The Production of Reality: Essays and Readings on Social Interaction - Softcover

O'Brien, Jodi; Kollock, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 076198500X ISBN 13: 9780761985006

Publisher: Altamira Pr, 1997

Synopsis

"The essays are engaging and the stories the authors tell are delightful. I especially like the illustrations of what is 'real' and what is 'not real.' Convincing college students that reality is socially constructed is no easy task, and stories that the students can 'get' help enormously. I plan to continue to use this exciting and insightful text."

- Barbara Trepagnier, University of Texas

"I was initially attracted to this book because it was organized in exactly the way I had been organizing my course in social psychology - to find it all in one book was great. The section on theory is among the best I've seen; additionally, students really LIKE this book, and if they like it, they read it. My thanks go out to O'Brien and Kollock for their writing of a book that fills what was a huge gap in the social psychological textbook market."

- Rebecca J. Erickson, University of Akron

About this title

Review

"The author, with his long and extensive experience in this field, gives a detailed study of the different crimes and the methods of combating them...he knows what to say and how to say it."

(T. Rajagopalan The Hindu)

About the Author

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.

Peter Kollock is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He teaches courses in social psychology, cooperation and collective action, the sociology of cyberspace and on entrepeneurism..Dr. Kollock has won teaching awards at UCLA and the University of Washington.

Edition details

• Publisher: Altamira Pr
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 076198500X
• ISBN 13: 9780761985006
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 585