SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY COMPREHENSIVE EXAM READING LIST
SOCIOLOGY (PHD)
Kent State University – University of Akron
MINOR
GENERAL READINGS
American Sociological Association 2000. “The State of Social Psychology at the Millenium. Social
Psychology Quarterly (Special Issue) 63(4).
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Aronson, Elliot. 1990. Methods of Research in Social Psychology, 2 Edition. New York: McGrawHill.
Cook, Karen S., Gary Alan Fine, and James S. House (ed.s). 1995. Sociological Perspectives on
Social Psychology. Needham Heights, MA: Simon and Schuster.
Delameter, John (ed.). 2003. Handbook of Social Psychology. New York: Kluwer
Academic/Plenum Publishers.
Homans, George C. 1975. “What Do We Mean by Social ‘Structure’?” Pp. 53-65 in Approaches to
the Study of Social Structure, edited by Peter Blau.
House, James S. 1977. “The Three Faces of Social Psychology.” Sociometry 40:161-177.
Kohn, Melvin L. 1989. “Social Structure and Personality: A Quintessentially Sociological Approach
to Social Psychology.” Social Forces, 68: 26-33.
Rosenberg, Morris and Ralph H. Turner (ed.s). 1981. Social Psychology: Sociological Perspectives.
New York: Basic Books.
Sewell, William H. 1989.” Some Reflections on the Golden Age of Interdisciplinary Social
Psychology. Social Psychology Quarterly 52: 88-97. (also see the introduction by Duane
Alwin)
Shaw, Marvin E., and Philip R. Costanzo. 1982. Theories of Social Psychology, 2nd edition. New
York: McGraw-Hill.
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Stolte, John F., Gary Alan Fine, and Karen S. Cook. 2001. “Sociological Miniaturism: Seeing the Big
Through the Small in Social Psychology.” Annual Review of Sociology 27: 387-413.
Thoits, Peggy A. 1995. “Social Psychology: The Interplay between Sociology and Psychology.”
Social Forces 73:1231-1243.
Turner, Ralph H. 1988. “Personality in Society: Social Psychology’s Contribution to Sociology.”
Social Psychology Quarterly 51:1-10.
Zelditch, Morris Jr. 1969. “Can you Really Study an Army in the Laboratory?” Pp. 528-539 in
Complex Organizations, edited by Amitai Etzioni. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston.
SOCIAL STRUCTURE AND PERSONALITY
Elder, Glen H., Jr. (1994) "Time, Human Agency, and Social Change: Perspectives on the Life
Course," Social Psychology Quarterly (March): 4-15.
Goode, William J. 1960. “A Theory of Role Strain.” American Sociological Review 25:483-96.
Hochschild, Arlie Russell. 1979. “Emotion Work, Feeling Rules, and Social Structure.” American
Journal of Sociology 85:551-575.
Kohn, Melvin L. 1989 (1977). Class and Conformity: A Study in Values. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press.
McLeod, Jane D. and Timothy J. Owens. 2004. “Psychological Well-Being in the Early Life Course:
Variations by Socioeconomic Status, Gender, and Race/Ethnicity. Social Psychology
Quarterly 67: 217-235.
Pearlin, Leonard I., Elizabeth G. Menaghan, Morton A. Lieberman, and Joseph T. Mullan. 1981.
“The Stress Process.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 22:337-356.
Social Psychology Quarterly. 1990 (Special Issue: Social Structure and the Individual):53.
Schooler, Carmi. 1996. “Cultural and Social-Structural Explanations of Cross-National
Psychological Differences.” Annual Review of Sociology 22: 323-49.
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Thoits, Peggy A. 1985. “Self-labeling Processes in Mental Illness: The Role of Emotional Deviance.”
American Journal of Sociology 92:221-249.
Turner, R. Jay and Franco Marino. 1994. "Social Support and Social Structure: A
Descriptive Epidemiology." Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 35:193-212.
STRUCTURAL SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
Berger, Joseph, Cecilia L. Ridgeway, M. Hamit Fişek, and Robert Z. Norman. 1998. "The
Legitimation and Delegitimation of Power and Prestige Orders." American Sociological
Review 63:3:379-405.
Berger, Joseph, Cecilia L. Ridgeway, and Morris Zelditch, Jr. 2002. “Construction of Status and
Referential Structures.” Sociological Theory 20:2:157-179.
Blau, Peter M. 1964, 1998. Exchange and Power in Social Life. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction
Publishers.
