This judicious selection from the classics overcomes the conventional, but misleading division between individual and society through a sociological social psychology. The volume provides a clear and definitive answer to the basic question: How do individuals and society relate? As an excellent introduction to the study of society through the dual traditions of symbolic interactionism, and personality and social structure, Self, Symbols, and Society uniquely combines selections from Europe and America to provide the student with an appreciation of the scope and depth of sociology and social psychology. A singular achievement.

Brian Turner, Cambridge University

At last, there is a reader that offers students and professionals alike some of the key readings of the social psychologists who have set much of the theoretical agenda for sociology over the last one hundred years. The great strength of the book is making many of the classic statements on micro-social processes accessible to students. This book will prove very useful in undergraduate and graduate courses on social psychology, theory, and micro-social processes.

Jonathan Turner, University of California, Riverside