Jim Thomas
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3685992 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Jim Thomas |
| NOMBRES | Jim |
| APELLIDO | Thomas |
| FIRMA | THOMAS J |
| AFILIACIONES | Northern Illinois University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 41 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 122 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1975 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2015 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Constructing a ‘futurology from below’
While there is a well-rehearsed set of societal claims for synthetic biology originating from those creating the field (from above), there is a paucity of empirical studies that attempt to forecast the likely impact of developments ‘from below’. Taking inspiration from the movement for ‘history from below’, a call is made to develop a movement for ‘futurology from below’. Specific proposals for such an approach involve seeking out the knowledge o…
The late Holocene drought
Beware Bubbles and Echo Chambers
It's a bold but frankly risky opening shot for Kaebnick, Gusmano, and Murray to commence their report by claiming that a “majority opinion” or a “near‐consensus” has now been reached on the matter of synthetic biology. Risky because “majority opinions,” even in well‐established controversies, are highly unstable (events will have many surprises in store) but also risky because . . . well . . . the majority of whom, exactly? North American bioeth…
When Good Intentions Go Awry
Representation and Structure in Economics
Book Review| November 01 2011 Representation and Structure in Economics: The Methodology of Econometric Models of the Consumption Function Representation and Structure in Economics: The Methodology of Econometric Models of the Consumption Function. By Chao, Hsiang-Ke. London: Routledge, 2009. xiii; 161 pp. £65.00. Jim Thomas Jim Thomas Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2011) 43 (4): 779–781. …
Nietzche at Northern
When he spoke of murder, suicide, venereal disease, amputated limbs, and altered faces, it was with a faint air of persiflage. “This is unavoidable,” his voice seemed to say, “this is what we have got to do, unflinchingly. But this is not what we shall be doing when life is worth living again.” A wave of admiration, almost of worship, flowed out from Winston towards O'Brien.—George Orwell, 1961
Self‐injury in Correctional Settings
Doing Prison Work
The moral ambiguity of social control in cyberspace
The tension between doing right and doing the opposite often blends into blurry boundaries where the two merge and a dialectical dance between ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ plays out. Computer hacking helps to illustrate this tension. Here, the dual ethical frameworks underlying the enterprise both of computer hackers and law enforcement agents in the late 1980s and early 1990s is examined. It is suggested that the moral nature of ‘computer deviance’ is sl…
Total Confinement
Women in Prison
It is old news that the conditions and policies of women's prisons are different from those of incarcerated men. Less evident, however, is how gender differences shape those policies, and how gender identity and roles shape women's adaptation and resistance to prison culture and control. Women in Prison explores how the gender-based attitudes that women bring to prison frame how they respond to the prison environment—and how gender stereotypes co…
Resurrecting the "Science" of Symbolic Interaction
The internet and the state
Quantifying the Black Economy
Journal Article Quantifying the Black Economy: 'measurement Without Theory' Yet Again? Get access Jim Thomas Jim Thomas London School of Economics and Political Science Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 109, Issue 456, 1 June 1999, Pages 381–389, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0297.00441 Published: 25 December 2001
Opposing Ambitions
Theory and praxis on the internet
When Cyberresearch Goes Awry
Like most things that we take for granted, we rarely pay attention to ethical issues in research until something goes horribly wrong. Focusing on a recent cyberresearch project gone awry, this essay illustrates why ethical issues should be continually confronted and discussed by scholars and nonscholars alike. Keywords: Carnegie Mellon "cyberporn" Study Cyberspace Research Ethics
Introduction
Most of us prefer "doing right" to the opposite. But sometimes it is not easy to determine either what constitutes right conduct or how to do it. In this special ethics issue of TIS, scholars involved in cyberspace research explore the problem of "doing right" in terms of research subjects. The participants here draw from their own research and the ethical dilemmas they confronted. The offerings illustrate how diverse ethical theories can lead to…
Doing Critical Ethnography
Resisting Domestication Beginning to Think Critically Implementing Critical Ethnography Empirical Application Conclusion Tricks, Traps, and Moving Beyond
