Edited by James A. Holstein and Jaber F. Gubrium
Inner lives and social worlds are commonly viewed as separate yet equally important domains of experience. Inner lives comprise our personal, interior spaces--our selves, identities, feelings, thoughts, and motives. From this standpoint, "in here" is where we find "who we really are." Social
worlds are "out there"; they are the external influences that shape who we are.
Inner Lives and Social Worlds challenges the stark distinction between "in here" and "out there." Offering a sociological approach to social psychology, it focuses on social interaction as the foundation of
everyday life. From this perspective, both inner lives and social worlds are constructed through everyday social interaction and are therefore always connected to one another. Inner Lives and Social Worlds presents an exciting collection of readings that clearly demonstrate the way that these realms
are intertwined. Drawing upon classic and contemporary material, it shows how the self, identity, mind, emotions, and motives--all landmark features of inner lives--are inextricably bound to social worlds. The social worlds of race and ethnicity, gender, age, family life, and personal troubles are
highlighted in lively, compelling selections. The readings have been specifically chosen to be accessible to both undergraduate and graduate students of social psychology.
Each section opens with "About the Readings" and closes with "Further Reading"
Preface
PART 1. POINTS OF DEPARTURE
PART 2. SOCIAL INTERACTION
Section 1. Interaction in Everyday Life
1. William Foote Whyte: Cornerville and Its People
2. Jack D.
Douglas: The Sociology of Everyday Life
3. Hugh Mehan and Houston Wood: Five Features of Reality
Section 2. Language and Communication
4. George Herbert Mead: Meaning and Social Interaction
5. Herbert Blumer: Society as Symbolic Interaction
6. George Lakoff and Mark
Johnson: Metaphors We Live By
7. Jonathan Potter and Margaret Wetherell: Categories in Discourse
Section 3. The Work of Social Interaction
8. W.I. Thomas: The Definition of the Situation
9. Erving Goffman: Teamwork
10. Joan P. Emerson: Behavior in Private Places:
Sustaining Definitions of Reality in Gynecological Examinations
PART 3. INNER LIVES
Section 1. Selves and Identities
11. William James: The Me and the I
12. Charles Horton Cooley: The Looking-Glass Self
13. George Herbert Mead: The Self
14. Erving Goffman: The
Presentation of Self
15. David A. Snow and Leon Anderson: Salvaging the Self
16. Kathleen S. Lowney and James A. Holstein: Victims, Villains, and Talk Show Selves
Section 2. Mind
17. George Herbert Mead: The Locus of Mind
18. Jaber F. Gubrium: The Social Preservation of
Mind: The Alzheimer's Disease Experience
19. Clinton R. Sanders: Understanding Dogs: Caretakers' Attributions of Mindedness in Canine-Human Relationships
Section 3. Emotions
20. Arlie Russell Hochschild: Emotion Work
21. Robin W. Simon, Donna Eder, and Cathy Evans: The
Development of Feeling Norms Underlying Romantic Love Among Adolescent Females
Section 4. Motives
22. John Dewey: On Motive
23. C. Wright Mills: Situated Actions and Vocabularies of Motive
24. Joseph Hopper: The Rhetoric of Motives in Divorce
Section 5.
Competence
25. James A. Holstein and Jaber F. Gubrium: Constructing Competence
26. Melvin Pollner and Lynn McDonald-Wikler: The Social Construction of Unreality: A Case Study of a Family's Attribution of Competence to a Severely Retarded Child
Section 6. The Body and the Physical
Self
27. Mary M. Gergen and Kenneth J. Gergen: Narratives of the Gendered Body in Popular Autobiography
28. Karen March: Who Do I Look Like? Gaining a Sense of Self-Authenticity Through the Physical Reflections of Others
29. Carolyn Ellis: "I Hate My Voice": Coming to Terms with
Minor Bodily Stigmas
PART 4. SOCIAL WORLDS
Section 1. Worlds of Race and Ethnicity
30. Langston Hughes: That Powerful Drop
31. Robin D.G. Kelley: Confessions of a Nice Negro, or Why I Shaved My Head
32. Pamela Perry: White Means Never Having to Say You're Ethnic:
White Youth and the Construction of "Cultureless" Identities
33. Beverly Daniel Tatum: "Who Are You if You Don't Speak Spanish?" Language and Identity Among Latinos
Section 2. The Gendered World
34. Gender Play: Creating a Sense of "Opposite Sides," Barrie Thorne
35. Amy L.
Best: Fashioning the Feminine
36. Lance Strate: Beer Commercials: A Manual on Masculinity
Section 3. Social Worlds of Age and the Life Course
37. Patricia A. Adler and Peter Adler: Preadolescent Clique Stratification and the Hierarchy of Identity
38. Carol Rambo Ronai:
Managing Aging in Young Adulthood: The "Aging" Table Dancer
39. Katherine Newman: Place and Race: Midlife Experience in Harlem
40. Sarah H. Matthews: The Social World of Old Women
Section 4. Family as a Social World
41. Jaber F. Gubrium and James A. Holstein: What Is
Family?
42. Nancy Anne Naples: A Member of the Funeral: An Introspective Ethnography
43. Catherine Kohler Riessman: Stigma and Everyday Resistance Practices: Childless Women in South India
Section 5. Worlds of Trouble
44. Robert M. Emerson and Sheldon L. Messienger: The
Micro-Politics of Trouble
45. Dorothy E. Smith: K Is Mentally Ill: The Anatomy of a Factual Account
46. Jack Katz: Ways of the Badass
Author Index
Subject Index
There are no Instructor/Student Resources available at this time.
James A. Holstein is at Marquette University. Jaber F. Gubrium is at University of Florida.
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