Patrick Parnaby
Biographic Data
| ID | 308955 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patrick Parnaby |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patrick |
| FAMILY NAME | Parnaby |
| SIGNATURE | PARNABY P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Guelph |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Nature of Stigma: Toward a Sociological Engagement with Evolutionary Psychology
Understanding the Shift: A Grounded Theory Examination of Police Retirement as Role Exit
Although we know a great deal about the process of becoming and being a police officer, we know comparatively little about how officers leave the police service at the end of their careers. Drawing primarily on 45 interviews with retired Ontario police officers and while using a grounded theory approach, we identify and examine four significant components of the police retirement process: (1) structural precipitates, (2) disengagement, (3) symbol…
Picking up the Pieces: Policing and Resilience in the Wake of Disaster
Rethinking Role Residual: Retired Police Officers and the Inertia of Habitus
In this paper, we bring conceptual clarity to the literature on "role residual." Based on the extant literature and our own research involving police retirees, we first delineate three empirical variants of role residual: emotional, cognitive, and behavioral. We then make the case that a comprehensive understanding of the phenomenon requires a theoretical framework capable of conceptualizing role residual in a way that is consistent with a broade…
To Serve and to Tweet: An Examination of Police-Related Twitter Activity in Toronto
Police departments across North America and Europe are using Twitter for many different reasons, one of the most important being public relations (i.e., image work). This article examines the relationship between Twitter use, police image work, and public engagement in the Canadian context. On the basis of 8,174 police-related tweets sent by the Toronto Police Service (TPS) and citizens, we advance the argument that despite its dialogical potenti…
A subtle kind of certainty: Market dynamics and symbolic violence in professional financial planning
Using data collected from 42 semi-structured interviews with professional financial planners and eight recorded meetings between planners and clients, this paper examines two interrelated social phenomena from a Bourdieusian (1977, 1991) perspective. First, it examines how professional financial planners legitimize their expertise by constructing and maintaining a distinction between short-term economic uncertainty on one hand, and the inevitabil…
Darwin Meets the King: Blending Sociology and Evolutionary Psychology to Explain Police Deviance
Ce papier utilise la perspective de Parnaby et Leyden's ( ) qui adapte l'approche de Merton de la déviance policière en incorporant des éléments de psychologie évolutionniste. Nous proposons que l'intégration de la psychologie évolutionniste contribue à un modèle théorique plus robuste. Plus précisément, nous considérons qu'une structure sociale anomique crée les conditions sociales par lesquelles des mécanismes psychologiques adaptifs qui coïnci…
Health and finance: Exploring the parallels between health care delivery and professional financial planning
This article compares the role of risk and uncertainty discourse across two rather disparate areas of expertise: personal financial planning and health care delivery. On the basis of 42 semi-structured interviews and eight recorded meetings between planners and their clients, as well as a comprehensive review of extant health literature, it is argued that three points of convergence -- the discursive management of uncertainty, the temporalization…
Dirty Harry and the station queens: A Mertonian analysis of police deviance
In this article, we take advantage of the versatility inherent in Merton's work and apply his theory of social structure and anomie to the realm of policing. Specifically, we argue that police deviance can be understood as a function of an anomic social structure in which an exuberant cultural emphasis on police as noble, masculine 'crime-fighters' occupies a disproportionate relationship to the availability and/or efficacy of institutionally acc…
Sit Back and Enjoy The Ride: Financial planners and the symbolic domination of clients
Borrowing from Bourdieu's theory of practice, specifically, the relationship between forms of capital and discourse on the one hand and the nature of symbolic domination on the other (see Bourdieu 1998; 1991), this paper seeks to answer the following question: what discursive strategies do personal financial planners use to facilitate desirable client behavior vis-à-vis market investment? On the basis of 32 semi-structured interviews with financi…
Fame and Strain: The Contributions of Mertonian Deviance Theory to an Understanding of the Relationship Between Celebrity and Deviant Behavior
This paper argues that Merton's original means/goals gap theory can be used to understand the emerging relationship between deviant behavior and the acquisition of celebrity status. The intent is to illuminate how forms of deviant behavior have become adaptive responses to the structurally anomic conditions that have resulted from popular culture's incessant emphasis on the desirability of fame and celebrity status, and the structurally limited m…
Indy Dreams and Urban Nightmares: Speed Merchants, Spectacle and the Struggle over Public Space in the World-Class City
Disaster through Dirty Windshields Law, Order and Toronto's Squeegee Kids
Patrick Parnaby, Disaster through Dirty Windshields Law, Order and Toronto's Squeegee Kids, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 28, No. 3 (Summer, 2003), pp. 281-307
Fame and Strain: The Contributions of Mertonian Deviance Theory to an Understanding of the Relationship Between Celebrity and Deviant Behavior
This paper argues that Merton's original means/goals gap theory can be used to understand the emerging relationship between deviant behavior and the acquisition of celebrity status. The intent is to illuminate how forms of deviant behavior have become adaptive responses to the structurally anomic conditions that have resulted from popular culture's incessant emphasis on the desirability of fame and celebrity status, and the structurally limited m…
Disaster through Dirty Windshields Law, Order and Toronto's Squeegee Kids
Patrick Parnaby, Disaster through Dirty Windshields Law, Order and Toronto's Squeegee Kids, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 28, No. 3 (Summer, 2003), pp. 281-307
To Serve and to Tweet: An Examination of Police-Related Twitter Activity in Toronto
Police departments across North America and Europe are using Twitter for many different reasons, one of the most important being public relations (i.e., image work). This article examines the relationship between Twitter use, police image work, and public engagement in the Canadian context. On the basis of 8,174 police-related tweets sent by the Toronto Police Service (TPS) and citizens, we advance the argument that despite its dialogical potenti…
