Laura A Orrico
Biographic Data
| ID | 347595 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura A Orrico |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura A |
| FAMILY NAME | Orrico |
| SIGNATURE | ORRICO L A |
| AFFILIATIONS | UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8728-344X |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Associations between Student Social Position, Training, and Plans to Care for Underserved Populations over the Course of Medical School
Let People Be People
Working the Boardwalk
This article argues that trust emerges as a key interactional mechanism through which vendors, artists, and performers that work in a public marketplace turn daily conditions of uncertainty into enduring stability. Drawing on four years of ethnographic data, I empirically illustrate a process of building, maintaining, and protecting trust. Following trust from the level of one-on-one interaction through to the level of a community, I expose the p…
Doing intimacy' in a public market
This article considers the way in which gender gains significance during ethnographic research to reveal situated social dynamics. As a female ethnographer in a male-dominated setting, I map my own movement and interaction through the field setting over time to show how my 'practice of ethnography' becomes, as it also reveals, a 'practice of intimacy'. I pay critical attention to the physical realities of the field setting as they structure patte…
Spillover Effects of an Uninsured Population
A lack of health insurance has long been associated with negative effects on individual and family health due to access barriers. However, we know little about how a lack of health insurance affects wider communities beyond health care. Based on in-depth interviews in two Los Angeles communities, we report how a lack of health insurance affects the functioning of religious institutions and schools from kindergarten to 12th grade. We find a negati…
Doing intimacy' in a public market
This article considers the way in which gender gains significance during ethnographic research to reveal situated social dynamics. As a female ethnographer in a male-dominated setting, I map my own movement and interaction through the field setting over time to show how my 'practice of ethnography' becomes, as it also reveals, a 'practice of intimacy'. I pay critical attention to the physical realities of the field setting as they structure patte…
Working the Boardwalk
This article argues that trust emerges as a key interactional mechanism through which vendors, artists, and performers that work in a public marketplace turn daily conditions of uncertainty into enduring stability. Drawing on four years of ethnographic data, I empirically illustrate a process of building, maintaining, and protecting trust. Following trust from the level of one-on-one interaction through to the level of a community, I expose the p…
Spillover Effects of an Uninsured Population
A lack of health insurance has long been associated with negative effects on individual and family health due to access barriers. However, we know little about how a lack of health insurance affects wider communities beyond health care. Based on in-depth interviews in two Los Angeles communities, we report how a lack of health insurance affects the functioning of religious institutions and schools from kindergarten to 12th grade. We find a negati…
Let People Be People
Spillover Effects of an Uninsured Population
A lack of health insurance has long been associated with negative effects on individual and family health due to access barriers. However, we know little about how a lack of health insurance affects wider communities beyond health care. Based on in-depth interviews in two Los Angeles communities, we report how a lack of health insurance affects the functioning of religious institutions and schools from kindergarten to 12th grade. We find a negati…
Working the Boardwalk
This article argues that trust emerges as a key interactional mechanism through which vendors, artists, and performers that work in a public marketplace turn daily conditions of uncertainty into enduring stability. Drawing on four years of ethnographic data, I empirically illustrate a process of building, maintaining, and protecting trust. Following trust from the level of one-on-one interaction through to the level of a community, I expose the p…
Doing intimacy' in a public market
This article considers the way in which gender gains significance during ethnographic research to reveal situated social dynamics. As a female ethnographer in a male-dominated setting, I map my own movement and interaction through the field setting over time to show how my 'practice of ethnography' becomes, as it also reveals, a 'practice of intimacy'. I pay critical attention to the physical realities of the field setting as they structure patte…
Let People Be People
Associations between Student Social Position, Training, and Plans to Care for Underserved Populations over the Course of Medical School
Psychology (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Ethnography (3 works) · Emotional Labor in Professions (2 works) · Participatory Visual Research Methods (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Public relations (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works) · Work (physics (2 works)