Life as Theater: A Dramaturgical Sourcebook

ISBN-13: 9781138527232 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 481 str.

Dennis Brissett

Opis

Life as Theater is about understanding people and how the dramaturgical way of thinking helps or hinders such understanding. A volume that has deservedly attained the status of a landmark work, this was the first book to explore systematically the material and subject matter of social psychology from the dramaturgical viewpoint. It has been widely used and quoted, and has sparked ferment and debate in fields as diverse as sociology, psychology, anthropology, political science, speech communication, and formal theater studies.Life as Theater is organized around five substantive issues in social psychology: Social Relationships as Drama; The Dramaturgical Self; Motivation and Drama; Organizational Dramas; and Political Dramas. This classic text was revised and updated for a second edition in 1990, and includes approximately 66 percent new materials, all featuring individual introductions that provide the dramaturgical perspective and reflect the most learned thinking and work being done within this point of view. This book's sophistication will appeal to the scholar, and its clarity and conciseness to the student. Like its predecessor, it is designed to serve as a primary text or supplementary reader in classes. This new paperback edition includes an introduction by Robert A. Stebbins that explains why, even fifteen years after its publication,Life as Theater remains the best single sourcebook on the dramaturgic perspective as applied in the social sciences.

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Introduction PART I THE DRAMATURGICAL PERSPECTIVE Critiques of Dramaturgy The Legacy of Goffman PART II SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS AS DRAMA 1. Sociological Perspectives—Society as Drama 2. Concept and Method in the Study of Human Development 3. Life as Theater: Some Notes on the Dramaturgic Approach to Social Reality 4. Role Taking: Process versus Conformity 5. Role Distance VIII PART III THE DRAMATURGICAL SELF 6. The Self as a Locus of Linguistic Causality 7. The Presentation of Self 8. Appearance and the Self: A Slightly Revised Version 9. Staging One's Ideal Self 10. The Presentation of Self and the New Institutional Inmate: An Analysis of Prisoners' Responses to Assessment for Release PART IV MOTIVATION AND DRAMA 11. Situated Actions and Vocabularies of Motive 12. Accounts 13. Remedial Work 14. The Reasons Considered 15. Convicted Rapists' Vocabulary of Motive: Excuses and Justifications PART V ORGANIZATIONAL DRAMAS 16. Death as Theater: A Dramaturgical Analysis of the American Funeral 17. False Pretense and Deviant Exploitation: Fortunetelling as a Con 18. To Be A Mediator: Expressive Tactics in Mediation 19. Dramatism and the Theatrical Metaphor PART VI POLITICAL DRAMAS 20. Propaganda with Design: Environmental Dramaturgy in the Political Rally 21. The Presidency and Impression Management 22. The Phenomenon of the Public Wife: An Exercise in Goffman's Impression Management 23. Dramaturgy and Political Mystification: Political Life in the United States

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Charles Edgley