ABSTRACT The study aims to understand the effects of disease on daily lives children and teenagers affected by leprosy. This was a qualitative research based theoretical framework ‘The Sociology Erving Goffman’. We interviewed 14 participants individually, nine five teenagers, who underwent treatment for leprosy were cured. A semi-structured interview used, covering sociodemographic information...

In his famous 1982 address as a president of the American Sociological Association, Erving Goffman returns to the relation between the interaction order and social structures, which he defines as a „loose coupling‟. This paper elaborates on this intriguing but partially disappointing response, and proposes to complement it by analyzing the role of institutions. First, individual interactions, s...

Few theories of gaming enjoyment have focused what is absent in gameplay. One exception is Erving Goffman’s sociological theory of “euphoric ease”. Because spontaneous and socially demanded emotional involvement often align in gameplay, Goffman holds, it lacks the effortful self-monitoring and self-regulation of conduct and emotion typical for everyday life. This paper presents an empirical gro...