Ruth Horowitz
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 186840 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Ruth Horowitz |
| PRENOMES | Ruth |
| SOBRENOME | Horowitz |
| ASSINATURA | HOROWITZ R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | New York University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 45 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 178 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 45 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1938 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Handcrafted Careers
How Safe Is Your Doctor
Epidemic City
Hard Lives, Mean Streets
Organic Public Sociology in the Pragmatist Perspective
This article argues that American pragmatism provides a model for organic public sociology, defined by Michael Burawoy as the sociologist's direct involvement with a group in a collaborative effort to bring about change, which permits and encourages a combined professional research and activist project. I use my project involving medical licensing and disciplinary boards to illustrate how those projects can be successfully combined. I served as a…
The Chicago School and the roots of urban ethnography
Autorisation d'exercice et contrôle disciplinaire de la pratique médicale aux États-Unis
Vers la fin du XIX e siècle, les états américains se dotaient de conseils de médecins chargés de l'attribution des autorisations d'exercice, ainsi que de la régulation disciplinaire de la pratique médicale. Un siècle plus tard, l'autonomie de ces organismes professionnels était mise en question, de manière parfois spectaculaire, par l'introduction de membres civils ou administratifs en leur sein, ainsi que par un recours croissant aux voies légal…
Introduction
Inégalités, démocraties et travail de terrain
Les plus importants programmes de recherche des interactionnistes et des pragmatistes de l'Ecole de Chicago des annees 1920-1930 se preoccupaient des questions d'inegalite urbaine, de pouvoir et de democratie. Certaines etudes, telles que le Jackroller de Shaw (1930), mettaient l'accent sur les phenomenes d'immigration recente, de pauvrete, de conflits culturels et de desorganisation collective. Un livre comme The Gold Coast and the Slum de Zorba…
Inequalities, Democracy, and Fieldwork in the Chicago Schools of Yesterday and Today
Barriers to public discourse and participation in a democracy were central to the social reform concerns of Mead. Urban ethnographies of the last thirty years that are associated with the University of Chicago and the Chicago School contribute to this aspect of Mead's work. These ethnographies help to illuminate how extreme poverty and racism affect public discourse between groups. The Chicago tradition linked to the work of Park and Wirth has em…
Through My Own Eyes
Not Our Kind of Girl
Barriers and Bridges to Class Mobility and Formation
Although ethnographic studies of stratification have focused largely on issues of class, many also have dealt with the distinctive barriers and bridges for racial and gender groups. Despite differences in perspectives, many have focused on barriers and bridges to changing places in the hierarchy (class mobility) and others to bringing people together in a similar situation (class formation). Few see the barriers as totally confining, and few see …
Gangbangs and Drive-bys
Teen Mothers
The American Street Gang
Teen Mothers-Citizens or Dependents
Preface Pt. 1: Issues in Program Development 1: Getting to Know Project GED 2: Contested Organizational Cultures: Helping and Authority Pt. 2: Social Service Providers and Teen Mothers 3: Social Service Providers' Problems of Social Identity 4: Social Distance as a Strategy of Compliance 5: Classroom Failure without Redress 6: Sex and Boyfriends: Your Dirty Laundry or Dramatic Dreams 7: Motherhood: Authenticity and the Context of Suspicion 8: Cha…
Street Kids, Street Drugs, Street Crime
New Ethnographies
Generally, reviews of new ethnographies or methods texts are solicited and compiled by the New Ethnographies editor. The preferred form, unless specified otherwise, is an 800 to 1,000 word critical essay addressing theoretical, methodological, and/or substantive contributions of recently published materials relevant to ethnographic inquiry. Unsolicited reviews are welcome, but without the assurance of publication. Abstracts of Ph.D. dissertations…
The Power of Ritual in a Chicano Community
This paper explores the meaning of the symbols embedded within the quinceañera, a fifteen-year-old Chicana's birthday party. The ceremony in Chicago includes both a religious and secular component and has become more extensive in the urban U.S. than it has been in rural Mexico. Three positions are advanced: (1) The ceremony is an adaptation to the economic and social marginality of Chicanos in a U.S. city, (2) the ceremony is a transitional cultu…
The Dialogue on Violence
The Coming of Age of Crack Cocaine
Streetwise
New Ethnographies
