Books By Amir B. Marvasti, Jaber F. Gubrium - Author

Amir B. Marvasti is Professor of Sociology at Penn State Altoona, USA. Amir's research focuses on identity management in everyday encounters and institutional settings. Using a symbolic interactionist framework, he approaches culture, discourse, and social institutions as interrelated and ongoing practices that collectively shape the self in a social context. His empirical research in this area examines how people (e.g. the homeless) present themselves to others, particularly when required to explain their backgrounds and intentions; and how their self-presentations are related to whether they are helped or accepted by others. Extending his interest in identity management to the subfield of the sociology of emotions, his current research looks at how people narrate their emotions in ways that reinforce gender stereotypes.

Jaber F. Gubrium is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at University of Missouri, USA. The working premise of his research program is that no system of social rules is ro