Arthur Mcluhan
Biographic Data
| ID | 190707 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Arthur Mcluhan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Arthur |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcluhan |
| SIGNATURE | MCLUHAN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6133-5838 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 70 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Rapid Reentry Resources
Reentry is a challenging period associated with increased risk of mortality, drug overdose, and homelessness. Mobile reentry services offer rapid support at convenient locations for individuals released from custody. We conducted a needs-assessment of a Mobile Reintegration Service located outside a detention center in Ontario, Canada, through a focus group with staff members. Applying the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats methodo…
Sex differences in pre-incarceration mental illness, substance use, injury and sexually transmitted infections and health service utilization
Science with Concepts
Feigning Incompetence in the Field
A basic feature of professions is specialized competence. Indeed, expertise grants professions and their members privileged, prestigious, and protected statuses. Members of professions thus face interactional pressure to appear competent in encounters with colleagues, clients, and lay publics, demonstrating that they, indeed, have the particular competencies expected of and associated with their position. For example, in a classic study of prof…
Adopting a Cloak of Incompetence
The 'cloak of competence' concept captures attempts to disguise limitations and exaggerate abilities. The author examines the conceptual converse: the 'cloak of incompetence,' or the various ways people deliberately disregard, disguise, downplay, or diminish their personal abilities. Drawing on a comparative analysis of manifold empirical cases, the author identifies three generic competence-concealing techniques-avoidance, performance, and neutr…
Character Problems as Collective Behavior
This article presents a theory of character problems as collective behavior grounded in the empirical case of ministry formation in two Protestant Christian seminaries. An interactionist approach to character begins with some standard theoretical openings that dislodge the evaluative core of character from the putative dispositions that inhere in persons and focus analytical attention on the attribution of character in situations. One of the chal…
Overcoming “Analytic Interruptus”
A common charge against qualitative researchers in general and interactionist researchers in particular is that they produce descriptive, a-theoretical accounts of group life. We consider the problem of “analytic interruptus” in contemporary symbolic interactionism – that is, a failure to move beyond analyses of individual cases – and offer a potential to a solution via the pursuit of a generic social process (GSP) research agenda. A GSP approach…
Status Eligibilities
This study of refugee resettlement contributes a novel conceptual framework to the sociology of forced migration. Drawing on interviews with Syrian refugees in their first year of resettlement in Ontario, Canada, we demonstrate how successful sponsorship counters the “non-person” status associated with refugee recognition. During displacement, refugees mobilize their pre-conflict roles to secure self-rescue against forces of conflict. During rese…
(Mis)trusted Contact
Drawing on interviews with 204 participants in two studies of privately sponsored refugee resettlement in Ontario, Canada, we explore the resettlement effects of pre-arrival contact on the interactional dynamics between private sponsors and privately sponsored Syrian refugees. Those who had regular pre-arrival contact via digital applications such as Facebook, Skype, and Whatsapp reported more positive, “successful” resettlement experiences than …
Generic Social Processes
Antony Puddephatt*a & Arthur McLuhanba Lakehead Universityb York UniversityAntony Puddephatt is professor of sociology at Lakehead University, Canada. He has studied the social theory of George Herbert Mead, exploring the relevance of his social pragmatism for a wide range of contemporary theoretical issues. He has also conducted empirical studies of the social world of chess, the institutional culture of Canadian sociology, and more recently the…
Beyond Refuge
Drawing on empirical data from a recent study of the resettlement practices, challenges and concerns of privately sponsored refugees and sponsor groups in Ontario, Canada, we examine how Orientalist scripts of refuge frame "the Syrian refugee crisis" but are interactively challenged and reconfigured in the sponsor-sponsored relationship. Key to this contestation are the pre-conflict practical identities through which "refugees" assert their autho…
Generic Processes in Aligning the Multiple Bases of Identity
Identity theory distinguishes three bases of identity-role, group, and person-but studies have typically focused on one identity at a time. The interrelationship among the multiple bases of identity remains understudied. This study examines the multiple bases of identity individuals engage on their way to becoming ministry students. The results reveal the advantage of examining the multiple bases of identity as subcultural processes, the utility …
Canadian Symbolic Interactionism on the Global Stage
