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Steps in Perception-How the ways we perceive others shape our interaction with them

Steps in perception Process or How to perceiving others Steps in the perception Process Their are three steps in perception Selection Organisation Interpretation Selection We have selected which data we will attend to. The selection may influence by our interest or motives and our emotional state that also shape what we select.  Organisation Another step is organisation. After selecting information from the environment we must arrange it in some meaningful way in order to make sense of the world. We call this stage Organisation. We organize our perceptions of other people using perceptual schema .  PHYSICAL  CONSTRUCT We classify people according to their appearance  beautiful, ugly fat or thin old or age.  Rule constructs use social position student, attorney, wife etc Interaction constructs focus on social behaviour friendly helpful aloof sarcastic etc Psychological constructs refer to internal states of mind and dispositions confident, happy, insecure.  the k

the Indian People’s Theatre Association, or IPTA

It established in 1943 at Mumbai’s Marwari School, the Indian People’s Theatre Association, or Ipta, has undergone several transmutation.  Then the split in the Communist Party of India resulted in offshoots like Safdar Hashmi’s Jana Natya Manch forging their own identity in the 1970s.  Ipta has more than 500 units in around 30 states and union territories, with more than 12,000 members.  It’s no longer the blacklisted organization of its early days, but it’s still largely independent of state  get festival and repertory grants from a governmental agency. Origin of People’s Theatre in India The Indian People’s Theatre Association (IPTA) was formed as the cultural front of the Communist Party of India (CPI) in 1942. It was the first national-level theatre movement in India, and primarily focused on proscenium plays1. IPTA regularly performed short skits and plays in working class apartment buildings, “where workers with their families would gather on one side or peep through the

Voice of the streets -Safdar Hashmi

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                Street theatre as one of the most interactive, intimate, and impactful forms of the performing arts. According to  Safdar Hashmi Contemporary Indian street theatre has been drawing in equal measure  from our folk and classical drama as well as from Western drama . It is a twentieth century phenomenon, born of the specific needs of the working people living under capitalist and feudal exploitation.  Street theatre is basically a militant political theatre of protest. Its function is to agitate the people and to mobilize them behind fighting organizations.”   In fact, it has often been used as a medium to draw attention to social and political issues. Known as the oldest left-wing street theatre groups, city-based theatre group Jana Natya Manch (popularly known as Janam) has helped advance the expansion of this form of theatrical production.   The Janam—has put together a number of successful street pro

படுகளம்

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6PGYO3gz9U சூழ்ச்சியால் பொன்னர்,சங்கர் கொல்லபட்ட இடம்.மாசி மாதம் மஹாசிவராத்திலிருந்து 7 நாட்கள் விழா நடைபெரும்,7ஆம் நாள் விழா மிகவும் பிரசித்திபெற்றது,கோவிலைச்சுற்றி 25க்கும் மேற்பட்ட நாடகம் நடத்தப்படும் http://wikimapia.org/10120600/%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%9F%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%B3%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%8D துரியோதனன் படுகளம்  தமிழ்நாட்டின் வடபகுதியில், துரியோதனன் வதத்தை முன்வைத்து கிராமச்சடங்காக நிகழ்த்தப்படும்  நிகழ்வாகும் படுகளம். கூத்துப்பட்டறை நிறுவனரும் எழுத்தாளருமான ந.முத்துசாமி எழுதி அரங்கேற்றிய புகழ் பெற்ற நாடகங்களில் ஒன்று படுகளம். ந.முத்துசாமியின் புதல்வரும், அவருடைய நாடக இயக்கத்தில் பங்கேற்றவருமான ஓவியர் மு.நடேஷ், அந்த நாடகத்தை தன்னுடைய இயக்கத்தில் புதிய வடிவில் மார்ச் ஒன்றாம் தேதி மீண்டும் அரங்கேற்றினார். தமிழ்நாட்டின் வடபகுதியில், துரியோதனன் வதத்தை முன்வைத்து கிராமச்சடங்காக நிகழ்த்தப்படும் படுகளம் நிகழ்வை மையமாக வைத்து உருவாக்கப்பட்ட நவீன நாடகம் இது. மகாபாரத காலத்துக்கும்,நிகழ்காலத்துக்கும் இடையிலான உரையாடலாக இந்த நாடகத்தைப் பார்க்கலாம்.

GENDER AND LANGUAGE

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Gender: a social construct (within the fields of cultural and gender studies, and the social sciences.General usage of the term gender began in the late 1960s and 1970s, increasingly appearing in the professional literature of the social sciences. The term helps in distinguishing those aspects of life that were more easily attributed or understood to be of social rather than biological origin (see e.g., Unger & Crawford, 1992). Some of theorists and researchers though have find that some of significant difference between men and women speak.  Content On average men and women discuss different range of topics.Certain topics were common to both gender. Female friends spent much time discussing personal and domestic subjects, relationship problems, family health and weight food and clothing, men and other women. Women were more likely to gossip about close friends and family. By contrast men spent more time  gossiping about sports figures and media personalities.  Reason for