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Characteristics And Types Of Participation In Social Worlds

David R. Unruh
- 01 Sep 1979 - 
- Vol. 2, Iss: 2, pp 115-130
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In this paper, the concept of social world is given greater analytical power by categorizing differential participation through a typology of social types (strangers, tourists, regulars, and insiders).
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The concept of social world is given greater analytical power by categorizing differential participation through a typology of social types—strangers, tourists, regulars, and insiders. These trans-situational social types are examined in terms of their commitment, relationships, experiences, and orientation to social worlds. Social worlds are also discussed in terms of three qualities of interaction—relevance, accessibility, and receptivity.

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Staged Authenticity: arrangements of social space in tourist settings

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined accounts of travelers in terms of Erving Goffman's front versus back distinction and found that tourists try to enter back regions of the places they visit because these regions are associated with intimacy of relations and authenticity of experiences.
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Human Migration and the Marginal Man

TL;DR: The consequences of migration and migration seem, on the whole, to be the same as discussed by the authors, that the "cake of custom" is broken and the individual is freed for new enterprises and for new associations.
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The Stranger: An Essay in Social Psychology

TL;DR: The cultural pattern peculiar to a social group functions for its members as an unquestioned scheme of reference as discussed by the authors, which determines the strata of relevance for their "thinking as usual" in standardized situations and the degree of knowledge required for handling the tested "recipes" involved.
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Community Within a Community: The Professions

TL;DR: Goode as discussed by the authors studied the structural strains and supports between a contained community and the larger society of which it is a part and on which its members are dependent, and derived important hypotheses about the forces that maintain both of them.