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Social Processes: Social Interaction Bibliography
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Belson, K. 2004. I want to be alone. Please call me. New York Times, June 27.
Describes the affects of cellular sociology on the “in” group and “out” group in public places.
Diamond, T. 1986. Everyday life in nursing homes. In (S. Cahill, ed) Inside
social life: reading in sociological psychology and microsociology (3rd ed). Roxbury pp. 197-204.
This study illustrates how social policies and the logic of medicine and business shape the everyday lives of nursing home residents and the nursing assistants who care for them.
Emerson, J. 1970. “Behavior in Private Places:Sustaining Definitions of Reality
in Gynecological Examinations.” Pp. 74-97 in H.P. Dreitzel (ed)., Recent Sociology v. 2. New York: Collier.
Frank, A. 1991. The social context of illness. In (S. Cahill, ed) Inside social life:
reading in sociological psychology and microsociology (3rd ed). 2001 Roxbury. pp. 180-186.
Frank reflects upon his own experience of heart attack and cancer to illustrate how social relations and reactions influence how individuals experience illness.
Goffman, E. 1961. “The moral career of the mental patient.” Asylums: essays
on the social situation of mental patients and other inmates. Chicago: Aldine Publishing Co.
Goffman takes the perspective of mental patients in this classic study of their lives both before and during hospitalization.
Hermanonwicz, Joseph C. 1998. The Presentation of Occupational Self in Science.”
Qualitative Sociology 21 (2): 129-148 Human–Computer Interaction Resources (HCI) Bibliography. 1998. Online www.hcibib.org.
The website provides many links to background information and additional resources on human-computer interactions.
Katz, J.E. 2002. Social consequences of Internet use: access, involvement,
and interaction. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
A study of Internet use and American society that includes discussions on access issues, civic and community involvement, and social interaction and expression.
Kerka, S. 1994. Life and work in a technological society. ERIC Digest 147.
Kerka presents a brief sociocultural overview of the definitions of technology and the technologically literate person and presents the skills and knowledge needed to function in a technologically driven society.
Latour, B. and S. Woolgar. 1986. Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific
Facts. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Liff, S., F. Steward, and P. Watts. 2002. “New Public Places for Internet
Access: Networks for Practice-based Learning and Social Inclusion. ”Ch. 5 in S. Woolgar (ed). Virtual Society. Oxford University Press.
Mauron, A. 2001. Is the genome the secular equivalent of the soul? Science,
291(5505): 831-832. Online http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/291/5505/831.
With the completion of the human genome sequence, has the genome become the sole basis for our identity or does society and human interaction shape who we are?
McKibben, Bill. 2003 .Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age. New York:
Henry Holt & Co. Robby, H. & Goldstein, B. Social death: some unanticipated consequences of medical innovations. In (Clark, C. & Robboy, H. eds) Social interaction: Readings in sociology (4th ed.). New York: St. Martin’s Press.
Technological innovation has unanticipated consequences that involves family members becoming agents of life-and-death decisions.
Robby, H. & Goldstein, B. Social death: some unanticipated consequences of medical
innovations. In (Clark, C. & Robboy, H. eds) Social interaction: Readings in sociology (4th ed.). New York: St. Martin’s Press.
Technological innovation has unanticipated consequences that involves family members becoming agents of life-and-death decisions.
Watt,S., M. Lea and R. Spears. 2002. “How Social is Internet Communication?
A Reappraisal of Bandwidth and Anonymity Effects.” Ch.4 in S. Woolgar (ed). Virtual Society. Oxford University Press.