Sociology 360 at William Paterson University
The Sociology of Everyday Life, 2nd edition, by David Karp & William Yoels, F.E.Peacock, 1993
Is the required text for assignments.COURSE CONTENT, READINGS, AND LINKS
The Symbolic Interaction Perspective
- Cultural Conventions and Everyday Life (1-8)
- Social Interaction and Everyday Life (18-32)
- Concepts and Methods of Qualitative Research (Class Notes)
- Symbolic communication and Reality Construction (37-43)
- NEWSPEAK: Creating Language that Controls Reality (Class Project)
- The Self Develops Through Role-taking (43-50)
- The Inevitablilty of Non-conformity (50-55)
- Communicating Social Information (61-78)
- Manipulating Impressions by Controlling Information (79-87)
ESTABLISHING AND MAINTAINING SOCIAL ORDER
- Establishing Interaction with Strangers (91-106)
- Demonstration of Interaction Process Analysis
- Stages of Group Formation (Class Notes)
- Contacts Among Intimates (125-140)
- From Strangers to Intimates (140-158)
- The Politics of Social Interaction (165-174)
- The Relationship of Power and Role-Taking Ability (174-182)
- Everyday Subtle Uses of Power (182-189)
- Social Order as a Emerging Constructed Reality (Class Notes)
DISORDER AND SOCIAL CHANGE
- Everyday Deviance and Embarrassment (258-267)
- Restoring Identities Threatened by Deviant Labels (268-275)
- Lifestyle Deviance (275-284)
- Social Change and the Search for Self (321-339)
- Future Selves: Alternative Self Construction (339-347)
