Acts, Agencies, and Identity

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grammar of identity
Herbert Mead
identity
Kenneth Burke
Mikhail Bakhtin
narrated self
religion as narrative
rhetoric
suicide
Weber

Product details

  • ISBN 9781666975741
  • Weight: 354g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 15 Feb 2025
  • Publisher: Lexington Books
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Hardback
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The book examines the interactional processes between individuals using ideas from George Herbert Mead, Kenneth Burke, and Mikhail Bakhtin. It focuses on how people communicate and interact, following a "grammar of motives" proposed by Burke. This grammar consists of six elements: act, agent, scene, agency, attitude, and purpose, which are present in all human conduct and relations. Robert Perinbanayagam applies this grammar to various social phenomena, such as talking, identity, religion, ritual, suicide, games, astrological consultations, and inequality.

Robert Perinbanayagam is professor emeritus of sociology at Hunter College of the City University of New York.