Life as Theater: A Dramaturgical Sourcebook by Charles Edgley

By Charles Edgley

existence as Theater is set realizing humans and the way the dramaturgical mind set is helping or hinders such knowing. A quantity that has deservedly attained the prestige of a landmark paintings, this was once the 1st ebook to discover systematically the cloth and subject material of social psychology from the dramaturgical standpoint. it's been familiar and quoted, and has sparked ferment and debate in fields as various as sociology, psychology, anthropology, political technological know-how, speech communique, and formal theater studies.Life as Theater is prepared round 5 noticeable matters in social psychology: Social Relationships as Drama; The Dramaturgical Self; Motivation and Drama; Organizational Dramas; and Political Dramas. This vintage textual content was once revised and up-to-date for a moment variation in 1990, and comprises nearly sixty six percentage new fabrics, all that includes person introductions that offer the dramaturgical viewpoint and replicate the main realized pondering and paintings being performed inside this viewpoint. This book's sophistication will attract the student, and its readability and conciseness to the coed. Like its predecessor, it's designed to function a main textual content or supplementary reader in periods. This new paperback variation contains an creation by way of Robert A. Stebbins that explains why, even fifteen years after its publication,Life as Theater continues to be the simplest unmarried sourcebook at the dramaturgic standpoint as utilized within the social sciences.

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