Ira Silver
Biographic Data
| ID | 245457 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ira Silver |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ira |
| FAMILY NAME | Silver |
| SIGNATURE | SILVER I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Framingham State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 208 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Constructing Problems by Promoting Solutions: Corporate Advertisements about U.S. Poverty
During the 1980s and 1990s corporations publicized their “social responsibilities” in popular print media. These ads make claims about issues such as the environment, consumer protection, neighborhood revitalization, education, arts and entertainment, and health. We examine a set of these ads and analyze the ways in which they construct social problems. We focus on ads about poverty, assessing the meaning and impact of business discourse about po…
Disentangling Class from Philanthropy: The Double-edged Sword of Alternative Giving
A recurring theme echoed by critics of United States philanthropy is that foundations are instrumental in reproducing the class privilege of elites. Since the early 1970s, a cluster of 'alternative' foundations has responded to this critique in two ways: 1) By distributing grants to recipients largely overlooked by mainstream philanthropy: marginalized groups organizing for progressive social change, and 2) By making grant decisions in ways that …
Unequal Partnerships: Beyond the Rhetoric of Philanthropic Collaboration
Unequal Partnerships: Beyond the Rhetoric of Philanthropic Collaboration
This book furthers our understanding of the hierarchical relationship between foundations and the organizations they fund. It investigates community-based organizations’ strategic attempts to assert influence over foundation funding priorities. The book draws upon several years of research about comprehensive community initiatives undertaken by foundations in cities across the U.S. during the 1980s and 1990s; initiatives that aimed to give commun…
Poverty, Partnerships, and Privilege: Elite Institutions and Community Empowerment
During the 1990s, universities and foundations separately entered into community partnerships with the intent of revitalizing poor urban neighborhoods. We describe the historical context that preceded their involvement in these partnerships, outline the evolution in ideas about “community empowerment” integral to such partnerships, and explain the partnership model's attractiveness. We then analyze how and why these partnerships embraced the rhet…
Demystifying the hidden magic of producing sociologists
Brief History of Social Problems: A Critical Thinking Approach
The business of becoming a professional sociologist: Unpacking the informal training of graduate school
Voluntary Organisations and Social Policy in Britain: Perspectives on Change and Choice
Voluntary Organisations and Social Policy: Twenty Years of Change M.Harris, C.Rochester and P.Halfpenny Public Policy, Social Policy and Voluntary Organisations N.Deakin Tackling Social Exclusion: The Contribution of Voluntary Organisations D.Billis Contracting: The Experience of Service Delivery Agencies D.W.Scott and L.Russell Regulation: The Impact on Local Voluntary Action C.Rochester Regeneration: The Role and Impact of Local Development Age…
Poverty reform through philanthropic initiative
Strategically Legitimizing Philanthropists' Identity Claims: Community Organizations as Key Players in the Making of Corporate Social Responsibility
No Middle Ground: Women and Radical Protest
Working-class Appalachian women on the picket line, fighting for better working conditions. White women organizing against the racial integration of schools. Native American women struggling for Indian treaty rights. African American women in the Black Panther Party. What prompts these women to adopt political stances outside mainstream politics? How are these women changed by personal experiences of militancy and activism? Until recently, radica…
Teaching Social Theory through Students' Participant-Observation
L'A. montre que l'observation participante peut permettre aux etudiants en sociologie de mieux saisir le fondement et la nature des theories sociologiques. Il presente une experience pedagogique menee en ce domaine a l'Universite de Chicago, qui preconise la participation des etudiants a des stages au sein de services sociaux
Buying an Activist Identity: Reproducing Class through Social Movement Philanthropy
Those who lack the financial means to organize for social change may turn to elite funders, yet in doing so risk having their goals co-opted. Activist philanthropy minimizes this threat because its grant decisions are made by movement insiders. This structure leaves donors occupying a precarious position. Their money is essential, yet their class position is discrediting. The Crossroads Fund raises its money by integrating donors as activists alo…
Research in Social Policy: Social Justice Philanthropy
Constructing 'Social Change' through Philanthropy: Boundary Framing and the Articulation of Vocabularies of Motives for Social Movement Participation
