Table of Contents

Part 1 Symbolic Interactionism Chapter 2 Intellectual Antecedents Chapter 3 The Early Interactionists Part 4 Contemporary Interactionism: Major Varieties Chapter 5 The Chicago School Chapter 6 The Iowa School Chapter 7 The Dramaturgical Genre Chapter 8 Ethnomethodology Chapter 9 Contemporary Interactionism: Summary Characteristics Part 10 A Perspective Critiqued Chapter 11 Interactionist Self-Criticism Chapter 12 Noninteractionist Critiques Chapter 13 The New Studies in Social Organization: Overcoming the Astructural Bias Chapter 14 Human Emotions Chapter 15 Some Recent Directions in Symbolic Interactionism

About the Author

Larry T. Reynolds is Professor of Sociology at Central Michigan University and Adjunct Professor at the University of West Florida. He is former Chair of the Marxist Section of the American Sociological Association, recipient of the first annual Charles Horton Cooley Award, and past president of the North Central Sociological Association. A Fellow of the Rockport Institute, he has published in such journals as Sociometry, Sociological Quarterly, Phylon, and Current Anthropology. He is the author of A Critique of Contemporary American Sociology (1993); and Symbolic Interactionism (1994).