Robert Perinbanayagam is professor emeritus of sociology at Hunter College of the City University of New York.

...provides a comprehensive overview of symbolic interaction's intellectual origins, its early development either as the Chicago School or the Iowa School, and its relationship to kindred theoretical camps, such as dramaturgy and ethnomethodology....Recommended.

• Chapter 1 IntroductionPart 2 Intellectual Antecedents of Symbolic InteractionismChapter 3 Intellectual AntecedentsPart 4 Varieties of Symbolic Interactionism and Leading Early RepresentativesChapter 5 The Early Interactionists: Cooley and ThomasChapter 6 Mead's Social PsychologyChapter 7 Theoretical and Ideological Variations in Contemporary InteractionismChapter 8 Herbert Blumer: Sociologist Par ExcellenceChapter 9 Kuhn's Formulation of the SelfChapter 10 Erving GoffmanChapter 11 Harold Garfinkel: The Founder of EthnomethodologyPart 12 Methodological StancesChapter 13 Interactionist Research Methods: An OverviewChapter 14 Sociological Analysis and the "Variable"Chapter 15 Beyond Blumer and Kuhn: Researching and Studying Across-time Data Through the Use of Point-in-space Laboratory ProceduresChapter 16 Walking a Tightrope: Dilemmas of Participant Observation of Groups in ConflictPart 17 Minded BehaviorChapter 18 Mind, Experience, and BehaviorChapter 19 The Regulation of the WishesChapter 20 Rapists' Vocabulary of MotivesChapter 21 Emergence and Human ConductChapter 22 Baseball MagicPart 23 The SelfChapter 24 The Looking-Glass SelfChapter 25 The Presentation of Self in Everyday LifeChapter 26 Generic Processes of Impression Management: Two Case Studies of Physical and Mental DisabilityChapter 27 Negotiating a Religious Identity: The Case of the Gay EvangelicalChapter 28 The Problem of Identity Construction Among the HomelessPart 29 Social StructureChapter 30 Society as Symbolic InteractionChapter 31 Reference Groups as PerspectivesChapter 32 In Search of Mesostructure: Studies in the Negotiated OrderChapter 33 Interactionism and the Study of Social OrganizationChapter 34 Unobtrusive Power: Interaction between Health Providers and Consumers at Council MeetingsPart 35 Research ApplicationsChapter 36 Becoming Observant and Falling from Faith: Variations of Jewish Conversion ExperiencesChapter 37 Family Caregivers of the Mentally Ill: Negative and Positive Adaptive ResponsesChapter 38 The Social Construction of HypnosisChapter 39 The Emergence and Maintenance of a Deviant Sub-culture: The Case of Hunting/Poaching Sub-cultureChapter 40 He's a Lumberjack and He's Not Okay: The Fall of the Urban TreemanPart 41 Some New Directions: Generic Principles, Gender, Emotions, Postmodernism, Discursive ActsChapter 42 Everyday Life SociologyChapter 43 Human Emotions: An Expanding Sociological FrontierChapter 44 Generic Social Processes and the Study of Human Lived Experiences: Achieving Transcontextuality in Ethnographic ResearchChapter 45 And A Child Shall Lead Us? Children, Gender, and Perspective by IncongruityChapter 46 Forms of DiscourseChapter 47 The Collective Story: Postmodernism and the Writing of Sociology

Robert Perinbanayagam is professor emeritus of sociology at Hunter College of the City University of New York.

...provides a comprehensive overview of symbolic interaction's intellectual origins, its early development either as the Chicago School or the Iowa School, and its relationship to kindred theoretical camps, such as dramaturgy and ethnomethodology....Recommended.

• Chapter 1 IntroductionPart 2 Intellectual Antecedents of Symbolic InteractionismChapter 3 Intellectual AntecedentsPart 4 Varieties of Symbolic Interactionism and Leading Early RepresentativesChapter 5 The Early Interactionists: Cooley and ThomasChapter 6 Mead's Social PsychologyChapter 7 Theoretical and Ideological Variations in Contemporary InteractionismChapter 8 Herbert Blumer: Sociologist Par ExcellenceChapter 9 Kuhn's Formulation of the SelfChapter 10 Erving GoffmanChapter 11 Harold Garfinkel: The Founder of EthnomethodologyPart 12 Methodological StancesChapter 13 Interactionist Research Methods: An OverviewChapter 14 Sociological Analysis and the "Variable"Chapter 15 Beyond Blumer and Kuhn: Researching and Studying Across-time Data Through the Use of Point-in-space Laboratory ProceduresChapter 16 Walking a Tightrope: Dilemmas of Participant Observation of Groups in ConflictPart 17 Minded BehaviorChapter 18 Mind, Experience, and BehaviorChapter 19 The Regulation of the WishesChapter 20 Rapists' Vocabulary of MotivesChapter 21 Emergence and Human ConductChapter 22 Baseball MagicPart 23 The SelfChapter 24 The Looking-Glass SelfChapter 25 The Presentation of Self in Everyday LifeChapter 26 Generic Processes of Impression Management: Two Case Studies of Physical and Mental DisabilityChapter 27 Negotiating a Religious Identity: The Case of the Gay EvangelicalChapter 28 The Problem of Identity Construction Among the HomelessPart 29 Social StructureChapter 30 Society as Symbolic InteractionChapter 31 Reference Groups as PerspectivesChapter 32 In Search of Mesostructure: Studies in the Negotiated OrderChapter 33 Interactionism and the Study of Social OrganizationChapter 34 Unobtrusive Power: Interaction between Health Providers and Consumers at Council MeetingsPart 35 Research ApplicationsChapter 36 Becoming Observant and Falling from Faith: Variations of Jewish Conversion ExperiencesChapter 37 Family Caregivers of the Mentally Ill: Negative and Positive Adaptive ResponsesChapter 38 The Social Construction of HypnosisChapter 39 The Emergence and Maintenance of a Deviant Sub-culture: The Case of Hunting/Poaching Sub-cultureChapter 40 He's a Lumberjack and He's Not Okay: The Fall of the Urban TreemanPart 41 Some New Directions: Generic Principles, Gender, Emotions, Postmodernism, Discursive ActsChapter 42 Everyday Life SociologyChapter 43 Human Emotions: An Expanding Sociological FrontierChapter 44 Generic Social Processes and the Study of Human Lived Experiences: Achieving Transcontextuality in Ethnographic ResearchChapter 45 And A Child Shall Lead Us? Children, Gender, and Perspective by IncongruityChapter 46 Forms of DiscourseChapter 47 The Collective Story: Postmodernism and the Writing of Sociology