David Schweingruber
Biographic Data
| ID | 167018 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Schweingruber |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Schweingruber |
| SIGNATURE | SCHWEINGRUBER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Iowa State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 125 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Whither the Internal Conversation
The internal conversation has a venerable place in the symbolic interactionist tradition but has been the focus of little empirical research by interactionists. After reviewing selected research on the internal conversation (most by noninteractionist sociologists or nonsociologists), we argue that interactionists ought to conduct research of our own to examine claims we have been making and to better understand social life. We propose some worthy…
Policing Protest in the United States: 1960-1995
When You're Involved, It's Just Different”: Making Sense of Domestic Violence
This article explores how people make sense of domestic violence. The authors argue that it is easier to make sense of other people's problems than your own. If people are trying to understand a social problem with which they are personally involved, they are likely to engage in interpretive work that connects their own experiences with the problem and with a possible troubled identity. However, the person not involved in the social problem does …
A Story and a Ring”: Audience Judgments about Engagement Proposals
Success Through A Positive Mental Attitude: The Role of Positive Thinking in Door-to-Door Sales
This case study focuses on the use of a motivational philosophy called “positive mental attitude” (PMA) by door-to-door salespersons. While agreeing with Leidner's finding in her study of a similar company that PMA functions as a form of worker control, I show here how the flexibility of PMA makes it useful to salespersons, who draw upon it to deal with everyday work problems. Dealers draw upon their personal goals and values to form motivational…
The Madding Crowd Goes to School: Myths about Crowds in Introductory Sociology Textbooks
The authors examined the crowd sections of 20 introduction to sociology textbooks, coding them for the presence of seven crowds myths—claims about crowds that have no empirical support and have been rejected by scholars in the field. The number of myths per book ranges from five to one. The authors conclude by making suggestions for rewriting these chapters and for improving the book reviewing process
Looking for the Core in the Wrong Place
Shaping the Selves of Young Salespeople through Emotion Management
This article describes how a door-to-door sales company trains sales people to engage in emotion management. Company managers and salespeople engage in emotion mining, the search for and development of potential emotional capital in salespeople's biographies. This emotional capital forms an emotional bridge between a salesperson's current self and the self that is supposed to be developed for the job. The article emphasizes the reflexive relation…
Popping the Question” When the Answer is Known: The Engagement Proposal as Performance
This paper analyzes the engagement proposal as a pre-wedding ritual that couples use to indicate to others that they are going to be getting married. The proposal is treated as a formality by the couples, but it is an important marker for their relationship. Based on interviews with engaged heterosexual Midwestern couples, we show how a couple works together to plan the engagement. The engagement proposal is a performance for two audiences, first…
Disciplined Minds: A Critical Look at Salaried Professionals and the Soul-Battering System That Shapes Their Lives
$26.95 Schmidt offers a provocative critique of how scientists, engineers, and other professionals are groomed to fulfill a specific function in society—that of maintaining the status quo—and, in the process, end up sidelining their own goals and ideals. The book is both well researched and highly readable. Some readers may disagree with its conclusions, but everyone will recognize its descriptions of the often wrenching choices that today’s prof…
First words: Do sociologists actually use the terms in introductory textbooks’ glossaries
Doing Money Work in a Door-to-Door Sales Organization
Previous sociological accounts of money have focused on meanings that attach to types of money but have given insufficient attention to how these meanings arise out of and are sustained by their use in interpersonal interactions. In this case study of a door-to-door sales company, we use a 'cultural toolkit' conception of money meanings to show how managers and salespersons draw on these meanings to get things done. We examine how money meanings …
Mob Sociology and Escalated Force: Sociology's Contribution to Repressive Police Tactics
Mob sociology is a theory of crowd behavior that is found in U.S. police literature and that has been used to design and justify demonstration management practices. Mob sociology is derived from sociological theories about crowd behavior but ignores their originators' assertions that crowds occur within a larger social context. Mob sociology was diffused throughout the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s through a national civil disor…
A Method for Systematically Observing and Recording Collective Action
