Self, Symbols, and Society Classic Readings

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Introduction

1

(8)

Part I: European Influences

Emile Durkheim on the Division of Labor in Society

9

(16)

Max Weber on Social Action

25

(27)

Georg Simmel on the Social Development of Individualism

52

(33)

Part II: Early- to Mid-Twentieth-Century Developments

Charles Horton Cooley's Concept of the Looking-Glass Self and Its Applications

85

(18)

William I. Thomas on the Definition of the Situation

103

(13)

George Herbert Mead on Self and Society

116

(27)

Alfred Schutz on Society and Intersubjectivity

143

(25)

Karl Mannheim on Self, Society, and the Sociology of Knowledge

168

(19)

Part III: Mid-Century Critiques and Refinements

David Riesman on Social Character

187

(22)

Erving Goffman on the Presentation of Self

209

(21)

Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann on the Social Construction of Self and Society

230

(19)

Herbert Blumer on Symbolic Interactionism

249

(15)

Harold Garfinkel on Ethnomethodology

264

(33)

Part IV: The Last Quarter Century

Arlie Russell Hochschild on the Management of Emotion

297

(20)

Robert Bellah et al. on Individualism and Community in America

317

(28)

Where Do We Go from Here? Toward a Theory of the Cycle of Individualism

345

(10)

Glossary

355

(4)

Bibliography

359

(4)

Index

363

(6)

Credits

369

(4)

About the Editor

373

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Self, Symbols, and Society Classic Readings in Social Psychology

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