R S Perinbanayagam
Biographic Data
| ID | 3621445 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R S Perinbanayagam |
| GIVEN NAMES | R S |
| FAMILY NAME | Perinbanayagam |
| SIGNATURE | PERINBANAYAGAM R S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hunter College of the City University of New York |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Self and Situation
Telic Reflections: Interactional Processes, as Such
Interactional processes, conducted through symbols of various kinds, are the primal events in human life and, therefore, the primary site also for all social scientific inquiries. The implications of such a claim for a variety of sociological issues are then examined: the 'individual' should be conceptualized as an interactive agent; the symbolic processes that she or he undertakes are both pragmatic and artistic exercises; selves emerge out of s…
Missing Persons: A Critique of Personhood in the Social Sciences
Missing Persons:. Critique of Personhood in the Social Sciences. Mary Douglas and Steven Ney. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. xi. 223 pp., figures, tatiles, bibliography, index
The Presence of Self
Part 1 I: Dialogic Processes Chapter 2 1 Dialogic Acts Chapter 3 2 Rhetoric and the Self Part 4 II: Identificatory Processes Chapter 5 3 Identity: The Continuity and Differentiation of Self Chapter 6 4 The Poetics of Identity Part 7 III: The Self in Action Chapter 8 5 Speaking of the Self Chapter 9 6 The Plays of the Self Chapter 10 Epilogue
To Sing with Pigs is Human: The Concept of Person in Papua New Guinea
In the course of her fieldwork with the Kaulong, who live on the island of New Britain in Papua New Guinea, Jane Goodale recognized that everything of importance to them - every event, relationship, and transaction - was rooted in their constant quest for recognition as human beings. She addresses here questions central to Kaulong society: What is it that makes an individual human? How is humanity, or personhood, achieved and maintained? In their…
Discursive Acts
Disquisition on Discourse
The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society
Signifying Acts: Structure and Meaning in Everyday Life
The theme of Signifying Acts that social acts are created by human agents engaging in signifying gestures eliciting determined responses from which flow a number of consequences. This theme is developed by a critical synthesis of various strands of early contemporary thought in symbolism, meaning, language, grammar. These strands have been classified as pragmatism interactionism, structuralism grammatical theoryPerinbanayagam brings together for …
The Meaning of Uncertainty and the Uncertainty of Meaning
The interrelation between 'processes' and 'structures' is addressed in this article with a discussion of quantum theory and classical physics, on the one hand and pragmatic theories of meaning and structuralist ones, on the other. It is concluded that just as quantum theory needs the apparatus of classical physics to establish its own phenomena, pragmatic theories need structuralist apparatus to establish their own. It is argued that both in the …
The Grammar of Social Relations: The Major Essays of Louis Schneider
This collection of the writings of Louis Schneider, an exceptionally gifted sociologist of religion the history of ideas, provides a sensitive but rigorous view of the place of ideas in social life. Di-vided according to the principal areas in which Schneider con-ducted research--history of social thought, principles of social the-ory, sociology of religion--are es-says on evolution, styles of re-search, and moral choice in human relations. His k…
In the Beginning Was the Act
The Karmic Theater: Self, Society and Astrology in Jaffna
The Karmic Theater: Self, Society, and Astrology in Jaffna
The Karmic Theater: Self, Society and Astrology in Jaffna
The Making of Symbolic Interactionism
The Karmic Theater: Self, Society, and Astrology in Jaffna
Catharsis in Healing, Ritual, and Drama. T. J. Scheff
Dramas, Metaphors, and Structures
It is argued that dramaturgical sociology/social psychology must be examined as a continuation of the methods and practices of dramatism. Such an examination will reveal answers to the persistent questions regarding the work of Erving Goffman: Is he using a metaphor, simile, analogy, etc.! Is he a symbolic interactionist! Is his work a form of structuralism! What is the relationship between the sociologist and the drama of human relations! What i…
Abstracts and Reviews: Movement Among Healers in Sri Lanka: A Case Study of a Sinhalese Patient by Lorna Rhodes Amarasincham. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 4 (1980): 71-92
Dramas of Structure, Theory and Performance in Northern Sri Lanka
Structuralist and dramaturgical perspectives are used to examine certain practices in a Hindu Tamil community in northern Sri Lanka. A view of good and evil, based on certain structures of opposition, is realized dramaturgically in a number of activities of everyday life. Departure and arrival ceremonies and the routine treatment of pregnant and menstruating women are used as instances to demonstrate this
Opening and Closing: Strategies of Information Adaptation in Society
Preface 1. Social noise 2. Opening and closing in open societies 3. The feast of the media 4. When information turns to noise 5. Entropic communication 6. Good redundancy: identity as playback 7. Theory of opening and closing 8. Movements and possibilities Notes References Index
