Michael G Lacy
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 78488 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Michael G Lacy |
| NOMBRES | Michael G |
| APELLIDO | Lacy |
| FIRMA | LACY M G |
| AFILIACIONES | Colorado State University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 47 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 204 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 47 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1976 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Tabletop Role-Playing Games as Drama Therapy in the Wild
Clinicians have started to experiment with using tabletop role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) as complementary to more traditional psychological treatments or as a standalone form of therapy in a group setting. However, researchers still do not understand well the therapeutic processes and mechanisms through which such forms of play might be helpful to patients. Following insights developed by drama therapists, we anticipated that th…
Player-avatar bonds and gaming benefits and risks
How players relate to their avatars in digital and analog gaming predicts both positive and negative gaming experiences. For example, a perceived discrepancy between one’s actual and avatar self is associated with both gaming benefits and risks. However, such self-discrepancy approaches treat avatars narrowly as self-substitutes that allow players to project idealized identities in a virtual environment. Yet, those approaches have not examined ho…
Deep hanging out, mixed methods toolkit, or something else? Current ethnographic practices in US anthropology
We use a mix of qualitative and quantitative analyses to examine 1354 survey responses from members of the American Anthropological Association about their practice and teaching of cultural anthropology research methods. Latent profile analysis and an examination of responses to open-ended survey questions reveal distinctive methodological clustering among anthropologists. However, two historical approaches to ethnography remain prominent: deep h…
Gaming lounges in India afford socially productive gambling
We use ethnographic observations, interviews, and surveys to illuminate video game-related gambling in India, where players use as currency decorative in-game weapon covers referred to as skins. We focus on gaming and gambling related to virtual items acquired in the popular shooter game Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, and our study unfolds among young adults who play in face-to-face centers called gaming lounges or zones. We consider how netwo…
Sharpening causal reasoning in applied ethnographic research
Internet gaming, embodied distress, and psychosocial well-being
TSQ Editor's Farewell
Here at the end of our editorial tour at The Sociological Quarterly, we’d like to start by remembering our colleague Peter Hall, who sadly died a few years ago. We hatched our editorship applicatio
Distinguishing Core from Peripheral Psychiatric Symptoms
Social genomics of healthy and disordered internet gaming
OBJECTIVES: To combine social genomics with cultural approaches to expand understandings of the somatic health dynamics of online gaming, including in the controversial nosological construct of internet gaming disorder (IGD). METHODS: In blood samples from 56 U.S. gamers, we examined expression of the conserved transcriptional response to adversity (CTRA), a leukocyte gene expression profile activated by chronic stress. We compared positively eng…
A Formal Method for Detecting and Describing Cultural Complexity
The most widely used formal approach to culture, the cultural consensus theory (CCT) of Romney, Weller, and Batchelder, originally relied on a priori definitions of cultural groups to map their unity and diversity. Retaining key features of classical CCT, we provide techniques to identify two or more cultural subgroups in a sample, whether those groups are known in advance or not. Our method helps CCT practitioners connect to contemporary approac…
Editors' Page
Developing culturally sensitive affect scales for global mental health research and practice
The mental health costs of human displacement
Analyzing Cultural Consensus with Proportional Reduction in Error (PRE)
This article provides an alternate method to assess the fit of the cultural consensus model (CCM) of Romney and colleagues to the responses of a group of informants about a domain of knowledge, and thus also to evaluate the extent of shared knowledge within a group. Criteria for judging the existence of singular culture have been articulated previously by examining the relative size of the first versus second eigenvalue from the factor analysis u…
Culture and the Jitters
We examine how online sociocultural context influences play experience in the popular online role-playing game, World of Warcraft (WoW). We focus on how guilds, in-game associations of like-minded players, establish social relationships and cultural understandings that shape online play experience. Some guilds help their members regulate the stressful arousal emerging from challenging gaming activities-such as collaborative raids, where multiple …
A vacation from your mind
