E J Sobo
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1317 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | E J Sobo |
| NOMBRES | E J |
| APELLIDO | Sobo |
| FIRMA | SOBO E J |
| AFILIACIONES | San Diego State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7711-9873 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 90 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 392 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 90 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1993 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
Gender and the Algorithmic Future
Cheating or Competing? University Students’ Experience of AI Marketing and What It Means for AI Literacy Programming
Given generative AI's rapid incursion into higher education, we examined how AI tools are marketed to US college students and how students experience AI promotions. Using a scalable action research model, we collected and analyzed 131 social media ads, 48 student interviews, and field notes compiled by three interns at student‐facing AI companies. Interviewees described AI use as a practical necessity shaped by grading systems, peer norms, and AI…
Sound Baths, Trauma Talk, and the Wellness Paradox in the USA
Yoga-informed sound bath providers orchestrate vibrations from singing bowls, chimes, gongs, and other simple instruments to promote client well-being - sometimes in ways that create a trauma trap. Drawing on immersive research with sound bath providers and receivers in California, USA, I explore how these ritual performances feed on and fuel narratives regarding trauma, stress, and dysregulation, diverting attention from structural and cultural …
Adapting rapid ethnographic research in an evolving emergency
To ensure the real-world utility of emergency ethnographic research, plans must evolve as circumstances shift. The CommuniVax coalition's work provides a case study of this scenario. Using rapid ethnographic interviews, focus groups, and other methods, the six local CommuniVax teams sought to comprehend and improve COVID-19 vaccine access and uptake. To this end, they responded nimbly to varying community priorities, the pandemic's shifting natur…
Could ChatGPT Prompt a New Golden Age in Higher Education
The public rollout of ChatGPT, a free app that produces uncannily refined responses to users’ questions or prompts, initially had many education professionals up in arms due largely to fears over student cheating. Panic levels receded as a new realization surfaced: rather than simply banning the use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI or AI) for assignments, we can and should adapt to chatbot-related challenges, reframing them as opportu…
Addressing Covid-19 vaccination equity for Hispanic/Latino communities by attending to aguantarismo
With an eye to health equity and community engagement in the context of the initial COVID-19 vaccine roll-out, the COVID-19-related concerns of the Latinx (Hispanic/Latino) community in southern San Diego (California, USA) were examined using 42 rapid, ethnographically-informed interviews and two focus groups conducted in early-mid 2021. An anthropologically oriented qualitative analysis delimited the cultural standpoint summarized as aguantarism…
Cultural conformity and cannabis care in the wake of intractable pediatric epilepsy
Biomedicine controls seizures for many children with epilepsy - but not all. In such cases, parents struggle in the wake of various structural, cultural, and corporeal ruptures. Continued use of ineffective medications can lead, iatrogenically, to frightening and serious symptoms and debilitations whose effects, along with those of uncontrolled seizures, ripple outward in challenging ways. Using data from 25 Californian (US) parents who favored p…
Conspiracy theories in political-economic context
Profit-boosting manipulation and subterfuge is axiomatic to late-stage US capitalism, even in healthcare. Both groups’ discourses referenced corporations’ self-interested duplicity, such as in sham invitations for patient engagement. Parents also pointed to contemporary measures of good health and citizenship moored to the US political economy’s expectation for independent, self-responsible, ‘productive’ adulthood (ableism). Rejecting normative a…
Frederick George Bailey (1924-2020)
More than a teachable moment
In the aftermath of Mr. George Floyd’s senseless execution on 25 May 2020, in commemoration of and in opposition to countless similar instances of police brutality against unarmed Black Americans, waves of solidarity have pulsed through US streets and now are surging internationally in protests, demonstrations, and vigils. The affirmation that ‘Black Lives Matter’ has likewise been pouring outward in personal as well as official statements. Numer…
Medicalization
Medicalization starts with a definitional process whereby some human experiences gain biomedical relevance and persons with those experiences come under biomedical as opposed to, say, religious or judicial authority. Medicalization thus entails social control; but at the same time it confers entitlements denied to those with nonmedical ailments, including rights to biomedical care as well as a release from full individual culpability for being de…
Framing Childhood Vaccination in the United States
