About six months ago I put a request in for this list (Teaching Sociology) to make recommendations for favorite monographs for a course on Self and Social Interaction -- rather similar to your Soc in Everyday Life course. These were "favorite micro-sociology monographs" for people on the list in January. I found it helpful.
Kai Erikson, Everything In It's Path. Simon and Schuster, New York: 1976.
Barrie Thorne. Gender Play: Girls And Boys In School. Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ: 1993
Eder, Donna. School Talk: Gender And Adolescent Culture. Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ: 1995.
Penelope Eckert. Jocks And Burnouts: Social Categories And Identity In High School. Teachers College Press, New York: 1989.
Irving Goffman, The Presentation Of Self In Everyday Life. University of Edinburgh Social Sciences Research Centre, Edinburgh: 1956.
James Spradley & Brenda Mann, The Cocktail Waitress. Wiley, New York: 1975.
Jay Macleod, Ain't No Makin' It. Westview Press, Boulder: 1995
Kat Kinkade, Is It Utopia Yet? Twin Oaks Publishing, Twin Oaks Community: 1994.
Dennis J. Stouffer, Journeys Through Hell: Stories Of Burn Survivor's Reconstruction Of Self And Identity. Phoenix Society, Levittown, PA: 1994.
Kathy Charmaz, Good Days/Bad Days: The Self And Time In Chronic Illness. Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ: 1991.
Tim Diamond, Making Gray Gold. University of Chicago Press, Chicago: 1995.
Arlie Hochschild, The Managed Heart. University of California Press, Berkeley: 1983.
Snow and Anderson, Down On Their Luck: A Case Study Of Homeless Street People. University of California Press, Berkeley: 1993.
Mitchell Duneier, Slim's Table: Race, Respectability, And Masculinity. University of Chicago Press, Chicago: 1992.
Elijah Anderson, Streetwise: Race, Class And Change In An Urban Community. University of Chicago Press, Chicago: 1990.
Ulf Hannerz, Soulside. Columbia University Press, New York: 1969.
Wendy Simonds, Abortion At Work. Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ: 1996.
Ruth Horowitz, Honor And The American Dream. Rutgers Unviersity Press, New Brunswick, NJ: 1983.
Roy F. Baumeister, Evil: Inside Human Violence And Cruelty. WH Freeman & Co., New York: 1996.
Christena E. Nippert-Eng, Home And Work: Negotiating Boundaries Through Everyday Life. University of Chicago Press, Chicago: 1996.
John Morss, Growing Critical: Alternatives To Developmental Psychology. Routledge, New York: 1995.
Kenneth J Gergen, The Saturated Self: Dilemmas Of Identity In Contemporary Life. Basic Books, New York: 1991.
Kim Hewitt, Mutilating The Body: Identity In Blood And Ink. Bowling Green State University Popular Press, Bowling Green, OH: 1997.
Robert Kegan, In Over Our Heads: The Mental Demands Of Modern Life. Harvard University Press, Cambridge: 1994.
Tod Sloan, Damaged Life: The Crisis Of The Modern Psyche. Routledge, New York: 1995.
Robert Levine, A Geography of Time. Basic Books, New York: 1997.
Philip Cushman, Constructing the Self, Constructing America. Addison-Wesley Publishing, Boston: 1995.
Charles Taylor, Sources of the Self. Harvard University Press, Cambridge: 1989.
Edward E. Sampson, Celebrating the Other. Westview Press, Boulder, CO: 1993.
Joshua Gamson, Claims to Fame. University of Cal Press: 1994
Arlie Hochchild, The Managed Heart.
Dr. Keith A. Roberts
Dept of Sociology & Anthropology
Hanover College
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