إرفنغ غوفمان: من المرجعية الابيستمولوجية إلى الممارسات المنهجية

Abstract

 This paper aims to introduce the epistemological background of Erving Goffman, which focuses on: pragmatism, Symbolic interactionism, phenomenology, and functionalism. Moreover it turns to his methodological choices that came as a result of his epistemology; namely: Empirical and Qualitative orientation, ethnographic method, participant observation and Conversation Analysis in the Context of Pragmatic