Jason Rodriquez
Biographic Data
| ID | 101360 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jason Rodriquez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jason |
| FAMILY NAME | Rodriquez |
| SIGNATURE | RODRIQUEZ J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Boston |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3587-3376 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 126 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Becoming futile: The emotional pain of treating Covid-19 patients
The inability to save incurable COVID-19 patients while giving maximal care to such individuals caused health care workers in the ICU an immense amount of emotional pain, contributing to our understanding of the social processes that generated the well-documented increase in moral distress and related measures of work-related psychological distress. While recent studies of emotional socialization among health care workers have portrayed clinical …
Reconfiguring the social organization of work in the intensive care unit: Changed relationships and new roles during Covid-19
When the Normative Is Formative: Parents’ Perceptions of the Impacts of Inclusive Sports Programs
This qualitative study examines the perspectives of parents of youth with intellectual and developmental disability (IDD) who participated in Special Olympics Unified Sports ® , a program in which high school students with and without IDD compete on the same team. Based on semi-structured interviews with parents ( n = 23) as part of a larger evaluation of Special Olympics Unified Champion Schools in three states in the United States, thematic ana…
A Place for Everybody”: Students’ Perspectives on Inclusive Behavior in School
Understanding students’ perspectives on inclusive behavior is important for addressing the bullying, victimization, and exclusion that many middle school and high school students, particularly marginalized students, continue to face at school. This study explored how students give meaning to inclusive behavior at school and the conditions that support inclusive behavior. Using data from 30 focus groups conducted with students, the findings expand…
Diagnosis: Prestige Hierarchy Located in the Medical Profession
Negotiating Medical Authority: Shared Decision-Making in the ICU
Hospitalized individuals who are unable to communicate have the right to an empowered surrogate who participates in shared decision-making. Based on 300 hours of participant observation in an intensive care unit (ICU) and 35 interviews with staff, this article examines shared decision-making as a negotiated social process of aligning frames of understanding. Drawing from Erving Goffman's concepts of frames (1974) and performance teams (1959), thi…
Social and organizational practices that influence hospice utilization in nursing homes
Living with Alzheimer's: Managing Memory Loss, Identity, and Illness
Who is on the medical team: Shifting the boundaries of belonging on the ICU
Labors of Love: Nursing Homes and the Structures of Care Work
Every day for the next twenty years, more than 10,000 people in the United States will turn 65. With life expectancies increasing as well, many of these Americans will eventually require round-the-clock attention—and we have only begun to prepare for the challenge of caring for them. In Labors of Love, Jason Rodriquez examines the world of the fast-growing elder care industry, providing a nuanced and balanced portrait of the day-to-day lives of t…
Narrating Dementia: Self and Community in an Online Forum
In this article, I examine how individuals diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease use illness narratives to construct community. The ability to narrate is a fundamental component of the self. Using 354 posts by 32 members of an Internet forum, I argue that people with Alzheimer’s, whose ability to narrate, and thus create a self, was compromised, nonetheless managed to tell stories of redemption out of which a salvaged self emerged. Narra…
It’s a Dignity Thing”: Nursing Home Care Workers’ Use of Emotions 1
This article examines how nursing home care workers use emotions to construct dignity at work. Previous scholarship has shown how the financial and organizational characteristics of nursing homes shape and constrain emotion work among staff. Using evidence gathered during 18 months of participant observation in two nursing homes and 65 interviews with staff, this article analyzes how, despite obstacles, nursing home care workers generated authent…
Attributions of Agency and the Construction of Moral Order: Dementia, Death, and Dignity in Nursing-home Care
Using evidence gathered during 18 months of participant-observation in 2 nursing homes and 65 interviews with staff, this article examines how nursing-home staff use agency as a rhetorical resource to construct a dignified workplace. Staff attribute agency to dying residents, saying they choose the timing and conditions of their death. Staff equally insist that aggressive residents do not have agency. These two sets of attributions are used as co…
Are You an African?' The Politics of Self-Construction in Status-Based Social Movements
