Stephen L Eyre
Biographic Data
| ID | 121413 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen L Eyre |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen L |
| FAMILY NAME | Eyre |
| SIGNATURE | EYRE S L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, San Francisco |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 180 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Domestic Violence Counseling in Rural Northern China
Domestic violence (DV) affects over a third of Chinese women in a relationship. Focusing on ethnographic data from six staff members and six DV survivors at a rural, state-affiliated women's center in China in 2010, this article relies on Henrietta Moore's notion of the poststructuralist gendered subject to examine how the staff draw on discourses about gender and social harmony in persuading women to stay in their marriages, rather than on human…
Growth into manhood
This study aims to understand the process by which female-to-male transgender young people come to identify as transgender through in-depth interviews with 13 self-identified female-to-male transgender youth. A grounded theory was created of the process that young people go through in coming to identify as transgender. We identified three stages: (1) a growing sense of gender: school, puberty, sexuality and exposure to diverse gender options impa…
Concepts of Infidelity Among African American Emerging Adults
In this study, we used an exploratory methodology to determine what cultural models African American emerging adults use to understand infidelity/cheating. Cultural models are defined as “cognitive schema[s] that [are] intersubjectively shared by a social group” (D’Andrade, 1987, p. 112). We interviewed 144 participants ages 19-22 from three geographically distal sites. Qualitative analysis was conducted using NUDIST and In Vivo Analysis, a form …
Analyzing Cultural Models in Adolescent Accounts of Romantic Relationships
Research on academic achievement has led the way in demonstrating how culturally constructed meanings shape adolescent scholastic behavior. The aim of this research is to move this standpoint of analysis more centrally into the area of adolescent dating and sexuality by focusing on the cultural components of adolescent romantic relationships. This study examines cultural models of romantic relationships in Vernacular Term Interviews of 68 African…
Romantic Relationships Trajectories of African American Gay/Bisexual Adolescents
The interview study reported here sought to identify the perceived trajectory of romantic relationships of a cohort of Oakland African American gay/bisexual adolescents. Biographical interviews were used to identify cultural models of romantic relationships in the study sample and discovered a trajectory of four phases. In the antecedent to the trajectory, the youth enters the gay/bisexual social environment. In the first phase, the youth meets a…
Romantic Relationships and Their Social Context Among Gay/Bisexual Male Youth in the Castro District of San Francisco
This article examines the culture of romantic relationships among gay/bisexual male youth in the Castro District of San Francisco. The article seeks to specify the cultural ideology that informs these relationships, drawing upon ethnographic observation, autobiographical accounts, and informant cultural exegesis. The article also seeks to link thinking and experience inside romantic relationships (e.g., bonding, jealousy) to patterns of social be…
Initiating Sexual Experiences
Understanding how young adolescents make decisions to engage in early sexual activities is vital for intervention efforts aimed at fostering positive youth development and reducing the negative outcomes of adolescent sexual behavior. In‐depth interviews with 42 suburban, mostly White, ninth‐grade adolescents (52% females, mean age=14.1, SD =.45) elicited accounts of their early sexual decisions. We adapted grounded theory methodology to build a m…
Hormones is not magic wands
Male-to-female transgenderism is a highly theorized but under-researched topic area which is in need of ethnographic presentation and analysis. This article offers an ethnographic report on a community of African American male-to-female transgender adolescents and young adults living in Oakland, California, seeking to shed light on the culture, language, and behavior of its members. An ethnographer entered into this transgender world, interviewin…
Where Does Reproductive Health Fit Into the Lives of Adolescent Males
To meet the reproductive health needs of adolescent males, program developers should consider how other life priorities and traditional masculine beliefs may serve as barriers to care and how to ensure that services reflect the adolescent male's perspective
Where Does Reproductive Health Fit Into the Lives of Adolescent Males
Youth homelessness in San Francisco
Moral argumentation in adolescents' commentaries about sex
Analysing excerpts from a large interview database, the paper examines the content, rhetorical structure, and apparent function of adolescents' moral argumentation in commentaries about sex. We compare the approaches of cognitive science and discourse analysis to the topic of adolescent sexual cognition, concluding that the discourse approach is more successful in identifying underlying gender-related ideological conflict. We conclude that if an …
Delineating differences
This paper analyses community members' descriptions of subgroups of gay and bisexual men in San Francisco. Five group categories are identified and subjected to detailed analysis. These are labelled leather, men of colour, activists, men who go to clubs and younger. While some of these groups meet established criteria of 'community', they do so in different ways suggesting the existence of relatively discrete sub-communities within the San Franci…
