000 04945nam a2200169Ia 4500
020 _a978-0803968795
100 _aO'Brien, Jodi; Kollock, Peter
245 _aProduction of reality: essays and readings on social interaction
250 _a3
260 _c2001
_bPine Forge Press
_aLondon
300 _axxii,599 p.
_b23 cm ; Pbk
500 _a$41.95
505 _aPART 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
520 _aIn 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.
650 _aSociology
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