Author: Karl Scheibe Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 0674008391 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 296
Book Description
Scheibe brings to his reflection on psychology the drama of literature, poetry, philosophy, history, music, and theater. Challenging our dispirited senses, he asks us to take note of the self-representation, performance, and scripts of the drama that is our everyday life.
Author: Karl Scheibe Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 9780674002319 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 316
Book Description
Psychologists, says the old joke, know everything there is to know about the college sophomore and the white rat but not the rest of the population. This volume takes psychology out of its rut and into contact with the lives that most people live.
Author: Erving Goffman Publisher: Anchor ISBN: 0593468295 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 272
Book Description
A notable contribution to our understanding of ourselves. This book explores the realm of human behavior in social situations and the way that we appear to others. Dr. Goffman uses the metaphor of theatrical performance as a framework. Each person in everyday social intercourse presents himself and his activity to others, attempts to guide and cotnrol the impressions they form of him, and employs certain techniques in order to sustain his performance, just as an actor presents a character to an audience. The discussions of these social techniques offered here are based upon detailed research and observation of social customs in many regions.
Author: Robert J. Landy Publisher: Guilford Press ISBN: 9780898625981 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 296
Book Description
This book demonstrates that drama is not only a metaphor for everyday life, but also provides a means of self-examination and life enhancement. Asserting that emotional well-being depends upon an individual's capacity to manage a complex and often contradictory set of roles, the author shows how role offers a uniquely effective method for working through significant personal problems when used as an element of drama therapy. The volume combines theoretical discussions with extensive clinical illustrations, and covers issues including learning to live with role ambivalence, complexity, and contradiction.
Author: Karl E. Scheibe Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3319629867 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 215
Book Description
This book applies a dramaturgical perspective to familiar psychological topics including fear, greed, shame, guilt, rejection, well-being and terrorism. In presenting vivid illustrations of how our understanding of psychological problems can be enriched and enlivened by employing dramatic language and concepts, it brings the well-established field of narrative psychology to life. Providing an accessible and fresh understanding of psychological problems through the language and concepts of theatre, Karl Scheibe builds on the work of leading scholars in the field including Sarbin, Gergen, Bruner and Goffman. This exciting and accessible book acts as a sequel to Scheibe's, The Drama of Everyday Life, and will appeal to students and scholars of narrative and social psychology, theatre studies and the studies of self and identity.
Author: Marty Jopson Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books ISBN: 1782434208 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 202
Book Description
Have you ever wondered why ice floats and water is such a freaky liquid? Or why chillies and mustard are both hot but in different ways? Or why microwaves don't cook from the inside out? In this fascinating scientific tour of household objects, The One Show presenter and all-round Science Bloke Marty Jopson has the answer to all of these, and many more, baffling questions about the chemistry and physics of the everyday stuff we use every day.
Author: Jeffrey C. Alexander Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 1509518142 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 180
Book Description
In this book Jeffrey Alexander develops the view that cultural sociology and “cultural pragmatics” are vital for understanding the structural turbulence and political possibilities of contemporary social life. Central to Alexander’s approach is a new model of social performance that combines elements from both the theatrical avant-garde and modern social theory. He uses this model to shed new light on a wide range of social actors, movements, and events, demonstrating through striking empirical examples the drama of social life. Producing successful dramas determines the outcome of social movements and provides the keys to political power. Modernity has neither eliminated aura nor suppressed authenticity; on the contrary, they are available to social actors who can perform them in compelling ways. This volume further consolidates Alexander’s reputation as one of the most original social thinkers of our time. It will be of great interest to students and scholars in sociology and cultural studies as well as throughout the social sciences and humanities.
Author: William Nicholson Publisher: Soho Press ISBN: 1569476470 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 333
Book Description
"Laura is a happily married mother of two. But when her college boyfriend resurfaces after twenty years, she's forced to compare the passion of that first love with the domesticity of her suburban life in a gentrified English village. What if she'd stayed with him? Would she be happier? And what is happiness, really? Little does she know that many of her neighbors are struggling with their own personal crises. Among the cast of characters are a rector who has lost his faith, a school teacher who longs tobe a screenwriter but receives only rejections, a struggling farmer who resents the influx of young professionals and their privileged offspring to this formerly rural area, and a journalist who can't stop sleeping with her ex, even though it's ruining her life"--Cover, p. 2.
Author: Karl Scheibe
Author: Karl Scheibe
Author: Erving Goffman
Author: Robert J. Landy
Author: Karl E. Scheibe
Author: Chris Johnston
Author: Marty Jopson
Author: Jeffrey C. Alexander
Author: William Nicholson
Author: Otelia Cromwell