The Expressive and Moral Dimensions of the Interactional Order in the Analysis of the Sale of “Street News- papers”. An overview from the perspective of Erving Goffman’s sociology

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https://doi.org/10.5380/cam.v7i1.5449

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Goffman, exclusión, intercambios sociales

Abstract

In this article I analyze the activity of the street newspapers sellers in the city of Buenos Aires (Argentina). These publications are sold by underprivileged people. I use the conceptual tools of Erving Goffmans sociology in order to show two dimensions of the interactional order in the encounters between sellers and buyers. The central idea of my paper is that the economic transactions are linked with an interactional circuit which expresses opposite moral values about sellers. In this sense the success or failure of the economic transactions will depend on which moral value prevails in this circuit.

Author Biography

Ariel Wilkis, Universidade de Buenos Aires

sociólogo e professor da Universidade de Buenos
Aires (Argentina), é mestre em Investigación en Ciencias Sociales e doutorando pela mesma instituição. É bolsista do Consejo Nacional
de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas no Centro de Estudios e Investigaciones Laborales (CEIL-CONICET).

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2006-07-14

How to Cite

Wilkis, A. (2006). The Expressive and Moral Dimensions of the Interactional Order in the Analysis of the Sale of “Street News- papers”. An overview from the perspective of Erving Goffman’s sociology. Campos - Revista De Antropologia, 7(1), 53–70. https://doi.org/10.5380/cam.v7i1.5449

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Vol. 7 (2006)

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