Paul C Luken
Biographic Data
| ID | 238665 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul C Luken |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul C |
| FAMILY NAME | Luken |
| SIGNATURE | LUKEN P C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of West Georgia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Critical Commentary on Institutional Ethnography: IE Scholars Speak to Its Promise
This edited volume provides constructive commentary on the theory, methods and practices of institutional ethnography.
Institutional Ethnography: Sociology for Today
The Palgrave Handbook of Institutional Ethnography
Palgrave Handbook of Institutional Ethnography
Introduction to the Special Issue: New Scholarship in Institutional Ethnography
Twelve years ago the Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare (JSSW) published a special issue devoted to institutional ethnography, “Institutional Ethnography: Theory and Practice” (Winfield, 2003). This alternative sociology, founded by Dorothy E. Smith, begins from the standpoint of the experiences of particular, active subjects and sets out to discover and describe the social relations shaping those experiences (Smith, 1987, 2005, 2006). JSSW,…
Incorporating Texts into Institutional Ethnographies
Incorporating Texts into Institutional Ethnographies presents a selection of essays highlighting the ethnographic investigation of how texts coordinate and organize people’s activities across space and time.
Standardizing Childrearing through Housing
Drawing on oral histories and archival data, we demonstrate how both childrearing and housing practices were directly and indirectly organized around a standardized and codified textual discourse early in the twentieth century in the United States. Using institutional ethnography (IE), we begin with selected experiences of our research participants when they were girls and mothers and explicate these experiences by discovering the social relation…
Be a Genuine Homemaker in Your Own Home: Gender and Familial Relations in State Housing Practices, 1917-1922
Using institutional ethnography we examine the Own-Your-Own-Home (OYOH) movement as a configuration of ideological practices designed to reorder gender, family and housing arrangements in the United States during the early 20th century We describe the social organization of these practices — with particular emphasis on the coordinating activity of the OYOH Section of the Department of Labor — and provide specific examples from texts of the Nation…
Active Living: Transforming the Organization of Retirement and Housing in the U.S
We examine the transformation of the social institutions of retirement and housing in the US in the latter part of the 20th century. Using institutional ethnography we explicate a woman's experience relocating to an age segregated community. Her relocation is predicated upon ideological practices that reconceptualize retirement as "active living" and the construction of a setting in which retirees engage in this new lifestyle. We demonstrate the …
Living Alone in Old Age: Institutionalized Discourse and Women's Knowledge
We examine the social organization of “living alone” using both the narratives of elderly women and the academic, professional, and popular cultural textual discourses in which ideological practices are organized about this manner of living and housing. Using institutional ethnography, we examine the organizing practices of living alone through an analysis of the gender and class relations in the institution of housing. We argue that housing regi…
Life History and the Critique of American Sociological Practice
This paper is a contribution to the uses of life histories and the dialogue regarding the 'standards' for their use. Through a meta-analysis of life histories in the United States since the publication of the Polish Peasant, we develop a typology to critically evaluate their methodological/theoretical practices in sociology. We find a broad range of uses of life histories in the areas of substantive focus, analysis, relationship of oral history a…
Elderly Women Living Alone: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations from a Feminist Perspective
Recent demographic and historical trends have generated a growing interest in the special population of elderly women who live alone. Most housing and gerontological experts view this population at risk for institutionalization and loss of independent living. Five underlying assumptions and themes are identified in past research on elderly housing. These five areas are (a) a reliance on socio-psychological explanations of people’s attitudes; (b) …
Anarchistic Methodology: Methodological Anti-Authoritarianism as a Resolution to Paradigmatic Disputes in the Social Sciences
This paper is seen as a necessary exercise in methodological iconoclasm. Paul Feyerabend's arguments that “science is an essentially anarchistic enterprise” in his Against Method are extended to social scientific thought. Distinctions are drawn between methodological and sociopolitical anarchism. Feyerabend's criticisms of methodological consistency are discussed. ‘Facts’ are problematic conceptualizations whose constituent elements are to be fou…
Be a Genuine Homemaker in Your Own Home: Gender and Familial Relations in State Housing Practices, 1917-1922
Using institutional ethnography we examine the Own-Your-Own-Home (OYOH) movement as a configuration of ideological practices designed to reorder gender, family and housing arrangements in the United States during the early 20th century We describe the social organization of these practices — with particular emphasis on the coordinating activity of the OYOH Section of the Department of Labor — and provide specific examples from texts of the Nation…
Life History and the Critique of American Sociological Practice
This paper is a contribution to the uses of life histories and the dialogue regarding the 'standards' for their use. Through a meta-analysis of life histories in the United States since the publication of the Polish Peasant, we develop a typology to critically evaluate their methodological/theoretical practices in sociology. We find a broad range of uses of life histories in the areas of substantive focus, analysis, relationship of oral history a…
Standardizing Childrearing through Housing
Drawing on oral histories and archival data, we demonstrate how both childrearing and housing practices were directly and indirectly organized around a standardized and codified textual discourse early in the twentieth century in the United States. Using institutional ethnography (IE), we begin with selected experiences of our research participants when they were girls and mothers and explicate these experiences by discovering the social relation…