On the Autonomy of Symbols
The Significance of “Others” in the Thought of Alfred Schutz: A Reply to Malhotra and Deegan's Comments
Schutz is indeed in need of a defense from my strictures. However, Professors Malhotra and Deegan have not provided it because they want to have it both ways. nature of the defense, if I may sketch it briefly, would take the following into account: (1) His domain of interest was in a constitutive phenomenology of everyday life and as a true disciple of Husserl, he set about doing this. (2) Hence, his interest in the question of the other, sociali…
The Corrosion of the Self: Society's Effects on People.Thomas Kreilkamp
The Definition of the Situation: An Analysis of the Ethnomethodological and Dramaturgical View
The dramaturgical and the ethnomethodological positions on the definition of the situation is discussed, after a brief history of the concept. The ethnomethodologists claim to take their cues from Wittgenstein and Schutz, whereas the dramaturgists take theirs from G. H. Mead; these positions are examined in terms of their relative power to explain the problem of the definition of the situation, concluding that the Meadian position is the more pow…
The Meaning of Uncertainty and the Uncertainty of Meaning
The interrelation between 'processes' and 'structures' is addressed in this article with a discussion of quantum theory and classical physics, on the one hand and pragmatic theories of meaning and structuralist ones, on the other. It is concluded that just as quantum theory needs the apparatus of classical physics to establish its own phenomena, pragmatic theories need structuralist apparatus to establish their own. It is argued that both in the …
The Structure of Motives
It is argued that decisions are processes that occur in the ordinary course of a human life and that actions taken in life, when they are not habitual, follow such decisions. Decisions are undertaken in the framework of socially validated identities and are accompanied by vocabularies of motive which serve to guide action as well as to justify them. How then are these decisions reached? These decisions are reached, it is argued, by using various …
The Dialectics of Charisma
1971). The Dialectics of Charisma. The Sociological Quarterly: Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 387-402
Dramas, Metaphors, and Structures
It is argued that dramaturgical sociology/social psychology must be examined as a continuation of the methods and practices of dramatism. Such an examination will reveal answers to the persistent questions regarding the work of Erving Goffman: Is he using a metaphor, simile, analogy, etc.! Is he a symbolic interactionist! Is his work a form of structuralism! What is the relationship between the sociologist and the drama of human relations! What i…
Telic Reflections: Interactional Processes, as Such
Interactional processes, conducted through symbols of various kinds, are the primal events in human life and, therefore, the primary site also for all social scientific inquiries. The implications of such a claim for a variety of sociological issues are then examined: the 'individual' should be conceptualized as an interactive agent; the symbolic processes that she or he undertakes are both pragmatic and artistic exercises; selves emerge out of s…
Caste, Politics, and Art
Indian civilization is made up of many strands, woven together by the invasions, assimilations, and proselytizings which have characterized its history and prehistory. Generally, however, elements of the Sanskritic culture brought in by Aryan invaders (conjecturally from the Middle East) around 1500 B.C. are dominant, though the farther one gets from the northern regions of India, the less apparent this dominance becomes. The question whether the…
The Making of Symbolic Interactionism
The Karmic Theater: Self, Society, and Astrology in Jaffna
Dramas of Structure, Theory and Performance in Northern Sri Lanka
Structuralist and dramaturgical perspectives are used to examine certain practices in a Hindu Tamil community in northern Sri Lanka. A view of good and evil, based on certain structures of opposition, is realized dramaturgically in a number of activities of everyday life. Departure and arrival ceremonies and the routine treatment of pregnant and menstruating women are used as instances to demonstrate this
Caste, Politics, and Art
Indian civilization is made up of many strands, woven together by the invasions, assimilations, and proselytizings which have characterized its history and prehistory. Generally, however, elements of the Sanskritic culture brought in by Aryan invaders (conjecturally from the Middle East) around 1500 B.C. are dominant, though the farther one gets from the northern regions of India, the less apparent this dominance becomes. The question whether the…
The Dialectics of Charisma
1971). The Dialectics of Charisma. The Sociological Quarterly: Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 387-402
The Definition of the Situation: An Analysis of the Ethnomethodological and Dramaturgical View
The dramaturgical and the ethnomethodological positions on the definition of the situation is discussed, after a brief history of the concept. The ethnomethodologists claim to take their cues from Wittgenstein and Schutz, whereas the dramaturgists take theirs from G. H. Mead; these positions are examined in terms of their relative power to explain the problem of the definition of the situation, concluding that the Meadian position is the more pow…
