The Table of Contents for this edition has an organization similar to the fi rst edition. Section I includes four chapters presenting major theoretical perspectives, including the interactionist, identity, social exchange, and social structure and the person perspectives. Readers familiar with the fi rst edition will note the absence of Evolutionary Social Psychology and Expectation States Theory in this section. After reviewing the literature and evolving chapters for this edition, we felt that Expectation States Theory fi t naturally and was comprehensively discussed in the Interaction in Small Groups and Social Psychology of Race and Gender chapters. After careful consideration and much discussion we decided that literature drawing on (or debating) Evolutionary Social Psychology in sociological social psychology has waned in recent years and is suffi ciently discussed in the Social Psychology and the Body and Emotions chapters.