Virginia Olesen
Biographic Data
| ID | 100578 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Virginia Olesen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Virginia |
| FAMILY NAME | Olesen |
| SIGNATURE | OLESEN V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, San Francisco |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 47 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 121 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 47 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1963 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Women, Health, and Healing
Women, Health, and Healing
Not Without a Shout
This paper calls for review of well known and emergent methodological strategies (PAR, performance pieces, cyberspace analysis) to assess their efficacy as acts of activism leading to a politics of possibility in a darkening era characterized by fearful injustices
Emotions in rationalizing organizations
Becoming a sociologist
Growing up in a small (l,000) Nevada town in the l930s and 1940s, I acquired a neophyte's sociological eye and sensibility, though, of course, not an analytical framework from which to make sense of that social world. The everyday life in that little town encouraged perception of subtle, but nevertheless very sharp social, cultural, economic, racial, gender, and class differences among its residents
Do Whatever You Can
This essay argues that critical qualitative methods might well be harnessed to the potential of the Internet and the Web to undertake and enhance intervention as events unfold. Flexible and multifaceted, such methods differ with regard to temporal dynamics, hence the capacity to intervene. At least two uses are possible, research into interactions and emerging structures, and dissemination of findings and critiques in experimental forms on the In…
Revisioning Women, Health, and Healing
This engaging collection examines the implications and representations of race, class and gender in health care offering new approaches to women's health care. Subjects covered range from reproductive issues to AIDS
Working It Through
Do Whatever You Want
Drawing on the author's witnessing 12 years of experimental presentations at cultural studies sessions in various venues, the account goes back and forth in time as a double-voiced text as (a) a narrative of the development and maturation of these presentations and (b) a reflexive account of the questions and problems the author faced in creating an experimental text. Underlying the voices is a problematic about the worth of sociology
Women's Health
At Work in the Field(s) of Ethnography
Ethnographic Research in Medical Sociology
Medical sociology ranges from studies of formal medical care to those of health, healing, and caring practices outside the health care system. This field has had a history of ethnographic and qualitative research since its beginnings. Because few studies in medical sociology derive from immersion in a setting, the authors examine those qualitative works in which researchers and subjects had sustained contact. They focus only on major areas in whi…
Selves and a Changing Social Form
Taking hospitality as a social form, analysis of three altering types (domestic, airline, the hospice) shows reflections of social and economic forces that change the form and interactions within it and, hence, the selves of the interactants. It is suggested that symbolic interactionists pay particular attention to the dynamics of social forms as a way to link situated activity and larger social and economic forces
Problematic Bodies
Good Days, Bad Days: The Self in Chronic Illness and Time, by Kathy Charmaz.At The Will of The Body: Reflections on Illness, by Arthur W. Frank.The Body: Social Process and Cultural Theory, edited by Mike Featherstone, Mike Hepworth, and Bryan S. Turner
Self-Assessment and Change in One's Profession
Using data from a pilot study of mid-life, mid-career women in nursing, this research note suggests further exploration of women's work roles in understanding subjective assessments of self and aging. The analysis shows that among the nurses studied, dynamics of occupational or professional change were related to views of self in the future. These issues of change rather than age graded norms for achievement were paramount in the nurses' self ass…
The mundane ailment and the physical self
Caregiving, Ethical and Informal
The concept of care, integral to medical sociology and to the sociology of health and illness, suggests new challenges in two key areas of this field: 1) within professional socialization, an examination of socialization to ethical thinking, behavior, and identity among professional caregivers, building on the substantial literature already accumulated; 2) in the arena of hidden or informal care providers, an analysis of male and female informal …
Analyzing emergent issues in women's health
Analyzing emergent issues in women's health, where the issue and its implications are still ambiguous but nevertheless have important consequences for women's health, poses particular problems for feminist researchers. Using the toxic‐shock syndrome as an example of such an issue, this paper reviews aspects of such analysis involving method, frameworks, and sources of data
Introduction to the special issue
Medical Knowledge about Women
Women, Health and Healing
Ethical Dilemmas in Social Science Research
The Hired Learning in America
What Is Medical Anthropology
From Student to Nurse
Ethnographic Research in Medical Sociology
Medical sociology ranges from studies of formal medical care to those of health, healing, and caring practices outside the health care system. This field has had a history of ethnographic and qualitative research since its beginnings. Because few studies in medical sociology derive from immersion in a setting, the authors examine those qualitative works in which researchers and subjects had sustained contact. They focus only on major areas in whi…
The mundane ailment and the physical self
The Silent Dialogue
Role-Making in Participant Observation
Although recent essays about participant observations have extended our understanding of that research method and its problematic aspects, few methodologists have scrutinized intensively the processes by which roles are developed in this type of fieldwork or the relationship of role development to the data gathered. Our purpose in reviewing our own experiences as participant observers in a longitudinal study of baccalaureate student nurses is to …
Initiation Into a Women's Profession
Caregiving, Ethical and Informal
The concept of care, integral to medical sociology and to the sociology of health and illness, suggests new challenges in two key areas of this field: 1) within professional socialization, an examination of socialization to ethical thinking, behavior, and identity among professional caregivers, building on the substantial literature already accumulated; 2) in the arena of hidden or informal care providers, an analysis of male and female informal …
