Communication and Social Order: Hugh Dalziel Duncan

ISBN-13: 9781138520820 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 531 str.

Hugh Dalziel Duncan

Opis

In this highly influential study of art forms as models for a theory of communications, Hugh Dalziel Duncan demonstrates that without understanding of the role of symbols in society, social scientists cannot hope to develop adequate models for social analysis.

Spis treści

One: Symbolic Contexts of Social Experience in Freud, Simmel, and Malinowski; 1: Symbolic Interaction in Freud’s Work; 2: Georg Simmel’s Search for an Autonomous Form of Sociability; 3: Malinowski’s Theory of the Social Context of Magical Language; Two: The Self and Society as Determined by Communication in James, Dewey, and Mead; 4: Society As Determined by Communication; 5: Communication and the Emergence of the Self in the Work of George Herbert Mead; 6: The Final Phase of the Act; 7: The Problem of Form in Mead’s Theory of the Significant Symbol; Three: The Function of Symbols in Society: an Application of Burke’s Dramatistic View of Social Relationships; 8: Burke’s Dramatistic View of Society; 9: Social Order Considered as a Drama of Redemption Through Victimage; Four: Burke’s Sociology of Language; 10: The Structure and Function of the Act in the Work of Kenneth Burke; 11: A Rhetoric of Motives; 12: The Rhetoric of Social Order; Five: Social Mystification in Communication Between Classes; 13: Toward a New Rhetoric; 14: Social Mystification and Social Integration; 15: Reason and Hierarchal Disorganization; 16: The Rhetoric of Ruling; 17: Rhetoric as an Instrument of Domination Through Unreason; 18: Social Order Based on Unreason; Six: A Sociological Model of Social Order as Determined by the Communication of Hierarchy; 19: Social Order as a Form of Hierarchy; 20: The Communication of Hierarchy; 21: Hierarchal Address; 22: A Sociological View of “Inner” Audiences; Seven: Hierarchal Transcendence and Social Bonds; 23: Social Transcendence; 24: Equality and Social Order; 25: The Establishment of Money as a Symbol of Community Life; 26: Money as a Form of Transcendence in American Life; Eight: The Social Function of Art in Society; 27: Comedy and Social Integration; 28: The Comic Scapegoat; 29: Comedy as the Rhetoric of Reason in Society; 30: Tragic and Comic Sexual Themes Compared; Nine: By Way of Conclusion; 31: A Sociological Model of Social Interaction as Determined by Communication

O autorze

Hugh Dalziel Duncan