The Production of Reality
Essays and Readings on Social Interaction
3rd Edition
Published on 30. April 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
624 pages
978-0-8039-6879-0 (ISBN)
Description
"The essays are engaging and the stories the authors tell are delightful. I especially like the illustrations of what is 'real' and what is 'not real.' Convincing college students that reality is socially constructed is no easy task, and stories that the students can 'get' help enormously. I plan to continue to use this exciting and insightful text."
- Barbara Trepagnier, University of Texas
"I was initially attracted to this book because it was organized in exactly the way I had been organizing my course in social psychology - to find it all in one book was great. The section on theory is among the best I've seen; additionally, students really LIKE this book, and if they like it, they read it. My thanks go out to O'Brien and Kollock for their writing of a book that fills what was a huge gap in the social psychological textbook market."
- Rebecca J. Erickson, University of Akron
- Barbara Trepagnier, University of Texas
"I was initially attracted to this book because it was organized in exactly the way I had been organizing my course in social psychology - to find it all in one book was great. The section on theory is among the best I've seen; additionally, students really LIKE this book, and if they like it, they read it. My thanks go out to O'Brien and Kollock for their writing of a book that fills what was a huge gap in the social psychological textbook market."
- Rebecca J. Erickson, University of Akron
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Edition
3rd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Thousand Oaks
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 232 mm
Width: 187 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-8039-6879-0 (9780803968790)
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Persons
Jodi O'Brien is Professor of Sociology and Women and Gender Studies at Seattle University. She is the editor of the Encyclopedia of Gender and Society and co-editor of the "Contemporary Sociological Perspectives" book series. Her books include The Production of Reality, Social Prisms, and Everyday Inequalities. Her courses and research focus on difference, power and discrimination, and religion and sexuality. Peter Kollock is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He teaches courses in social psychology, cooperation and collective action, the sociology of cyberspace and on entrepeneurism..Dr. Kollock has won teaching awards at UCLA and the University of Washington.
Content
Preface
Acknowledgments
PART I. INTRODUCTION
Essay: What Is Real?
Reality as a Collective Hunch
1. Body Ritual among the Nacirema - H. Miner
2. The Nature of "Perspective" - J. Charon
3. Truth, Objectivity, and Agreement - E. Babbie
4. The Search for Signs for Intelligent Life in the Universe - J. Wagner
Essay: A Perspective for Understanding Self and Social Interaction
PART II. HUMANS AS SYMBOLIC CREATURES
Essay: Shared Meaning as the Basis of Humanness
Naming
5. That Powerful Drop - L. Hughes
6. A Clue to the Nature of Man: The Symbol - E. Cassirer
7. The Importance of the Symbol - J. Charon
8. Yes, Father-Sister - O. Sacks
Language and Social Behavior
9. Final Note on a Case of Extreme Isolation - K. Davis
10. Language and Neurological Disorders - A. Lindesmith, et al
11. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat - O. Sacks
Language, Thought, and Culture
