Inside Social Life : Readings in Sociological Psychology and Microsociology,9781931719148

Inside Social Life : Readings in Sociological Psychology and Microsociology

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Edition: 4th
ISBN13: 9781931719148
ISBN10: 1931719144
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Pub. Date: 2003-10-01
Publisher(s): Roxbury Pub Co
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Table of Contents

Introduction ix
Uses of the Selections xii
About the Contributors xiii
Part I: Human Being and Social Reality
Introduction
1(1)
1. Neurology and the Soul
2(5)
Oliver Sachs
With descriptions of some of his patients, neurologist Sacks illustrates that human experience and neurology mutually influence each other.
2. Culture and Psychology
7(9)
Jerome Bruner
Bruner explains why meaning and culture are central elements of human psychology and essential to its understanding.
3. Islands of Meaning
16(7)
Eviatar Zerubavel
An examination of how individuals socially divide reality into discrete categories of experience, or islands of meaning.
Part II: The Social Construction of Self
Introduction
23(1)
4. The Self as Sentiment and Reflection
24(6)
Charles Horton Cooley
This is the classic statement of Cooley's theory of the "looking-glass self."
5. The Self as Social Structure
30(6)
George Herbert Mead
Mead's analysis of the social origins and character of the self inspired the development of a distinctively sociological psychology.
6. Young Children's Use of Racial and Ethnic Identities
36(10)
Debra Van Ausdale and Joe R. Feagin
This study examines preschool-age children's creative uses of racial and ethnic concepts to identify both themselves and others.
7. Media Images' Influence on Adolescent Girls' Self-Concepts
46(17)
Melissa Milkie
This study reports that although high school age girls are critical of beauty images in popular media, white, but not black, girls judge themselves in relation to them because they believe others do.
Part III: The Social Construction of Subjective Experience
Introduction
63(1)
8. The Development of Language and Thought
64(6)
Lev Vygotshy
Vygotsky criticizes Jean Piaget's popular theory of cognitive development and proposes a more sociological alternative.
9. The Social Basis of Drug-Induced Experience
70(8)
Howard Becker
This examination of different reactions to LSD suggests that individuals' interpretations of bodily sensations and perceptions are socially influenced.
10. The Historical Struggle for Self-Control in America
78(14)
Peter N. Sterns
Sterns explains how a variety of historical changes have increased demands for self-control at work while creating more opportunities for emotional abandon in leisure activities.
11. Managing Emotions in Medical School
92(15)
Allen C. Smith III and Sherryl Kleinman
This study examines the strategies medical students use to manage professionally inappropriate emotions.
Part IV: The Self and Social Interaction
Introduction
107(1)
12. The Presentation of Self
108(9)
Erving Goffman
This is Goffman's classic analysis of the theatrical character of everyday social life.
13. The Gloried Self
117(10)
Patricia Adler and Peter Adler
This study examines how some college basketball players' definitions of self were transformed by their celebrity.
14. Salvaging the Self From Homelessness
127(12)
David Snow and Leon Anderson
Snow and Anderson describe how the homeless maintain a sense of worth despite their circumstances and others' often demeaning treatment of them.
15. Narratives of Self in Codependents Anonymous
139(16)
Leslie Irvine
Irvine illustrates how individuals reconstruct the self by telling stories that follow the narrative formula of self-help groups like Codependents Anonymous.
Part V. The Organization of Social Interaction
Introduction
155(1)
16. Face-Work and Interaction Rituals
156(11)
Erving Goffman
Goffman explains that individuals voluntarily engage in ritual patterns of interaction so as not to tarnish their own or others' social reputations.
17. The Interaction Order of Public Bathrooms
167(11)
Spencer E. Cahill
This examination of routine behavior in public bathrooms illustrates many of the dramatic and ritual elements of everyday social interaction.
18. Wheelchair Users' Interpersonal Management of Emotions
178(12)
Spencer E. Cahill and Robin Eggleston
This study of wheelchair users' public experiences shows how the emotional orderliness of everyday interaction depends on individuals' management of both their own and others' emotions.
19. Conversational Structure
190(13)
Thomas Holtgraves
Holtgraves explains and illustrates some of the structural features of everyday conversation that promote mutual understanding as well as social affiliation.
