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Drama of Social Life - A Dramaturgical Handbook

English · Paperback / Softback

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Whatever else they may be doing, human beings are also and always expressing themselves whenever they are in the awareness of others. As such, the metaphor of life as theater - of people playing roles to audiences who review them and then coordinate further action - is an ancient idea that has been resurrected by social scientists as an organizing

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The Drama of Social Life

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Charles Edgley is Adjunct Professor of Sociology & Anthropology at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA. He is co-author of A Nation of Meddlers, and co-editor of Life as Theater: A Dramaturgical Sourcebook, and The Handbook of Thanatology.

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Whatever else they may be doing, human beings are also and always expressing themselves whenever they are in the awareness of others. As such, the metaphor of life as theater - of people playing roles to audiences who review them and then coordinate further action - is an ancient idea that has been resurrected by social scientists as an organizing

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