Generally, reviews of new ethnographies or methods texts are solicited and compiled by the New Ethnographies editor. The preferred form, unless specified otherwise, is an 800 to 1,000 word critical essay addressing theoretical, methodological, and/or substantive contributions of recently published materials relevant to ethnographic inquiry. Unsolicited reviews are welcome, but without the assurance of publication. Abstracts of Ph.D. dissertations…
Barrio Gangs
Honor, Normative Ambiguity and Gang Violence
Remaining an Outsider
Taking on the characteristics of the group being observed and becoming an insider is sometimes not only impractical but a disadvantage to the research process. This article analyzes the research identities negotiated by a female researcher in her study of Chicano gang members and the girls who hung around with them at the park. It is argued that these identities are not only shaped by epistemological and ethical concerns, but by the data to be co…
Community Tolerance of Gang Violence
This paper explores the maintenance of tolerance in relationships between community residents and violent gang members. How can parents and other non-gang residents experience their neighborhood as orderly and remain tolerant of violence when approximately five gang members are killed in their community each year? In the Chicano community I studied, gang members are not outsiders but are members of family networks in which they behave appropriate…
Introduction
Development of Social Attitudes in Children
Hard Lives, Mean Streets
Barriers and Bridges to Class Mobility and Formation
Although ethnographic studies of stratification have focused largely on issues of class, many also have dealt with the distinctive barriers and bridges for racial and gender groups. Despite differences in perspectives, many have focused on barriers and bridges to changing places in the hierarchy (class mobility) and others to bringing people together in a similar situation (class formation). Few see the barriers as totally confining, and few see …
The End of the Youth Gang
The varying attention criminologists have paid to youth gangs over the past several decades cannot be explained completely by the actual seriousness of gang delinquency and its extent relative to other kinds of delinquency. In order to explain this changing focus of attention by delinquency researchers, this article explores the interrelationships among four types of factors: social and political conditions, ideology, current sociological theory,…
Organic Public Sociology in the Pragmatist Perspective
This article argues that American pragmatism provides a model for organic public sociology, defined by Michael Burawoy as the sociologist's direct involvement with a group in a collaborative effort to bring about change, which permits and encourages a combined professional research and activist project. I use my project involving medical licensing and disciplinary boards to illustrate how those projects can be successfully combined. I served as a…
The Chicago School and the roots of urban ethnography
Inégalités, démocraties et travail de terrain
Les plus importants programmes de recherche des interactionnistes et des pragmatistes de l'Ecole de Chicago des annees 1920-1930 se preoccupaient des questions d'inegalite urbaine, de pouvoir et de democratie. Certaines etudes, telles que le Jackroller de Shaw (1930), mettaient l'accent sur les phenomenes d'immigration recente, de pauvrete, de conflits culturels et de desorganisation collective. Un livre comme The Gold Coast and the Slum de Zorba…
Inequalities, Democracy, and Fieldwork in the Chicago Schools of Yesterday and Today
Barriers to public discourse and participation in a democracy were central to the social reform concerns of Mead. Urban ethnographies of the last thirty years that are associated with the University of Chicago and the Chicago School contribute to this aspect of Mead's work. These ethnographies help to illuminate how extreme poverty and racism affect public discourse between groups. The Chicago tradition linked to the work of Park and Wirth has em…
Adult Delinquent Gangs in a Chicano Community
Most studies of youthful delinquent or fighting gangs have regarded them as relatively fragile groups that terminate with adult status, adult community members' pressure, or increasing socioeconomic benefits. In this follow-up participant-observation study of an inner-city Chicano community, it was found that previously observed gangs survived as their members matured into their twenties and fulfilled their adult roles and responsibilities This p…
Passion, Submission and Motherhood
This paper examines the negotiation of young unmarried women's sexual identities in the cultural context of an innercity Chicano community. Previous work often views the unmarried mother status as unproblematic, that is, as deviant or as equal to a married mother. Values are assumed to determine directly the evaluation of the status of unwed mother, and motherhood is viewed as an instrumental action. This analysis of premarital sex and motherhood…
Epidemic City
Through My Own Eyes
The Coming of Age of Crack Cocaine
Development of Social Attitudes in Children
Chicano Manifesto
Honor, Normative Ambiguity and Gang Violence
Phenomenology and Citizenship
Political Ideologies of Organized Labor
