Social Mindscapes: An Invitation to Cognitive Sociology2 reviews Eviatar Zerubavel Harvard University Press, 1999 In the mind, all things and "no things" have their origin. + Refreshing Tidbits In seven brief, but dense, chapters, Eviatar Zerubavel guides the reader through levels of "mental processes" that correspond to creating and maintaining the social, historical, and physical world in which we live. The processes are: perception, attention, classification, semiotic association, ...             The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge20 reviews Peter L. Berger, Thomas Luckmann Anchor, 1967 An important work on how people come to know + Profound but sobering impact + The most important book ever written. + Social Construction: a concept who's time has come             Home and Work: Negotiating Boundaries through Everyday Life1 review Christena E. Nippert-Eng University Of Chicago Press, 1996 update the book to reflect a blurring of the boundaries Nippert-Eng has studied how people demarcate their work and personal lives in this lucid text. Some preserve a rigid separation, enforced above all by the home and workplace being physically separate. This can be reinforced by the wearing of different clothes, or otherwise changing one's ...             Invitation to Sociology: A Humanistic Perspective12 reviews Peter L. Berger Anchor, 1963 Stil a great introduction to sociology of knowledge + One of the most important sociology books + Uncomplete review from some years back + Inspiring Book + Great book...for EVERYONE.             Relations in Public1 review Goffman Basic Books Inc.,U.S., 1971 Greetings and Salutations! This is a phenominal book on social interactions and situations therein. I did a graduate thesis on adolescent greeting and salutations and this was absolutely vital to the study. Goffman uses cumbersome but quite entertaining footnotes all over the place. (some pages have more footnotes than ...             Everyone Is NOT Doing It: Abstinence and Personal Identity Jamie L. Mullaney University Of Chicago Press, 2005 Labels like vegan, virgin, or nonsmoker get thrown around to identify forms of abstinence, but for many abstainers such labels are also proud declarations of who they are. Setting aside the moral debates and psychological assessments surrounding abstinence, Jamie L. Mullaney here asks why it is that the act of not doing something plays such a crucial role in the formation of our personal ...             Behavior in Public Places: Notes on the Social Organization of Gatherings2 reviews Erving Goffman Free Press, 1966 Genius in the analysis of people in places Very few books in sociology so clearly and profoundly conceptualize the concepts of social occasions as do the works of Erving Goffman. This book is especially important for it provides a framework for tricking out the seen but unnoticed behaviors of everyday life. The book's profoundity is not ...             Interaction Ritual Chains (Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology)1 review Randall Collins Princeton University Press, 2005 Ambitious and thoughtful Collins pulls together many of the themes of his earlier works to produce a general theory of social interaction. Basically, humans engage in interaction rituals to attain emotional energy. Some of these interaction rituals are more successful than others. Nearly all have some exclusionary ...             The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life11 reviews Erving Goffman Anchor, 1959 A sociological classic + What happens when you appear in front of others + A justifiable classic - though not without its flaws + The Arts of Impression Management             Class: A Guide Through the American Status System120 reviews Paul Fussell Touchstone, 1992 Dated, but a true classic + Got Class? I first read this 20 years ago. I lent the book out and never saw it again; I bought another copy...lent it out again...and sure enough it never came back. So I bought it again and here it stays. Put your preconceptions of what upper, middle, and low class is aside and read the TRUTH about class in ...             On Phenomenology and Social Relations (Heritage of Sociology Series) Alfred Schutz University Of Chicago Press, 1999 Alfred Schutz (1899-1959) stood simultaneously in the camps of philosophy and sociology, and his writings constitute the framework of a sociology based on phenomenological considerations. Schutz's basic contributions issue from a critical synthesis of Husserl's phenomenology and Weber's sociology of understanding. He proceeds on the basis of the irreducible souce of all human knowledge in the ...             Interaction Ritual - Essays on Face-to-Face Behavior1 review Erving Goffman Pantheon, 1982 Needs a 21st-century filter Edgar Schein recommended this book, so I read it. I'm glad I did. Goffman is fascinated by what happens when people engage one another face-to-face, and the essays in this book synthesize many years of observation, research and deep thinking on this topic. There is much to learn in the book, and ...             The Elephant in the Room: Silence and Denial in Everyday Life3 reviews Eviatar Zerubavel Oxford University Press, USA, 2006 The Elephant left the room a little too early. + Great little book I originally heard the author being interviwed on NPR and was intrigued by the topic. Mr. Erubavel aptly laid out the "elephants" that he would discuss. His topics were right on the mark and every reader can identify with one of his examples either through personal or through a family member or ...             The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life11 reviews Erving Goffman Anchor, 1959 A sociological classic + What happens when you appear in front of others + A justifiable classic - though not without its flaws + The Arts of Impression Management             On Phenomenology and Social Relations (Heritage of Sociology Series) Alfred Schutz University Of Chicago Press, 1999 Alfred Schutz (1899-1959) stood simultaneously in the camps of philosophy and sociology, and his writings constitute the framework of a sociology based on phenomenological considerations. Schutz's basic contributions issue from a critical synthesis of Husserl's phenomenology and Weber's sociology of understanding. He proceeds on the basis of the irreducible souce of all human knowledge in the ...             Invitation to Sociology: A Humanistic Perspective12 reviews Peter L. Berger Anchor, 1963 Stil a great introduction to sociology of knowledge + One of the most important sociology books + Uncomplete review from some years back + Inspiring Book + Great book...for EVERYONE.             The Elephant in the Room: Silence and Denial in Everyday Life3 reviews Eviatar Zerubavel Oxford University Press, USA, 2006 The Elephant left the room a little too early. + Great little book I originally heard the author being interviwed on NPR and was intrigued by the topic. Mr. Erubavel aptly laid out the "elephants" that he would discuss. His topics were right on the mark and every reader can identify with one of his examples either through personal or through a family member or ...             Home and Work: Negotiating Boundaries through Everyday Life1 review Christena E. Nippert-Eng University Of Chicago Press, 1996 update the book to reflect a blurring of the boundaries Nippert-Eng has studied how people demarcate their work and personal lives in this lucid text. Some preserve a rigid separation, enforced above all by the home and workplace being physically separate. This can be reinforced by the wearing of different clothes, or otherwise changing one's ...             Social Mindscapes: An Invitation to Cognitive Sociology2 reviews Eviatar Zerubavel Harvard University Press, 1999 In the mind, all things and "no things" have their origin. + Refreshing Tidbits In seven brief, but dense, chapters, Eviatar Zerubavel guides the reader through levels of "mental processes" that correspond to creating and maintaining the social, historical, and physical world in which we live. The processes are: perception, attention, classification, semiotic association, ...             The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge20 reviews Peter L. Berger, Thomas Luckmann Anchor, 1967 An important work on how people come to know + Profound but sobering impact + The most important book ever written. + Social Construction: a concept who's time has come