Kathleen S Lowney
Biographic Data
| ID | 153028 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathleen S Lowney |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathleen S |
| FAMILY NAME | Lowney |
| SIGNATURE | LOWNEY K S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Valdosta State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 87 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Linking Sociology Majors to Labor Market Success
Colleges and universities face pressures from multiple stakeholders to attend to the labor market success of their graduates. In this article, we argue that it is in the best interests of sociology students and the discipline that sociology programs respond proactively to these pressures. We encourage sociology programs to design curricula that develop student skills in critical sociological thinking as well as explicitly connect skills to career…
Hans O. Mauksch Address
Given that so many college students take Introduction to Sociology or Social Problems or both, we wondered about the amount of content overlap in these courses. We designed a study that used content analysis of syllabi from these courses in order to measure the amount of convergence between the two classes. In our sample, nearly 70 percent of the content was similar. More worrisome, some significant concepts, such as research methods and symbolic…
Investigating the classroom
This article discusses one faculty member’s journey from reading about others’ pedagogical research to her use of data from her own classes to create new scholarship of teaching and learning
Editor’s Comment
Editor’s Comment
Ask Teaching Sociology
Editor’s Comment
Magnetic Imagery
The collective display of particular symbols represents an emergent form of social movement participation. This study documents the patterns of the collective display of one such symbol; the magnetic war-related ribbon (WRR). Using bivariate and multivariate analyses of a sample of 8,100 vehicles, we studied the relationships between WRR display and measures of political affiliation, patriotism, and war support. The results find that that WRR dis…
The Disadvantage of A Good Reputation
Social scientists generally presume that a good reputation has advantages. Yet the Walt Disney Corporation, a firm that has long benefited from a reputation for producing wholesome popular culture, attracts more than its share of efforts to link it to various social problems. In particular, conservative moralists argue that Disney in fact produces morally questionable products, progressive critics claim that Disney's messages help preserve social…
Wrestling with Criticism
Sociologists have long studied how moral entrepreneurs construct claims-making campaigns. However, their opponents' strategies to mount counterclaimsmaking campaigns are less studied. This article examines how the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) used humor to attack its enemy, the Parents Television Council. By using narrative structures familiar to its fans, the WWF exploited characteristics of its opponent suitable for parody. It created a gro…
The Feminist Classroom
Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Breaking Through Illusion, Again Chapter 3 Creating a Kaleidoscope: Portraits of Six Institutions Chapter 4 Mastery Chapter 5 Voice Chapter 6 Authority Chapter 7 Positionality Chapter 8 Toward Positional Pedagogies Chapter 9 Learning in the Dark Chapter 10 Looking Back, Looking Forward Chapter 11 Notes Chapter 12 Bibliography Chapter 13 Index
A Long and Winding Road
Ginger Macheski, Kathleen S. Lowney, A Long and Winding Road: Curricular Development as Social-Context-Based Assessment, Teaching Sociology, Vol. 30, No. 4, Teaching Sociology with a Purpose: Issues in Curriculum Design and Assessment (Oct., 2002), pp. 454-466
Baring Our Souls
Journal Article Baring Our Souls: TV Talk Shows and the Religion of Recovery, by Kathleen S. Lowney. New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1999, xii + 159pp. $42.95 (cloth), $21.95 (paper) Get access William A. Stahl William A. Stahl Luther CollegeUniversity of Regina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 62, Issue 1, Spring 2001, Pages 138–139, https://doi.org/10.2307/3712239 Published: 01 …
Reducing "Theory Anxiety" through Puzzles
L'A. souligne que les etudiants, dans le cadre de leur formation, doivent gerer une situation d'anxiete liee a l'apprentissage des theories sociologiques. Il estime que celles-ci leur apparaissent tres abstraites. Il presente une experience, menee aux Etats-Unis, qui vise a faire realiser par des petits groupes d'etudiants des puzzles et a leur faire analyser et expliquer la demarche qu'ils ont adoptee pour construire ces puzzles. Il affirme que,…
Floral entrepreneurs
The history of claimsmaking by applied scientists about kudzu (Pueraria lobata) in the American South reveals three distinct periods: a period of enthusiasm when kudzu was defined as an agricultural solution (1917–1953), a time of disenchantment when kudzu was defined as an ecological problem (1954–1984), and a period of tempered enthusiasm when new uses for kudzu were proposed (1985‐present). Experts framed scientific findings within a social co…
