J Katz
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3448 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | J Katz |
| NOMBRES | J |
| APELLIDO | Katz |
| FIRMA | KATZ J |
| AFILIACIONES | University of California, Los Angeles |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2649-610X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 70 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 853 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 70 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1972 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 16 |
Beyond the Seductions of the State
Criminology is haunted by state-structured biases. We discuss five. ( a ) With the spatial boundaries and the binary deontology they use to count crime, governments draw researchers into ecological fog and sometimes fallacy. ( b ) All legal systems encourage criminologists to promote untenable implications of socially stratified criminality. ( c ) To degrees that vary by time and place, the scope of criminological research is compromised by metho…
The Sociological Power of Methodological Rhetoric
Taking a sociological view, we can investigate the empirical consequences of variations in the rhetoric of sociological methodology. The standards advocated in Qualitative Literacy divide communities of qualitative researchers, as they are not explicitly connected to an understanding of social ontology, unlike previous qualitative methodologies; they continue the long-growing segregation of the rhetorical worlds of qualitative and quantitative re…
Une armure pour les ethnographes
Les ethnographes sont particulièrement exposés aux pressions qui les poussent tout à la fois à faire puis à rompre leurs promesses de confidentialité envers leurs enquêtés, dont ils exposent la vie de manière relativement transparente. En décrivant la schizophrénie qui menace désormais d’envahir leur travail, cet article décrit les risques auxquels tous les ethnographes sont confrontés et indique une stratégie collective encore inexplorée pour ré…
Anarchy's Neighborhoods
In each of four nearby city areas, residents orient to local centers of collective activity in different geographic patterns. In a "perimeter" neighborhood, residents and outsiders are drawn to religious and retail organizations located on streets that form a rectangle. In an "intersection" neighborhood, residents are most visible to each other at an agglomeration of stores and services located where two high traffic streets cross. Residents of a…
Armor for Ethnographers
As its public readership has vastly increased, ethnography has entered a new world of social interaction, at once rewarding and dangerous. Among social researchers, ethnographic fieldworkers are unusually exposed to pressures to both make and break promises of confidentiality to subjects because they work to expose subjects to readers in a relatively transparent way. By showing individuals in their individuality, ethnographers draw the attention …
If Truth Be Told
On Becoming an Ethnographer
Ethnographers shape a research self as they work through a series of existential choices. Self-defining choices must be made on: the genre or overall narrative logic of the text to be produced, how to handle experiences of awkwardness when interacting with subjects, how to understand one's difficulties in understanding subjects, whether to be drawn into debates in popular culture, whether to assess progress in relation to improvements made or in …
Hot Potato Criminology
When ethnographers study street crime, they anticipate that readers might shame them for shaming the poor. One common response is to compromise the quality of ethnographic data. Another is to pass righteous indignation away from the poor by arguing the causal significance of deindustrialization, class inequalities, racial prejudice, policing, colonialism, or hostility toward immigrants. Almost always, such arguments are gratuitous: The evidence f…
Worldwide trends in diabetes since 1980
BACKGROUND: One of the global targets for non-communicable diseases is to halt, by 2025, the rise in the age-standardised adult prevalence of diabetes at its 2010 levels. We aimed to estimate worldwide trends in diabetes, how likely it is for countries to achieve the global target, and how changes in prevalence, together with population growth and ageing, are affecting the number of adults with diabetes. METHODS: We pooled data from population-ba…
Culture within and culture about crime
Does cultural criminology have a distinct intellectual mission? How might it be defined? I suggest analyzing three levels of social interaction. At the first level, the culture of crime used by those committing crimes and the process of creating representations of crime in the news, entertainment products, and political position statements proceed independently. At the second level, there is asymmetrical interaction between those creating images …
Hidden in Plain Sight
