Steven H Lopez
Biographic Data
| ID | 128236 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steven H Lopez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steven H |
| FAMILY NAME | Lopez |
| SIGNATURE | LOPEZ S H |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1206-870X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 301 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Differential Reinforcement in Context
This study examines the role of differential reinforcement (DR)—a primary mechanism of social learning theory (SLT)—within intimate family and friendship networks and its impact on recidivism. We hypothesize that kin-based DR is more consequential than friends, and that its influence has a more significant impact on men that are more deeply embedded in the correctional system. To test this, we utilized a life history calendar approach administere…
Does Stable Employment after Prison Reduce Recidivism Irrespective of Prior Employment and Offending
Sampson and Laub’s (1990 Sampson, R. J., & Laub, J. H. (1990). Crime and deviance over the life course: The salience of adult social bonds. American Sociological Review, 55(5), 609–627. https://doi.org/10.2307/2095859[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar], 1993 Sampson, R. J., & Laub, J. H. (1993). Turning points in the life course: Why change matters to the study of crime*. Criminology, 31(3), 301–325. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-9…
Is Work Associated With More or Less Criminal Involvement in the Short-Term? New Evidence of the Former Among a Justice-Involved Sample
We inquire whether commitment to employment has an immediate suppressive effect (i.e., in the next month) on street crime. Analysis of retrospective monthly calendar data drawn from a random sample of prisoners reveals that it does not. In contrast, paycheck work co-occurs with income generating crime in almost half of the months in which participants are employed. Second, paycheck work is associated with an increase in the likelihood of subseque…
Marketing the Self vs. Preserving the Self
How do dislocated workers try to avoid downward mobility as they navigate insecure, nonstandard, and precarious work in the contemporary American economy? Should they embrace flexibility, or follow their passions? Drawing on in-depth, qualitative interviews with 56 displaced job seekers, we extend the job searching literature to distinguish two kinds of job searching: self-marketing and self-preservation. Self-marketers are willing to reinvent th…
Race, work history, and the employment recidivism relationship
Recent studies have found that race, work history, postprison employment, and recidivism are intertwined, suggesting that race and work history may shape the employment–recidivism relationship in nuanced, yet underexplored ways. Additionally, the literature has yet to settle on what kinds of employment patterns matter most for recidivism. These issues are especially important to resolve given contemporary concerns about mass incarceration and rac…
Educational Downgrading
Scholarship on adult education throughout the life course focuses on the relationship between education and upward mobility. Scholars rarely examine how adults' educational aspirations or trajectories are affected by downward mobility or an increasingly precarious labor market. Drawing on in-depth qualitative interviews with 21 job seekers in the post-Great Recession labor market in the United States, this article advances the concept of educatio…
Unemployed
A burgeoning literature on white-collar unemployment and job searching has sought over the past two decades to explain why white-collar workers embrace neoliberal labor market restructuring, and why they often blame themselves for the failure of labor markets to provide stable, secure employment. Recent work, especially Sharone, has shown how neoliberal ideology is rooted in the details of American labor market institutions. More recently, howeve…
When Is an Employee Not an Employee
Rethinking Organizational Decoupling
Neoinstitutionalists have long recognized that organizations must negotiate complex organizational fields to survive. Yet, this ever-sharpening focus on external environments comes at the expense of attending to how micro-level dynamics facilitate or inhibit organizational survival. In this article, and building on insights from research focusing on shop-floor contestation, we reexamine decoupling—that is, possible divergence of formal procedures…
Aging workers and the experience of job loss
Culture Change and Shit Work
Drawing on a year of fieldwork in Heartland Community, a "culture-change" nonprofit nursing home, this article investigates dynamics of worker-client power relationships across departments. The analysis raises questions about power and inequality that invert the usual way of thinking about it: Rather than trying to explain why some workers or customers are treated better or worse than others, this article explores why the same people were treated…
Rules don’t apply
