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Dramaturgy (sociology)

Index Dramaturgy (sociology)

Dramaturgy is a sociological perspective commonly used in microsociological accounts of social interaction in everyday life. [1]

60 relations: Alignment (role-playing games), All the world's a stage, Bank, Belief, Character mask, Collegiality, Collusion, Confidant, Courier, Deception, Discipline, Dramatism, Employment, Epistemic virtue, Erving Goffman, Espionage, Etiquette, Field research, Food critic, George Ritzer, Hairdresser, Harold Garfinkel, Human behavior, Idealization and devaluation, Identity (social science), Impression management, Informant, Jürgen Habermas, Kenneth Burke, Liminality, Loyalty, Mediation, Metaphor, Microsociology, Nonperson, Participant observation, Plumber, Positivism, Restaurant, Rite of passage, Ritual, Role, Role engulfment, Self, Self-image, Semiotics, Shill, Signalling theory, Social actions, Social movement, ..., Social norm, Social status, Society, Sociological theory, Sociology, Technoself studies, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Total institution, Treason, Value (ethics). Expand index (10 more) »

Alignment (role-playing games)

In some role-playing games (RPGs), alignment is a categorization of the moral and ethical perspective of the player characters, non-player characters, monsters, and societies in the game.

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All the world's a stage

"All the world's a stage" is the phrase that begins a monologue from William Shakespeare's As You Like It, spoken by the melancholy Jaques in Act II Scene VII.

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Bank

A bank is a financial institution that accepts deposits from the public and creates credit.

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Belief

Belief is the state of mind in which a person thinks something to be the case with or without there being empirical evidence to prove that something is the case with factual certainty.

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Character mask

In Marxist philosophy, a character mask (Charaktermaske) is a prescribed social role that serves to conceal the contradictions of a social relation or order.

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Collegiality

Collegiality is the relationship between colleagues.

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Collusion

Collusion is an agreement between two or more parties, sometimes illegal–but always secretive–to limit open competition by deceiving, misleading, or defrauding others of their legal rights, or to obtain an objective forbidden by law typically by defrauding or gaining an unfair market advantage.

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Confidant

The confidant (or; feminine: confidante, same pronunciation) is a character in a story whom a protagonist confides in and trusts.

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Courier

A courier is a company that delivers messages, packages, and mail.

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Deception

Deception is the act of propagating a belief that is not true, or is not the whole truth (as in half-truths or omission).

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Discipline

Discipline is action or inaction that is regulated to be in accordance (or to achieve accord) with a system of governance.

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Dramatism

Dramatism, an interpretive communication studies theory, was developed by Kenneth Burke as a tool for analyzing human relationships.

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Employment

Employment is a relationship between two parties, usually based on a contract where work is paid for, where one party, which may be a corporation, for profit, not-for-profit organization, co-operative or other entity is the employer and the other is the employee.

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Epistemic virtue

The epistemic virtues, as identified by virtue epistemologists, reflect their contention that belief is an ethical process, and thus susceptible to the intellectual virtue or vice of one's own life and personal experiences.

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Erving Goffman

Erving Goffman (11 June 1922 – 19 November 1982) was a Canadian-American sociologist and writer, considered by some "the most influential American sociologist of the twentieth century".

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Espionage

Espionage or spying, is the act of obtaining secret or confidential information without the permission of the holder of the information.

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Etiquette

Etiquette is a code of behavior that delineates expectations for social behavior according to contemporary conventional norms within a society, social class, or group.

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Field research

Field research or fieldwork is the collection of information outside a laboratory, library or workplace setting.

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Food critic

The terms food critic, food writer, and restaurant critic can all be used to describe a writer who analyzes food or restaurants and then publishes the results of their findings.

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George Ritzer

George Ritzer (born October 14, 1940) is an American sociologist, professor, and author who studies globalization, metatheory, patterns of consumption, and modern and postmodern social theory.

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Hairdresser

A hairdresser is a person whose occupation is to cut or style hair in order to change or maintain a person's image.

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Harold Garfinkel

Harold Garfinkel (October 29, 1917 – April 21, 2011) was an American sociologist, ethnomethodologist, and a Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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Human behavior

Human behavior is the responses of individuals or groups of humans to internal and external stimuli.

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Idealization and devaluation

In psychoanalytic theory, when an individual is unable to integrate difficult feelings, specific defenses are mobilized to overcome what the individual perceives as an unbearable situation.

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Identity (social science)

In psychology, identity is the qualities, beliefs, personality, looks and/or expressions that make a person (self-identity) or group (particular social category or social group).

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Impression management

Impression management is a conscious or subconscious process in which people attempt to influence the perceptions of other people about a person, object or event.

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Informant

An informant (also called an informer) is a person who provides privileged information about a person or organization to an agency.

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Jürgen Habermas

Jürgen Habermas (born 18 June 1929) is a German sociologist and philosopher in the tradition of critical theory and pragmatism.

