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1. The birth of Sociology gave rise to the scientific and rational understanding
the society. How did Erving Coffman contribute to the field?​

Answer 1

Erving Coffman was a Canadian-born 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, behind Michel Foucault, Pierre Bourdieu, and Anthony Giddens, and ahead of Jürgen Habermas.

Answer 2

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In 1958 Goffman became a faculty member in the sociology department at the University of California, Berkeley, first as a visiting professor, then from 1962 as a full professor.In 1968 he moved to the University of Pennsylvania, receiving the Benjamin Franklin Chair in Sociology and Anthropology. due largely to the efforts of Dell Hymes, a former colleague at Berkeley.In 1969 he became a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.In 1970 Goffman became a cofounder of the American Association for the Abolition of Involuntary Mental Hospitalization and coauthored its Platform Statement.[18] In 1971 he published Relations in Public, in which he tied together many of his ideas about everyday life, seen from a sociological perspective.Another major book of his, Frame Analysis, came out in 1974.He received a Guggenheim Fellowship for 1977–78.In 1979, Goffman received the Cooley-Mead Award for Distinguished Scholarship, from the Section on Social Psychology of the American Sociological Association.He was elected the 73rd president of the American Sociological Association, serving in 1981–82, but was unable to deliver the presidential address in person due to progressing illness.

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