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In this volume the distinguished sociologist Anselm Strauss reflects on his self-professed, lifelong intention to create sociological awareness in his readers and students. Strauss democratizes sociology by making sure that relativities of status, power, and wealth are acknowledged in the conduct of everyday life, and by recognizing that all collective life is subject to negotiation, rearrangement, and reconstruction. Represented here are some ideas for which Strauss is best known. He addresses work, leisure, culture, illness, identity, and policy. These disparate topics are linked by Strauss' "web of negotiation" by which organizational arrangements can be changed. The volume concludes with discussion about problems of method, consultation, and teaching, affirming Strauss' commitment to passing along the sociological awareness reflected in this volume to a next generation. Squarely in the long tradition of the Chicago School of sociology, the work of Anselm Strauss represents the very best thinking in modern sociological and psychological analysis. Those interested in the origins of his major conceptual frameworks will find this an essential volume. --

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Part One The Symbolization of Cities -- Introduction -- 1. The City as a Whole -- 2. The Symbolic Time of Cities -- 3. The Evolution of Urban Imageries -- 4. Life Styles and Urban Space -- 5. The Visitor's View: The City Appreciated -- Part Two Configurations of American Urban Culture -- Introduction -- 6. The Course of American Urbanization -- 7. Some Varieties of American Urban Symbolism -- 8. Era and Geography in Urban Symbolism -- A. THE SOUTH: URBANE AGRARIANISM ON THE DEFENSIVE -- B. THE EAST: COMMERCE, MANUFACTURING, AND THE SYMBOLISM OF INDIVIDUAL SUCCESS -- C. THE MIDWEST: AMBIGUITIES OF SYMBOLIZATION -- D. A NATIONAL IMAGERY: COUNTRY AND CITY AS CONTRASTING IMAGES -- E. THE BLURRING OF IMGES: FARMS, TOWN, AND SMALL CITY -- F. THE COUNTRY TOWN AS A SYMBOLIC LOCALE -- 9. City Planning: Profane and Ideal -- A. THE PROMOTION OF CITY REPUTATIONS -- B. IMAGES OF THE IDEAL CITY -- 10. Rural Aspects of Metropolitan Living: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries -- A. RURALITY AND THE CITY DWELLER : 1800-1860 -- B. METROPOLIS WITH RURAL AMENITIES -- C . SUBURBIA : THE UNION OF URBANITY AND RURALITY -- 11. The Latest in Urban Imagery -- Appendix: A Note on Imagery in Urban Sociology -- Notes -- Index

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Acknowledgment -- Contents -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. Social Psychology and Human Values -- SOME INTERDISCIPLINARY RELATIONSHIPS OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY -- 2. Personality in Politics: A Conceptual Map, with Application to the Problem of Political Rationality -- 3. Anthropology and Psychology -- 4. Samuel A. Stouffer -- ATTITUDES AND VALUES -- 5. Opinions, Personality, and Political Behavior -- 6. Attitude Change -- 7. Personal Values in the Study of Lives -- 8. An Analysis of Two Measures of "Authoritarianism" among Peace Corps Teachers -- THE SELF, "MENTAL HEALTH," AND COMPETENCE -- 9. The Phenomenological Approach in Personality Theory: Some Critical Remarks -- 10. The Self and Cognitive Consistency -- 11. Optima of Mental Health: A General Frame of Reference -- 12. Research Strategies Toward a Conception of Positive Mental Health -- 13. "Mental Health" Reconsidered: A Special Case of the Problems of Values in Psychology -- 14. Explorations in Competence: A Study of Peace Corps Teachers in Ghana -- 15. Competence and Socialization -- SOME SOCIAL PROBLEMS -- 16. The Revolution in Mental Health Care- A "Bold New Approach'? -- 17. Some Features of Foreign-Student Adjustment -- 18. Foreign vs. Indigenous Education -- 19. Motivation, Communications Research, and Family Planning -- 20. The Schools and Prejudice -- 21. The Crisis on the Campus -- 22. Morality and Student Protest -- HUMANISTIC VALUES AND PSYCHOLOGY -- 23. Psychology in a Liberal Education -- 24. Toward Scientific and Professional Responsibility -- 25. Conflicting Values Affecting Behavioral Research with Children -- 26. Rationality and Social Process -- 27. On Rereading Proust -- 28. Some Thought on the Legitimation of Evil -- REFERENCES -- AUTHOR'S BIBLIOGRAPHY, 1938-1969 -- Name Index -- Subject Index