Ervin Goffman’s famous dramaturgical analogy to reflect social reality does strike a chord. This is a reality produced by performers, audience, and outsiders within a given establishment. The impression management framework is illuminating in apprehending political reality also. As Goffman points out: “Power of any kind must be clothed in effective means of displaying it, …
The Social Construction of Reality
The thread of Peter Berger and Thomas Luckman’s seminal book is that reality is socially constructed via the process of institutionalization. The authors develop an elaborate and coherent framework that addresses all main elements of any robust social theory: ontology, agents, structures, power, order, processes of reproduction, practices, change, and transformative mechanisms. The book reveals …
Prayer of the Refugee
On false enemies
5 Ways Out of Depression
Depression: what to do?
Xin Chao, Hanoi (day 3)
Be a traveller, not a tourist.
Incredible India: Majestic Munnar (Day 3)
Sandal Valley tour around Munnar
Incredible India: Majestic Munnar (Day 2)
Munnar's tea plantations, hills, John's Cottage, kathakali theatre and kalaripayattu