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Agypten. Konkordanz und Supplement zu Band I-VII
Protectors of Privilege
This landmark expose of the dark history of repressive police operations in American cities offers a richly detailed account of police misconduct and violations of protected freedoms over the past century. In an incisive examination of undercover work in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and Philadelphia as well as Washington, D.C., Detroit, New Haven, Baltimore, and Birmingham, Donner reveals the underside of American law enforcement
Prisoner Litigation
a brilliant investigation...Thomas' book not only is an excellent descriptive and interpretive analysis but it will surely provide the basis of further research on JHLs and jailhouse lawyering. It presently stands as the definitive statement on the subject.-CONTEMPORARY SOCIOLOGY
Whitefella School
Overcoming the Absurd
Journal Article Overcoming the Absurd: Prisoner Litigation as Primitive Rebellion Get access Dragan Milovanovic, Dragan Milovanovic Correspondence to: Thomas, Department of Sociology, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 60115. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Jim Thomas Jim Thomas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 36, Issue 1,…
The Politics of Broadcasting
Some Aspects of Negotiated Order, Loose Coupling and Mesostructure in Maximum Security Prisons
Even in total institutions, control is far from total. In custodial organizations, for example, staff and inmates negotiate their own interpretation of the social order, often rejecting formal rules and control techniques, and substituting alternatives that may be just as formal, although tacit, as those they replace. This creates 'gaps' betwen formal organizational structure and individual behaviors which partially decouple formal rules from the…
Sociology as Social Criticism
Quantifying the Black Economy
Journal Article Quantifying the Black Economy: 'measurement Without Theory' Yet Again? Get access Jim Thomas Jim Thomas London School of Economics and Political Science Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 109, Issue 456, 1 June 1999, Pages 381–389, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0297.00441 Published: 25 December 2001
The moral ambiguity of social control in cyberspace
The tension between doing right and doing the opposite often blends into blurry boundaries where the two merge and a dialectical dance between ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ plays out. Computer hacking helps to illustrate this tension. Here, the dual ethical frameworks underlying the enterprise both of computer hackers and law enforcement agents in the late 1980s and early 1990s is examined. It is suggested that the moral nature of ‘computer deviance’ is sl…
Toward a Critical Ethnography
Overcoming the Absurd
Journal Article Overcoming the Absurd: Prisoner Litigation as Primitive Rebellion Get access Dragan Milovanovic, Dragan Milovanovic Correspondence to: Thomas, Department of Sociology, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 60115. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Jim Thomas Jim Thomas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 36, Issue 1,…
Introduction
Most of us prefer "doing right" to the opposite. But sometimes it is not easy to determine either what constitutes right conduct or how to do it. In this special ethics issue of TIS, scholars involved in cyberspace research explore the problem of "doing right" in terms of research subjects. The participants here draw from their own research and the ethical dilemmas they confronted. The offerings illustrate how diverse ethical theories can lead to…
Justice as Interaction
Total Confinement
Doing Prison Work
Issues and Misconceptions in Prisoner Litigation
In the past quarter‐century, the number of suits filed by prisoners in federal courts has substantially increased. Critics have borrowed metaphors from ballistics or pathologv to describe this increase as an “epidemic” of “legal pollution” or an “explosion.” The causes of this “hyperlexis,” or excessive litigation, are often attributed to prisoners' attempts to retry their cases once they have lost, or to some psychological attribute of plaintiff…
Class, State, and Political Surveillance
Teaching Sociology in Unconventional Settings
make delivery of educational programs especially difficult. But such settings may contain an ironic potential in that the problems they present may require solutions that allow participants to transcend the immediate conditions and create something quite new. Maximum security prisons typify an extreme example of an unconventional setting that subverts yet stimulates creative teaching strategies. By conceiving of teaching as a form of social praxi…
Chicago Sociology
Resurrecting the "Science" of Symbolic Interaction
The internet and the state
When Cyberresearch Goes Awry