Demography and Social Epidemiology of Admissions to the Colorado Insane Asylum, 1879–1899
This paper analyzes admissions to the Colorado Insane Asylum from 1879 to 1900. We estimate and compare admission rates across sex, age, marital, occupation, and immigration status using original admission records in combination with US census data from 1870 to1900. We show the extent to which persons in various status groups, who varied in power and social advantage, differed in their risk of being institutionalized in the context of nineteenth-…
"I Swear to God, I Only Want People Here Who Are Losers!" Cultural Dissonance and the (Problematic) Allure ofAzeroth
We use ethnographically informed survey and interview data to explore therapeutic and problematic play in the onlineWorld of Warcraft (WoW). We focus on how game-play inWoWis driven by shared and socially transmitted models of success that we conceptualize as cultural ideals. Our research reveals associations between having higher online compared to offline success, on the one hand, and gamers' reports about how their play both adds to and subtra…
A formal anthropological view of motivation models of problematic MMO play
Yee (2006) found three motivational factors- achievement, social, and immersion-underlying play in massively multiplayer online role-playing games ("MMORPGs" or "MMOs" for short). Subsequent work has suggested that these factors foster problematic or addictive forms of play in online worlds. In the current study, we used an online survey of respondents ( N = 252), constructed and also interpreted in reference to ethnography and interviews, to exa…
Restorative Magical Adventure or Warcrack? Motivated MMO Play and the Pleasures and Perils of Online Experience
Combining perspectives from the new science of happiness with discussions regarding "problematic" and "addictive" play in multiplayer online games, the authors examine how player motivations pattern both positive and negative gaming experiences. Specifically, using ethnographic interviews and a survey, the authors explore the utility of Yee's three-factor motivational framework for explaining the positive or negative quality of experiences in the…
Critical rhetorics of race
Magical Flight and Monstrous Stress
Enhancing one life rather than living two
White Innocence Heroes
For over a decade, critical scholars have exposed antiracist white heroes in popular discourse who reproduce white innocence, superiority, and privilege. This essay exposes claims of antiracist white heroics by former Klansman and Nazi sympathizer, David Duke. Critical analysis of Duke's letter to the editor, published 11 days before his Louisiana State Senate victory in 1989, reveals that Duke used implicit whiteness strategies of mythic recover…
Exposing the Spectrum of Whiteness
This chapter continues a practice introduced by critical communication scholars to produce insightful analyses of whiteness. Specifically, this chapter synthesizes a body of rhetorical studies in which rhetors explicitly offered ideal white racial identities and cultural norms to establish and justify white supremacy in Western societies. I call this discourse “white absolutism,” which consists of absolutist religious and scientific appeals, trib…
Falsification of a single species hypothesis using the coefficient of variation
Dental variation remains an important criterion for assessing whether a morphologically homogeneous fossil primate sample includes more than one species. The Coefficient of Variation (CV) has commonly been used to compare variation in a fossil sample of unknown taxonomic composition with that of extant single‐species samples, in order to determine whether more than one species might be present. However, statistical tests for differences between f…
Enhancing one life rather than living two
"I Swear to God, I Only Want People Here Who Are Losers!" Cultural Dissonance and the (Problematic) Allure ofAzeroth
We use ethnographically informed survey and interview data to explore therapeutic and problematic play in the onlineWorld of Warcraft (WoW). We focus on how game-play inWoWis driven by shared and socially transmitted models of success that we conceptualize as cultural ideals. Our research reveals associations between having higher online compared to offline success, on the one hand, and gamers' reports about how their play both adds to and subtra…
Comparative application of the coefficient of variation and range-based statistics for assessing the taxonomic composition of fossil samples
A formal anthropological view of motivation models of problematic MMO play
Yee (2006) found three motivational factors- achievement, social, and immersion-underlying play in massively multiplayer online role-playing games ("MMORPGs" or "MMOs" for short). Subsequent work has suggested that these factors foster problematic or addictive forms of play in online worlds. In the current study, we used an online survey of respondents ( N = 252), constructed and also interpreted in reference to ethnography and interviews, to exa…
Developing culturally sensitive affect scales for global mental health research and practice
Restorative Magical Adventure or Warcrack? Motivated MMO Play and the Pleasures and Perils of Online Experience