Weber’s ideal typical model of bureaucracy constitutes the starting point for most scholarship on organizations. Much organizational behaviour, however occurs outside this formalized model. It is thus somewhat surprising that behaviours outside the formal-rational model are, more often than not, treated as aberrations. In contrast, the emerging critical literature on ‘inhabited institutions’ has identified such gaps in our theoretical understandi…
The ascension of Kafkaesque bureaucracy in private sector organizations
Although Weber’s ideal typical model of bureaucracy was developed primarily in relation to the state, studies of private sector organizations typically adhere to its formal-rational conceptions with little adjustment. This is unfortunate since bureaucracy in private sector economic organizations has many elements that are poorly captured by and potentially significantly at odds with Weber’s thinking. Most notable in this regard is the pervasivene…
Workers, Managers, and Customers
The sociology of service work has blossomed in the 10 years since Work and Occupations first published a special issue on this subject. This introductory essay chronicles developments and new debates around emotional labor, worker-customer relationships in the service triangle, and the nexus of gender and control in service work. Several neglected themes are highlighted, including the relationship between race and the organization of work on the …
Supervisory Bullying, Status Inequalities and Organizational Context
Bullying has been increasingly identified as a significant social problem. Although much of this attention has centered on the context of schooling, researchers are now beginning to recognize that workplaces are also arenas rife with abusive, bullying behaviors. Personality attributes of bullies and victims have received attention, but much less research has examined the social and organizational foundations of bullying. In this article, we focus…
Workplace incivilities
Workplace incivility - that is, negative relational dimensions of employment with consequences for worker integrity and dignity - affects millions every year. In this article, the 'organizational misbehaviour' and 'workplace chaos' literatures offer building blocks for a conception wherein workplace incivility is viewed as emanating from the joint and sometimes interconnected influence of organizational processes and status-based social closure. …
Power, Status, and Abuse at Work
Workplace harassment can be devastating for employees and damaging for organizations. In this article, we expand the literature by identifying common and distinct processes related to general workplace harassment and workplace sexual harassment. Using both structural equation modeling and in-depth case immersion, we analyze content-coded data from the full population of workplace ethnographies—ethnographies that provide in-depth information on th…
The New Old Economy
Chaos and the Abuse of Power
Bullying is a significant workplace problem-a fact highlighted by a growing body of social science literature. Its causes, however, have received little systematic attention beyond analyses of the personality attributes of bullies. This article explores the roles of relational power and organizational chaos in the emergence of workplace bullying. The analysis of content-coded organizational ethnographies integrates quantitative and qualitative te…
Emotional Labor and Organized Emotional Care
Based on qualitative comparison of three nursing home facilities, the idea of organized emotional care is proposed as a complement to the concept of emotional labor for understanding care work. It is argued that emotional labor and organized emotional care are distinguished primarily by the presence or absence of organizational feeling rules and affective requirements. Care organizations can be plotted on a continuum with emotional labor at the c…
Culture Change Management in Long-Term Care
Advocates of culture-change management suggest that the right sort of managerial philosophy can transform nursing homes from impersonal institutions into safe, caring communities. However, participant observation carried out at Heartland Community, a nonprofit culture-change nursing home, suggests that culture change founders on the structural problem of inadequate staffing. Resource limitations imposed by Medicaid and Medicare reimbursement rate…
Modern Times, Ancient Hours
Bring Out Yer Dead
This article reviews three recent books about challenges facing contemporary labor movements. Clawson's argument that U.S. labor unions ought to seek a fusion with 1960s social movements to build a broad challenge to neoliberal politics reflects the seriousness of labor's crisis in the United States; his argument is an important one but does not adequately explore the obstacles and difficulties involved in such a fusion. The contributors to Micha…
Contesting the Global City
Emotional Labor and Organized Emotional Care
Based on qualitative comparison of three nursing home facilities, the idea of organized emotional care is proposed as a complement to the concept of emotional labor for understanding care work. It is argued that emotional labor and organized emotional care are distinguished primarily by the presence or absence of organizational feeling rules and affective requirements. Care organizations can be plotted on a continuum with emotional labor at the c…
Workers, Managers, and Customers