12. Metaphors We Live By - G. Lakoff & M. Johnson
13. The Social Lens - E. Zerubavel
14. Mindfulness and Mindlessness - E. Langer
15. Changes in Default Words and Images Engendered by Rising Consciousness - D.R. Hofstadter
A Person Paper on Purity in Language - W. Satire
16. Racism in the English Language - R.B. Moore
17. The Virgin Martyrs - S. Reidy
PART III. REALIZAING SYMBOLIC ORDER THROUGH INTERACTION
Essay: Meaning is Negotiated through Interaction
Naming as an Interactional Process
18. Becoming a Marihuana User - H.S. Becker
19. Looks - K.A. Maeda
20. Fear of Fallinig: Sluts - P. Orenstein
Projecting the Definition of the Situation
21. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life: Selection - E. Goffman
22. Black Men and Public Space - B. Staples
23. The Madam as Teacher: The Training of House Prostitutes - B.S. Heyl
24. What Does the Service Include? - L. Van Leuven
Negotiating a Working Consensus
25. Behavior in Private Places: Sustaining Definitions of Reality in Gynecological Examinations - J.P. Emerson
26. "Precarious Situations" in a Strip Club: Exotic Dancers and the Problem of Reality Maintenance - K. Lerum
The Self as a Product of Interaction
27. The Self, the I, and the Me - G.H. Mead
28. Looking-Glass Self - C.H. Cooley
29. The Production of Selves in Personal Relationships - P. Blumstein
30. Shooting an Elephant - G. Orwell
31. Salvaging the Self - D. Snow & L. Anderson
32. Creating the Ex-Role - H.R.F. Ebaugh
PART IV. THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF REALITY
Essay: Building and Breaching Reality
A Theory of Reality
33. Five Features of Reality - H. Mehan & H. Wood
34. A Conception of and Experiments with "Trust" as a Condition of Concerted Stable Actinos - H. Garfinkel
35. The Social Construction of Unreality: A Case Study of a Family's Attribution of Competence to a Severely Retarded Child - M. Pollner, et al
Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
36. Self-Fulfilling Prophecies - P. Watzlawick
37. When Belief Creates Reality: The Self-Fulfilling Impact of First Impressions on Social Interaction - M. Snyder
38. Pygmalion in the Classroom: Teacher Expection and Pupils' Intellectual Development - R. Rosenthal
39. On Being Sane in Insane Places - D.L. Rosenhan
The Social Construction of the Cultural Status Quo
40. The Discovery of Hyperkinesis: Notes on the Medicalization of Deviant Behavior - P. Conrad
41. The Nudist Management of Respectability - M.S. Weinberg
42. The Persistence of Gender Inequality in Employment Settings - C. Ridgeway
43. Practices of Truth-Finding in a Court of Law: The Case of Revised Stories - K.L. Scheppele
PART V. AMBIGUITY, COMPLEXITY, AND CONFLICT
Essay: Boundaries and Contradictions
Contradictions and Conflict in Self-Production
44. Double-Consciousness and the Veil - W.E.B. Du Bois
45. Stephen Cruz - S. Terkel
46. Growing Up with Privilege and Prejudice - K.K. Russell
47. A Player - K. Stoll
48. He Defies You still: The Memoirs of a Sissy - T. Avicolli
49. Sexual Identification Is a Strange Thing - J. Weeks
50. Identity, "Passing" and Subversion - M. Crawford
51. Her Son/Daughter - K. Bornstein
Conflict and Change in Cultural Production
52. Maid in the U.S.A.: A Personal Narrative on the Development of a Research Problem - M. Romero
53. Talking Back - B. Hooks
54. Because Silence is Costly - J. Gomez
55. La Conciencia de la Mestiza/Towards a New Consciousness - G. Anzaldua
56. Ceremony - L.M. Silko
Epilogue
Name Index
Subject Index
Acknowledgments
PART I. INTRODUCTION
Essay: What Is Real?