What Leads to Sex? Adolescent Preferred Partners and Reasons for Sex
83 African-American and White male and female adolescents, ages 16-20 years old, were asked to list preferred partner qualities and reasons to have or not have sex as measures of their perceptions of antecedents of sex. High frequency items were placed on cards and sorted separately by an additional four gender and racial subsamples (n = 79). Data were analyzed using multidimensional scaling and cluster analysis. Health-related antecedents to sex…
Sociocultural Beliefs Related to Sex among Mexican American Adolescents
This exploratory study examines the cultural content of two domains related to antecedents of sexual behavior among Mexican American adolescents: preferred partner qualities and reasons to have or not have sex. Domain analysis, a qualitative research methodology drawn from anthropology, was employed. The methodology involved two phases. First, male andfemale adolescents listed positive and negative items in each of these two domains; second, 16 m…
Fidelity Management
This qualitative study examined how adolescents conceptualize sexual behavior. Open-ended interviews about sex were conducted with a sample of 21 male and 18 female African- American adolescents. Topics related to health risk virtually never emerged in their responses. The topic of partner infidelity and concerns about control of infidelity, on the other hand, were mentioned extensively. Informants described a cycle in which commitment to a partn…
The Gamesmanship of Sex
This article examines adolescent understanding of the social context of sexual behavior. Using grounded theory to interpret interviews with 39 African American male and female adolescents, the article builds a model of sex-related behavior as a set of interrelated games. A courtship game involves communication of sexual or romantic interest and, over time, formation of a romantic relationship. A duplicity game draws on conventions of a courtship …
Alliance through the Circulation of Men
In many societies, names bestowed by kin denote membership in descent groups and thus, indexically, denote rights and statuses that are tied to descent. In such societies, names trace the role of descent in shaping social institutions; for example, marriage and ritual exchange. But, as Maybury-Lewis (1984:6-7) has observed, rights and statuses determined by names can also stand in contrast to those determined by descent group membership. When thi…
Inventing Aids. Cindy Patton
The Ethnographic Imagination
Emotional Conflict as a Weapon Against Aids
The Deconstruction of Thick Description
Clifford Geertz in an effort to elucidate the contrast between positive and interpretive science set forth by Geertz and to assess the epistemological claims for interpretive science which Geertz makes in his later work
Youth homelessness in San Francisco
Fidelity Management
This qualitative study examined how adolescents conceptualize sexual behavior. Open-ended interviews about sex were conducted with a sample of 21 male and 18 female African- American adolescents. Topics related to health risk virtually never emerged in their responses. The topic of partner infidelity and concerns about control of infidelity, on the other hand, were mentioned extensively. Informants described a cycle in which commitment to a partn…
The Gamesmanship of Sex
This article examines adolescent understanding of the social context of sexual behavior. Using grounded theory to interpret interviews with 39 African American male and female adolescents, the article builds a model of sex-related behavior as a set of interrelated games. A courtship game involves communication of sexual or romantic interest and, over time, formation of a romantic relationship. A duplicity game draws on conventions of a courtship …
Analyzing Cultural Models in Adolescent Accounts of Romantic Relationships
Research on academic achievement has led the way in demonstrating how culturally constructed meanings shape adolescent scholastic behavior. The aim of this research is to move this standpoint of analysis more centrally into the area of adolescent dating and sexuality by focusing on the cultural components of adolescent romantic relationships. This study examines cultural models of romantic relationships in Vernacular Term Interviews of 68 African…
What Leads to Sex? Adolescent Preferred Partners and Reasons for Sex
83 African-American and White male and female adolescents, ages 16-20 years old, were asked to list preferred partner qualities and reasons to have or not have sex as measures of their perceptions of antecedents of sex. High frequency items were placed on cards and sorted separately by an additional four gender and racial subsamples (n = 79). Data were analyzed using multidimensional scaling and cluster analysis. Health-related antecedents to sex…
Sociocultural Beliefs Related to Sex among Mexican American Adolescents
This exploratory study examines the cultural content of two domains related to antecedents of sexual behavior among Mexican American adolescents: preferred partner qualities and reasons to have or not have sex. Domain analysis, a qualitative research methodology drawn from anthropology, was employed. The methodology involved two phases. First, male andfemale adolescents listed positive and negative items in each of these two domains; second, 16 m…
Initiating Sexual Experiences
Understanding how young adolescents make decisions to engage in early sexual activities is vital for intervention efforts aimed at fostering positive youth development and reducing the negative outcomes of adolescent sexual behavior. In‐depth interviews with 42 suburban, mostly White, ninth‐grade adolescents (52% females, mean age=14.1, SD =.45) elicited accounts of their early sexual decisions. We adapted grounded theory methodology to build a m…
Where Does Reproductive Health Fit Into the Lives of Adolescent Males
