ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part One|46 pages
Symbolic Contexts of Social Experience in Freud, Simmel, and Malinowski
part Two|60 pages
The Self and Society as Determined by Communication in James, Dewey, and Mead
part Three|34 pages
The Function of Symbols in Society: an Application of Burke’s Dramatistic View of Social Relationships
part Four|36 pages
Burke’s Sociology of Language
part Five|74 pages
Social Mystification in Communication Between Classes
chapter 13|11 pages
Toward a New Rhetoric
part Six|62 pages
A Sociological Model of Social Order as Determined by the Communication of Hierarchy
part Seven|58 pages
Hierarchal Transcendence and Social Bonds
part Eight|58 pages
The Social Function of Art in Society
part Nine|10 pages
By Way of Conclusion