The authors provide a set of criteria and procedures for systematically observing and recording collective action across temporary gatherings such as political demonstrations. Their method uses trained observers, distributed across a gathering, who complete a code sheet during time interval samples. The code sheet allows observers to record the extent of participation in 40 or more elementary forms of collective action by members of six actor cat…
A Computer Simulation of a Sociological Experiment
Shaping the Selves of Young Salespeople through Emotion Management
This article describes how a door-to-door sales company trains sales people to engage in emotion management. Company managers and salespeople engage in emotion mining, the search for and development of potential emotional capital in salespeople's biographies. This emotional capital forms an emotional bridge between a salesperson's current self and the self that is supposed to be developed for the job. The article emphasizes the reflexive relation…
Popping the Question” When the Answer is Known: The Engagement Proposal as Performance
This paper analyzes the engagement proposal as a pre-wedding ritual that couples use to indicate to others that they are going to be getting married. The proposal is treated as a formality by the couples, but it is an important marker for their relationship. Based on interviews with engaged heterosexual Midwestern couples, we show how a couple works together to plan the engagement. The engagement proposal is a performance for two audiences, first…
First words: Do sociologists actually use the terms in introductory textbooks’ glossaries
Mob Sociology and Escalated Force: Sociology's Contribution to Repressive Police Tactics
Mob sociology is a theory of crowd behavior that is found in U.S. police literature and that has been used to design and justify demonstration management practices. Mob sociology is derived from sociological theories about crowd behavior but ignores their originators' assertions that crowds occur within a larger social context. Mob sociology was diffused throughout the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s through a national civil disor…
A Method for Systematically Observing and Recording Collective Action
The authors provide a set of criteria and procedures for systematically observing and recording collective action across temporary gatherings such as political demonstrations. Their method uses trained observers, distributed across a gathering, who complete a code sheet during time interval samples. The code sheet allows observers to record the extent of participation in 40 or more elementary forms of collective action by members of six actor cat…
Looking for the Core in the Wrong Place
When You're Involved, It's Just Different”: Making Sense of Domestic Violence
This article explores how people make sense of domestic violence. The authors argue that it is easier to make sense of other people's problems than your own. If people are trying to understand a social problem with which they are personally involved, they are likely to engage in interpretive work that connects their own experiences with the problem and with a possible troubled identity. However, the person not involved in the social problem does …
The Madding Crowd Goes to School: Myths about Crowds in Introductory Sociology Textbooks
The authors examined the crowd sections of 20 introduction to sociology textbooks, coding them for the presence of seven crowds myths—claims about crowds that have no empirical support and have been rejected by scholars in the field. The number of myths per book ranges from five to one. The authors conclude by making suggestions for rewriting these chapters and for improving the book reviewing process
A Story and a Ring”: Audience Judgments about Engagement Proposals
Doing Money Work in a Door-to-Door Sales Organization
Previous sociological accounts of money have focused on meanings that attach to types of money but have given insufficient attention to how these meanings arise out of and are sustained by their use in interpersonal interactions. In this case study of a door-to-door sales company, we use a 'cultural toolkit' conception of money meanings to show how managers and salespersons draw on these meanings to get things done. We examine how money meanings …
Success Through A Positive Mental Attitude: The Role of Positive Thinking in Door-to-Door Sales
This case study focuses on the use of a motivational philosophy called “positive mental attitude” (PMA) by door-to-door salespersons. While agreeing with Leidner's finding in her study of a similar company that PMA functions as a form of worker control, I show here how the flexibility of PMA makes it useful to salespersons, who draw upon it to deal with everyday work problems. Dealers draw upon their personal goals and values to form motivational…
Whither the Internal Conversation
The internal conversation has a venerable place in the symbolic interactionist tradition but has been the focus of little empirical research by interactionists. After reviewing selected research on the internal conversation (most by noninteractionist sociologists or nonsociologists), we argue that interactionists ought to conduct research of our own to examine claims we have been making and to better understand social life. We propose some worthy…
A Computer Simulation of a Sociological Experiment
A Computer Simulation of a Sociological Experiment
A Method for Systematically Observing and Recording Collective Action
