David R Maines
Biographic Data
| ID | 3587438 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David R Maines |
| GIVEN NAMES | David R |
| FAMILY NAME | Maines |
| SIGNATURE | MAINES D R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 73 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 819 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 73 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Social Organization and Social Process
Theoretical Concerns
Empirical Studies
Narrative Sociology
G. H. Mead’s Theory of Time and Social Order
The fundamental relevance of G. H. Mead&s;s thinking for sociology is found in his theory of time, and the keys to understanding that theory are in his concepts of the specious present and sociality. This chapter examines Mead&s;s treatment of time and the past in its intellectual context. This is important in order to determine Mead&s;s purposes at the time of his analysis and to indicate the intellectual resources at his disposal in pursuit of …
Narrative, Gender, and the Problematics of Role
In this chapter, the author examines potential linkages between concepts that are currently victimized by disciplinary fractures. The author&s;s area of inquiry is signified by the concepts of narrative, gender, and role. Narrative analysis has been a long-standing mode of inquiry in fields such as folklore and literature, and has recently been finding itself of use in the social sciences. Research on the development of narrative competence in ch…
The Interactionism of Contemporary Sociology
Several scholars over the years have provided descriptions and assessments of symbolic interactionism. Richard Bernstein&s;s observation complements author&s;s thesis that interactionism was ill-timed for sociology&s;s institution-building phase, and so in both the cases of pragmatism and interactionism there has been a lag in the conventional understanding of their relevance to and necessity for a more mature sociology. The sociologist focuses o…
The Edges of Interactionism
At all points of the faultline of consciousness we can find indications that scholars have struggled with sociology as a social constructionist enterprise. This struggle continues today, and in a variety of ways engages the edges of interactionism. If the unaware interactionist can be said to be reluctantly interpretive, the adherents of cultural studies are almost zealously interpretive. While interactionists arguably have sidestepped the direct…
The Faultline of Consciousness: A View of Interactionism in Sociology
Individualism and Community as Contested Rhetorics in the Catholic New Evangelization Movement
This article addresses a new religious movement within one of the oldest ecclesiastical organizations in Christendom-the Catholic Church. The Catholic New Evangelization (NE) is an intra-ecclesial movement articulated and inspired by the late Pope John Paul II. Our analysis of this movement focuses on the emerging tensions between the contrasting individualist and communalist orientations of what we call "Vatican II Catholics" and "NE Catholics,"…
A Sociological Account of the Persistence of Invalidated Anorexic Identities
Most versions of identity theory have had difficulty explaining the persistence of invalidated identities. Drawing from data on anorexic identity transactions, we identify three dimensions that contribute to understanding this persistence. Two dimensions, size and control, are shown to be the locus of identity invalidation; the third, desirability, is shown to be the locus of validation. Confirmation of one's sense of being desirable, we propose,…
Research Note: Evidence of and Speculations on Catholic de facto Congregationalism
Sociology and the Real World
On the Reproduction of Segmentation: Divergences in Catholic Church Professional and Laity Views of Church Size
Michael J. McCallion, David R. Maines, On the Reproduction of Segmentation: Divergences in Catholic Church Professional and Laity Views of Church Size, Review of Religious Research, Vol. 45, No. 1 (Sep., 2003), pp. 59-67
Interactionism's Place
The preservation of interactionism is now guaranteed to the extent that general sociology shows clear signs of becoming interactionist in its conceptual makeup. Accordingly interactionist promoters might want to enter into a more concerted dialogue with the unaware interactionists to make the disciplinary shift toward interactionism more overt and systematic. My treatment of these matters begins in a respectable but somewhat tiring manner, after …
Spiritual Gatekeepers: Time and the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults
This article addresses the process of initiation into the Catholic Church by analyzing in-depth interviews with parish-based professional initiation coordinators. The formal title given to this process of initiation by the Church since Vatican II is the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA). Since the RCIA's promulgation, the Church has hired a host of lay and religious professionals to coordinate its implementation at the parish level. O…
Writing the Self versus Writing the Other: Comparing Autobiographical and Life History Data
Conceptual Modeling as a Toolbox for Grounded Theorists
Conceptual modeling is proposed as a set of analytic procedures that further the grounded theory approach to theory-discovery and development. The compatibility between grounded theory and conceptual modeling is discussed, and data from a short ethnographic study of a hair salon are used to illustrate the roles of conceptual modeling in the early stages of theory discovery. The major focus of conceptual modeling is on three simultaneous, explicit…
Some Thoughts on the Interactionist Analysis of Class Stratification: A Commentary
The Social Construction of Meaning
What is commonly called the construction of meaning is one expression of sociology's increasing maturity. It is an area that cuts to the very heart of the sociological enterprise by challenging vulgar essentialisms and models of human group life based on reified constructs that are inconsistent with what we know about the human species. The first major challenge was largely completed by the 1930s, when instinct theory as a form of biological esse…
Postmodernism and a Sociology of the Absurd-And Other Essays on the 'Nouvelle Vague' in American Social Science
Information Pools and Racialized Narrative Structures
The concept of narrative structures is theorized as cultural master frames and is distinguished from the concept of story, which refers to anything reported that contains a plot. Drawing from the literature on African American folklore, the Church's Chicken story was presented to respondents as an instance of conspiracy and contamination narrative structures. Data show that story availability and believability are clearly race-based. The data gro…
