The Frames of Group Culture: Moments and Their Teams

Gary Alan Fine*

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Abstract

Erving Goffman's most profound and theoretically dense work, Frame Analysis, first published in 1974, is now fifty years old: an iconic linkage of the micro and macro-level. In this reassessment after half a century, I connect Goffman's phenomenological analysis with the meso-level study of groups and meaning within tiny publics. Frames are inevitably connected with local cultures. In making this claim, I draw upon group-based conventions of the proper use of profanity, the dynamics of in-group joking, and the workings of deceptive teamwork. I conclude that there is no single set of frames, keys, and laminations, but all are based within communities of action.

Original languageEnglish (US)
JournalSymbolic Interaction
DOIs
StateAccepted/In press - 2024

Keywords

  • Erving Goffman
  • frame analysis
  • group culture
  • idioculture
  • tiny publics

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Nursing
  • Social Psychology
  • Education
  • Communication
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • General Social Sciences

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