Joey Sprague
Biographic Data
| ID | 267442 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joey Sprague |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joey |
| FAMILY NAME | Sprague |
| SIGNATURE | SPRAGUE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kansas |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 299 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Feminist Methodologies for Critical Researchers: Bridging Differences
This accessible text on social research methodology teaches students of sociology and related disciplines how standard methods can be adapted toward critical ends. The second edition has been updated throughout to incorporate the latest critical scholarship, enhanced discussion of qualitative methods, new material on global issues, sex/sexuality/gender, new discussion of intersectionality, how social media can shape research, and more. Author Joe…
Economic Sociology vs. Real Life: The Case of Grocery Shopping
Economic sociology improves on neoclassical economics but underanalyzes the economic activity of the consumer, leaving the assumption of consumer sovereignty unchallenged. We believe economic sociology marginalizes consumer activity because it is written from the standpoint of privileged men. Using institutional ethnography, we examine economic activity beginning from a standpoint of the person who grocery shops for a family. Starting from this s…
The Standpoint of Art/Criticism: Cindy Sherman as Feminist Artist
Feminist Standpoint Theory identifies knowledge as a social product developed from a specific social position. We apply this theory to explore the dominant standpoint informing the social organization of Western art via an institution we call art/criticism. We find that the assumptions, values, and analytic strategies informing mainstream art and art criticism express the standpoint of privileged men. As a test of our argument, we consider the ca…
Research and reporting on the development of sex in fetuses: Gendered from the start
Research into human genetics has been expanding rapidly and most people learn about that research from mass media. Because prior research finds gender bias in aspects of both science and the media, we investigate the messages presented to the public concerning the relationship between biology and gender, taking as a case research on the genetic development of sexual difference before birth. We examine both the science that is getting media attent…
Institutional Barriers to Doing Public Sociology: Experiences of Feminists in the Academy
Sociology: The Good, the Bad, and the Public
Institutional Ethnography: A Sociology for People
Prominent sociologist Dorothy Smith outlines a method of inquiry that uses everyday experience as a lens to examine social relations and social institutions. Concerned with articulating an inclusive sociology that goes beyond looking at a particular group of people from the detached viewpoint of the researcher, this is a method of inquiry for people, incorporating the expert's research and language into everyday experience to examine social relat…
Student Evaluations and Gendered Expectations: What We Can't Count Can Hurt Us
"Comment on Walby's "Against Epistemological Chasms: "The Science Question in Feminism Revisited": Structured Knowledge and Strategic Methodology
Experiments in Knowing: Gender and Method in the Social Sciences
Part I: Modern Problems. 1. Who Knows?. 2. Paradigm Wars. 3. Hearing the Grass Grow. Part II: A Brief History of Methodology. 4. Cartesian Nightmares. 5. Mean Values. 6. Imagining Social Science. 7. Chance is a Fine Thing. Part III: Experiments and Their Enemies. 8. Experimental Sociology: The Early Years. 9. Of NITS and LIFE and Other Things. 10. Lessons from America. 11. The Rights of Animals and Other Creatures. Part IV: Moving On. 12. People'…
Self‐Determination and Empowerment: A Feminist Standpoint Analysis of Talk about Disability
In this paper we offer a feminist analysis of talk about self‐determination and empowerment in the context of disability, focusing on the case of developmental disabilities. We find strains of the same patterns feminist epistemologists have argued shape the organization of formal knowledge from the standpoint of the privileged. At the extreme, people with developmental disabilities appear as objects without selves, outside of the context of inter…
Is Science Multicultural? Postcolonialisms, Feminisms, and Epistemologies
Parenting in Black and White Families: The Interaction of Gender with Race and Class
It is widely believed that gendered expectations are communicated to children in the process of socialization. However, there is reason to ask whether and how gender is constructed in Black families. An early perspective that still continues to inform some contemporary research is assimilationism, which assumes that Black people embrace and pass on to their children the gender norms of the dominant white society. The Afrocentric perspective chall…