Teaching about Families
Teenage Satanism as Oppositional Youth Subculture
This research offers an ethnographic portrait of a coven of teenage Satanists. It argues that the psychological, folklore, and constructionist perspectives on Satanism are lacking an important voice-the adolescent Satanists themselves. By listening to them, it becomes clear that Satanism allows them to challenge the dominant culture's norms and values. Lacking the social power though, the Coven primarily used a symbolic critique, through the crea…
Delightful Conviction
Diversity and complexity in feminist therapy
Women in Utopia
Reducing "Theory Anxiety" through Puzzles
L'A. souligne que les etudiants, dans le cadre de leur formation, doivent gerer une situation d'anxiete liee a l'apprentissage des theories sociologiques. Il estime que celles-ci leur apparaissent tres abstraites. Il presente une experience, menee aux Etats-Unis, qui vise a faire realiser par des petits groupes d'etudiants des puzzles et a leur faire analyser et expliquer la demarche qu'ils ont adoptee pour construire ces puzzles. Il affirme que,…
Diversity and complexity in feminist therapy
The Disadvantage of A Good Reputation
Social scientists generally presume that a good reputation has advantages. Yet the Walt Disney Corporation, a firm that has long benefited from a reputation for producing wholesome popular culture, attracts more than its share of efforts to link it to various social problems. In particular, conservative moralists argue that Disney in fact produces morally questionable products, progressive critics claim that Disney's messages help preserve social…
Linking Sociology Majors to Labor Market Success
Colleges and universities face pressures from multiple stakeholders to attend to the labor market success of their graduates. In this article, we argue that it is in the best interests of sociology students and the discipline that sociology programs respond proactively to these pressures. We encourage sociology programs to design curricula that develop student skills in critical sociological thinking as well as explicitly connect skills to career…
A Long and Winding Road
Ginger Macheski, Kathleen S. Lowney, A Long and Winding Road: Curricular Development as Social-Context-Based Assessment, Teaching Sociology, Vol. 30, No. 4, Teaching Sociology with a Purpose: Issues in Curriculum Design and Assessment (Oct., 2002), pp. 454-466
Teenage Satanism as Oppositional Youth Subculture
This research offers an ethnographic portrait of a coven of teenage Satanists. It argues that the psychological, folklore, and constructionist perspectives on Satanism are lacking an important voice-the adolescent Satanists themselves. By listening to them, it becomes clear that Satanism allows them to challenge the dominant culture's norms and values. Lacking the social power though, the Coven primarily used a symbolic critique, through the crea…
Hans O. Mauksch Address
Given that so many college students take Introduction to Sociology or Social Problems or both, we wondered about the amount of content overlap in these courses. We designed a study that used content analysis of syllabi from these courses in order to measure the amount of convergence between the two classes. In our sample, nearly 70 percent of the content was similar. More worrisome, some significant concepts, such as research methods and symbolic…
Ask Teaching Sociology
Floral entrepreneurs
The history of claimsmaking by applied scientists about kudzu (Pueraria lobata) in the American South reveals three distinct periods: a period of enthusiasm when kudzu was defined as an agricultural solution (1917–1953), a time of disenchantment when kudzu was defined as an ecological problem (1954–1984), and a period of tempered enthusiasm when new uses for kudzu were proposed (1985‐present). Experts framed scientific findings within a social co…
Magnetic Imagery
The collective display of particular symbols represents an emergent form of social movement participation. This study documents the patterns of the collective display of one such symbol; the magnetic war-related ribbon (WRR). Using bivariate and multivariate analyses of a sample of 8,100 vehicles, we studied the relationships between WRR display and measures of political affiliation, patriotism, and war support. The results find that that WRR dis…
Wrestling with Criticism
Sociologists have long studied how moral entrepreneurs construct claims-making campaigns. However, their opponents' strategies to mount counterclaimsmaking campaigns are less studied. This article examines how the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) used humor to attack its enemy, the Parents Television Council. By using narrative structures familiar to its fans, the WWF exploited characteristics of its opponent suitable for parody. It created a gro…
Diversity and complexity in feminist therapy
Women in Utopia
Delightful Conviction
Teenage Satanism as Oppositional Youth Subculture
