Social Self and Everyday Life - Understanding the World Through Symbolic Interactionism

An engaging text that enables readers to understand the world through symbolic interactionism
 
This lively and accessible book offers an introduction to sociological social psychology through the lens of symbolic interactionism. It provides students with an accessible understanding of this perspective to illuminate their worlds and deepen their knowledge of other people's lives, as well as their own. Written by noted experts in the field, the book explores the core concepts of social psychology and examines a collection of captivating empirical studies. The book also highlights everyday life--putting the focus on the issues and concerns that are most relevant to the readers' social context.
 
The Social Self and Everyday Life bridges classical theories and contemporary ideas, joins abstract concepts with concrete examples, and integrates theory with empirical evidence. It covers a range of topics including the body, emotions, health and illness, the family, technology, and inequality. Best of all, it gets students involved in applying concepts in their daily lives.
* Demonstrates how to use students' social worlds, experiences, and concerns to illustrate key interactionist concepts in a way that they can emulate
* Develops key concepts such as meaning, self, and identity throughout the text to further students' understanding and ability to use them
* Introduces students to symbolic interactionism, a major theoretical and research tradition within sociology
* Helps to involve students in familiar experiences and issues and shows how a symbolic interactionist perspective illuminates them
* Combines the best features of authoritative summaries, clear definitions of key terms, with enticing empirical excerpts and attention to popular ideas
 
Clear and inviting in its presentation, The Social Self and Everyday Life: Understanding the World Through Symbolic Interactionism is an excellent book for undergraduate students in sociology, social psychology, and social interaction.

