Preface PART I: Introduction What is Real? - Jodi O'Brien Reality as a Collective Hunch Islands of Meaning - Eviatar Zerubavel The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe - Jane Wagner Researching Social Life Truth, Objectivity and Agreement - Earl Babbie Constructivist, Interpretivist Approaches to Human Inquiry - Thomas A. Schwandt Symbolic InteractSymbolic Interactionism: A Perspective for Understanding Self and Social Interaction ionism: - Jodi O'Brien PART II - Humans Are Symbol Using Creatures Shared Meaning is the Foundation of Humanness - Jodi O'Brien Naming That Powerful Drop - Langston Hughes A Clue to the Nature of Man - Ernst Cassirer Yes, Father-Sister - Oliver Sacks Language and Socialization Final Note on a Case of Extreme Isolation - Kingsley Davis Seeing Voices - Oliver Sacks Language and Culture Metaphors We Live By - George Lakoff and Mark Johnson Pills and Power Tools - Susan Bordo Racism in the English Language - Robert Moore PART III - Producing Social Order Through Interaction Meaning is Negotiated through Interaction - Jodi O'Brien Naming as an Interactional Process Becoming a Marihuana User - Howard Becker The Development of Feeling Norms Underlying Romantic Love - Robin Simon, Donna Eder, and Cathy Evans Projecting the Definition of the Situation Acknowledgement Rituals - Carl Edward Pate Embarrassment and the Analysis of Role Requirements - Edward Gross and Gregory P. Stone The Managed Heart - Arlie Hochschild Negotiating a Working Consensus Behavior in Private Places - Joan Emerson Precarious Situations in a Strip Club - Kari Lerum Encounters with the Hearing - Paul Higgins PART IV - Producing Social Selves From Masks to Selves - Jodi O'Brien The Self as Process of Interaction The Self, the I, and the Me - George Herbert Mead Looking Glass Self - Charles Horton Cooley Reference Groups as Perspectives - Tamotsu Shibutani Self Development and Reference Groups Girls, Media and the Negotiation of Sexuality: A Study of Race, Class and Gender in Adolescent Peer Groups - Meenakshi Gigi Durham Shades of White - Pamela Perry A Theory of Genius - Thomas Scheff Self Presentation in Interaction Identity Construction and Self-Presentation on Personal Homepages - Charles Cheung Body Troubles: Women, Workplace and Negotiations of a Disabled Identity - Isabel Dyck Part V - The Social Construction of Reality Building and Breaching Reality - Jodi O'Brien A Theory of Reality Five Features of Reality - Hugh Mehan and Houston Wood A Conception of and Experiments with Trust as a Condition of Concerted Stable Actions - Harold Garfinkel Self-Fulfilling Prophecies Self-Fulfilling Prophecies - Paul Watzlawick When Belief Creates Reality - Mark Snyder The Social Construction of the Cultural Status Quo The Persistence of Gender Inequality in Employment - Cecilia Ridgeway Status Inequality and Close Relationships - Scott Harris PART VI - Ambiguity, Complexity and Conflict in Social Interaction Boundaries and Contradictions - Jodi O'Brien Contradictions and Conflict in Self-Production Double Consciousness and the Veil - W. E. B. Du Bois Wrestling the Angel of Contradiction: Queer Christian Identities - Jodi O'Brien We are Graceful Swans Who Can Also be Crows - Lubna Chaudry Contradictions and Change in Cultural Production Continuity within Change: The Cherokee Indians and the Internet - Ellen Arnold and Darcy C. Plymire Patients, Potheads, and Dying to Get High - Wendy Chapkis Adventures in Desocialization - Inge Bell and Bernard McGrane Talking Back - bell hooks Epilogue - Jodi O'Brien
