Darin Weinberg
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 92337 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Darin Weinberg |
| NOMBRES | Darin |
| APELLIDO | Weinberg |
| FIRMA | WEINBERG D |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5952-9991 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 208 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1995 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
The sociology of diagnosis
The diffusion of diagnosis and its implications for the epistemology and ontology of disease
Rather than confining the categories health and sickness to a biomedical conception of the biological organism, there is growing recognition of epistemological and ontological multiplicity in the realm of diagnosis and, indeed, in the very realm of disease itself. In short, the empirical manifestations of health and illness as well as the processes thought to cause them are now understood to assume a much wider variety of both biological and othe…
The particularity of freedom and recovery from addiction in practice
Addiction science is very often cast as an indispensable source of political justification and clinical resources for engaging addicts therapeutically rather than punitively. It is said to promote an image of overcoming addictions as projects of recovery from disease or mental disorder rather than merely a repudiation of one's formerly troubled ways. Thusly, it is said to inform more compassionate and effective approaches to fostering constructiv…
Constructionism
This entry provides a concise statement of the history, key ideas, and scope of constructionist research
Diagnosis as Topic and as Resource
This article notes an enduring ambivalence in medical sociology concerning the epistemology and ontology of disease and shows this is precisely an ambivalence concerning whether biomedical disease categories are best understood as topics of, or as resources for, medical sociological research. The first section critically reviews the topic/resource debate in ethnomethodology. The second section elaborates upon the pertinence of this debate to soci…
Freedom and addiction in four discursive registers
Mainstream addiction science is today widely marked by an antinomy between a neurologically determinist understanding of the human brain ‘hijacked’ by the biochemical allure of intoxicants and a liberal voluntarist conception of drug use as a free exercise of choice. Prominent defenders of both discourses strive, ultimately without complete success, to provide accounts that are both universal and value-neutral. This has resulted in a variety of c…
Psychosomatic subjects and the agencies of addiction
Addiction science and public policy have for some time been articulated in conformity with a broader antinomy in Western thought between biological reductionism and liberal voluntarism. Hence, mainstream debates have concerned whether and how addiction might be understood as a disease in the biomedically orthodox sense of anatomical or physiological pathology or whether and how addiction might be understood as a voluntary choice of some kind. The…
Social Control
The concept of social control entered the lexicon of academic sociology in the early twentieth century. It was articulated first in the pioneering work of Edward A. Ross, and then, a short time later, by a handful of some of the most distinguished figures in the early history of American sociology, including Ernest Burgess, Charles Horton Cooley, Robert Park, and W.I. Thomas. These scholars took a rather expansive view of the matter, suggesting t…
Fraser, Suzanne, Moore, David and Keane, HelenHabits
Intoxication and Society
Post-humanism, addiction and the loss of self-control
In Defense of Radical Constructionism
NOTESNotes1 The essay that is the focus of this symposium builds on arguments made in two earlier published articles (CitationHo 2008a,Citationb). Hence, in what follows, I will draw not only from his remarks in the present essay but from remarks made in those earlier essays as well.2 Supporting quotes can be found in abundance throughout Schutz's oeuvre but three will here suffice, "it is the meaning of our experiences and not the ontological st…
Sociological Perspectives on Addiction
This article provides a critical survey of sociological research on addiction. It begins with the seminal research of Alfred Lindesmith on heroin addiction then proceeds through discussions of functionalist contributions, research that exemplifies what David Matza called the ‘appreciative’ turn in the sociology of deviance, rational choice theories, and social constructionist approaches. It is confined to research on addiction in its original mea…
Domestic practice, situated contingency and adherence to medical directives
The Social Construction of Self Knowledge
On the Social Construction of Social Problems and Social Problems Theory
The Body in Question
Agenda Setting
The concept of agenda setting has become a term of art in the sociology of social problems largely through research concerning the effects of mass media on public opinion. However, it has also been applied beyond this particular area of research to consider how topics arise as matters of public concern more generally. Thus research on agenda setting focuses on the whole range of forces that influence public opinion on any given issue and the vari…