I embrace Mills's (1940) conception of motives to offer new insight into an old question: why do people join social movements? I draw upon ethnographic research at the Crossroads Fund, a 'social change' foundation, to illustrate that actors simultaneously articulate two vocabularies of motives for movement participation: an instrumental vocabulary about dire, yet solvable, problems and an expressive vocabulary about collective identity. This inte…
Role Transitions, Objects, and Identity
Most research on role transitions, following a tradition pioneered by van Gennep, regards these major turning points in the life course primarily as times when people move between different sets of social networks. While these studies acknowledge that rites of passage occur within particular physical spaces in which material objects are present, the importance of such objects has received little attention. I explore one particular role transition…
Marketing authenticity in third world countries
Marketing authenticity in third world countries
Role Transitions, Objects, and Identity
Most research on role transitions, following a tradition pioneered by van Gennep, regards these major turning points in the life course primarily as times when people move between different sets of social networks. While these studies acknowledge that rites of passage occur within particular physical spaces in which material objects are present, the importance of such objects has received little attention. I explore one particular role transition…
The business of becoming a professional sociologist: Unpacking the informal training of graduate school
Constructing 'Social Change' through Philanthropy: Boundary Framing and the Articulation of Vocabularies of Motives for Social Movement Participation
I embrace Mills's (1940) conception of motives to offer new insight into an old question: why do people join social movements? I draw upon ethnographic research at the Crossroads Fund, a 'social change' foundation, to illustrate that actors simultaneously articulate two vocabularies of motives for movement participation: an instrumental vocabulary about dire, yet solvable, problems and an expressive vocabulary about collective identity. This inte…
Buying an Activist Identity: Reproducing Class through Social Movement Philanthropy
Those who lack the financial means to organize for social change may turn to elite funders, yet in doing so risk having their goals co-opted. Activist philanthropy minimizes this threat because its grant decisions are made by movement insiders. This structure leaves donors occupying a precarious position. Their money is essential, yet their class position is discrediting. The Crossroads Fund raises its money by integrating donors as activists alo…
Teaching Social Theory through Students' Participant-Observation
L'A. montre que l'observation participante peut permettre aux etudiants en sociologie de mieux saisir le fondement et la nature des theories sociologiques. Il presente une experience pedagogique menee en ce domaine a l'Universite de Chicago, qui preconise la participation des etudiants a des stages au sein de services sociaux
Poverty, Partnerships, and Privilege: Elite Institutions and Community Empowerment
During the 1990s, universities and foundations separately entered into community partnerships with the intent of revitalizing poor urban neighborhoods. We describe the historical context that preceded their involvement in these partnerships, outline the evolution in ideas about “community empowerment” integral to such partnerships, and explain the partnership model's attractiveness. We then analyze how and why these partnerships embraced the rhet…
Demystifying the hidden magic of producing sociologists
Disentangling Class from Philanthropy: The Double-edged Sword of Alternative Giving
A recurring theme echoed by critics of United States philanthropy is that foundations are instrumental in reproducing the class privilege of elites. Since the early 1970s, a cluster of 'alternative' foundations has responded to this critique in two ways: 1) By distributing grants to recipients largely overlooked by mainstream philanthropy: marginalized groups organizing for progressive social change, and 2) By making grant decisions in ways that …
Brief History of Social Problems: A Critical Thinking Approach
Strategically Legitimizing Philanthropists' Identity Claims: Community Organizations as Key Players in the Making of Corporate Social Responsibility
Marketing authenticity in third world countries
Role Transitions, Objects, and Identity
Most research on role transitions, following a tradition pioneered by van Gennep, regards these major turning points in the life course primarily as times when people move between different sets of social networks. While these studies acknowledge that rites of passage occur within particular physical spaces in which material objects are present, the importance of such objects has received little attention. I explore one particular role transition…
Research in Social Policy: Social Justice Philanthropy
Constructing 'Social Change' through Philanthropy: Boundary Framing and the Articulation of Vocabularies of Motives for Social Movement Participation
