Steven I Miller

Biographic Data

ID248360
NAMESteven I Miller
GIVEN NAMESSteven I
FAMILY NAMEMiller
SIGNATUREMILLER S I
AFFILIATIONSLoyola University Chicago
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS34
TOTAL CITATIONS51
AUTHOR COUNT34
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1974
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
H-INDEX5

  • Counterfeit Capital: Poetic Labor and Revolutionary Irony

    Steven I Miller, Steven MillerARTICLESubStance2009

    Reviewed by: Counterfeit Capital: Poetic Labor and Revolutionary Irony Steven Miller (bio) Bajorek, Jennifer. Counterfeit Capital: Poetic Labor and Revolutionary Irony. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008. Pp. 160. Jennifer Bajorek’s Counterfeit Capital is a superb and unexpected hybrid entity: a book that manages to make time for intricate readings of Baudelaire’s poetry even as it remains preoccupied, from beginning to end, with revolutio…

  • Social Science Research and Policymaking: Meta-Analysis and Paradox

    Steven I Miller, Marcel Fredericks et al.ARTICLEProtoSociology2008

  • Mixed Methods and Ontological Commitments

    Steven I Miller, Steven Miller et al.ARTICLEProtoSociology2006

  • Mixed-Methods and Evaluation Research: Trends and Issues

    Open AccessSteven I Miller, Marcel FredericksARTICLEQualitative Health Research2006Cited by: 11References: 2

    In this article, the authors attempt an initial exploration of the relevancy of the newly emerging field of mixed-methods research for educational evaluation. They give a brief introduction concerning the intent and variety of mixed-methods designs and models. They focus the analysis on some of the general issues and problems of this emerging field, including the lack of clear-cut procedural rules and differing ontological commitments. However, t…

  • The Nature of 'Evidence' in Qualitative Research Methods

    Open AccessSteven I Miller, Steven Miller et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2003Cited by: 3References: 10

    The article is an attempt to show that a continuing issue in qualitative research methods is describing and justifying how qualitative data become 'evidence' for a claim. Several models from the field of Confirmation Theory are developed and described within the context of a qualitative research example. It is argued that for the qualitative research case, the meaning and application of what constitutes evidence is best viewed in terms of a prima…

  • Are “Contexts and Events” Equivalent: Possibilities for an Ontological Symbiosis

    Steven I Miller, Steven Miller et al.ARTICLEProtoSociology2002

  • Social Science and (Null) Hypothesis Testing: Some Ontological Issues

    Steven I Miller, Steven Miller et al.ARTICLEProtoSociology2002

  • Naturalistic Inquiry and Reliabilism: A Compatible Epistemological Grounding

    Open AccessSteven I Miller, Marcel FredericksARTICLEQualitative Health Research2002

    In this brief analysis, the authors suggest that naturalistic inquiry as a field must return to a more rigorous interpretation of epistemological issues. The need is highlighted by the fact that ideological and methodological claims are increasingly becoming conflated. This produces a distancing of what is truly at stake: a need to defend a genuine epistemological theory consistent with the aims of naturalistic perspectives and establish some ont…

  • Articles

    Steven Tozer, Steven E Tozer et al.ARTICLEEducational Studies2000Cited by: 8References: 5

    Since publication of the 1986 Carnegie Commission report, A Nation Prepared: Teachers for the 21st Century, the professional teaching standards movement has gained noticeable momentum. The professional standards movement in teaching has been fueled by national organizations such as the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education, the Interstate New Teachers Assessment and Support Consortium, the National Board for Professional Teachin…

  • The Family Resemblance Metaphor: Some Unfinished Business of Interpretive Inquiry

    Open AccessSteven I Miller, Marcel FredericksARTICLEQualitative Health Research2000Cited by: 1References: 12

    The rapidly expanding discipline of interpretive inquiry, especially in its narrative analysis form, has not been fully cognizant of certain crucial epistemological and methodological assumptions that form the ultimate basis of its purpose. Even after abandoning traditional positivist views, the related disciplines within the human sciences that are engaged in interpretive inquiry have still not discovered the core implicit assumptions that milit…

  • The Rationalitätstreit Revisited: A Note on Roth’s “Methodological Pluralism”

    Open AccessSteven I MillerARTICLEPhilosophy of the Social Sciences1999References: 6

    Roth’s analysis of the Rationalitätstreit (i.e., the debate[s] about rationality) stands as one of the major works on how the debate affects a wide range of issues in the philosophy of science and the social sciences. His principal thesis is that the debate may be seen as a series of Quine-type “translation manuals,” exhibiting characteristics of paradigms (following Kuhn 1970) that can be treated as testable scientific theories by adequate empir…

  • How Does Grounded Theory Explain

    Open AccessSteven I Miller, Marcel FredericksARTICLEQualitative Health Research1999Cited by: 2References: 9

    This article argues that the concept of grounded theory, widely used in research in the human sciences, has not been adequately analyzed as to its structure as a theory. Analyzing grounded theory from predictionist and accommodationist views, as well as focusing on the issue of inference to the best explanation, it is concluded that this form of theorizing is basically accommodationist. Moreover, grounded theory, in terms of providing explanation…

  • Hearing Discordant Voices: Some Notes on Using Bayes's Theorem in Interpretive Inquiry

    Open AccessSteven I Miller, Marcel FredericksARTICLEQualitative Health Research1998