Part VI: Social Interaction and Relationships
Introduction
203(1)
20. A Personal Story of Doing Family
204(12)
Nancy Naples
Naples writes about her struggles trying to maintain relations with her family after they learned of her lesbianism and about how those struggles helped her appreciate that "family" was a social construction.
21. Sympathy Biography and Relationships
216(14)
Candace Clark
Clark discusses the social exchange of sympathy and rules of sympathy etiquette in our society.
22. Caring For and About the Mentally Ill
230(17)
David A. Karp
Karp examines how the loved ones of the mentally ill understand and, over time, redefine their competing obligations to their ill loved one and to themselves.
23. The Social Contexts of Illness (Updated)
247(10)
Arthur W. Frank
Frank reflects upon his own experiences of heart attack and cancer to illustrate how social relations and reactions influence how individuals experience illness.
Part VII: Structures of Social Life
Introduction
257(1)
24. Preadolescent Cliques, Friendships, and Identity
258(21)
Patricia Adler and Peter Adler
An examination of the hierarchy of popularity among elementary school children and how peer status affects childrens' friendships and sense of personal identity.
25. The Contrasting Agendas of Black and White Sororities
279(14)
Alexandra Berkowitz and Irene Padavic
This study shows how white sororities' emphasis on romantic relationships and black sororities' emphasis on community service and career advancement reflect white and African-American women's different historical experiences and social structural positions.
26. Working and Resisting at Route Restaurant
293(11)
Greta Foff Paules
Paules shows how waitresses at a chain restaurant resist the company's and customers' attempts to define them as servants and defend their autonomy and personal dignity.
27. Competing Legalities on Sixth Avenue
304(15)
Mitchell Duneier
Duneier explains how an attempt to regulate street vendors in Greenwich Village undermined the informal social order they had established on the sidewalk and actually led to more disorder on the streets.
Part VIII: The Construction of Social Structures
Introduction
319(1)
28. Society in Action
320(5)
Herbert Blumer
Blumer's general discussion of relationships among social structure, interaction, and definitions is a classic statement of the sociological perspective that he named symbolic interactionism.
29. Borderwork Among Girls and Boys
325(9)
Barrie Thorne
Thorne draws upon her observation of elementary school children to demonstrate how girls and boys create, perpetuate, and reinforce beliefs about and divisions between the sexes.
30. The Black Male in Public
334(11)
Elijah Anderson
This study of public encounters in an American city illustrates how racial stereotypes and divisions both influence and are perpetuated by patterns of social interaction.
31. Managing Emotions in an Animal Shelter
345(16)
Arnold Arluke
This study of workers at an animal "kill" shelter illustrates how socialization encourages the reproduction of social institutions.
Part IX: The Politics of Social Reality
Introduction
361(1)
32. The Moral Career of the Mental Patient
362(9)
Erving Goffman
Goffman takes the perspective of mental patients in this classic study of their lives both before and during hospitalization.
33. Self Change and Resistance in Prison
371(15)
Kathryn J. Fox
Fox describes how a rehabilitation program in a prison attempted to impose a criminal self on prisoners and how they resisted those attempts.
34. The Evolution of Road Rage
386(12)
Joel Best and Frank Furedi
Best and Furedi illustrate how social problems are socially constructed and evolve by comparing the emergence and development of the problem of road rage in Britain and the United States.
35. The Historical Construction of the Holocaust
398(13)
Ronald J. Berger
An examination of the Nazis' construction of the "Jewish Problem" and its "Final Solution," including the historical foundation of European antiSemitism on which they built.
Part X: Postmodern Social Reality
Introduction
411(1)
36. The Dissolution of the Self
412(8)
Kenneth J. Gergen
Gergen argues that the varied and constantly changing experiences of contemporary social life encourage a fragmented and fluctuating sense of self.
37. The Self in a World of Going Concerns
420
Jaber F. Gubrium and James A. Holstein
Gubrium and Holstein argue that the swirling demands of contemporary social life have not shaken most people's faith in a "core" self, but that varied opportunities for self construction have proliferated.

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