Mary Jo Deegan's The American Ritual Tapestry: Social Rules and Cultural PDF

By Mary Jo Deegan

American rituals are very important to the construction and renewal of cultural meanings and ideas for social interplay. those rituals are rooted in culture but are speedily altering: a contradiction of hyper-modern society. This phenomenon was once first explored by way of Professor Deegan in her 1989 learn American Ritual Dramas. the idea examines either participatory rituals and mass-media rituals to teach how daily humans develop into connected to and alienated from different rituals. Elaborating at the severe dramaturgy concept, the essays during this assortment exhibit how styles should be replaced to create a extra emancipatory and celebratory society.

The themes lined within the assortment contain an research of Santa Claus, skinheads, hate crimes, and strip dancing, between different subject matters. each one contributor has participated in those rituals and plenty of study similar cultural artifacts resembling tune, brochures, etc. because the essays convey, postmodern idea has gratly underestimated the facility and coherence of those occasions. a tremendous examine for students and different researchers concerned with sociological idea, social psychology, and renowned culture.

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