James A Holstein
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 108622 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | James A Holstein |
| NOMBRES | James A |
| APELLIDO | Holstein |
| FIRMA | HOLSTEIN J A |
| AFILIACIONES | Marquette University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0072-3095 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 69 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 581 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 65 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 5 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1983 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2017 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
Constructionist Controversies
""Constructionist Controversies" reviews the substantial contributions to social problems theory that have been made by social constructionist theorists and examines debates about the future of this perspective. Intended for the student, the volume provides a succinct formulation of all the major issues of social constructionism by contributors who are well recognized within the field for the strength with which they articulate their own widely v…
Reconsidering Social Constructionism
The social constructionist perspective has been controversial since its inception. Some contemporary controversies surrounding social constructionism recast old issues raised in Malcolm Spector and John Kitsuse's debate with structural functionalists. Critical, poststructural, and representational challenges provide the basis for a wide-ranging discussion of the prospects and possibilities for the constructionist approach and social problems theo…
Reconsidering Social Constructionism
"With the impact of social interactionist and ethnographic methodology twenty-five years ago, the research agenda in social problems began to shift its focus, giving rise to the Social Constructionism movement. The present volume and the related shorter text, Constructionist Controversies, review the substantial contributions made by social constructionist theorists over that period, as well as recent debates about the future of the perspective. …
Handbook of Constructionist Research
Varieties of Narrative Analysis
Narrative research has become increasingly popular in the social sciences. While no part of the process is easy, researchers often struggle to make sense of data that can seem chaotic and without a discernable pattern. This book shows how to analyze stories, storytelling, and stories in society, bringing together a variety of approaches to both texts and narrative practice under one cover.
The Sage Handbook of Interview Research
The new edition of this landmark volume emphasizes the dynamic, interactional, and reflexive dimensions of the research interview. Contributors highlight the myriad dimensions of complexity that are emerging as researchers increasingly frame the interview as a communicative opportunity as much as a data-gathering format
From the Individual Interview to the Interview Society
The Sage Handbook Of Interview Research
Melvin Pollner and Ethnomethodology
Don’t Argue with the Members”
The Sage handbook of interview research
The second edition of this landmark volume emphasizes the dynamic, interactional, and reflexive dimensions of the research interview. Contributors highlight the myriad dimensions of complexity that are emerging as researchers increasingly frame the interview as a communicative opportunity as much as a data-gathering format. The book begins with an overview of the history and conceptual transformations of the interview, which is followed by chapte…
Theoretical Validity and Empirical Utility of A Constructionist Analytics
Wing-Chung Ho offers an extensive critique of what he calls our “radical constructionist approach to family experience,” questioning the theoretical validity and empirical utility of the research program. This article responds to the charges in the broader context of the program's constructionist analytics, discussing family's experiential location, organizational embeddedness, and the importance of ethnographic sensibility. A brief extract of si…
Analyzing Narrative Reality
PREFACE INTRODUCTION PART I. NARRATIVE REALITY 1. Stories in Society 2. Forms of Analysis 3. Into the Field PART II. NARRATIVE WORK 4. Activation 5. Linkage 6. Composition 7. Performance 8. Collaboration 9. Control PART III. NARRATIVE ENVIRONMENTS 10. Close Relationships 11. Local Culture 12. Status 13. Jobs 14. Organizations 15. Intertextuality PART IV. NARRATIVE ADEQUACY 16. What Is a Good Story? 17. Who Is a Good Storyteller? AFTERWORD REFEREN…
Handbook of constructionist research
Introduction. Gubrium, Holstein, The Constructionist Mosaic. Part 1. Foundations and Historical Context. Weinberg, The Philosophical Foundations of Constructionist Research. Best, Historical Development and Defining Issues of Constructionist Inquiry. Part 2. Constructionism across the Disciplines. Faubion, Marcus, Constructionism in Anthropology. Foster, Bochner, Social Constructionist Perspectives in Communication Research. Wortham, Jackson, Edu…
Defining Deviance
Phenomenology, Ethnomethodology, and Family Discourse
Constructionist Perspectives on the Life Course
This article reviews recent developments in constructionist approaches to life course studies. It outlines the general tenets of social constructionism and compares and contrasts two contemporary constructionist perspectives on the life course
Pathologie mentale et justice
Les tribunaux sont des contextes multipartites impliquant une variété de locuteurs, mais les procédures officielles indiquent les limites du processus, spécifient les parties qui peuvent intervenir légitimement et prédéterminent leurs formes de participation. Le discours, dans les auditions d'internement, se distingue par le fait qu'il est procéduralement limité à l'interrogatoire et au contre-interrogatoire des témoins par le représentant de la …
