Simon Gottschalk
Biographic Data
| ID | 111965 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simon Gottschalk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simon |
| FAMILY NAME | Gottschalk |
| SIGNATURE | GOTTSCHALK S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nevada, Las Vegas |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2576-4640 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 235 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
De-realization and Infra-humanization: A Theory of Symbolic Interaction with Digital Technologies
In this chapter, we suggest that our enforced interactions with digital technologies impose a series of adjustments that (a) induce a de-realization of our experience of everyday life, and (b) facilitate the infra-humanization of those with whom we interact through those technologies. De-realization is induced by temporal disorganization, ephemerality, spatial detachment, sensory incongruity, impairment in our capacity for information-processing …
Accelerators, Amplifiers, and Conductors: A Model of Tertiary Deviance in Online White Supremacist Networks
As recent perpetrators of racially-motivated mass-shootings were visitors and contributors to online white supremacist networks, this article presents a preliminary model that attempts to understand the social psychological effects of interacting in these networks. Combining Jonathan Turner's theory of the social psychological roots of extreme violence, scholarship on the white supremacist movement, and research on computer-mediated communication…
The Terminal Self: Everyday Life in Hypermodern Times
The Media Syndrome: Symptoms, Diagnosis, Case Studies, and Prevention
Stuck Inside of Mobile: Ethnography in Non-Places
Guided by Augé's concept of "non-place," we conduct a mobile ethnography of the Las Vegas Strip to evoke and critically reflect on the characteristics of such environments. Informed by our findings, we contribute to the scholarship of non-places by (1) attending to three components of such environments that are seldom mentioned together (temporal organization, soundscape, and social control) and (2) suggesting a tentative model of non-places that…
Neural Growths
Inside Bets: Two Approaches to Compulsive Gambling
The Senses in Self, Society, and Culture: A Sociology of the Senses
The Senses in Self, Society, and Culture is the definitive guide to the sociological and anthropological study of the senses. Vannini, Waskul, and Gottschalk provide a comprehensive map of the social and cultural significance of the senses that is woven in a thorough analytical review of classical, recent, and emerging scholarship and grounded in original empirical data that deepens the review and analysis. By bridging cultural/qualitative sociol…
Making Sense of the Weather: Dwelling and Weathering on Canada’s Rain Coast
Drawing on ethnographic data collected throughout British Columbia’s coastal regions, in this article, the authors examine people’s experiences of ordinary weather. Data show how people experience weather multisensorially and how the weather plays a central role in the way individuals and collectives define sense of place. Experiences of weather, the authors argue, are a reflexive and active form of dwelling. A focus on skillful embodied practice…
The Presentation of Avatars in Second Life: Self and Interaction in Social Virtual Spaces
What do interactions in virtual spaces suggest about everyday life in the digital age? How do interactions in virtual spaces shape everyday life in the digital age? Guided by hypermodern theory, I conduct participant observation in the social virtual world Second Life to provide tentative answers to those questions. I suggest that Second Life is both a social psychological playground where participants enjoy individualistic fantasies and a virtua…
Performing Taste at Wine Festivals: A Somatic Layered Account of Material Culture
Sensuous scholarship refers to research about the human senses, through the senses, and for the senses. Sensuous scholarship asks us to recognize the meaningfulness of our somatic experience of the world, to understand the skilful activities through which we actively make and remake the world through our senses, and to develop evocative strategies of representation- to write sensuously. In this article, the authors reflect on one particular genre…
Sound Acts: Elocution, Somatic Work, and the Performance of Sonic Alignment
Drawing on reflection, nonparticipant and participant observation, and introspection this article examines the performative dimensions of sound, arguing that sounds of both the nonsemioticized and semioticized variety function as acts, not unlike speech acts. Through a layered text, the article offers analytical reflections and evocative writing focused on the exploration of acoustic environments such as movie theatres, airplanes, street music pe…
