Sharon Preves and Jeylan T. Mortimer
Bringing together a wide variety of captivating classic and contemporary selections, this anthology includes work from a symbolic interactionist perspective as well as studies informed by expectation states theory, experimental social psychology, and life course sociology. The selections address
the social psychological underpinnings and outcomes of group dynamics, social stratification, bureaucracy, deviant behavior, globalization, and technological change. The book's innovative structure allows students to experience the foundational work of influential sociologists and psychologists
through the lens of cutting-edge issues. This groundbreaking collection features brief excerpts from the classic literature of social psychology (by Emory Bogardus, Melvin Kohn, Stanley Milgram, Muzafer Sherif, Philip Zimbardo, and others). These texts are paired with explanatory comments by the
editors and contemporary writings that show the earlier studies' relevance to contemporary social issues.
Enhanced by several pedagogical features, including introductory comments that highlight the connections between the classic and contemporary selections, highly engaging discussion
questions for each article and unit, and a wide variety of supplemental resources (readings, websites, films, and radio programs), the book is ideal for both graduate and undergraduate courses in social psychology.
I. Understanding and Studying Social Life
A. The Social Construction of Reality
B. Studying Social Life
II. The Person in Society
A. Socialization
B. Symbolic Communication and Language
C. Social Perception and Cognition
D. Self-Presentation and
Impression Management
III. Interaction in Groups
A. Interpersonal Attraction and Relationships
B. The Definition of the Situation
C. Conformity and Obedience
D. Helping and Altruism
E. Group Process and Performance
IV. Constructing a Social Self
A. The
Social Self
B. Deviance and Labeling
C. Stigma
V. Social Structure and Social Psychology
A. Race and Ethnicity
B. Social Class
C. Gender
VI. Changing Worlds, Changing Selves
A. Global and Postmodern Identities
B. Border Patrol: Insiders and
Outsiders
C: The Power of Belief: Collective Action and Social Movements
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Sharon Preves is the Chair of the Sociology Department and an Associate Professor at Hamline University. She is interested in the structure of social privilege based on gender, power, and normative position. Her research focuses include medical ethics, gender, and sexuality. Jeylan T.
Mortimer is a Professor at the University of Minnesota. Her current research is centered on the "Youth Development Study," supported by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, which examines pathways through the transition to adulthood, mental health and attainment, and how
parental trajectories from adolescence to adulthood influence their children.
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