Black Hawk Hancock
Biographic Data
| ID | 125138 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Black Hawk Hancock |
| GIVEN NAMES | Black Hawk |
| FAMILY NAME | Hancock |
| SIGNATURE | HANCOCK B H |
| AFFILIATIONS | DePaul University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 69 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The Storm Map as Digital Ambiguity: Political and Scientific Authority in the Information Age of Disasters
This article focuses on how digital platforms mediate disasters in the form of storm maps generating struggles over knowledge and authority. We focus on the dissemination of storm maps during Hurricane Dorian, one of the most severe hurricanes on record, as an example of an environmental disaster event that was widely circulated for public consumption. The storm map has become one of the most significant artifacts of the information age. Digital …
Erving Goffman and “The New Normal”: Havoc and Containment in the Pandemic Era
Aligning sampling and case selection in quantitative-qualitative research designs: Establishing generalizability limits in mixed-method studies
Quantitative researchers increasingly draw on ethnographic research that may not be generalizable to inform and interpret results from statistical analyses; at the same time, while generalizability is not always an ethnographic research goal, the integration of quantitative data by ethnographic researchers to buttress findings on processes and mechanisms has also become common. Despite the burgeoning use of dual designs in research, there has bee…
The Ethnographer's Circle: Institutionalizing Ethnography in the Pacific Sociological Association
The Problem of 'Cameo Appearances' in Mixed-methods Research: Implications for Twenty-first-century Ethnography
Amid ongoing controversies in ethnography concerning representation, reproducibility, and generalizability, social scientific scholarship has increasingly taken a mixed-methods turn. While studies that blend qualitative and quantitative data promise to enhance the validity of representations of social worlds under analysis, they cannot escape contending with foundational dilemmas of scientific translation, integration, and commensurability across…
Bataille, Georges (1897–1962)
Georges Bataille was a librarian, author, philosopher, sociologist, and a founding member of the College de Sociologie. His work was heavily influenced by Marx, Freud, Nietzsche, Kojeve, and the Marquis de Sade. His writings took on various genres and traversed a great number of themes from aesthetics, eroticism, and transgression, to philosophy, economics, and politics. Bataille was attracted to violence and the disruption it could cause capital…
The new ethnographer at work
Building on observations from ethnography at the fin de siècle (Wellin and Fine, 2001), we address how ethnographers today approach their work tasks, incorporating new technology, emphasizing embodiment, sites of struggle, and increasing public engagement. We use the lens of the sociology of work to examine how ethnography has been shaped over the past 15 years, the lifespan of Qualitative Research. How do the challenges of occupational roles, pl…
Power Plays Power Works: Second edition
Now, more than 20 years since its initial release, John Fiske’s classic text Power Plays Power Works remains both timely and insightful as a theoretically driven examination of the terrain where the politics of culture and the culture of politics collide. Drawing on a diverse set of cultural sites - from alternative talk radio forums, museums, celebrity fandom, to social problems such as homelessness - Fiske traverses the topography of the Americ…
Theorizing the Deep Parallel between Goffman and Freud: Goffman's Interaction Order as a Social-structural Underpinning of Psychoanalytic Concepts of the Self
A dialectical reading of Goffman and Freud connects the Interaction Order to the psychoanalytic conception of the self and thereby open up new possibilities of interpretation and transformation. Goffman’s concept of the Interaction Order enables us to understand more clearly the Freudian concepts of superego, ego-ideal, and the introjected Father. Next, we draw out the dramaturgical approach of both Goffman and Freud in terms of performing self a…
Reflections on the ruins of Athens and Rome: Derrida and Simmel on temporality, life and death
The recent publication of the translation of Jacques Derrida’s Athens, Still Remains, a small volume of photographs and commentary, affords an opportunity to probe Derrida’s reflections on death and therefore on life as well. Looking at photographs and objects of everyday life, Derrida emphasizes the deferred yet certain nature of death and the way in which this deferral opens the opportunity to devote ourselves to life. His grounding of his phil…
