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Daniel A. Mcfarland - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • resistance as a Social Drama a study of change oriented encounters1
    American Journal of Sociology, 2004
    Co-Authors: Daniel A. Mcfarland
    Abstract:

    Resistance is a change‐oriented process that follows certain stereotyped sequences of behaviors. These sequences are promulgated by intentional actors who cue cultural forms (rituals) in order to guide interaction. This process can be understood as a Social Drama composed of four stages: breach, crisis, redress, and reintegration. Using interviews and ethnographic accounts of behaviors in 165 classrooms at two high schools, this article describes the nature of each stage and the strategies used by both protagonists and antagonists of change. Since Social Dramas are disruptive episodes of Social action, special attention is paid to the potential they have for transforming the Social order, thereby affecting micro‐ to macrolevel change.

  • Resistance as a Social Drama: A Study of Change‐Oriented Encounters1
    American Journal of Sociology, 2004
    Co-Authors: Daniel A. Mcfarland
    Abstract:

    Resistance is a change‐oriented process that follows certain stereotyped sequences of behaviors. These sequences are promulgated by intentional actors who cue cultural forms (rituals) in order to guide interaction. This process can be understood as a Social Drama composed of four stages: breach, crisis, redress, and reintegration. Using interviews and ethnographic accounts of behaviors in 165 classrooms at two high schools, this article describes the nature of each stage and the strategies used by both protagonists and antagonists of change. Since Social Dramas are disruptive episodes of Social action, special attention is paid to the potential they have for transforming the Social order, thereby affecting micro‐ to macrolevel change.

Lesa Lockford - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Social Drama in the Spectacle of Femininity: The Performance of Weight Loss in the Weight Watchers' Program
    Women's Studies in Communication, 1996
    Co-Authors: Lesa Lockford
    Abstract:

    In this essay I examine the cultural performance of femininity as performed during women's transformation of body size. The agonistic experience that weight-conscious women confront is explicated through Victor Turner's model for Social Drama. In particular, the performance of weight loss by female members of the Weight Watcher's program—a program which by its very name acknowledges the implicit surveillance that overweight women experience—is explored. I argue that performance techniques are used by Weight Watchers to facilitate the transformation necessary for a new performance of self. Finally, I argue that the intransigence of cultural standards of feminine beauty render the final phase of Turner's model inadequate for examining phenomena pertaining to women and weight loss.

Ron Eyerman - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • The Assassination of Theo van Gogh: From Social Drama to Cultural Trauma
    2008
    Co-Authors: Ron Eyerman
    Abstract:

    In November 2004, the controversial Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh was killed on a busy street in Amsterdam. A twenty-six-year-old Dutch citizen of Moroccan descent shot van Gogh, slit his throat, and pinned a five-page indictment of Western society to his body. The murder set off a series of reactions, including arson against Muslim schools and mosques. In The Assassination of Theo van Gogh , Ron Eyerman explores the multiple meanings of the murder and the different reactions it elicited: among the Amsterdam-based artistic and intellectual subculture, the wider Dutch public, the local and international Muslim communities, the radical Islamic movement, and the broader international community. After meticulously analyzing the actions and reputations of van Gogh and others in his milieu, the motives of the murderer, and the details of the assassination itself, Eyerman considers the various narrative frames the mass media used to characterize the killing. Eyerman utilizes theories of Social Drama and cultural trauma to evaluate the reactions to and effects of the murder. A Social Drama is triggered by a public transgression of taken-for-granted norms; one that threatens the collective identity of a society may develop into a cultural trauma. Eyerman contends that the assassination of Theo van Gogh quickly became a cultural trauma because it resonated powerfully with the postwar psyche of the Netherlands. As part of his analysis of the murder and reactions to it, he discusses significant aspects of twentieth-century Dutch history, including the country’s treatment of Jews during the German occupation, the loss of its colonies in the wake of World War II, its recruitment of immigrant workers, and the failure of Dutch troops to protect Muslims in Srebrenica in 1995.

Eric Taylor Woods - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

John T. Warren - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • the Social Drama of a rice burner a re constitution of whiteness
    Western Journal of Speech Communication, 2001
    Co-Authors: John T. Warren
    Abstract:

    Through critical performance ethnography, I explore the performative constitution of whiteness in an introductory communication classroom. The focus of this essay lies in one particular moment from a larger study in order to locate and specify the mechanisms of racial production in Social interaction. Through a close consideration of this Social Drama, I argue that race in general, and whiteness in particular, is a Social communicative accomplishment—a performative constitution of identity instituted and maintained by repetitions of meaningful acts. This emergent view of race allows for a different way of seeing racial (re)production.

  • The Social Drama of a ‘rice burner’: A (re)constitution of whiteness
    Western Journal of Communication, 2001
    Co-Authors: John T. Warren
    Abstract:

    Through critical performance ethnography, I explore the performative constitution of whiteness in an introductory communication classroom. The focus of this essay lies in one particular moment from a larger study in order to locate and specify the mechanisms of racial production in Social interaction. Through a close consideration of this Social Drama, I argue that race in general, and whiteness in particular, is a Social communicative accomplishment—a performative constitution of identity instituted and maintained by repetitions of meaningful acts. This emergent view of race allows for a different way of seeing racial (re)production.