Microsociology concerns itself with the daily social lives of people, while sociological psychology examines relationships between social and subjective experience and, as noted by Cahill (U. of South Florida), the two fields are far from unrelated. He presents the new edition of his undergraduate reader containing 37 "classic and more current" readings selected to provide students with an overview of the development and current state of the fields. The articles are arranged in ten sections, each with its own introduction, covering such topics as the social construction of self, the organization of social interaction, social interaction and relationships, the construction of social structures, the politics of social reality, and postmodern social reality.
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