This research offers an ethnographic portrait of a coven of teenage Satanists. It argues that the psychological, folklore, and constructionist perspectives on Satanism are lacking an important voice-the adolescent Satanists themselves. By listening to them, it becomes clear that Satanism allows them to challenge the dominant culture's norms and values. Lacking the social power though, the Coven primarily used a symbolic critique, through the crea…
Teaching about Families
Reducing "Theory Anxiety" through Puzzles
L'A. souligne que les etudiants, dans le cadre de leur formation, doivent gerer une situation d'anxiete liee a l'apprentissage des theories sociologiques. Il estime que celles-ci leur apparaissent tres abstraites. Il presente une experience, menee aux Etats-Unis, qui vise a faire realiser par des petits groupes d'etudiants des puzzles et a leur faire analyser et expliquer la demarche qu'ils ont adoptee pour construire ces puzzles. Il affirme que,…
Floral entrepreneurs
The history of claimsmaking by applied scientists about kudzu (Pueraria lobata) in the American South reveals three distinct periods: a period of enthusiasm when kudzu was defined as an agricultural solution (1917–1953), a time of disenchantment when kudzu was defined as an ecological problem (1954–1984), and a period of tempered enthusiasm when new uses for kudzu were proposed (1985‐present). Experts framed scientific findings within a social co…
Baring Our Souls
Journal Article Baring Our Souls: TV Talk Shows and the Religion of Recovery, by Kathleen S. Lowney. New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1999, xii + 159pp. $42.95 (cloth), $21.95 (paper) Get access William A. Stahl William A. Stahl Luther CollegeUniversity of Regina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 62, Issue 1, Spring 2001, Pages 138–139, https://doi.org/10.2307/3712239 Published: 01 …
The Feminist Classroom
Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Breaking Through Illusion, Again Chapter 3 Creating a Kaleidoscope: Portraits of Six Institutions Chapter 4 Mastery Chapter 5 Voice Chapter 6 Authority Chapter 7 Positionality Chapter 8 Toward Positional Pedagogies Chapter 9 Learning in the Dark Chapter 10 Looking Back, Looking Forward Chapter 11 Notes Chapter 12 Bibliography Chapter 13 Index
A Long and Winding Road
Ginger Macheski, Kathleen S. Lowney, A Long and Winding Road: Curricular Development as Social-Context-Based Assessment, Teaching Sociology, Vol. 30, No. 4, Teaching Sociology with a Purpose: Issues in Curriculum Design and Assessment (Oct., 2002), pp. 454-466
Wrestling with Criticism
Sociologists have long studied how moral entrepreneurs construct claims-making campaigns. However, their opponents' strategies to mount counterclaimsmaking campaigns are less studied. This article examines how the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) used humor to attack its enemy, the Parents Television Council. By using narrative structures familiar to its fans, the WWF exploited characteristics of its opponent suitable for parody. It created a gro…
The Disadvantage of A Good Reputation
Social scientists generally presume that a good reputation has advantages. Yet the Walt Disney Corporation, a firm that has long benefited from a reputation for producing wholesome popular culture, attracts more than its share of efforts to link it to various social problems. In particular, conservative moralists argue that Disney in fact produces morally questionable products, progressive critics claim that Disney's messages help preserve social…
Magnetic Imagery
The collective display of particular symbols represents an emergent form of social movement participation. This study documents the patterns of the collective display of one such symbol; the magnetic war-related ribbon (WRR). Using bivariate and multivariate analyses of a sample of 8,100 vehicles, we studied the relationships between WRR display and measures of political affiliation, patriotism, and war support. The results find that that WRR dis…
Editor’s Comment
Editor’s Comment
Ask Teaching Sociology
Editor’s Comment
Investigating the classroom
This article discusses one faculty member’s journey from reading about others’ pedagogical research to her use of data from her own classes to create new scholarship of teaching and learning
Hans O. Mauksch Address
Given that so many college students take Introduction to Sociology or Social Problems or both, we wondered about the amount of content overlap in these courses. We designed a study that used content analysis of syllabi from these courses in order to measure the amount of convergence between the two classes. In our sample, nearly 70 percent of the content was similar. More worrisome, some significant concepts, such as research methods and symbolic…
Linking Sociology Majors to Labor Market Success
Colleges and universities face pressures from multiple stakeholders to attend to the labor market success of their graduates. In this article, we argue that it is in the best interests of sociology students and the discipline that sociology programs respond proactively to these pressures. We encourage sociology programs to design curricula that develop student skills in critical sociological thinking as well as explicitly connect skills to career…
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