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dramaturgy
(redirected from dramaturgical)

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See: histrionics


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``They don't know it, but they talk about it in purely dramaturgical terms.
To underscore the performance aspect of the interviewing process, I draw on dramaturgical theory in sociology (Goffman 1959), which emphasizes the way we present self-images to manage the impressions of others.
For example, the social environment of the adult bookstore and video peep show in a large Midwestern city was examined using a dramaturgical perspective based on covert participant observation (Tewksbury, 1990).
 
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