Thomas Degloma
Biographic Data
| ID | 246418 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Degloma |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Degloma |
| SIGNATURE | DEGLOMA T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Theme-Driven Social Analysis: Three Approaches
In this article, I present three strategies for building cultural and historical analyses that are driven by broadly relevant social themes rather than particular cases. Each of these strategies represents a different way to approach 'concept-driven sociology,' focusing the researcher on robust and deep-seated social and cultural forces that underly and shape various actions, events, and experiences occurring at different times and places. Such a…
Interpreting the Body: Between Meaning and Matter
The Oxford Handbook of Symbolic Interactionism
The Oxford Handbook of Symbolic Interactionism features a diverse array of cutting-edge scholarship. Contributors present original research in various established and emerging areas of symbolic interactionism (SI) while outlining key theoretical and methodological foundations of this multifaceted and broadly relevant perspective in the field of sociology. The scholars featured in this volume present new and evolving outlooks on foundational SI th…
The Thematic Lens: A Formal and Cultural Framework for Comparative Ethnographic Analysis
This chapter outlines a comparative framework for ethnographic analysis that combines contributions from formal sociology, symbolic interaction, and the strong program in cultural sociology. Building on the methodological perspective that Eviatar Zerubavel has termed “social pattern analysis,” the authors show how underlying formal properties, including patterns of social interaction, foundational narrative structures, and formulaic modes of perf…
The strategies of mnemonic battle: On the alignment of autobiographical and collective memories in conflicts over the past
The Unconscious in Cultural Dispute
The Unconscious in Cultural Dispute: On the Ethics of Psychosocial Discovery
In the 1970s, psychoanalysis came under attack on two fronts. On the one hand, proponents of a new biomedical model of psychiatry began pushing for a major paradigmatic shift in the 1980 revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (Cooksey and Brown, 1998; Horwitz, 2002). On the other hand, various social movement communities, including the North American feminist movement, the growing gay pride movement, and the anti-wa…
Seeing the Light: The Social Logic of Personal Discovery
The chorus of the Christian hymn Amazing Grace reads, once was lost, but now am found, / Was blind but now I see. Composed by a priest who formerly worked as a slave trader, the song expresses his experience of divine intervention after a perilous trip at sea, one that ultimately caused him to see the error of his ways. This theme of personal awakening is a feature of countless stories throughout history, where wretches like the slave owner are s…
Awakenings: Autobiography, Memory, and the Social Logic of Personal Discovery
Taking a formal, sociocognitive approach to narrative analysis, I explore autobiographical stories about discovering "truth" in political, psychological, religious, and sexual realms of social life. Despite (1) significant differences in subject matter and (2) conflicting or oppositional notions of truth, individuals in different social environments tell stories that follow the same awakening formula. Analyzing accounts from a wide variety of soc…
Expanding Trauma through Space and Time: Mapping the Rhetorical Strategies of Trauma Carrier Groups
In this article, I detail two rhetorical strategies that trauma carrier groups—including social movement organizations, professional mental health associations, and patient advocacy groups—use to expand the relevance of trauma and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) through space and time: the social transmission of trauma and the social affiliation of traumatic experiences. With regard to social transmission, carrier groups claim that the psyc…
The Social Logic of 'False Memories: Symbolic Awakenings and Symbolic Worlds in Survivor and Retractor Narratives
Taking an interactionist, narrative approach to psychology's 'memory wars,' I analyze the accounts of self-identified survivors of childhood sexual abuse (traditionally emphasized by 'recovered' memory advocates) and the accounts of retractors-those who reject their former memories of childhood sexual abuse (traditionally emphasized by 'false' memory advocates). Although typically held to be oppositional, both groups conform to similar patterns o…
Awakenings: Autobiography, Memory, and the Social Logic of Personal Discovery
Taking a formal, sociocognitive approach to narrative analysis, I explore autobiographical stories about discovering "truth" in political, psychological, religious, and sexual realms of social life. Despite (1) significant differences in subject matter and (2) conflicting or oppositional notions of truth, individuals in different social environments tell stories that follow the same awakening formula. Analyzing accounts from a wide variety of soc…
The strategies of mnemonic battle: On the alignment of autobiographical and collective memories in conflicts over the past
Expanding Trauma through Space and Time: Mapping the Rhetorical Strategies of Trauma Carrier Groups
