Dossiê Goffman: apresentação

If Goffman Had Read Levinas

The article attempts to explore fundamental assumptions underlying Goffman’s theory of interaction. Goffman’s work has long been criticized for certain pervasive weaknesses such as the idea of a self as ‘inside’ and therefore inaccessible, an indifference to any distinction between appearance and reality, and a lack of concern for morality. It is argued that combating these and related problems...

Nevus sebáceo cerebriforme: uma rara apresentação*

A 13-year-old boy presented congenital, raised, yellowish colored plaques with fi broelastic consistency, which were velvety in appearance, alopecic, with clearly defi ned limits and sulci or well-marked meandering invaginations, a cerebriform appearance on the upper part of the right ear, accompanied by alopecia in the temporomandibular region-parietal. The lesion was asymptomatic. Histopathol...

Remembering William Goffman: Mathematical information science pioneer

This paper reviews the career and legacy of William (Bill) Goffman, who served as a researcher, Professor, Dean and Emeritus at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, from 1959 to 2000. Goffman pioneered mathematical information science broadly and in several key areas. First, he applied disease epidemiology concepts to model accurately the spread of knowledge and the formation of kn...

On Approximate Derivatives Casper Goffman and C. J. Neugebauer

Introduction. The notion of approximate derivative was introduced by A. Den joy in 1916 [l ; see also 4], and has important applications to integration theory and to the relation between partial and total derivatives. It is natural to ask whether the main properties of derivatives are also possessed by approximate derivatives. Indeed, Khintchine [3 ] has shown that Rolle's theorem holds for app...

Goffman and Globalization: Strategic Interaction on a World Stage