Social Psychology of Human Interaction: An Interdisciplinary Perspective

Symbolic Interaction 
Early Symbolic Interaction: Karl Marx, Max Weber, Emile Durkheim, and Georg Simmel 
William Isaac Thomas: The Thomas Theorem 
George Herbert Mead: Laying the Foundation 
William James 
Charles Horton Cooley: The Looking Glass Self 
John Dewey 
Influence of Pragmatism, Darwinism, and Behaviorism 
George Herbert Mead: Mind, Self, and Society 
   Mind 
   Self 
   Society 
Symbolic Interaction 
Herbert Blumer on Symbolic Interaction 
The Chicago School Versus the Iowa School 
Areas of Agreement 
Areas of Divergence 

Dramaturgical Approach: Erving Goffman  
Introduction 
Theorists Who Inspired Goffman  
Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (1959)  
   Fronts 
   Reality and Contrivance 
   Teams 
   Regions 
   Discrepant Roles  
   Information Control: Keeping Secrets  
   Return to Discrepant Roles 
   Communication  
   Impression Management  
   Defending the Performance 
   Social Establishments 
   Cultural Comparisons 
   Conveying the Impression of Self 
   Staging  
Behavior in Public Places (1963) 
Interaction Ritual (1967) 
Conclusion 

Rational Choice and Exchange Theories  
Introduction  
Early Rational Choice and Exchange Theories  
Exchange Theory in Anthropology  
Bronislaw Malinowski and Nonmaterial Exchange  
Marcel Mauss and the Emergence of Exchange Structuralism 
Claude Levi-Strauss and the Larger Social Structure  
Psychological Behaviorism and Exchange Theory  
Sociological Tradition and Exchange Theory 
Karl Marx’s Conflict Theory and Exchange Theory 
Georg Simmel’s Contribution Exchange Theory  
Rational Choice and Economics  
George Homans and Behavioral Psychology  
Social Approval and Conformity  
Power  
Social Behavior as Exchange  
Macrostructure and Human Behavior 
Exchange Theory in Summation  
Peter Blau: Dialectical Approach 
Exchange Structure and Macrostructure 
Values and Institutions 
Level of Organizations 
Conclusion 

Phenomenology and Ethnomethodology  
Introduction  
Edmund Husserl: Lifeworld  
Alfred Schutz: Developing Husserl’s Theory  
   The Stranger (1944)  
   The Homecomer (1944)  
The Social Construction of Reality: Peter Berger and Thomas Luckman  
Institutions: Humans and the Environment  
   Origins of Institutionalization  
   Reality Internalized  
Ethnomethodology and Harold Garfinkel  
   The Coroner’s Office Establishing How Individuals Lived and      Died  
   Jurors Accomplishing Reality  
   Accomplishing Gender 
   Breaching Experiments  
   Conversational Analysis 

Taking a Deeper Dive  
   Studying Set Routines  
   Conversing Shorthand  
   Breaching Experiment in Conversations  
   Acting as Boarders at Home  
   Decision-Making Process of Jurors  
   Agnes: The Intersexed Person 
   Lies Exposed 

Conclusion 
Is There a Reality? 

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