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The presentation of self in contemporary social life
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SAGE
Publication Date
[2017]
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English
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Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Self-Presentation and the Dramaturgical Perspective
Introduction: "Being Yourself" Is a Performance Too
So Why Study Dramaturgy?
Getting Down to Business
Scholarly Provenance of Dramaturgical Ideas
Analyzing Dramaturgy
Erving Goffman and Dramaturgy
Goffman's Six Principles of Impression Management
Self
Symbolic Interactionism
ch. 2 Persona Watching: Catching Impression Management in Action
Introduction: Reverse Engineering Dramaturgy
Regions, Actors, Performance: Some Service Examples
Thinking of Performances as Cumulative: Social Order, Norms, and Rules
Ratcheting Up Sociological Analysis With Dramaturgy
ch. 3 Sociological Influences on People's Performances
Introduction: Learning How to Act in Everyday Life
Social Structural Forces That Impact Dramaturgical Actions
Think of Social Forces as Interweaving Clusters
Realizing the Analytic Potential in the Dramaturgical Perspective
Nine Contributions Dramaturgical Thinking Can Make to Enhance Sociological Thinking
ch. 4 Workplaces as Stages
Introduction: Dramaturgy in Organizations and Workplaces
Performance Teams: Dramaturgical Circumspection, Discipline, and Loyalty
Organizations and Order
Dramaturgy of Meetings
Contemporary Takes on Dramaturgy in Organizations
Interaction Order and the Negotiated Order
Asylums and Secondary Adjustments
Dramaturgical Infrastructure
Total Institutions
Emotional Labor
ch. 5 Modern Life as Show Business
Introduction: The Thicket of Unreality
Examples of Unreal Images: Illusions, Photos, and Words
Can You Detect Unreality?
Causes of Unreality: Extravagant Expectations and Pseudo-Events
Image Life as Performance
Economics of Unreal Performances and Consumerism
Las Vegas Casinos as "Cathedrals of Consumption"
Magic of Enchanted Products
Dramaturgy: The New Means of Consumption
Marketing and the Dramaturgical Legibility of Themes
Dramaturgical Inequalities: Gender, Goffman, and Advertising
Conclusion
ch. 6 Dramaturgical Involvements in Popular Culture
Introduction: Dramaturgical Involvement in Popular Culture
LARPs: Live Action Role-Playing
Engrossment in Popular Culture Experiences
Dramaturgical Residency
Face-to-Face Interaction
Surpassing Performance Limits in Fantasy or Killing St in Made-Up Worlds
Role Distance and the Actualization Gap
Frames: A Social Phoropter
Extended Case of Frames and Dramaturgy: The World of Professional Wrestling
Stigma, Horror Genre, and Frame Traps
Conclusion: Conflating Reality and Fantasy
ch. 7 Internet: Society's Newest Stage
Introduction: The Internet, Disembodiment, and Networked Audiences
Online Impression Management: Disembodiment and Networked Audiences
Collapsing of Front and Backstage Contexts
Performance Online Versus Off-Line
Altering Performance Content
Deceiving Others Online and Strategic Interaction
Deception in Online Dating and Romance
Virtual Role Engulfment
Exploring Online Deviance
User-Generated Content: Everyone's a Star, Everyone's a Critic, and I'm Into Documenting My Life Onstage
Internet Ranting and Impression Management
Stigma and Cyberbullying
Moral Entrepreneurs
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9781483319438
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