Year: 2016
Type: article
Abstract: Alice Goffman’s On the Run : Fugitive Life in an American City was a great success in the United States until a controversy arose around the truthfulness of the author’s accounts and the legitimacy of the ethnographic method itself. This article aims to move beyond this trial of intention by examining the book’s sociological contributions. It gives an account of the controversy and proceeds to show how On the Run was left vulnerable to critique due to an overemphasis of the social effects of the penal system and a lack of reflexivity in Goffman’s analysis.
Source: Genèses
DOI: 10.3917/gen.103.0003
Author: Manuel Schotté
Language: French
Subfield: General Arts and Humanities
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4249066435