David A Karp
Biographic Data
| ID | 119586 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David A Karp |
| GIVEN NAMES | David A |
| FAMILY NAME | Karp |
| SIGNATURE | KARP D A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5487-338X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 183 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Attributes of growing and shrinking places within socioeconomic clusters in the United States
Becoming a restorative university
Becoming a restorative university: The role of restorative justice in higher education This article describes the concept of a restorative university, an organisation that embraces restorative justice principles and practices. The article reviews the emergence of contemporary restorative justice; a framework for restorative justice in higher education; implementation in student affairs; the place of restorative justice in academic affairs; restor…
Being Urban
This third edition of a classic urban sociology text examines critical but often-neglected aspects of urban life from a social-psychological theoretical perspective. Symbolic interaction is among the most central theoretical paradigms in sociology and the theory that most thoroughly attends to how individuals give meaning to their world—in this case, how city dwellers interpret and respond to their daily experiences as urbanites. This thoroughly …
A global journal with Central European roots
Diversity and Donations
We explore the effects of local ethnic and religious diversity on individual donations to private charities. Using 10-year neighborhood-level panels derived from personal tax records in Canada, we find that diversity has a detrimental effect on charitable donations. A 10 percentage point increase in ethnic diversity reduces donations by 14%, and a 10 percentage point increase in religious diversity reduces donations by 10%. The ethnic diversity e…
Why Parents Pay for College
This article asks how parents think about the cost of a college education for their children. Based on data from more than ninety in-depth interviews with upper-middle-class parents and children, it is clear that grooming children for college and then paying for their education is intimately linked with ideas about being a 'good parent.' We present data on three related aspects of parents' consciousness about paying for college. First, data are p…
The Loss of Sadness
Of Roots and Wings
This article examines how parents experience the process of 'letting go' of their college-bound children. The focus of our analysis is on how the parents evaluate the meanings of their children's leaving home and adopt strategies to facilitate the process for both themselves and the departing child. Our analysis is based on interviews with thirty sets of parents. The interview materials allowed us to recognize and then parse the paradoxical task …
Why Laundry, Not Hegel? Social Class, Transition to College, and Pathways to Adulthood
This article is part of a larger study looking at upper-middle-class, college-bound high school seniors and their parents as they go through the college application process. The seniors we interviewed expect college to be a transformative experience that will affect their identities. But they also know they will experience upheavals in the routines of everyday life as they face changes of place, changes in responsibility for tasks, and changes in…
Mental Illness, Caregiving, and Emotion Management
Based on 50 in-depth interviews, this article considers how caregivers to a spouse, parent, child, or sibling suffering from depression, manic-depression, or schizophrenia manage their emotions over time. By considering the turning points in the joint career of caregivers and ill family members, our analysis moves beyond studies that link emotions to particular incidences, momentary encounters, or discreet events. Four interpretive junctures in t…
Bearing Responsibility
Based on 50 in-depth interviews, this article describes how family caregivers to a spouse, parent, child, or sibling suffering from depression, manic-depression, or schizophrenia negotiate their involvement with the ill person. The central research question asks: 'what features of the situation do family members take into account as they try to operationalize boundaries of obligation between themselves and the mentally ill person in their lives?'…
Social Science, Progress, and the Ethnographer's Craft
Leaving Home for College
This paper describes how 23 primarily upper-middle-class high school seniors anticipated identity changes as they prepared to leave home for college. The transition from high school to college is a period of 'liminality' during which students are structurally in between old and new statuses. We discuss how students anticipated change, planned to affirm certain of their identities, imagined creating new identities, and contemplated discovering una…
Speaking of Sadness
Speaking of Sadness
Combining a scholar's care and thoroughness with searing personal insight, this title brings the private experience of depression into sharp relief, drawing on a remarkable series of intimate interviews with fifty depressed men and women. By turns poignant, disturbing, mordantly funny, and wise, the interviews cause us to marvel at the courage of depressed people in dealing with extraordinary and debilitating pain. Throughout, the title probes th…
New Ethnographies
Living with Depression
This article reports on an in-depth interview investigation of 2O persons who have been diagnosed and treated for unipolar depression. The article proceeds from the observation that although a great deal of survey research has been directed at trying to understand the causes for depression, very little writing has explored the subjective experience of depression. The depression experience is conceived as a moving perspective or career through whi…
The Dialectics of Depression
