Karen E Rosenblum
Biographic Data
| ID | 283447 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen E Rosenblum |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen E |
| FAMILY NAME | Rosenblum |
| SIGNATURE | ROSENBLUM K E |
| AFFILIATIONS | George Mason University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
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Perfectly American
Over the last 60 years, the United States has accepted some two million refugees for resettlement. Standard opinion polls suggest that the American response to these refugees has been mixed. Yet, despite much ambivalence about particular refugees and where they may belong in the grid of American social and cultural categories, the notion of refuge and the imperative toward support and welcome to refugees endure. As an extended example, this paper…
Ambivalence
Survey data from a large and diverse urban university in the US revealed a significant commitment among incoming students to the value of a multi‐ethnic student body; students who were the children of immigrants expressed this value most strongly. However, follow‐up interviews with these second‐generation Americans, now in their third year at the university, found them avoiding interaction with students who were unlike themselves, particularly th…
Bringing Disability into the Sociological Frame
Applying a social constructionist perspective, this paper explores the shared characteristics of American constructions of race, sex, sexual orientation, and disability. The discussion considers how each of these statuses is constructed through social processes in which categories of people are (1) named, (2) aggregated and disaggregated, (3) dichotomized and stigmatized, and (4) denied the attributes valued in the culture. The apparent utility o…
Illegal Immigration in America
Few issues have provoked as much controversy over the last decade as illegal immigration. While some argue for the need to seal America's borders and withdraw all forms of social and governmental support for illegal migrants and their children, others argue for humanitarian treatment—including legalization—for people who fill widely acknowledged needs in American industry and agriculture and have left home-country situations of economic hardship …
The Meaning of Difference
Unraveling Fatherhood
Male and female created they them
The in-depth interview
Family Life
When is a question an accusation
Revelatory or purposive? Making sense of a 'female register
Leaving as a Wife, Leaving as a Mother
This discussion begins with the conviction that we need to examine the meaning of the decision to relinquish child custody rather than its causes. Based on in-depth, semistructured interviews with 20 noncustodial mothers, it is shown that mothers relinquish custody either 'as wives' or 'as mothers,' and by that is meant the status that is made salient in their leaving. 'Leaving as a wife' reflects a decision primarily responsive to husband's acts…
The Conflict between and within Genders
This discussion examines the conflicts inherent in contemporary American formulations of gender and concludes that conflict exists not so much between gender formulations as within each of them. Extending Carol Gilligan's (1982) analysis of sex-differentiated moral development, gender is treated as the distinction between an orientation of care, and one of autonomy. The care/autonomy distinction does not necessarily entail inter-gender conflict. …
For Better, For Worse
Female Deviance and the Female Sex Role
The primary questions towards which this paper is directed lie within that area Frances Heidensohn aptly described as 'obscure and largely ignored'l, that is, deviance in women. The intent here is to delineate certain of the parallels between the attributes of the female sex role and the eharacteristics of female deviance. Given that the participation of women in deviant roles is found primarily within the areas of prostitution, and given that pr…
Bringing Disability into the Sociological Frame
Applying a social constructionist perspective, this paper explores the shared characteristics of American constructions of race, sex, sexual orientation, and disability. The discussion considers how each of these statuses is constructed through social processes in which categories of people are (1) named, (2) aggregated and disaggregated, (3) dichotomized and stigmatized, and (4) denied the attributes valued in the culture. The apparent utility o…
Male and female created they them
Female Deviance and the Female Sex Role
The primary questions towards which this paper is directed lie within that area Frances Heidensohn aptly described as 'obscure and largely ignored'l, that is, deviance in women. The intent here is to delineate certain of the parallels between the attributes of the female sex role and the eharacteristics of female deviance. Given that the participation of women in deviant roles is found primarily within the areas of prostitution, and given that pr…
Perfectly American
Over the last 60 years, the United States has accepted some two million refugees for resettlement. Standard opinion polls suggest that the American response to these refugees has been mixed. Yet, despite much ambivalence about particular refugees and where they may belong in the grid of American social and cultural categories, the notion of refuge and the imperative toward support and welcome to refugees endure. As an extended example, this paper…
Revelatory or purposive? Making sense of a 'female register
The in-depth interview
The Conflict between and within Genders
This discussion examines the conflicts inherent in contemporary American formulations of gender and concludes that conflict exists not so much between gender formulations as within each of them. Extending Carol Gilligan's (1982) analysis of sex-differentiated moral development, gender is treated as the distinction between an orientation of care, and one of autonomy. The care/autonomy distinction does not necessarily entail inter-gender conflict. …
Female Deviance and the Female Sex Role
The primary questions towards which this paper is directed lie within that area Frances Heidensohn aptly described as 'obscure and largely ignored'l, that is, deviance in women. The intent here is to delineate certain of the parallels between the attributes of the female sex role and the eharacteristics of female deviance. Given that the participation of women in deviant roles is found primarily within the areas of prostitution, and given that pr…
For Better, For Worse
Revelatory or purposive? Making sense of a 'female register
Leaving as a Wife, Leaving as a Mother
This discussion begins with the conviction that we need to examine the meaning of the decision to relinquish child custody rather than its causes. Based on in-depth, semistructured interviews with 20 noncustodial mothers, it is shown that mothers relinquish custody either 'as wives' or 'as mothers,' and by that is meant the status that is made salient in their leaving. 'Leaving as a wife' reflects a decision primarily responsive to husband's acts…
The Conflict between and within Genders
This discussion examines the conflicts inherent in contemporary American formulations of gender and concludes that conflict exists not so much between gender formulations as within each of them. Extending Carol Gilligan's (1982) analysis of sex-differentiated moral development, gender is treated as the distinction between an orientation of care, and one of autonomy. The care/autonomy distinction does not necessarily entail inter-gender conflict. …
The in-depth interview
Family Life
When is a question an accusation
Male and female created they them
Unraveling Fatherhood
The Meaning of Difference
Illegal Immigration in America
Few issues have provoked as much controversy over the last decade as illegal immigration. While some argue for the need to seal America's borders and withdraw all forms of social and governmental support for illegal migrants and their children, others argue for humanitarian treatment—including legalization—for people who fill widely acknowledged needs in American industry and agriculture and have left home-country situations of economic hardship …
Bringing Disability into the Sociological Frame
Applying a social constructionist perspective, this paper explores the shared characteristics of American constructions of race, sex, sexual orientation, and disability. The discussion considers how each of these statuses is constructed through social processes in which categories of people are (1) named, (2) aggregated and disaggregated, (3) dichotomized and stigmatized, and (4) denied the attributes valued in the culture. The apparent utility o…
Ambivalence
Survey data from a large and diverse urban university in the US revealed a significant commitment among incoming students to the value of a multi‐ethnic student body; students who were the children of immigrants expressed this value most strongly. However, follow‐up interviews with these second‐generation Americans, now in their third year at the university, found them avoiding interaction with students who were unlike themselves, particularly th…
Perfectly American
Over the last 60 years, the United States has accepted some two million refugees for resettlement. Standard opinion polls suggest that the American response to these refugees has been mixed. Yet, despite much ambivalence about particular refugees and where they may belong in the grid of American social and cultural categories, the notion of refuge and the imperative toward support and welcome to refugees endure. As an extended example, this paper…
Tracing Technologies
Sociology (13 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Political science (9 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Criminology (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Law (4 works)