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Life as theater : a dramaturgical sourcebook / edited by Dennis Brissett, Charles Edgley ; with a new introduction by Robert A. Stebbins.

Title
Life as theater : a dramaturgical sourcebook / edited by Dennis Brissett, Charles Edgley ; with a new introduction by Robert A. Stebbins.
Publication
New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, c2005.

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Additional Authors
  • Brissett, Dennis.
  • Edgley, Charles
Description
xix, 462 p.; 23 cm.
Subject
  • Social psychology
  • Drama > Social aspects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Critiques of dramaturgy -- The legacy of Goffman -- 1. Sociological perspectives -- society as drama / Peter Berger -- 2. Concept and method in the study of human development / Nelson N. Foote -- 3. Life as theater : some notes on the dramaturgic approach to social reality / Sheldon E. Messinger, Harold Sampson and Robert D. Towne -- 4. Role taking : process versus conformity / Ralph H. Turner -- 5. Role distance / Erving Goffman -- 6. The self as a locus of linguistic causality / Ernest Becker -- 7. The presentation of self / Erving Goffman -- 8. Appearance and the self : a slightly revised version / Gregory P. Stone -- 9. Staging one's ideal self / Emile J. Pin and Jamie Turndorf.
ISBN
0202308332 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2005043733
OCLC
  • 60245405
  • SCSB-12385573
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library