A Sociology of the Absurd

Absurd action activities Aldine Press Alfred Schutz analysis Anselm Strauss anxiety audience aware background expectancies behavior CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ challenge character concept coolness CRUZ The University culture defined deviant discussion Doubleday Anchor edited elements employed encounter engaged Englewood Cliffs episode Erving Goffman Ethnomethodology everyday example excuse face game Free Press game framework game theory Garden City Georg Simmel Glencoe Harold Garfinkel home territories homosexual human identity indicate individual information games intimate involves John Journal of Sociology Kingsley Davis labeled Machiavelli Marcello Truzzi Marsha Max Weber meaning moral move Negro norms occur one's paranoid party performance persons play player present Press of Glencoe problem problematic reality relations requires role sense sexual situation social actors social order society sociologist stage fright status strategy suggest Talcott Parsons Theory tion tracks University Library UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA/SANTA University Press untoward