Habermas, Rights, and the Learning Disabled Citizen
Learning disability and the limits of liberal citizenship
Recent policy initiatives have moved decisively toward empowering learning disabled citizens, recognising ability over disability, and promoting people's political empowerment and voice in the design of public services. While laudable and encouraging, these initiatives raise an important question: to what extent can a group of service users, whose very entitlement to state-sponsored assistance is justified by putative intellectual impairment, be …
Talk and Interaction in Social Research Methods
The Language of Social Science
Concepts of Social Justice in Community Psychology
In this paper we address the pervasive tendency in community psychology to treat values like social justice only as general objectives rather than contested theoretical concepts possessing identifiable empirical content. First we discuss how distinctive concepts of social justice have figured in three major intellectual traditions within community psychology: (1) the prevention and health promotion tradition, (2) the empowerment tradition, and mo…
On the Embodiment of Addiction
In an effort to promote more theoretically incisive research regarding the specifically sociological aspects of addiction, this article critically discusses three prominent theoretical paradigms for the study of addiction - neurology, learning theory and symbolic interaction. Neurological theories and learning theories are found to inadequately provide for the role of culturally transmitted meanings in the addiction process. While symbolic intera…
Out There
Journal Article "Out There": The Ecology of Addiction in Drug Abuse Treatment Discourse Get access Darin Weinberg Darin Weinberg University of Cambridge, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 47, Issue 4, 1 November 2000, Pages 606–621, https://doi.org/10.2307/3097137 Published: 31 July 2014
The Social Construction of Non-Human Agency
In diverse ways, constructionist studies demonstrate the profound relevance of social processes to the emergence and assessment of mental disorders in various organizational settings. However, there remains a curious silence in the constructionist literature regarding how mental disorders, once assembled as meaningful objects of discourse and practice, might come to exercise their own causal influences upon members' experiences and activities. In…
Out There
Journal Article "Out There": The Ecology of Addiction in Drug Abuse Treatment Discourse Get access Darin Weinberg Darin Weinberg University of Cambridge, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 47, Issue 4, 1 November 2000, Pages 606–621, https://doi.org/10.2307/3097137 Published: 31 July 2014
Learning disability and the limits of liberal citizenship
Recent policy initiatives have moved decisively toward empowering learning disabled citizens, recognising ability over disability, and promoting people's political empowerment and voice in the design of public services. While laudable and encouraging, these initiatives raise an important question: to what extent can a group of service users, whose very entitlement to state-sponsored assistance is justified by putative intellectual impairment, be …
Concepts of Social Justice in Community Psychology
In this paper we address the pervasive tendency in community psychology to treat values like social justice only as general objectives rather than contested theoretical concepts possessing identifiable empirical content. First we discuss how distinctive concepts of social justice have figured in three major intellectual traditions within community psychology: (1) the prevention and health promotion tradition, (2) the empowerment tradition, and mo…
On the Embodiment of Addiction
In an effort to promote more theoretically incisive research regarding the specifically sociological aspects of addiction, this article critically discusses three prominent theoretical paradigms for the study of addiction - neurology, learning theory and symbolic interaction. Neurological theories and learning theories are found to inadequately provide for the role of culturally transmitted meanings in the addiction process. While symbolic intera…
The Enactment and Appraisal of Authenticity in a Skid Row Therapeutic Community
This article describes the enactment and appraisal of authenticity in a skid row therapeutic community for the treatment of substance problems. Commitment to recovery was a basic requirement of participation in treatment, but it was widely assumed among program participants that many of their peers merely feigned commitment to recovery in order to remain sheltered. As a result, the enactment and appraisal of authentic commitment to recovery becam…
Sociological Perspectives on Addiction
This article provides a critical survey of sociological research on addiction. It begins with the seminal research of Alfred Lindesmith on heroin addiction then proceeds through discussions of functionalist contributions, research that exemplifies what David Matza called the ‘appreciative’ turn in the sociology of deviance, rational choice theories, and social constructionist approaches. It is confined to research on addiction in its original mea…
