Additional Readings that might interest you (not required):

Cobb, James. 1999. Redefining Southern Culture. Athens Georgia: The University of Georgia Press.

Cook, Karen S., Gary Alan Fine, and James S. House. 1995. Sociological Perspective on Social Psychology. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn and Bacon.

Collins, Randall. 1981. On the Microfoundations of Macrosociology. American Journal of Sociology 86: 984-1014.

Giddens, Anthony. 1991. Modernity and Self-Identity. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Giddens, Anthony. 1992. The Transformation of Intimacy. Stanford CA: Stanford University Press.

Goffman, Erving. 1959. The Representation of Self in Everyday Life. New York: Doubleday.

Goffman, Erving. 1967. Interaction Ritual. New York: Anchor.

Goodenough, Ward. H. 1981. Culture, Language and Society. 2nd ed. Menlo Park, CA: Benjamin Cummings.

Kemper, Theodore D. 1991. An introduction to the sociology of emotions. International Review of Studies on Emotion 1: 301-349.

Lewis, Helen B. 1971. Shame and Guilt in Neurosis. New York: International University Press.

MacKinnon, Neil & David R. Heise. 1993. "Affect Control Theory: Delineation and History. In: Theoretical Research Programs: Studies in the Growth of Theories. Berger & Morris Zelditch (eds.), 64-103. Stanford CA: Stanford University Press.

Nida, Eugene A. 1975. Componential Analysis of Meaning. Paris: Mouton & Co.

Osgood. Charles E. Osgood and Oliver C.S. Tzeng (Eds.) 1992. The Selected Papers of C.E. Osgood. New York: Centennial Psychology Series, pp.203-234.

Osgood, C.E., May, W.H. and Miron, M.S. 1975. Cross-cultural Universals in Affective Meaning. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

Owens, Timothy J., Sheldon Stryker, and Norman Goodman.  2001. Extending Self-Esteem Theory and Research: Sociological and Psychological Currents. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Scheff, Thomas J. 1990. Microsociology. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

Scheff, Thomas, Bernard Phillips, and Harold Kincaid. 2006 "Goffman Unbound!: A New Paradigm for Social Science (Advancing the Sociological Imagination) (Paperback - Sep 6, 2006)

Smith-Lovin, Lynn, and David R. Heise (eds.). 1988. Analyzing Social Interaction: Advances in Affect Control Theory. NY: Gordon and Breach.

Stryker, Sheldon. 1980. Symbolic Interactionism: A Social Structural Version. Menlo Park, CA: Benjamin/Gummings.

Stryker, Sheldon. 2003. Symbolic Interactionism: A Social Structural Version. The Blackburn Press.