Amy L Best
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 131053 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Amy L Best |
| NOMBRES | Amy L |
| APELLIDO | Best |
| FIRMA | BEST A L |
| AFILIACIONES | George Mason University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9111-178X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 115 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2001 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Youth Perspectives on School Safety
Worldmaking for Transformation and Repair
Worldmaking is a capacious concept. Far from imagining Empire, sociological treatments of worldmaking are expansive, anchoring the building of new systems, new scaffolds of belonging, and new ways of being in everyday work and collective practices. Worldmaking is a conceptual project and a practical project . This presidential address offers a framework for thinking about worldmaking and its links to both transformation and repair in the context …
Community-Based Research as Civic Action
Literature on civic engagement has long held an adult bias and is rooted in understandings of civic participation undertaken by adults, not youth. Youth are rarely treated as civic actors in their own right, but instead as would-be civic actors. We make a case for building social science research capacity as a critical tool for civic action, especially salient for groups working toward organizational, institutional, and/or legislative change and …
Decolonizing Relationality
We are members of the Summer Institute in Anti-Racist and Decolonizing Research Methods, which attempts to shift social science research to be more inclusive and more explicitly connected to anti-racist and decolonizing principles. We tell a complicated, messy, often difficult story of what relationality could be in the context of work like ours. We hope that readers will consider the complications of relationality beyond the interpersonal questi…
Making Education Work for the Poor
Youth-Led Research and the Tensions Between Relational Methodologies and Fast Methods
Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) has often been characterized as a meaningful way of including young people in research about and for them. Much has been written about the need to develop trusting relationships between adult and youth researchers in this process. These types of research relationships take time to develop authentically and we see a need for that relationship-building time to be built into research designs and timelines. …
Social solidarity, social infrastructure, and community food access
Teen Spirit
The strength of civic ties
The complex relationship between professional success and civic engagement among educated immigrant professionals is little understood. This qualitative study examines the social processes linking professional attainment and civic involvement among immigrant professionals, with the purpose to deepen understanding of the mechanisms through which civic participation is tied to occupational pathways and advancement. We report on findings from interv…
Representing Youth
New Gender Conceptions
Bringing Sociology into the Public Policy Process
Consumption, Girls' Culture and
Modern girlhood can hardly be understood without attention to the influence of commodities and practices of consumption over modern constructions of self. For a large number of girls in modern America, participating in the consumer realm is a defining feature of life as a girl. Yet, the meaning of girls' consumption has changed considerably over time. The explosion of the Internet, the emergence of segmented marketing as an alternative to mass ma…
Youth Consumers and the Fast-food Market
This paper provides a frame for thinking about youths' public consumption of fast foods. It draws attention to the significance of the social encounters that surround food by giving greater analytical focus to the late sociologist, Erving Goffman's conception of "the situation" than is typically given in research on youth food consumption. Focusing on the role of the situation in structuring the experience of youths' consumption of fast food dire…
Radical Normals
Sociological research has examined straight parents in 'traditional' family arrangements who become gay rights activists, but pays insufficient attention to how this puzzling identity comes into being. Drawn from observations and interviews of parents participating in a local chapter of Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) (2009 to 2010), this paper analyzes the parenting activities undertaken by straight parents of gay children as a …
Teen driving as public drama
In popular and policy framings in the USA, traffic accidents and fatalities involving teens are typically treated as having their own facticity. Much like other social phenomenon, teen driving accidents are regarded as though they are part of an objective reality external to a set of ideational or discursive processes and social organization of knowledge. Treated as such, teen driving accidents and fatalities are uncritically classified, counted,…
Teenage Witches
Representing Youth
Consumption, Girls' Culture and
Modern girlhood can hardly be understood without attention to the influence of commodities and practices of consumption over modern constructions of self. For a large number of girls in modern America, participating in the consumer realm is a defining feature of life as a girl. Yet, the meaning of girls’ consumption has changed considerably over time. The explosion of the Internet, the emergence of segmented marketing as an alternative to mass ma…
