One of the seminal sociologists of the twentieth century, Erving Goffman revolutionized our under...

Bloody Revenge

Emotions and Violence

Fascinating study of one of the seminal sociologists of the twentieth century.

Catharsis in Healing, Ritual, and Drama

A child adolescent youth's roller coaster ride through the South in the thirties and forties. As ...

This book, first published in 1997, offers an approach to researching human behavior relating det...

In his important new book, Thomas Scheff offers an innovative approach to researching human behav...

Toward A Sociological Imagination builds on the ideas C. Wright Mills expressed in The Sociologic...

Theorizing Emotions reflects the recent turn to emotions in academia-not just in sociology but al...

In this book, the author argues that the roots of protracted conflict lie in unacknowledged feeli...

Moving beyond the traditional boundaries of sociological investigation, Thomas J. Scheff brings t...