Hypermodern Consumption and Megalomania: Superlatives in commercials
Recent French sociological scholarship suggests the notion of hypermodernity to characterize the contemporary moment. While the meanings of this concept vary, the idea of excess seems central. Informed by this new scholarship, this article analyzes the superlative rhetoric in contemporary televised and internet commercials, and suggests elective affinities between this rhetoric and the various trends characterizing the hypermodern present
Understanding Music in Movements: The White Power Music Scene
Relying on the analysis of ethnographic and documentary data, this article explains how U.S. White Power Movement (WPM) activists use music to produce collective occasions and experiences that we conceptualize as the movement's music scene. We use the concept “music scene” to refer to the full range of movement occasions in which music is the organizing principle. Members experience these not as discrete events, but as interconnected sets of situ…
Authoritarianism and pathological hatred: A social psychological profile of the middle eastern terrorist
Reli(e)ving the Past: Emotion Work in the Holocaust's Second Generation
Although most studies of the Second Generation typically account for their social psychological orientations by relying on psychiatric and psychological models, I propose an alternative 'listening' to this cohort. I analyze in-depth interviews by adopting Hochschild's insights on emotion work as a sensitizing framework and suggest that (1) four interrelated types of 'deep acting' they continuously feel compelled to perform can account for the psy…
Ads, Fads, and Consumer Culture: Advertising's Impact on American Character and Society
Ads, Fads, and Consumer Culture is an engaging cultural studies critique of advertising and its impacts on American society. Arthur Asa Berger looks at marketing strategies, sex and advertising, consumer culture, political advertising, and communication theory and process to give an accessible overview of advertising in America. He explores how advertising works and how society does or doesnAIt respond to it, and he gives two detailed interpretat…
Speed Culture: Fast Strategies in Televised Commercial Ads
Videology: Video-Games as Postmodern Sites/Sights of Ideological Reproduction
As new technologies, video-games are becoming increasingly popular among today's pre-teens and teenagers. Relying on systematic observation of videogames found in public arcades, participation in them, and engagement with the relevant literature, I explore eight central assumptions of 'videology': the ideology which organizes these games. While suggesting that these assumptions articulate and exaggerate problematic ideological themes, I also expl…
Ethnographic Fragments in Postmodern Spaces
Various authors interested in postmodernism suggest that Las Vegas is a particularly strategic site that promotes and even exaggerates a postmodern logic and "structure of feeling." The present ethnographic fragments seek to evoke this postmodern logic through its subjectively experienced structure of feeling. The approach used to produce these fragments consists of juxtaposing postmodern insights; unstructured interviews with, and interventions …
Uncomfortably Numb: Countercultural Impulses in the Postmodern Era
Informed by 1960s research suggesting that early signs of emerging social psychological trends are visible in countercultural groups, the article uses in-depth interviews and participant observation to explore the attitudes of the 'Freaks'-a group of countercultural students. Finding that they express pessimism and cynicism, rejection of metanarratives and fragmented identities, the article suggests some comparisons between the Freaks' attitudes …
A Collage of Subjectivities
Investigating Subjectivity, edited by Carolyn Ellis and Michael G. Flaherty
Making Sense of the Weather: Dwelling and Weathering on Canada’s Rain Coast
Drawing on ethnographic data collected throughout British Columbia’s coastal regions, in this article, the authors examine people’s experiences of ordinary weather. Data show how people experience weather multisensorially and how the weather plays a central role in the way individuals and collectives define sense of place. Experiences of weather, the authors argue, are a reflexive and active form of dwelling. A focus on skillful embodied practice…
The Senses in Self, Society, and Culture: A Sociology of the Senses
The Senses in Self, Society, and Culture is the definitive guide to the sociological and anthropological study of the senses. Vannini, Waskul, and Gottschalk provide a comprehensive map of the social and cultural significance of the senses that is woven in a thorough analytical review of classical, recent, and emerging scholarship and grounded in original empirical data that deepens the review and analysis. By bridging cultural/qualitative sociol…