Freedom, Constraint, and Family Responsibility
This article examines kids' talk about cars, exploring what their talk reveals about the dynamics of family life among families with teenagers. 1Using indepth and focus group interviews with teens, this article identifies how the car serves as cultural object around which parents and kids collaboratively negotiate both kids' autonomy from the world of family and their increasing responsibility to family that usually follows learning to drive. Hig…
Product Review
Doing Race in the Context of Feminist Interviewing
In this article, the author examines how fieldwork serves as an interactional context through which the qualitative researcher's racial identity and the racial identities of those under study are actively managed, negotiated, and solidified. Focusing on the context of feminist interviewing, the author highlights how the researcher and the researched, as they both construct their symbolic worlds through talk of it, rely on taken-for-granted notion…
Prom Night
Doing Race in the Context of Feminist Interviewing
In this article, the author examines how fieldwork serves as an interactional context through which the qualitative researcher's racial identity and the racial identities of those under study are actively managed, negotiated, and solidified. Focusing on the context of feminist interviewing, the author highlights how the researcher and the researched, as they both construct their symbolic worlds through talk of it, rely on taken-for-granted notion…
Radical Normals
Sociological research has examined straight parents in 'traditional' family arrangements who become gay rights activists, but pays insufficient attention to how this puzzling identity comes into being. Drawn from observations and interviews of parents participating in a local chapter of Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) (2009 to 2010), this paper analyzes the parenting activities undertaken by straight parents of gay children as a …
Freedom, Constraint, and Family Responsibility
This article examines kids' talk about cars, exploring what their talk reveals about the dynamics of family life among families with teenagers. 1Using indepth and focus group interviews with teens, this article identifies how the car serves as cultural object around which parents and kids collaboratively negotiate both kids' autonomy from the world of family and their increasing responsibility to family that usually follows learning to drive. Hig…
Teenage Witches
Youth-Led Research and the Tensions Between Relational Methodologies and Fast Methods
Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) has often been characterized as a meaningful way of including young people in research about and for them. Much has been written about the need to develop trusting relationships between adult and youth researchers in this process. These types of research relationships take time to develop authentically and we see a need for that relationship-building time to be built into research designs and timelines. …
Youth Consumers and the Fast-food Market
This paper provides a frame for thinking about youths' public consumption of fast foods. It draws attention to the significance of the social encounters that surround food by giving greater analytical focus to the late sociologist, Erving Goffman's conception of "the situation" than is typically given in research on youth food consumption. Focusing on the role of the situation in structuring the experience of youths' consumption of fast food dire…
The strength of civic ties
The complex relationship between professional success and civic engagement among educated immigrant professionals is little understood. This qualitative study examines the social processes linking professional attainment and civic involvement among immigrant professionals, with the purpose to deepen understanding of the mechanisms through which civic participation is tied to occupational pathways and advancement. We report on findings from interv…
Teen driving as public drama
In popular and policy framings in the USA, traffic accidents and fatalities involving teens are typically treated as having their own facticity. Much like other social phenomenon, teen driving accidents are regarded as though they are part of an objective reality external to a set of ideational or discursive processes and social organization of knowledge. Treated as such, teen driving accidents and fatalities are uncritically classified, counted,…
Social solidarity, social infrastructure, and community food access
New Gender Conceptions
Bringing Sociology into the Public Policy Process
Prom Night
Doing Race in the Context of Feminist Interviewing
In this article, the author examines how fieldwork serves as an interactional context through which the qualitative researcher's racial identity and the racial identities of those under study are actively managed, negotiated, and solidified. Focusing on the context of feminist interviewing, the author highlights how the researcher and the researched, as they both construct their symbolic worlds through talk of it, rely on taken-for-granted notion…
Product Review
Freedom, Constraint, and Family Responsibility