Della Fave, L. Richard. 1980. “The Meek Shall Not Inherit the Earth: Self-Evaluation and the
Legitimacy of Stratification.” American Sociological Review 45:6:955-971.
Emerson, Richard M. 1962. “Power-Dependence Relations.” American Sociological Review, 27, 3140.
Lovaglia, Michael J. 1999. “Understanding Network Exchange Theory.” Pp. 31-59 in Shane R.
Thye, Edward J. Lawler, Michael W. Macy, and Henry A. Walker (Eds.), Advances in Group
Processes, Vol. 16. Stamford, CT: JAI Press.
Markovsky, Barry, David Willer, and Travis Patton. 1988. “Power Relations in Exchange
Networks.” American Sociological Review 53:3:220-236.
Molm, Linda. 2003. “Theoretical Comparisons of Forms of Exchange.” Sociological Theory
21:1:1-17.
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Ridgeway, Cecilia. 1991. “The Social Construction of Status Value: Gender and Other Nominal
Characteristics.” Social Forces 70:2:367-386.
Stolte, John F. 1983. “The Legitimation of Structural Inequality: Reformulation and Test of the
Self-Evaluation Argument.” American Sociological Review 48:3:331-342.
SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM AND SELF THEORIES
Blumer, Herbert. 1969. Symbolic Interactionism: Perspective and Method. New Jersey: PrenticeHall.
Burke, Peter. 1991. “Identity Processes and Social Stress,” American Sociological Review 56(6):83649.
Burke, Peter J. and Donald C. Reitzes. 1991. “An Identity Theory Approach to Commitment,” Social
Psychology Quarterly 54(3):239-251.
Campbell, Jennifer. 1999. “Self-Esteem and Clarity of the Self-Concept.” Pp. 223-239 in The Self in
Social Psychology, edited by Roy F. Baumeister. Philadelphia: Psychology Press.
Cast, Alicia and Peter Burke. 2002. “A Theory of Self-Esteem,” Social Forces 80(3):1041-1068.
Cooley, Charles Horton. 1902. “The Looking Glass Self.” Pp. 179-185 in Human Nature and the
Social Order. New York: Scribner's.
Felson, Richard B. 1985. “Reflected Appraisals and the Development of Self.” Social
Psychology Quarterly 48:71-78.
Gecas, Viktor. 1982. “The Self-Concept.” Annual Review of Sociology 8:1-33.
Goffman, Erving, 1983 "The Interaction Order: 1982 ASA Presidential Address." American
Sociological Review. 48:1-17.
Goffman, Erving. 1967. Interaction Ritual: Essays on Face-to-face Behavior. NY:
Doubleday/Anchor
Heise, David R. 1989. “Effects of Emotion Displays on Social Identification.” Social
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Psychology Quarterly 52:10-21.
Hogg, M.A., D. J. Terry, and K. M. White. 1995. “A Tale of Two Theories: A Critical Comparison
of Identity Theory with Social Identity Theory.” Social Psychology Quarterly 58:255-269.
Markus, Hazel, and Shinobu Kitayama. 1999. “Culture and the Self: Implications for Cognition,
Emotion, and Motivation.” Pp. 339-367. in The Self in Social Psychology, edited by Roy F.
Baumeister. Philadelphia: Psychology Press.
Mead, George Herbert. 1934. Mind, Self and Society. Chicago: University Press.
McCall, George and J. L. Simmons. 1978. Identities and Interactions. NY: Free Press.
Robinson, Dawn T. and Lynn Smith-Lovin. 2006. “Affect Control Theory.” In Peter Burke (ed)
Contemporary Social Psychological Theories. Stanford University Press.
Shott, Susan. 1979. “Emotion and Social Life: A Symbolic Interactionist Analysis.” American
Journal of Sociology 84:1317-1334.
Shrauger, J. Sidney., and Thomas J. Schoeneman. 1999. “Symbolic Interactionist View of SelfConcept: Through the Looking Glass Darkly.” Pp. 25-41 in The Self in Social Psychology,
edited by Roy F. Baumeister. Philadelphia: Psychology Press.
Stryker, Sheldon. 1980. Symbolic Interactionism: A Social Structural Version. Menlo
Park: Benjamin Cummings.
Stryker, Sheldon and Richard T. Serpe. 1994. “Identity Salience and Psychological
Centrality: Equivalent, Overlapping, or Complementary Concepts?” Social Psychology
Quarterly 57:16-35.
Turner, Ralph 1976 "The Real Self: From Institution to Impulse." American Journal of Sociology.
81:989-1016.
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