Ways of Aging
Active Interviewing
Revisiting the Relationship Between Participant Observation and Interviewing
Cross-Cultural Interviewing
Queering the Interview
Inside Interviewing
The Everyday Work and Auspices of Authenticity
Narrative Practice and the Coherence of Personal Stories
While the sociological analysis of personal stories is becoming more sophisticated, it would benefit from a refined appreciation for narrative practice. The theme of this article is that the coherence of stories and the experiences they convey are reflexively related to the manifold activities and the increasingly diverse conditions of storytelling. Drawing on ethnographically assembled story material, we offer an empirically sensitizing vocabula…
Rethinking Victimization
This article suggests an interactional approach for analyzing victimization-that is, the social processes through which person come to be known and understood as victims. The authors conceptualize victimization in terms of interactional and descriptive practices through which victim status is assigned to persons and/or groups. Using data from the public media and fieldwork in everyday settings, the authors illustrate some techniques, objectives, …
Handbook of Constructionist Research
The Self in a World of Going Concerns
While commentators on the postmodern scene have dismissed or trivialized the personal self, it nonetheless remains a central experiential construct, articulating a sense of moral agency for everyday life. This article examines self-construction in the context of a world of proliferating going concerns-social institutions-that increasingly shape the discursive contours of subjectivity. Both the negative and the positive sides of this development a…
At the Border of Narrative and Ethnography
RECENT PROJECTS HAVE DRAWN US into analytic terrain that defies the emerging border between narrative and ethnography.This journal’s celebration of the turn of the century affords us the opportunity to reflect on the border as we consider ethnography’s past in relation to its future. We believe that the most promising challenge awaits qualitative researchers who are willing to work in relation to the representational tension of the border, not re…
Court Ordered Incompetence
This study analyzes the organization of discourse in involuntary mental hospitalization hearings. I examine conversation between attorneys and witnesses as they collaborate to produce evidence upon which determinations of grave disability are based. Patients' courtroom talk is frequently cited as evidence of their interactional competence or incompetence. My analysis suggests that, while this talk is typically considered to be patients' individua…
Producing Gender Effects on Involuntary Mental Hospitalization
This study examines how considerations of a candidate patient's gender influence involuntary mental hospitalization decisions. Based upon fieldwork done in mental health and legal settings, I describe the dynamics of the commitment decision-making process. I argue that effects of gender do not derive from a candidate patient's gender per se. Rather, gender's meaning and influence is established rhetorically during commitment proceedings. I concep…
Constructionist Perspectives on the Life Course
This article reviews recent developments in constructionist approaches to life course studies. It outlines the general tenets of social constructionism and compares and contrasts two contemporary constructionist perspectives on the life course
Deprivatization and the Construction of Domestic Life
Interpretations of and domestic life are increasingly deprivatized, that is, accomplished in various sites outside household. Addressing this situation, this article has two goals. First, it presents a constructionist approach to studies that views as a social object constituted through interpretive practice. Second, it documents how images and meanings are rationalized, public accomplishments. Featuring two interpretive conditions--local culture…
Grounding the Postmodern Self
In postmodern discourse, self is displaced as a central presence in experience and reappropriated as yet another personal signifier. This paper describes key postmodern views, then reframes postmodern vocabulary in terms of interpretive practice. It argues that the postmodern framing of self is too abstract and that a distinctly modern discourse focused on the deprivatization of interpretive activity can account empirically for features of postmo…
Family Discourse, Organizational Embeddedness, and Local Enactment
Treating family as an everyday, working vocabulary or discourse for assigning meaning to social relations, the analysis considers the social processes and descriptive conditions through which meaning is established, managed, and transcended. Highlighting both the descriptive utilities and the limits of organizationally embedded discourses, the article presents ethnographic material to show how family, although discursively and interactionally con…
Qualitative Inquiry and the Deprivatization of Experience
Contemporary social life is increasingly deprivatized, that is, conducted under the auspices of formal and informal groups, organizations, bureaucracies, and institutions. In these circumstances, personal (often private) experiential objects such as family, self, and the life course are subjected to extensive public discussion, debate, and definition. This article raises the question, Do contemporary social theory and society reflect one another …
The Private Image
Prevalent in family studies is the private image of domestic life, in which household members' perceptions of family living are considered to be more realistic and telling than those of other persons. This article considers the private image for its methodological assumptions and implications. Recasting the assumptions in terms of descriptive practice, the authors present an alternate approach that construes family order as bound to organized, co…