In a recent CJS special issue developed around their paper titled 'The Institutionalization of Symbolic Interactionism in Canadian Sociology, 1922-1979: Success at What Cost?' Helmes-Hayes and Milne (2017) document the emergence and establishment of symbolic interactionism (SI) in English-language Canadian sociology, and then consider its fragmentation and decline from 1979 into the present period. This is followed by commentaries from Jacqueline…
Engaging the Student Role
Working within the symbolic interactionist tradition, this article presents an ethnographic research agenda for studying the ways that “people engage roles as students.” Using an ethnographic study of two Protestant Christian seminaries as an illustrative case, I consider the ways the student role may be conceptualized and studied as ethnographic instances of “education in the making.” This includes the matters of people (a) entering into the stu…
Instructional Ventures
Beyond promoting a mode of ethnographic inquiry that is conceptually informed and rigorously attentive to the actualities of human lived experience, this article encourages a more sustained, comparative analysis of the ways that administrators and instructors deal with education as a collectively developed venture. After (a) establishing an analytic frame for a more comprehensive approach to education as a socially engaged process, this article f…
The Cloak of Incompetence
Higher Order
Beyond Refuge
Drawing on empirical data from a recent study of the resettlement practices, challenges and concerns of privately sponsored refugees and sponsor groups in Ontario, Canada, we examine how Orientalist scripts of refuge frame "the Syrian refugee crisis" but are interactively challenged and reconfigured in the sponsor-sponsored relationship. Key to this contestation are the pre-conflict practical identities through which "refugees" assert their autho…
The Cloak of Incompetence
(Mis)trusted Contact
Drawing on interviews with 204 participants in two studies of privately sponsored refugee resettlement in Ontario, Canada, we explore the resettlement effects of pre-arrival contact on the interactional dynamics between private sponsors and privately sponsored Syrian refugees. Those who had regular pre-arrival contact via digital applications such as Facebook, Skype, and Whatsapp reported more positive, “successful” resettlement experiences than …
Generic Social Processes
Antony Puddephatt*a & Arthur McLuhanba Lakehead Universityb York UniversityAntony Puddephatt is professor of sociology at Lakehead University, Canada. He has studied the social theory of George Herbert Mead, exploring the relevance of his social pragmatism for a wide range of contemporary theoretical issues. He has also conducted empirical studies of the social world of chess, the institutional culture of Canadian sociology, and more recently the…
Adopting a Cloak of Incompetence
The 'cloak of competence' concept captures attempts to disguise limitations and exaggerate abilities. The author examines the conceptual converse: the 'cloak of incompetence,' or the various ways people deliberately disregard, disguise, downplay, or diminish their personal abilities. Drawing on a comparative analysis of manifold empirical cases, the author identifies three generic competence-concealing techniques-avoidance, performance, and neutr…
Generic Processes in Aligning the Multiple Bases of Identity
Identity theory distinguishes three bases of identity-role, group, and person-but studies have typically focused on one identity at a time. The interrelationship among the multiple bases of identity remains understudied. This study examines the multiple bases of identity individuals engage on their way to becoming ministry students. The results reveal the advantage of examining the multiple bases of identity as subcultural processes, the utility …
Canadian Symbolic Interactionism on the Global Stage
In a recent CJS special issue developed around their paper titled 'The Institutionalization of Symbolic Interactionism in Canadian Sociology, 1922-1979: Success at What Cost?' Helmes-Hayes and Milne (2017) document the emergence and establishment of symbolic interactionism (SI) in English-language Canadian sociology, and then consider its fragmentation and decline from 1979 into the present period. This is followed by commentaries from Jacqueline…
Feigning Incompetence in the Field
A basic feature of professions is specialized competence. Indeed, expertise grants professions and their members privileged, prestigious, and protected statuses. Members of professions thus face interactional pressure to appear competent in encounters with colleagues, clients, and lay publics, demonstrating that they, indeed, have the particular competencies expected of and associated with their position. For example, in a classic study of prof…
The Cloak of Incompetence
Higher Order
Instructional Ventures
Beyond promoting a mode of ethnographic inquiry that is conceptually informed and rigorously attentive to the actualities of human lived experience, this article encourages a more sustained, comparative analysis of the ways that administrators and instructors deal with education as a collectively developed venture. After (a) establishing an analytic frame for a more comprehensive approach to education as a socially engaged process, this article f…
Engaging the Student Role
Working within the symbolic interactionist tradition, this article presents an ethnographic research agenda for studying the ways that “people engage roles as students.” Using an ethnographic study of two Protestant Christian seminaries as an illustrative case, I consider the ways the student role may be conceptualized and studied as ethnographic instances of “education in the making.” This includes the matters of people (a) entering into the stu…
