A leading M.I.T. social scientist and consultant examines five professions—engineering, architecture, management, psychotherapy, and town planning—to show how professionals ...

Erving Goffman will influence the thinking and perceptions of generations to come. In Frame Analysis, the brilliant theorist writes about the ways in which people determine ...

A software design manifesto; Designe of the conceptual model; The role of the artist-designer; Design languages; The conumer spectrum; Action - centered design; Keeping it ...

Design occurs in a rich social context where the effectiveness and efficiency of social interaction and collective performance are key to successful outcomes. Increasingly ...

Examines differences in taste between modern French classes, discusses the relationship between culture and politics, and outlines the strategies of pretension.

"Introduces the idea of defuturing, which is first employed here as a deconstructive method to expose foundational flaws in those worlds so familiar to us. It places the ...