This article attempts to illuminate the phenomenology of clinical depression by making it sociologically intelligible. It proceeds from the fundamental premise of the sociology of medicine that there is a dialectical relationship between illness and social experience. Throughout, it explores the paradox that depressed persons greatly desire connection while they are simultaneously deprived of the ability to realize it. In-depth interview data fro…
Taking anti-depressant medications
Illness Ambiguity and the Search for Meaning
This article reports on a group of people who met weekly to discuss problems associated with suffering from depression or manic depression. Group discussion constituted a collective search for meaning about an inherently ambiguous chronic illness. The analysis in the article centers on how the members of this self-help group collectively produced a perspective for making sense of their trouble. Although group discussion covered a range of topics,…
Sport and Urban Life
The paper draws together historical and sociological literatures on sport with the purpose of more firmly introducing the role of sport into scholarly dialogue about city life. A central thesis of the paper is that there was a mutually transformative relationship between sport and the growth and development of American cities during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Discussed in this regard is the role of sport and games in socializin…
Professionals beyond midlife
Sociology and Everyday Life
You Can Take the Boy Out of Dorchester, but You Can't Take Dorchester Out of the Boy
This article seeks to illuminate some of the social psychological correlates of social mobility. It proceeds from the observation that while a great deal is known about aggregate rates of mobility and the factors that inhibit or enhance persons' movement through social structures, far less is known about the way individuals define, interpret, comprehend, and give meaning to their own movement through social space. In-depth interview data from 25 …
Gender, academic careers, and the social psychology of aging
Illness Ambiguity and the Search for Meaning
This article reports on a group of people who met weekly to discuss problems associated with suffering from depression or manic depression. Group discussion constituted a collective search for meaning about an inherently ambiguous chronic illness. The analysis in the article centers on how the members of this self-help group collectively produced a perspective for making sense of their trouble. Although group discussion covered a range of topics,…
The Loss of Sadness
Living with Depression
This article reports on an in-depth interview investigation of 2O persons who have been diagnosed and treated for unipolar depression. The article proceeds from the observation that although a great deal of survey research has been directed at trying to understand the causes for depression, very little writing has explored the subjective experience of depression. The depression experience is conceived as a moving perspective or career through whi…
Mental Illness, Caregiving, and Emotion Management
Based on 50 in-depth interviews, this article considers how caregivers to a spouse, parent, child, or sibling suffering from depression, manic-depression, or schizophrenia manage their emotions over time. By considering the turning points in the joint career of caregivers and ill family members, our analysis moves beyond studies that link emotions to particular incidences, momentary encounters, or discreet events. Four interpretive junctures in t…
Hiding in Pornographic Bookstores
Leaving Home for College
This paper describes how 23 primarily upper-middle-class high school seniors anticipated identity changes as they prepared to leave home for college. The transition from high school to college is a period of 'liminality' during which students are structurally in between old and new statuses. We discuss how students anticipated change, planned to affirm certain of their identities, imagined creating new identities, and contemplated discovering una…
Taking anti-depressant medications
Social Science, Progress, and the Ethnographer's Craft
Bearing Responsibility
Based on 50 in-depth interviews, this article describes how family caregivers to a spouse, parent, child, or sibling suffering from depression, manic-depression, or schizophrenia negotiate their involvement with the ill person. The central research question asks: 'what features of the situation do family members take into account as they try to operationalize boundaries of obligation between themselves and the mentally ill person in their lives?'…
Work, careers, and aging
Why Laundry, Not Hegel? Social Class, Transition to College, and Pathways to Adulthood
This article is part of a larger study looking at upper-middle-class, college-bound high school seniors and their parents as they go through the college application process. The seniors we interviewed expect college to be a transformative experience that will affect their identities. But they also know they will experience upheavals in the routines of everyday life as they face changes of place, changes in responsibility for tasks, and changes in…
Sport and Urban Life
The paper draws together historical and sociological literatures on sport with the purpose of more firmly introducing the role of sport into scholarly dialogue about city life. A central thesis of the paper is that there was a mutually transformative relationship between sport and the growth and development of American cities during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Discussed in this regard is the role of sport and games in socializin…
Sociology and Everyday Life
You Can Take the Boy Out of Dorchester, but You Can't Take Dorchester Out of the Boy
This article seeks to illuminate some of the social psychological correlates of social mobility. It proceeds from the observation that while a great deal is known about aggregate rates of mobility and the factors that inhibit or enhance persons' movement through social structures, far less is known about the way individuals define, interpret, comprehend, and give meaning to their own movement through social space. In-depth interview data from 25 …
Why Parents Pay for College