Combining perspectives from the new science of happiness with discussions regarding "problematic" and "addictive" play in multiplayer online games, the authors examine how player motivations pattern both positive and negative gaming experiences. Specifically, using ethnographic interviews and a survey, the authors explore the utility of Yee's three-factor motivational framework for explaining the positive or negative quality of experiences in the…
Culture and the Jitters
We examine how online sociocultural context influences play experience in the popular online role-playing game, World of Warcraft (WoW). We focus on how guilds, in-game associations of like-minded players, establish social relationships and cultural understandings that shape online play experience. Some guilds help their members regulate the stressful arousal emerging from challenging gaming activities-such as collaborative raids, where multiple …
Witch Hunts, Herbal Healing, and Discourses of Indigenous Ecodevelopment in North India
In this article, we examine the environmental thought and practice of indigenous peoples living in and around a wildlife sanctuary in North India. Analysis reveals that those religious specialists (such as shamans) who possess knowledge of herbal healing are more committed than other villagers to preventing or mitigating the overharvesting of natural resources. To explain these results, reference is made to a specific juncture of native tradition…
Efficiently Studying Rare Events
Case-control designs involve samples stratified disproportionately on a binary dependent variable. This design, though infrequently used by sociologists, offers tremendous logistical efficiency in the study of rare events, such as divorce, joining a religious cult, or committing a crime. This paper attempts to sensitize sociologists to the many situations in which this design is useful, and offers general and accessible guidance on the practice o…
Chemical Accidents in the United States, 1990–1996
Objective. Much of the empirical work on environmental justice centers on the geographic distribution of potential chronic health risks (e.g., planned toxic releases or treatment storage and disposal facilities). Far less attention has been devoted to the geographic distribution of acute health risks that cause immediate harm. The purpose of this work is to examine environmental justice in terms of potential acute health risks by examining the di…
The mental health costs of human displacement
A Formal Method for Detecting and Describing Cultural Complexity
The most widely used formal approach to culture, the cultural consensus theory (CCT) of Romney, Weller, and Batchelder, originally relied on a priori definitions of cultural groups to map their unity and diversity. Retaining key features of classical CCT, we provide techniques to identify two or more cultural subgroups in a sample, whether those groups are known in advance or not. Our method helps CCT practitioners connect to contemporary approac…
Exposing the Spectrum of Whiteness
This chapter continues a practice introduced by critical communication scholars to produce insightful analyses of whiteness. Specifically, this chapter synthesizes a body of rhetorical studies in which rhetors explicitly offered ideal white racial identities and cultural norms to establish and justify white supremacy in Western societies. I call this discourse “white absolutism,” which consists of absolutist religious and scientific appeals, trib…
An Explained Variation Measure for Ordinal Response Models With Comparisons to Other Ordinal R 2 Measures
No explained variation (R 2 ) measure for ordinal response models enjoys wide use, and such measures have in fact received little specific attention or evaluation. To remedy this gap, the author presents and justifies R 2 O , an explained variation measure for ordinal response models, which is based on a recent ordinal dispersion measure. The use and function of R 2 O is illustrated, and the performance of it and other ordinal R 2 measures is com…
Uniformitarianism and fossil species
Internet gaming, embodied distress, and psychosocial well-being
Distinguishing Core from Peripheral Psychiatric Symptoms
Analyzing Cultural Consensus with Proportional Reduction in Error (PRE)
This article provides an alternate method to assess the fit of the cultural consensus model (CCM) of Romney and colleagues to the responses of a group of informants about a domain of knowledge, and thus also to evaluate the extent of shared knowledge within a group. Criteria for judging the existence of singular culture have been articulated previously by examining the relative size of the first versus second eigenvalue from the factor analysis u…
Chemical Accidents in the United States, 1990-1996
Correctional prediction and the Level of Supervision Inventory
Statistics of Ordinal Variation
Whereas measures of variation in nominal data have long been recognized and used by sociologists, measures of variation for ordered categorical data have received little attention. The authors discuss the potential usefulness of ordinal dispersion statistics in sociology and define a broad class of such measures, some of which have previously been proposed in other forms. This article focuses on two statistics, termed l 2 and l, which are [0 - 1]…
