Sheldon L Messinger
Biographic Data
| ID | 194302 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sheldon L Messinger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sheldon L |
| FAMILY NAME | Messinger |
| SIGNATURE | MESSINGER S L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 551 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1955 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Schizophrenic Women: Studies in Marital Crisis
L’expérience des problèmes publics
L'analyse des problèmes sociaux est l'ordinaire des sciences sociales. Pour rendre compte de leur constitution, celles-ci ont souvent recours à un argument constructiviste. Les enquêtes présentées dans ce volume proposent une approche alternative, inspirée du pragmatisme de John Dewey. Les problèmes sociaux n'y sont pas envisagés comme de simples « constructions sociales et historiques ». Ils procèdent de dynamiques de problématisation et de publ…
Reform and Regret: The Story of Federal Judicial Involvement in the Alabama Prison System
Sad Tales in Institutions: A Study in the Microsociology of Knowledge
This essay proposes a theoretical model of sad-tale telling in total institutions. We explore two dimensions of sad tales: their reparative function in relation to behavior or status, and their telling by self or others. We contrast the types and functions of tales told during the institutional and ex-institutional phases of the stigmatized's moral career. Although our model is concerned with the micropolitics of sad tales in institutions, we not…
Changes in social control
The Foundations of Parole in California
Parole was introduced in California, and used for over a decade, primarily to relieve governors of part of the burden of exercising clemency to reduce the excessive sentences of selected state prisoners. Later, when parole was additionally used to relieve prison crowding, processes were initiated that eventually led to the adoption of a rehabilitative justification for parole. We outline these events and their background and briefly consider thei…
Prisons as Self-Regulating Systems: A Comparison of Historical Patterns in California for Male and Female Offenders
Building on our earlier work testing the stability of punishment hypothesis, we here combine the general modeling strategy previously employed with more behaviorally grounded models of actors' expectations and preferences. Using these tools, we model the historical attempts by criminal justice actors in California to balance prison admissions and releases in an equilibrating manner. We find that there have been efforts to regulate the flow of ind…
The Organizational Politics of Criminal Justice: Policy in Context
Criminology Review Yearbook, Vol. 1
A Test of the Stability of Punishment Hypothesis: The Case of California, 1851-1970
muted among admissions to death row. Journal of Criminal Law, Criminology, and Police Science 53:301-11. Wolfgang, Marvin E. and Marc Riedel 1973 Race, judicial discretion, and the death penalty. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 407:119-33. 1975 Rape, race, and the death penalty in Georgia. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 45:658-68. Zimring, Franklin E., Joel Eigen, and Sheila O'Malley 1976 Punishing homicide…
The Micro-Politics of Trouble
Journal Article The Micro-Politics of Trouble Get access Robert M. Emerson, Robert M. Emerson University of California, Los Angeles Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Sheldon L. Messinger Sheldon L. Messinger University of California, Berkeley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 25, Issue 2, 1 December 1977, Pages 121–134, https://doi.…
The Aldine Crime and Justice Annual: 1973
The Aldine Crime and Justice Annual, 1973
The State of the University: Authority and Change
C-Unit: Search for Community In Prison
Civil Justice and the Poor: Issues for Sociological Research
Unequal Peers: The Situation of Researchers at Berkeley
Society of Women: A Study of a Women's Prison
Civil Justice and the Poor: Issues for Sociological Research
In this report on civil justice and the poor we seek to examine issues relevant to the sociology of law. We have studied law and poverty because this area seems to us most likely to call into question conventional assumptions about the structure, conditions and consequences of legal administration. Here, we believe, the actual operation of the legal system is most likely to deviate from received notions; and at this stage of inquiry gross deviati…
Schizophrenic Women: Studies in Marital Crisis
The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren
Life as Theater: Some Notes on the Dramaturgic Approach to Social Reality
The aim of this paper is to raise some questions about the uses of the approach 1 to social experience, a mode of analysis finding increasing use in social-psychological circles. In particular, we wish to inquire into and comment upon the nature of the actor's 2 perspective in everyday life, as this is sometimes assumed to appear to the dramaturgic analyst. To this end, we shall describe a perspective the world and the self within it, a perspecti…
Family Processes and Becoming a Mental Patient
Both before and after hospitalization a type of accomodative pattern usually evolves between a disturbed person and his family and ultimately permits or forces him to remain in the community in spite of severe difficulties. It is the disruption of this pattern which eventually brings a disturbed person to psychiatric attention. Two patterns of accommodation between schizophrenic patients and their families are identified, the disruption of these …
