Symbols, selves, and social reality: a symbolic interactionist approach to social psychology and sociology

INDICE: Each chapter ends with a Summary, a Glossary of Key Terms, Questions for Reflection or Assignment, and Suggested Readings for Further Study.; Preface: ; Acknowledgments: ; About the Authors: ; 1. The Meaning of Symbolic Interactionism; The Origins and Development of Symbolic Interactionism; Pragmatism and Sociology: The Contributions of George Herbert Mead; The Emergence of Symbolic Interactionism: ; Guiding Assumptions of the Symbolic Interactionist Perspective; How Is Interactionism Relevant and Beneficial to You?; Understanding Yourself and Your Choices: ; Understanding Joint Action: ; 2. The Interactionist Toolkit: Methods, Strategies, and Relevant Perspectives; Methodological Traditions and Practices; Changing Directions in Interactionist Ethnography; Alternatives to Ethnography: The Iowa School and Conventional Scientific Methods; Related Social Psychological Perspectives; Dramaturgical Theory: ; Exchange Theory: ; Social Cognition Theory and Cognitive Sociology: ; Ethnomethodology: ;Emerging Voices and Perspectives Within Interactionism; Feminism: ; Conflict Theory: ; Postmodernism: ; 3. People as Symbol Makers and Users: Language and the Creation of Reality; Creating and Transforming Reality; Sensation: ; Conceptualization and Categorization: ; Symbols, Signs, and Meanings: ; The Importance of Symbols: ; Naming 'Reality' and Creating Meaningful Objects: ; Language, Naming, and the Construction of Reality; The Necessity of Language: ; Language, Naming, and Our Constructions of Others: ; Language, Naming, and the Construction of 'Inner' Reality: Emotional Experience: ; 4. Socialization: The Creation of Meaning and Identity; Self-Development and the Stages of Socialization; The Preparatory Stage: ; The Play Stage: ; The Game Stage: ; Refinements of Mead's Theory of Socialization and Self-Development: ; Socialization and the Creation of Gender Identity; Creating Gender Identity in Early Childhood: ; Re-creating Gender Identity: Preadolescent Culture and Play: ; Boys and Girls Together: Learning and Maintaining Gender Boundaries: ; Socialization as an Ongoing Process: Turning Points in Identity; Passage to Adulthood: ; Turning Pointsand Epiphanies: The Case of HIV/AIDS: ; 5. The Nature and Significance of theSelf; What Is the Self?; The Self as Social Process; The Self as Social Structure; The Self-Concept: Its Structure and Contents: ; Self-Esteem and Its Sources: Beyond the Looking-Glass Self: ; The Impact of the Self-Concept: ; The Self as Dramatic Effect; Staging the Self in Everyday Life: ; Regions of Self-Presentation: ; The Self as Situated Identity: ; Beyond Goffman: The Drama of Self Versus the Experience of Self: ; The Experience of Self in Postmodern Society; 6. Role Taking, Role Making, and the Coordination of Action; Defining Situations and Their Reality; Roles, Role Taking, and Role Making; Role Taking: ; Role Making: ; The Coordination of Social Behavior: Aligning Actions; AligningActions and Motive Talk: ; Emotions

• ISBN: 978-0-19-538566-3
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 256
• Fecha Publicación: 25/02/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés