IN THIS SECTION: 1.) BRIEF 2.) COMPREHENSIVE BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS: Chapter 1 Introducing Social Psychology and Symbolic Interactionism Chapter 2 Basic Concepts of Symbolic Interactionism Chapter 3 Identity, Social Settings and the Self Chapter 4 Defining Reality and Accounting for Behavior Chapter 5 Understanding and Constructing Social Order Chapter 6 Applications of the Symbolic Interactionist Perspective COMPREHENSIVE TABLE OF CONTENTS: Chapter 1 Introducing Social Psychology and Symbolic Interactionism What is Social Psychology? What is Symbolic Interactionism? Other Theoretical Approaches Learning Theory Psychoanalytic Theory Exchange Theory Phenomenology and Ethnomethodology Social Cognition Social Constructionism Postmodernism Major Tenets of Symbolic Interactionism Chapter 2 Basic Concepts of Symbolic Interactionism Symbols The Nature of Symbols The Consequences of Symbols Objects What is an Object? Objects and Language Acts and Social Acts Phases of the Act Self and the Control of Behavior Self as Object Self as Process Roles and the Definition of Situations Situations Role Role Making and Role Taking Role Taking as a Generalized Skill The Place of Emotions Chapter 3 Identity, Social Settings and the Self Learning the Social World Stages of Socialization Everyday Experience, Self and Impression Management Performances as Cumulative Expectations Conning Consciousness and Individual Agency Identity: The Self as a Social Object How We Produce Situated Identities The Experience of Situated Identity Social and Personal Identity Social Identity Personal Identity Self-Image: Knowing the Self Self-Esteem The Self, Motive, and Motivation Identity and Motivation Self-Esteem and Motivation The Self and the Social Order Limitations on the Choice of Roles Limitations on the Choice of Others Limitations on the Choice of Stories The Self in Contemporary Society Chapter 4 Defining Reality and Accounting for Behavior Role-Making and Role-Taking in Routine Situations Reality Is Not Just There—We Define What Is Real The Cognitive Bases of Role Making and Role Taking Typification Cognitive Theories and Inferential Heuristics Causality Means and Ends Normative Standards Substantive Congruency Aligning Actions Disclaimers Accounts Emotions and Social Interaction Constraint and Social Interaction Chapter 5 Understanding and Constructing Social Order Social Order as Coordinated Activity Influence Creating Social Bonds Solving Problems and Trust The Negotiated Order Talking Explaining Disorder Social Problems Chapter 6 Applications of the Symbolic Interactionist Perspective Variations on Total Institutions

New co-author, David Shulman, Professsor of Sociology at Lafayette College.Thorough update and rewrite, with new research and applications from the recent SI literature (the ideas of accounts, “disneyification,” dramaturgy and impression management, influence and persuasion, inferential heuristics, emotional labor, ethnomethodology, total institutions and trust.)New applications of symbolic interactionist ideas, including to celebrities, consumer behavior, casino design, doublespeak, high school bullying, malls, moral panics and websites. A new postscript provides applied exercises for readers interested in working further with the book’s ideas.