A Sociology of the Absurd

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