David J Silverman
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 301028 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | David J Silverman |
| NOMBRES | David J |
| APELLIDO | Silverman |
| FIRMA | SILVERMAN D J |
| AFILIACIONES | Goldsmiths University of London |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 64 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 515 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 64 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1968 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Native Nations
Heathen
Ungrateful Children and Days of Mourning
When Boston entered its pandemic lockdown in early March, it forced the cancellation of the Congregational Library's symposium “1620: New Perspectives on the Pilgrim Legacy.” With the cooperation of the director of the library, the Rev. Stephen Butler Murray, the four presenters—Carla Gardina Pestana, David Silverman, John G. Turner, and Francis Bremer—agreed to have the QUARTERLY publish revised versions of their talks with Kenneth P. Minkema as…
Historians and Native American and Indigenous Studies
David Silverman offers a critical appraisal of two prizewinning works in Native American and Indigenous studies (NAIS), Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War, by Lisa Brooks, and Memory Lands: King Philip’s War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast, by Christine M. DeLucia. Silverman’s review treats the methodology associated with NAIS with some skepticism, offering the opportunity for a lively discussion about the merits and p…
Living with the Past
David Silverman offers a critical appraisal of two prizewinning works in Native American and Indigenous studies (NAIS), Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip's War, by Lisa Brooks, and Memory Lands: King Philip's War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast, by Christine M. DeLucia. Silverman's review treats the methodology associated with NAIS with some skepticism, offering the opportunity for a lively discussion about the merits and p…
What Counts as Qualitative Research? Some Cautionary Comments
Многие докторанты (PhD students) неосознанно начинают как натуралисты или эмоционалисты. Они проводят исследования посредством интервью для выявления чувств и мнений людей по какой-либо очевидной проблеме. Анализ нескольких номеров одного журнала показал, что это наивное использование данных интервью стало общим местом качественных исследований. Критикуя одну из таких статей, я продемонстрирую, как исследования, основанные на интервью, порой прос…
Agency and clientship in public encounters
This article seeks to develop our understanding of the agency of vulnerable groups who at first sight may not seem to have much agency in their lives. It explores the co‐constructed nature of agency in three Danish homeless shelters. Unlike earlier interview‐based studies, our research is based on naturalistic data drawn from 23 video‐recorded placement meetings. Using concepts from Goffman, we examine how versions of the neediness and worthiness…
How was it for you? The Interview Society and the irresistible rise of the (poorly analyzed) interview
Atkinson and Silverman's (1997) depiction of the Interview Society analysed the dominance of interview studies that seek to elicit respondents 'experiences' and 'perceptions'. Their article showed that this vocabulary is deeply problematic, assuming an over-rationalistic account of behaviour and a direct link between the language of people's accounts and their past and present psychic states. In this article, using a Constructionist approach, I d…
Remake Television
The Worlds the Shawnees Made
Book Review| January 01 2017 The Worlds the Shawnees Made: Migration and Violence in Early America The Worlds the Shawnees Made: Migration and Violence in Early America. By Stephen Warren. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014. 320 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, and index. $39.95 (cloth). David J. Silverman David J. Silverman George Washington University David J. Silverman is Professor of History at George Washingto…
Gifts from the Thunder Beings
Book Review| January 01 2016 Gifts from the Thunder Beings: Indigenous Archery and European Firearms in the Northern Plains and the Central Subarctic, 1670–1870 Gifts from the Thunder Beings: Indigenous Archery and European Firearms in the Northern Plains and the Central Subarctic, 1670–1870. By Bohr, Roland. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2014. xv + 468 pp., illustrations, preface, appendix, glossary, notes, bibliography, index. $70.00 …
Thundersticks
The adoption of firearms by American Indians between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries marked a turning point in the history of North America's indigenous peoples-a cultural earthquake so profound, says David Silverman, that its impact has yet to be adequately measured. Thundersticks reframes our understanding of Indians' historical relationship with guns, arguing against the notion that they prized these weapons more for the pyrotechnic t…
Spacefarers
The Red Atlantic
Journal Article The Red Atlantic: American Indigenes and the Making of the Modern World, 1000–1927, by Jace Weaver Get access The Red Atlantic: American Indigenes and the Making of the Modern World, 1000–1927 , by Jace Weaver ( Chapel Hill, NC : U. of North Carolina P. , 2014 ; pp. 340 . £24.50 ). David J. Silverman David J. Silverman George Washington University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English…
Katherine Howlett Hayes. Slavery before Race
Journal Article Katherine Howlett Hayes. Slavery before Race: Europeans, Africans, and Indians at Long Island's Sylvester Manor Plantation, 1651–1884. Get access Katherine Howlett Hayes. Slavery before Race: Europeans, Africans, and Indians at Long Island's Sylvester Manor Plantation, 1651–1884. (Early American Places.) New York: New York University Press, 2013. Pp. xviii, 220. $30.00. David J. Silverman David J. Silverman George Washington Unive…
A Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book aboutQualitative Research
David Silverman's second edition provides a refreshing introduction to doing and debating qualitative research. An antidote to the standard textbook, this new edition shows how research can be methodologically inventive, empirically rigorous, theoretically-alive and practically relevant. Using materials ranging from photographs to novels and newspaper stories, the book demonstrates that getting to grips with qualitative methods means asking ourse…
What Counts as Qualitative Research? Some Cautionary Comments
Many PhD students begin as unconscious Naturalists or Emotionalists using interview studies to report people’s “experience” of an unquestioned social “problem.” An analysis of articles in one journal shows that this naïve use of interview data has become the common currency of qualitative research. In a critique of one such article, I show how interview studies may simply reproduce interviewees’ own accounts, glossed over by a few social science …
Beyond armed camps
In this response, I examine the ambiguity about the status of Membership Categorization Device Analysis (MCDA) in the work of Harvey Sacks. The ‘five guiding principles’ of MCDA that Stokoe enunciates serve as a crucial guide to future research. In what follows, I give some further examples of data analysis which, I believe, supports both her strong and weaker claims
Native People of Southern New England, 1650–1775
Book Review| July 01 2010 Native People of Southern New England, 1650–1775 . By Kathleen J. Bragdon (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2009. $32.95 cloth.) David J. Silverman David J. Silverman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (3): 481–483. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2010-013 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Fac…
Peoples of the River Valleys
Book Review| April 01 2009 Peoples of the River Valleys: The Odyssey of the Delaware Indians By Amy C. Schutt. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. $45.00 cloth, $22.50 paper.) David J. Silverman David J. Silverman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2009) 56 (2): 321–323. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2008-068 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Da…
Indians, Missionaries, and Religious Translation
David J. Silverman, Indians, Missionaries, and Religious Translation: Creating Wampanoag Christianity in Seventeenth-Century Martha's Vineyard, The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. 62, No. 2 (Apr., 2005), pp. 141-174
We Chuse to Be Bounded
That which is common to all is proper to none. This savage people ruleth over many lands without title or property; for they inclose no ground, neither have they cattell to maintayne it, but remove their dwellings as they have occasion, or as they can prevail against their neighbours. And why may not christians have liberty to go and dwell amongst them in their waste lands and woods (leaving them such places as they have manured for their corne) …
Peoples of a Spacious Land
In this book about families - those of the various native peoples of southern New England and those of the English settlers and their descendants - Gloria Main compares the ways in which the two cultures went about solving common human problems. Using original sources - diaries, inventories, wills, court records - as well as the findings of demographers, ethnologists, and cultural anthropologists, she compares the family life of the English colon…
The Impact of Indentured Servitude on the Society and Culture of Southern New England Indians, 1680-1810
mother served her indenture to the other English homes where himself worked. Elizabeth Uhquat finally gained her release sometime after Potter's ninth birthday, but freedom brought no end to her troubles. She could not bear the cost of supporting her son, so she committed him to serve Vineyard colonists Edward and Mary Milton of Tisbury while she returned to her native village of Christiantown. The Miltons, exceptionally good employers, instructe…
Marking Boundaries
Contemporary social science is acutely aware of what happens when we mark or police boundaries. Cross-cultural research highlights such issues. Face-to-face interviews and e-mail exchanges with Asian businessmen appeared to suggest clear boundaries between Tanzanian African and Asian "culture." However, such ready understanding raises two further issues. First, boundary marking might fit with a colonial methodology used by the early anthropologis…
Kundera's Immortality
Milan Kundera's novel Immortality bears a close relation to contemporary social science debates about the production of the self. Commentators like Kleinman and Mishler seem to have introduced a new version of authenticity based on a reinvention of the Romantic subject with the interview (as the medium) and the narrative (as the content) portrayed as the means for constructing and sharing biographical expenence. Unlike such contem porary Romantic…
Aids counselling
Although the AIDS pandemic has generated considerable social science research, the focus has almost entirely been on epidemiology and on survey research studies of health knowledge and behaviour. In contrast, this paper offers an early report on ongoing work into HIV and AIDS counselling as it occurs in practice in a number of English clinics. An analysis of transcripts of such naturally occurring encounters reveals how professionals and clients …
How was it for you? The Interview Society and the irresistible rise of the (poorly analyzed) interview
