京極, 重智

Kyogoku, Shigetomo

This article discusses the objectives and results of our joint research, entitled “The Dramaturgy of Education and Welfare” focusing on “the stage.” This constitutes a key concept of this study because of its originality and employability as an analytical concept. However, because the stage has not been fully considered in our studies, its use remains ambiguous. Therefore, we fi rst clarify the implications of “gathering” in Erving Goff man’s “Dramaturgy”, which forms our theoretical base. Originally, Goff man’s primary concern was to reveal orders of gathering, so his “Dramaturgy” did not consider the relational aspect of gathering that is the relationship between a stage and the outside world. However, our study regards the gathering concept as possessing a dynamic relation with the outside world. Second, we extend and classify the stage concept into four categories ranging in density, from abstract to concrete, by using one case study. This categorization is termed “Multilayered Structure of Stage”, a concept that spans not only the physical and visible spaces but also the virtual and imaginary. Finally, we indicate that the problem of this joint research is to clarify on the basis of particular cases how stages in their diff erent phases interact and transform.

京極, 重智