Life as Theater: A Dramaturgical Sourcebook

Abstract

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- AldineTransaction Introduction -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- PART I THE DRAMATURGICAL PERSPECTIVE -- Dramaturgical Awareness -- The Relation Between the Dramaturgical Principle and Dramaturgical Awareness -- The Drama of Self -- The Performative and Transformational Nature of the Self -- Critiques of Dramaturgy -- Dramaturgy as a Pedestrian, Nonsystematic Form of Inquiry -- Life is Not Really Theater -- 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 -- Notes -- 3. Life as Theater: Some Notes on the Dramaturgic Approach to Social Reality -- I -- II -- Ill -- Notes -- 4. Role Taking: Process versus Conformity -- Basic Elements in Role-Taking -- The Role-Making Process -- "Self-Roles" and "Other-Roles" -- Roles as Meaningful Groupings of Behavior -- Roles in Organization and Culture -- The Framework of Role Differentiation -- The Nature of Role Interaction -- Dynamics of Self and Other -- The Normative Component of Role-Taking -- Summary and Implications -- References -- 5. Role Distance -- Role Distance and Serious Activity -- Surgery as an Activity System -- Notes -- PART III THE DRAMATURGICAL SELF -- 6. The Self as a Locus of Linguistic Causality -- The Fictional Nature of Human Meaning: A Review -- Notes -- 7. The Presentation of Self -- Notes -- 8. Appearance and the Self: A Slightly Revised Version -- Identity -- Qualifications of Identity: Value and Mood -- Activations of Identity: Attitude -- Appearance and the Self -- Appearance and the Early Emergence of the Self -- Preplay, Investiture, and the Ubiquitous Mother -- Play, Costume, and Dressing Out -- The Game, the Uniform, and Dressing In -- Later Socializations -- Summary -- Notes