Contributor
Preves, Sharon E., 1968-
Imprint:New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Descriptionxiv, 434 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Note:I. UNDERSTANDING AND STUDYING SOCIAL LIFE: A. THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF REALITY: Classic: 1. Body ritual among the Nacirema / Horace Miner -- 2. Death as theater: a dramaturgical analysis of the American funeral / Ronny E. Turner, Charles Edgley -- Contemporary: 3. The smile factory: work at Disneyland / John Van Maanen -- B. STUDYING SOCIAL LIFE: Classic: 4. Whose side are we on? / Howard S. Becker -- 5. Can you really study an army in the laboratory? / Morris Zelditch, Jr. -- Contemporary: 6. Methodological approach to social psychology / Gary Alan Fine, James S. House, Karen S. Cook -- II. THE PERSON IN SOCIETY: A. SOCIALIZATION: Classic: 7. Becoming a marihuana user / Howard S. Becker -- Contemporary: 8. Invisible inequality: social class and childrearing in black families and white families / Annette Lareau -- 9. Working and becoming adult / Jeylan T. Mortimer -- B. SYMBOLIC COMMUNICATION AND LANGUAGE: Classic: 10. Final note on a case of extreme isolation / Kingsley Davis -- Contemporary: 11. Language and patriarchy / William M. O'Barr -- C. SOCIAL PERCEPTION AND COGNITION: Classic: 12. Forming impressions of personalities / Solomon E. Asch -- Contemporary: 13. When the light's on and nobody's home / Ellen J. Langer -- 14. Self-processes and emotional experiences / Morris Rosenberg -- D. SELF-PRESENTATION AND IMPRESSION MANAGEMENT: Classic: 15. Regions and region behavior / Erving Goffman -- Contemporary: 16. From 'nerds' to 'normals': the recovery of identity among adolescents from middle school to high school / David A. Kinney -- III. INTERACTION IN GROUPS: A. INTERPERSONAL ATTRACTION AND RELATIONSHIPS: Classic: 17. The nature of love: a researcher's odyssey / Zick Rubin -- Contemporary: 18. 'Cooling out" men in singles bars and night clubs: observations on the interpersonal survival strategies of women in public places / David A. Snow, Cherylon Robinson, Patricia L. McCall -- 19. Changing our yesterdays: reconstruction of early relationship memories / Diane Holmberg, Terri L. Orbuch, Joseph Veroff -- B. THE DEFINITION OF THE SITUATION: Classic: 20. The psychology of imprisonment: privation, power, and pathology / Philip G. Zimbardo, Craig Haney, W. Curtis Banks, David Jaffe -- Contemporary: 21. When women abuse power, too / Melissa Sheridan Embser-Herbert -- 22. The Lucifer effect / Philip G. Zimbardo -- C. CONFORMITY AND OBEDIENCE: Classic: 23. Effects of group pressure upon the modification and distortion of judgments / Solomon E. Asch -- 24. Behavioral study of obedience / Stanley Milgram -- Contemporary: 25. The My Lai massacre: a military crime of obedience / Herbert C. Kelman, V. Lee Hamilton -- D. HELPING AND ALTRUISM: Classic: 26. Social determinants of bystander intervention in emergencies / Bibb Latané, John M. Darley -- Contemporary: 27. Aid in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina: inferences of secondary emotions and intergroup helping / Amy J.C. Cuddy, Mindi S. Rock, Michael I. Norton -- 28. Giving to others during national tragedy: the effects of altruistic and egotistic motivations on long-term gain /Rachel L. Piferi, Rebecca L. Jobe, Warren H. Jones -- E. GROUP PROCESS AND PERFORMANCE: Classic: 29. Superordinate goals in the reduction of intergroup conflict / Muzafer Sherif -- Contemporary: 30. Shared fantasy: role playing games as social worlds / Gary Alan Fine.
Note:IV. CONSTRUCTING A SOCIAL SELF: A. THE SOCIAL SELF: Classic: 31. The social self / Charles Horton Cooley -- 32. Play, the game, and the generalized order / George Herbert Mead -- Contemporary: 33. Social space, the final frontier: adolescents on the Internet / Kate Hellenga -- B. DEVIANCE AND LABELING: Classic: 34. On being sane in inane places / David L. Rosenhan -- 35. The discovery of hyperkinesis: notes on the medicalization of deviant behavior / Peter Conrad -- Contemporary: 36. Coming out and crossing over: identity formation and proclamation in a transgender community / Patricia Gagné, Richard Tewksbury, Deanna McGaughey -- C. STIGMA: Classic: 37. Passage through abortion: the personal and social reality of women's experiences / Mary K. Zimmerman -- Contemporary: 38. Managing emotions in public: the case of wheelchair users / Spencer E. Cahill, Robin Eggleston -- 39. Confronting deadly disease: the drama of identity construction among gay men with AIDS / Kent L. Sandstrom -- V. SOCIAL STRUCTURE AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY: A. RACE AND ETHNICITY: Classic: 40. The souls of black folk / W.E.B. Du Bois -- 41. That powerful drop / Langston Hughes -- Contemporary: 42. Medicalization of racial features: Asian American women and cosmetic surgery / Eugenia Kaw -- 443. The blacker the berry: gender, skin tone, self-esteem, and self-efficacy / Maxine S. Thompson, Verna M. Keith -- B. SOCIAL CLASS: Classic: 44. Social class and parental values / Melvin L. Kohn -- Contemporary: 45. The interacive relationship between class identity and the college experience: the case of lower income students / Elizabeth Aries, Maynard Seider -- 46. Teenagers in Clarendon Heights: the hallway hangers and the brothers / Jay MacLeod -- C. GENDER: Classic: 47. Men and women of the corporation / Rosaabeth Moss Kanter -- Contemporary: Still a man's world: men who do women's work / Christine L. Williams -- 49. Drag kinging and the transformation of gender identities / Eve Shapiro -- VI. CHANGING WORLDS, CHANGING SELVES: A. GLOBAL AND POSTMODERN IDENTITIES: Classic: 50. The stranger / Georg Simmel -- Contemporary: 51. What of the children? emerging homes and identities / Yen Le Espiritu -- 52. The new adulthood? the transition to adulthood from the perspective of transitioning young adults / Douglas Hartmann, Teresa Toguchi Swartz -- B. BORDER PATROL: INSIDERS AND OUTSIDERS: Classic: 53. A social distance scale / Emory S. Bogardus -- Contemporary: 54. Atheists as 'other': moral boundaries and cultural membership in American society / Penny Edgell, Joseph Gerteis, Douglas Hartmann -- 55. Terrorism, identity, and public order: a perspective from Goffman / Andrew J. Weigert -- C. THE POWER OF BELIEF: COLLECTIVE ACTION AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS: Classic: 56. Unfulfilled prophecies and disappointed messiahs / Leon Festinger, Henry Riecken, Stanley Schacter -- Contemporary: 57. Out of the O.R. and into the streets: exploring the impact of intersex media activism / Sharon E. Preves.
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