Dramaturgical Traditions
Performance and Interaction
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23614906 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Susie Scott (0000-0001-6151-9269, University of Sussex, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Pages | 146-161 |
| Publication date | 2022-02-14 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Oxford Handbook of Symbolic Interactionism (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190082161.013.6 |
| OpenAlex | W4212939309 |
| ISBN | 9780190082161 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 31 |
This chapter considers the ways in which social actors construct, display, and perform the scenes in which they appear. Together, they cooperate to define situations with an interpretative frame, drawing upon shared repertoires of tacit knowledge. Focusing on Goffman’s dramaturgy as a branch of symbolic interactionism, the chapter begins with the metaphor of the theatre as a representation of social life. Individuals perform situation-based roles as if they were characters, scripted and rehearsed to meet the normative demands of each context and audience. This self-presentation involves techniques of impression management, such as facework, concealment, dramaturgical circumspection, and movement between the frontstage and backstage regions. Identity performances can therefore seem relatively sincere (authentic) or cynical (contrived). Collectively, dramaturgical loyalty is practiced through social processes of teamwork, supportive interchange, and remedial ritual. These mechanisms contribute to the display of normal appearances that serves to uphold the interaction order.
Aesthetics · Art · Context (archaeology) · Dramaturgy · Epistemology · Face (sociological concept) · Face negotiation theory · Identity (music) · Impression management · Interactionism · Linguistics · Metaphor · Normative · Presentation (obstetrics) · Social science · Sociology · Symbolic interactionism · History · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Philosophy · Psychology · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social Psychology
Negotiations
Representing Reality
Revolting Subjects
Serious Leisure, Social Identity and Sport Tourism
Cultural pragmatics
Studies in ethnomethodology
Strategic Interaction
Symbolic Interactionism
Stigma
Encounters
The social construction of reality
Performance Studies
Relations in Public. Microstudies of the Public Order
The phenomenology of the social world
Medical and sociological typologies
Gender Trouble
Sequential and Institutional Contexts in Calls for Help
Radical Interactionism
Situated Actions and Vocabularies of Motive
Awareness Contexts and Social Interaction
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
Sexual Modesty, Social Meanings, and the Nudist Camp
Good People and Dirty Work
Reclothing the Emperor
Transitions and Transcendence of the Self
Cultural Pragmatics
Embarrassment and the Analysis of Role Requirements
Embarrassment and Social Organization
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |