| Preface |
ix |
| PART 1. POINTS OF DEPARTURE |
1 |
| PART 2. SOCIAL INTERACTION |
15 |
| Section 1. Interaction in Everyday Life |
27 |
| 1. Cornerville and Its People, William Foote Whyte |
29 |
| 2. The Sociology of Everyday Life, Jack D. Douglas |
30 |
| 3. Five Features of Reality, Hugh Mehan and Houston Wood |
36 |
| Section 2. Language and Communication |
50 |
| 4. Meaning and Social Interaction, George Herbert Mead |
52 |
| 5. Society as Symbolic Interaction, Herbert Blumer |
54 |
| 6. Metaphors We Live By, George Lakoff and Mark Johnson |
61 |
| 7. Categories in Discourse, Jonathan Potter and Margaret Wetherell |
62 |
| Section 3. The Work of Social Interaction |
78 |
| 8. The Definition of the Situation, W.I. Thomas |
80 |
| 9. Teamwork, Erving Goffman |
82 |
| 10. Behavior in Private Places: Sustaining Definitions of Reality in Gynecological Examinations, Joan P. Emerson |
95 |
| PART 3. INNER LIVES |
107 |
| Section 1. Selves and Identities |
119 |
| 11. The Me and the I, William James |
121 |
| 12. The Looking-Glass Self, Charles Horton Cooley |
123 |
| 13. The Self, George Herbert Mead |
125 |
| 14. The Presentation of Self, Erving Goffman |
130 |
| 15. Salvaging the Self, David A. Snow and Leon Anderson |
139 |
| 16. Victims, Villains, and Talk Show Selves, Kathleen S. Lowney and James A. Holstein |
161 |
| Section 2. Mind |
177 |
| 17. The Locus of Mind, George Herbert Mead |
179 |
| 18. The Social Preservation of Mind: The Alzheimer's Disease Experience, Jaber F. Gubrium |
180 |
| 19. Understanding Dogs: Caretakers' Attributions of Mindedness in Canine-Human Relationships, Clinton R. Sanders |
191 |
| Section 3. Emotions |
202 |
| 20. Emotion Work, Arlie Russell Hochschild |
204 |
| 21. The Development of Feeling Norms Underlying Romantic Love Among Adolescent Females, Robin W. Simon, Donna Eder, and Cathy Evans |
226 |
| Section 4. Motives |
245 |
| 22. On Motive, John Dewey |
247 |
| 23. Situated Actions and Vocabularies of Motive, C. Wright Mills |
248 |
| 24. The Rhetoric of Motives in Divorce, Joseph Hopper |
255 |
| Section 5. Competence |
268 |
| 25. Constructing Competence, James A. Holstein and Jaber F. Gubrium |
270 |
| 26. The Social Construction of Unreality: A Case Study of a Family's Attribution of Competence to a Severely Retarded Child, Melvin Pollner and Lynn McDonald-Wikler |
290 |
| Section 6. The Body and the Physical Self |
301 |
| 27. Narratives of the Gendered Body in Popular Autobiography, Mary M. Gergen and Kenneth J. Gergen |
304 |
| 28. Who Do I Look Like? Gaining a Sense of Self-Authenticity Through the Physical Reflections of Others, Karen March |
317 |
| 29. "I Hate My Voice": Coming to Terms with Minor Bodily Stigmas, Carolyn Ellis |
323 |
| PART 4. SOCIAL WORLDS |
341 |
| Section 1. Worlds of Race and Ethnicity |
353 |
| 30. That Powerful Drop, Langston Hughes |
355 |
| 31. Confessions of a Nice Negro, or Why I Shaved My Head, Robin D.G. Kelley |
356 |
| 32. White Means Never Having to Say You're Ethnic: White Youth and the Construction of "Cultureless" Identities, Pamela Perry |
362 |
| 33. "Who Are You if You Don't Speak Spanish?" Language and Identity Among Latinos, Beverly Daniel Tatum |
381 |
| Section 2. The Gendered World |
384 |
| 34. Gender Play: Creating a Sense of "Opposite Sides," Barrie Thorne |
386 |
| 35. Fashioning the Feminine, Amy L. Best |
405 |
| 36. Beer Commercials: A Manual on Masculinity, Lance Strate |
419 |
| Section 3. Social Worlds of Age and the Life Course |
428 |
| 37. Preadolescent Clique Stratification and the Hierarchy of Identity, Patricia A. Adler and Peter Adler |
430 |
| 38. Managing Aging in Young Adulthood: The "Aging" Table Dancer, Carol Rambo Ronai |
451 |
| 39. Place and Race: Midlife Experience in Harlem, Katherine Newman |
458 |
| 40. The Social World of Old Women, Sarah H. Matthews |
476 |
| Section 4. Family as a Social World |
486 |
| 41. What Is Family?, Jaber F. Gubrium and James A. Holstein |
488 |
| 42. A Member of the Funeral: An Introspective Ethnography, Nancy Anne Naples |
493 |
| 43. Stigma and Everyday Resistance Practices: Childless Women in South India, Catherine Kohler Riessman |
505 |
| Section 5. Worlds of Trouble |
522 |
| 44. The Micro-Politics of Trouble, Robert M. Emerson and Sheldon L. Messienger |
524 |
| 45. K Is Mentally Ill: The Anatomy of a Factual Account, Dorothy E. Smith |
536 |
| 46. Ways of the Badass, Jack Katz |
558 |
| Author Index |
583 |
| Subject Index |
591 |