Reality as a Collective Hunch
1. Body Ritual among the Nacirema - H. Miner
2. The Nature of "Perspective" - J. Charon
3. Truth, Objectivity, and Agreement - E. Babbie
4. The Search for Signs for Intelligent Life in the Universe - J. Wagner
Essay: A Perspective for Understanding Self and Social Interaction
PART II. HUMANS AS SYMBOLIC CREATURES
Essay: Shared Meaning as the Basis of Humanness
Naming
5. That Powerful Drop - L. Hughes
6. A Clue to the Nature of Man: The Symbol - E. Cassirer
7. The Importance of the Symbol - J. Charon
8. Yes, Father-Sister - O. Sacks
Language and Social Behavior
9. Final Note on a Case of Extreme Isolation - K. Davis
10. Language and Neurological Disorders - A. Lindesmith, et al
11. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat - O. Sacks
Language, Thought, and Culture
12. Metaphors We Live By - G. Lakoff & M. Johnson
13. The Social Lens - E. Zerubavel
14. Mindfulness and Mindlessness - E. Langer
15. Changes in Default Words and Images Engendered by Rising Consciousness - D.R. Hofstadter
A Person Paper on Purity in Language - W. Satire
16. Racism in the English Language - R.B. Moore
17. The Virgin Martyrs - S. Reidy
PART III. REALIZAING SYMBOLIC ORDER THROUGH INTERACTION
Essay: Meaning is Negotiated through Interaction
Naming as an Interactional Process
18. Becoming a Marihuana User - H.S. Becker
19. Looks - K.A. Maeda
20. Fear of Fallinig: Sluts - P. Orenstein
Projecting the Definition of the Situation
21. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life: Selection - E. Goffman
22. Black Men and Public Space - B. Staples
23. The Madam as Teacher: The Training of House Prostitutes - B.S. Heyl
24. What Does the Service Include? - L. Van Leuven
Negotiating a Working Consensus
25. Behavior in Private Places: Sustaining Definitions of Reality in Gynecological Examinations - J.P. Emerson
26. "Precarious Situations" in a Strip Club: Exotic Dancers and the Problem of Reality Maintenance - K. Lerum
The Self as a Product of Interaction
27. The Self, the I, and the Me - G.H. Mead
28. Looking-Glass Self - C.H. Cooley
29. The Production of Selves in Personal Relationships - P. Blumstein
30. Shooting an Elephant - G. Orwell
31. Salvaging the Self - D. Snow & L. Anderson
32. Creating the Ex-Role - H.R.F. Ebaugh
PART IV. THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF REALITY
Essay: Building and Breaching Reality
A Theory of Reality
33. Five Features of Reality - H. Mehan & H. Wood
34. A Conception of and Experiments with "Trust" as a Condition of Concerted Stable Actinos - H. Garfinkel
35. The Social Construction of Unreality: A Case Study of a Family's Attribution of Competence to a Severely Retarded Child - M. Pollner, et al
Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
36. Self-Fulfilling Prophecies - P. Watzlawick
37. When Belief Creates Reality: The Self-Fulfilling Impact of First Impressions on Social Interaction - M. Snyder
38. Pygmalion in the Classroom: Teacher Expection and Pupils' Intellectual Development - R. Rosenthal
39. On Being Sane in Insane Places - D.L. Rosenhan
The Social Construction of the Cultural Status Quo
40. The Discovery of Hyperkinesis: Notes on the Medicalization of Deviant Behavior - P. Conrad
41. The Nudist Management of Respectability - M.S. Weinberg
42. The Persistence of Gender Inequality in Employment Settings - C. Ridgeway
43. Practices of Truth-Finding in a Court of Law: The Case of Revised Stories - K.L. Scheppele
PART V. AMBIGUITY, COMPLEXITY, AND CONFLICT
Essay: Boundaries and Contradictions
Contradictions and Conflict in Self-Production
44. Double-Consciousness and the Veil - W.E.B. Du Bois
45. Stephen Cruz - S. Terkel
46. Growing Up with Privilege and Prejudice - K.K. Russell
47. A Player - K. Stoll
48. He Defies You still: The Memoirs of a Sissy - T. Avicolli
49. Sexual Identification Is a Strange Thing - J. Weeks
50. Identity, "Passing" and Subversion - M. Crawford
51. Her Son/Daughter - K. Bornstein
Conflict and Change in Cultural Production
52. Maid in the U.S.A.: A Personal Narrative on the Development of a Research Problem - M. Romero
53. Talking Back - B. Hooks
54. Because Silence is Costly - J. Gomez
55. La Conciencia de la Mestiza/Towards a New Consciousness - G. Anzaldua
56. Ceremony - L.M. Silko
Epilogue
Name Index
Subject Index