Dr Ben Janaway: ‘They were polite, passionate and discursive. But they were trapped by fake information, and information they were not equipped to understand.’

Reflections regarding the overthrow of Nicolae Ceaușescu of Romania in December 1989

From the Toronto Public Library website, you can access Erving Goffman’s 1982 presidential address to the American Sociological Association

Erving Goffman devoted his career to the structured, intensive study of ‘what’s going on’

Erving Goffman was impressed with Johan Huizinga’s study of the play-elements in culture

As Erving Goffman has noted, what goes on in gambling establishments and risk-taking situations in general is worth close study

Beyond Totalitarianism (2009) features specialist essays comparing Nazi and Stalinist mass murder in the 1930s and 1940s