On the Social Construction of Social Problems and Social Problems Theory
Diagnosis as Topic and as Resource
This article notes an enduring ambivalence in medical sociology concerning the epistemology and ontology of disease and shows this is precisely an ambivalence concerning whether biomedical disease categories are best understood as topics of, or as resources for, medical sociological research. The first section critically reviews the topic/resource debate in ethnomethodology. The second section elaborates upon the pertinence of this debate to soci…
Lindesmith on Addiction
The evolution of Alfred Lindesmith's classic theory of addiction is analyzed as a product of the particular intellectual currents and controversies in and for which it was developed. These include the conflicts that pitted qualitative against quantitative sociology; the fledgling discipline of sociology against medicine, psychiatry, and psychology; and advocates of therapy for addicts against those who would simply punish them. By casting the mea…
The Social Construction of Self Knowledge
Habermas, Rights, and the Learning Disabled Citizen
Impediments to recovery in treatment programs for dually diagnosed homeless adults
The diffusion of diagnosis and its implications for the epistemology and ontology of disease
Rather than confining the categories health and sickness to a biomedical conception of the biological organism, there is growing recognition of epistemological and ontological multiplicity in the realm of diagnosis and, indeed, in the very realm of disease itself. In short, the empirical manifestations of health and illness as well as the processes thought to cause them are now understood to assume a much wider variety of both biological and othe…
Psychosomatic subjects and the agencies of addiction
Addiction science and public policy have for some time been articulated in conformity with a broader antinomy in Western thought between biological reductionism and liberal voluntarism. Hence, mainstream debates have concerned whether and how addiction might be understood as a disease in the biomedically orthodox sense of anatomical or physiological pathology or whether and how addiction might be understood as a voluntary choice of some kind. The…
Domestic practice, situated contingency and adherence to medical directives
The Body in Question
Praxis and Addiction
Galliher suggests my paper is guilty of four failings: (1) it is an attack on Alfred Lindesmith that is ideologically consistent with those mounted by Harry Anslinger and the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, (2) it misleadingly casts the intimate between physical reactions and human learning [in Lindesmith's theory of addiction] as a [mindbody] dualism, (3) it ignores the variable impact of drugs on the human actor depending on the cultural and symbo…
The sociology of diagnosis
Social Control
The concept of social control entered the lexicon of academic sociology in the early twentieth century. It was articulated first in the pioneering work of Edward A. Ross, and then, a short time later, by a handful of some of the most distinguished figures in the early history of American sociology, including Ernest Burgess, Charles Horton Cooley, Robert Park, and W.I. Thomas. These scholars took a rather expansive view of the matter, suggesting t…
Impediments to recovery in treatment programs for dually diagnosed homeless adults
The Enactment and Appraisal of Authenticity in a Skid Row Therapeutic Community
This article describes the enactment and appraisal of authenticity in a skid row therapeutic community for the treatment of substance problems. Commitment to recovery was a basic requirement of participation in treatment, but it was widely assumed among program participants that many of their peers merely feigned commitment to recovery in order to remain sheltered. As a result, the enactment and appraisal of authentic commitment to recovery becam…
The Social Construction of Non-Human Agency
In diverse ways, constructionist studies demonstrate the profound relevance of social processes to the emergence and assessment of mental disorders in various organizational settings. However, there remains a curious silence in the constructionist literature regarding how mental disorders, once assembled as meaningful objects of discourse and practice, might come to exercise their own causal influences upon members' experiences and activities. In…
Lindesmith on Addiction
The evolution of Alfred Lindesmith's classic theory of addiction is analyzed as a product of the particular intellectual currents and controversies in and for which it was developed. These include the conflicts that pitted qualitative against quantitative sociology; the fledgling discipline of sociology against medicine, psychiatry, and psychology; and advocates of therapy for addicts against those who would simply punish them. By casting the mea…
Praxis and Addiction
Galliher suggests my paper is guilty of four failings: (1) it is an attack on Alfred Lindesmith that is ideologically consistent with those mounted by Harry Anslinger and the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, (2) it misleadingly casts the intimate between physical reactions and human learning [in Lindesmith's theory of addiction] as a [mindbody] dualism, (3) it ignores the variable impact of drugs on the human actor depending on the cultural and symbo…
