1st Edition
The Drama of Social Life Essays in Post-Modern Social Psychology
By T. R. Young
Copyright 1990
392 Pages
by
Routledge
391 Pages
by
Routledge
391 Pages
by
Routledge
Also available as eBook on:
These essays explore the many ways theatre and dramaturgy are used to shape the everyday experience of people in mass societies. Young argues that technologies combine with the world of art, music, and cinema to shape consciousness as a commodity and to fragment social relations in the market as well as in religion and politics. He sees the central problem of post-modern society as how to live in... Read more
Contents Acknowledgments A Great University Introduction Part I. The Politics of Social Psychology Introduction 1 Hard Times and Hard Tomatoes 2 The Politics of Sociology: Gouldner, Goffman, and Garfinkel 3 The Structure of Democratic Communications Part II. Critical Approaches to Dramaturgy Introduction 4 The Dramaturgical Society: Macroanalysis with Garth Massey 5 Dramaturgical Analysis and Societal Critique with John Welsh Part III. Social Psychology in a New Age Introduction 6 Self and Social Organization in Capitalist Society 7 Morality and Mass Society 8 Self in Mass Society: Against Zurcher 9 Self-Estrangement in Dramaturgical Society Part IV. Politics in the Dramaturgical Society Introduction 10 The Political Economy of Dramaturgy 11 Critical Dimensions in Dramaturgical Analysis:Watergate as Theater Part V. Emancipatory Uses of Dramaturgy Introduction 12 Emancipatory Dimensions in Dramaturgy 13 The Sociology of Sport: Structural and Cultural Approaches 14 The Typifications of Christ at Christmas and Easter: Critical Explorations of Religious Dramaturgy 15 Dress, Drama, and Self: The Tee Shirt as Text References & Bibliography Index
Biography
T. R. Young