The sociology of service work has blossomed in the 10 years since Work and Occupations first published a special issue on this subject. This introductory essay chronicles developments and new debates around emotional labor, worker-customer relationships in the service triangle, and the nexus of gender and control in service work. Several neglected themes are highlighted, including the relationship between race and the organization of work on the …
Chaos and the Abuse of Power
Bullying is a significant workplace problem-a fact highlighted by a growing body of social science literature. Its causes, however, have received little systematic attention beyond analyses of the personality attributes of bullies. This article explores the roles of relational power and organizational chaos in the emergence of workplace bullying. The analysis of content-coded organizational ethnographies integrates quantitative and qualitative te…
Culture Change Management in Long-Term Care
Advocates of culture-change management suggest that the right sort of managerial philosophy can transform nursing homes from impersonal institutions into safe, caring communities. However, participant observation carried out at Heartland Community, a nonprofit culture-change nursing home, suggests that culture change founders on the structural problem of inadequate staffing. Resource limitations imposed by Medicaid and Medicare reimbursement rate…
Supervisory Bullying, Status Inequalities and Organizational Context
Bullying has been increasingly identified as a significant social problem. Although much of this attention has centered on the context of schooling, researchers are now beginning to recognize that workplaces are also arenas rife with abusive, bullying behaviors. Personality attributes of bullies and victims have received attention, but much less research has examined the social and organizational foundations of bullying. In this article, we focus…
Workplace incivilities
Workplace incivility - that is, negative relational dimensions of employment with consequences for worker integrity and dignity - affects millions every year. In this article, the 'organizational misbehaviour' and 'workplace chaos' literatures offer building blocks for a conception wherein workplace incivility is viewed as emanating from the joint and sometimes interconnected influence of organizational processes and status-based social closure. …
Aging workers and the experience of job loss
Power, Status, and Abuse at Work
Workplace harassment can be devastating for employees and damaging for organizations. In this article, we expand the literature by identifying common and distinct processes related to general workplace harassment and workplace sexual harassment. Using both structural equation modeling and in-depth case immersion, we analyze content-coded data from the full population of workplace ethnographies—ethnographies that provide in-depth information on th…
The ascension of Kafkaesque bureaucracy in private sector organizations
Although Weber’s ideal typical model of bureaucracy was developed primarily in relation to the state, studies of private sector organizations typically adhere to its formal-rational conceptions with little adjustment. This is unfortunate since bureaucracy in private sector economic organizations has many elements that are poorly captured by and potentially significantly at odds with Weber’s thinking. Most notable in this regard is the pervasivene…
Unemployed
A burgeoning literature on white-collar unemployment and job searching has sought over the past two decades to explain why white-collar workers embrace neoliberal labor market restructuring, and why they often blame themselves for the failure of labor markets to provide stable, secure employment. Recent work, especially Sharone, has shown how neoliberal ideology is rooted in the details of American labor market institutions. More recently, howeve…
Culture Change and Shit Work
Drawing on a year of fieldwork in Heartland Community, a "culture-change" nonprofit nursing home, this article investigates dynamics of worker-client power relationships across departments. The analysis raises questions about power and inequality that invert the usual way of thinking about it: Rather than trying to explain why some workers or customers are treated better or worse than others, this article explores why the same people were treated…
Race, work history, and the employment recidivism relationship
Recent studies have found that race, work history, postprison employment, and recidivism are intertwined, suggesting that race and work history may shape the employment–recidivism relationship in nuanced, yet underexplored ways. Additionally, the literature has yet to settle on what kinds of employment patterns matter most for recidivism. These issues are especially important to resolve given contemporary concerns about mass incarceration and rac…
Rethinking Organizational Decoupling
Neoinstitutionalists have long recognized that organizations must negotiate complex organizational fields to survive. Yet, this ever-sharpening focus on external environments comes at the expense of attending to how micro-level dynamics facilitate or inhibit organizational survival. In this article, and building on insights from research focusing on shop-floor contestation, we reexamine decoupling—that is, possible divergence of formal procedures…