Understanding Music in Movements: The White Power Music Scene
Relying on the analysis of ethnographic and documentary data, this article explains how U.S. White Power Movement (WPM) activists use music to produce collective occasions and experiences that we conceptualize as the movement's music scene. We use the concept “music scene” to refer to the full range of movement occasions in which music is the organizing principle. Members experience these not as discrete events, but as interconnected sets of situ…
Performing Taste at Wine Festivals: A Somatic Layered Account of Material Culture
Sensuous scholarship refers to research about the human senses, through the senses, and for the senses. Sensuous scholarship asks us to recognize the meaningfulness of our somatic experience of the world, to understand the skilful activities through which we actively make and remake the world through our senses, and to develop evocative strategies of representation- to write sensuously. In this article, the authors reflect on one particular genre…
Uncomfortably Numb: Countercultural Impulses in the Postmodern Era
Informed by 1960s research suggesting that early signs of emerging social psychological trends are visible in countercultural groups, the article uses in-depth interviews and participant observation to explore the attitudes of the 'Freaks'-a group of countercultural students. Finding that they express pessimism and cynicism, rejection of metanarratives and fragmented identities, the article suggests some comparisons between the Freaks' attitudes …
The Presentation of Avatars in Second Life: Self and Interaction in Social Virtual Spaces
What do interactions in virtual spaces suggest about everyday life in the digital age? How do interactions in virtual spaces shape everyday life in the digital age? Guided by hypermodern theory, I conduct participant observation in the social virtual world Second Life to provide tentative answers to those questions. I suggest that Second Life is both a social psychological playground where participants enjoy individualistic fantasies and a virtua…
Sound Acts: Elocution, Somatic Work, and the Performance of Sonic Alignment
Drawing on reflection, nonparticipant and participant observation, and introspection this article examines the performative dimensions of sound, arguing that sounds of both the nonsemioticized and semioticized variety function as acts, not unlike speech acts. Through a layered text, the article offers analytical reflections and evocative writing focused on the exploration of acoustic environments such as movie theatres, airplanes, street music pe…
Ethnographic Fragments in Postmodern Spaces
Various authors interested in postmodernism suggest that Las Vegas is a particularly strategic site that promotes and even exaggerates a postmodern logic and "structure of feeling." The present ethnographic fragments seek to evoke this postmodern logic through its subjectively experienced structure of feeling. The approach used to produce these fragments consists of juxtaposing postmodern insights; unstructured interviews with, and interventions …
Stuck Inside of Mobile: Ethnography in Non-Places
Guided by Augé's concept of "non-place," we conduct a mobile ethnography of the Las Vegas Strip to evoke and critically reflect on the characteristics of such environments. Informed by our findings, we contribute to the scholarship of non-places by (1) attending to three components of such environments that are seldom mentioned together (temporal organization, soundscape, and social control) and (2) suggesting a tentative model of non-places that…
Reli(e)ving the Past: Emotion Work in the Holocaust's Second Generation
Although most studies of the Second Generation typically account for their social psychological orientations by relying on psychiatric and psychological models, I propose an alternative 'listening' to this cohort. I analyze in-depth interviews by adopting Hochschild's insights on emotion work as a sensitizing framework and suggest that (1) four interrelated types of 'deep acting' they continuously feel compelled to perform can account for the psy…
Authoritarianism and pathological hatred: A social psychological profile of the middle eastern terrorist
Speed Culture: Fast Strategies in Televised Commercial Ads
Videology: Video-Games as Postmodern Sites/Sights of Ideological Reproduction
As new technologies, video-games are becoming increasingly popular among today's pre-teens and teenagers. Relying on systematic observation of videogames found in public arcades, participation in them, and engagement with the relevant literature, I explore eight central assumptions of 'videology': the ideology which organizes these games. While suggesting that these assumptions articulate and exaggerate problematic ideological themes, I also expl…
Hypermodern Consumption and Megalomania: Superlatives in commercials