Reviews 673 reconnecting and healing this fragmented population. In sum, this very readable and timely case study is relevant to a variety of audiences with interests in contemporary cultural and national identity-formation pro- cesses and issues for which conventional the- oretical approaches are inadequate or irrelevant. Hidden in Plain Sight: The Social Structure of Irrelevance, by Eviatar Zerubavel. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. 19…
Both Ever and Never Together
A theory of intimate massacres
School shootings and other attacks that indiscriminately target victims pose special challenges for explanation. Their rarity, enigmatic psychology, and media appeal make it difficult to define the phenomena-to-be-explained in ways well suited for discovering persuasive etiological processes. Here theory in criminology has an especially valuable role to play. Working from general principles for interactively defining the problem to be explained a…
Situational Evidence
There is unexamined potential for developing and testing rival causal explanations in the type of data that participant observation is best suited to create: descriptions of in situ social interaction crafted from the participants' perspectives. By intensively examining a single ethnography, we can see how multiple predictions can be derived from and tested with field notes, how numerous strategies are available for demonstrating the patterns of …
Mobility and Locative Media
Mobility and Locative MediaMobilities has become an important framework to understand and analyze contemporary social, spatial, economic, and political practices.Especially as mobile media become seamlessly integrated into transportation networks, navigating urban spaces, and connecting with social networks while on the move, researchers need new approaches and methods to bring together mobilities with mobile communication and locative media.Mobi…
Small Groups with Small Minds in Research Ethics Review
Cooks Cooking Up Recipes
Ethnography's Expanding Warrants
Because ethnographies report what is already known in some part of society, the warrant for the method is uniquely double. Each ethnography promises both positive and negative knowledge, a contribution to understanding the social logic that organizes some area of social life and a contribution to the sociology of ignorance. Those reported in this volume illustrate seven distinct warrants that hinge on morally charged forces blocking the dissemina…
The Men and Women We Want
Jeanne D. Petit's new monograph on Progressive Era debates over immigration restriction through the lens of the literary test is a well-researched, thoughtful, and provocative addition to the historiography. Petit is one of the first historians of this subject to focus on the intersection of gender and race as central, intertwined elements in the arguments for and against immigrant restriction. She is also one of the first historians to de-center…
Du comment au pourquoi
Première partie Au cours des vingt-cinq dernières années, l’écriture ethnographique est devenue un enjeu central de la perspective critique en sciences sociales. Les procédés littéraires, traditionnellement employés pour représenter la vie sociale, ont été passés au crible d’analyses qui ont révélé la fabrication tacite de réalités sociales par le discours ethnographique et déconstruit sa secrète prétention à une autorité rhétorique. Si utile q…
L’engagement ethnographique
Observer, participer, comprendre, décrire sont les étapes clés du travail de l'ethnographe. Elles ont donné lieu à de véritables controverses, d'autant plus intenses que s'est accru l'engagement du chercheur dans la cité. Présentant des textes récents, mais déjà classiques, L'engagement ethnographique se lit comme une anthologie de réflexions sur le travail de terrain. Du terrain aux comptes rendus de situations sociales, l'ethnographie est, plus…
Time for new urban ethnographies
■ Advances in urban sociology now depend on developing the temporal dimensions of ethnographic data. For public place behavior, the need is to follow people before, through, and after the sites where fly-on-the-wall researchers traditionally have observed them. To understand how people economically exploit a city's public life, researchers must follow market responses that discount and redistribute initial advantages. For explaining the formation…
John Kitsuse
As I try to pinpoint how John Kitsuse became an unending inspiration, I keep reflecting my sense that John seemed to find the sociological career, not so much as something to become but as a vehicle for expressing who he was. He was a careful, sensitive man, and, while his publications mounted up to an impressive body of work, he was the rare sociologist whose contributions were significant in quality far more than what they measured in quantity.…
Telling About Society - By Howard S. Becker
Social Scientists andTricks of the Trade, are sociologically informed, practical aids to research and writing.Telling About Society, although presented by its publisher as a 'Guide to Writing, Editing and Publishing', is more like Becker's earlier substantive work, where he undermines presumptive authority and opens up a new line of social research by describing the process of producing social facts widely treated as compelling.Readers are likely…