Editors' Page
White Innocence Heroes
For over a decade, critical scholars have exposed antiracist white heroes in popular discourse who reproduce white innocence, superiority, and privilege. This essay exposes claims of antiracist white heroics by former Klansman and Nazi sympathizer, David Duke. Critical analysis of Duke's letter to the editor, published 11 days before his Louisiana State Senate victory in 1989, reveals that Duke used implicit whiteness strategies of mythic recover…
Of Leopards and Other Lovely Frightful Things
In this paper, we argue that shamans as compared to non-shamans demonstrate a deeper connection to wildlife. Shamans display particularly powerful love and reverence for leopards. That shamans more deeply revere, even worship, nature suggests that indigenous Animism does impact the environmental thought and practice of our informants. However, our indigenous informants’ pro-environmental thinking is most strongly linked to only particular classes…
Student Values and Prestige Structure Within Two Secondary School Systems
Two factors are hypothesized to underlie the prestige of students within secondary school systems: family background, and personal qualities of the student. In a survey of two school systems, this hypothesis was not supported. An additional hypothesis suggested that the content of student values should become more like those of the adult world as the students progress through high school; this was partially supported. The prestige values cited by…
Interdisciplinary Variations in the Perception of Power
Mid-American Review of Sociology the spirit of capitalism. If, however, it is maintained th~t. the Calvinist configuration did occur as claimed, then nonreligious factors would have to be introduced to account for this conjunction of elements. Recourse to a nonreli~ous explan~tion .is mandatory, for there is' no logical, meaningful relationship between these elements in the purely religious sphere. These nonreligious factors may be idealistic as …
Sociological Work on Energy
The opportunity for sociological work on energy is demonstrated by a critical review of several bodies ofnon-sociological work on energy. Included in this review is the crisis genre, the energy primer, the political economy of energy, the work of "renegade" scientists, and research by traditional economists. By criticizing these bodies of work, the potential contribution of sociology to the intellectual debate over energy is shown. Besides these …
Technology and Social Complexity
Apparent and Genuine Affluence
The twentieth century rise in energy consumption appears to be due more to rises in affluence than changes in energy technology. This conclusion is disputed by suggesting that the rise in energy consumption is due not to a genuine rise in affluence, but to the use of energy to produce goods and services that only compensate for the poorer character of new products and the environment within which they function. This thesis is examined using data …
Energy Use
This book discusses the major social and political components of energy policy. By putting energy in its human context, the report generates new policy options for solving specific energy problems and suggests broad new approaches to energy policy. Commissioned by the Department of Energy, the book demonstrates the folly of making energy decisions without a basic understanding of the continuing social conflict over the nature of energy and the ma…
On the Conceptualization and Measurement of Attitudes Toward Play
The purpose of this paper is to analyze and comment upon recent developments in the measurement and conceptualization of attitudes toward play, or “game orientation.” Recent scholarly work has become critical of the traditional measurement instrument, the Webb Scale, focusing primarily on the issues of situational ambiguity and unidimensional artificiality. These critiques are analyzed in comparison with the conceptual and measurement approach of…
Cultural, materialist, and critical theory approaches to consumption critique
Sociologists from Veblen (1899) through contemporary critical theorists have produced considerable theoretical work about consumption, but a comparable flow of empirical work does not exist. This essay reviews three theoretical approaches (cultural, materialist, and critical theory) to consumption critique and extracts from them a set of suggestions for empirical research
Response to Lianos and Goodwin and Peterson
Conceptualizing Attitudes Toward Play
The purpose of this investigation was to advance recent discussion about the relative merits of two alternative instruments involved in the assessment of game orientation. Fourth- and fifth-grade students ( N =471) responded to a questionnaire containing both the Game Orientation Scale (GOS) and an adapted version of the original Webb Scale referred to as the “Context Modified Webb Scale” (CMW). CMW and GOS scores were then compared with scores r…
Falsification of a single species hypothesis using the coefficient of variation
