Introduction; Part I; 1: Assumptions of a Theory of Action; 2: An Interactionist Theory of Action; Part II; 3: Work and the Intersection of Forms of Action; 4: Body, Body Processes, and Interaction 1; 5: Interaction, Thought Processes, and Biography; 6: Interacting and Symbolizing; 7: Representation and Misrepresentation in Interaction; 8: The Interplay of Routine and Nonroutine Action; 9: Social Worlds and Society; 10: Social Worlds and Interaction in Arenas; 11: Negotiated Order and Structural Ordering