Strategic Interaction

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BASIL BLACKWELL
The author of Asylums, Stigma and The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, here deals with the calculative, gamelike aspects of mutual dealings. "Whenever students of the human scene have considered the dealings individuals have with one another the issue of communication has arisen: when a respectable motive is given for action, are we to suspect an ulterior one? When an individual supports a promise or a threat with a convincing display of emotional expression, are we to believe him? When an individual seems carried away by feeling is he intentionally acting this way in order to create an effect? When someone responds to us in a particular way, are we to see this as a spontaneous reaction to the situation, or a result of his having canvassed all other possible responses before deciding this one was the most advantageous? And whether or not we have such concerns ought we to be worried about the individual believing that we have them?"
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BASIL BLACKWELL
The author of Asylums, Stigma and The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, here deals with the calculative, gamelike aspects of mutual dealings. "Whenever students of the human scene have considered the dealings individuals have with one another the issue of communication has arisen: when a respectable motive is given for action, are we to suspect an ulterior one? When an individual supports a promise or a threat with a convincing display of emotional expression, are we to believe him? When an individual seems carried away by feeling is he intentionally acting this way in order to create an effect? When someone responds to us in a particular way, are we to see this as a spontaneous reaction to the situation, or a result of his having canvassed all other possible responses before deciding this one was the most advantageous? And whether or not we have such concerns ought we to be worried about the individual believing that we have them?"
Drawing many of his examples from the bluff and counter-bluff world of espionage, Professor Goffman applies game-theory techniques to the analysis of communicative behaviour. His ultimate interest, he writes in his Preface, is to develop the study of face-to-face interaction as a naturally bounded, analytically coherent field — a sub-area of sociology. Admirers of and newcomers to his work will find this a convincing and richly suggestive study.
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