Daniel A Menchik
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 255047 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Daniel A Menchik |
| NOMBRES | Daniel A |
| APELLIDO | Menchik |
| FIRMA | MENCHIK D A |
| AFILIACIONES | Michigan State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3136-0856 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 74 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2004 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Sociology of Medicine
In the half-century following its mid-century emergence, the sociology of medicine in the United States has been constituted by a theoretical vocabulary anchored in concepts of roles and professions, and a methodological commitment to ideal types. More recently, research has called attention to these foci in ways that prompt close attention to categories once considered relatively homogeneous. After briefly discussing the key emphases of early wo…
The Global Chicago School
The Chicago School of sociology is often described as narrowly focused on casework, departmental life, and the city of Chicago. These internalist accounts obscure the Chicago School’s exchanges with places like Kansas, Ohio, Mexico, Canada, the Philippines, and Poland. They also overlook the ways Chicago School research has been appropriated and extended by sociologists working in countries from China to France. Rather than dismiss these internat…
The words we die by
Learning to See Like a Medical Sociologist
Using observations from a medical sociology course offered in two formats, we compare how undergraduate premedical students learned to see sociologically after (1) completing a one-semester course in which theory in medical sociology and fieldwork were taught concurrently or (2) completing a two-semester course in which theory in medical sociology and fieldwork were taught in successive semesters. We developed a taxonomy of stages to capture stud…
Automating Expert Labor in Medicine
I argue that the contemporary organization of professional work indicates the limits of answering typical questions about automation and technology in work to understand the practices of experts. Examining the case of automation in medicine, specifically Stereotaxis technology, I analyze a colligation of data on decisions about the uptake of this robotic technology among United States surgeons. I examine data including: procedure efficiency over …
Authority beyond institutions
Moving from Adoption to Use
This article shifts sociological attention from doctors' adoption of medical innovations to ask how doctors decide to use expensive technologies adopted by administrators. It draws upon a content analysis of clinical research and 25 interviews with cardiologists who must decide whether to use a computer mouse- and algorithm-driven technology and whose status is partially based on manual dexterity - 'good hands'. The content analysis shows that re…
Tethered Venues
Ethnographers often study those who periodically meet to interact in multiple venues. This article focuses on how people who share and engage in tasks in recurrently visited venues define and change their social projects' problems and solutions. To address the complexities of this 'meta-work,' I introduce the concept of 'tethers.' Tethers are links across venues that people use to set and shift these problems and solutions that are continuously b…
Interdependent Career Types and Divergent Standpoints on the Use of Advanced Technology in Medicine
This paper uses the case of the uneven use of a robotic technology to explain how physicians with similar training come to engage in different medical practices. I develop a conceptual framework in which their decisions to use advanced technologies are informed by 'interdependent career types,' a concept that incorporates features of the professional social context of physicians' work and the expertise they use, and reflects how medicine distribu…
On Violating One’s Own Privacy
Purpose To understand the phenomena of people revealing regrettable information on the Internet, we examine who people think they’re addressing, and what they say, in the process of interacting with those not physically or temporally co-present. Methodology/approach We conduct qualitative analyses of interviews with student bloggers and observations of five years’ worth of their blog posts, drawing on linguists’ concepts of indexical ground and d…
Simmel's dynamic social medicine
Decisions about Knowledge in Medical Practice
A classic question of social science is how knowledge informs practice. Research on physicians' decisions about medical knowledge has focused on doctors' personal capabilities and features of the knowledge corpus, producing divergent findings. This study asks, instead, How is decision making about the use of knowledge influenced by features of work? From observations of one team's decisions in multiple clinical and administrative contexts, the au…
When do doctors follow patients' orders? Organizational mechanisms of physician influence
The Social life of the Clinical Trial
The Cultivation of Esteem and Retrieval of Scientific Knowledge in Physician Networks
This article evaluates how physicians draw upon scientific and other forms of knowledge in different professional communities. We argue that because physicians will draw upon clinical research findings to improve their reputation with colleagues, and because the terms for accruing esteem in an academic hospital may differ depending on the dominant task structure of the organization, the form of knowledge that is valued by a physician will vary wi…
