1st Edition
Performing Action Artistry in Human Behavior and Social Research
Edited By Joseph R. Gusfield
Copyright 2000
351 Pages
by
Routledge
350 Pages
by
Routledge
350 Pages
by
Routledge
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In recent years the social sciences and the humanities have drawn closer to each other in thought and method. This rapprochement has led to new perceptions of human behaviour by sociologists, as well as new methodological orientations. Sociologist Joseph R. Gusfield draws upon drama and fiction to show how human action is shaped by the formal dimensions of performance. Gusfield first defines the... Read more
1. Introduction: Human Behavior as Performance Part 1: Rhetoric 2. The Double Plot in Institutions 3. The Literary Rhetoric of Science: Comedy and Pathos in Drinking-Driver Research 4. Two Genres of Sociology: A Literary Analysis of The American Occupational Structure and Tally's Corner 5. Sport as Story: Form and Content in Agonistic Games Part 2: Reflexivity 6. The Modernity of Social Movements: Public Roles and Private Parts 7. Social Movements and Social Change: Perspectives of Linearity and Fluidity 8. The Reflexivity of Social Movements: Collective Behavior and Mass Society Theory Revisited 9. The Social Construction of Tradition: An Interactionist View of Social Change Part 3: Symbolism 10. Secular Symbolism: Studies of Ritual, Ceremony, and the Symbolic Order in Modern Life 11. Nature's Body and the Metaphors of Food and Health 12. The Social Symbolism of Smoking and Health 13. The Social Meanings of Meals: Hierarchy and Equality in the American Potluck 14. Conclusion: Buddy, Can You Paradigm?: The Crisis of Theory in the Welfare State Index
Biography
Joseph R. Gusfield
