| Abstract: | Since Becks “risk society” many sociologists think in terms of disembedding, disenchantment and reembedding. This macrosociological approach does not take into account that Goffman since 1956 began — under strictly microsciological auspices — to establish a research program on interactional risks. At the beginning, the term “risk” was not used prominently. But in his later works he concentrated openly on an “existentialistic” version of the risk structure of all our daily actions. He used a similar trias by focussing on risk awareness, orientational deficiencies, and compensation through rituals and frames. But he was relentless to pinpoint that and how our social constructions continue to be provisional ones. So we are bound to revise our order of interactions again and again. |
