Dramaturgical Analysis of Social Interaction.

by Herbert H. Blumberg, A. Paul Hare

Overview

Dramaturgical analysis describes social behavior from the standpoint of the language of the theater: individuals are defined as actors and social interactions viewed as dramatic productions. It is pershaps the most comprehensive theory available today for the analysis of collective behaviors. Although individual perspectives of dramaturgical analysis are available, no single current text providing a summary and examples of generally accepted views exist. Dramaturgical Analysis of Social Interaction fulfills this role, providing an outstanding review of this approach—making it crucial reading to researchers of collective behavior and students of group dynamics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780275927622
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	01/26/1988
Pages:	190
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.56(d)
Lexile:	1380L (what's this?)

About the Author

A. PAUL HARE is Professor of Sociology at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. From 1973 to 1980, he was Professor of Sociology at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. He is the author of Creativity in Small Groups (1982), Social Interaction as Drama (1985), Dramaturgical Analysis of Social Interaction, with H. Blumberg (Praeger, 1988), and Small Group Research, with Blumberg, Davies, and Kent (1991). He is also the co-editor of The Symlog Practitioner, with R. Polley and P. Stone (Praeger, 1988) and eight other books, and the author of numerous journal articles.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I: Drama, Self, and Audience
The Dramaturgical Perspective
Types and Divisions of Drama
Presentation of Self
Teams by Erving Goffman
Audience
Part II: The Dramatic Production
The Actable Idea
Staging
Actors and Roles
New Meanings
Part III: Varieties of Enactment
Football Victory Celebrations in America by David A. Snow, Louis A. Zurcher, and Robert Peters
Protest Demonstration in South Africa, by A. Paul Hare
Departures and Arrivals in Sri Lanka by R.S. Perinbanayagam
Funerals in America by Ronny E. Turner and Charles Edgley
Glossary
References
Names Index
Subject Index
About the Authors