Recent French sociological scholarship suggests the notion of hypermodernity to characterize the contemporary moment. While the meanings of this concept vary, the idea of excess seems central. Informed by this new scholarship, this article analyzes the superlative rhetoric in contemporary televised and internet commercials, and suggests elective affinities between this rhetoric and the various trends characterizing the hypermodern present
Accelerators, Amplifiers, and Conductors: A Model of Tertiary Deviance in Online White Supremacist Networks
As recent perpetrators of racially-motivated mass-shootings were visitors and contributors to online white supremacist networks, this article presents a preliminary model that attempts to understand the social psychological effects of interacting in these networks. Combining Jonathan Turner's theory of the social psychological roots of extreme violence, scholarship on the white supremacist movement, and research on computer-mediated communication…
Ads, Fads, and Consumer Culture: Advertising's Impact on American Character and Society
Ads, Fads, and Consumer Culture is an engaging cultural studies critique of advertising and its impacts on American society. Arthur Asa Berger looks at marketing strategies, sex and advertising, consumer culture, political advertising, and communication theory and process to give an accessible overview of advertising in America. He explores how advertising works and how society does or doesnAIt respond to it, and he gives two detailed interpretat…
Uncomfortably Numb: Countercultural Impulses in the Postmodern Era
Informed by 1960s research suggesting that early signs of emerging social psychological trends are visible in countercultural groups, the article uses in-depth interviews and participant observation to explore the attitudes of the 'Freaks'-a group of countercultural students. Finding that they express pessimism and cynicism, rejection of metanarratives and fragmented identities, the article suggests some comparisons between the Freaks' attitudes …
A Collage of Subjectivities
Investigating Subjectivity, edited by Carolyn Ellis and Michael G. Flaherty
Videology: Video-Games as Postmodern Sites/Sights of Ideological Reproduction
As new technologies, video-games are becoming increasingly popular among today's pre-teens and teenagers. Relying on systematic observation of videogames found in public arcades, participation in them, and engagement with the relevant literature, I explore eight central assumptions of 'videology': the ideology which organizes these games. While suggesting that these assumptions articulate and exaggerate problematic ideological themes, I also expl…
Ethnographic Fragments in Postmodern Spaces
Various authors interested in postmodernism suggest that Las Vegas is a particularly strategic site that promotes and even exaggerates a postmodern logic and "structure of feeling." The present ethnographic fragments seek to evoke this postmodern logic through its subjectively experienced structure of feeling. The approach used to produce these fragments consists of juxtaposing postmodern insights; unstructured interviews with, and interventions …
Speed Culture: Fast Strategies in Televised Commercial Ads
Ads, Fads, and Consumer Culture: Advertising's Impact on American Character and Society
Ads, Fads, and Consumer Culture is an engaging cultural studies critique of advertising and its impacts on American society. Arthur Asa Berger looks at marketing strategies, sex and advertising, consumer culture, political advertising, and communication theory and process to give an accessible overview of advertising in America. He explores how advertising works and how society does or doesnAIt respond to it, and he gives two detailed interpretat…
Reli(e)ving the Past: Emotion Work in the Holocaust's Second Generation
Although most studies of the Second Generation typically account for their social psychological orientations by relying on psychiatric and psychological models, I propose an alternative 'listening' to this cohort. I analyze in-depth interviews by adopting Hochschild's insights on emotion work as a sensitizing framework and suggest that (1) four interrelated types of 'deep acting' they continuously feel compelled to perform can account for the psy…
Authoritarianism and pathological hatred: A social psychological profile of the middle eastern terrorist
Understanding Music in Movements: The White Power Music Scene
Relying on the analysis of ethnographic and documentary data, this article explains how U.S. White Power Movement (WPM) activists use music to produce collective occasions and experiences that we conceptualize as the movement's music scene. We use the concept “music scene” to refer to the full range of movement occasions in which music is the organizing principle. Members experience these not as discrete events, but as interconnected sets of situ…
Hypermodern Consumption and Megalomania: Superlatives in commercials