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Kenneth Burke

Kenneth Duva Burke (May 5, 1897 – November 19, 1993) was an American literary theorist, as well as poet, essayist, and novelist, who wrote on 20th-century philosophy, aesthetics, criticism, and rhetorical theory.

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Liminality

In anthropology, liminality (from the Latin word līmen, meaning "a threshold") is the quality of ambiguity or disorientation that occurs in the middle stage of rites, when participants no longer hold their preritual status but have not yet begun the transition to the status they will hold when the rite is complete.

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Loyalty

Loyalty, in general use, is a devotion and faithfulness to a nation, cause, philosophy, country, group, or person.

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Mediation

Mediation is a dynamic, structured, interactive process where a neutral third party assists disputing parties in resolving conflict through the use of specialized communication and negotiation techniques.

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Metaphor

A metaphor is a figure of speech that directly refers to one thing by mentioning another for rhetorical effect.

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Microsociology

Microsociology is one of the main points (or focuses) of sociology, concerning the nature of everyday human social interactions and agency on a small scale: face to face.

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Nonperson

A nonperson is a citizen or a member of a group who lacks, loses, or is forcibly denied social or legal status, especially basic human rights, or who effectively ceases to have a record of their existence within a society (damnatio memoriae), from a point of view of traceability, documentation, or existence.

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Participant observation

Participant observation is one type of data collection method typically used in qualitative research.

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Plumber

A plumber is a tradesperson who specializes in installing and maintaining systems used for potable (drinking) water, sewage and drainage in plumbing systems.

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Positivism

Positivism is a philosophical theory stating that certain ("positive") knowledge is based on natural phenomena and their properties and relations.

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Restaurant

A restaurant, or an eatery, is a business which prepares and serves food and drinks to customers in exchange for money.

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Rite of passage

A rite of passage is a ceremony of the passage which occurs when an individual leaves one group to enter another.

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Ritual

A ritual "is a sequence of activities involving gestures, words, and objects, performed in a sequestered place, and performed according to set sequence".

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Role

A role (also rôle or social role) is a set of connected behaviors, rights, obligations, beliefs, and norms as conceptualized by people in a social situation.

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Role engulfment

In labeling theory, role engulfment refers to how a person's identity becomes based on a role the person assumes, superseding other roles.

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Self

The self is an individual person as the object of his or her own reflective consciousness.

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Self-image

Self-image is the mental picture, generally of a kind that is quite resistant to change, that depicts not only details that are potentially available to objective investigation by others (height, weight, hair color, etc.), but also items that have been learned by that person about themself, either from personal experiences or by internalizing the judgments of others.

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Semiotics

Semiotics (also called semiotic studies) is the study of meaning-making, the study of sign process (semiosis) and meaningful communication.

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Shill

A shill, also called a plant or a stooge, is a person who publicly helps or gives credibility to a person or organization without disclosing that they have a close relationship with the person or organization.

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Signalling theory

Within evolutionary biology, signalling theory is a body of theoretical work examining communication between individuals, both within species and across species.

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Social actions

In sociology, social action, also known as "Weberian social action", refers to an act which takes into account the actions and reactions of individuals (or 'agents').

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Social movement

A social movement is a type of group action.

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Social norm

From a sociological perspective, social norms are informal understandings that govern the behavior of members of a society.

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Social status

Social status is the relative respect, competence, and deference accorded to people, groups, and organizations in a society.

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Society

A society is a group of individuals involved in persistent social interaction, or a large social group sharing the same geographical or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations.

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Sociological theory

Sociological theories are statements of how and why particular facts about the social world are related.

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Sociology

Sociology is the scientific study of society, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and culture.

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Technoself studies

Technoself studies, commonly referred to as TSS, is an emerging, interdisciplinarity domain of scholarly research dealing with all aspects of human identity in a technological societyLuppicini pp.

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The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life

The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life is a 1956 sociology book by Erving Goffman, in which the author uses the imagery of the theatre in order to portray the importance of human social interaction; this would become known as Goffman's dramaturgical analysis approach.

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Total institution

A total institution is a place of work and residence where a great number of similarly situated people, cut off from the wider community for a considerable time, together lead an enclosed, formally administered round of life.

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Treason

In law, treason is the crime that covers some of the more extreme acts against one's nation or sovereign.

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Value (ethics)

In ethics, value denotes the degree of importance of some thing or action, with the aim of determining what actions are best to do or what way is best to live (normative ethics), or to describe the significance of different actions.

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Belief (sociology), Dramatic realization, Dramaturgical Perspective, Dramaturgical action, Dramaturgical approach, Dramaturgical perspective, Dramaturgical sociology, Dramaturgical theory, Front (sociology), Idealization (sociology), Maintenance of expressive control, Misrepresentation (sociology), Mystification (sociology).

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dramaturgy_(sociology)

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