Charles Edgley - The Drama of Social Life: A Dramaturgical Handbook

THE DRAMA OF SOCIAL LIFE

Interactionist Currents

Series editors:
Dennis Waskul, Minnesota State University, USA
Phillip Vannini, Royal Roads University, Canada

Interactionist Currents publishes contemporary interactionist works of exceptional quality to advance the state of symbolic interactionism. Rather than revisiting classical symbolic interactionist or pragmatist theory, however, this series extends the boundaries of interactionism by examining new empirical topics in subject areas that interactionists have not sufficiently examined; systematizing, organizing, and reflecting on the state of interactionist knowledge in subfields both central and novel within interactionist research; connecting interactionism with contemporary intellectual movements; and illustrating the contemporary relevance of interactionism in ways that are interesting, original, and enjoyable to read.

Recognizing an honored and widely appreciated theoretical tradition, reflecting on its limitations, and opening new opportunities for the articulation of related perspectives and research agendas, this series presents work from across the social sciences that makes explicit use of interactionist ideas and concepts, interactionist research, and interactionist theory both classical and contemporary.

Titles in this series

The Politics of Sorrow
Families, Victims, and the Micro-Organization of Youth Homicide
Daniel D. Martin
ISBN: 978-1-4094-4634-7

A Dramaturgical Handbook

Edited by
CHARLES EDGLEY
University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA

First published 2013 by Ashgate Publishing

Published 2016 by Routledge
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
The drama of social life: a dramaturgical handbook. (Interactionist currents)

1. Social psychology. 2. Social interaction. 3. Drama Social aspects. 4. Realism in literature.
I. Series II. Edgley, Charles.
302dc23

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Edgley, Charles.

The drama of social life : a dramaturgical handbook / by Charles Edgley.

pages cm. (Interactionist currents)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4094-5190-7 (hardback : alk. paper)

1. Social psychology. 2. DramaSocial aspects. I. Title.

HM1033.E34 2013
302dc23

2012047570

ISBN 9781409451907 (hbk)

For Denny Brissett
who got it right
Godspeed, dear friend

Charles Edgley

Ann Branaman

Eugene Halton

Karen L. Drummond

Greg Smith

Michael Schwalbe

J. Patrick Williams

John P. Hewitt

Robert A. Stebbins

Robert D. Benford

Daniel D. Martin

David L. Altheide

Dennis Waskul and Phillip Vannini

Dirk vom Lehn

Jeffrey E. Nash

J. Edward Sumerau, Douglas P. Schrock, and Teri Jo Reese

Staci Newmahr

Annette Markham

Phillip Vannini

Simon Gottschalk and Jennifer Whitmer

David L. Altheide is Emeritus Regents Professor on the faculty of Justice and Social Inquiry in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University, where he taught for 37 years. His work has focused on the role of mass media and information technology in social control. His most recent book is Terror Post 9/11 and theMedia (Lang, 2009). Dr. Altheide received the Cooley Award three times, given to the outstanding book in symbolic interaction, from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction: In 2007 for Terrorism and the Politics of Fear (2006); in 2004 for Creating Fear: News and the Construction of Crisis (2002); and in 1986 for Media Power (1985). Dr. Altheide received the 2005 George Herbert Mead Award for lifetime contributions from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, and the societys Mentor Achievement Award in 2007.

Robert D. Benford serves as Professor and Chair of Sociology at the University of South Florida in Tampa. His published works have appeared in a variety of sociological and multidisciplinary journals, books, and encyclopedias. Rob devotes the bulk of his research efforts to identifying, analyzing, and understanding social movement dynamics. He has conducted research on social movement ideologies, grievances, and framing processes, how collective identities are formed, political discourse, the dramaturgy of social movements, interorganizational disputes, and the cross national diffusion of protest frames and tactics. He previously served as editor of the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography and as the series editor of Twayne Publishers Social Movements Past and Present Series. He also served as President of the Midwest Sociological Society, and Chair of the Peace, War & Social Conflict and the Collective Behavior/Social Movements sections of the American Sociological Association.

Ann Branaman is Associate Professor of Sociology at Florida Atlantic University. The author of several essays on Erving Goffman, one on Kenneth Burke, a few on feminist and postfeminist theories, and a few on topics in sociological social psychology. Her current work can best be characterized as an integrative effort to tie these strands together into a critical sociological perspective on identity, emotions, and the sociology of everyday life.

Karen L. Drummond is Assistant Professor in the Division of Health Services Research at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and holds a joint appointment as Research Health Scientist at the VA HSR&D Center for Mental Healthcare and Outcomes Research in the Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System. She is an applied medical anthropologist and health services researcher with current interests in the integration of mental health and substance use treatment in primary care settings and provider experiences of the transformation to patient-centered medical home models. Her PhD in Anthropology is from the University of California, Irvine.

Charles Edgley currently serves as Adjunct Professor of Sociology at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock where he is also past-chair. He previously served three decades as Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology at Oklahoma State University. Chuck has written co-written, edited, or revised seven books and is the author of numerous articles. With the late Dennis Brissett, he authored