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

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  • Author: Sandstrom, Kent L.
    Contributor: Fine, Gary Alan; Martin, Daniel D.
    Edition: 3rd ed
    Date:
    Issued
    2009
    Summary:

    Symbols, Selves, and Social Reality provides students with a succinct, engaging, and affordable introduction to symbolic interactionism--the perspective that social reality is created, negotiated, and changed through the process of social interaction.

    Focusing on how elements of race and gender affect identity, the authors use real-world examples to discuss the personal significance of symbolic interactionism, its expanding theoretical scope, and its relationship to other prominent perspectives in sociology and social psychology. They skillfully cover empirical research topics that are inherently interesting to students, such as the dynamics of self-development, impression management, identity transformation, gender play, rumor transmission, and collective action.

    Contents:
    • 1. Meaning of Symbolic Interactionism
    • 2. Interactionist Toolkit: Methods, Strategies, and Relevant Perspectives
    • 3. People as Symbol Makers and Users: Language and the Creation of Reality
    • 4. Socialization: The Creation of Meaning and Identity
    • 5. Nature and Significance of the Self
    • 6. Role Taking, Role Making, and the Coordination of Action
    • 7. Politics of Social Reality: Constructing and Negotiating Deviance
    • 8. Collective Behavior and Social Movements.
    Genre:
    Psychology, Instructional and educational works
    Subject(s): Social psychology | Symbolic interactionism
    Original Publisher: New York, Oxford University Press
    Language(s): English