Below I’ll give you my selections for the best Social Interaction books by a few categories. I will cover these and other great books more in depth later.
1. Building Social Relationships: A Systematic Approach to Teaching Social Interaction Skills to Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders and Other Social Difficulties (2006)
This comprehensive five-step model addresses the need for social programming for children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorders by helping children identify the skills they need to form relationships and an intervention plan to help them acquire these skills. Instead of offering a single strategy, this book organizes the myriad social skills strategies and resources currently available to make it easier for parents and educational professionals to teach social skills and design social skills programs for children with ASD. #410,385 in Books (See Top…
2. Social Psychology: Individuals, Interaction, and Inequality (Sociology for a New Century) (2017)
Social Psychology takes a sociological approach to the study of the individual in relationship to society. It′s main purpose is is to highlight how social psychology provides varied, yet inter-related, explanations for individuals’ experiences in groups. The text tells the story of how these dynamics unfold, beginning with the central social characteristics of the individual, to processes of perception and of interaction. In the telling of this story, it also notes some of the interesting cross-cultural comparisons in regard to these dynamics. #884,838 in Books (See Top 100 in…
3. Facing Social Class: How Societal Rank Influences Interaction (2012)
Many Americans, holding fast to the American Dream and the promise of equal opportunity, claim that social class doesn’t matter. Yet the ways we talk and dress, our interactions with authority figures, the degree of trust we place in strangers, our religious beliefs, our achievements, our senses of morality and of ourselves—all are marked by social class, a powerful factor affecting every domain of life. In Facing Social Class, social psychologists Susan Fiske and Hazel Rose Markus, and a team of sociologists, anthropologists, linguists, and legal scholars, examine the many ways we communicate our class…
4. Lying and Deception in Human Interaction (2007)
Lying and Deception in Human Interaction provides readers with a critical understanding of deception that is necessary for evaluating the integrity of the messages they receive and send in daily life. The author’s lively writing style engages the reader as a multitude of real life examples demonstrate the relevance of visual deception in human interaction. Deception, as a form of communication, is represented in the behavior of all living organisms and has been a part of human behavior for millions of years. Lying and Deception in Human Interaction…
5. Ceremonial Violence: Understanding Columbine and Other School Rampage Shootings (2009)
Ceremonial Violence analyzes thirteen school “rampage” shootings―including the Columbine High School massacre―and explains, for the first time, why teenagers commit these tragic atrocities. These cases include:Brenda Spencer, 16, who after shooting at elementary school children for no apparent reason explained to a reporter: “I hate Mondays.”Wayne Lo, 18, a brilliant Taiwanese student and violin prodigy, who embraced white supremacist rhetoric. One night he stalked the campus of Simon Rock’s College with a semi-automatic rifle, picking victims at random.Evan Ramsey, 16, who went on a shooting rampage in Anchorage, alerting some 25…
6. Human-Animal Interaction: A Social Work Guide (2017)
Animals whether as household companions, therapy animals comforting those in need, or highly trained service dogs supporting people with disabilities occupy important positions in the lives of many individuals and their larger communities. Despite increasing recognition of the relevance of human animal interaction (HAI) to social work practice, the topic remains largely ignored by many educational and training programs. As a result, the significant roles that animals can play in human interventions are often overlooked. In Human Animal Interactions: A Social Work Guide, Janet Hoy-Gerlach and Scott…
7. Social Groups in Action and Interaction: 2nd Edition (2015)
Social Groups in Action and Interaction reviews and analyzes the human group as it operates to create both social good and, potentially, social harm. It summarizes current knowledge and contemporary research, with real-world examples in succinct yet engaging chapters, to help students understand and predict group behavior. Unlike other texts, the book considers a wide range of topics―such as conformity, leadership, task performance, social identity, prejudice, and discrimination―from both an intragroup and an intergroup perspective. By looking at behavior…
8. Autism: Attacking Social Interaction Problems: A Therapy Manual Targeting Social Skills in Children 4-9 (2015)
Autism: Attacking Social Interaction Problems: A Therapy Manual Targeting Social Skills in Children 4-9 includes sample parent letters, teacher letters, weekly skill steps, and simple stories to reinforce the information presented in the text as well as suggestions for extension activities. The AASIP program provides a comprehensive yet practical approach to teaching social communication skills across the life span to individuals with moderate to high functioning autism spectrum disorder and other diagnoses that result in social communication…
9. Social Cognition and Interaction Training (Scit): Group Psychotherapy for Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders, Clinician Guide (Treatments That Work) (2015)