Empire of Scrounge
70 Social Control, Deviance, and Law From an occupational perspective, gang units seem to afford officers less structure, greater independence, and more excitement, along with special status. Officers often joined a gang unit with this expectation, hop- ing to be real “crime fighters,” while those stakeholders in the officers’ institutional envi- ronment often placed greater emphasis on functions such as intelligence and preven- tion. And while t…
From How to Why
Ethnographers often start fieldwork by focusing on descriptive tasks that will enable them to answer questions about how social life proceeds, and then they work toward explaining more formally why patterns appear in their data. Making the transition from `how?' to `why?' can be a dilemma, but the ethnographer's folk culture provides especially useful clues. By dwelling on their appreciation of especially luminous data, ethnographers can light th…
Phenomenological Ethnography in Sociology and Anthropology
In this issue we present a variety of examples of recent and ongoing ethnographic research in which investigators are working self-consciously in dialogue with one or more traditions within the phenomenological movement in philosophy. Each article makes a contribution to a given substantive field. As a set they pose a range of issues: the variety and distinctiveness of phenomenologically influenced ethnography, the relationship between philosophy…
L’engagement ethnographique
Observer, participer, comprendre, décrire sont les étapes clés du travail de l'ethnographe. Elles ont donné lieu à de véritables controverses, d'autant plus intenses que s'est accru l'engagement du chercheur dans la cité. Présentant des textes récents, mais déjà classiques, L'engagement ethnographique se lit comme une anthologie de réflexions sur le travail de terrain. Du terrain aux comptes rendus de situations sociales, l'ethnographie est, plus…
Ethnography's Warrants
Assuming your argument is empirically sound, so what?' Ethnographers are especially vulnerable to this question because their warrants are commonly diffused throughout their texts, because they aim to describe what is obvious to their subjects, and because such rude questions usually are raised only silently. Perhaps the most common warrant for ethnography is a claim that social forces have created a moralized ignorance that separates research su…
Ethical escape routes for underground ethnographers
Campus committees for supervising research ethics have developed rules and procedures that are indifferent to the emergent nature of ethnographic research. As a result, participant-observing fieldworkers have appreciated that, independent of their ethical commitments, they cannot comply with official regulations. Resolution of the fieldworker's dilemma requires limiting review jurisdiction to funded studies; articulating the meaning of regulatory…
Essences as Moral Identities
Persons conceive of abilities and disabilities, talents and character defects, competencies and incompetencies, as essences-unobservable, present and inherent states of being. We can test for imputations of essences by noting whether an actor changes his menaing when he defines others by referring only to observable phenomena-their past, manifested activities. The concepts of deviance and charisma, defined as inferior and superior capacity to res…
Deviance, Charisma, and Rule-Defined Behavior
Problems in present perspectives on deviance are discussed, a remedy is offered, and some of its implications are elaborated. The major problem is the failure to distinguish between action and state of being, between recognition of rule-breaking act, and imputation of deviant ontological status. A complementary distinction, between extraordinarily superior performance in terms of rule-standards and charismatic ontological status, is required for …
Start here
Theory is about starting points. Research usually relies on theory to justify starting with pre-commitments to independent variables, background factors, or structural conditions that will explain historically and geographically varying phenomena, which are treated as dependent, fungible, superficial upshots, or otherwise secondary and essentially inferior. I propose that we start by trying to describe the phenomena to be explained as they exist …
What makes crime `news
On the Rhetoric and Politics of Ethnographic Methodology
In a variety of ways, all ethnographies are politically cast and policy relevant. Each of three recurrent political rhetorics is related to a unique set of fieldwork practices. Ethnographies that report holistically on journeys to “the other side” build policy/political significance by contesting popular stereotypes. Theoretical ethnographies draw on political imagination to fill in for a lack of variation in participant observation data and to m…
On Becoming an Ethnographer