I embrace Mills's (1940) conception of motives to offer new insight into an old question: why do people join social movements? I draw upon ethnographic research at the Crossroads Fund, a 'social change' foundation, to illustrate that actors simultaneously articulate two vocabularies of motives for movement participation: an instrumental vocabulary about dire, yet solvable, problems and an expressive vocabulary about collective identity. This inte…
Teaching Social Theory through Students' Participant-Observation
L'A. montre que l'observation participante peut permettre aux etudiants en sociologie de mieux saisir le fondement et la nature des theories sociologiques. Il presente une experience pedagogique menee en ce domaine a l'Universite de Chicago, qui preconise la participation des etudiants a des stages au sein de services sociaux
Buying an Activist Identity: Reproducing Class through Social Movement Philanthropy
Those who lack the financial means to organize for social change may turn to elite funders, yet in doing so risk having their goals co-opted. Activist philanthropy minimizes this threat because its grant decisions are made by movement insiders. This structure leaves donors occupying a precarious position. Their money is essential, yet their class position is discrediting. The Crossroads Fund raises its money by integrating donors as activists alo…
No Middle Ground: Women and Radical Protest
Working-class Appalachian women on the picket line, fighting for better working conditions. White women organizing against the racial integration of schools. Native American women struggling for Indian treaty rights. African American women in the Black Panther Party. What prompts these women to adopt political stances outside mainstream politics? How are these women changed by personal experiences of militancy and activism? Until recently, radica…
Poverty reform through philanthropic initiative
Strategically Legitimizing Philanthropists' Identity Claims: Community Organizations as Key Players in the Making of Corporate Social Responsibility
Voluntary Organisations and Social Policy in Britain: Perspectives on Change and Choice
Voluntary Organisations and Social Policy: Twenty Years of Change M.Harris, C.Rochester and P.Halfpenny Public Policy, Social Policy and Voluntary Organisations N.Deakin Tackling Social Exclusion: The Contribution of Voluntary Organisations D.Billis Contracting: The Experience of Service Delivery Agencies D.W.Scott and L.Russell Regulation: The Impact on Local Voluntary Action C.Rochester Regeneration: The Role and Impact of Local Development Age…
The business of becoming a professional sociologist: Unpacking the informal training of graduate school
Unequal Partnerships: Beyond the Rhetoric of Philanthropic Collaboration
Unequal Partnerships: Beyond the Rhetoric of Philanthropic Collaboration
This book furthers our understanding of the hierarchical relationship between foundations and the organizations they fund. It investigates community-based organizations’ strategic attempts to assert influence over foundation funding priorities. The book draws upon several years of research about comprehensive community initiatives undertaken by foundations in cities across the U.S. during the 1980s and 1990s; initiatives that aimed to give commun…
Poverty, Partnerships, and Privilege: Elite Institutions and Community Empowerment
During the 1990s, universities and foundations separately entered into community partnerships with the intent of revitalizing poor urban neighborhoods. We describe the historical context that preceded their involvement in these partnerships, outline the evolution in ideas about “community empowerment” integral to such partnerships, and explain the partnership model's attractiveness. We then analyze how and why these partnerships embraced the rhet…
Demystifying the hidden magic of producing sociologists
Brief History of Social Problems: A Critical Thinking Approach
Disentangling Class from Philanthropy: The Double-edged Sword of Alternative Giving
A recurring theme echoed by critics of United States philanthropy is that foundations are instrumental in reproducing the class privilege of elites. Since the early 1970s, a cluster of 'alternative' foundations has responded to this critique in two ways: 1) By distributing grants to recipients largely overlooked by mainstream philanthropy: marginalized groups organizing for progressive social change, and 2) By making grant decisions in ways that …
Constructing Problems by Promoting Solutions: Corporate Advertisements about U.S. Poverty
During the 1980s and 1990s corporations publicized their “social responsibilities” in popular print media. These ads make claims about issues such as the environment, consumer protection, neighborhood revitalization, education, arts and entertainment, and health. We examine a set of these ads and analyze the ways in which they construct social problems. We focus on ads about poverty, assessing the meaning and impact of business discourse about po…
Political science (15 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Law (9 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Public relations (6 works) · Social and Cultural Dynamics (6 works) · Social science (6 works) · Public Administration (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Economics (4 works)