Modern Times, Ancient Hours
Bring Out Yer Dead
This article reviews three recent books about challenges facing contemporary labor movements. Clawson's argument that U.S. labor unions ought to seek a fusion with 1960s social movements to build a broad challenge to neoliberal politics reflects the seriousness of labor's crisis in the United States; his argument is an important one but does not adequately explore the obstacles and difficulties involved in such a fusion. The contributors to Micha…
Contesting the Global City
Modern Times, Ancient Hours
Bring Out Yer Dead
This article reviews three recent books about challenges facing contemporary labor movements. Clawson's argument that U.S. labor unions ought to seek a fusion with 1960s social movements to build a broad challenge to neoliberal politics reflects the seriousness of labor's crisis in the United States; his argument is an important one but does not adequately explore the obstacles and difficulties involved in such a fusion. The contributors to Micha…
Chaos and the Abuse of Power
Bullying is a significant workplace problem-a fact highlighted by a growing body of social science literature. Its causes, however, have received little systematic attention beyond analyses of the personality attributes of bullies. This article explores the roles of relational power and organizational chaos in the emergence of workplace bullying. The analysis of content-coded organizational ethnographies integrates quantitative and qualitative te…
Emotional Labor and Organized Emotional Care
Based on qualitative comparison of three nursing home facilities, the idea of organized emotional care is proposed as a complement to the concept of emotional labor for understanding care work. It is argued that emotional labor and organized emotional care are distinguished primarily by the presence or absence of organizational feeling rules and affective requirements. Care organizations can be plotted on a continuum with emotional labor at the c…
Culture Change Management in Long-Term Care
Advocates of culture-change management suggest that the right sort of managerial philosophy can transform nursing homes from impersonal institutions into safe, caring communities. However, participant observation carried out at Heartland Community, a nonprofit culture-change nursing home, suggests that culture change founders on the structural problem of inadequate staffing. Resource limitations imposed by Medicaid and Medicare reimbursement rate…
The New Old Economy
Supervisory Bullying, Status Inequalities and Organizational Context
Bullying has been increasingly identified as a significant social problem. Although much of this attention has centered on the context of schooling, researchers are now beginning to recognize that workplaces are also arenas rife with abusive, bullying behaviors. Personality attributes of bullies and victims have received attention, but much less research has examined the social and organizational foundations of bullying. In this article, we focus…
Workplace incivilities
Workplace incivility - that is, negative relational dimensions of employment with consequences for worker integrity and dignity - affects millions every year. In this article, the 'organizational misbehaviour' and 'workplace chaos' literatures offer building blocks for a conception wherein workplace incivility is viewed as emanating from the joint and sometimes interconnected influence of organizational processes and status-based social closure. …
Power, Status, and Abuse at Work
Workplace harassment can be devastating for employees and damaging for organizations. In this article, we expand the literature by identifying common and distinct processes related to general workplace harassment and workplace sexual harassment. Using both structural equation modeling and in-depth case immersion, we analyze content-coded data from the full population of workplace ethnographies—ethnographies that provide in-depth information on th…
Workers, Managers, and Customers
The sociology of service work has blossomed in the 10 years since Work and Occupations first published a special issue on this subject. This introductory essay chronicles developments and new debates around emotional labor, worker-customer relationships in the service triangle, and the nexus of gender and control in service work. Several neglected themes are highlighted, including the relationship between race and the organization of work on the …
Rules don’t apply
Weber’s ideal typical model of bureaucracy constitutes the starting point for most scholarship on organizations. Much organizational behaviour, however occurs outside this formalized model. It is thus somewhat surprising that behaviours outside the formal-rational model are, more often than not, treated as aberrations. In contrast, the emerging critical literature on ‘inhabited institutions’ has identified such gaps in our theoretical understandi…
The ascension of Kafkaesque bureaucracy in private sector organizations
