The production of reality: essays and readings on social interaction

Pt. I. Introduction

What is real? / Jodi O'Brien

1. Islands of meaning / Eviatar Zerubavel

2. search for signs of intelligent life in the universe / Jane Wagner

3. Truth, objectivity, and agreement / Earl Babbie

4. Constructivist, interpretivist approaches to human inquiry / Thomas A. Schwandt

Symbolic interactionism : a perspective for understanding self and social interaction / Jodi O'Brien

Pt. II. Humans as symbol-using creatures

Shared meaning as the basis of humanness / Jodi O'Brien

5. powerful drop / Langston Hughes

6. clue to the nature of man : the symbol / Ernst Cassirer

7. Yes, father-sister / Oliver Sacks

8. Final note on a case of extreme isolation / Kingsley Davis

9. Seeing voices / Oliver Sacks

10. Metaphors we live by / George Lakoff and Mark Johnson

11. Pills and power tools / Susan Bordo

12. Racism in the English language / Robert B. Moore

Pt. III. Producing social order through interaction

Meaning is negotiated through interaction / Jodi O'Brien

13. Becoming a marihuana user / Howard S. Becker

14. development of feeling norms underlying romantic love among adolescent females / Robin Simon, Donna Eder and Cathy Evans

15. Acknowledgment rituals : the greeting phenomenon between strangers / Carl Edward Pate

16. Embarrassment and the analysis of role requirements / Edward Gross and Gregory P. Stone

17. managed heart : commercialization of human feeling / Arlie Russell Hochschild

18. Behavior in private places : sustaining definitions of reality in gynecological examinations / Joan P. Emerson

19. "Precarious situations" in a strip club : exotic dancers and the problem of reality maintenance / Kari Lerum

20. Encounters with the hearing / Paul Higgins

Pt. IV. Producing social selves

From masks to selves / Jodi O'Brien

21. self, the I, and the me / George Herbert Mead

22. Looking-glass self / Charles Horton Cooley

23. Reference groups as perspectives / Tamotsu Shibutani

24. Girls, media, and the negotiation of sexuality : a study of race, class, and gender in adolescent peer groups / Meenakshi Gigi Durham

25. Shades of white / Pamela Perry

26. theory of genius / Thomas Scheff

27. Identity construction and self-presentation on personal homepages / Charles Cheung

28. Body troubles : women, the workplace, and negotiations of a disabled identity / Isabel Dyck

Pt. V. social construction of reality

Building and breaching reality / Jodi O'Brien

29. Five features of reality / Hugh Mehan and Houston Wood

30. conception of and experiments with "trust" as a condition of concerted stable actions / Harold Garfinkel

31. Self-fulfilling prophecies / Paul Watzlawick

32. When belief creates reality : the self-fulfilling impact of first impressions on social interaction / Mark Snyder

33. persistence of gender inequality in employment settings / Cecilia Ridgeway

34. Status inequality and close relationships an integrative typology of bond-saving strategies / Scott R. Harris

Pt. VI. Ambiguity, complexity, and conflict in social interaction

Boundaries and contradictions / Jodi O'Brien

35. Double consciousness and the veil / W. E. B. Du Bois

36. Wrestling the angel of contradiction : queer Christian identities / Jodi O'Brien

37. "We are graceful swans who can also be crows" : hybrid identities of Pakistani Muslim women / Lubna Chaudhry

38. Continuity within change : the Cherokee Indians and the Internet / Ellen L. Arnold and Darcy C. Plymire

39. Patients, "potheads," and dying to get high / Wendy Chapkis

40. Adventures in desocialization / Inge Bell and Bernard McGrane

41. Talking back / Bell Hooks.