Kenneth Stoddart
Biographic Data
| ID | 133814 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kenneth Stoddart |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kenneth |
| FAMILY NAME | Stoddart |
| SIGNATURE | STODDART K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
People Like Us: Memories of Marginality in High School and University
Written from the site of memory, this autobiographical tale represents some of the author's experiences with racism, classism, homophobia, and death in Canada during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Also discussed are his later and ongoing use of the language of sociology to interpret these experiences and his re-reinvention of self using elements of the popular culture of the era. It is not intended as a sad tale or a survival tale, although it c…
Qualitative Methods: Syllabi and Instructional Materials
Writing Sociologically: A Note on Teaching the Construction of a Qualitative Report
Like their mentors, many students experience considerable difficulty with the portrayal phase of their qualitative research projects. Fortunately, an increasing number of teachers of sociology now are attempting to remedy this situation by treating the construction of texts as the widespread practical problem that it is and by dealing with writing as a legitimate object of pedagogical concern. Becker's (1986) monograph on the topic is well known;…
Lifestory: A Device for Dispersing Authority in the Introductory Course
In common with many teachers of sociology, I encourage my students to articulate the discipline's theoretical, conceptual, and substantive materials using their own life experiences. While students may do this with ease on their own or in the company of trusted colleagues, they often demonstrate extreme reluctance to relate personal tales in the public context of the classroom. This is especially true at those points in the introductory course de…
Courage to Change
No Regrets: Berger, Christiano, and Discourse on Students
Without doubt, there is a long list of sociologists as pleased as I am to see Professor Christiano's address of Peter L. Berger's (1963) classic introduction to discipline. I re-read Invitation as a prelude to these remarks and was surprised to discover extent to which it has influenced my teaching. Clearly, it is a seen-but-unnoticed contributor to pedagogy of many sociologists. In this commentary, I discuss some of contributions made by Berger …
Unpacking the Stash: A Preliminary Note on Creative Concealment Among Children and Adolescents
Although Goffman (1959) has chronicled in rich detail the inter actional strategies that children and others might employ to accomplish the concealment of discrepant information, there is another element of the art that remains relatively unstudied. I am referring here to the actual physical hiding or stashing of things that suggests deviance from the parentally-approved self. The child who hides something, though, reveals much more than he conce…
The Things I Cannot Change
Qualitative Research Methods: Syllabi and Instructional Materials
The Corpus: A Data-Based Device for Teaching Field Methods
While lack of time is problematic in any single-term offering, it seems especially so in the undergraduate field methods course. Students must usually not only learn techniques of participant observation, unstructured interviewing, etc., but also implement them and prepare an analytic report on the gathered data. Finding the time to complete the data collection phase of the course has proven troublesome to students. Indeed, even under ideal motiv…
Whistling Smith
The Presentation of Everyday Life: Some Textual Strategies for “Adequate Ethnography
Extending a recent emerging interest in ethnographies as written texts, this article explores some practices employed by classical sociological ethnographers to establish the adequacy of their written descriptive accounts. These practices rely on a number of different strategies for telling how the ethnographer has adequately addressed a set of recurrent problems, including (1) the problem of presence (the ways in which an ethnographer's presence…
The Facts of Life About Dope: Observations of a Local Pharmacology
The Presentation of Everyday Life: Some Textual Strategies for “Adequate Ethnography
Extending a recent emerging interest in ethnographies as written texts, this article explores some practices employed by classical sociological ethnographers to establish the adequacy of their written descriptive accounts. These practices rely on a number of different strategies for telling how the ethnographer has adequately addressed a set of recurrent problems, including (1) the problem of presence (the ways in which an ethnographer's presence…
People Like Us: Memories of Marginality in High School and University
Written from the site of memory, this autobiographical tale represents some of the author's experiences with racism, classism, homophobia, and death in Canada during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Also discussed are his later and ongoing use of the language of sociology to interpret these experiences and his re-reinvention of self using elements of the popular culture of the era. It is not intended as a sad tale or a survival tale, although it c…
The Facts of Life About Dope: Observations of a Local Pharmacology
Writing Sociologically: A Note on Teaching the Construction of a Qualitative Report
