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Author Charmaz, Kathy

Title The Social Self and Everyday Life : Understanding the World Through Symbolic Interactionism
Published Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (287 pages)
Contents Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 An Invitation to Learn about Self, Situation, and Society; #ThisIsWhatAnxietyFeelsLike; Sociology, Psychology, and Social Psychology; Symbolic Interactionism and Other Perspectives; Overview of the Book; Chapter Previews; Note; References; Chapter 2 Looking at Life from the Symbolic Interactionist Perspective; Symbolic Interactionism as a Theoretical Perspective; Assumptions about Human Nature and Social Life; Premises of the Symbolic Interactionist Perspective; The Development of Self
Society, Self, and Mind: The Social Psychology of George Herbert MeadCharles Horton Cooley's "Looking Glass Self"; Self, Self-Concept, and Identity; Defining the Situation, Naming, and Knowing; W.I. Thomas and Dorothy Swaine Thomas's Theorem; Anselm Strauss and Naming and Knowing; Erving Goffman's Metaphor of the Theater: Dramaturgical Analysis; Conclusion; Learning by Using the Symbolic Interactionist Perspective; Notes; References; Chapter 3 Socialization: Becoming Ourselves; What Is Socialization?; Sociological Perspectives on Socialization; Conceptualizing Socialization
Theoretical Perspectives of SocializationTypes of Socializing Experiences; Socialization in Childhood; Infants and Agency; Parents and Children; Peers and Socialization; Adult Socialization; Involvements and Evolvements; Total Institutions and Remaking the Self; Conclusion; Learning by Using the Symbolic Interactionist Perspective; Notes; References; Chapter 4 The Social Body: Appearances and Experiences; Bodily Appearances; Coping with Bodily Stigma; Defining Stigma; Responding to Being Stigmatized; Interpreting Bodily Experiences; Conclusion
Learning by Using the Symbolic Interactionist PerspectiveNotes; References; Chapter 5 Health, Illness, and Disability; Meanings of Health, Illness, and Disability; Maintaining Health; Individual vs. Social Responsibility for Health; Individual Responsibility for Health; Gender and Individual Responsibility for Health; Extending Individual Responsibility through Online Participation; Social Responsibility for Health; Individual Responsibility and Neoliberalism; How Individual Responsibility for Health Complements Neoliberalism; Moral Failure and Victim-Blaming; Experiencing Serious Illness
The Diagnostic QuestBiographical Disruption and Loss of Self; Living with Illness and Disability; Medicalization, Biomedicalization, and Risk; Conclusion; Learning by Using the Symbolic Interactionist Perspective; Notes; References; Chapter 6 Emotion Norms, Emotion Management, and Emotional Labor; Emotion Norms; Emotion Management; Interpersonal Emotion Management; Emotional Labor; Controlling Employees' Emotions; The Unequal Distribution of Emotional Labor; Conclusion; Learning by Using the Symbolic Interactionist Perspective; Notes; References
Notes Chapter 7 All Our Families: Diverse Forms, Diverse Meanings
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Author Harris, Scott
Irvine, Leslie
ISBN 9781118645376
1118645375