Every chapter ends with Keywords and Endnotes
Preface
1 Social Psychology and Symbolic Interactionism
What is Social Psychology?
What is Symbolic Interactionism?
Other Theoretical Approaches
Learning Theory
Psychoanalytic Theory
Exchange Theory
Phenomenology and Ethnomethodology
Social Cognition
Social Constructionism
Postmodernism
Major Tenets of Symbolic Interactionism
2 Basic Concepts of Symbolic Interactionism
Symbols
The Nature of Symbols
The Consequences of Symbols
Objects
What is an Object?
Objects and Language
Acts and Social Acts
Phases of the Act
Self and the Control of Behavior
Self as Object
Self as Process
Roles and the Definition of Situations
Situations
Role
Role Making and Role Taking
Role Taking as a Generalized Skill
The Place of Emotions
3 The Self and Its Social Setting
The Acquisition of Self
Language and the Self
Learning the Social World
Learning the Culture
Stages of Socialization
The Everyday Experience of Self
Identity: The Self as a Social Object
How Situated Identities are Produced
The Experience of Situated Identity
Social and Personal Identity
Social Identity
Personal Identity
Self-Image: Knowing the Self
Self-Esteem
The Self, Motive, and Motivation
Identity and Motivation
Self-Esteem and Motivation
The Self and the Social Order
Limitations on the Choice of Roles
Limitations on the Choice of Others
Limitations on the Choice of Stories
The Self in Contemporary Society
4 Social Interaction and the Formation of Conduct
The Definition of the Situation
Routine and Problematic Situations
Role Making and Role Taking in Routine Situations
The Cognitive Bases of Role Making and Role Taking
Typification
Probability
Causality
Means and Ends
Normative Standards
Substantive Congruency
Aligning Actions
Motive Talk
Disclaimers
Accounts
Other Aligning Actions
Emotions and Social Interaction
Constraint and Social Interaction
Altercasting
Power
Awareness Contexts
Conventional and Interpersonal Roles
5 Social Psychology and Social Order
Social Order as a Constructed Reality
Talking
Explaining Disorder
Social Problems
Social Order as Coordinated Activity
Creating Social Bonds
Solving Problems
Negotiating Order
Establishing Horizontal and Vertical Linkages
Making Careers
Forming Boundaries
Creating and Joining Social Movements
6 Deviance and the Social Order
An Interactionist Conception of Deviance
Why Deviance Exists
Mental Illness
Moral Enterprise
The Causes of Deviance
Deviance and Identity
7 The Value of Symbolic Interactionism
The Significance of Symbols
The Uses of Knowledge
Index
