{"product_id":"the-drama-of-social-life-essays-in-postmodern-social-psychology-9780887382024","title":"The Drama of Social Life Essays in Postmodern","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese essays explore the many ways theater and dramaturgy are used to shape the everyday experience of people in mass societies. Young argues that technologies combine with the world of art, music, and cinema to shape consciousness as a commodity and to fragment social relations in the market as well as in religion and politics. He sees the central problem of post-modern society as how to live in a world constructed by human beings without nihilism on the one hand or repressive dogmatism on the other.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYoung argues that in advanced monopoly capitalism, dramaturgy has replaced coercion as the management tool of choice for the control of consumers, workers, voters and state functionaries. Young calls this process the colonization of desire. Desire is colonized by the use of dramaturgy, mass media, and the various forms of art in order to generate consumers, vesting desire in ownership and display rather than in interpersonal relationships with profound consequence for marriage, k\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eA Great University\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart I. The Politics of Social Psychology\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1 Hard Times and Hard Tomatoes\u003cbr\u003e2 The Politics of Sociology: Gouldner, Goffman, and Garfinkel\u003cbr\u003e3 The Structure of Democratic Communications\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart II. Critical Approaches to Dramaturgy\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e4 The Dramaturgical Society: Macroanalysis with Garth Massey\u003cbr\u003e5 Dramaturgical Analysis and Societal Critique with John Welsh\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart III. Social Psychology in a New Age\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e6 Self and Social Organization in Capitalist Society\u003cbr\u003e7 Morality and Mass Society\u003cbr\u003e8 Self in Mass Society: Against Zurcher\u003cbr\u003e9 Self-Estrangement in Dramaturgical Society\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart IV. Politics in the Dramaturgical Society\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e10 The Political Economy of Dramaturgy\u003cbr\u003e11 Critical Dimensions in Dramaturgical Analysis:Watergate as Theater\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart V. Emancipatory Uses of Dramaturgy\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e12 Emancipatory Dimensions in Dramaturgy\u003cbr\u003e13 The Sociology of Sport: Structural and Cultural Approaches\u003cbr\u003e14 The Typifications of Christ at Christmas and Easter: Critical Explorations of Religious Dramaturgy\u003cbr\u003e15 Dress, Drama, and Self: The Tee Shirt as Text\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReferences \u0026amp; Bibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406467539287,"sku":"9780887382024","price":123.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780887382024.jpg?v=1730495926","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-drama-of-social-life-essays-in-postmodern-social-psychology-9780887382024","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}