The production of reality : essays and readings on social interaction

PrefacePART I: IntroductionWhat is Real? - Jodi O′Brien Reality as a Collective HunchIslands of Meaning - Eviatar Zerubavel The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe - Jane Wagner Researching Social LifeTruth, Objectivity and Agreement - Earl BabbieConstructivist, Interpretivist Approaches to Human Inquiry - Thomas A. SchwandtSymbolic InteractSymbolic Interactionism: A Perspective for Understanding Self and Social Interaction ionism: - Jodi O′BrienPART II - Humans Are Symbol Using CreaturesShared Meaning is the Foundation of Humanness - Jodi O′Brien NamingThat Powerful Drop - Langston HughesA Clue to the Nature of Man - Ernst CassirerYes, Father-Sister - Oliver Sacks Language and SocializationFinal Note on a Case of Extreme Isolation - Kingsley DavisSeeing Voices - Oliver Sacks Language and CultureMetaphors We Live By - George Lakoff and Mark JohnsonPills and Power Tools - Susan BordoRacism in the English Language - Robert MoorePART III - Producing Social Order Through InteractionMeaning is Negotiated through Interaction - Jodi O′Brien Naming as an Interactional ProcessBecoming a Marihuana User - Howard BeckerThe Development of Feeling Norms Underlying Romantic Love - Robin Simon, Donna Eder, and Cathy Evans Projecting the Definition of the SituationAcknowledgement Rituals - Carl Edward PateEmbarrassment and the Analysis of Role Requirements - Edward Gross and Gregory P. StoneThe Managed Heart - Arlie Hochschild Negotiating a Working ConsensusBehavior in Private Places - Joan EmersonPrecarious Situations in a Strip Club - Kari LerumEncounters with the Hearing - Paul HigginsPART IV - Producing Social SelvesFrom Masks to Selves - Jodi O′Brien The Self as Process of InteractionThe Self, the I, and the Me - George Herbert MeadLooking Glass Self - Charles Horton CooleyReference Groups as Perspectives - Tamotsu Shibutani Self Development and Reference GroupsGirls, Media and the Negotiation of Sexuality: A Study of Race, Class and Gender in Adolescent Peer Groups - Meenakshi Gigi DurhamShades of White - Pamela PerryA Theory of Genius - Thomas Scheff Self Presentation in InteractionIdentity Construction and Self-Presentation on Personal Homepages - Charles CheungBody Troubles: Women, Workplace and Negotiations of a Disabled Identity - Isabel DyckPart V - The Social Construction of RealityBuilding and Breaching Reality - Jodi O′Brien A Theory of RealityFive Features of Reality - Hugh Mehan and Houston WoodA Conception of and Experiments with "Trust" as a Condition of Concerted Stable Actions - Harold Garfinkel Self-Fulfilling PropheciesSelf-Fulfilling Prophecies - Paul WatzlawickWhen Belief Creates Reality - Mark Snyder The Social Construction of the Cultural Status QuoThe Persistence of Gender Inequality in Employment - Cecilia RidgewayStatus Inequality and Close Relationships - Scott HarrisPART VI - Ambiguity, Complexity and Conflict in Social InteractionBoundaries and Contradictions - Jodi O′Brien Contradictions and Conflict in Self-ProductionDouble Consciousness and the Veil - W. E. B. Du BoisWrestling the Angel of Contradiction: Queer Christian Identities - Jodi O′BrienWe are Graceful Swans Who Can Also be Crows - Lubna Chaudry Contradictions and Change in Cultural ProductionContinuity within Change: The Cherokee Indians and the Internet - Ellen Arnold and Darcy C. PlymirePatients, "Potheads," and Dying to Get High - Wendy ChapkisAdventures in Desocialization - Inge Bell and Bernard McGraneTalking Back - bell hooks Epilogue - Jodi O′Brien