Alice Goffman
Alice Goffman (* 1982 in the USA ) is an American sociologist . She is the daughter of the Canadian -US sociologist Erving Goffman's second marriage .
Life
Goffman attended the Baldwyn School in Bryn Mawr (Pennsylvania) and then studied sociology at the University of Pennsylvania , which she completed with a bachelor's degree (BA). She received her PhD in Sociology from Princeton University . During her studies at the University of Pennsylvania, she lived in a district of Philadelphia inhabited by black Americans with different incomes . There she began her observations, which she continued during her studies at Princeton.
The results of their investigations flowed in both Goffman's doctoral thesis and in her 2014 book published On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City , which appeared in German translation, 2015. In her book, Goffman describes how the police in the USA treat and abuse young black men and how the legal system and the penal system are reshaping family life in the poor black areas of America.
Goffmann is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison .
Awards
- 2011: Dissertation Award for the best Ph.D. -Dissertation of a calendar year from the American Sociological Association .
- 2015: Annual scholarship at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (New Jersey) , USA.
Publications
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On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City . University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, USA 2014, ISBN 978-0-226-13671-4 .
- On the run. The criminalization of the poor in America . Antje Kunstmann Verlag, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-95614-045-7 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Review by Michael Hochgeschwender: No Mercy in the Land of the Unfree , FAZ from March 28, 2015, page 12 ( online version , accessed on February 24, 2019).
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Goffman, Alice |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American sociologist, author and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1982 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | United States |