The Mental Hospital and Marital Family Ties
The Mental Hospital and Marital Family Ties Get access Harold Sampson, Harold Sampson Bay Area Health Study, California Department of Mental Hygiene Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Sheldon L. Messinger, Sheldon L. Messinger Bay Area Health Study, California Department of Mental Hygiene Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Robert D. Towne, Robert D. Towne Ba…
Theoretical Studies in the Social Organisation of the Prison
The Micro-Politics of Trouble
Journal Article The Micro-Politics of Trouble Get access Robert M. Emerson, Robert M. Emerson University of California, Los Angeles Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Sheldon L. Messinger Sheldon L. Messinger University of California, Berkeley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 25, Issue 2, 1 December 1977, Pages 121–134, https://doi.…
Organizational Transformation: A Case Study of a Declining Social Movement
T is generally recognized that the organized arms of value-oriented social movements I may remain intact long after the movements themselves have lost general impetus. While it is to be expected that these structures will adapt to their changed circumstances, little attention has as yet been given to either the process or product of this adaptation. This paper reports a study of certain organizational consequences of the decline of the Townsend M…
Theoretical Studies in Social Organization of the Prison
Civil Justice and the Poor: Issues for Sociological Research
In this report on civil justice and the poor we seek to examine issues relevant to the sociology of law. We have studied law and poverty because this area seems to us most likely to call into question conventional assumptions about the structure, conditions and consequences of legal administration. Here, we believe, the actual operation of the legal system is most likely to deviate from received notions; and at this stage of inquiry gross deviati…
Life as Theater: Some Notes on the Dramaturgic Approach to Social Reality
The aim of this paper is to raise some questions about the uses of the approach 1 to social experience, a mode of analysis finding increasing use in social-psychological circles. In particular, we wish to inquire into and comment upon the nature of the actor's 2 perspective in everyday life, as this is sometimes assumed to appear to the dramaturgic analyst. To this end, we shall describe a perspective the world and the self within it, a perspecti…
Prisons as Self-Regulating Systems: A Comparison of Historical Patterns in California for Male and Female Offenders
Building on our earlier work testing the stability of punishment hypothesis, we here combine the general modeling strategy previously employed with more behaviorally grounded models of actors' expectations and preferences. Using these tools, we model the historical attempts by criminal justice actors in California to balance prison admissions and releases in an equilibrating manner. We find that there have been efforts to regulate the flow of ind…
A Test of the Stability of Punishment Hypothesis: The Case of California, 1851-1970
muted among admissions to death row. Journal of Criminal Law, Criminology, and Police Science 53:301-11. Wolfgang, Marvin E. and Marc Riedel 1973 Race, judicial discretion, and the death penalty. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 407:119-33. 1975 Rape, race, and the death penalty in Georgia. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 45:658-68. Zimring, Franklin E., Joel Eigen, and Sheila O'Malley 1976 Punishing homicide…
The Foundations of Parole in California
Parole was introduced in California, and used for over a decade, primarily to relieve governors of part of the burden of exercising clemency to reduce the excessive sentences of selected state prisoners. Later, when parole was additionally used to relieve prison crowding, processes were initiated that eventually led to the adoption of a rehabilitative justification for parole. We outline these events and their background and briefly consider thei…
Family Processes and Becoming a Mental Patient
Both before and after hospitalization a type of accomodative pattern usually evolves between a disturbed person and his family and ultimately permits or forces him to remain in the community in spite of severe difficulties. It is the disruption of this pattern which eventually brings a disturbed person to psychiatric attention. Two patterns of accommodation between schizophrenic patients and their families are identified, the disruption of these …
Society of Women: A Study of a Women's Prison
The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren
The Mental Hospital and Marital Family Ties
The Mental Hospital and Marital Family Ties Get access Harold Sampson, Harold Sampson Bay Area Health Study, California Department of Mental Hygiene Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Sheldon L. Messinger, Sheldon L. Messinger Bay Area Health Study, California Department of Mental Hygiene Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Robert D. Towne, Robert D. Towne Ba…
C-Unit: Search for Community In Prison
Schizophrenic Women: Studies in Marital Crisis
Sad Tales in Institutions: A Study in the Microsociology of Knowledge