Journal Article Political Ideologies of Organized Labor. By Ruth L. Horowitz. (New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction, 1978. 260 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $19.95.) Get access Melvyn Dubofsky Melvyn Dubofsky State University of New York, Binghamton Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 65, Issue 4, March 1979, Pages 1176–1177, https://doi.org/10.2307/1894644 Publish…
Field Research
The Union Politic, the CIO Political Action Committee
Passion, Submission and Motherhood
This paper examines the negotiation of young unmarried women's sexual identities in the cultural context of an innercity Chicano community. Previous work often views the unmarried mother status as unproblematic, that is, as deviant or as equal to a married mother. Values are assumed to determine directly the evaluation of the status of unwed mother, and motherhood is viewed as an instrumental action. This analysis of premarital sex and motherhood…
Adult Delinquent Gangs in a Chicano Community
Most studies of youthful delinquent or fighting gangs have regarded them as relatively fragile groups that terminate with adult status, adult community members' pressure, or increasing socioeconomic benefits. In this follow-up participant-observation study of an inner-city Chicano community, it was found that previously observed gangs survived as their members matured into their twenties and fulfilled their adult roles and responsibilities This p…
Honor and the American dream
The End of the Youth Gang
The varying attention criminologists have paid to youth gangs over the past several decades cannot be explained completely by the actual seriousness of gang delinquency and its extent relative to other kinds of delinquency. In order to explain this changing focus of attention by delinquency researchers, this article explores the interrelationships among four types of factors: social and political conditions, ideology, current sociological theory,…
Delinquency
Delinquency evaluates one of the largest longitudinal-observational studies of juvenile delinquents ever conducted. Utilizing a normal population sample and conducting individual interviews repeatedly over many years, the author and his colleagues followed the development of 400 British working-class boys from age eight to twenty-five, of whom one-third eventually had criminal records. Five factors were found to predict most delinquent behavior, …
Appalachia and America
Our Gang
Power and Politics in a Chicano Barrio
The Girls in the Gang
Remaining an Outsider
Taking on the characteristics of the group being observed and becoming an insider is sometimes not only impractical but a disadvantage to the research process. This article analyzes the research identities negotiated by a female researcher in her study of Chicano gang members and the girls who hung around with them at the park. It is argued that these identities are not only shaped by epistemological and ethical concerns, but by the data to be co…
Community Tolerance of Gang Violence
This paper explores the maintenance of tolerance in relationships between community residents and violent gang members. How can parents and other non-gang residents experience their neighborhood as orderly and remain tolerant of violence when approximately five gang members are killed in their community each year? In the Chicano community I studied, gang members are not outsiders but are members of family networks in which they behave appropriate…
City Bound
Let All of Them Take Heed
Barrio Gangs
New Ethnographies
Generally, reviews of new ethnographies or methods texts are solicited and compiled by the New Ethnographies editor. The preferred form, unless specified otherwise, is an 800 to 1,000 word critical essay addressing theoretical, methodological, and/or substantive contributions of recently published materials relevant to ethnographic inquiry. Unsolicited reviews are welcome, but without the assurance of publication. Abstracts of Ph.D. dissertations…
New Ethnographies
Generally, reviews of new ethnographies or methods texts are solicited and compiled by the New Ethnographies editor. The preferred form, unless specified otherwise, is an 800 to 1,000 word critical essay addressing theoretical, methodological, and/or substantive contributions of recently published materials relevant to ethnographic inquiry. Unsolicited reviews are welcome, but without the assurance of publication. Abstracts of Ph.D. dissertations…
The Power of Ritual in a Chicano Community
This paper explores the meaning of the symbols embedded within the quinceañera, a fifteen-year-old Chicana's birthday party. The ceremony in Chicago includes both a religious and secular component and has become more extensive in the urban U.S. than it has been in rural Mexico. Three positions are advanced: (1) The ceremony is an adaptation to the economic and social marginality of Chicanos in a U.S. city, (2) the ceremony is a transitional cultu…
The Dialogue on Violence
Sociology (29 obras) · Political science (20 obras) · Psychology (19 obras) · Law (13 obras) · Criminology (11 obras) · Law (9 obras) · Gender Studies (8 obras) · Politics (8 obras) · Latin American and Latino Studies (7 obras) · Social Psychology (7 obras)