Like their mentors, many students experience considerable difficulty with the portrayal phase of their qualitative research projects. Fortunately, an increasing number of teachers of sociology now are attempting to remedy this situation by treating the construction of texts as the widespread practical problem that it is and by dealing with writing as a legitimate object of pedagogical concern. Becker's (1986) monograph on the topic is well known;…
Lifestory: A Device for Dispersing Authority in the Introductory Course
In common with many teachers of sociology, I encourage my students to articulate the discipline's theoretical, conceptual, and substantive materials using their own life experiences. While students may do this with ease on their own or in the company of trusted colleagues, they often demonstrate extreme reluctance to relate personal tales in the public context of the classroom. This is especially true at those points in the introductory course de…
The Corpus: A Data-Based Device for Teaching Field Methods
While lack of time is problematic in any single-term offering, it seems especially so in the undergraduate field methods course. Students must usually not only learn techniques of participant observation, unstructured interviewing, etc., but also implement them and prepare an analytic report on the gathered data. Finding the time to complete the data collection phase of the course has proven troublesome to students. Indeed, even under ideal motiv…
The Facts of Life About Dope: Observations of a Local Pharmacology
The Presentation of Everyday Life: Some Textual Strategies for “Adequate Ethnography
Extending a recent emerging interest in ethnographies as written texts, this article explores some practices employed by classical sociological ethnographers to establish the adequacy of their written descriptive accounts. These practices rely on a number of different strategies for telling how the ethnographer has adequately addressed a set of recurrent problems, including (1) the problem of presence (the ways in which an ethnographer's presence…
Qualitative Research Methods: Syllabi and Instructional Materials
The Corpus: A Data-Based Device for Teaching Field Methods
While lack of time is problematic in any single-term offering, it seems especially so in the undergraduate field methods course. Students must usually not only learn techniques of participant observation, unstructured interviewing, etc., but also implement them and prepare an analytic report on the gathered data. Finding the time to complete the data collection phase of the course has proven troublesome to students. Indeed, even under ideal motiv…
Whistling Smith
Unpacking the Stash: A Preliminary Note on Creative Concealment Among Children and Adolescents
Although Goffman (1959) has chronicled in rich detail the inter actional strategies that children and others might employ to accomplish the concealment of discrepant information, there is another element of the art that remains relatively unstudied. I am referring here to the actual physical hiding or stashing of things that suggests deviance from the parentally-approved self. The child who hides something, though, reveals much more than he conce…
The Things I Cannot Change
No Regrets: Berger, Christiano, and Discourse on Students
Without doubt, there is a long list of sociologists as pleased as I am to see Professor Christiano's address of Peter L. Berger's (1963) classic introduction to discipline. I re-read Invitation as a prelude to these remarks and was surprised to discover extent to which it has influenced my teaching. Clearly, it is a seen-but-unnoticed contributor to pedagogy of many sociologists. In this commentary, I discuss some of contributions made by Berger …
Writing Sociologically: A Note on Teaching the Construction of a Qualitative Report
Like their mentors, many students experience considerable difficulty with the portrayal phase of their qualitative research projects. Fortunately, an increasing number of teachers of sociology now are attempting to remedy this situation by treating the construction of texts as the widespread practical problem that it is and by dealing with writing as a legitimate object of pedagogical concern. Becker's (1986) monograph on the topic is well known;…
Lifestory: A Device for Dispersing Authority in the Introductory Course
In common with many teachers of sociology, I encourage my students to articulate the discipline's theoretical, conceptual, and substantive materials using their own life experiences. While students may do this with ease on their own or in the company of trusted colleagues, they often demonstrate extreme reluctance to relate personal tales in the public context of the classroom. This is especially true at those points in the introductory course de…
Courage to Change
Qualitative Methods: Syllabi and Instructional Materials
People Like Us: Memories of Marginality in High School and University
Written from the site of memory, this autobiographical tale represents some of the author's experiences with racism, classism, homophobia, and death in Canada during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Also discussed are his later and ongoing use of the language of sociology to interpret these experiences and his re-reinvention of self using elements of the popular culture of the era. It is not intended as a sad tale or a survival tale, although it c…
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