ABSTRACT
Frame Analysis, a significant theoretical book by Erving Goffman, is full of such striking episodes. It bears the subtitle, an Essay on the Organization of Experience. The study of the interaction order is important to Goffman because to him that order represents the link between the individual on the one hand and the macro realm of framing conventions on the other. The persons who are symbolic interactionists, especially the Chicago ones, are by and large on the qualitative or ethnographic side. Goffman takes over from William James the subdivision of reality into a series of sub-universes, of which James states that each of them has an existence of its own. In Frame Analysis Goffman first describes how society supplies individuals with framing conventions, and then he looks into the vulnerabilities of those conventions and how they can be abused and endangered.