To meet the reproductive health needs of adolescent males, program developers should consider how other life priorities and traditional masculine beliefs may serve as barriers to care and how to ensure that services reflect the adolescent male's perspective
Domestic Violence Counseling in Rural Northern China
Domestic violence (DV) affects over a third of Chinese women in a relationship. Focusing on ethnographic data from six staff members and six DV survivors at a rural, state-affiliated women's center in China in 2010, this article relies on Henrietta Moore's notion of the poststructuralist gendered subject to examine how the staff draw on discourses about gender and social harmony in persuading women to stay in their marriages, rather than on human…
Romantic Relationships Trajectories of African American Gay/Bisexual Adolescents
The interview study reported here sought to identify the perceived trajectory of romantic relationships of a cohort of Oakland African American gay/bisexual adolescents. Biographical interviews were used to identify cultural models of romantic relationships in the study sample and discovered a trajectory of four phases. In the antecedent to the trajectory, the youth enters the gay/bisexual social environment. In the first phase, the youth meets a…
Romantic Relationships and Their Social Context Among Gay/Bisexual Male Youth in the Castro District of San Francisco
This article examines the culture of romantic relationships among gay/bisexual male youth in the Castro District of San Francisco. The article seeks to specify the cultural ideology that informs these relationships, drawing upon ethnographic observation, autobiographical accounts, and informant cultural exegesis. The article also seeks to link thinking and experience inside romantic relationships (e.g., bonding, jealousy) to patterns of social be…
Hormones is not magic wands
Male-to-female transgenderism is a highly theorized but under-researched topic area which is in need of ethnographic presentation and analysis. This article offers an ethnographic report on a community of African American male-to-female transgender adolescents and young adults living in Oakland, California, seeking to shed light on the culture, language, and behavior of its members. An ethnographer entered into this transgender world, interviewin…
Concepts of Infidelity Among African American Emerging Adults
In this study, we used an exploratory methodology to determine what cultural models African American emerging adults use to understand infidelity/cheating. Cultural models are defined as “cognitive schema[s] that [are] intersubjectively shared by a social group” (D’Andrade, 1987, p. 112). We interviewed 144 participants ages 19-22 from three geographically distal sites. Qualitative analysis was conducted using NUDIST and In Vivo Analysis, a form …
Where Does Reproductive Health Fit Into the Lives of Adolescent Males
The Deconstruction of Thick Description
Clifford Geertz in an effort to elucidate the contrast between positive and interpretive science set forth by Geertz and to assess the epistemological claims for interpretive science which Geertz makes in his later work
The Deconstruction of Thick Description
Clifford Geertz in an effort to elucidate the contrast between positive and interpretive science set forth by Geertz and to assess the epistemological claims for interpretive science which Geertz makes in his later work
Emotional Conflict as a Weapon Against Aids
Alliance through the Circulation of Men
In many societies, names bestowed by kin denote membership in descent groups and thus, indexically, denote rights and statuses that are tied to descent. In such societies, names trace the role of descent in shaping social institutions; for example, marriage and ritual exchange. But, as Maybury-Lewis (1984:6-7) has observed, rights and statuses determined by names can also stand in contrast to those determined by descent group membership. When thi…
Inventing Aids. Cindy Patton
The Ethnographic Imagination
Sociocultural Beliefs Related to Sex among Mexican American Adolescents
This exploratory study examines the cultural content of two domains related to antecedents of sexual behavior among Mexican American adolescents: preferred partner qualities and reasons to have or not have sex. Domain analysis, a qualitative research methodology drawn from anthropology, was employed. The methodology involved two phases. First, male andfemale adolescents listed positive and negative items in each of these two domains; second, 16 m…
Fidelity Management
This qualitative study examined how adolescents conceptualize sexual behavior. Open-ended interviews about sex were conducted with a sample of 21 male and 18 female African- American adolescents. Topics related to health risk virtually never emerged in their responses. The topic of partner infidelity and concerns about control of infidelity, on the other hand, were mentioned extensively. Informants described a cycle in which commitment to a partn…
The Gamesmanship of Sex
This article examines adolescent understanding of the social context of sexual behavior. Using grounded theory to interpret interviews with 39 African American male and female adolescents, the article builds a model of sex-related behavior as a set of interrelated games. A courtship game involves communication of sexual or romantic interest and, over time, formation of a romantic relationship. A duplicity game draws on conventions of a courtship …
What Leads to Sex? Adolescent Preferred Partners and Reasons for Sex
83 African-American and White male and female adolescents, ages 16-20 years old, were asked to list preferred partner qualities and reasons to have or not have sex as measures of their perceptions of antecedents of sex. High frequency items were placed on cards and sorted separately by an additional four gender and racial subsamples (n = 79). Data were analyzed using multidimensional scaling and cluster analysis. Health-related antecedents to sex…
