On the Sociology of “Doing as If”

For Jeffrey Goldfarb

_____ I taught with Jeff Goldfarb for many years, mostly at the New School, but also at  Sciences Po, in Paris.  Sometimes, as part of a curriculum, and some times for the mere pleasure of debating. It was a pleasure we pursued almost uninterruptedly for more than I0 years, inviting ourselves to each ...
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On the Sociology of “Doing as If”

Overhearing in the Public Sphere

Any conversation in any public sphere is doomed to entail consequences

1. Overhearing, intruding, my interview & Goffman I was once invited to speak at a conference in Sigtuna, near Uppsala, in Sweden. The conference dealt with religious sociology and a few clerics were present. One of them was a famous Danish Imam, Abu Laban. He had ignited what came to be known ...
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Overhearing in the Public Sphere