Dramaturgy

Dramaturgy in sociology is a method for explaining what society is. In dramaturgy, we act a kind of role and through this role-playing we construct social relations with each other. Our acts depend on time, place and audience, and our action induce us a sense of "self". Therefore, our identities rather change through our everyday social interactions with others than be stable and an independent psychological entity. A story can be also analyzed by dramaturgy. It is important not only that we analyze what kinds of roles the characters act in a story but only that we should consider our roles as a reader of a story, that is, what kind of emotions we sense against each character. While the character who we have a good impression is who we want to act of, the character who we have a negative feeling has same things as we dislike some parts of ourselves.
To analyze our roles against a story, I think ethnomethodology is useful. "Ethno" means a social community and it is ethnomethodology that explains its everyday methods and practices. Ethnomethodologist analyze how the order of the community is formed based on this explanation.