In this article, I detail two rhetorical strategies that trauma carrier groups—including social movement organizations, professional mental health associations, and patient advocacy groups—use to expand the relevance of trauma and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) through space and time: the social transmission of trauma and the social affiliation of traumatic experiences. With regard to social transmission, carrier groups claim that the psyc…
The Social Logic of 'False Memories: Symbolic Awakenings and Symbolic Worlds in Survivor and Retractor Narratives
Taking an interactionist, narrative approach to psychology's 'memory wars,' I analyze the accounts of self-identified survivors of childhood sexual abuse (traditionally emphasized by 'recovered' memory advocates) and the accounts of retractors-those who reject their former memories of childhood sexual abuse (traditionally emphasized by 'false' memory advocates). Although typically held to be oppositional, both groups conform to similar patterns o…
The Social Logic of 'False Memories: Symbolic Awakenings and Symbolic Worlds in Survivor and Retractor Narratives
Taking an interactionist, narrative approach to psychology's 'memory wars,' I analyze the accounts of self-identified survivors of childhood sexual abuse (traditionally emphasized by 'recovered' memory advocates) and the accounts of retractors-those who reject their former memories of childhood sexual abuse (traditionally emphasized by 'false' memory advocates). Although typically held to be oppositional, both groups conform to similar patterns o…
Expanding Trauma through Space and Time: Mapping the Rhetorical Strategies of Trauma Carrier Groups
In this article, I detail two rhetorical strategies that trauma carrier groups—including social movement organizations, professional mental health associations, and patient advocacy groups—use to expand the relevance of trauma and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) through space and time: the social transmission of trauma and the social affiliation of traumatic experiences. With regard to social transmission, carrier groups claim that the psyc…
Awakenings: Autobiography, Memory, and the Social Logic of Personal Discovery
Taking a formal, sociocognitive approach to narrative analysis, I explore autobiographical stories about discovering "truth" in political, psychological, religious, and sexual realms of social life. Despite (1) significant differences in subject matter and (2) conflicting or oppositional notions of truth, individuals in different social environments tell stories that follow the same awakening formula. Analyzing accounts from a wide variety of soc…
The Unconscious in Cultural Dispute
The Unconscious in Cultural Dispute: On the Ethics of Psychosocial Discovery
In the 1970s, psychoanalysis came under attack on two fronts. On the one hand, proponents of a new biomedical model of psychiatry began pushing for a major paradigmatic shift in the 1980 revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (Cooksey and Brown, 1998; Horwitz, 2002). On the other hand, various social movement communities, including the North American feminist movement, the growing gay pride movement, and the anti-wa…
Seeing the Light: The Social Logic of Personal Discovery
The chorus of the Christian hymn Amazing Grace reads, once was lost, but now am found, / Was blind but now I see. Composed by a priest who formerly worked as a slave trader, the song expresses his experience of divine intervention after a perilous trip at sea, one that ultimately caused him to see the error of his ways. This theme of personal awakening is a feature of countless stories throughout history, where wretches like the slave owner are s…
The strategies of mnemonic battle: On the alignment of autobiographical and collective memories in conflicts over the past
The Thematic Lens: A Formal and Cultural Framework for Comparative Ethnographic Analysis
This chapter outlines a comparative framework for ethnographic analysis that combines contributions from formal sociology, symbolic interaction, and the strong program in cultural sociology. Building on the methodological perspective that Eviatar Zerubavel has termed “social pattern analysis,” the authors show how underlying formal properties, including patterns of social interaction, foundational narrative structures, and formulaic modes of perf…
The Oxford Handbook of Symbolic Interactionism
The Oxford Handbook of Symbolic Interactionism features a diverse array of cutting-edge scholarship. Contributors present original research in various established and emerging areas of symbolic interactionism (SI) while outlining key theoretical and methodological foundations of this multifaceted and broadly relevant perspective in the field of sociology. The scholars featured in this volume present new and evolving outlooks on foundational SI th…
Interpreting the Body: Between Meaning and Matter
Theme-Driven Social Analysis: Three Approaches
In this article, I present three strategies for building cultural and historical analyses that are driven by broadly relevant social themes rather than particular cases. Each of these strategies represents a different way to approach 'concept-driven sociology,' focusing the researcher on robust and deep-seated social and cultural forces that underly and shape various actions, events, and experiences occurring at different times and places. Such a…
Psychology (7 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Autobiographical memory (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration (3 works) · Narrative (3 works) · Politics (3 works)