Erving Goffman: Theorizing the Self in the Age of Advanced Consumer Capitalism
The authors argue that E rving G offman developed concepts that contribute to an understanding of historical changes in the construction of the self and enable us to see the new forms that self‐construction is taking in a society driven by consumption, marketing, and media. These concepts include: commercial realism; dramatic scripting; hyper‐ritualization; the glimpse; and the dissolution or undermining of the real, the authentic, and the autono…
American Allegory: Lindy Hop and the Racial Imagination
More Than Just a Soundtrack: Toward a Technology of the Collective in Hardcore Punk
We study the musical genre of punk to discuss how the embodiment of music and musical practices operate as a "technology of the collective." This furthers our understanding how music, as a cultural form, becomes a tangible resource used in the constitution of collective identity. By utilizing the subculture of hardcore punk as a vehicle for exploration, this approach helps us understand how musical practices operate at the analytical level of emb…
Towards a Philosophy of Containment: Reading Goffman in the 21st Century
Changing Theories: New Directions in Sociology
"This is exactly what we need for contemporary theory courses. Hancock and Garner brilliantly dissect the four most eminent theorists who will continue to define the future of sociological theory well into the twenty-first century." - Ron Mize, Cornell University
Following Loïc Wacquant into the Field
Put a Little Color on That
Drawing on more than five years of extended fieldwork, this article explores the tropes through which dancers express and explain their participation in the Lindy Hop revival. In this reconstruction, the author extends Bourdieu's notions of symbolic power, symbolic violence, and misrecognition to show how racial domination is produced and perpetuated, denigrating and erasing African American cultural identity. As a result, the discourses of the L…
Segregation in Chicago
Four questions guide the article: What are the spatial forms of ethno-racial segregation in the Chicago metropolitan region and are they similar for the major ethno-racial categories? How is ethno-racial segregation connected to economic class segregation? What are current trends in patterns of segregation? How is public policy in housing and education related to segregation
Learning How to Make Life Swing
Steppin' out of Whiteness
Current paradigms of identity, especially those found in Whiteness Studies, do not sufficiently explain the complex interaction and intersection of race, culture, and identity. Drawing on two years of extended fieldwork in the Steppin' dance scene in Chicago, I extend Bourdieu's theory of practice, particularly the role of the body in culture, to the study of race and identity. This article presents an alternative model for explaining racial iden…
The new ethnographer at work
Building on observations from ethnography at the fin de siècle (Wellin and Fine, 2001), we address how ethnographers today approach their work tasks, incorporating new technology, emphasizing embodiment, sites of struggle, and increasing public engagement. We use the lens of the sociology of work to examine how ethnography has been shaped over the past 15 years, the lifespan of Qualitative Research. How do the challenges of occupational roles, pl…
Towards a Philosophy of Containment: Reading Goffman in the 21st Century
Following Loïc Wacquant into the Field
Steppin' out of Whiteness
Current paradigms of identity, especially those found in Whiteness Studies, do not sufficiently explain the complex interaction and intersection of race, culture, and identity. Drawing on two years of extended fieldwork in the Steppin' dance scene in Chicago, I extend Bourdieu's theory of practice, particularly the role of the body in culture, to the study of race and identity. This article presents an alternative model for explaining racial iden…
Put a Little Color on That
Drawing on more than five years of extended fieldwork, this article explores the tropes through which dancers express and explain their participation in the Lindy Hop revival. In this reconstruction, the author extends Bourdieu's notions of symbolic power, symbolic violence, and misrecognition to show how racial domination is produced and perpetuated, denigrating and erasing African American cultural identity. As a result, the discourses of the L…
Aligning sampling and case selection in quantitative-qualitative research designs: Establishing generalizability limits in mixed-method studies
Quantitative researchers increasingly draw on ethnographic research that may not be generalizable to inform and interpret results from statistical analyses; at the same time, while generalizability is not always an ethnographic research goal, the integration of quantitative data by ethnographic researchers to buttress findings on processes and mechanisms has also become common. Despite the burgeoning use of dual designs in research, there has bee…
