The Social Self and Everyday Life : Understanding the World Through Symbolic Interactionism (Paperback)

Preface

Acknowledgements

1 An Invitation to Learn about Self, Situation, and Society

2 Looking at Life from the Symbolic Interactionist Perspective

3 Socialization: Becoming Ourselves

4 The Social Body: Appearances and Experience

5 Health, Illness, and Disability

6 Emotion Norms, Emotion Management, and Emotional Labor

7 All Our Families: Diverse Forms, Diverse Meanings

8 “Always On/Always on Us:” Technology, Interaction, and the Self

9 Amplifying Social Problems: Claimsmakers and their Contexts

10 Individuals and Institutions

11 Inequality in Interaction

12 Conclusion:  The Benefits of Studying Symbolic Interaction

Index