PARK, DOYLE, AND HUGHES - NEGLECTED ANTECEDENTS OF GOFFMANS THEORY OFCEREMONY

Erving Goffman's writings on etiquette and front are read in the conte xt of a tradition of Chicago school studies on such topics. Robert E. Park formed this tradition from two strains of thought: one based on t he writings of Herbert Spencer, and the other on that of Georg Simmel. A review of writings by Park, and by his students Bertram W. Doyle an d Everett C. Hughes, provides a basis for analyzing Goffman's original contributions to the tradition, a synthesis of the two strains. Goffm an both advanced the line of study and shared in its biases. These lim itations must be overcome if future research in the tradition is to pr oceed.