The Problem of 'Cameo Appearances' in Mixed-methods Research: Implications for Twenty-first-century Ethnography
Amid ongoing controversies in ethnography concerning representation, reproducibility, and generalizability, social scientific scholarship has increasingly taken a mixed-methods turn. While studies that blend qualitative and quantitative data promise to enhance the validity of representations of social worlds under analysis, they cannot escape contending with foundational dilemmas of scientific translation, integration, and commensurability across…
More Than Just a Soundtrack: Toward a Technology of the Collective in Hardcore Punk
We study the musical genre of punk to discuss how the embodiment of music and musical practices operate as a "technology of the collective." This furthers our understanding how music, as a cultural form, becomes a tangible resource used in the constitution of collective identity. By utilizing the subculture of hardcore punk as a vehicle for exploration, this approach helps us understand how musical practices operate at the analytical level of emb…
Learning How to Make Life Swing
Erving Goffman and “The New Normal”: Havoc and Containment in the Pandemic Era
The Ethnographer's Circle: Institutionalizing Ethnography in the Pacific Sociological Association
Erving Goffman: Theorizing the Self in the Age of Advanced Consumer Capitalism
The authors argue that E rving G offman developed concepts that contribute to an understanding of historical changes in the construction of the self and enable us to see the new forms that self‐construction is taking in a society driven by consumption, marketing, and media. These concepts include: commercial realism; dramatic scripting; hyper‐ritualization; the glimpse; and the dissolution or undermining of the real, the authentic, and the autono…
Steppin' out of Whiteness
Current paradigms of identity, especially those found in Whiteness Studies, do not sufficiently explain the complex interaction and intersection of race, culture, and identity. Drawing on two years of extended fieldwork in the Steppin' dance scene in Chicago, I extend Bourdieu's theory of practice, particularly the role of the body in culture, to the study of race and identity. This article presents an alternative model for explaining racial iden…
Segregation in Chicago
Four questions guide the article: What are the spatial forms of ethno-racial segregation in the Chicago metropolitan region and are they similar for the major ethno-racial categories? How is ethno-racial segregation connected to economic class segregation? What are current trends in patterns of segregation? How is public policy in housing and education related to segregation
Learning How to Make Life Swing
Put a Little Color on That
Drawing on more than five years of extended fieldwork, this article explores the tropes through which dancers express and explain their participation in the Lindy Hop revival. In this reconstruction, the author extends Bourdieu's notions of symbolic power, symbolic violence, and misrecognition to show how racial domination is produced and perpetuated, denigrating and erasing African American cultural identity. As a result, the discourses of the L…
Changing Theories: New Directions in Sociology
"This is exactly what we need for contemporary theory courses. Hancock and Garner brilliantly dissect the four most eminent theorists who will continue to define the future of sociological theory well into the twenty-first century." - Ron Mize, Cornell University
Following Loïc Wacquant into the Field
Towards a Philosophy of Containment: Reading Goffman in the 21st Century
American Allegory: Lindy Hop and the Racial Imagination
More Than Just a Soundtrack: Toward a Technology of the Collective in Hardcore Punk
We study the musical genre of punk to discuss how the embodiment of music and musical practices operate as a "technology of the collective." This furthers our understanding how music, as a cultural form, becomes a tangible resource used in the constitution of collective identity. By utilizing the subculture of hardcore punk as a vehicle for exploration, this approach helps us understand how musical practices operate at the analytical level of emb…
Reflections on the ruins of Athens and Rome: Derrida and Simmel on temporality, life and death
The recent publication of the translation of Jacques Derrida’s Athens, Still Remains, a small volume of photographs and commentary, affords an opportunity to probe Derrida’s reflections on death and therefore on life as well. Looking at photographs and objects of everyday life, Derrida emphasizes the deferred yet certain nature of death and the way in which this deferral opens the opportunity to devote ourselves to life. His grounding of his phil…
