Social Psychology

By: Alfred R. Lindesmith, Anselm Strauss, Norman K. Denzin

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Paperback | 1 March 1999 | Edition Number 8

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A basic introduction to the field, Social Psychology, Eighth Edition takes a critical, symbolic, interactionist approach and helps students understand the very nature of how individuals do things together in today's society. The book has been significantly revised and takes into consideration a number of the recent turns in the field: the increased sense that American social psychology is deeply embedded in a world culture; that postmodernism has much to offer the study of the social world; and that new theories on sexuality, identity, deviance, and the body provide a fascinating viewpoint on the person within society. Now in paperback to be more affordable to students, Social Psychology, 8th Edition provides a distinctive alternative for the professor of social psychology.

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Preface	p. xi
The Social Psychological Imagination
The Field of Social Psychology	p. 3
A Definition of the Field	p. 3
The Existential Focus	p. 4
The Narrative Turn in Social Psychology	p. 5
Basic Social Processes	p. 8
The Social Psychological Imagination	p. 10
Symbolic Interactionism	p. 11
Key Terms	p. 13
Communication as Culture	p. 15
Gendered Identities	p. 16
What Symbolic Interactionists Do Not Like	p. 18
Behaviorism and Mind-Body Dualism	p. 22
Interpretive Versus Cognitive Social Psychologies	p. 24
Conclusion	p. 31
Suggested Readings	p. 32
Study Questions	p. 33
Primate Visions and Human Symbolic Behavior	p. 35
The Evolutionary Setting of Human Behavior	p. 35
The Evolution of Social Behavior	p. 36
Sociobiology	p. 39
The Behavior of Chimpanzees	p. 44
The History of Primate Research, Sociobiology, and Chimp Language Studies	p. 53
Symbolic Environments and Cognitive Structures	p. 58
Social Worlds, Symbolic Coordinates, and Fictions	p. 62
Conclusion	p. 65
Suggested Readings	p. 66
Study Questions	p. 66
Social Structure and Language
The Nature of Language	p. 69
Semiotics and Symbolic Interactionism	p. 69
The Categorical, or Language, Attitude	p. 73
The Nature of Language: Signs and Symbols	p. 77
Internalized Speech and Thought	p. 87
The Metaphysics of Presence	p. 91
Speech as Discourse	p. 92
Conclusion	p. 95
Suggested Readings	p. 95
Study Questions	p. 95
Language, Groups, and Social Structure	p. 97
Consensus and Human Groups	p. 97
Listening and Comprehending	p. 102
Language and the Social Structure of Thought	p. 104
Symbolic Behavior as Shared Behavior	p. 110
Humor, Interaction, and the Resources of Language	p. 112
Daydreaming and Dreaming	p. 115
Metaphor, Analogy, Flexibility of Thought, and Metonymy	p. 122
Conclusion	p. 125
Suggested Readings	p. 125
Study Questions	p. 126
Emotions and the Naming Process	p. 127
The Body and Pain	p. 127
Emotional Experience	p. 129
The Linguistic Aspect of Human Emotions	p. 130
Emotion as Symbolic Interaction	p. 134
Interpreting Drug Experiences	p. 135
Madness, the Uncanny, and Aphasia	p. 136
Alzheimer's Disease	p. 144
Body Images and Medicine	p. 145
Opiate and Other Addictions	p. 149
Conclusion	p. 154
Suggested Readings	p. 155
Study Questions	p. 155
Perception, Memory, Motives, and Accounts	p. 157
Preliminary Considerations	p. 157
Activity Theory	p. 158
Three Views of Motivation and Action	p. 160
Social Patterning of Perception	p. 161
Perception, Language, and Groups	p. 164
The Social Basis of Memory	p. 167
Human Remembering as a Symbolic Process	p. 167
The Planning of Behavior	p. 174
Motives, Activities, and Accounts	p. 175
Conclusion	p. 190
Suggested Readings	p. 191
Study Questions	p. 192
