ELEMENTS OF A THEORY OF THEATRICALITY OF UNMANNERLY BEHAVIOR

Under diverse theoretical perspectives the author concerns himself wit h deviant, in particular sexual, behaviour which he labels ''unmannerl iness''. With regard to commercial and non-commercial media, and inter actional fields like for example pornography, sex-tourism, and sado-ma sochism, but also with a view to obscenities like those of the horror movies Willems unfolds a series of complementary scholarly concepts an d theories. Following considerations of Elias, Foucault, and Bourdieu he gives a frame of ''macro-theory'' (especially civilisational theory ) and connects it with Goffman's dramatological approach. Willems' con cern is not only to induce an instrument of analysis which fits with t he empirical material of ''unmannerliness'', but also to set rather mi cro-sociological approaches like ''frame'', ''negative experience'', ' 'stigma'', ''stage'' (''scene''), and ''action'' in a relation of mutu al complementarity to rather macro-sociological approaches.