Erving Goffman: Theorizing the Self in the Age of Advanced Consumer Capitalism
The authors argue that E rving G offman developed concepts that contribute to an understanding of historical changes in the construction of the self and enable us to see the new forms that self‐construction is taking in a society driven by consumption, marketing, and media. These concepts include: commercial realism; dramatic scripting; hyper‐ritualization; the glimpse; and the dissolution or undermining of the real, the authentic, and the autono…
Theorizing the Deep Parallel between Goffman and Freud: Goffman's Interaction Order as a Social-structural Underpinning of Psychoanalytic Concepts of the Self
A dialectical reading of Goffman and Freud connects the Interaction Order to the psychoanalytic conception of the self and thereby open up new possibilities of interpretation and transformation. Goffman’s concept of the Interaction Order enables us to understand more clearly the Freudian concepts of superego, ego-ideal, and the introjected Father. Next, we draw out the dramaturgical approach of both Goffman and Freud in terms of performing self a…
Power Plays Power Works: Second edition
Now, more than 20 years since its initial release, John Fiske’s classic text Power Plays Power Works remains both timely and insightful as a theoretically driven examination of the terrain where the politics of culture and the culture of politics collide. Drawing on a diverse set of cultural sites - from alternative talk radio forums, museums, celebrity fandom, to social problems such as homelessness - Fiske traverses the topography of the Americ…
Bataille, Georges (1897–1962)
Georges Bataille was a librarian, author, philosopher, sociologist, and a founding member of the College de Sociologie. His work was heavily influenced by Marx, Freud, Nietzsche, Kojeve, and the Marquis de Sade. His writings took on various genres and traversed a great number of themes from aesthetics, eroticism, and transgression, to philosophy, economics, and politics. Bataille was attracted to violence and the disruption it could cause capital…
The new ethnographer at work
Building on observations from ethnography at the fin de siècle (Wellin and Fine, 2001), we address how ethnographers today approach their work tasks, incorporating new technology, emphasizing embodiment, sites of struggle, and increasing public engagement. We use the lens of the sociology of work to examine how ethnography has been shaped over the past 15 years, the lifespan of Qualitative Research. How do the challenges of occupational roles, pl…
Aligning sampling and case selection in quantitative-qualitative research designs: Establishing generalizability limits in mixed-method studies
Quantitative researchers increasingly draw on ethnographic research that may not be generalizable to inform and interpret results from statistical analyses; at the same time, while generalizability is not always an ethnographic research goal, the integration of quantitative data by ethnographic researchers to buttress findings on processes and mechanisms has also become common. Despite the burgeoning use of dual designs in research, there has bee…
The Ethnographer's Circle: Institutionalizing Ethnography in the Pacific Sociological Association
The Problem of 'Cameo Appearances' in Mixed-methods Research: Implications for Twenty-first-century Ethnography
Amid ongoing controversies in ethnography concerning representation, reproducibility, and generalizability, social scientific scholarship has increasingly taken a mixed-methods turn. While studies that blend qualitative and quantitative data promise to enhance the validity of representations of social worlds under analysis, they cannot escape contending with foundational dilemmas of scientific translation, integration, and commensurability across…
Erving Goffman and “The New Normal”: Havoc and Containment in the Pandemic Era
The Storm Map as Digital Ambiguity: Political and Scientific Authority in the Information Age of Disasters
This article focuses on how digital platforms mediate disasters in the form of storm maps generating struggles over knowledge and authority. We focus on the dissemination of storm maps during Hurricane Dorian, one of the most severe hurricanes on record, as an example of an environmental disaster event that was widely circulated for public consumption. The storm map has become one of the most significant artifacts of the information age. Digital …
Sociology (17 works) · Epistemology (11 works) · Political science (8 works) · Aesthetics (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Social and Cultural Dynamics (7 works) · Anthropology (6 works) · Art (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Law (6 works)