The production of reality
Subtitle: essays and readings on social interaction
By: Jodi O'Brien, Peter Kollock.
Contributors: Kollock, Peter.
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Pine Forge Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 599
Subjects: Social psychology.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: What is real?; title: Reality as a collective hunch; title: A perspective for understanding self and social interaction; title: Humans as symbolic creatures. Shared meaning as the basis of humanness; title: Naming; title: Language and social behavior; title: Language, thought, and culture; title: Realizing symbolic order through interaction. Meaning is negotiated through interaction; title: Naming as an interactional process; title: Projecting the definition of the situation; title: Negotiating a working consensus; title: The self as a product of interaction; title: The social construction of reality. Building and breaching reality; title: A theory of reality; title: Self-fulfilling prophecies; title: The social construction of the cultural status quo; title: Ambiguity, complexity, and conflict. Boundaries and contradictions; title: Contradictions and conflict in self-production; title: Conflict and change in cultural production.