Beschreibung

In everyday life, the social interactions of individuals are frequently disturbed by unexpected occurrences. These occurrences are outside of the expected of what normally fits within a specific social situation. Erving Goffman has developed the concept of ordinary troubles as a part of his frame analysis -- the analysis of the specific arrangements of individual involvements in social interactions. The frame is the context in which social activities are constituted and assigned a specific meaning; it is an interpretation that allows the individual to categorize and to understand a situation and its sense.