Dirty Harry and the station queens: A Mertonian analysis of police deviance
In this article, we take advantage of the versatility inherent in Merton's work and apply his theory of social structure and anomie to the realm of policing. Specifically, we argue that police deviance can be understood as a function of an anomic social structure in which an exuberant cultural emphasis on police as noble, masculine 'crime-fighters' occupies a disproportionate relationship to the availability and/or efficacy of institutionally acc…
The Nature of Stigma: Toward a Sociological Engagement with Evolutionary Psychology
Sit Back and Enjoy The Ride: Financial planners and the symbolic domination of clients
Borrowing from Bourdieu's theory of practice, specifically, the relationship between forms of capital and discourse on the one hand and the nature of symbolic domination on the other (see Bourdieu 1998; 1991), this paper seeks to answer the following question: what discursive strategies do personal financial planners use to facilitate desirable client behavior vis-à-vis market investment? On the basis of 32 semi-structured interviews with financi…
Indy Dreams and Urban Nightmares: Speed Merchants, Spectacle and the Struggle over Public Space in the World-Class City
Disaster through Dirty Windshields Law, Order and Toronto's Squeegee Kids
Patrick Parnaby, Disaster through Dirty Windshields Law, Order and Toronto's Squeegee Kids, The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Vol. 28, No. 3 (Summer, 2003), pp. 281-307
Fame and Strain: The Contributions of Mertonian Deviance Theory to an Understanding of the Relationship Between Celebrity and Deviant Behavior
This paper argues that Merton's original means/goals gap theory can be used to understand the emerging relationship between deviant behavior and the acquisition of celebrity status. The intent is to illuminate how forms of deviant behavior have become adaptive responses to the structurally anomic conditions that have resulted from popular culture's incessant emphasis on the desirability of fame and celebrity status, and the structurally limited m…
Sit Back and Enjoy The Ride: Financial planners and the symbolic domination of clients
Borrowing from Bourdieu's theory of practice, specifically, the relationship between forms of capital and discourse on the one hand and the nature of symbolic domination on the other (see Bourdieu 1998; 1991), this paper seeks to answer the following question: what discursive strategies do personal financial planners use to facilitate desirable client behavior vis-à-vis market investment? On the basis of 32 semi-structured interviews with financi…
Health and finance: Exploring the parallels between health care delivery and professional financial planning
This article compares the role of risk and uncertainty discourse across two rather disparate areas of expertise: personal financial planning and health care delivery. On the basis of 42 semi-structured interviews and eight recorded meetings between planners and their clients, as well as a comprehensive review of extant health literature, it is argued that three points of convergence -- the discursive management of uncertainty, the temporalization…
Dirty Harry and the station queens: A Mertonian analysis of police deviance
In this article, we take advantage of the versatility inherent in Merton's work and apply his theory of social structure and anomie to the realm of policing. Specifically, we argue that police deviance can be understood as a function of an anomic social structure in which an exuberant cultural emphasis on police as noble, masculine 'crime-fighters' occupies a disproportionate relationship to the availability and/or efficacy of institutionally acc…
Darwin Meets the King: Blending Sociology and Evolutionary Psychology to Explain Police Deviance
Ce papier utilise la perspective de Parnaby et Leyden's ( ) qui adapte l'approche de Merton de la déviance policière en incorporant des éléments de psychologie évolutionniste. Nous proposons que l'intégration de la psychologie évolutionniste contribue à un modèle théorique plus robuste. Plus précisément, nous considérons qu'une structure sociale anomique crée les conditions sociales par lesquelles des mécanismes psychologiques adaptifs qui coïnci…
A subtle kind of certainty: Market dynamics and symbolic violence in professional financial planning
Using data collected from 42 semi-structured interviews with professional financial planners and eight recorded meetings between planners and clients, this paper examines two interrelated social phenomena from a Bourdieusian (1977, 1991) perspective. First, it examines how professional financial planners legitimize their expertise by constructing and maintaining a distinction between short-term economic uncertainty on one hand, and the inevitabil…
To Serve and to Tweet: An Examination of Police-Related Twitter Activity in Toronto
Police departments across North America and Europe are using Twitter for many different reasons, one of the most important being public relations (i.e., image work). This article examines the relationship between Twitter use, police image work, and public engagement in the Canadian context. On the basis of 8,174 police-related tweets sent by the Toronto Police Service (TPS) and citizens, we advance the argument that despite its dialogical potenti…
Rethinking Role Residual: Retired Police Officers and the Inertia of Habitus
In this paper, we bring conceptual clarity to the literature on "role residual." Based on the extant literature and our own research involving police retirees, we first delineate three empirical variants of role residual: emotional, cognitive, and behavioral. We then make the case that a comprehensive understanding of the phenomenon requires a theoretical framework capable of conceptualizing role residual in a way that is consistent with a broade…
Understanding the Shift: A Grounded Theory Examination of Police Retirement as Role Exit
Although we know a great deal about the process of becoming and being a police officer, we know comparatively little about how officers leave the police service at the end of their careers. Drawing primarily on 45 interviews with retired Ontario police officers and while using a grounded theory approach, we identify and examine four significant components of the police retirement process: (1) structural precipitates, (2) disengagement, (3) symbol…
Picking up the Pieces: Policing and Resilience in the Wake of Disaster
The Nature of Stigma: Toward a Sociological Engagement with Evolutionary Psychology
Sociology (13 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Criminology (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Policing Practices and Perceptions (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works)