Symbolic Interaction

An Introduction to Social Psychology

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Symbolic Interaction

An Introduction to Social Psychology

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This reader shows the rich history and wide contemporary application of symbolic interaction theory.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction
Part 2 Intellectual Antecedents of Symbolic Interactionism
Chapter 3 Intellectual Antecedents
Part 4 Varieties of Symbolic Interactionism and Leading Early Representatives
Chapter 5 The Early Interactionists: Cooley and Thomas
Chapter 6 Mead's Social Psychology
Chapter 7 Theoretical and Ideological Variations in Contemporary Interactionism
Chapter 8 Herbert Blumer: Sociologist Par Excellence
Chapter 9 Kuhn's Formulation of the Self
Chapter 10 Erving Goffman
Chapter 11 Harold Garfinkel: The Founder of Ethnomethodology
Part 12 Methodological Stances
Chapter 13 Interactionist Research Methods: An Overview
Chapter 14 Sociological Analysis and the "Variable"
Chapter 15 Beyond Blumer and Kuhn: Researching and Studying Across-time Data Through the Use of Point-in-space Laboratory Procedures
Chapter 16 Walking a Tightrope: Dilemmas of Participant Observation of Groups in Conflict
Part 17 Minded Behavior
Chapter 18 Mind, Experience, and Behavior
Chapter 19 The Regulation of the Wishes
Chapter 20 Rapists' Vocabulary of Motives
Chapter 21 Emergence and Human Conduct
Chapter 22 Baseball Magic
Part 23 The Self
Chapter 24 The Looking-Glass Self
Chapter 25 The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
Chapter 26 Generic Processes of Impression Management: Two Case Studies of Physical and Mental Disability
Chapter 27 Negotiating a Religious Identity: The Case of the Gay Evangelical
Chapter 28 The Problem of Identity Construction Among the Homeless
Part 29 Social Structure
Chapter 30 Society as Symbolic Interaction
Chapter 31 Reference Groups as Perspectives
Chapter 32 In Search of Mesostructure: Studies in the Negotiated Order
Chapter 33 Interactionism and the Study of Social Organization
Chapter 34 Unobtrusive Power: Interaction between Health Providers and Consumers at Council Meetings
Part 35 Research Applications
Chapter 36 Becoming Observant and Falling from Faith: Variations of Jewish Conversion Experiences
Chapter 37 Family Caregivers of the Mentally Ill: Negative and Positive Adaptive Responses
Chapter 38 The Social Construction of Hypnosis
Chapter 39 The Emergence and Maintenance of a Deviant Sub-culture: The Case of Hunting/Poaching Sub-culture
Chapter 40 He's a Lumberjack and He's Not Okay: The Fall of the Urban Treeman
Part 41 Some New Directions: Generic Principles, Gender, Emotions, Postmodernism, Discursive Acts
Chapter 42 Everyday Life Sociology
Chapter 43 Human Emotions: An Expanding Sociological Frontier
Chapter 44 Generic Social Processes and the Study of Human Lived Experiences: Achieving Transcontextuality in Ethnographic Research
Chapter 45 And A Child Shall Lead Us? Children, Gender, and Perspective by Incongruity
Chapter 46 Forms of Discourse
Chapter 47 The Collective Story: Postmodernism and the Writing of Sociology

Product details

Published Jan 01 1994
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 504
ISBN 9780759117853
Imprint AltaMira Press
Series The Reynolds Series in Sociology
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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