This essay proposes a theoretical model of sad-tale telling in total institutions. We explore two dimensions of sad tales: their reparative function in relation to behavior or status, and their telling by self or others. We contrast the types and functions of tales told during the institutional and ex-institutional phases of the stigmatized's moral career. Although our model is concerned with the micropolitics of sad tales in institutions, we not…
Unequal Peers: The Situation of Researchers at Berkeley
Theoretical Studies in the Social Organisation of the Prison
Service and Procedure in Bureaucracy: A Case Study
The Dynamics of Bureaucracy: A Study of Interpersonal Relations in Two Government Agencies
Organizational Transformation: A Case Study of a Declining Social Movement
T is generally recognized that the organized arms of value-oriented social movements I may remain intact long after the movements themselves have lost general impetus. While it is to be expected that these structures will adapt to their changed circumstances, little attention has as yet been given to either the process or product of this adaptation. This paper reports a study of certain organizational consequences of the decline of the Townsend M…
The Dynamics of Bureaucracy: A Study of Interpersonal Relations in Two Government Agencies
Service and Procedure in Bureaucracy: A Case Study
The Administrative State: An Introduction to Bureaucracy.Fritz Morstein Marx
Theoretical Studies in the Social Organisation of the Prison
Theoretical Studies in Social Organization of the Prison
Theoretical Studies in Social Organization of the Prison
The Mental Hospital and Marital Family Ties
The Mental Hospital and Marital Family Ties Get access Harold Sampson, Harold Sampson Bay Area Health Study, California Department of Mental Hygiene Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Sheldon L. Messinger, Sheldon L. Messinger Bay Area Health Study, California Department of Mental Hygiene Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Robert D. Towne, Robert D. Towne Ba…
Life as Theater: Some Notes on the Dramaturgic Approach to Social Reality
The aim of this paper is to raise some questions about the uses of the approach 1 to social experience, a mode of analysis finding increasing use in social-psychological circles. In particular, we wish to inquire into and comment upon the nature of the actor's 2 perspective in everyday life, as this is sometimes assumed to appear to the dramaturgic analyst. To this end, we shall describe a perspective the world and the self within it, a perspecti…
Family Processes and Becoming a Mental Patient
Both before and after hospitalization a type of accomodative pattern usually evolves between a disturbed person and his family and ultimately permits or forces him to remain in the community in spite of severe difficulties. It is the disruption of this pattern which eventually brings a disturbed person to psychiatric attention. Two patterns of accommodation between schizophrenic patients and their families are identified, the disruption of these …
The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren
Schizophrenic Women: Studies in Marital Crisis
Civil Justice and the Poor: Issues for Sociological Research
In this report on civil justice and the poor we seek to examine issues relevant to the sociology of law. We have studied law and poverty because this area seems to us most likely to call into question conventional assumptions about the structure, conditions and consequences of legal administration. Here, we believe, the actual operation of the legal system is most likely to deviate from received notions; and at this stage of inquiry gross deviati…
Society of Women: A Study of a Women's Prison
Unequal Peers: The Situation of Researchers at Berkeley
C-Unit: Search for Community In Prison
Civil Justice and the Poor: Issues for Sociological Research
The State of the University: Authority and Change
The Aldine Crime and Justice Annual, 1973
The Aldine Crime and Justice Annual: 1973
The Micro-Politics of Trouble
Journal Article The Micro-Politics of Trouble Get access Robert M. Emerson, Robert M. Emerson University of California, Los Angeles Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Sheldon L. Messinger Sheldon L. Messinger University of California, Berkeley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 25, Issue 2, 1 December 1977, Pages 121–134, https://doi.…
Criminology Review Yearbook, Vol. 1
A Test of the Stability of Punishment Hypothesis: The Case of California, 1851-1970
muted among admissions to death row. Journal of Criminal Law, Criminology, and Police Science 53:301-11. Wolfgang, Marvin E. and Marc Riedel 1973 Race, judicial discretion, and the death penalty. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 407:119-33. 1975 Rape, race, and the death penalty in Georgia. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 45:658-68. Zimring, Franklin E., Joel Eigen, and Sheila O'Malley 1976 Punishing homicide…
The Organizational Politics of Criminal Justice: Policy in Context
Prisons as Self-Regulating Systems: A Comparison of Historical Patterns in California for Male and Female Offenders
Building on our earlier work testing the stability of punishment hypothesis, we here combine the general modeling strategy previously employed with more behaviorally grounded models of actors' expectations and preferences. Using these tools, we model the historical attempts by criminal justice actors in California to balance prison admissions and releases in an equilibrating manner. We find that there have been efforts to regulate the flow of ind…
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