The Production of Reality 7/e

Jodi O'Brien is Professor of Sociology and Women and Gender Studies at Seattle University. She is the editor of the Encyclopedia of Gender and Society and co-editor of the "Contemporary Sociological Perspectives" book series. Her books include The Production of Reality, Social Prisms, and Everyday Inequalities. Her courses and research focus on difference, power and discrimination, and religion and sexuality.

Prologue: What is Real? - Jodi O'Brien Part I: Introduction Essay: The Nature of Humanness - Jodi O'Brien Reading 1: Our Permanently Plastic Brains - Gina Rippon Reading 2: What Do Memes Tell Us About Self and Time During the Pandemic? - Michael Flaherty and Cosima Rughinis Part II: Language and Social Development Essay: Shared Meaning as the Basis of Human Development - Jodi O'Brien Symbol Use, Language, and Development Reading 3: George Herbert Mead's Self and Mind - Bernard N. Meltzer Reading 4: Final Note on a Case of Extreme Isolation - Kingsley Davis Language and Culture Reading 5: Metaphors We Live By - George Lakoff and Mark Johnson Reading 6: Translating Indigenous Sexualities - Manuela L. Picq and Josi Tikuna Part III -Learning Social Identities and Social Scripts Essay: Learning the Script: Socialization Socialization and Reference Groups Reading 7: Reference Groups as Perspectives - Tamotsu Shibutani Reading 8: We Don't Sleep Around Like White Girls Do - Yen Le Espiritu Naming and Feeling Experience Reading 9: Becoming a Marijuana User - Howard Becker Reading 10: The Development of Feeling Norms Underlying Romantic Love - Robin Simon Part IV: Producing Social Selves Essay: Who Am I? Developing Character - Jodi O'Brien Significant Others, Social Context & Self Development Reading 11: Looking Glass Self - Charles Horton Cooley Reading 12: Why Do Teens Seem So Strange Online? - Danah Boyd Reading 13: Life as the Maid's Daughter - Mary Romero Essay: Self as a Process of Contradiction and Conflict - Jodi O'Brien Contradictions and Conflict in Self Development Reading 14: Double Consciousness and the Veil - W.E. B. DuBois Reading 15: A Reflection on Studying White Identity as a Native Person - Sofia Locklear Reading 16: Queer Negotiations of Identity and Social Group Membership - Carla Pfeffer Part V: Producing Social Life Through Interaction Essay: Meaning is Negotiated through Interaction - Jodi O'Brien Self-Presentation and Projecting the Definition of the Situation Reading 17: The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life - Erving Goffman Reading 18: Death as Theatre - Ronny E. Turner and Charles Edgely Identity Work, & Emotional Labor Reading 19: The Managed Heart - Arlie Hochschild Reading 20: From Prowar Soldier to Antiwar Activist - David Flores Reading 21: Panhandling Repertoires and Routines for Overcoming the Nonperson Treatment - Stephen E. Lankenau Part VI: The Social Production of Reality Essay: Building and Breaching Reality - Jodi O'Brien Constructing Realities Reading 22: Five Features of Reality - Hugh Mehan and Houston Wood Reading 23: A Conception of and Experiments with "Trust" as a Condition of Concerted Stable Actions - Harold Garfinkel Reading 24: Self-Fulfilling Prophecies - Paul Watzlawick Maintaining the Status Quo and Constructing Change Reading 25: The Persistence of Gender Inequality in Employment Settings - Cecilia Ridgeway Reading 26: Bathroom Battlegrounds - Kristen Shilt and Laurel Westbrook Reading 27: Challenging Racist Nativist Framing - Lindsay Perez Huber Epilogue