Production of reality: essays and readings on social interaction
O'Brien, Jodi; Kollock, Peter
Production of reality: essays and readings on social interaction - 3 - London Pine Forge Press 2001 - xxii,599 p. 23 cm ; Pbk
$41.95
PART I. INTRODUCTION
Essay: 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. Wagner
Essay: A Perspective for Understanding Self and Social Interaction
PART II. HUMANS AS SYMBOLIC CREATURES
Essay: Shared Meaning as the Basis of Humanness
Naming
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. Sacks
Language 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. Sacks
Language, 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. Reidy
PART III. REALIZAING SYMBOLIC ORDER THROUGH INTERACTION
Essay: Meaning is Negotiated through Interaction
Naming as an Interactional Process
18. Becoming a Marihuana User - H.S. Becker
19. Looks - K.A. Maeda
20. Fear of Fallinig: Sluts - P. Orenstein
Projecting 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 Leuven
Negotiating 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. Lerum
The 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. Ebaugh
PART IV. THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF REALITY
Essay: Building and Breaching Reality
A 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 al
Self-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. Rosenhan
The 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. Scheppele
PART V. AMBIGUITY, COMPLEXITY, AND CONFLICT
Essay: Boundaries and Contradictions
Contradictions 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. Bornstein
Conflict 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. Silko
Epilogue
In today's schools administrators must have an active plan for creating and maintaining a healthy, safe environment for students and staff. This book will help administrators create such a plan for their school and the loose-leaf notebook format allows the reader to add their own ideas.
978-0803968795
Sociology
Production of reality: essays and readings on social interaction - 3 - London Pine Forge Press 2001 - xxii,599 p. 23 cm ; Pbk
$41.95
PART I. INTRODUCTION
Essay: 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. Wagner
Essay: A Perspective for Understanding Self and Social Interaction
PART II. HUMANS AS SYMBOLIC CREATURES
Essay: Shared Meaning as the Basis of Humanness
Naming
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. Sacks
Language 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. Sacks
Language, 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. Reidy
PART III. REALIZAING SYMBOLIC ORDER THROUGH INTERACTION
Essay: Meaning is Negotiated through Interaction
Naming as an Interactional Process
18. Becoming a Marihuana User - H.S. Becker
19. Looks - K.A. Maeda
20. Fear of Fallinig: Sluts - P. Orenstein
Projecting 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 Leuven
Negotiating 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. Lerum
The 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. Ebaugh
PART IV. THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF REALITY
Essay: Building and Breaching Reality
A 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 al
Self-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. Rosenhan
The 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. Scheppele
PART V. AMBIGUITY, COMPLEXITY, AND CONFLICT
Essay: Boundaries and Contradictions
Contradictions 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. Bornstein
Conflict 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. Silko
Epilogue
In today's schools administrators must have an active plan for creating and maintaining a healthy, safe environment for students and staff. This book will help administrators create such a plan for their school and the loose-leaf notebook format allows the reader to add their own ideas.
978-0803968795
Sociology