Vaccination rates in some areas of the United States are decreasing. Decreases are slight but significant: the incidence of vaccine preventible disease outbreaks has risen. Vaccination is, once aga
Parent use of cannabis for intractable pediatric epilepsy
Culture and Meaning in Health Services Research
Culture and Meaning in Health Services Research is a practical guide to applying interpretive qualitative methods to pressing healthcare delivery problems. A leading medical anthropologist who has spent many years working in applied healthcare settings, Sobo combines sophisticated theoretical insights and methodological rigor with authentic, real-world examples and applications. In addition to clearly explaining the nuanced practice of ethnograph…
What is herd immunity, and how does it relate to pediatric vaccination uptake? US parent perspectives
Theorizing (Vaccine) Refusal
What goes on when people say no?How can we theorize refusal?In this essay I hope to show the value of casting refusal not only as an instance of resistance, but also as distinct from the latter in important ways (picture a Venn diagram).In doing so, I seek to open up space for a dynamic and salutary reading of refusal and, by extension, of resistance itself.I therefore highlight refusal's productivity-not in terms of achieved regime changes or po…
Information Curation among Vaccine Cautious Parents
To learn about pediatric vaccine decision-making, we surveyed and interviewed US parents with at least one child kindergarten age or younger (N = 53). Through an anthropologically informed content analysis, we found that fully vaccinating parents (n = 33) mostly saw vaccination as routine. In contrast, selective and nonvaccinating parents (n = 20) exhibited the type of self-informed engagement that the health care system recommends. Selective vac…
Anthropological Contributions and Challenges to the Study of Children and Childhoods
This essay considers the anthropology of childhood's recent growth. It summarizes the sub-field's extensive if often unacknowledged past, reviews its late 20th-century bourgeoning, and then highlights three influential teaching texts, each of which argues for a more considered, culturally informed understanding of children and childhood while performing the vital service of bringing together heretofore scattered ideas and data. To ensure the fiel…
Social Cultivation of Vaccine Refusal and Delay among Waldorf (Steiner) School Parents
U.S. media reports suggest that vastly disproportionate numbers of un- and under-vaccinated children attend Waldorf (private alternative) schools. After confirming this statistically, I analyzed qualitative and quantitative vaccination-related data provided by parents from a well-established U.S. Waldorf school. In Europe, Waldorf-related non-vaccination is associated with anthroposophy (a worldview foundational to Waldorf education)-but that was…
Salutogenic Education? Movement and Whole Child Health in a Waldorf (Steiner) School
Waldorf education, an independent alternative to public schooling, aims to produce holistically healthy graduates in a formulation that rejects the conventional distinction between education and health. Also striving to bridge that divide, this article characterizes the pedagogically salutogenic techniques Waldorf teachers use in pre-kindergarten (pre-K) and lower grade classes and explicates the ethnomedical understandings underlying them. Waldo…
Play's relation to health and well-being in preschool and kindergarten
In most US pre-k/kindergartens play is justified as serving academic goals. However, Waldorf education, an independent alternative to public schooling, leverages play to promote child health and well-being. This paper examines Waldorf education's approach to play with reference to the underlying cultural model of/for child development that Waldorf teachers subscribe to. It describes how teachers orchestrated play in four pre-k/kindergarten classr…
Anthropologists in the Va
Practicing anthropology within the Veterans Health Administration of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has, until recently, received little serious consideration as a respectable career option for anthropology postgraduates. But times are changing. Anthropologists employed by the VA are responsible for some of the most important and actionable anthropologically informed health research today. Far from being a marginal pursuit, VA anthropolo…
Selling medical travel to US patient-consumers
More US-based patients than ever are travelling abroad for medical or dental services. Beyond financial incentives, what cultural factors have supported this trend? Because of their interest in selling medical travel, medical travel agencies (MTAs) have vested interests in this question. To find out how they are answering it, an ethnographic content analysis of MTA websites was undertaken. Beyond themes promoting a 'worry-free experience' of 'leg…
The Cultural Context of Health, Illness, and Medicine
A "one size fits all" approach to health care doesn't work well, especially for America's extremely diverse population. This book provides a lively and accessible discussion of how and why a more flexible and culturally sensitive system of health care can and must be achieved. Notable anthropologist George Foster defined the first edition as "a very readable introductory text dealing with the sociocultural aspects of health," adding: "[T]he autho…
Anthropologists Research Veteran Health
