Self and Society explores the ways in which society, culture, and history affect how we define our experiences and ourselves. This reader contains 24 essays divided into four topical sections: the social construction of reality, sociology of thought and emotions, the self in social context, and interaction and inequality.

Ann Branaman teaches sociology at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton. She is the co-editor of The Goffman Reader (Blackwell, 1997).