Atkinson and Silverman's (1997) depiction of the Interview Society analysed the dominance of interview studies that seek to elicit respondents 'experiences' and 'perceptions'. Their article showed that this vocabulary is deeply problematic, assuming an over-rationalistic account of behaviour and a direct link between the language of people's accounts and their past and present psychic states. In this article, using a Constructionist approach, I d…
Agency and clientship in public encounters
This article seeks to develop our understanding of the agency of vulnerable groups who at first sight may not seem to have much agency in their lives. It explores the co‐constructed nature of agency in three Danish homeless shelters. Unlike earlier interview‐based studies, our research is based on naturalistic data drawn from 23 video‐recorded placement meetings. Using concepts from Goffman, we examine how versions of the neediness and worthiness…
The Politics of Field Research
Introduction - David Silverman and Jaber F Gubrium PART ONE: POLITICS OF THE FIELD Deconstructing the Field - Roy Turner The Impossible Dreams of Reformism and Romanticism - David Silverman Romantics and Stoics - Philip M Strong and Robert Dingwall The Construction of a Sociological Consumer - Peter R Grahame PART TWO: POLITICS IN THE FIELD Local Cultures and Service Policy - Jaber F Gubrium Corridors of Power - Don Slater Evaluation Research and…
Six Rules of Qualitative Research
Qualitative sociology too easily succumbs to a 'Romantic' impulse. In a sociological context, the Romantic seeks to understand raw 'experience', usually by the use of unstructured interviews. Such work can lack analytic rigour, failing to distinguish the sociologist from the journalist. Following Wittgenstein and Garfinkel, the approach adopted here emphasizes the forms of representation and contexts which inform practical reasoning. It recommend…
Troubles Talk and Counseling Discourse
Counseling is a pervasive activity in contemporary institutional life. This article focuses on the ways in which troubles—as socially constructed realities—are talked into being in two counseling settings: a British hemophilia center that counsels individuals who have become HIV-positive through the transfusion of infected blood products and a family therapy center in the United States. Drawing upon conversation analytic studies of “troubles talk…
Reinterpreting Speech-Exchange Systems
Sociologists concerned with describing the organization of interaction have, until recently, been faced with two diverging options. Either they can focus on local cultures or on the sequential order of conversation. Ethnography's emphasis on context underpins the first option; conversation analysis' concern with a context-free structure of turn-taking provides the rationale for the second. Analysis of transcripts of AIDS Counselling suggests a mi…
We Chuse to Be Bounded
That which is common to all is proper to none. This savage people ruleth over many lands without title or property; for they inclose no ground, neither have they cattell to maintayne it, but remove their dwellings as they have occasion, or as they can prevail against their neighbours. And why may not christians have liberty to go and dwell amongst them in their waste lands and woods (leaving them such places as they have manured for their corne) …
The child as a social object
Thundersticks
The adoption of firearms by American Indians between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries marked a turning point in the history of North America's indigenous peoples-a cultural earthquake so profound, says David Silverman, that its impact has yet to be adequately measured. Thundersticks reframes our understanding of Indians' historical relationship with guns, arguing against the notion that they prized these weapons more for the pyrotechnic t…
Marking Boundaries
Contemporary social science is acutely aware of what happens when we mark or police boundaries. Cross-cultural research highlights such issues. Face-to-face interviews and e-mail exchanges with Asian businessmen appeared to suggest clear boundaries between Tanzanian African and Asian "culture." However, such ready understanding raises two further issues. First, boundary marking might fit with a colonial methodology used by the early anthropologis…
The Quality of Qualitative Data
Researchers are familiar with claims that, for various reasons, many conceptions of reliability and validity are inappropriate to the analysis of qualitative data. Using transcripts drawn from doctor-patient consultations, the authors examine two methods of assessing the reliability of data and the validity of their interpretations. First, the method of intercoder agreement is used and assessed. Second, the methods of conversation analysis are ap…
Competing Strategies for Analyzing the Contexts of Social Interaction
A perennial issue of sociological analysis is how to address the details of interaction without acknowledging the structurally broad or the subjectively meaningful contexts within which the details occur. The issue centers on the relation between 'how' and 'why' questions of social order. This article deals with the issue as it emerges in the methodological debate between conversation analysts and ethnomethodologically oriented ethnographers over…
What Counts as Qualitative Research? Some Cautionary Comments
Many PhD students begin as unconscious Naturalists or Emotionalists using interview studies to report people’s “experience” of an unquestioned social “problem.” An analysis of articles in one journal shows that this naïve use of interview data has become the common currency of qualitative research. In a critique of one such article, I show how interview studies may simply reproduce interviewees’ own accounts, glossed over by a few social science …
Going Private
