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- Influence
On the Run: Wanted Men in a Philadelphia Ghetto
- A. Goffman
- Sociology
- 1 June 2009
Although recent increases in imprisonment are concentrated in poor Black communities, we know little about how daily life within these neighborhoods is affected. Almost all ethnographic work in poor… Expand
On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City
- A. Goffman
- Geography
- 1 May 2014
Forty years in, the War on Drugs has done almost nothing to prevent drugs from being sold or used, but it has nonetheless created a little-known surveillance state in America's most disadvantaged… Expand
Go to More Parties? Social Occasions as Home to Unexpected Turning Points in Life Trajectories
- A. Goffman
- Sociology
- 1 March 2019
Reviving classical attention to gathering times as sites of transformation and building on more recent microsociological work, this paper uses qualitative data to show how social occasions open up… Expand
Synovial sarcoma of the extremities and trunk: A long lasting disease
- O. Merimsky, V. Soyfer, +5 authors I. Meller
- Medicine
- 20 June 2007
10073 Background: Synovial sarcoma (SS) of an extremity or trunk is a relatively rare type of soft tissue sarcoma. SS most commonly affects adolescents and young adults. SS usually originates at an… Expand
Violence: A Micro-Sociological Theory
- A. Goffman
- Sociology
- 1 March 2009
no clear address or cause.” My experience has been quite the opposite. Nothing is more terrifying than a physician uttering a sentence that begins, I have some bad news, and ends with a definitive… Expand