Putting Social Context into Text
E-mail excludes the multiple nonlinguistic cues and gestures that facilitate face-to-face communication. How, then, should interaction in a text-based context be understood? The authors analyze the problems and solutions experienced by a research panel that communicated over e-mail and face-to-face for 18 months, evaluating both kinds of exchanges alongside survey and interview data. Semiotic and linguistic theory is used to expose essential prop…
Placing cybereducation in the UK classroom
The use of the Internet in the classroom has often been characterized as a practice that disconnects the teacher from traditional forms of externally imposed influence. This paper examines this assertion by mapping the emerging field of cybereducation and considering how endemic knowledge is contextualized by national curricular authorities. The field theories of Pierre Bourdieu and Basil Bernstein are employed in order to demonstrate the relatio…
Putting Social Context into Text
E-mail excludes the multiple nonlinguistic cues and gestures that facilitate face-to-face communication. How, then, should interaction in a text-based context be understood? The authors analyze the problems and solutions experienced by a research panel that communicated over e-mail and face-to-face for 18 months, evaluating both kinds of exchanges alongside survey and interview data. Semiotic and linguistic theory is used to expose essential prop…
Decisions about Knowledge in Medical Practice
A classic question of social science is how knowledge informs practice. Research on physicians' decisions about medical knowledge has focused on doctors' personal capabilities and features of the knowledge corpus, producing divergent findings. This study asks, instead, How is decision making about the use of knowledge influenced by features of work? From observations of one team's decisions in multiple clinical and administrative contexts, the au…
When do doctors follow patients' orders? Organizational mechanisms of physician influence
Interdependent Career Types and Divergent Standpoints on the Use of Advanced Technology in Medicine
This paper uses the case of the uneven use of a robotic technology to explain how physicians with similar training come to engage in different medical practices. I develop a conceptual framework in which their decisions to use advanced technologies are informed by 'interdependent career types,' a concept that incorporates features of the professional social context of physicians' work and the expertise they use, and reflects how medicine distribu…
The Cultivation of Esteem and Retrieval of Scientific Knowledge in Physician Networks
This article evaluates how physicians draw upon scientific and other forms of knowledge in different professional communities. We argue that because physicians will draw upon clinical research findings to improve their reputation with colleagues, and because the terms for accruing esteem in an academic hospital may differ depending on the dominant task structure of the organization, the form of knowledge that is valued by a physician will vary wi…
Tethered Venues
Ethnographers often study those who periodically meet to interact in multiple venues. This article focuses on how people who share and engage in tasks in recurrently visited venues define and change their social projects' problems and solutions. To address the complexities of this 'meta-work,' I introduce the concept of 'tethers.' Tethers are links across venues that people use to set and shift these problems and solutions that are continuously b…
Authority beyond institutions
Moving from Adoption to Use
This article shifts sociological attention from doctors' adoption of medical innovations to ask how doctors decide to use expensive technologies adopted by administrators. It draws upon a content analysis of clinical research and 25 interviews with cardiologists who must decide whether to use a computer mouse- and algorithm-driven technology and whose status is partially based on manual dexterity - 'good hands'. The content analysis shows that re…
Simmel's dynamic social medicine
Placing cybereducation in the UK classroom
The use of the Internet in the classroom has often been characterized as a practice that disconnects the teacher from traditional forms of externally imposed influence. This paper examines this assertion by mapping the emerging field of cybereducation and considering how endemic knowledge is contextualized by national curricular authorities. The field theories of Pierre Bourdieu and Basil Bernstein are employed in order to demonstrate the relatio…
Placing cybereducation in the UK classroom
The use of the Internet in the classroom has often been characterized as a practice that disconnects the teacher from traditional forms of externally imposed influence. This paper examines this assertion by mapping the emerging field of cybereducation and considering how endemic knowledge is contextualized by national curricular authorities. The field theories of Pierre Bourdieu and Basil Bernstein are employed in order to demonstrate the relatio…
Putting Social Context into Text