Dental variation remains an important criterion for assessing whether a morphologically homogeneous fossil primate sample includes more than one species. The Coefficient of Variation (CV) has commonly been used to compare variation in a fossil sample of unknown taxonomic composition with that of extant single‐species samples, in order to determine whether more than one species might be present. However, statistical tests for differences between f…
Uniformitarianism and fossil species
Comparative application of the coefficient of variation and range-based statistics for assessing the taxonomic composition of fossil samples
Efficiently Studying Rare Events
Case-control designs involve samples stratified disproportionately on a binary dependent variable. This design, though infrequently used by sociologists, offers tremendous logistical efficiency in the study of rare events, such as divorce, joining a religious cult, or committing a crime. This paper attempts to sensitize sociologists to the many situations in which this design is useful, and offers general and accessible guidance on the practice o…
Statistics of Ordinal Variation
Whereas measures of variation in nominal data have long been recognized and used by sociologists, measures of variation for ordered categorical data have received little attention. The authors discuss the potential usefulness of ordinal dispersion statistics in sociology and define a broad class of such measures, some of which have previously been proposed in other forms. This article focuses on two statistics, termed l 2 and l, which are [0 - 1]…
Correctional prediction and the Level of Supervision Inventory
Chemical Accidents in the United States, 1990–1996
Objective. Much of the empirical work on environmental justice centers on the geographic distribution of potential chronic health risks (e.g., planned toxic releases or treatment storage and disposal facilities). Far less attention has been devoted to the geographic distribution of acute health risks that cause immediate harm. The purpose of this work is to examine environmental justice in terms of potential acute health risks by examining the di…
Chemical Accidents in the United States, 1990-1996
An Explained Variation Measure for Ordinal Response Models With Comparisons to Other Ordinal R 2 Measures
No explained variation (R 2 ) measure for ordinal response models enjoys wide use, and such measures have in fact received little specific attention or evaluation. To remedy this gap, the author presents and justifies R 2 O , an explained variation measure for ordinal response models, which is based on a recent ordinal dispersion measure. The use and function of R 2 O is illustrated, and the performance of it and other ordinal R 2 measures is com…
Beyond Self-Interest and Altruism
This article discusses the environmental ethics of Indigenous herbalists inhabiting the Phulwari ki Nal Wildlife Sanctuary in Rajasthan, India. Our respondents protected forests from activities like illicit tree felling because (a) they realized that their own human well-being is tied to the fate of the natural world, and (b) wild animals such as leopards form non-human communities that intrinsically deserve to live and prosper. Framing herbalist…
Exposing the Spectrum of Whiteness
This chapter continues a practice introduced by critical communication scholars to produce insightful analyses of whiteness. Specifically, this chapter synthesizes a body of rhetorical studies in which rhetors explicitly offered ideal white racial identities and cultural norms to establish and justify white supremacy in Western societies. I call this discourse “white absolutism,” which consists of absolutist religious and scientific appeals, trib…
Of Leopards and Other Lovely Frightful Things
In this paper, we argue that shamans as compared to non-shamans demonstrate a deeper connection to wildlife. Shamans display particularly powerful love and reverence for leopards. That shamans more deeply revere, even worship, nature suggests that indigenous Animism does impact the environmental thought and practice of our informants. However, our indigenous informants’ pro-environmental thinking is most strongly linked to only particular classes…
Witch Hunts, Herbal Healing, and Discourses of Indigenous Ecodevelopment in North India
In this article, we examine the environmental thought and practice of indigenous peoples living in and around a wildlife sanctuary in North India. Analysis reveals that those religious specialists (such as shamans) who possess knowledge of herbal healing are more committed than other villagers to preventing or mitigating the overharvesting of natural resources. To explain these results, reference is made to a specific juncture of native tradition…
White Innocence Heroes
For over a decade, critical scholars have exposed antiracist white heroes in popular discourse who reproduce white innocence, superiority, and privilege. This essay exposes claims of antiracist white heroics by former Klansman and Nazi sympathizer, David Duke. Critical analysis of Duke's letter to the editor, published 11 days before his Louisiana State Senate victory in 1989, reveals that Duke used implicit whiteness strategies of mythic recover…
Critical rhetorics of race
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