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Past Member

Alice Goffman

Affiliation

Social Science

Field of Study

Sociology
From
Alice Goffman’s project is an ethnographic inquiry into the formation of human bonds and human identity. What are the situations that generate, sustain, and end our bonds to people and things?What are the experiences, large and small, that make us who we are? The ideas come out of field notes, but most of the examples in the text come from novels and non-fiction.

Dates at IAS

Member
School of Social Science

Degrees

Princeton University
Ph.D.
2010