Human Behavior and Social Processes: An Interactionist Approach

by Arnold M. Rose

Overview

This is Volume VI in of eighteen a series on the Sociology of Behaviour and Psychology. Originally published in 1962, this book offers the interactionist approach when looking at human behaviour and social processes. This book shows that interaction theory can provide us with a body of significant testable propositions regarding the relationship of self and society.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415864121
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/03/2013
Series:	International Library of Sociology
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	696
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

PART ONE Theory for Social Psychology 1. A Systematic Summary of Symbolic Interaction Theory 2. Role-Taking: Process Versus Conformity 3. Conditions of Accurate Role-Taking: A Test of Mead's Theory Sheldon Stryker 4. Transformations of Identity 5. Appearance and the Self 6. What Other? 7. Reference Groups and Social Control 8. Breadth of Perspective PART TWO The Individual and Social Organization 9. Society as Symbolic Interaction PART ONE Theory for Social Psychology 1. A Systematic Summary of Symbolic Interaction Theory 2. Role-Taking: Process Versus Conformity 3. Conditions of Accurate Role-Taking: A Test of Mead's Theory 4. Transformations of Identity 5. Appearance and the Self 6. What Other? 7. Reference Groups and Social Control 8. Breadth of Perspective PART TWO The Individual and Social Organization 9. Society as Symbolic Interaction 10. The Interview and the Professional Relationship 11. Dilemmas in the Doctor-Patient Relationship 12. Sociology of Occupations: The Case of the American Funeral Director 13. Industrial Workers' Worlds: A Study of the Central Life Interests of Industrial Workers 14. Cooperative Evasions to Support Labor-Management Contracts 15. Types of Family Organization: Child-Oriented, Home[1]Oriented, and Parent-Oriented 16. Social Stratification and the Political Order 17. Social Bases of Political Commitment: A Study of Liberals and Radicals 18. Collective Dynamics: Process and Form 19. Beyond Utopia: The Beat Generation as a Challenge for the Sociology of Knowledge PART THREE Studies in Social Process 20. Social Problems and Social Processes 21. Social-Action Systems and Social Problems 10. The Interview and the Professional Relationship 11. Dilemmas in the Doctor-Patient Relationship 12. Sociology of Occupations: The Case of the American Funeral Director 13. Industrial Workers' Worlds: A Study of the Central Life Interests of Industrial Workers 14. Cooperative Evasions to Support Labor-Management Contracts 15. Types of Family Organization: Child-Oriented, Home[1]Oriented, and Parent-Oriented 16. Social Stratification and the Political Order 17. Social Bases of Political Committment: A Study of Liberals and Radicals 18. Collective Dynamics: Process and Form 19. Beyond Utopia: The Beat Generation as a Challenge for the Sociology of Knowledge PART THREE Studies in Social Process 20. Social Problems and Social Processes 21. Social-Action Systems and Social Problems 22. The Differential-Association Theory of Crime 23. Role Theory, Differential Association, and Compulsive Crimes Donald 24. Some Relevant Directions for Research in Juvenile Delinquency 25. On Cooling the Mark Out: Some Aspects of Adaptation to Failure 26. Socialization for Postparental Life 27. Self and Role in Adjustment During Old Age 28. A Social-Psychological Theory of Neurosis 29. Self-Conception and Physical Rehabilitation 30. The Treatment of Tuberculosis as a Bargaining Process 31. Marihuana Use and Social Control 32. Desegregation as an Object of Sociological Study 33. Urbanism and Suburbanism as Ways of Life: A Re-evaluation of Definitions 34. Social Processes in the Metropolitan Community