Following Strong's (1979) model of the 'ceremonial order' of the clinic, London oncology consultations drawn from the private sector and the National Health Service (NHS) are compared. Using both qualitative and quantitative measures, it is shown that private consultations offer more 'personalized' consultations than are found in the NHS. Furthermore, private patients are more inclined to orchestrate their own care and to exhibit control of terri…
The clinical subject
The paper examines the format and some interactional dilemmas of outpatient consultations in a clinic for cleft lip and palate. Three problems are addressed. First, the adolescent patient's status as a ‘consumer’ is problematic: it is ambiguous whether they can be entrusted with decision‐making on their own behalf. Second, there is the problematic status of parents’ rights. Third, the policy implications of these problems are raised in relation t…
The Structure of Organizations
Discourses of Counselling
The Theory of Organisations
Formal Organizations or Industrial Sociology
The emergence, in the past two decades, of a separate discipline of 'Formal Organizations' has been associated with the general acceptance of a Durkheimian view of organizations as 'natural systems' integrated by a value consensus and a de-emphasis on the processes through which they are related to the social structure. The similarities, in these respects, between Human Relations and Structural-Functionalism are suggested and an alternative Socia…
Beyond armed camps
In this response, I examine the ambiguity about the status of Membership Categorization Device Analysis (MCDA) in the work of Harvey Sacks. The ‘five guiding principles’ of MCDA that Stokoe enunciates serve as a crucial guide to future research. In what follows, I give some further examples of data analysis which, I believe, supports both her strong and weaker claims
Indians, Missionaries, and Religious Translation
David J. Silverman, Indians, Missionaries, and Religious Translation: Creating Wampanoag Christianity in Seventeenth-Century Martha's Vineyard, The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. 62, No. 2 (Apr., 2005), pp. 141-174
Interpreting Qualitative Data Methods for Analysing Talk, Text and Interaction
This a much expanded and updated version of David Silvermans best-selling introductory textbook for the beginning qualitative researcher. Features of the New Edition: • Takes account of the flood of qualitative work since the 1990s • All chapters have been substantially rewritten with the aim of greater clarity • A new chapter on Visual Images and a considerably expanded treatment of discourse analysis are provided • The number of student exercis…
Normative expectations for medical talk
Clerical Ideologies
Formal Organizations or Industrial Sociology
The emergence, in the past two decades, of a separate discipline of 'Formal Organizations' has been associated with the general acceptance of a Durkheimian view of organizations as 'natural systems' integrated by a value consensus and a de-emphasis on the processes through which they are related to the social structure. The similarities, in these respects, between Human Relations and Structural-Functionalism are suggested and an alternative Socia…
Organizations
The Theory of Organisations
The Structure of Organizations
The Theory of Organizations
Reflections on the Problem of Relevance
The Applicability of Organizational Sociology
Sociology of Meaning
Speaking seriously
Speaking seriously
Problems of Reflexivity and Dialectics in Sociological Inquiry
Organizations as Bargaining and Influence Systems
The Scientific Reception of Castaneda
Official Discourse
Medical Work
The child as a social object
The clinical subject
The paper examines the format and some interactional dilemmas of outpatient consultations in a clinic for cleft lip and palate. Three problems are addressed. First, the adolescent patient's status as a ‘consumer’ is problematic: it is ambiguous whether they can be entrusted with decision‐making on their own behalf. Second, there is the problematic status of parents’ rights. Third, the policy implications of these problems are raised in relation t…
Going Private
Following Strong's (1979) model of the 'ceremonial order' of the clinic, London oncology consultations drawn from the private sector and the National Health Service (NHS) are compared. Using both qualitative and quantitative measures, it is shown that private consultations offer more 'personalized' consultations than are found in the NHS. Furthermore, private patients are more inclined to orchestrate their own care and to exhibit control of terri…
Speaking of Ethnography
Modeling a Rigorous Qualitative Sociology
Qualitative Methodology and Sociology
Short reviews
David A. Gerber (ed.), ANTI‐SEMITISM IN AMERICAN HISTORY, University of Illinois Press, Urbana and Chicago, 1986, 428 pp. John Darby. INTIMIDATION AND THE CONTROL OF CONFLICT IN NORTHERN IRELAND, Gill & Macmillan, Dublin, 1986, 183 pp., £25. Kenneth Liberman, UNDERSTANDING INTERACTION IN CENTRAL AUSTRALIA: AN ETHNOMETHODOLOGICAL STUDY OF AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL PEOPLE, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985, 344 pp., £29.95. Zig Layton‐Henry and Paul…
Six Rules of Qualitative Research
Qualitative sociology too easily succumbs to a 'Romantic' impulse. In a sociological context, the Romantic seeks to understand raw 'experience', usually by the use of unstructured interviews. Such work can lack analytic rigour, failing to distinguish the sociologist from the journalist. Following Wittgenstein and Garfinkel, the approach adopted here emphasizes the forms of representation and contexts which inform practical reasoning. It recommend…
Power Under the Microscope (Book)
Sociology (47 obras) · Epistemology (21 obras) · Philosophy (21 obras) · Psychology (21 obras) · Computer Science (20 obras) · Political science (19 obras) · History (16 obras) · Law (15 obras) · Social science (15 obras) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (10 obras)