COMS 201 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Kenneth Burke, Consubstantiality, Sextet
20 Apr 2016
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Best-known tradition in sociology is erving goffman"s dramaturgy, studies individuals as always engaging in the presentation of self in everyday life. Burke launches his theory by announcing that we must recognize that all things have substance. The general nature or essence of a thing . The distinct, or unlike substance of each person is the basis of human communication. Because people are not identical, we are divided from each other. Coms is primary way we increase identification/ consub. With others and diminish our division/separateness from others. Identification is sought because we feel division; division makes us aware of the need for identification. The central motive for human action, specifically communication. Defined broadly as any tension, discomfort, sense of shame, or other unpleasant. We continuously feel guilt and are continually attempting to purge ourselves only feeling that humans experience because we are symbol-using animals.
