The process of potential change he called liminality, as Let’s start with stage one of social crisis as described by Turner: “they often begin with a visible breach in one of the major expectable regularities of group living,” which couldn’t be more applicable to the mini social drama I have been an audience to (246). Although Turner was a specialist in African societies and did work in Asia and Mexico, his model works perfectly for the United States. According to Turner a social drama unfolds when there is a breach of normative modes of social life that, if not sealed The four stages of a social drama are the breach, the crisis, the redress and reintegration or schism. The chapter then explores Turner’s social drama, its four phases, and performance as integral to the social drama’s unfolding. Typically, he found, the process had four phases: breach, crisis, redressive action, and reintegration. This study thus explores Victor Turner's model of social drama in a cancer care context. Redressive action –seeks to remedy the initial problem, redress and re-establish 4. Social drama • For Turner, social dramas have four main phases: 1. Turner divided the social drama into four stages. theatricalization of hysteria. METHOD: Turner suggests that crisis is a dynamic process structured by four phases: 1) breach of norm 2) crisis 3) redressive actions 4) reintegration or schism. Crisis –cannot be handled by normal strategies. Stage two indicates that many people get engaged and the problem becomes a crisis. Turner's notion is that social conflict is dramatic, and he identifies four phases in a social drama: breach, crisis, redress, reconciliation or irreparable breach (1982). Reintegration or schism –return to status quo or an alteration in social arrangements. Methodology Certain events throughout history deviate from the normal and in turn influence future events and society. Victor Turner defines the social drama as "a sequence of social interactions of a conflictive, competitive, or agonistic type" (33), and he delineates its stages as breach, crisis, redress, and reintegration or schism. Breach –rupture in social relations. Each theory of language and social order draws life as drama as its reigning orien-tation to understand conflict, crisis, and its resolution. 2. Stage one states that a problem arises that threatens the collective life. To Turner they represented social drama, but not just that. hub, and analysis of human motives. It begins with a “breach of regular, norm-governed social relations between persons or groups within the same system of relations” (Turner … A social drama, according to Victor Turner, is the events that follow in response to a rule breaking by an individual with in a community. From these sources, this article will now elaborate on how Woodstock fits in the four stages of social dramas defined by Turner and providing enough evidence to prove its dynamic nature. rites as social drama which enacted revolution to ‘incorporate’ change, and establish a new status quo. A breech is a situation that causes a schism in society. Periods of crisis, he saw, brought social and micropolitical tensions into the open, forcing rifts or reconciliations. He viewed other social dramas as potentially revolutionary also, in particular where a dispute or breach was resolved and the parties reconciled. 3. Victor Turner describes a social drama as a four to five stage process. Both Burke and Turner uti- The late anthropologist Victor Turner defined the process of a social drama as involving four stages: breech, crisis, redressive action, and reintegration.