The Significance of Others in the Thought of Alfred Schutz, G. H. Mead and C. H. Cooley
This paper makes an initial statement on the importance of the concept of the other in sociology and social psychology and then examines the place this concept plays in the essential thought of Alfred Schutz, G. H. Mead, and C. H. Cooley. It is argued that the concept is not a fundamental part of the thought of Schutz, that it is used merely as a convenient loophole at various strategic moments in the argument, whereas in the work of Mead and Coo…
The Significance of "Others" in the Thought of Alfred Schutz: A Reply to Malhotra and Deegan's Comments
The Structure of Motives
It is argued that decisions are processes that occur in the ordinary course of a human life and that actions taken in life, when they are not habitual, follow such decisions. Decisions are undertaken in the framework of socially validated identities and are accompanied by vocabularies of motive which serve to guide action as well as to justify them. How then are these decisions reached? These decisions are reached, it is argued, by using various …
The Significance of “Others” in the Thought of Alfred Schutz: A Reply to Malhotra and Deegan's Comments
Schutz is indeed in need of a defense from my strictures. However, Professors Malhotra and Deegan have not provided it because they want to have it both ways. nature of the defense, if I may sketch it briefly, would take the following into account: (1) His domain of interest was in a constitutive phenomenology of everyday life and as a true disciple of Husserl, he set about doing this. (2) Hence, his interest in the question of the other, sociali…
The Corrosion of the Self: Society's Effects on People.Thomas Kreilkamp
Opening and Closing: Strategies of Information Adaptation in Society
Preface 1. Social noise 2. Opening and closing in open societies 3. The feast of the media 4. When information turns to noise 5. Entropic communication 6. Good redundancy: identity as playback 7. Theory of opening and closing 8. Movements and possibilities Notes References Index
On the Autonomy of Symbols
Abstracts and Reviews: Movement Among Healers in Sri Lanka: A Case Study of a Sinhalese Patient by Lorna Rhodes Amarasincham. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 4 (1980): 71-92
Dramas of Structure, Theory and Performance in Northern Sri Lanka
Structuralist and dramaturgical perspectives are used to examine certain practices in a Hindu Tamil community in northern Sri Lanka. A view of good and evil, based on certain structures of opposition, is realized dramaturgically in a number of activities of everyday life. Departure and arrival ceremonies and the routine treatment of pregnant and menstruating women are used as instances to demonstrate this
Catharsis in Healing, Ritual, and Drama. T. J. Scheff
Dramas, Metaphors, and Structures
It is argued that dramaturgical sociology/social psychology must be examined as a continuation of the methods and practices of dramatism. Such an examination will reveal answers to the persistent questions regarding the work of Erving Goffman: Is he using a metaphor, simile, analogy, etc.! Is he a symbolic interactionist! Is his work a form of structuralism! What is the relationship between the sociologist and the drama of human relations! What i…
The Karmic Theater: Self, Society and Astrology in Jaffna
The Making of Symbolic Interactionism
The Karmic Theater: Self, Society, and Astrology in Jaffna
The Karmic Theater: Self, Society, and Astrology in Jaffna
The Grammar of Social Relations: The Major Essays of Louis Schneider
This collection of the writings of Louis Schneider, an exceptionally gifted sociologist of religion the history of ideas, provides a sensitive but rigorous view of the place of ideas in social life. Di-vided according to the principal areas in which Schneider con-ducted research--history of social thought, principles of social the-ory, sociology of religion--are es-says on evolution, styles of re-search, and moral choice in human relations. His k…
In the Beginning Was the Act
The Karmic Theater: Self, Society and Astrology in Jaffna
The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society
Signifying Acts: Structure and Meaning in Everyday Life
The theme of Signifying Acts that social acts are created by human agents engaging in signifying gestures eliciting determined responses from which flow a number of consequences. This theme is developed by a critical synthesis of various strands of early contemporary thought in symbolism, meaning, language, grammar. These strands have been classified as pragmatism interactionism, structuralism grammatical theoryPerinbanayagam brings together for …
The Meaning of Uncertainty and the Uncertainty of Meaning
The interrelation between 'processes' and 'structures' is addressed in this article with a discussion of quantum theory and classical physics, on the one hand and pragmatic theories of meaning and structuralist ones, on the other. It is concluded that just as quantum theory needs the apparatus of classical physics to establish its own phenomena, pragmatic theories need structuralist apparatus to establish their own. It is argued that both in the …
Disquisition on Discourse
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