Ethnographers shape a research self as they work through a series of existential choices. Self-defining choices must be made on: the genre or overall narrative logic of the text to be produced, how to handle experiences of awkwardness when interacting with subjects, how to understand one's difficulties in understanding subjects, whether to be drawn into debates in popular culture, whether to assess progress in relation to improvements made or in …
Toward a Natural History of Ethical Censorship
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Legality and Equality
On the basis of a case study of a U.S. Attorney's office, I sketch differences in the prosecution of white-collar and common crime in order to draw out implications for equality in current proposals to reform plea bargaining. The extent to which the powers of investigation and prosecution are empirically distinct differs with the two categories of crime. Because of greater social distance between prosecutor and investigator in the enforcement of …
Mobility and Locative Media
Mobility and Locative MediaMobilities has become an important framework to understand and analyze contemporary social, spatial, economic, and political practices.Especially as mobile media become seamlessly integrated into transportation networks, navigating urban spaces, and connecting with social networks while on the move, researchers need new approaches and methods to bring together mobilities with mobile communication and locative media.Mobi…
Concerted Ignorance
Empire of Scrounge
70 Social Control, Deviance, and Law From an occupational perspective, gang units seem to afford officers less structure, greater independence, and more excitement, along with special status. Officers often joined a gang unit with this expectation, hop- ing to be real “crime fighters,” while those stakeholders in the officers’ institutional envi- ronment often placed greater emphasis on functions such as intelligence and preven- tion. And while t…
If Truth Be Told
Time for new urban ethnographies
■ Advances in urban sociology now depend on developing the temporal dimensions of ethnographic data. For public place behavior, the need is to follow people before, through, and after the sites where fly-on-the-wall researchers traditionally have observed them. To understand how people economically exploit a city's public life, researchers must follow market responses that discount and redistribute initial advantages. For explaining the formation…
Situational Evidence
There is unexamined potential for developing and testing rival causal explanations in the type of data that participant observation is best suited to create: descriptions of in situ social interaction crafted from the participants' perspectives. By intensively examining a single ethnography, we can see how multiple predictions can be derived from and tested with field notes, how numerous strategies are available for demonstrating the patterns of …
Seductions of Crime
Lawyers for the Poor in Transition
Lawyers in the federally funded Legal Services program for the poor have distinguished themselves from their predecessors in privately funded Legal Aid societies by discounting long-range career perspectives while expecting work to be involving. In the first part of this paper I analyze how the social status of poor people creates pressures toward routine treatment, and how reform litigation contributes to the Legal Services lawyer's involvement.…
Culture within and culture about crime
Does cultural criminology have a distinct intellectual mission? How might it be defined? I suggest analyzing three levels of social interaction. At the first level, the culture of crime used by those committing crimes and the process of creating representations of crime in the news, entertainment products, and political position statements proceed independently. At the second level, there is asymmetrical interaction between those creating images …
Families and Funny Mirrors
Based on participant observation and videotapes, this article examines laughter in a Parisian funhouse. Three central contingencies of an initial metamorphosis, from sober dispositions to doing laughter, are specified. The would-be laugher must collaboratively construct the presumption that another person shares his or her perspective on the mirror's reflections, develop mutually untenable definitions of a person and that person's reflections, an…
Cover-up and Collective Integrity
This paper traces the roots of organizational cover-up to the sources of collective integrity. It develops a perspective on tensions between the vitality of authority within organizations and the penetration of moral authority respresenting the external society. In the white-collar ranks of formal organizations, persons construct authority to govern internal relations by shielding members from external scrutiny and by declining to force members t…
A theory of intimate massacres