Inner-city women and Aids
Theorizing (Vaccine) Refusal
What goes on when people say no?How can we theorize refusal?In this essay I hope to show the value of casting refusal not only as an instance of resistance, but also as distinct from the latter in important ways (picture a Venn diagram).In doing so, I seek to open up space for a dynamic and salutary reading of refusal and, by extension, of resistance itself.I therefore highlight refusal's productivity-not in terms of achieved regime changes or po…
Social Cultivation of Vaccine Refusal and Delay among Waldorf (Steiner) School Parents
U.S. media reports suggest that vastly disproportionate numbers of un- and under-vaccinated children attend Waldorf (private alternative) schools. After confirming this statistically, I analyzed qualitative and quantitative vaccination-related data provided by parents from a well-established U.S. Waldorf school. In Europe, Waldorf-related non-vaccination is associated with anthroposophy (a worldview foundational to Waldorf education)-but that was…
Medical Travel
Markets for medical travel have grown immensely in the past few years. They have attracted the attention not only of healthcare consumers, providers, and payors but also of scholars from various disciplines. This editorial demonstrates some of the ways that anthropology can contribute to current efforts to better understand medical travel. Such contributions have more than important academic implications. Properly packaged, anthropological work o…
Finance, Romance, Social Support, and Condom Use among Impoverished Inner-City Women
Qualitative and quantitative research conducted among low-income inner-city predominantly African-American women indicated that in this population gender roles and romantic ideals about heterosexual relationships are more significant than economic factors in contributing to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) risk behaviors. The analysis based on questionnaires administered to 30 clients at a maternal-infant health care clinic in the Midwest was s…
Small Wars
Small Wars: The Cultural Politics of Childhood. Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Carolyn Sargent. eds. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1998. iv. 429 pp
Selling medical travel to US patient-consumers
More US-based patients than ever are travelling abroad for medical or dental services. Beyond financial incentives, what cultural factors have supported this trend? Because of their interest in selling medical travel, medical travel agencies (MTAs) have vested interests in this question. To find out how they are answering it, an ethnographic content analysis of MTA websites was undertaken. Beyond themes promoting a 'worry-free experience' of 'leg…
Self-disclosure and self-construction among HIV-positive people
The Stereotypic tale of the immoral HIV‐infected individual who intentionally has unprotected sex with unwitting partners is well known. In a preliminary study of HIV seropositivity self‐disclosure to partners, HIV‐positive individuals supported this evil stereotype. They used it to their benefit, presenting themselves as ethical and moral individuals in comparison. Still, participants often chose not to disclose but to insist on safer sex instea…
Bodies, Kin, and Flow
This analysis of family planning investigates the links between embodied experiences, sociocultural forms, and ethnophysiological concerns. It focuses on the rural Jamaican concept of flow, which appears in ethnophysiological ideas and kinship beliefs and has ramifications for contraceptive practice. The experience of flow both on the somatic level and in social interaction lends structure to the local models concerning general health, reproducti…
Information Curation among Vaccine Cautious Parents
To learn about pediatric vaccine decision-making, we surveyed and interviewed US parents with at least one child kindergarten age or younger (N = 53). Through an anthropologically informed content analysis, we found that fully vaccinating parents (n = 33) mostly saw vaccination as routine. In contrast, selective and nonvaccinating parents (n = 20) exhibited the type of self-informed engagement that the health care system recommends. Selective vac…
Behind the scenes in health care improvement
Abortion traditions in rural Jamaica
What is herd immunity, and how does it relate to pediatric vaccination uptake? US parent perspectives
Parents' perceptions of pediatric day surgery risks
Parent use of cannabis for intractable pediatric epilepsy
Attitudes toward HIV testing among impoverished inner-city African-American women
During a study of the perceived benefits of unsafe (condomless) sex, some women's erroneous convictions that they have been tested for HIV seropositivity and most women's reluctance to identify their own sexual behaviors at high-risk when explaining why they had been tested were noted. Many participants assumed that clinicians drawing their blood would check it for HIV when they checked for other matter, and most of those reporting that they have…
Salutogenic Education? Movement and Whole Child Health in a Waldorf (Steiner) School
Waldorf education, an independent alternative to public schooling, aims to produce holistically healthy graduates in a formulation that rejects the conventional distinction between education and health. Also striving to bridge that divide, this article characterizes the pedagogically salutogenic techniques Waldorf teachers use in pre-kindergarten (pre-K) and lower grade classes and explicates the ethnomedical understandings underlying them. Waldo…
