Introduction
Uses of the Selections
About the Contributors

Part I: Human Being and Social Reality
Introduction
Reading 1: Kenneth Gergen, Together We Construct Our Worlds
Reading 2: Gerald Handel, Spencer Cahill, and Frederick Elkin, Human Neural Plasticity and Socialization
Reading 3: Kent Sandstrom, Symbols and the Creation of Reality
Reading 4: Eviatar Zerubavel, The Rules of Denial
Reading 5: Susan Blackmore, The Meme Machine

Part II: The Social Shaping of Subjective Experience
Introduction
Reading 6: Dennis D. Waskul and Phillip Vannini, Smell, Odor, and Somatic Work
Reading 7: Arlie Hochschild, Working on Feeling
Reading 8: Nancy Berns, Closure Talk
Reading 9: Christian Vaccaro, Douglas Schrock, and Janice McCabe, Managing Emotional Manhood
Reading 10: Brandon Jackson and Ada Harvey Wingfield, Getting Angry to Get Ahead

Part III: The Social Construction of the Body and Embodiment
Introduction
Reading 11: Karin A. Martin, Becoming a Gendered Body
Reading 12: Dennis D. Waskul, Phillip Vannini, and Desiree Wiesen, Women and Their Clitoris
Reading 13: Angela Orend and Patricia Gagné, Corporate Logo Tattoos and the Commodification of the Body
Reading 14: Meika Loe and Leigh Cuttino, Grappling with the Medicated Self

Part IV: The Social Construction of the Self
Introduction
Reading 15: Charles Horton Cooley, The Self as Sentiment and Reflection
Reading 16: George Herbert Mead, The Self as Social Structure
Reading 17: Vichet Chhuon and Cynthia Hudley, The Ethnic Options and Identity Negotiations of Cambodian American Students
Reading 18: Jaber Gubrium and James Holstein, The Self in a World of Going Concerns

Part V: The Self and Social Interaction
Introduction
Reading 19: Erving Goffman, The Presentation of Self
Reading 20: David Grazian, The Girl Hunt
Reading 21: Patricia Adler and Peter Adler, The Glorified Self
Reading 22: David Snow and Leon Anderson, Salvaging the Self from Homelessness
Reading 23: Simon Gottschalk, The Presentation of Self in Virtual Spaces

Part VI: The Organization of Social Interaction
Introduction
Reading 24: Erving Goffman, Face-Work and Interactional Rituals
Reading 25: Spencer Cahill, The Interaction Order of Public Restrooms
Reading 26: Nikki Jones, Working 'the Code' in the Inner City
Reading 27: Matthew Desmond, Making Firefighters Deployable

Part VII: The Construction of Social Structures and Boundaries
Introduction
Reading 28: Herbert Blumer, Society in Action
Reading 29: Kristin Barker and Tasha R. Galardi, Autism Spectrum Disorder and the DSM-5
Reading 30: Jessica Vasquez-Tokos, Disciplined Preferences: Explaining the (Re)Production of Latino Endogamy
Reading 31: Daniel Chambliss, Protecting the Routine from Chaos

Part VIII: Reproducing and Resisting Inequalities
Introduction
Reading 32: Margarethe Kusenbach, Salvaging Decency
Reading 33: Carissa Froyum, For the Betterment of Kids Who Look Like Me
Reading 34: Shane Sharp, Escaping Symbolic Entrapment, Maintaining Social Identities
Reading 35: Alex I. Thompson, Wrangling Tips: Entrepreneurial Manipulation in Fast-Food Delivery

Part IX: The Politics of Reality
Introduction
Reading 36: Erving Goffman, The Moral Career of the Mental Patient
Reading 37: Amir Marvasti, Being Middle Eastern American in the Context of the War on Terror
Reading 38: Sharmila Rudrappa and Caitlyn Collins, Altruistic Agencies and Compassionate Consumers: Moral Framing of Transnational Surrogacy
Reading 39: Daniel D. Martin, The Politics of Sorrow and Identity in the Aftermath of Murder