The essays are engaging and the stories the authors tell are delightful. I especially like the illustrations of what is 'real' and what is 'not real.' Convincing college students that reality is socially constructed is no easy task, and stories that the students can 'get' help enormously. I plan to continue to use this exciting and insightful text. - Barbara Trepagnier, University of Texas I was initially attracted to this book because it was organized in exactly the way I had been organizing my course in social psychology - to find it all in one book was great. The section on theory is among the best I've seen; additionally, students really LIKE this book, and if they like it, they read it. My thanks go out to O'Brien and Kollock for their writing of a book that fills what was a huge gap in the social psychological textbook market. - Rebecca J. Erickson, University of Akron INDICE: PrefaceAcknowledgmentsPART I. INTRODUCTIONEssay: What Is Real?Reality as a Collective Hunch 1. Body Ritual among the Nacirema - H. Miner 2. The Nature of Perspective - J. Charon 3. Truth, Objectivity, and Agreement - E. Babbie 4. The Search for Signs for Intelligent Life in the Universe - J. WagnerEssay: A Perspective for Understanding Self and Social InteractionPART II. HUMANS AS SYMBOLIC CREATURESEssay: Shared Meaning as the Basis of HumannessNaming 5. That Powerful Drop - L. Hughes 6. A Clue to the Nature of Man: The Symbol - E. Cassirer 7. The Importance of the Symbol - J. Charon 8. Yes, Father-Sister - O. SacksLanguage and Social Behavior 9. Final Note on a Case of Extreme Isolation - K. Davis 10. Language and Neurological Disorders - A. Lindesmith, et al 11. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat - O. SacksLanguage, Thought, and Culture 12. Metaphors We Live By - G. Lakoff & M. Johnson 13. The Social Lens - E. Zerubavel 14. Mindfulness and Mindlessness - E. Langer 15. Changes in Default Words and Images Engendered by Rising Consciousness - D.R. Hofstadter A Person Paper on Purity in Language - W. Satire 16. Racism in the English Language - R.B. Moore 17. The Virgin Martyrs - S. ReidyPART III. REALIZAING SYMBOLIC ORDER THROUGH INTERACTIONEssay: Meaning is Negotiated through InteractionNaming as an Interactional Process 18. Becoming a Marihuana User - H.S. Becker 19. Looks - K.A. Maeda 20. Fear of Fallinig: Sluts - P. OrensteinProjecting the Definition of the Situation 21. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life: Selection - E. Goffman 22. Black Men and Public Space - B. Staples 23. The Madam as Teacher: The Training of House Prostitutes - B.S. Heyl 24. What Does the Service Include? - L. Van LeuvenNegotiating a Working Consensus 25. Behavior in Private Places: Sustaining Definitions of Reality in Gynecological Examinations - J.P. Emerson 26. Precarious Situations in a Strip Club: Exotic Dancers and the Problem of Reality Maintenance - K. LerumThe Self as a Product of Interaction 27. The Self, the I, and the Me - G.H. Mead 28. Looking-Glass Self - C.H. Cooley 29. The Production of Selves in Personal Relationships - P. Blumstein 30. Shooting an Elephant - G. Orwell 31. Salvaging the Self - D. Snow & L. Anderson 32. Creating the Ex-Role - H.R.F. EbaughPART IV. THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF REALITYEssay: Building and Breaching RealityA Theory of Reality 33. Five Features of Reality - H. Mehan & H. Wood 34. A Conception of and Experiments with Trust as a Condition of Concerted Stable Actinos - H. Garfinkel 35. The Social Construction of Unreality: A Case Study of a Family's Attribution of Competence to a Severely Retarded Child - M. Pollner, et alSelf-Fulfilling Prophecies 36. Self-Fulfilling Prophecies - P. Watzlawick 37. When Belief Creates Reality: The Self-Fulfilling Impact of First Impressions on Social Interaction - M. Snyder 38. Pygmalion in the Classroom: Teacher Expection and Pupils' Intellectual Development - R. Rosenthal 39. On Being Sane in Insane Places - D.L. RosenhanThe Social Construction of the Cultural Status Quo 40. The Discovery of Hyperkinesis: Notes on the Medicalization of Deviant Behavior - P. Conrad 41. The Nudist Management of Respectability - M.S. Weinberg 42. The Persistence of Gender Inequality in Employment Settings - C. Ridgeway 43. Practices of Truth-Finding in a Court of Law: The Case of Revised Stories - K.L. ScheppelePART V. AMBIGUITY, COMPLEXITY, AND CONFLICTEssay: Boundaries and ContradictionsContradictions and Conflict in Self-Production 44. Double-Consciousness and the Veil - W.E.B. Du Bois 45. Stephen Cruz - S. Terkel 46. Growing Up with Privilege and Prejudice - K.K. Russell 47. A Player - K. Stoll 48. He Defies You still: The Memoirs of a Sissy - T. Avicolli 49. Sexual Identification Is a Strange Thing - J. Weeks 50. Identity, Passing and Subversion - M. Crawford 51. Her Son/Daughter - K. BornsteinConflict and Change in Cultural Production 52. Maid in the U.S.A.: A Personal Narrative on the Development of a Research Problem - M. Romero 53. Talking Back - B. Hooks 54. Because Silence is Costly - J. Gomez 55. La Conciencia de la Mestiza/Towards a New Consciousness - G. Anzaldua 56. Ceremony - L.M. SilkoEpilogueName IndexSubject Index
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