Identity's Moments (eBook)

The Self in Action and Interaction

Robert Perinbanayagam (Autor)

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2012
206 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-7241-4 (ISBN)

Infos

The work conceives individuals as being engaged in ongoing dramas in which they are both actors and spectators. It is a contribution to a social psychology that emphasizes a processual approach to the construction of the self and identity.

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The work is an examination of the role of language in the constitution of self and in the presentation of identity. Following the path laid out by George Herbert Mead, Kenneth Burke and Mikhail Bakhtin the work presents self, identity and meaning as ongoing accomplishments between human actors who participate in what may be termed the dramas human relations. Human agents use language as symbolic actions with which they transform themselves and others, as well as places and things, clothing and money etc into meanings with which they conduct their lives.

Autor

Robert Perinbanayagam has taught at Hunter College of the City University of New York for several years and recently retired from it. He is the author of Signifying Acts, Discursive Acts, Games and Sport in Everyday Life and The Presence of Self, which won the theory prize given by the theory section of the American Sociological Association and the Cooley Award from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction. The latter society also conferred the G.H. Mead award for distinguished contribution to the field of interactional studies.

Inhalt

Preface Chapter 1: The Drama and the Dialectics of Identity Chapter 2: The Relations of Identity Chapter 3: TheScenes and Agencies of Identity Chapter 4: Interaction and the Drama of Engagement (With E.Doyle McCarthy) Chapter 5: The Meaning of Uncertainty and the Uncertainty of Meaning Chapter 6: The Coinage of the Self: Page 211Chapter 7: The Other in the Game: Interactional Processes in Mead and Wittgenstein

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.10.2012
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie des Mittelalters
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Communication • History and Theory of Philosophy • Philosophy of Language • Semiotics • Social and political philosophy • sociology theory and methodology • Sociology Theory and Methods • symbolic interaction
• ISBN-10: 0-7391-7241-7 / 0739172417
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7391-7241-4 / 9780739172414