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Perinbanayagam1981
BibType INCOLLECTION
Key Perinbanayagam1981
Author(s) Robert S. Perinbanayagam
Title The definition of the situation: an analysis of the ethnomethodological and dramaturgical view
Editor(s) Adrian Furnham, Michael Argyle
Tag(s) EMCA
Publisher Pergamon
Year 1981
Language English
City Oxford
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Pages 322–345
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DOI 10.1016/B978-0-08-023719-0.50036-X
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Howpublished
Book title The Psychology of Social Situations: Selected Readings
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Abstract

The dramaturgical and the ethnomethodological positions of the definition of the situation is discussed, after a brief history of the concept. The ethnomethodologists claim to take their cues from Wittgenstein and Schutz, whereas the dramaturgists take theirs from G. H. Mead; these positions are examined in terms of their relative power to explain the problem of the definition of the situation, concluding that the Meadian position is the more powerful one. It is then argued that the essential sociological ontology—that given expression by Weber and Durkheim—is best realized by adopting some form of the dramaturgical argument.

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