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This book, originally published in 1980 and reprinted here with a
new foreword from the author, succinctly and clearly developed a
well-argued case for symbolic interaction as a method and as a
theory of human social behavior. It treats historical as well as
contemporary figures and presents the author's original and
stimulating assessment of the merits, shortcomings and future of
symbolic interactionism. "Sheldon Stryker's Symbolic Interactionism
not only reviews the key figures who founded this tradition, but
more fundamentally, it also presents a formal theory. This theory
still represents one of the most important statements within the
symbolic interactionist tradition. In this theory, Stryker attempts
to explain the dynamics of identity formation, particularly the
salience of an identity, the consequences of identity for role
performances, and the shifting commitments to a particular
identity. Like all important theories, this one is timeless and
continues to inform theory and research in the social sciences."
Jonathan H. Turner, Distinguished Professor of Sociology,
University of California, Riverside. "This is the book that brought
structural symbolic interaction theory to the attention of
sociologists and social psychologists around the country and the
world. While recognizing the key importance of meanings and
definitions of the situation, Stryker's discussion of his eight
postulates forms the basis for understanding how and why the self
is always embedded in society. This book is a remarkable
achievement." Peter J. Burke, Professor, Department of Sociology,
University of California, Riverside, California. "Stryker's classic
monograph has never been surpassed as a clear, focused exposition
of his identity theory and of the agenda for structural symbolic
interactionists more generally as they aim for a general theory of
self, meaning and action. He brings interactionism to bear on
central sociological questions about how social positions become
incorporated into the self and shape our social interactions. This
is a core statement of the historic roots of symbolic interaction,
from one of its major figures. Stryker evaluates the field as it
stood in 1980, and clearly states the structure of his own version
of interactionism. He shows how symbolic interactionist thought can
be used to develop a productive, empirical scientific study of
social behavior. As a powerful, forward-looking critique,
appreciation and theoretical agenda, this monograph is as useful
today as it was when it was originally published." Lynn
Smith-Lovin, Duke University Dr. Sheldon Stryker is Distinguished
Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Indiana University, semi-retired
in 2002 after 51 years on the faculty there. A career-long student
of social psychology in general and symbolic interactionism in
particular, he has received the Cooley-Mead Award for Lifetime
Contributions to Social Psychology from the American Sociological
Association Section on Social Psychology and the George Herbert
Mead Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Society for the Study
of Symbolic Interaction. He remains an active contributor to the
theoretical and research literature in social psychology. He has
been editor of the ASA's American Sociological Review, Sociometry
(now Social Psychology Quarterly) and the Arnold and Carolyn Rose
Monograph Series; and he has been a Social Science Research Council
Fellow, a Fulbright Research Scholar, and a Fellow, Center for
Advances Studies in the Behavioral Sciences.
Self-esteem is an academic and popular phenomenon, vigorously
researched and debated, sometimes imbued with magical qualities,
other times vilified as the bane of the West's preoccupation with
self. Though thousands of articles have been devoted to the topic,
and bookshops work to feed the public's appetite for advice on
revealing, enhancing and maintaining self-esteem, conflicting
claims and findings have placed the field in disarray. In a very
real sense, self-esteem is a victim of its own popularity. This
book seeks to add clarity to a concept earlier examined by such
notable self theorists as Morris Rosenberg but eminently worthy of
re-examination and extension. We do this by asking some leading
thinkers on self-esteem theory, measurement and application to
assess what we know about self-esteem, and link it to important
aspects of society and the human experience.
This book is an in-depth examination of self-esteem--people's positive and negative evaluation of themselves as a person. Beginning with self-esteem's conceptualization and measurement, the book carefully examines the role of self-esteem in society and within and across various domains and contexts of the human experience. Inspired by the seminal work on self-esteem carried out by American social psychologist Morris Rosenberg, the book serves as a comprehensive statement on self-esteem theory and research in the late 20th century, with an eye toward the direction it will take in the 21st century.
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