Out There
Journal Article "Out There": The Ecology of Addiction in Drug Abuse Treatment Discourse Get access Darin Weinberg Darin Weinberg University of Cambridge, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 47, Issue 4, 1 November 2000, Pages 606–621, https://doi.org/10.2307/3097137 Published: 31 July 2014
Concepts of Social Justice in Community Psychology
In this paper we address the pervasive tendency in community psychology to treat values like social justice only as general objectives rather than contested theoretical concepts possessing identifiable empirical content. First we discuss how distinctive concepts of social justice have figured in three major intellectual traditions within community psychology: (1) the prevention and health promotion tradition, (2) the empowerment tradition, and mo…
On the Embodiment of Addiction
In an effort to promote more theoretically incisive research regarding the specifically sociological aspects of addiction, this article critically discusses three prominent theoretical paradigms for the study of addiction - neurology, learning theory and symbolic interaction. Neurological theories and learning theories are found to inadequately provide for the role of culturally transmitted meanings in the addiction process. While symbolic intera…
Talk and Interaction in Social Research Methods
The Language of Social Science
Agenda Setting
The concept of agenda setting has become a term of art in the sociology of social problems largely through research concerning the effects of mass media on public opinion. However, it has also been applied beyond this particular area of research to consider how topics arise as matters of public concern more generally. Thus research on agenda setting focuses on the whole range of forces that influence public opinion on any given issue and the vari…
Habermas, Rights, and the Learning Disabled Citizen
Learning disability and the limits of liberal citizenship
Recent policy initiatives have moved decisively toward empowering learning disabled citizens, recognising ability over disability, and promoting people's political empowerment and voice in the design of public services. While laudable and encouraging, these initiatives raise an important question: to what extent can a group of service users, whose very entitlement to state-sponsored assistance is justified by putative intellectual impairment, be …
The Body in Question
On the Social Construction of Social Problems and Social Problems Theory
Sociological Perspectives on Addiction
This article provides a critical survey of sociological research on addiction. It begins with the seminal research of Alfred Lindesmith on heroin addiction then proceeds through discussions of functionalist contributions, research that exemplifies what David Matza called the ‘appreciative’ turn in the sociology of deviance, rational choice theories, and social constructionist approaches. It is confined to research on addiction in its original mea…
Domestic practice, situated contingency and adherence to medical directives
The Social Construction of Self Knowledge
In Defense of Radical Constructionism
NOTESNotes1 The essay that is the focus of this symposium builds on arguments made in two earlier published articles (CitationHo 2008a,Citationb). Hence, in what follows, I will draw not only from his remarks in the present essay but from remarks made in those earlier essays as well.2 Supporting quotes can be found in abundance throughout Schutz's oeuvre but three will here suffice, "it is the meaning of our experiences and not the ontological st…
Intoxication and Society
Post-humanism, addiction and the loss of self-control
Fraser, Suzanne, Moore, David and Keane, HelenHabits
Social Control
The concept of social control entered the lexicon of academic sociology in the early twentieth century. It was articulated first in the pioneering work of Edward A. Ross, and then, a short time later, by a handful of some of the most distinguished figures in the early history of American sociology, including Ernest Burgess, Charles Horton Cooley, Robert Park, and W.I. Thomas. These scholars took a rather expansive view of the matter, suggesting t…
Psychosomatic subjects and the agencies of addiction
Addiction science and public policy have for some time been articulated in conformity with a broader antinomy in Western thought between biological reductionism and liberal voluntarism. Hence, mainstream debates have concerned whether and how addiction might be understood as a disease in the biomedically orthodox sense of anatomical or physiological pathology or whether and how addiction might be understood as a voluntary choice of some kind. The…
Freedom and addiction in four discursive registers
Mainstream addiction science is today widely marked by an antinomy between a neurologically determinist understanding of the human brain ‘hijacked’ by the biochemical allure of intoxicants and a liberal voluntarist conception of drug use as a free exercise of choice. Prominent defenders of both discourses strive, ultimately without complete success, to provide accounts that are both universal and value-neutral. This has resulted in a variety of c…
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