This article asks how parents think about the cost of a college education for their children. Based on data from more than ninety in-depth interviews with upper-middle-class parents and children, it is clear that grooming children for college and then paying for their education is intimately linked with ideas about being a 'good parent.' We present data on three related aspects of parents' consciousness about paying for college. First, data are p…
Of Roots and Wings
This article examines how parents experience the process of 'letting go' of their college-bound children. The focus of our analysis is on how the parents evaluate the meanings of their children's leaving home and adopt strategies to facilitate the process for both themselves and the departing child. Our analysis is based on interviews with thirty sets of parents. The interview materials allowed us to recognize and then parse the paradoxical task …
Gender, academic careers, and the social psychology of aging
A global journal with Central European roots
The Dialectics of Depression
This article attempts to illuminate the phenomenology of clinical depression by making it sociologically intelligible. It proceeds from the fundamental premise of the sociology of medicine that there is a dialectical relationship between illness and social experience. Throughout, it explores the paradox that depressed persons greatly desire connection while they are simultaneously deprived of the ability to realize it. In-depth interview data fro…
Ego Psychology and Communication
Beyond Words
Hiding in Pornographic Bookstores
Toward Social Hope
The Research Craft
Introduction to the Sociologies of Everyday Life
Work, careers, and aging
Residential Crowding in Urban America.Mark Baldassare
Experiencing the Life Cycle
Present and Past in Middle Life
Gender, academic careers, and the social psychology of aging
Sociology and Everyday Life
You Can Take the Boy Out of Dorchester, but You Can't Take Dorchester Out of the Boy
This article seeks to illuminate some of the social psychological correlates of social mobility. It proceeds from the observation that while a great deal is known about aggregate rates of mobility and the factors that inhibit or enhance persons' movement through social structures, far less is known about the way individuals define, interpret, comprehend, and give meaning to their own movement through social space. In-depth interview data from 25 …
Professionals beyond midlife
Sport and Urban Life
The paper draws together historical and sociological literatures on sport with the purpose of more firmly introducing the role of sport into scholarly dialogue about city life. A central thesis of the paper is that there was a mutually transformative relationship between sport and the growth and development of American cities during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Discussed in this regard is the role of sport and games in socializin…
Illness Ambiguity and the Search for Meaning
This article reports on a group of people who met weekly to discuss problems associated with suffering from depression or manic depression. Group discussion constituted a collective search for meaning about an inherently ambiguous chronic illness. The analysis in the article centers on how the members of this self-help group collectively produced a perspective for making sense of their trouble. Although group discussion covered a range of topics,…
Taking anti-depressant medications
Living with Depression
This article reports on an in-depth interview investigation of 2O persons who have been diagnosed and treated for unipolar depression. The article proceeds from the observation that although a great deal of survey research has been directed at trying to understand the causes for depression, very little writing has explored the subjective experience of depression. The depression experience is conceived as a moving perspective or career through whi…
The Dialectics of Depression
This article attempts to illuminate the phenomenology of clinical depression by making it sociologically intelligible. It proceeds from the fundamental premise of the sociology of medicine that there is a dialectical relationship between illness and social experience. Throughout, it explores the paradox that depressed persons greatly desire connection while they are simultaneously deprived of the ability to realize it. In-depth interview data fro…
Speaking of Sadness
Combining a scholar's care and thoroughness with searing personal insight, this title brings the private experience of depression into sharp relief, drawing on a remarkable series of intimate interviews with fifty depressed men and women. By turns poignant, disturbing, mordantly funny, and wise, the interviews cause us to marvel at the courage of depressed people in dealing with extraordinary and debilitating pain. Throughout, the title probes th…
New Ethnographies
Speaking of Sadness
Leaving Home for College
This paper describes how 23 primarily upper-middle-class high school seniors anticipated identity changes as they prepared to leave home for college. The transition from high school to college is a period of 'liminality' during which students are structurally in between old and new statuses. We discuss how students anticipated change, planned to affirm certain of their identities, imagined creating new identities, and contemplated discovering una…
Bearing Responsibility
Based on 50 in-depth interviews, this article describes how family caregivers to a spouse, parent, child, or sibling suffering from depression, manic-depression, or schizophrenia negotiate their involvement with the ill person. The central research question asks: 'what features of the situation do family members take into account as they try to operationalize boundaries of obligation between themselves and the mentally ill person in their lives?'…
Social Science, Progress, and the Ethnographer's Craft
Psychology (26 works) · Sociology (22 works) · Social Psychology (17 works) · Political science (13 works) · Epistemology (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Psychiatry (8 works) · Psychoanalysis (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Social science (6 works)