Elderly Women Living Alone: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations from a Feminist Perspective
Recent demographic and historical trends have generated a growing interest in the special population of elderly women who live alone. Most housing and gerontological experts view this population at risk for institutionalization and loss of independent living. Five underlying assumptions and themes are identified in past research on elderly housing. These five areas are (a) a reliance on socio-psychological explanations of people’s attitudes; (b) …
Active Living: Transforming the Organization of Retirement and Housing in the U.S
We examine the transformation of the social institutions of retirement and housing in the US in the latter part of the 20th century. Using institutional ethnography we explicate a woman's experience relocating to an age segregated community. Her relocation is predicated upon ideological practices that reconceptualize retirement as "active living" and the construction of a setting in which retirees engage in this new lifestyle. We demonstrate the …
Living Alone in Old Age: Institutionalized Discourse and Women's Knowledge
We examine the social organization of “living alone” using both the narratives of elderly women and the academic, professional, and popular cultural textual discourses in which ideological practices are organized about this manner of living and housing. Using institutional ethnography, we examine the organizing practices of living alone through an analysis of the gender and class relations in the institution of housing. We argue that housing regi…
Anarchistic Methodology: Methodological Anti-Authoritarianism as a Resolution to Paradigmatic Disputes in the Social Sciences
This paper is seen as a necessary exercise in methodological iconoclasm. Paul Feyerabend's arguments that “science is an essentially anarchistic enterprise” in his Against Method are extended to social scientific thought. Distinctions are drawn between methodological and sociopolitical anarchism. Feyerabend's criticisms of methodological consistency are discussed. ‘Facts’ are problematic conceptualizations whose constituent elements are to be fou…
Elderly Women Living Alone: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations from a Feminist Perspective
Recent demographic and historical trends have generated a growing interest in the special population of elderly women who live alone. Most housing and gerontological experts view this population at risk for institutionalization and loss of independent living. Five underlying assumptions and themes are identified in past research on elderly housing. These five areas are (a) a reliance on socio-psychological explanations of people’s attitudes; (b) …
Life History and the Critique of American Sociological Practice
This paper is a contribution to the uses of life histories and the dialogue regarding the 'standards' for their use. Through a meta-analysis of life histories in the United States since the publication of the Polish Peasant, we develop a typology to critically evaluate their methodological/theoretical practices in sociology. We find a broad range of uses of life histories in the areas of substantive focus, analysis, relationship of oral history a…
Active Living: Transforming the Organization of Retirement and Housing in the U.S
We examine the transformation of the social institutions of retirement and housing in the US in the latter part of the 20th century. Using institutional ethnography we explicate a woman's experience relocating to an age segregated community. Her relocation is predicated upon ideological practices that reconceptualize retirement as "active living" and the construction of a setting in which retirees engage in this new lifestyle. We demonstrate the …
Living Alone in Old Age: Institutionalized Discourse and Women's Knowledge
We examine the social organization of “living alone” using both the narratives of elderly women and the academic, professional, and popular cultural textual discourses in which ideological practices are organized about this manner of living and housing. Using institutional ethnography, we examine the organizing practices of living alone through an analysis of the gender and class relations in the institution of housing. We argue that housing regi…
Be a Genuine Homemaker in Your Own Home: Gender and Familial Relations in State Housing Practices, 1917-1922
Using institutional ethnography we examine the Own-Your-Own-Home (OYOH) movement as a configuration of ideological practices designed to reorder gender, family and housing arrangements in the United States during the early 20th century We describe the social organization of these practices — with particular emphasis on the coordinating activity of the OYOH Section of the Department of Labor — and provide specific examples from texts of the Nation…
Standardizing Childrearing through Housing
Drawing on oral histories and archival data, we demonstrate how both childrearing and housing practices were directly and indirectly organized around a standardized and codified textual discourse early in the twentieth century in the United States. Using institutional ethnography (IE), we begin with selected experiences of our research participants when they were girls and mothers and explicate these experiences by discovering the social relation…
Incorporating Texts into Institutional Ethnographies
Incorporating Texts into Institutional Ethnographies presents a selection of essays highlighting the ethnographic investigation of how texts coordinate and organize people’s activities across space and time.
Introduction to the Special Issue: New Scholarship in Institutional Ethnography
Twelve years ago the Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare (JSSW) published a special issue devoted to institutional ethnography, “Institutional Ethnography: Theory and Practice” (Winfield, 2003). This alternative sociology, founded by Dorothy E. Smith, begins from the standpoint of the experiences of particular, active subjects and sets out to discover and describe the social relations shaping those experiences (Smith, 1987, 2005, 2006). JSSW,…
Palgrave Handbook of Institutional Ethnography
Institutional Ethnography: Sociology for Today
The Palgrave Handbook of Institutional Ethnography
Critical Commentary on Institutional Ethnography: IE Scholars Speak to Its Promise
This edited volume provides constructive commentary on the theory, methods and practices of institutional ethnography.
Sociology (13 works) · Anthropology (9 works) · Ethnography (8 works) · Political science (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Politics (4 works)