Moral argumentation in adolescents' commentaries about sex
Analysing excerpts from a large interview database, the paper examines the content, rhetorical structure, and apparent function of adolescents' moral argumentation in commentaries about sex. We compare the approaches of cognitive science and discourse analysis to the topic of adolescent sexual cognition, concluding that the discourse approach is more successful in identifying underlying gender-related ideological conflict. We conclude that if an …
Delineating differences
This paper analyses community members' descriptions of subgroups of gay and bisexual men in San Francisco. Five group categories are identified and subjected to detailed analysis. These are labelled leather, men of colour, activists, men who go to clubs and younger. While some of these groups meet established criteria of 'community', they do so in different ways suggesting the existence of relatively discrete sub-communities within the San Franci…
Youth homelessness in San Francisco
Where Does Reproductive Health Fit Into the Lives of Adolescent Males
To meet the reproductive health needs of adolescent males, program developers should consider how other life priorities and traditional masculine beliefs may serve as barriers to care and how to ensure that services reflect the adolescent male's perspective
Where Does Reproductive Health Fit Into the Lives of Adolescent Males
Hormones is not magic wands
Male-to-female transgenderism is a highly theorized but under-researched topic area which is in need of ethnographic presentation and analysis. This article offers an ethnographic report on a community of African American male-to-female transgender adolescents and young adults living in Oakland, California, seeking to shed light on the culture, language, and behavior of its members. An ethnographer entered into this transgender world, interviewin…
Initiating Sexual Experiences
Understanding how young adolescents make decisions to engage in early sexual activities is vital for intervention efforts aimed at fostering positive youth development and reducing the negative outcomes of adolescent sexual behavior. In‐depth interviews with 42 suburban, mostly White, ninth‐grade adolescents (52% females, mean age=14.1, SD =.45) elicited accounts of their early sexual decisions. We adapted grounded theory methodology to build a m…
Romantic Relationships Trajectories of African American Gay/Bisexual Adolescents
The interview study reported here sought to identify the perceived trajectory of romantic relationships of a cohort of Oakland African American gay/bisexual adolescents. Biographical interviews were used to identify cultural models of romantic relationships in the study sample and discovered a trajectory of four phases. In the antecedent to the trajectory, the youth enters the gay/bisexual social environment. In the first phase, the youth meets a…
Romantic Relationships and Their Social Context Among Gay/Bisexual Male Youth in the Castro District of San Francisco
This article examines the culture of romantic relationships among gay/bisexual male youth in the Castro District of San Francisco. The article seeks to specify the cultural ideology that informs these relationships, drawing upon ethnographic observation, autobiographical accounts, and informant cultural exegesis. The article also seeks to link thinking and experience inside romantic relationships (e.g., bonding, jealousy) to patterns of social be…
Analyzing Cultural Models in Adolescent Accounts of Romantic Relationships
Research on academic achievement has led the way in demonstrating how culturally constructed meanings shape adolescent scholastic behavior. The aim of this research is to move this standpoint of analysis more centrally into the area of adolescent dating and sexuality by focusing on the cultural components of adolescent romantic relationships. This study examines cultural models of romantic relationships in Vernacular Term Interviews of 68 African…
Concepts of Infidelity Among African American Emerging Adults
In this study, we used an exploratory methodology to determine what cultural models African American emerging adults use to understand infidelity/cheating. Cultural models are defined as “cognitive schema[s] that [are] intersubjectively shared by a social group” (D’Andrade, 1987, p. 112). We interviewed 144 participants ages 19-22 from three geographically distal sites. Qualitative analysis was conducted using NUDIST and In Vivo Analysis, a form …
Growth into manhood
This study aims to understand the process by which female-to-male transgender young people come to identify as transgender through in-depth interviews with 13 self-identified female-to-male transgender youth. A grounded theory was created of the process that young people go through in coming to identify as transgender. We identified three stages: (1) a growing sense of gender: school, puberty, sexuality and exposure to diverse gender options impa…
Domestic Violence Counseling in Rural Northern China
Domestic violence (DV) affects over a third of Chinese women in a relationship. Focusing on ethnographic data from six staff members and six DV survivors at a rural, state-affiliated women's center in China in 2010, this article relies on Henrietta Moore's notion of the poststructuralist gendered subject to examine how the staff draw on discourses about gender and social harmony in persuading women to stay in their marriages, rather than on human…
Psychology (17 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · Developmental psychology (12 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (9 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Demography (7 works) · Demography (6 works)