Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Performance Theories
- Dramaturgy
- The Study of Social Interaction in terms of theatrical performance
- Based on Symbolic Interactionism
- George Herbert Mead
- Key Concepts
- Presentation of self
- Front stage/ Back stage
- Impression Management
- potraying yourself to others / create desired impression/ manage
- Allows people to behave in socially acceptable ways
- AVOID EMBARASSEMENT
- Frames
- Appropriate behaviour, roles to perform ie: funeral
- ERVING GOFFMAN
- Observed everyday interactions to learn behaviours in given situations
- People=performers: portraying an image to society
- CRITIQUE
- Lack of clarity: life as a theatrical performance-- metaphor or reality?
- Our spontaneous actions-- not impression management
- Not supported by empirical reasearch: he observed (not interviews)
- How do we know they were acting instead of being authentic
- Not coherent: lack of shared theoretical terms.
- Performance Ethnography
- Role of performance (rituals, ceremonies) to sustain social comunities, to express their values
- Studying symbolic behaviours that create/ sustain social groups
- How do these activities express cultural values? Identity?
- Ethnographic researchers may use performance to communicate findings to audiences
- Main Ideas
- Researcher conducts field work around a particular site of performance
- Views cultural behaviours as "performance"
- Researcher uses ethnographic methods to collect data
- "translate" subjetcs personal narratives to outsiders through performance
- ie: theatrical performance of oral history
- Ethnography : A research method
- Systematic, long term study of people and cultures to generate a full "portrait" of the group under study
- researchers observes society from the point of view of the subject
- Field-based: Conducted where the subjects live
- Personalized: researchers are in face-to-face contact with subjects on a failt basis
- Participant Observer
- Inductive
- Gather a lot of detail in order to indentify a pattern of behaviour
- Dialogic
- Study Subjetcs can expand on researcher's findings
- Hermeneutic Circle
- Distance-experience meaning: translates
- Translation
- Behaviour observed
- Near - Experience Meaning