What is Family
Individual Agency, the Ordinary, and Postmodern Life
The postmodern challenge to sociological notions of individual agency assails its experiential substantiality, conveying agency instead in philosophically abstract terms and fleeting media images. In opposition to this, we argue that everyday interpretive practive reflexively constructs agency, utilizing resources drawn from the ordinary contours of experience. Narrative and ethnographic material collected in diverse settings, both formal and inf…
Dispute Domains
This article decribes how organizational disputes emerge within, and are shaped by, dispute domains. We analyze dispute domains as the fundamental assumptions, vocabularies, orientations, concerns, and constraints that circumscribe conflictual interaction in particular organizational settings. Organizational disputes are transformed as they move from one dispute domain to another. We examine such dispute transformations in the context of staff-cl…
Life Course Malleability
The traditional view of the life course as the patterned progression of individual experience through time has been challenged on several fronts. The emerging view is that patterned progression is subject to diverse social, historical, and cultural influences. This article extends the challenge by considering the way ordinary biographical work situationally and discursively shapes life course patterning in relation to local cultural and organizat…
Don’t Argue with the Members”
The nursing home as a discursive anchor for the ageing body
The nursing home has become a paramount site for the care and custody of old people, but it also affects how we think and talk about the ageing body. In this article, narrative and ethnographic material drawn from a variety of care-related settings is used to illustrate how and where the nursing home serves as a discursive anchor for embodiment. Circumstantial, local cultural, and organisational mediations are considered, featuring institutionali…
The Placement of Insanity
This ethnography of legal proceedings examines how judgments of "grave disability" are formulated to effect involuntary mental hospitalizations. Such commitment decisions are based on judges' pragmatic evaluations of the viability of candidate patients' proposed community living situations and the ability of those situations to contain the havoc associated with mental illness. In assessing the tenability of candidate patients' proposed living arr…
"Studying "Family Usage
This article offers an approach to family studies focusing on "family usage"-that is, discursive application and manipulation of family signs and imagery. Reconceptualizing family in terms of descriptive practice, I examine how family image and discourse are used to interpret and organize everyday social relations. Field data from community mental health and legal settings provide illustrations, and the role of family image and rhetoric in involu…
Melvin Pollner and Ethnomethodology
Standing Our Middle Ground
The Everyday Work and Auspices of Authenticity
Theoretical Validity and Empirical Utility of A Constructionist Analytics
Wing-Chung Ho offers an extensive critique of what he calls our “radical constructionist approach to family experience,” questioning the theoretical validity and empirical utility of the research program. This article responds to the charges in the broader context of the program's constructionist analytics, discussing family's experiential location, organizational embeddedness, and the importance of ethnographic sensibility. A brief extract of si…
Grading practices
Jurors' Use of Judges' Instructions
Findings from studies of jurors' use of judges' instructions have been equivocal. This article examines conceptual and methodological features of these studies that may have contributed to their inconsistent results. Past research has focused exclusively on jurors' cognitive 'rule-following' and consequently may have neglected to consider social dimensions of 'rule-use.' Many studies have failed to include a group deliberation; these studies gene…
The Placement of Insanity
This ethnography of legal proceedings examines how judgments of "grave disability" are formulated to effect involuntary mental hospitalizations. Such commitment decisions are based on judges' pragmatic evaluations of the viability of candidate patients' proposed community living situations and the ability of those situations to contain the havoc associated with mental illness. In assessing the tenability of candidate patients' proposed living arr…
Models of Local Mental Health Delivery Systems
Psychological Well-Being and the Socio-Symbolics of Athletic Contests
Anecdotal accounts suggest that athletic contests affect the psychological well-being of members of the community represented by the competing teams. While these effects are sociologically plausible, there is virtually no systematic evidence that documents the relation between athletic contests and well-being. This study examines the relation between the play and performance of major athletic teams at a large university and use of the campus psyc…
Mental Illness Assumptions in Civil Commitment Proceedings
Under reformed commitment legislation, mental illness alone is insufficient grounds for mental hospitalization. Nonetheless, judges of involuntary commitment hearings operate under the working assumption that persons sought to be committed are mentally ill, and this assumption shapes all other aspects of their evaluations. This article treats the mental illness assumption as an experiental reality and explores the ways in which the assumption inf…
The Private Image