    The focus of these brief comments is to argue that Bayes's theorem may have conceptual and pedagogical applications for qualitative analysis. We suggest that the theorem is a salient alternative voice for the development of sensitizing concepts. It is also proposed that the theorem is a useful heuristic for raising deep-structure issues such as the nature of qualitative evidence and how such evidence becomes confirming for a given claim

  • Science in teh early Athenaeum: A mirror of crystallization

    Open AccessSusan Holland, Steven I Miller et al.ARTICLEPublic Understanding of Science1997

    The Athenaeum, one of the most influential weekly magazines of Victorian Britain, was launched in 1828, towards the end of the period which saw the crystallization of science out of eighteenth-century natural philosophy and the differentiation of the individual sciences one from another. We examine the magazine's coverage of specific scientific areas in the year from May 1828 to April 1829, looking at what it defined as science and how it arrived…

  • Another View of Translation Manuals and the Study of Science

    Open AccessSteven I Miller, Marcel FredericksARTICLESynthese1997References: 10

  • Some comments on the inability of sociology of science to explain science

    Open AccessSteven I Miller, Steven Miller et al.ARTICLEPhilosophy & Social Criticism1994References: 8

  • Truth in Packaging: Teaching Controversial Topics to Undergraduates in the Human Sciences

    Marcel Fredericks, Steven I MillerARTICLETeaching Sociology1993

    This article explores the issue of introducing controversial topics to undergraduate students in the human sciences, especially if such topics may raise contradictory views in terms of the core concepts of the discipline. Though such issues may be left for advanced courses, the matter of not introducing them may raise potential ethical concerns for the instructor. This paper argues that controversial topics, given students' backgrounds, ought to …

  • Some notes on the nature of methodological indeterminacy

    Open AccessSteven I Miller, Marcel FredericksARTICLESynthese1991References: 6

  • A Case for “Qualitative Confirmation” for the Social and Behavioral Sciences

    Open AccessSteven I Miller, Marcel FredericksARTICLEPhilosophy of Science1991Cited by: 5References: 12

    This paper attempts to clarify the meaning and significance of “qualitative confirmation”. The need to do so is related to the fact that, without such a conceptualization, a large portion of the human sciences are relegated to a less than scientific status. Accordingly, “qualitative confirmation” is viewed as a proper subset of traditional confirmation theory. To establish such a case, a general Hempelian framework is utilized, but it is suppleme…

  • Postpositivistic Assumptions and Educational Research: Another View

    Steven I Miller, Marcel FredericksARTICLEEducational Researcher1991Cited by: 5References: 20

    This analysis attempts to look again at the major concepts of the “new philosophy of science” in terms of their relevance for educational research. The argument is made that such concepts as underdetermination and incommensurability have limited applicability to many areas of educational research. This is due to the fact that such terms are based on the existence of genuine theories as found in the natural sciences, and the requirements for such …

  • Perceptions of the Crisis in American Public Education: The Relationship of Metaphors to Ideology

    Steven I Miller, Marcel FredericksARTICLEMetaphor and Symbolic Activity1990

    This article analyzes the types of metaphors found in the influential report, A Nation at Risk. The large number of metaphorical statements in a document used to develop long-range social policy for educational reform raises the question of the relationship of these types of statements to the formulation and implementation of policy. It is argued that metaphors are coded messages that are used to justify an implicit ideological stance. In this ca…

  • Paradoxes, Dilemmas, and Teaching Sociology

    Marcel Fredericks, Steven I MillerARTICLETeaching Sociology1990Cited by: 1

    idea of a paradox. 5. At this point we generally introduce a sociological example of a dilemma. We do this by introducing an issue, giving relevant background information, developing an argument, and indicating the alternatives that produce the dilemma. Example: American society has many important social problems, one of which is providing for equality of educational opportunity (EEO). One way of trying to provide for EEO has been through busing.…

  • Uses of metaphor: A qualitative case study

    Steven I Miller, Marcel FredericksARTICLEInternational Journal of…1988Cited by: 3References: 17

    This article argues that the analysis of metaphors is a proper and needed aspect of the qualitative research tradition. A brief review is given of some theoretical issues surrounding metaphor. Then an analysis is made of metaphors that were generated by teachers about effective teaching and effective schools. The metaphors are classified and analyzed using several frameworks from the literature on metaphor. An argument is made that metaphors are …

  • The Effects of Perceptions of the Academic Job Market on Adjunct Faculty: An Identity-Theory Analysis

    Michael E Kuchera, Steven I MillerARTICLESociology of Education1988Cited by: 1

    Michael E. Kuchera, Steven I. Miller, The Effects of Perceptions of the Academic Job Market on Adjunct Faculty: An Identity-Theory Analysis, Sociology of Education, Vol. 61, No. 4 (Oct., 1988), pp. 240-254

  • The Use of Conceptual Analysis for Teaching Sociology Courses

    Marcel Fredericks, Steven I MillerARTICLETeaching Sociology1987

    This paper is a beginning attempt to introduce teachers of intermediate and advanced sociology courses to the potential benefits of using conceptual analysis as an alternative didactic strategy. The basic framework for this approach is outlined briefly in terms of its foundations in analytic philosophy. The paper then reviews some relevant sociological literature which has incorporated the viewpoint of language analysis (or, alternatively, concep…