Canadian Symbolic Interactionism on the Global Stage
In a recent CJS special issue developed around their paper titled 'The Institutionalization of Symbolic Interactionism in Canadian Sociology, 1922-1979: Success at What Cost?' Helmes-Hayes and Milne (2017) document the emergence and establishment of symbolic interactionism (SI) in English-language Canadian sociology, and then consider its fragmentation and decline from 1979 into the present period. This is followed by commentaries from Jacqueline…
Beyond Refuge
Drawing on empirical data from a recent study of the resettlement practices, challenges and concerns of privately sponsored refugees and sponsor groups in Ontario, Canada, we examine how Orientalist scripts of refuge frame "the Syrian refugee crisis" but are interactively challenged and reconfigured in the sponsor-sponsored relationship. Key to this contestation are the pre-conflict practical identities through which "refugees" assert their autho…
Generic Processes in Aligning the Multiple Bases of Identity
Identity theory distinguishes three bases of identity-role, group, and person-but studies have typically focused on one identity at a time. The interrelationship among the multiple bases of identity remains understudied. This study examines the multiple bases of identity individuals engage on their way to becoming ministry students. The results reveal the advantage of examining the multiple bases of identity as subcultural processes, the utility …
Overcoming “Analytic Interruptus”
A common charge against qualitative researchers in general and interactionist researchers in particular is that they produce descriptive, a-theoretical accounts of group life. We consider the problem of “analytic interruptus” in contemporary symbolic interactionism – that is, a failure to move beyond analyses of individual cases – and offer a potential to a solution via the pursuit of a generic social process (GSP) research agenda. A GSP approach…
Status Eligibilities
This study of refugee resettlement contributes a novel conceptual framework to the sociology of forced migration. Drawing on interviews with Syrian refugees in their first year of resettlement in Ontario, Canada, we demonstrate how successful sponsorship counters the “non-person” status associated with refugee recognition. During displacement, refugees mobilize their pre-conflict roles to secure self-rescue against forces of conflict. During rese…
(Mis)trusted Contact
Drawing on interviews with 204 participants in two studies of privately sponsored refugee resettlement in Ontario, Canada, we explore the resettlement effects of pre-arrival contact on the interactional dynamics between private sponsors and privately sponsored Syrian refugees. Those who had regular pre-arrival contact via digital applications such as Facebook, Skype, and Whatsapp reported more positive, “successful” resettlement experiences than …
Generic Social Processes
Antony Puddephatt*a & Arthur McLuhanba Lakehead Universityb York UniversityAntony Puddephatt is professor of sociology at Lakehead University, Canada. He has studied the social theory of George Herbert Mead, exploring the relevance of his social pragmatism for a wide range of contemporary theoretical issues. He has also conducted empirical studies of the social world of chess, the institutional culture of Canadian sociology, and more recently the…
Feigning Incompetence in the Field
A basic feature of professions is specialized competence. Indeed, expertise grants professions and their members privileged, prestigious, and protected statuses. Members of professions thus face interactional pressure to appear competent in encounters with colleagues, clients, and lay publics, demonstrating that they, indeed, have the particular competencies expected of and associated with their position. For example, in a classic study of prof…
Adopting a Cloak of Incompetence
The 'cloak of competence' concept captures attempts to disguise limitations and exaggerate abilities. The author examines the conceptual converse: the 'cloak of incompetence,' or the various ways people deliberately disregard, disguise, downplay, or diminish their personal abilities. Drawing on a comparative analysis of manifold empirical cases, the author identifies three generic competence-concealing techniques-avoidance, performance, and neutr…
Character Problems as Collective Behavior
This article presents a theory of character problems as collective behavior grounded in the empirical case of ministry formation in two Protestant Christian seminaries. An interactionist approach to character begins with some standard theoretical openings that dislodge the evaluative core of character from the putative dispositions that inhere in persons and focus analytical attention on the attribution of character in situations. One of the chal…
Sex differences in pre-incarceration mental illness, substance use, injury and sexually transmitted infections and health service utilization
Science with Concepts
Rapid Reentry Resources
Reentry is a challenging period associated with increased risk of mortality, drug overdose, and homelessness. Mobile reentry services offer rapid support at convenient locations for individuals released from custody. We conducted a needs-assessment of a Mobile Reintegration Service located outside a detention center in Ontario, Canada, through a focus group with staff members. Applying the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats methodo…
Sociology (14 works) · Political science (11 works) · Epistemology (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Symbolic interactionism (6 works) · Ethnography (4 works)