School shootings and other attacks that indiscriminately target victims pose special challenges for explanation. Their rarity, enigmatic psychology, and media appeal make it difficult to define the phenomena-to-be-explained in ways well suited for discovering persuasive etiological processes. Here theory in criminology has an especially valuable role to play. Working from general principles for interactively defining the problem to be explained a…
Deviance, Charisma, and Rule-Defined Behavior
Problems in present perspectives on deviance are discussed, a remedy is offered, and some of its implications are elaborated. The major problem is the failure to distinguish between action and state of being, between recognition of rule-breaking act, and imputation of deviant ontological status. A complementary distinction, between extraordinarily superior performance in terms of rule-standards and charismatic ontological status, is required for …
Essences as Moral Identities
Persons conceive of abilities and disabilities, talents and character defects, competencies and incompetencies, as essences-unobservable, present and inherent states of being. We can test for imputations of essences by noting whether an actor changes his menaing when he defines others by referring only to observable phenomena-their past, manifested activities. The concepts of deviance and charisma, defined as inferior and superior capacity to res…
Cover-up and Collective Integrity
This paper traces the roots of organizational cover-up to the sources of collective integrity. It develops a perspective on tensions between the vitality of authority within organizations and the penetration of moral authority respresenting the external society. In the white-collar ranks of formal organizations, persons construct authority to govern internal relations by shielding members from external scrutiny and by declining to force members t…
Lawyers for the Poor in Transition
Lawyers in the federally funded Legal Services program for the poor have distinguished themselves from their predecessors in privately funded Legal Aid societies by discounting long-range career perspectives while expecting work to be involving. In the first part of this paper I analyze how the social status of poor people creates pressures toward routine treatment, and how reform litigation contributes to the Legal Services lawyer's involvement.…
Legality and Equality
On the basis of a case study of a U.S. Attorney's office, I sketch differences in the prosecution of white-collar and common crime in order to draw out implications for equality in current proposals to reform plea bargaining. The extent to which the powers of investigation and prosecution are empirically distinct differs with the two categories of crime. Because of greater social distance between prosecutor and investigator in the enforcement of …
Concerted Ignorance
Damnation and Deviance
Anorexia Nervosa—A Multidimensional Perspective
Poor People's Lawyers in Transition
Poor People's Lawyers in Transition
The Dilemma of Legal Services
Barristers' Clerks
What makes crime `news
Teaching as Though Students Mattered
Seductions of Crime
Crime Can Be Fun
Sitting in Judgment
Seductions of Crime
The Motivation of the Persistent Robber
There is a group of offenders who are unusually persistent in robbery, even after serving lengthy prison terms. Three lines of inquiry clarify their motivations. First, the practical situational demands of robbery militate against an election of the offense as the outcome of a rational process of cost-benefit calculations. Appreciation of interactions between the conduct of robbery offenders and victims clarifies the inherent openness of the offe…
New Ethnographies
Generally, reviews of new ethnographies or methods texts are solicited and compiled by the New Ethnographies editor. The preferred form, unless specified otherwise, is an 800 to 1,000 word critical essay addressing theoretical, methodological, and/or substantive contributions of recently published materials relevant to ethnographic inquiry. Unsolicited reviews are welcome, but without the assurance of publication. Abstracts of Ph.D. dissertations…
Kamikaze Biker
Down the Backstretch
Jazz in Social Interaction
Although symbolic interactionist studies are often thought to abandon motivational explanation in favor of a focus on social process, the interactionist tradition has usefully employed two deterministic themes. One is inherent in the appreciation of the actor's inescapable sense of interactional significance for behavior that will be socially witnessed. A second deterministic theme appreciates external constraints on the individual's perception a…
Burglars on the Job
Drawing on extensive interviews with 105 active burglars in St. Louis, Missouri, Burglars on the Job presents offenders' perspectives on the process of burglarizing a residence. The authors, Richard T. Wright and Scott H. Decker, consider motivations for the decision to burglarize a dwelling, explore how and why the burglar selects targets, examine how the offender executes the break-in, discuss strategies for searching a residence, and detail th…
The Body and the Self
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