Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-361) and index.
Contents:
Emile Durkheim on the division of labor in society -- Max Weber on social action -- Georg Simmel on the social development of individualism -- Charles Horton Cooley's concept of the looking-glass self and its applications -- William I. Thomas on the definition of the situation -- George Herbert Mead on self and society -- Alfred Schutz on society and intersubjectivity -- Karl Mannheim on self, society, and the sociology of knowledge -- David Riesman on social character -- Erving Goffman on the presentation of self -- Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann on the social construction of self and society -- Herbert Blumer on symbolic interactionism -- Harold Garfinkel on ethnomethodology -- Arlie Russell Hochschild on the management of emotion -- Robert Bellah et al. on individualism and community in America -- Where do we go from here? Toward a theory of the cycle of individualism.
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