The authors provide a set of criteria and procedures for systematically observing and recording collective action across temporary gatherings such as political demonstrations. Their method uses trained observers, distributed across a gathering, who complete a code sheet during time interval samples. The code sheet allows observers to record the extent of participation in 40 or more elementary forms of collective action by members of six actor cat…
Mob Sociology and Escalated Force: Sociology's Contribution to Repressive Police Tactics
Mob sociology is a theory of crowd behavior that is found in U.S. police literature and that has been used to design and justify demonstration management practices. Mob sociology is derived from sociological theories about crowd behavior but ignores their originators' assertions that crowds occur within a larger social context. Mob sociology was diffused throughout the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s through a national civil disor…
Disciplined Minds: A Critical Look at Salaried Professionals and the Soul-Battering System That Shapes Their Lives
$26.95 Schmidt offers a provocative critique of how scientists, engineers, and other professionals are groomed to fulfill a specific function in society—that of maintaining the status quo—and, in the process, end up sidelining their own goals and ideals. The book is both well researched and highly readable. Some readers may disagree with its conclusions, but everyone will recognize its descriptions of the often wrenching choices that today’s prof…
First words: Do sociologists actually use the terms in introductory textbooks’ glossaries
Doing Money Work in a Door-to-Door Sales Organization
Previous sociological accounts of money have focused on meanings that attach to types of money but have given insufficient attention to how these meanings arise out of and are sustained by their use in interpersonal interactions. In this case study of a door-to-door sales company, we use a 'cultural toolkit' conception of money meanings to show how managers and salespersons draw on these meanings to get things done. We examine how money meanings …
Popping the Question” When the Answer is Known: The Engagement Proposal as Performance
This paper analyzes the engagement proposal as a pre-wedding ritual that couples use to indicate to others that they are going to be getting married. The proposal is treated as a formality by the couples, but it is an important marker for their relationship. Based on interviews with engaged heterosexual Midwestern couples, we show how a couple works together to plan the engagement. The engagement proposal is a performance for two audiences, first…
The Madding Crowd Goes to School: Myths about Crowds in Introductory Sociology Textbooks
The authors examined the crowd sections of 20 introduction to sociology textbooks, coding them for the presence of seven crowds myths—claims about crowds that have no empirical support and have been rejected by scholars in the field. The number of myths per book ranges from five to one. The authors conclude by making suggestions for rewriting these chapters and for improving the book reviewing process
Looking for the Core in the Wrong Place
Shaping the Selves of Young Salespeople through Emotion Management
This article describes how a door-to-door sales company trains sales people to engage in emotion management. Company managers and salespeople engage in emotion mining, the search for and development of potential emotional capital in salespeople's biographies. This emotional capital forms an emotional bridge between a salesperson's current self and the self that is supposed to be developed for the job. The article emphasizes the reflexive relation…
Success Through A Positive Mental Attitude: The Role of Positive Thinking in Door-to-Door Sales
This case study focuses on the use of a motivational philosophy called “positive mental attitude” (PMA) by door-to-door salespersons. While agreeing with Leidner's finding in her study of a similar company that PMA functions as a form of worker control, I show here how the flexibility of PMA makes it useful to salespersons, who draw upon it to deal with everyday work problems. Dealers draw upon their personal goals and values to form motivational…
When You're Involved, It's Just Different”: Making Sense of Domestic Violence
This article explores how people make sense of domestic violence. The authors argue that it is easier to make sense of other people's problems than your own. If people are trying to understand a social problem with which they are personally involved, they are likely to engage in interpretive work that connects their own experiences with the problem and with a possible troubled identity. However, the person not involved in the social problem does …
A Story and a Ring”: Audience Judgments about Engagement Proposals
Policing Protest in the United States: 1960-1995
Whither the Internal Conversation
The internal conversation has a venerable place in the symbolic interactionist tradition but has been the focus of little empirical research by interactionists. After reviewing selected research on the internal conversation (most by noninteractionist sociologists or nonsociologists), we argue that interactionists ought to conduct research of our own to examine claims we have been making and to better understand social life. We propose some worthy…
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