Standpoints and the Discourse on Abortion: The Reproductive Debate
We use Hartsock's standpoint theory to argue that a key reason for the intractability of the abortion debate is that it is framed in the terms of the standpoint of economically privileged, white men. Drawing on a range of feminist analyses of how gender, class, and race structure consciousness, we first identify key parameters of the dominant standpoint. Then we show how they are expressed in pro-life and pro-choice discourse by identifying four …
(Re)Making Sociology: Breaking the Bonds of Our Discipline
What is sociology? The question tends to focus our attention on issues of topic and/or method, and at that point we can see why the question emerges. We are increasingly diverse on both dimensions. Of course, any good sociologist, certainly Dorothy Smith ( 198 7, 1990), could tell us that sociology is what we make of it. So, the question really is, how are we making sociology? Asking it that way focuses our attention more on the organization of t…
Standpoints and the discourse on abortion: The reproductive debate
Holy Men and Big Guns: The Can[n]on in Social Theory
Theory in sociology is constructed as a canon, a very short list of social theorists who have been endowed with suprahistorical status. Drawing on the feminist analysis of gendered consciousness, the author argues that social theory is organized exactly as it should be if one were thinking like a White male capitalist. The perceptual frameworks it employs-a hierarchy of the social, logical dichotomies, decontextualized abstraction, an individuali…
The Politics of Virtue: Is Abortion Debatable
Comment on Francesca M. Cancian's “Feminist Science”
The Structure of Political Thinking: A Multidimensional Model
The debate over whether or not the political belief system of the general public is in fact unidimentional is more than twenty years old and still unresolved. On the other hand, the assumption that political thinking should be unidimensional has been uncontroversial. This is intriguing since a unidimensional model of political thinking is inconsistent with what we know about politics — that it is an arena of multiple conflicting interests. It is …
Quality and quantity: Reconstructing feminist methodology
The Everyday World as Problematic: A Feminist Sociology
Which Way Is Up? Essays on Sex, Class, and Culture
The Political Uses of Symbols
The American Class Structure
This paper presents the first systematic investigation of the American class structure based on data gatheredfrom an explicitly Marxian, relational perspective. Classes in this research are not defined in terms of categories of occupations, but in terms of social relations of control over investments, decision making, other people's work, and one's own work. Data on these dimensions of social relations of production were gathered in a national su…
The American Class Structure
This paper presents the first systematic investigation of the American class structure based on data gatheredfrom an explicitly Marxian, relational perspective. Classes in this research are not defined in terms of categories of occupations, but in terms of social relations of control over investments, decision making, other people's work, and one's own work. Data on these dimensions of social relations of production were gathered in a national su…
Feminist Methodologies for Critical Researchers: Bridging Differences
This accessible text on social research methodology teaches students of sociology and related disciplines how standard methods can be adapted toward critical ends. The second edition has been updated throughout to incorporate the latest critical scholarship, enhanced discussion of qualitative methods, new material on global issues, sex/sexuality/gender, new discussion of intersectionality, how social media can shape research, and more. Author Joe…
Student Evaluations and Gendered Expectations: What We Can't Count Can Hurt Us
Quality and quantity: Reconstructing feminist methodology
Self‐Determination and Empowerment: A Feminist Standpoint Analysis of Talk about Disability
In this paper we offer a feminist analysis of talk about self‐determination and empowerment in the context of disability, focusing on the case of developmental disabilities. We find strains of the same patterns feminist epistemologists have argued shape the organization of formal knowledge from the standpoint of the privileged. At the extreme, people with developmental disabilities appear as objects without selves, outside of the context of inter…
Parenting in Black and White Families: The Interaction of Gender with Race and Class
It is widely believed that gendered expectations are communicated to children in the process of socialization. However, there is reason to ask whether and how gender is constructed in Black families. An early perspective that still continues to inform some contemporary research is assimilationism, which assumes that Black people embrace and pass on to their children the gender norms of the dominant white society. The Afrocentric perspective chall…