Although Weber’s ideal typical model of bureaucracy was developed primarily in relation to the state, studies of private sector organizations typically adhere to its formal-rational conceptions with little adjustment. This is unfortunate since bureaucracy in private sector economic organizations has many elements that are poorly captured by and potentially significantly at odds with Weber’s thinking. Most notable in this regard is the pervasivene…
Culture Change and Shit Work
Drawing on a year of fieldwork in Heartland Community, a "culture-change" nonprofit nursing home, this article investigates dynamics of worker-client power relationships across departments. The analysis raises questions about power and inequality that invert the usual way of thinking about it: Rather than trying to explain why some workers or customers are treated better or worse than others, this article explores why the same people were treated…
Rethinking Organizational Decoupling
Neoinstitutionalists have long recognized that organizations must negotiate complex organizational fields to survive. Yet, this ever-sharpening focus on external environments comes at the expense of attending to how micro-level dynamics facilitate or inhibit organizational survival. In this article, and building on insights from research focusing on shop-floor contestation, we reexamine decoupling—that is, possible divergence of formal procedures…
Aging workers and the experience of job loss
When Is an Employee Not an Employee
Unemployed
A burgeoning literature on white-collar unemployment and job searching has sought over the past two decades to explain why white-collar workers embrace neoliberal labor market restructuring, and why they often blame themselves for the failure of labor markets to provide stable, secure employment. Recent work, especially Sharone, has shown how neoliberal ideology is rooted in the details of American labor market institutions. More recently, howeve…
Educational Downgrading
Scholarship on adult education throughout the life course focuses on the relationship between education and upward mobility. Scholars rarely examine how adults' educational aspirations or trajectories are affected by downward mobility or an increasingly precarious labor market. Drawing on in-depth qualitative interviews with 21 job seekers in the post-Great Recession labor market in the United States, this article advances the concept of educatio…
Race, work history, and the employment recidivism relationship
Recent studies have found that race, work history, postprison employment, and recidivism are intertwined, suggesting that race and work history may shape the employment–recidivism relationship in nuanced, yet underexplored ways. Additionally, the literature has yet to settle on what kinds of employment patterns matter most for recidivism. These issues are especially important to resolve given contemporary concerns about mass incarceration and rac…
Marketing the Self vs. Preserving the Self
How do dislocated workers try to avoid downward mobility as they navigate insecure, nonstandard, and precarious work in the contemporary American economy? Should they embrace flexibility, or follow their passions? Drawing on in-depth, qualitative interviews with 56 displaced job seekers, we extend the job searching literature to distinguish two kinds of job searching: self-marketing and self-preservation. Self-marketers are willing to reinvent th…
Does Stable Employment after Prison Reduce Recidivism Irrespective of Prior Employment and Offending
Sampson and Laub’s (1990 Sampson, R. J., & Laub, J. H. (1990). Crime and deviance over the life course: The salience of adult social bonds. American Sociological Review, 55(5), 609–627. https://doi.org/10.2307/2095859[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar], 1993 Sampson, R. J., & Laub, J. H. (1993). Turning points in the life course: Why change matters to the study of crime*. Criminology, 31(3), 301–325. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-9…
Is Work Associated With More or Less Criminal Involvement in the Short-Term? New Evidence of the Former Among a Justice-Involved Sample
We inquire whether commitment to employment has an immediate suppressive effect (i.e., in the next month) on street crime. Analysis of retrospective monthly calendar data drawn from a random sample of prisoners reveals that it does not. In contrast, paycheck work co-occurs with income generating crime in almost half of the months in which participants are employed. Second, paycheck work is associated with an increase in the likelihood of subseque…
Differential Reinforcement in Context
This study examines the role of differential reinforcement (DR)—a primary mechanism of social learning theory (SLT)—within intimate family and friendship networks and its impact on recidivism. We hypothesize that kin-based DR is more consequential than friends, and that its influence has a more significant impact on men that are more deeply embedded in the correctional system. To test this, we utilized a life history calendar approach administere…
Political science (18 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Psychology (14 works) · Economics (13 works) · Law (13 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Public relations (10 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (9 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (7 works) · Business (6 works)