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This popular text/reader for the social psychology courses in sociology departments is distinguished by the author?s engaging framing essays that open each part, and an eclectic set of edited readings that introduce students to major thinkers and perspectives in this field. Through the combination of essays and original works, the book demonstrates how we make and remake our social worlds through our everyday interactions with one another.
The Seventh Edition features 10 new readings from the contemporary social psychology literature, a streamlined organization, and the option of either e-book or print versions.
The Seventh Edition features 10 new readings from the contemporary social psychology literature, a streamlined organization, and the option of either e-book or print versions.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Acknowledgements
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Preface to the Seventh Edition
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Introduction
- What Is Real?
- The Nature of Humanness
- 1 Reality as a Collective HunchOur Permanently Plastic Brains
- 2 Reality as a Collective HunchWhat Do Memes Tell Us About Self and Time During the Pandemic?*
- Part II Language and Social Development
- Language and Human Development
- 3 Symbol Use, Self-Awareness, and DevelopmentThe Social Psychology of George Herbert Mead
- 4 Symbol Use, Self-Awareness, and DevelopmentFinal Note on a Case of Extreme Isolation
- Language Is a Cultural Institution
- 5 Language and CultureMetaphors We Live By
- 6 Language and CultureIndigenous Sexualities: Lost in Colonial Translation
- Part III Learning Social Identities and Social Scripts
- Learning the Script
- 7 Socialization and Reference GroupsReference Groups as Perspectives
- 8 Socialization and Reference Groups“We Don’t Sleep Around Like White Girls Do”
- 9 Naming Feeling and ExperienceBecoming a Marihuana User
- 10 Naming Feeling and ExperienceThe Development of Feeling Norms Underlying Romantic Love Among Adolescent Females
- Part IV Producing Social Selves
- Who Am I? Developing Character
- 11 Significant Others and Self-DevelopmentLooking-Glass Self
- 12 Significant Others and Self-DevelopmentWhy Do Teens Seem Strange Online?
- 13 Significant Others and Self-DevelopmentLife as the Maid’s Daughter
- Self as a Process of Contradictions and Conflict
- 14 Contradictions and Conflict in Self-ProductionDouble Consciousness and the Veil
- 15 Contradictions and Conflict in Self-ProductionA Reflection on Studying White Identity as a Native Person
- 16 Contradictions and Conflict in Self-ProductionQueer Negotiations of Identity and Social Group Membership
- Part V Producing Social Life Through Interaction
- Meaning Is Negotiated Through Interaction
- 17 Projecting the Definition of the SituationThe Presentation of Self in Everyday Life: Selections
- 18 Projecting the Definition of the SituationDeath as Theatre: A Dramaturgical Analysis of the American Funeral
- 19 Identity Work and Emotional LaborThe Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling
- 20 Identity Work and Emotional LaborFrom Prowar Soldier to Antiwar Activist
- 21 Identity Work and Emotional LaborPanhandling Repertoires and Routines for Overcoming the Nonperson Treatment
- Part VI The Social Production of Reality
- Building and Breaching Reality
- 22 Constructing RealitiesFive Features of Reality
- 23 Constructing RealitiesA Conception of and Experiments With “Trust” as a Condition of Concerted Stable Actions
- 24 Constructing RealitiesSelf-Fulfilling Prophecies
- 25 Maintaining the Status Quo and Constructing ChangeThe Persistence of Gender Inequality in Employment Settings
- 26 Maintaining the Status Quo and Constructing ChangeBathroom Battlegrounds
- 27 Maintaining the Status Quo and Constructing ChangeChallenging Racist Nativist Framing
- Epilogue
- Credits
- Index
- About the Author