This article examines kids' talk about cars, exploring what their talk reveals about the dynamics of family life among families with teenagers. 1Using indepth and focus group interviews with teens, this article identifies how the car serves as cultural object around which parents and kids collaboratively negotiate both kids' autonomy from the world of family and their increasing responsibility to family that usually follows learning to drive. Hig…
Representing Youth
Consumption, Girls' Culture and
Modern girlhood can hardly be understood without attention to the influence of commodities and practices of consumption over modern constructions of self. For a large number of girls in modern America, participating in the consumer realm is a defining feature of life as a girl. Yet, the meaning of girls’ consumption has changed considerably over time. The explosion of the Internet, the emergence of segmented marketing as an alternative to mass ma…
Teen driving as public drama
In popular and policy framings in the USA, traffic accidents and fatalities involving teens are typically treated as having their own facticity. Much like other social phenomenon, teen driving accidents are regarded as though they are part of an objective reality external to a set of ideational or discursive processes and social organization of knowledge. Treated as such, teen driving accidents and fatalities are uncritically classified, counted,…
Teenage Witches
Radical Normals
Sociological research has examined straight parents in 'traditional' family arrangements who become gay rights activists, but pays insufficient attention to how this puzzling identity comes into being. Drawn from observations and interviews of parents participating in a local chapter of Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) (2009 to 2010), this paper analyzes the parenting activities undertaken by straight parents of gay children as a …
Youth Consumers and the Fast-food Market
This paper provides a frame for thinking about youths' public consumption of fast foods. It draws attention to the significance of the social encounters that surround food by giving greater analytical focus to the late sociologist, Erving Goffman's conception of "the situation" than is typically given in research on youth food consumption. Focusing on the role of the situation in structuring the experience of youths' consumption of fast food dire…
Consumption, Girls' Culture and
Modern girlhood can hardly be understood without attention to the influence of commodities and practices of consumption over modern constructions of self. For a large number of girls in modern America, participating in the consumer realm is a defining feature of life as a girl. Yet, the meaning of girls' consumption has changed considerably over time. The explosion of the Internet, the emergence of segmented marketing as an alternative to mass ma…
Bringing Sociology into the Public Policy Process
Representing Youth
New Gender Conceptions
Teen Spirit
The strength of civic ties
The complex relationship between professional success and civic engagement among educated immigrant professionals is little understood. This qualitative study examines the social processes linking professional attainment and civic involvement among immigrant professionals, with the purpose to deepen understanding of the mechanisms through which civic participation is tied to occupational pathways and advancement. We report on findings from interv…
Social solidarity, social infrastructure, and community food access
Making Education Work for the Poor
Youth-Led Research and the Tensions Between Relational Methodologies and Fast Methods
Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) has often been characterized as a meaningful way of including young people in research about and for them. Much has been written about the need to develop trusting relationships between adult and youth researchers in this process. These types of research relationships take time to develop authentically and we see a need for that relationship-building time to be built into research designs and timelines. …
Community-Based Research as Civic Action
Literature on civic engagement has long held an adult bias and is rooted in understandings of civic participation undertaken by adults, not youth. Youth are rarely treated as civic actors in their own right, but instead as would-be civic actors. We make a case for building social science research capacity as a critical tool for civic action, especially salient for groups working toward organizational, institutional, and/or legislative change and …
Decolonizing Relationality
We are members of the Summer Institute in Anti-Racist and Decolonizing Research Methods, which attempts to shift social science research to be more inclusive and more explicitly connected to anti-racist and decolonizing principles. We tell a complicated, messy, often difficult story of what relationality could be in the context of work like ours. We hope that readers will consider the complications of relationality beyond the interpersonal questi…
Youth Perspectives on School Safety
Worldmaking for Transformation and Repair
Worldmaking is a capacious concept. Far from imagining Empire, sociological treatments of worldmaking are expansive, anchoring the building of new systems, new scaffolds of belonging, and new ways of being in everyday work and collective practices. Worldmaking is a conceptual project and a practical project . This presidential address offers a framework for thinking about worldmaking and its links to both transformation and repair in the context …
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