Childhood Socialization
Learning Language in Early Childhood	p. 195
Instrumental Use of Gestures	p. 196
Learning to Use and Comprehend Symbols	p. 198
Declarative and Manipulative Functions of Language	p. 202
Theories of Language Acquisition	p. 204
The Learning of Concepts	p. 208
Reasoning and Child Development	p. 211
Conclusion	p. 215
Suggested Readings	p. 215
Study Questions	p. 216
The Development of Self	p. 217
Language, Performance, and Human Nature	p. 217
Self and Identity	p. 218
Socialization and Interaction	p. 219
The Concept of Self	p. 222
Social Constructionism, Essentialism, and Identity Politics	p. 223
Theories of Agency and Action	p. 225
Development of Self-Awareness	p. 226
Body Awareness and Body Display	p. 227
Individuality and the Social Character of the Self	p. 231
The Self in Early Childhood	p. 235
Other Developmental Views: Freud, Lacan, Erikson, Sullivan	p. 237
Limitations of Stage Theories	p. 255
Conclusion	p. 255
Suggested Readings	p. 256
Study Questions	p. 257
The Social Worlds of Childhood	p. 259
The Child's Egocentrism	p. 260
A Critique of the Egocentric Perspective	p. 262
The Child's Network of Significant Others	p. 264
Perspectives and the Generalized Other	p. 267
The Socializing of Emotionality	p. 274
Gender Differentiation	p. 277
Conclusion	p. 281
Suggested Readings	p. 282
Study Questions	p. 282
Selves and Societies
Reading the Interaction Order	p. 285
The Cinematic Society	p. 285
The Birth of the Cinematic Society	p. 287
The Everyday Gaze and Narrative Reflexivity	p. 287
Cinematic Reality and the Cinematic Imagination	p. 289
The Logic of the Present	p. 291
Interaction Rituals and the Interactional Order	p. 292
Public Places and Civil Society	p. 294
The Cinematic Racial Order	p. 294
Two Approaches to Interaction: Rules and Roles	p. 298
Status Passage and Interaction	p. 304
Twin Processes: presenting and Assessing	p. 305
Small Groups and Problematic Interaction	p. 308
Conclusion	p. 310
Suggested Readings	p. 310
Study Questions	p. 311
Selves and Identity Transformations	p. 313
Careers	p. 315
Identity Transformations	p. 321
Self-Control and Self-Change	p. 323
Voluntary Behavior	p. 325
Interactional Loss of Self-Control	p. 328
Institutionally Induced Changes in Self-Control	p. 333
Coping Mechanisms	p. 337
Conclusion	p. 342
Suggested Readings	p. 342
Study Questions	p. 342
Sexuality and Identity	p. 343
Recent Histories and Theories of Sexuality	p. 344
Bisexuality	p. 346
A Queer Nation	p. 348
The AIDS Crisis	p. 349
The Evolutionary Picture	p. 351
Hormones, Homosexuality, and Inversion	p. 352
The Gender Stratification System	p. 358
Sexual Identity and Self-Esteem	p. 359
Falling In and Out of Love	p. 362
Sexual Activities and Erotic Imagery	p. 365
Conclusion	p. 372
Suggested Readings	p. 372
Study Questions	p. 373
Deviance, Deviant Bodies, and Deviant Worlds	p. 375
Discourse and the Work of Representation	p. 376
Social Constructionism and the Medicalization of Deviance	p. 377
Conceptions of Deviance	p. 378
The Nature of Deviance	p. 379
Deviant Careers and Social Worlds	p. 383
Deviant Worlds and Individuals	p. 384
Criminal Worlds	p. 385
Becoming an Alcoholic	p. 391
Family Violence	p. 392
Conclusion	p. 396
Suggested Readings	p. 397
Study Questions	p. 397
Illness, Aging, Dying, and Medical Bodies	p. 399
Technologies of Power and the Body	p. 400
Chronic Illness, Pain, and Medical Technology	p. 402
The Social Worlds of the Dying Child	p. 409
The Social Worlds of the Old	p. 410
Dying and Death	p. 418
The Social Consequences of Death	p. 421
The Meanings of Death	p. 423
Medicine, McDonald's, and the Risk Society	p. 424
Conclusion	p. 425
Suggested Readings	p. 426
Study Questions	p. 426
Glossary	p. 427
References	p. 437
Index	p. 463
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