Frame Analysis

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Frame Analysis. An Essay on the Organization of Experience (German framework analysis. An attempt on the organization of everyday experiences ) is a 1974 work by the sociologist Erving Goffman on framework analysis . The work is often considered to be Goffman's most important work.

content

In Frame Analysis, Goffman deals with human experiences and interactions that are framed. Here, frames are part of social actions and activities that define situations. The framework analysis should then clarify what importance is attached to an interaction or activity.

Goffman distinguishes:

  • Primary framework: Unman-made, unaffected events
    • Social framework

The primary frameworks are the basis for so-called meaning transformations.

Reception and criticism

With this work, Goffman created an important basis for the communicative framing processes of the sociology of language and sociolinguistics such as staging (cf. Staging Society at Soeffner 1989), performance, theatricalization / theatricality (cf. Willems 1997) and symbolic communication .

Goffman has been accused of not helping the reader with a variety of examples, but rather confusing and even misleading the reader. He was also accused of overemphasizing structural features over subjective meanings.

expenditure

  • Erving Goffman (1974): Frame Analysis: An Essay on the Organization of Experience . New York.
  • Erving Goffman (1977): Framework Analysis. An attempt on the organization of everyday experiences . Frankfurt / M.

literature

  • Herbert Willems: Frame and Habitus. On Erving Goffman's theoretical and methodological approach . Suhrkamp-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-518-28919-5 .