E-mail excludes the multiple nonlinguistic cues and gestures that facilitate face-to-face communication. How, then, should interaction in a text-based context be understood? The authors analyze the problems and solutions experienced by a research panel that communicated over e-mail and face-to-face for 18 months, evaluating both kinds of exchanges alongside survey and interview data. Semiotic and linguistic theory is used to expose essential prop…
The Social life of the Clinical Trial
The Cultivation of Esteem and Retrieval of Scientific Knowledge in Physician Networks
This article evaluates how physicians draw upon scientific and other forms of knowledge in different professional communities. We argue that because physicians will draw upon clinical research findings to improve their reputation with colleagues, and because the terms for accruing esteem in an academic hospital may differ depending on the dominant task structure of the organization, the form of knowledge that is valued by a physician will vary wi…
Simmel's dynamic social medicine
Decisions about Knowledge in Medical Practice
A classic question of social science is how knowledge informs practice. Research on physicians' decisions about medical knowledge has focused on doctors' personal capabilities and features of the knowledge corpus, producing divergent findings. This study asks, instead, How is decision making about the use of knowledge influenced by features of work? From observations of one team's decisions in multiple clinical and administrative contexts, the au…
When do doctors follow patients' orders? Organizational mechanisms of physician influence
On Violating One’s Own Privacy
Purpose To understand the phenomena of people revealing regrettable information on the Internet, we examine who people think they’re addressing, and what they say, in the process of interacting with those not physically or temporally co-present. Methodology/approach We conduct qualitative analyses of interviews with student bloggers and observations of five years’ worth of their blog posts, drawing on linguists’ concepts of indexical ground and d…
Interdependent Career Types and Divergent Standpoints on the Use of Advanced Technology in Medicine
This paper uses the case of the uneven use of a robotic technology to explain how physicians with similar training come to engage in different medical practices. I develop a conceptual framework in which their decisions to use advanced technologies are informed by 'interdependent career types,' a concept that incorporates features of the professional social context of physicians' work and the expertise they use, and reflects how medicine distribu…
Tethered Venues
Ethnographers often study those who periodically meet to interact in multiple venues. This article focuses on how people who share and engage in tasks in recurrently visited venues define and change their social projects' problems and solutions. To address the complexities of this 'meta-work,' I introduce the concept of 'tethers.' Tethers are links across venues that people use to set and shift these problems and solutions that are continuously b…
Authority beyond institutions
Moving from Adoption to Use
This article shifts sociological attention from doctors' adoption of medical innovations to ask how doctors decide to use expensive technologies adopted by administrators. It draws upon a content analysis of clinical research and 25 interviews with cardiologists who must decide whether to use a computer mouse- and algorithm-driven technology and whose status is partially based on manual dexterity - 'good hands'. The content analysis shows that re…
Learning to See Like a Medical Sociologist
Using observations from a medical sociology course offered in two formats, we compare how undergraduate premedical students learned to see sociologically after (1) completing a one-semester course in which theory in medical sociology and fieldwork were taught concurrently or (2) completing a two-semester course in which theory in medical sociology and fieldwork were taught in successive semesters. We developed a taxonomy of stages to capture stud…
Automating Expert Labor in Medicine
I argue that the contemporary organization of professional work indicates the limits of answering typical questions about automation and technology in work to understand the practices of experts. Examining the case of automation in medicine, specifically Stereotaxis technology, I analyze a colligation of data on decisions about the uptake of this robotic technology among United States surgeons. I examine data including: procedure efficiency over …
The words we die by
Sociology of Medicine
In the half-century following its mid-century emergence, the sociology of medicine in the United States has been constituted by a theoretical vocabulary anchored in concepts of roles and professions, and a methodological commitment to ideal types. More recently, research has called attention to these foci in ways that prompt close attention to categories once considered relatively homogeneous. After briefly discussing the key emphases of early wo…
The Global Chicago School
The Chicago School of sociology is often described as narrowly focused on casework, departmental life, and the city of Chicago. These internalist accounts obscure the Chicago School’s exchanges with places like Kansas, Ohio, Mexico, Canada, the Philippines, and Poland. They also overlook the ways Chicago School research has been appropriated and extended by sociologists working in countries from China to France. Rather than dismiss these internat…
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