Impairments in social functioning are among the hallmark characteristics of schizophrenia. These deficits predict relapse rate and may be independent of better-studied symptoms such as hallucinations. Additionally, studies indicate that social functioning is one of the most important domains for individuals with schizophrenia, many of whom consider social functioning to be a key area of unmet need.Social Cognition and Interaction Training (SCIT) is a group psychotherapy for individuals with schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders. Social cognition…
10. The SAGE Handbook of Social Psychology: Concise Student Edition (SAGE Social Psychology Program) (2007)
“This Volume is everything one would want from a handbook” ―CHOICE Magazine”The Handbook is a tour de force survey of current Social Psychology… it makes an excellent resource for personal use by researchers, graduate students and perhaps advanced undergraduates who are seeking an in-depth background treatment of major topics.” ―Professor Richard C. Sherman, Miami University “The Handbook maps on to my current curricula perfectly. I′ve been searching for a text that is comprehensive, yet reader-friendly, and this text does a terrific job in…
11. Constructions of Deviance: Social Power, Context, and Interaction (2008)
Packed with the most recent and relevant articles in the field, CONSTRUCTIONS OF DEVIANCE: SOCIAL POWER, CONTEXT, AND INTERACTION, Sixth Edition, shows you how to apply the concepts and theories of deviance to the world around you. The text’s current, comprehensive coverage includes both theoretical analyses and ethnographic illustrations of how deviance is socially constructed, organized, and managed. Seasoned authors and award-winning professors, Patricia Adler and Peter Adler cover a wide variety of deviant acts–challenging you to see the diversity and pervasiveness of deviance in society. The text presents deviance…
12. Treatment of Autism Spectrum Disorders: Evidence-Based Intervention Strategies for Communication and Social Interactions (CLI) (2012)
With that show the interventions in action! For SLPs preparing to work with children who have autism spectrum disorders, selecting effective interventions for communication and social challenges is critically important. This accessible textbook gives SLPs the in-depth knowledge they need to evaluate, choose, and apply today’s best interventions for communication and social interactions. With contributions from 25 top autism experts across multiple disciplines, this student-friendly text gives SLPs a thorough introduction to 12 widely used evidence-based interventions, including…
13. Constructions of Deviance: Social Power, Context, and Interaction (2015)
Packed with the most recent and relevant articles in the field, CONSTRUCTIONS OF DEVIANCE: SOCIAL POWER, CONTEXT, AND INTERACTION, Eighth Edition, shows readers how to apply the concepts and theories of deviance to the world around them. The book’s current, comprehensive coverage includes both theoretical analyses and ethnographic illustrations of how deviance is socially constructed, organized, and managed. Seasoned authors and award-winning professors, Patricia Adler and Peter Adler cover a wide variety of deviant acts-challenging readers to see the diversity and…
Best Social Interaction Books You Should Enjoy
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Travel, Pilgrimage and Social Interaction from Antiquity to the Middle Ages
Author(s): Jenni Kuuliala; Jussi Rantala
Publisher: Routledge, Year: 2020, Size: 4 Mb, Download: epub
ID: 2490924
Advanced Social Interaction with Agents
Author(s): Maxine Eskenazi, Laurence Devillers, Joseph Mariani
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Year: 2019, Size: 8 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2251999
Urban Galapagos: Transition to Sustainability in Complex Adaptive Systems
Author(s): Thomas Kvan, Justyna Karakiewicz
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Year: 2019, Size: 5 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2312296
Social Robots: Technological, Societal and Ethical Aspects of Human-Robot Interaction
Author(s): Oliver Korn
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Year: 2019, Size: 8 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2408067
Multimodal Pattern Recognition of Social Signals in Human-Computer-Interaction: 5th IAPR TC 9 Workshop, MPRSS 2018, Beijing, China, August 20, 2018, Revised Selected Papers
Author(s): Friedhelm Schwenker, Stefan Scherer
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Year: 2019, Size: 12 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2408656
The Normative Animal? On the Anthropological Significance of Social, Moral, and Linguistic Norms
Author(s): Neil Roughley, Kurt Bayertz
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Year: 2019, Size: 3 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2450162
Conversational Humour and (Im)politeness: A pragmatic analysis of social interaction
Author(s): Valeria Sinkeviciute
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co., Year: 2019, Size: 511 Kb, Download: epub
ID: 2473878
Disease Ecology: Galapagos Birds and their Parasites
Author(s): Patricia G. Parker (eds.)
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Year: 2018, Size: 8 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2153578
The Social Bond: How the interaction between individuals drives the evolution of society
Author(s): Erik W. Aslaksen
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Year: 2018, Size: 5 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2153872
Please note that this booklist is not absolute. Some books are really record-breakers according to The New York Times, others are composed by unknown authors. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant resources you could recommend? Drop a comment if you have any feedback on the list.