Holy Men and Big Guns: The Can[n]on in Social Theory
Theory in sociology is constructed as a canon, a very short list of social theorists who have been endowed with suprahistorical status. Drawing on the feminist analysis of gendered consciousness, the author argues that social theory is organized exactly as it should be if one were thinking like a White male capitalist. The perceptual frameworks it employs-a hierarchy of the social, logical dichotomies, decontextualized abstraction, an individuali…
Institutional Barriers to Doing Public Sociology: Experiences of Feminists in the Academy
Sociology: The Good, the Bad, and the Public
(Re)Making Sociology: Breaking the Bonds of Our Discipline
What is sociology? The question tends to focus our attention on issues of topic and/or method, and at that point we can see why the question emerges. We are increasingly diverse on both dimensions. Of course, any good sociologist, certainly Dorothy Smith ( 198 7, 1990), could tell us that sociology is what we make of it. So, the question really is, how are we making sociology? Asking it that way focuses our attention more on the organization of t…
The Everyday World as Problematic: A Feminist Sociology
Standpoints and the Discourse on Abortion: The Reproductive Debate
We use Hartsock's standpoint theory to argue that a key reason for the intractability of the abortion debate is that it is framed in the terms of the standpoint of economically privileged, white men. Drawing on a range of feminist analyses of how gender, class, and race structure consciousness, we first identify key parameters of the dominant standpoint. Then we show how they are expressed in pro-life and pro-choice discourse by identifying four …
The Structure of Political Thinking: A Multidimensional Model
The debate over whether or not the political belief system of the general public is in fact unidimentional is more than twenty years old and still unresolved. On the other hand, the assumption that political thinking should be unidimensional has been uncontroversial. This is intriguing since a unidimensional model of political thinking is inconsistent with what we know about politics — that it is an arena of multiple conflicting interests. It is …
The American Class Structure
This paper presents the first systematic investigation of the American class structure based on data gatheredfrom an explicitly Marxian, relational perspective. Classes in this research are not defined in terms of categories of occupations, but in terms of social relations of control over investments, decision making, other people's work, and one's own work. Data on these dimensions of social relations of production were gathered in a national su…
The Political Uses of Symbols
Which Way Is Up? Essays on Sex, Class, and Culture
The Structure of Political Thinking: A Multidimensional Model
The debate over whether or not the political belief system of the general public is in fact unidimentional is more than twenty years old and still unresolved. On the other hand, the assumption that political thinking should be unidimensional has been uncontroversial. This is intriguing since a unidimensional model of political thinking is inconsistent with what we know about politics — that it is an arena of multiple conflicting interests. It is …
Quality and quantity: Reconstructing feminist methodology
The Everyday World as Problematic: A Feminist Sociology
Comment on Francesca M. Cancian's “Feminist Science”
The Politics of Virtue: Is Abortion Debatable
Holy Men and Big Guns: The Can[n]on in Social Theory
Theory in sociology is constructed as a canon, a very short list of social theorists who have been endowed with suprahistorical status. Drawing on the feminist analysis of gendered consciousness, the author argues that social theory is organized exactly as it should be if one were thinking like a White male capitalist. The perceptual frameworks it employs-a hierarchy of the social, logical dichotomies, decontextualized abstraction, an individuali…
Standpoints and the Discourse on Abortion: The Reproductive Debate
We use Hartsock's standpoint theory to argue that a key reason for the intractability of the abortion debate is that it is framed in the terms of the standpoint of economically privileged, white men. Drawing on a range of feminist analyses of how gender, class, and race structure consciousness, we first identify key parameters of the dominant standpoint. Then we show how they are expressed in pro-life and pro-choice discourse by identifying four …
(Re)Making Sociology: Breaking the Bonds of Our Discipline