Current debates over identity politics hinge on the question of whether status-based social movements encourage parochialism and self-interest or create possibilities for mutual recognition across lines of difference. Our article explores this question through comparative, ethnographic study of two racially progressive social movements, "pro-black" abolitionism and "conscious" hip hop. We argue that status-based social movements not only enable c…
Product Review: The American Dream and the Power of Wealth: Choosing Schools and Inheriting Inequality in the Land of Opportunity
Color-Blind Ideology and the Cultural Appropriation of Hip-Hop
This article examines how white youths culturally appropriate hip-hop by adhering to the demands of color-blind ideology. Using ethnographic methods and interviews of members in a local hip-hop scene, I argue that colorblind ideology provides whites with the discursive resources to justify their presence in the scene, and more important, to appropriate hip-hop by removing the racially coded meanings embedded in the music and replacing them with c…
Color-Blind Ideology and the Cultural Appropriation of Hip-Hop
This article examines how white youths culturally appropriate hip-hop by adhering to the demands of color-blind ideology. Using ethnographic methods and interviews of members in a local hip-hop scene, I argue that colorblind ideology provides whites with the discursive resources to justify their presence in the scene, and more important, to appropriate hip-hop by removing the racially coded meanings embedded in the music and replacing them with c…
Living with Alzheimer's: Managing Memory Loss, Identity, and Illness
It’s a Dignity Thing”: Nursing Home Care Workers’ Use of Emotions 1
This article examines how nursing home care workers use emotions to construct dignity at work. Previous scholarship has shown how the financial and organizational characteristics of nursing homes shape and constrain emotion work among staff. Using evidence gathered during 18 months of participant observation in two nursing homes and 65 interviews with staff, this article analyzes how, despite obstacles, nursing home care workers generated authent…
Who is on the medical team: Shifting the boundaries of belonging on the ICU
Reconfiguring the social organization of work in the intensive care unit: Changed relationships and new roles during Covid-19
Are You an African?' The Politics of Self-Construction in Status-Based Social Movements
Current debates over identity politics hinge on the question of whether status-based social movements encourage parochialism and self-interest or create possibilities for mutual recognition across lines of difference. Our article explores this question through comparative, ethnographic study of two racially progressive social movements, "pro-black" abolitionism and "conscious" hip hop. We argue that status-based social movements not only enable c…
Attributions of Agency and the Construction of Moral Order: Dementia, Death, and Dignity in Nursing-home Care
Using evidence gathered during 18 months of participant-observation in 2 nursing homes and 65 interviews with staff, this article examines how nursing-home staff use agency as a rhetorical resource to construct a dignified workplace. Staff attribute agency to dying residents, saying they choose the timing and conditions of their death. Staff equally insist that aggressive residents do not have agency. These two sets of attributions are used as co…
A Place for Everybody”: Students’ Perspectives on Inclusive Behavior in School
Understanding students’ perspectives on inclusive behavior is important for addressing the bullying, victimization, and exclusion that many middle school and high school students, particularly marginalized students, continue to face at school. This study explored how students give meaning to inclusive behavior at school and the conditions that support inclusive behavior. Using data from 30 focus groups conducted with students, the findings expand…
Negotiating Medical Authority: Shared Decision-Making in the ICU
Hospitalized individuals who are unable to communicate have the right to an empowered surrogate who participates in shared decision-making. Based on 300 hours of participant observation in an intensive care unit (ICU) and 35 interviews with staff, this article examines shared decision-making as a negotiated social process of aligning frames of understanding. Drawing from Erving Goffman's concepts of frames (1974) and performance teams (1959), thi…
Color-Blind Ideology and the Cultural Appropriation of Hip-Hop
This article examines how white youths culturally appropriate hip-hop by adhering to the demands of color-blind ideology. Using ethnographic methods and interviews of members in a local hip-hop scene, I argue that colorblind ideology provides whites with the discursive resources to justify their presence in the scene, and more important, to appropriate hip-hop by removing the racially coded meanings embedded in the music and replacing them with c…
Product Review: The American Dream and the Power of Wealth: Choosing Schools and Inheriting Inequality in the Land of Opportunity
Attributions of Agency and the Construction of Moral Order: Dementia, Death, and Dignity in Nursing-home Care