Between 'desperation' and disability rights
Adapting rapid ethnographic research in an evolving emergency
To ensure the real-world utility of emergency ethnographic research, plans must evolve as circumstances shift. The CommuniVax coalition's work provides a case study of this scenario. Using rapid ethnographic interviews, focus groups, and other methods, the six local CommuniVax teams sought to comprehend and improve COVID-19 vaccine access and uptake. To this end, they responded nimbly to varying community priorities, the pandemic's shifting natur…
Rapid Assessment with Qualitative Telephone Interviews
Addressing Covid-19 vaccination equity for Hispanic/Latino communities by attending to aguantarismo
With an eye to health equity and community engagement in the context of the initial COVID-19 vaccine roll-out, the COVID-19-related concerns of the Latinx (Hispanic/Latino) community in southern San Diego (California, USA) were examined using 42 rapid, ethnographically-informed interviews and two focus groups conducted in early-mid 2021. An anthropologically oriented qualitative analysis delimited the cultural standpoint summarized as aguantarism…
More than a teachable moment
In the aftermath of Mr. George Floyd’s senseless execution on 25 May 2020, in commemoration of and in opposition to countless similar instances of police brutality against unarmed Black Americans, waves of solidarity have pulsed through US streets and now are surging internationally in protests, demonstrations, and vigils. The affirmation that ‘Black Lives Matter’ has likewise been pouring outward in personal as well as official statements. Numer…
The Meaning of Illness
One Blood
Sexual Behavior, Drug Use, and Aids Knowledge among Midwestern Runaways
The authors evaluated sexual behaviors, drug use, and AIDS knowledge among Cleveland runaways (N = 108). Results indicated variable rates of risky sexual behaviors, minimal illicit drug use, and high levels of knowledge about true behavioral risks for HIV infection. These runaways demonstrated less frequent health-compromising sexual behavior and drug use compared to runaways described in other studies. Assumptions should not be made that all run…
Meaning and Its Usefulness for Inner-City HIV/Aids Interventions
Those who attended the AIDS sessions at the 1992 American Anthropological Association meetings in San Francisco were confronted by a number of diametrically opposed anthropologies of AIDS. Some sessions stressed theory, conceptual matters, and talk, while others focused on applications and action. The pervasive tension between theoretical and applied research was compounded for many by the assumptions that qualitative research on symbolic constru…
Bodies, Kin, and Flow
This analysis of family planning investigates the links between embodied experiences, sociocultural forms, and ethnophysiological concerns. It focuses on the rural Jamaican concept of flow, which appears in ethnophysiological ideas and kinship beliefs and has ramifications for contraceptive practice. The experience of flow both on the somatic level and in social interaction lends structure to the local models concerning general health, reproducti…
Inner-city women and Aids
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Attitudes toward HIV testing among impoverished inner-city African-American women
During a study of the perceived benefits of unsafe (condomless) sex, some women's erroneous convictions that they have been tested for HIV seropositivity and most women's reluctance to identify their own sexual behaviors at high-risk when explaining why they had been tested were noted. Many participants assumed that clinicians drawing their blood would check it for HIV when they checked for other matter, and most of those reporting that they have…
Society for Medical Anthropology
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Wellcome Trust Honors Scheper-Hughes
One Blood
Finance, Romance, Social Support, and Condom Use among Impoverished Inner-City Women
Qualitative and quantitative research conducted among low-income inner-city predominantly African-American women indicated that in this population gender roles and romantic ideals about heterosexual relationships are more significant than economic factors in contributing to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) risk behaviors. The analysis based on questionnaires administered to 30 clients at a maternal-infant health care clinic in the Midwest was s…
Sexual Behavior, Drug Use, and Aids Knowledge among Midwestern Runaways
The authors evaluated sexual behaviors, drug use, and AIDS knowledge among Cleveland runaways (N = 108). Results indicated variable rates of risky sexual behaviors, minimal illicit drug use, and high levels of knowledge about true behavioral risks for HIV infection. These runaways demonstrated less frequent health-compromising sexual behavior and drug use compared to runaways described in other studies. Assumptions should not be made that all run…
Society for Medical Anthropology
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The Jamaican body's role in emotional experience and sense perception
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