* = New to the Seventh Edition Part I: Human Being and Social Reality *Introduction 1. Sociological Mindfulness, Michael Schwalbe 2. The Social Foundations of Human Experience, Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann 3. Symbols and the Creation of Reality, Kent Sandstrom 4. Islands of Meaning, Eviatar Zerubavel 5. Speed Culture, Simon Gottschalk Part II: The Social Shaping of Subjective Experience *Introduction 6. Smell, Odor, and Somatic Work, Dennis D. Waskul and Phillip Vannini 7. Working on Feeling, Arlie Hochschild *8. Feeling Norms and Romantic Love, Robin Simon, Donna Eder, and Cathy Evans *9. Managing Emotional Manhood, Christian Vaccaro, Douglas Schrock, and Janice McCabe 10. The Organizational Management of Shame, Daniel D. Martin Part III: The Social Construction of the Body and Embodiment *Introduction 11. Becoming a Gendered Body, Karin A. Martin 12. Women and Their Clitoris, Dennis D. Waskul, Phillip Vannini, and Desiree Wiesen 13. Risky Lessons, Jessica Fields *14. Disciplining Corpulence, Amanda Czerniawski 15. Corporate Logo Tattoos and the Commodification of the Body, Angela Orend and Patricia Gagne Part IV: The Social Construction of the Self *Introduction 16. The Self as Sentiment and Reflection, Charles Horton Cooley 17. The Self as Social Structure, George Herbert Mead 18. Young Children's Racial and Ethnic Definitions of Self, Debra Van Ausdale and Joe Feagin 19. Gang-Related Gun Violence and the Self, Paul Stretesky and Mark Pogrebin 20. The Dissolution of the Self, Kenneth J. Gergen Part V: The Self and Social Interaction *Introduction 21. The Presentation of Self, Erving Goffman *22. The Girl Hunt, David Grazian 23. The Gloried Self, Patricia Adler and Peter Adler *24. The Presentation of Self in Virtual Spaces, Simon Gottschalk Part VI: The Organization of Social Interaction *Introduction 25. Face-Work and Interaction Rituals, Erving Goffman 26. The Interaction Order of Public Bathrooms, Spencer Cahill 27. Wheelchair Users' Interpersonal Management of Emotions, Spencer Cahill and Robin Eggleston *28. Working 'the Code' in the Inner City, Nikki Jones Part VII: The Construction of Social Structures and Boundaries *Introduction 29. Society in Action, Hubert Blumer 30. Collective Emotions and Boundary Work among Evangelical Christians, Amy Wilkins 31. Managing Emotions in an Animal Shelter, Arnold Arluke 32. Protecting the Routine from Chaos, Daniel Chambliss Part VIII: Reproducing and Resisting Inequalities *Introduction 33. Borderwork Among Boys and Girls, Barrie Thorne *34. Salvaging Decency, Margarethe Kusenbach *35. For the Betterment of Kids Who Look Like Me, Carissa Froyum *36. Escaping Symbolic Entrapment, Maintaining Social Identities, Shane Sharp 37. Doing Gender As Resistance, Chauntelle Anne Tibbals Part IX: The Politics of Reality Introduction 38. The Moral Career of the Mental Patient, Erving Goffman *39. The Dynamics of Family Trouble, Ara Francis 40. Being Middle Eastern American in the Context of the War on Terror, Amir Marvasti 41. Nazi Doctors in Auschwitz, Robert Jay Lifton 42. Rosa Parks, Collective Forgetting, and the Power of Oneness, Barry Schwartz