Communication and Social Order - 9781138520820

Taylor & Francis

In this highly influential study of art forms as models for a theory of communications, Hugh Dalziel Duncan demonstrates that without understanding of the role of symbols in society, social scientists cannot hope to develop adequate models for social analysis. > In this highly influential study of art forms as models for a theory of communications, Hugh Dalziel Duncan demonstrates that without understanding of the role of symbols in society, social scientists cannot hope to develop adequate models for social analysis. He reviews critically major contributions to communication theory during the past century: Freud's analysis of dream symbolism, Simmel's concept of sociability, James' insights into religious experience, and Dewey's relating of art to experience. > One: Symbolic Contexts of Social Experience in Freud, Simmel, and Malinowski; 1: Symbolic Interaction in Freud\u2019s Work; 2: Georg Simmel\u2019s Search for an Autonomous Form of Sociability; 3: Malinowski\u2019s Theorn