Kristy Havlíčková . Victor Turner, Social Dramas and Stories about Them - PhilPapers Social Drama. Social drama is defined by Turner (1985: 196), as “an eruption from the level surface of ongoing social life, with its interactions, transactions, reciprocities, and its customs making for regular, orderly sequences of behavior.” Social drama, says Turner, is defined as aharmonic or disharmonic social process, arising in conflict situations. THE OPINIONS OF THE DISABLED PARTICIPANTS AND … of Social Dramas The following are the phases that loosely compose social dramas: At first, there is a breach of contract between the parties. anthropologist Victor Turner’s model of social drama, or what Rebecca Schneider has termed “explicit female body performance art,” just what constitutes performance today remains unclear. "Worship as Anti-Structure: The Contribution of Victor Turner." ABSTRACT ‘Transition’ was identified by cultural anthropologists in the early twentieth century as the liminal stage of a ‘rite of passage’.