Using evidence gathered during 18 months of participant-observation in 2 nursing homes and 65 interviews with staff, this article examines how nursing-home staff use agency as a rhetorical resource to construct a dignified workplace. Staff attribute agency to dying residents, saying they choose the timing and conditions of their death. Staff equally insist that aggressive residents do not have agency. These two sets of attributions are used as co…
Are You an African?' The Politics of Self-Construction in Status-Based Social Movements
Current debates over identity politics hinge on the question of whether status-based social movements encourage parochialism and self-interest or create possibilities for mutual recognition across lines of difference. Our article explores this question through comparative, ethnographic study of two racially progressive social movements, "pro-black" abolitionism and "conscious" hip hop. We argue that status-based social movements not only enable c…
It’s a Dignity Thing”: Nursing Home Care Workers’ Use of Emotions 1
This article examines how nursing home care workers use emotions to construct dignity at work. Previous scholarship has shown how the financial and organizational characteristics of nursing homes shape and constrain emotion work among staff. Using evidence gathered during 18 months of participant observation in two nursing homes and 65 interviews with staff, this article analyzes how, despite obstacles, nursing home care workers generated authent…
Narrating Dementia: Self and Community in an Online Forum
In this article, I examine how individuals diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease use illness narratives to construct community. The ability to narrate is a fundamental component of the self. Using 354 posts by 32 members of an Internet forum, I argue that people with Alzheimer’s, whose ability to narrate, and thus create a self, was compromised, nonetheless managed to tell stories of redemption out of which a salvaged self emerged. Narra…
Labors of Love: Nursing Homes and the Structures of Care Work
Every day for the next twenty years, more than 10,000 people in the United States will turn 65. With life expectancies increasing as well, many of these Americans will eventually require round-the-clock attention—and we have only begun to prepare for the challenge of caring for them. In Labors of Love, Jason Rodriquez examines the world of the fast-growing elder care industry, providing a nuanced and balanced portrait of the day-to-day lives of t…
Who is on the medical team: Shifting the boundaries of belonging on the ICU
Living with Alzheimer's: Managing Memory Loss, Identity, and Illness
Social and organizational practices that influence hospice utilization in nursing homes
Negotiating Medical Authority: Shared Decision-Making in the ICU
Hospitalized individuals who are unable to communicate have the right to an empowered surrogate who participates in shared decision-making. Based on 300 hours of participant observation in an intensive care unit (ICU) and 35 interviews with staff, this article examines shared decision-making as a negotiated social process of aligning frames of understanding. Drawing from Erving Goffman's concepts of frames (1974) and performance teams (1959), thi…
When the Normative Is Formative: Parents’ Perceptions of the Impacts of Inclusive Sports Programs
This qualitative study examines the perspectives of parents of youth with intellectual and developmental disability (IDD) who participated in Special Olympics Unified Sports ® , a program in which high school students with and without IDD compete on the same team. Based on semi-structured interviews with parents ( n = 23) as part of a larger evaluation of Special Olympics Unified Champion Schools in three states in the United States, thematic ana…
A Place for Everybody”: Students’ Perspectives on Inclusive Behavior in School
Understanding students’ perspectives on inclusive behavior is important for addressing the bullying, victimization, and exclusion that many middle school and high school students, particularly marginalized students, continue to face at school. This study explored how students give meaning to inclusive behavior at school and the conditions that support inclusive behavior. Using data from 30 focus groups conducted with students, the findings expand…
Diagnosis: Prestige Hierarchy Located in the Medical Profession
Becoming futile: The emotional pain of treating Covid-19 patients
The inability to save incurable COVID-19 patients while giving maximal care to such individuals caused health care workers in the ICU an immense amount of emotional pain, contributing to our understanding of the social processes that generated the well-documented increase in moral distress and related measures of work-related psychological distress. While recent studies of emotional socialization among health care workers have portrayed clinical …
Reconfiguring the social organization of work in the intensive care unit: Changed relationships and new roles during Covid-19
Psychology (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Medicine (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Nursing (7 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Social science (5 works) · Emotional Labor in Professions (4 works) · Health care (4 works)