What is sociology? The question tends to focus our attention on issues of topic and/or method, and at that point we can see why the question emerges. We are increasingly diverse on both dimensions. Of course, any good sociologist, certainly Dorothy Smith ( 198 7, 1990), could tell us that sociology is what we make of it. So, the question really is, how are we making sociology? Asking it that way focuses our attention more on the organization of t…
Standpoints and the discourse on abortion: The reproductive debate
Is Science Multicultural? Postcolonialisms, Feminisms, and Epistemologies
Parenting in Black and White Families: The Interaction of Gender with Race and Class
It is widely believed that gendered expectations are communicated to children in the process of socialization. However, there is reason to ask whether and how gender is constructed in Black families. An early perspective that still continues to inform some contemporary research is assimilationism, which assumes that Black people embrace and pass on to their children the gender norms of the dominant white society. The Afrocentric perspective chall…
Self‐Determination and Empowerment: A Feminist Standpoint Analysis of Talk about Disability
In this paper we offer a feminist analysis of talk about self‐determination and empowerment in the context of disability, focusing on the case of developmental disabilities. We find strains of the same patterns feminist epistemologists have argued shape the organization of formal knowledge from the standpoint of the privileged. At the extreme, people with developmental disabilities appear as objects without selves, outside of the context of inter…
"Comment on Walby's "Against Epistemological Chasms: "The Science Question in Feminism Revisited": Structured Knowledge and Strategic Methodology
Experiments in Knowing: Gender and Method in the Social Sciences
Part I: Modern Problems. 1. Who Knows?. 2. Paradigm Wars. 3. Hearing the Grass Grow. Part II: A Brief History of Methodology. 4. Cartesian Nightmares. 5. Mean Values. 6. Imagining Social Science. 7. Chance is a Fine Thing. Part III: Experiments and Their Enemies. 8. Experimental Sociology: The Early Years. 9. Of NITS and LIFE and Other Things. 10. Lessons from America. 11. The Rights of Animals and Other Creatures. Part IV: Moving On. 12. People'…
Institutional Ethnography: A Sociology for People
Prominent sociologist Dorothy Smith outlines a method of inquiry that uses everyday experience as a lens to examine social relations and social institutions. Concerned with articulating an inclusive sociology that goes beyond looking at a particular group of people from the detached viewpoint of the researcher, this is a method of inquiry for people, incorporating the expert's research and language into everyday experience to examine social relat…
Student Evaluations and Gendered Expectations: What We Can't Count Can Hurt Us
Sociology: The Good, the Bad, and the Public
Institutional Barriers to Doing Public Sociology: Experiences of Feminists in the Academy
Research and reporting on the development of sex in fetuses: Gendered from the start
Research into human genetics has been expanding rapidly and most people learn about that research from mass media. Because prior research finds gender bias in aspects of both science and the media, we investigate the messages presented to the public concerning the relationship between biology and gender, taking as a case research on the genetic development of sexual difference before birth. We examine both the science that is getting media attent…
The Standpoint of Art/Criticism: Cindy Sherman as Feminist Artist
Feminist Standpoint Theory identifies knowledge as a social product developed from a specific social position. We apply this theory to explore the dominant standpoint informing the social organization of Western art via an institution we call art/criticism. We find that the assumptions, values, and analytic strategies informing mainstream art and art criticism express the standpoint of privileged men. As a test of our argument, we consider the ca…
Economic Sociology vs. Real Life: The Case of Grocery Shopping
Economic sociology improves on neoclassical economics but underanalyzes the economic activity of the consumer, leaving the assumption of consumer sovereignty unchallenged. We believe economic sociology marginalizes consumer activity because it is written from the standpoint of privileged men. Using institutional ethnography, we examine economic activity beginning from a standpoint of the person who grocery shops for a family. Starting from this s…
Feminist Methodologies for Critical Researchers: Bridging Differences
This accessible text on social research methodology teaches students of sociology and related disciplines how standard methods can be adapted toward critical ends. The second edition has been updated throughout to incorporate the latest critical scholarship, enhanced discussion of qualitative methods, new material on global issues, sex/sexuality/gender, new discussion of intersectionality, how social media can shape research, and more. Author Joe…
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