mains aspects of this Canadian sociologist. For that, the texts aboard some of the proposition of G. H. Mead and the Chicago School, specifically some of the most important exponents from the last. In methodological terms I made a hermeneutic revision of the most relevant texts of this author to find in them some concepts that allow build a dialogue bridge between these perspectives. In the final part of this essay, we can appreciate that the pragmatism is not a secondary element of Goffman`s oeuvres but is one of the most important in the configuration of stigma concept.

scholarly journals Zu Effekten zum Einsatz der Theaterprojekte im Lehrerausbildung

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 134-147
Author(s):  
Michaela Kovacova
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Contact ◽  
Management Skills ◽  
Erving Goffman ◽  
The Social ◽  
Great Pressure ◽  
Didactic Skills ◽  
Teachers Training ◽  
Canadian Sociologist

In today’s classrooms, teachers are often under great pressure — they not only have to prove themselves professionally but also as strong personalities. In teachers-training courses at universities, subject-related and didactic skills are often built up intensively, but there is a lack of support for personal and social skills, planning and management skills, and development skills. Extracurricular theater projects can compensate for this shortcoming. The paper presents effects of several years of theater work on teaching students studying German as a foreign language. Theoretically, the contribution is firstly underpinned by the approach of the Canadian sociologist Erving Goffman (2003) about self-portrayal in everyday life, in which he points out a similarity between acting and social contact [3]. Second, it is based on the understanding of the “performative competence” by Wolfgang Hallet (2010). Both concepts are transferred to the social contact between teachers and learners. Extracurricular theater projects can compensate for this shortcoming. The paper presents effects of several years of theater work on teaching students studying German as a foreign language. Theoretically, the contribution is firstly underpinned by the approach of the Canadian sociologist Erving Goffman (2003) about self-portrayal in everyday life, in which he points out a similarity between acting and social contact [3]. Second, it is based on the understanding of the “performative competence” by Wolfgang Hallet (2010). Both concepts are transferred to the social contact between teachers and learners.

Community Schools

2020 ◽  
pp. 252-266
Author(s):  
Robert F. Kronick
Keyword(s):  
Systems Theory ◽  
Chicago School ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Community Schools ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
George Herbert ◽  
George Herbert Mead ◽  
Important Work ◽  
Erving Goffman ◽  
Chicago School Of Sociology

This closing chapter is about community schools from both local and national perspectives. This chapter adheres to the Penn Concepts that the most important work of Universities is the solving of social problems, and that universities should deal with the universal problems of local communities. The concept of community schools based on Kronick's model of systems theory, collaboration, and prevention is presented. The importance of theory and practice is discussed using the Chicago School of Sociology as an exemplar of the contributions of George Herbert Mead, Charles Horton Cooley, William I. Thomas, Everett Hughes, and Erving Goffman. These scholars opened the doors to engaged research and set a path that Kronick has followed since 1971.

The Descriptive-Normative Dichotomy and the So Called Naturalistic Fallacy

2016 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Edgar Morscher
Keyword(s):  
Naturalistic Fallacy ◽  
The Other ◽  
Final Part ◽  
Philosophical Perspective ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
First Case ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Normative Discourse

AbstractInvestigating the genesis and justification of norms in a theoretical way requires a clear-cut distinction between normative and descriptive discourse. From a philosophical perspective, the descriptive-normative dichotomy can itself be understood either in a descriptive (or ‘reportive’) or in an normative (or ‘stipulative’) way. In the first case such a dichotomy is understood as the factual border between descriptive and normative discourse in a given language; exploring this border is a hermeneutic enterprise. In the other case it is understood as a boundary between descriptive and normative discourse to be implanted in a language which is developed in order to fit certain purposes, in particular theoretical purposes; this implanting procedure is a matter of regimentation. In this paper I will deal shortly with the first question of hermeneutics and then in more detail with the second question of regimentation. In the final part of the paper I will distinguish different types of naturalistic fallacies resulting from disregarding descriptive-normative dichotomies.

Modernism, Empiricism, and Rationalism

2016 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-47
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Squires
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Modern Poetry ◽  
Philosophical Perspective ◽  
Irish Poetry ◽  
Dimensional Spectrum ◽  
Culture History ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Rule Out

Modernism is usually defined historically as the composite movement at the beginning of the twentieth century which led to a radical break with what had gone before in literature and the other arts. Given the problems of the continuing use of the concept to cover subsequent writing, this essay proposes an alternative, philosophical perspective which explores the impact of rationalism (what we bring to the world) on the prevailing empiricism (what we take from the world) of modern poetry, which leads to a concern with consciousness rather than experience. This in turn involves a re-conceptualisation of the lyric or narrative I, of language itself as a phenomenon, and of other poetic themes such as nature, culture, history, and art. Against the background of the dominant empiricism of modern Irish poetry as presented in Crotty's anthology, the essay explores these ideas in terms of a small number of poets who may be considered modernist in various ways. This does not rule out modernist elements in some other poets and the initial distinction between a poetics of experience and one of consciousness is better seen as a multi-dimensional spectrum that requires further, more detailed analysis than is possible here.

Self-Presentation – A Precondition for Social Interactio (Theoretical Aspects)

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikolay Zhilkov
Keyword(s):  
Self Presentation ◽  
Erving Goffman ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Edward Jones ◽  
Current Article ◽  
Points Of View

The current article presents some of the theoretical aspects of self-presentation describing different points of view on the issue. The ideas of Erving Goffman, Edward Jones, Barry Schlenker, Roy Baumeister and others are being explored. Concepts related to to self-presentation are presented. Different types and functions of self-expression are identified.

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