Nancy Berns
Biographic Data
| ID | 167898 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nancy Berns |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nancy |
| FAMILY NAME | Berns |
| SIGNATURE | BERNS N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Drake University |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-3530-242X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 101 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Unveiling the Hidden Toll of Gun Violence and Grief on Black Teenage Boys
The data that support the findings of this study are available on request from the corresponding author. The data are not publicly available due to privacy or ethical restrictions
Contesting the Victim Card
Closure for crime victims' families has become an important cultural narrative in the past two decades. This paper furthers our understanding of motivational framing and emotional resonance by illustrating how death penalty advocates use emotion-domain expansion to tap into the popular concept of “closure.” By arguing that the death penalty can bring closure and healing to crime victims' families, advocates expand their emotional appeal. Abolitio…
When You're Involved, It's Just Different”
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 …
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
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…
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 …
Degendering the Problem and Gendering the Blame
This article describes political discourse on domestic violence that obscures men's violence while placing the burden of responsibility on women. This perspective, which the author calls patriarchal resistance, challenges a feminist construction of the problem. Using a qualitative analysis of men's and political magazines, the author describes two main discursive strategies used in the resistance discourse: degendering the problem and gendering t…
Caring and Gender
My Problem and How I Solved It
Social scientists have generated a vast literature on domestic violence, a small part of which has entered the popular media and the consciousness of its consumers. As yet there has been little scholarly investigation of this popular body of knowledge on domestic violence. Using a qualitative analysis of popular women's magazine articles and magazine writers' guidebooks, I investigate the content, creation, and impact of this popular discourse. I…
Degendering the Problem and Gendering the Blame
This article describes political discourse on domestic violence that obscures men's violence while placing the burden of responsibility on women. This perspective, which the author calls patriarchal resistance, challenges a feminist construction of the problem. Using a qualitative analysis of men's and political magazines, the author describes two main discursive strategies used in the resistance discourse: degendering the problem and gendering t…
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
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…
My Problem and How I Solved It
Social scientists have generated a vast literature on domestic violence, a small part of which has entered the popular media and the consciousness of its consumers. As yet there has been little scholarly investigation of this popular body of knowledge on domestic violence. Using a qualitative analysis of popular women's magazine articles and magazine writers' guidebooks, I investigate the content, creation, and impact of this popular discourse. I…
When You're Involved, It's Just Different”
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 …
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 …
Contesting the Victim Card
Closure for crime victims' families has become an important cultural narrative in the past two decades. This paper furthers our understanding of motivational framing and emotional resonance by illustrating how death penalty advocates use emotion-domain expansion to tap into the popular concept of “closure.” By arguing that the death penalty can bring closure and healing to crime victims' families, advocates expand their emotional appeal. Abolitio…
My Problem and How I Solved It
Social scientists have generated a vast literature on domestic violence, a small part of which has entered the popular media and the consciousness of its consumers. As yet there has been little scholarly investigation of this popular body of knowledge on domestic violence. Using a qualitative analysis of popular women's magazine articles and magazine writers' guidebooks, I investigate the content, creation, and impact of this popular discourse. I…
Caring and Gender
Degendering the Problem and Gendering the Blame
This article describes political discourse on domestic violence that obscures men's violence while placing the burden of responsibility on women. This perspective, which the author calls patriarchal resistance, challenges a feminist construction of the problem. Using a qualitative analysis of men's and political magazines, the author describes two main discursive strategies used in the resistance discourse: degendering the problem and gendering t…
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
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…
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…
When You're Involved, It's Just Different”
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 …
Contesting the Victim Card
Closure for crime victims' families has become an important cultural narrative in the past two decades. This paper furthers our understanding of motivational framing and emotional resonance by illustrating how death penalty advocates use emotion-domain expansion to tap into the popular concept of “closure.” By arguing that the death penalty can bring closure and healing to crime victims' families, advocates expand their emotional appeal. Abolitio…
Unveiling the Hidden Toll of Gun Violence and Grief on Black Teenage Boys
The data that support the findings of this study are available on request from the corresponding author. The data are not publicly available due to privacy or ethical restrictions
Sociology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Law (4 works) · Poison control (4 works) · Suicide prevention (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Criminology (3 works) · Domestic violence (3 works)