Sommario

Preface ix
 
Acknowledgments xi
 
1 An Invitation to Learn about Self, Situation, and Society 1
 
# ThisIsWhatAnxietyFeelsLike 2
 
Sociology, Psychology, and Social Psychology 3
 
Symbolic Interactionism and Other Perspectives 4
 
Overview of the Book 8
 
Chapter Previews 9
 
Note 13
 
References 13
 
2 Looking at Life from the Symbolic Interactionist Perspective 16
 
Symbolic Interactionism as a Theoretical Perspective 19
 
Assumptions about Human Nature and Social Life 21
 
Premises of the Symbolic Interactionist Perspective 24
 
The Development of Self 28
 
Society, Self, and Mind: The Social Psychology of George Herbert Mead 28
 
Charles Horton Cooley's "Looking Glass Self" 32
 
Self, Self-Concept, and Identity 34
 
Defining the Situation, Naming, and Knowing 35
 
W.I. Thomas and Dorothy Swaine Thomas's Theorem 35
 
Anselm Strauss and Naming and Knowing 36
 
Erving Goffman's Metaphor of the Theater: Dramaturgical Analysis 38
 
Conclusion 42
 
Learning by Using the Symbolic Interactionist Perspective 43
 
Notes 44
 
References 45
 
3 Socialization: Becoming Ourselves 48
 
What Is Socialization? 50
 
Sociological Perspectives on Socialization 50
 
Conceptualizing
 
Socialization 52
 
Theoretical Perspectives of Socialization 52
 
Types of Socializing Experiences 56
 
Socialization in Childhood 57
 
Infants and Agency 57
 
Parents and Children 59
 
Peers and Socialization 62
 
Adult Socialization 66
 
Involvements and Evolvements 66
 
Total Institutions and Remaking the Self 68
 
Conclusion 70
 
Learning by Using the Symbolic Interactionist Perspective 71
 
Notes 72
 
References 73
 
4 The Social Body: Appearances and Experiences 76
 
Bodily Appearances 77
 
Coping with Bodily Stigma 81
 
Defining Stigma 81
 
Responding to Being Stigmatized 85
 
Interpreting
 
Bodily Experiences 87
 
Conclusion 92
 
Learning by Using the Symbolic Interactionist Perspective 92
 
Notes 94
 
References 94
 
5 Health, Illness, and Disability 96
 
Meanings of Health, Illness, and Disability 97
 
Maintaining Health 99
 
Individual vs. Social Responsibility for Health 101
 
Individual Responsibility for Health 102
 
Gender and Individual Responsibility for Health 102
 
Extending Individual Responsibility through Online Participation 103
 
Social Responsibility for Health 105
 
Individual Responsibility and Neoliberalism 105
 
How Individual Responsibility for Health Complements Neoliberalism 105
 
Moral Failure and Victim-Blaming 107
 
Experiencing Serious Illness 108
 
The Diagnostic Quest 109
 
Biographical Disruption and Loss of Self 111
 
Living with Illness and Disability 114
 
Medicalization, Biomedicalization, and Risk 118
 
Conclusion 119
 
Learning by Using the Symbolic Interactionist Perspective 120
 
Notes 121
 
References 121
 
6 Emotion Norms, Emotion Management, and Emotional Labor 125
 
Emotion Norms 126
 
Emotion Management 131
 
Interpersonal Emotion Management 135
 
Emotional Labor 137
 
Controlling Employees' Emotions 138
 
The Unequal Distribution of Emotional Labor 141
 
Conclusion 144
 
Learning by Using the Symbolic Interactionist

Info autore

Kathy Charmaz, is Emerita Professor of Sociology at Sonoma State University, USA, and a consultant providing professional development workshops on qualitative methods, symbolic interactionism, and academic writing globally. She has written, co-authored, or co-edited 14 books including two award-winning books, Good Days, Bad Days: The Self in Illness and Time (1991), and Constructing Grounded Theory (2006, 2014). Scott R. Harris, is Professor of Sociology at Saint Louis University, USA. He is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Symbolic Interaction and author of Invitation to the Sociology of Emotions (2015) and How to Critique Journal Articles in the Social Sciences (2014). His book What Is Constructionism? (2010) received the Cooley Award from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction. Leslie Irvine, is Professor of Sociology at the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA. Her main research focuses on the roles of animals in society. She has written several books including My Dog Always Eats First: Homeless People and their Animals (2015) and Filling the Ark: Animal Welfare in Disasters (2009).

Riassunto

An engaging text that enables readers to understand the world through symbolic interactionism

This lively and accessible book offers an introduction to sociological social psychology through the lens of symbolic interactionism. It provides students with an accessible understanding of this perspective to illuminate their worlds and deepen their knowledge of other people's lives, as well as their own. Written by noted experts in the field, the book explores the core concepts of social psychology and examines a collection of captivating empirical studies. The book also highlights everyday life--putting the focus on the issues and concerns that are most relevant to the readers' social context.

The Social Self and Everyday Life bridges classical theories and contemporary ideas, joins abstract concepts with concrete examples, and integrates theory with empirical evidence. It covers a range of topics including the body, emotions, health and illness, the family, technology, and inequality. Best of all, it gets students involved in applying concepts in their daily lives.
* Demonstrates how to use students' social worlds, experiences, and concerns to illustrate key interactionist concepts in a way that they can emulate
* Develops key concepts such as meaning, self, and identity throughout the text to further students' understanding and ability to use them
* Introduces students to symbolic interactionism, a major theoretical and research tradition within sociology
* Helps to involve students in familiar experiences and issues and shows how a symbolic interactionist perspective illuminates them
* Combines the best features of authoritative summaries, clear definitions of key terms, with enticing empirical excerpts and attention to popular ideas

Clear and inviting in its presentation, The Social Self and Everyday Life: Understanding the World Through Symbolic Interactionism is an excellent book for undergraduate students in sociology, social psychology, and social interaction.

Relazione

Kathy Charmaz, Scott Harris and Leslie Irvine's The Social Self and Everyday Life: Understanding the World Through Symbolic Interactionism is a wonderful--but also very timely--introduction to the interactionist perspective in social psychology. They introduce the classic masters of interactionist thought--such as Mead, Blumer, Strauss and Goffman--by applying their insights to today's social issues. A major innovation in this text is the discussion of contemporary interactionists' writing on timely topics such as the body, emotions, health, music and social media. The authors make symbolic interactionism meaningful, relevant--and fun!--for students of social psychology--a great scholarly as well as pedagogical accomplishment!
 
Joseph A. Kotarba, Ph.D., Texas State University, USA and University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, USA.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: K Charmaz, Kath Charmaz, Kathy Charmaz, Kathy (Kathy Charmaz - Sonoma State Unive Charmaz, Kathy (Kathy Charmaz -?sonoma State Unive Charmaz, Kathy Harris Charmaz, Scott Harris, Scott R Harris, Scott R. Harris, Leslie Irvine, Irvine Leslie
• Editore: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9781118645338
• ISBN: 978-1-118-64533-8
• Pagine: 288
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche; Soziologie, Sociology, Einführung in die Soziologie, Allg. Soziologie, Introduction to Sociology