Like most things that we take for granted, we rarely pay attention to ethical issues in research until something goes horribly wrong. Focusing on a recent cyberresearch project gone awry, this essay illustrates why ethical issues should be continually confronted and discussed by scholars and nonscholars alike. Keywords: Carnegie Mellon "cyberporn" Study Cyberspace Research Ethics
Federal Funding and Policing Research
A Petition to the Prefect of Egypt and Related Imperial Edicts
Sociology as Social Criticism
Dawn and Decline, Notes, 1926-1931 and 1950-1969
The Concept of Ideology
Historical origins of the concept of ideology Marx's theory of ideology from Engels to Durkheim - the continuing debate on ideology the historicist tradition - mannheim's sociology of knowledge and Goldmann's genetic structuralism ideology and structural analysis ideology and science - Marx and the contemporary debate
Controlology
Class, State, and Political Surveillance
Federal Funding and Policing Research
Teaching Sociology in Unconventional Settings
make delivery of educational programs especially difficult. But such settings may contain an ironic potential in that the problems they present may require solutions that allow participants to transcend the immediate conditions and create something quite new. Maximum security prisons typify an extreme example of an unconventional setting that subverts yet stimulates creative teaching strategies. By conceiving of teaching as a form of social praxi…
The Jack-Roller at Seventy
Justice as Interaction
Toward a Critical Ethnography
Chicago Sociology
Some Aspects of Negotiated Order, Loose Coupling and Mesostructure in Maximum Security Prisons
Even in total institutions, control is far from total. In custodial organizations, for example, staff and inmates negotiate their own interpretation of the social order, often rejecting formal rules and control techniques, and substituting alternatives that may be just as formal, although tacit, as those they replace. This creates 'gaps' betwen formal organizational structure and individual behaviors which partially decouple formal rules from the…
New Ethnographies
Consumerist Criminology
Issues and Misconceptions in Prisoner Litigation
In the past quarter‐century, the number of suits filed by prisoners in federal courts has substantially increased. Critics have borrowed metaphors from ballistics or pathologv to describe this increase as an “epidemic” of “legal pollution” or an “explosion.” The causes of this “hyperlexis,” or excessive litigation, are often attributed to prisoners' attempts to retry their cases once they have lost, or to some psychological attribute of plaintiff…
The Politics of Broadcasting
Whitefella School
Overcoming the Absurd
Journal Article Overcoming the Absurd: Prisoner Litigation as Primitive Rebellion Get access Dragan Milovanovic, Dragan Milovanovic Correspondence to: Thomas, Department of Sociology, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 60115. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Jim Thomas Jim Thomas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 36, Issue 1,…
Prisoner Litigation
a brilliant investigation...Thomas' book not only is an excellent descriptive and interpretive analysis but it will surely provide the basis of further research on JHLs and jailhouse lawyering. It presently stands as the definitive statement on the subject.-CONTEMPORARY SOCIOLOGY
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Agypten. Konkordanz und Supplement zu Band I-VII
Protectors of Privilege
This landmark expose of the dark history of repressive police operations in American cities offers a richly detailed account of police misconduct and violations of protected freedoms over the past century. In an incisive examination of undercover work in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and Philadelphia as well as Washington, D.C., Detroit, New Haven, Baltimore, and Birmingham, Donner reveals the underside of American law enforcement
Doing Critical Ethnography
Resisting Domestication Beginning to Think Critically Implementing Critical Ethnography Empirical Application Conclusion Tricks, Traps, and Moving Beyond
When Cyberresearch Goes Awry
Like most things that we take for granted, we rarely pay attention to ethical issues in research until something goes horribly wrong. Focusing on a recent cyberresearch project gone awry, this essay illustrates why ethical issues should be continually confronted and discussed by scholars and nonscholars alike. Keywords: Carnegie Mellon "cyberporn" Study Cyberspace Research Ethics
Introduction
Most of us prefer "doing right" to the opposite. But sometimes it is not easy to determine either what constitutes right conduct or how to do it. In this special ethics issue of TIS, scholars involved in cyberspace research explore the problem of "doing right" in terms of research subjects. The participants here draw from their own research and the ethical dilemmas they confronted. The offerings illustrate how diverse ethical theories can lead to…
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