Recent French sociological scholarship suggests the notion of hypermodernity to characterize the contemporary moment. While the meanings of this concept vary, the idea of excess seems central. Informed by this new scholarship, this article analyzes the superlative rhetoric in contemporary televised and internet commercials, and suggests elective affinities between this rhetoric and the various trends characterizing the hypermodern present
The Presentation of Avatars in Second Life: Self and Interaction in Social Virtual Spaces
What do interactions in virtual spaces suggest about everyday life in the digital age? How do interactions in virtual spaces shape everyday life in the digital age? Guided by hypermodern theory, I conduct participant observation in the social virtual world Second Life to provide tentative answers to those questions. I suggest that Second Life is both a social psychological playground where participants enjoy individualistic fantasies and a virtua…
Performing Taste at Wine Festivals: A Somatic Layered Account of Material Culture
Sensuous scholarship refers to research about the human senses, through the senses, and for the senses. Sensuous scholarship asks us to recognize the meaningfulness of our somatic experience of the world, to understand the skilful activities through which we actively make and remake the world through our senses, and to develop evocative strategies of representation- to write sensuously. In this article, the authors reflect on one particular genre…
Sound Acts: Elocution, Somatic Work, and the Performance of Sonic Alignment
Drawing on reflection, nonparticipant and participant observation, and introspection this article examines the performative dimensions of sound, arguing that sounds of both the nonsemioticized and semioticized variety function as acts, not unlike speech acts. Through a layered text, the article offers analytical reflections and evocative writing focused on the exploration of acoustic environments such as movie theatres, airplanes, street music pe…
Making Sense of the Weather: Dwelling and Weathering on Canada’s Rain Coast
Drawing on ethnographic data collected throughout British Columbia’s coastal regions, in this article, the authors examine people’s experiences of ordinary weather. Data show how people experience weather multisensorially and how the weather plays a central role in the way individuals and collectives define sense of place. Experiences of weather, the authors argue, are a reflexive and active form of dwelling. A focus on skillful embodied practice…
The Senses in Self, Society, and Culture: A Sociology of the Senses
The Senses in Self, Society, and Culture is the definitive guide to the sociological and anthropological study of the senses. Vannini, Waskul, and Gottschalk provide a comprehensive map of the social and cultural significance of the senses that is woven in a thorough analytical review of classical, recent, and emerging scholarship and grounded in original empirical data that deepens the review and analysis. By bridging cultural/qualitative sociol…
Inside Bets: Two Approaches to Compulsive Gambling
Stuck Inside of Mobile: Ethnography in Non-Places
Guided by Augé's concept of "non-place," we conduct a mobile ethnography of the Las Vegas Strip to evoke and critically reflect on the characteristics of such environments. Informed by our findings, we contribute to the scholarship of non-places by (1) attending to three components of such environments that are seldom mentioned together (temporal organization, soundscape, and social control) and (2) suggesting a tentative model of non-places that…
Neural Growths
The Terminal Self: Everyday Life in Hypermodern Times
The Media Syndrome: Symptoms, Diagnosis, Case Studies, and Prevention
Accelerators, Amplifiers, and Conductors: A Model of Tertiary Deviance in Online White Supremacist Networks
As recent perpetrators of racially-motivated mass-shootings were visitors and contributors to online white supremacist networks, this article presents a preliminary model that attempts to understand the social psychological effects of interacting in these networks. Combining Jonathan Turner's theory of the social psychological roots of extreme violence, scholarship on the white supremacist movement, and research on computer-mediated communication…
De-realization and Infra-humanization: A Theory of Symbolic Interaction with Digital Technologies
In this chapter, we suggest that our enforced interactions with digital technologies impose a series of adjustments that (a) induce a de-realization of our experience of everyday life, and (b) facilitate the infra-humanization of those with whom we interact through those technologies. De-realization is induced by temporal disorganization, ephemerality, spatial detachment, sensory incongruity, impairment in our capacity for information-processing …
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