The Production of Reality
Essays and Readings on Social Interaction
Seventh Edition
Edited by:
- Jodi O'Brien - Seattle University, USA
January 2022 | SAGE Publications, Inc
This popular text/reader for the social psychology courses in sociology departments is distinguished by the author's engaging framing essays that open each part, and an eclectic set of edited readings that introduce students to major thinkers and perspectives in this field. Through the combination of essays and original works, the book demonstrates how we make and remake our social worlds through our everyday interactions with one another.
The Seventh Edition features 10 new readings from the contemporary social psychology literature, a streamlined organization, and the option of either e-book or print versions.
The Seventh Edition features 10 new readings from the contemporary social psychology literature, a streamlined organization, and the option of either e-book or print versions.
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Prologue: What is Real?
Part I: Introduction
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Essay: The Nature of Humanness
Gina Rippon
Michael Flaherty and Cosima Rughinis
Part II: Language and Social Development
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Essay: Shared Meaning as the Basis of Human Development
Symbol Use, Language, and Development
Bernard N. Meltzer
Kingsley Davis
Language and Culture
George Lakoff and Mark Johnson
Manuela L. Picq and Josi Tikuna
Part III –Learning Social Identities and Social Scripts
Essay: Learning the Script: Socialization
Socialization and Reference Groups
Tamotsu Shibutani
Yen Le Espiritu
Naming and Feeling Experience
Howard Becker
Robin Simon
Part IV: Producing Social Selves
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Essay: Who Am I? Developing Character
Significant Others, Social Context & Self Development
Charles Horton Cooley
Danah Boyd
Mary Romero
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Essay: Self as a Process of Contradiction and Conflict
Contradictions and Conflict in Self Development
W.E. B. DuBois
Sofia Locklear
Carla Pfeffer
Part V: Producing Social Life Through Interaction
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Essay: Meaning is Negotiated through Interaction
Self-Presentation and Projecting the Definition of the Situation
Erving Goffman
Ronny E. Turner and Charles Edgely
Identity Work, & Emotional Labor
Arlie Hochschild
David Flores
Stephen E. Lankenau
Part VI: The Social Production of Reality
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Essay: Building and Breaching Reality
Constructing Realities
Hugh Mehan and Houston Wood
Harold Garfinkel
Paul Watzlawick
Maintaining the Status Quo and Constructing Change
Cecilia Ridgeway
Kristen Shilt and Laurel Westbrook
Lindsay Pérez Huber
Epilogue