Lateralness in women's work
Convergences and Divergences
Adjudication of Student Awareness in Professional Socialization
THREE CENTRAL and related tasks in professional socialization, shared mutually by students, faculty, and the socializing institution, are (1) to bring the student to awareness of what is required in the professional role; (2) to lead him to recognize himself in this role; and (3) to foster in him the capacity to properly communicate about himself as a professional. Presumably, successful accomplishment of this triple-identity objective yields a p…
The Faces of Florence Nightingale
The instinct of the mind, the purpose of nature, betrays itself in the use we make of the signal narrations of history. Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts. No anchor, no cable, no fences avail to keep a fact a fact. Emerson
The Index of Class Position
Do Whatever You Want
Drawing on the author's witnessing 12 years of experimental presentations at cultural studies sessions in various venues, the account goes back and forth in time as a double-voiced text as (a) a narrative of the development and maturation of these presentations and (b) a reflexive account of the questions and problems the author faced in creating an experimental text. Underlying the voices is a problematic about the worth of sociology
Selves and a Changing Social Form
Taking hospitality as a social form, analysis of three altering types (domestic, airline, the hospice) shows reflections of social and economic forces that change the form and interactions within it and, hence, the selves of the interactants. It is suggested that symbolic interactionists pay particular attention to the dynamics of social forms as a way to link situated activity and larger social and economic forces
Convergences and divergences
What happens after schooling
Do Whatever You Can
This essay argues that critical qualitative methods might well be harnessed to the potential of the Internet and the Web to undertake and enhance intervention as events unfold. Flexible and multifaceted, such methods differ with regard to temporal dynamics, hence the capacity to intervene. At least two uses are possible, research into interactions and emerging structures, and dissemination of findings and critiques in experimental forms on the In…
Problematic Bodies
Good Days, Bad Days: The Self in Chronic Illness and Time, by Kathy Charmaz.At The Will of The Body: Reflections on Illness, by Arthur W. Frank.The Body: Social Process and Cultural Theory, edited by Mike Featherstone, Mike Hepworth, and Bryan S. Turner
Context and Posture
Virginia Olesen, Context and Posture: Notes on Socio-Cultural Aspects of Women's Roles and Family Policy in Contemporary Cuba, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 33, No. 3, Sexism in Family Studies (Aug., 1971), pp. 548-560
Conditions under Which College Students Borrow, Use, and Alter Slang
Not Without a Shout
This paper calls for review of well known and emergent methodological strategies (PAR, performance pieces, cyberspace analysis) to assess their efficacy as acts of activism leading to a politics of possibility in a darkening era characterized by fearful injustices
Working It Through
Women's Health
At Work in the Field(s) of Ethnography
Initiation Into a Women's Profession
The Index of Class Position
The Faces of Florence Nightingale
The instinct of the mind, the purpose of nature, betrays itself in the use we make of the signal narrations of history. Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts. No anchor, no cable, no fences avail to keep a fact a fact. Emerson
Adjudication of Student Awareness in Professional Socialization
THREE CENTRAL and related tasks in professional socialization, shared mutually by students, faculty, and the socializing institution, are (1) to bring the student to awareness of what is required in the professional role; (2) to lead him to recognize himself in this role; and (3) to foster in him the capacity to properly communicate about himself as a professional. Presumably, successful accomplishment of this triple-identity objective yields a p…
Role-Making in Participant Observation
Although recent essays about participant observations have extended our understanding of that research method and its problematic aspects, few methodologists have scrutinized intensively the processes by which roles are developed in this type of fieldwork or the relationship of role development to the data gathered. Our purpose in reviewing our own experiences as participant observers in a longitudinal study of baccalaureate student nurses is to …
Conditions under Which College Students Borrow, Use, and Alter Slang
The Silent Dialogue
The Silent Dialogue
Ethnomethodology and ethnography
The Semi-Professions and Their Organization
Context and Posture
Virginia Olesen, Context and Posture: Notes on Socio-Cultural Aspects of Women's Roles and Family Policy in Contemporary Cuba, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 33, No. 3, Sexism in Family Studies (Aug., 1971), pp. 548-560
Woman's Place
Militance in a Women's Profession
Omnibus Personality Inventory scores obtained before and after the professional education of 59 baccalaureate nurse graduates who favored, justified, were ambivalect about or were critical of a nurses' “strike” were compared. Significant differences were found among these various opinion groups on the Complexity, Impulse Expression and Non-authoritarian scales. (1) These opinion groups' median scores at graduation were significantly different, wi…
What happens after schooling
Convergences and Divergences
Sexual identity. Sex roles and social change
Convergences and divergences
Confluences in Social Change
A somewhat neglected though thoroughly promising area for the analysis of changing women's roles lies in the matter of health and health care systems within any society. This is nowhere more the case than in the instance of contemporary Cuban health care and the part that women in that society play in the health care systems as deflners of health care problems, recipients of care, and as those who deliver care to others. Both women's roles and he…
"Social Problems" as the Journal of a Social Movement
Social Problems as the Journal of a Social Movement: Comments and Suggestions Get access Herbert A. Aurbach Herbert A. Aurbach Former Associate Editor Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 24, Issue 1, 1 October 1976, Pages 76–90, https://doi.org/10.2307/800323 Published: 02 August 2014
Women and the Workplace
Notes on the Development of a First Course in Social Sciences of Health and Healing in the Arab Republic of Egypt
Lateralness in women's work
What Is Medical Anthropology
From Student to Nurse
The Hired Learning in America
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