Prevalent in family studies is the private image of domestic life, in which household members' perceptions of family living are considered to be more realistic and telling than those of other persons. This article considers the private image for its methodological assumptions and implications. Recasting the assumptions in terms of descriptive practice, the authors present an alternate approach that construes family order as bound to organized, co…
Producing Gender Effects on Involuntary Mental Hospitalization
This study examines how considerations of a candidate patient's gender influence involuntary mental hospitalization decisions. Based upon fieldwork done in mental health and legal settings, I describe the dynamics of the commitment decision-making process. I argue that effects of gender do not derive from a candidate patient's gender per se. Rather, gender's meaning and influence is established rhetorically during commitment proceedings. I concep…
Court Ordered Incompetence
This study analyzes the organization of discourse in involuntary mental hospitalization hearings. I examine conversation between attorneys and witnesses as they collaborate to produce evidence upon which determinations of grave disability are based. Patients' courtroom talk is frequently cited as evidence of their interactional competence or incompetence. My analysis suggests that, while this talk is typically considered to be patients' individua…
"Studying "Family Usage
This article offers an approach to family studies focusing on "family usage"-that is, discursive application and manipulation of family signs and imagery. Reconceptualizing family in terms of descriptive practice, I examine how family image and discourse are used to interpret and organize everyday social relations. Field data from community mental health and legal settings provide illustrations, and the role of family image and rhetoric in involu…
Man Oh Man
Rethinking Victimization
This article suggests an interactional approach for analyzing victimization-that is, the social processes through which person come to be known and understood as victims. The authors conceptualize victimization in terms of interactional and descriptive practices through which victim status is assigned to persons and/or groups. Using data from the public media and fieldwork in everyday settings, the authors illustrate some techniques, objectives, …
What is Family
What Is Family
What Is Family
What Is Family
Producing Evaluative Knowledge
This paper examines the interactional underpinnings of social scientific research. Based on a detailed examination of a two-hour research interview, it describes aspects of the conversational practices through which social scientific knowledge is generated. Past critiques of interview research have been somewhat unilateral in their focus, typically examining how researchers impose understandings on their subjects' reports. This paper moves beyond…
Family Discourse, Organizational Embeddedness, and Local Enactment
Treating family as an everyday, working vocabulary or discourse for assigning meaning to social relations, the analysis considers the social processes and descriptive conditions through which meaning is established, managed, and transcended. Highlighting both the descriptive utilities and the limits of organizationally embedded discourses, the article presents ethnographic material to show how family, although discursively and interactionally con…
Court-Ordered Insanity
This book, about involuntary commitment proceedings, focuses on interpretive practice at the nexus of legal, psychiatric, and practical reasoning. It describes the interactional dynamics through which legally and psychiatrically warranted decisions are publicly argued, negotiated, and justified
Dispute Domains. Organizational Contexts and Dispute Processing
Grounding the Postmodern Self
In postmodern discourse, self is displaced as a central presence in experience and reappropriated as yet another personal signifier. This paper describes key postmodern views, then reframes postmodern vocabulary in terms of interpretive practice. It argues that the postmodern framing of self is too abstract and that a distinctly modern discourse focused on the deprivatization of interpretive activity can account empirically for features of postmo…
The Active Interview
Introduction The Active Interview in Perspective Assigned Competence and Respondent Selection Narrative Resources The Active Interviewer Constructing Meaning within the Interview Multivocality and Multiple Respondents Rethinking Interview Procedures
Deprivatization and the Construction of Domestic Life
Interpretations of and domestic life are increasingly deprivatized, that is, accomplished in various sites outside household. Addressing this situation, this article has two goals. First, it presents a constructionist approach to studies that views as a social object constituted through interpretive practice. Second, it documents how images and meanings are rationalized, public accomplishments. Featuring two interpretive conditions--local culture…
Qualitative Inquiry and the Deprivatization of Experience
Contemporary social life is increasingly deprivatized, that is, conducted under the auspices of formal and informal groups, organizations, bureaucracies, and institutions. In these circumstances, personal (often private) experiential objects such as family, self, and the life course are subjected to extensive public discussion, debate, and definition. This article raises the question, Do contemporary social theory and society reflect one another …
Dispute Domains
This article decribes how organizational disputes emerge within, and are shaped by, dispute domains. We analyze dispute domains as the fundamental assumptions, vocabularies, orientations, concerns, and constraints that circumscribe conflictual interaction in particular organizational settings. Organizational disputes are transformed as they move from one dispute domain to another. We examine such dispute transformations in the context of staff-cl…
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