Narrative Structures and the Catholic Church Closings in Detroit
Varieties of Information Technology: An Editorial Introduction
Fields of Play: Constructing an Academic Life
How do the specific circumstances in which we write affect what we write? How does what we write affect who we become? How can we maintain professsional and personal integrity in today's university? In a series of traditional and experimental writings, a culmination of ten years of works-in-progress, Laurel Richardson records an intellectual journey, displacing boundaries and creating new ways of reading and writing. Applying the sociological ima…
Narrative's Moment and Sociology's Phenomena: Toward a Narrative Sociology
In its urgency to establish itself as a science, sociology missed the opportunity to nurture its narrative character that the Thomas and Znaniecki research represented. Another moment now exists in an array of contradictions inherent in conventional sociological practices and the increasing acceptance and sophistication of narrative work in the human sciences. These conditions contain the potential for developing a narrative sociology in which so…
Social Organization and Social Structure in Symbolic Interactionist Thought
Through communication processes, people transform themselves and their environments and then respond to those transformations (Stone & Farberman 1970:v). This paraphrase, for the most part, defines the central thrust of the perspective of symbolic interactionism. It easily subsumes those topics traditionally associated with the perspective, such as interaction processes, socialization, the establishment and maintenance of meaning, systematic symb…
The Sociological Import of G. H. Mead's Theory of the Past
Mead's theory of the past, which contains his theory of temporality, is scrutinizedfor its relevance to sociological concerns. His theory is described, and four analytical dimensions are identified which provide the basis for discussing that relevance. Several standard areas of sociological endeavor are briefly analyzed in terms of those dimensions, and then a detailed analysis of community power relations is provided in light of his theory. It i…
In Search of Mesostructure: Studies in the Negotiated Order
The Faultline of Consciousness: A View of Interactionism in Sociology
The Significance of Temporality for the Development of Sociological Theory
This article introduces The Sociological Quarterly's feature on temporality and sociological inquiry. It sets the context of this feature as one of sociological neglect of temporality and of an increasing univocality in sociological work, and it suggests some of the consequences of that neglect and univocality. It is argued that the incorporation of up-to-date conceptions of temporality into sociological work will contribute to improved theory an…
Myth, Text, and Interaction Complicity in the Neglect of Blumer's Macrosociology
This article depicts a major line of assessment of the work of Herbert Blumer as constituting a series of myths. Portrayals of his work as subjectivistic and ideographic combine with the predominant myth that Blumer ignored issues of large-scale organization and social structure. Documentation of his analyses of corporate power relations, racial stratification, and industrialization and industrial organization reveals the mythical character of mu…
Narratives, community and land use decisions
This article explores the narrative character of community, arguing that communities are intrinsically storied. Narratives are conceptualized as social acts and are thereby of inherent importance to social scientific endeavor. Following Weber, narratives also are seen to be entrenched in institutions and in the political economy of communities. State tourism and land use decisions are suggested as ideographic situations in which such entrenchment…
The Social Construction of Meaning
What is commonly called the construction of meaning is one expression of sociology's increasing maturity. It is an area that cuts to the very heart of the sociological enterprise by challenging vulgar essentialisms and models of human group life based on reified constructs that are inconsistent with what we know about the human species. The first major challenge was largely completed by the 1930s, when instinct theory as a form of biological esse…
Interactionism's Place
The preservation of interactionism is now guaranteed to the extent that general sociology shows clear signs of becoming interactionist in its conceptual makeup. Accordingly interactionist promoters might want to enter into a more concerted dialogue with the unaware interactionists to make the disciplinary shift toward interactionism more overt and systematic. My treatment of these matters begins in a respectable but somewhat tiring manner, after …
Mythic Facts and Park's Pragmatism: On Predecessor-Selection and Theorizing in Human Ecology
Robert Park's proposals for the study of human and urban ecology were grounded in pragmatism, but critics of his perspective from the late 1930s through the 1940s totally missed his use of pragmatism and thereby defined four lines of deficiency: dualism (between the biotic and cultural), neglect of the sociocultural, biological determinism, and problems of measurement. These criticisms became reified as fact, out of which came Hawley's 1950 pivot…
Social Organization and Social Process
On Postmodernism, Pragmatism, and Plasterers: Some Interactionist Thoughts and Queries
Postmodernism is assessed as inherently flawed and largely irrelevant to interactionist work. It is suggested that the stage approach used by postmodernists, in which they define themselves as representing the next, superior stage after modernism, be replaced with a lineage approach in order to assess the possible merits of postmodernism. It is argued that such an approach would reveal postmodernism as a weak approximation of interactionist and p…
Herbert Blumer on the Possibility of Science in the Practice of Sociology: Further Thoughts
Mesostructure and Social Process
On Methodology and Craftsmanship in the Criticism of Sociological Perspectives
Narrative Structures and the Catholic Church Closings in Detroit
Temporality and Gender: Young Adults' Career and Family Plans
Qualitative data from a study of gender differentiation in mathematics are utilized to support and develop the proposition that men and women live in different temporal worlds. Patterns concerning anticipations of how work, education, and family will be organized are clearly gender differentiated. G. H. Mead's theory of time is used to conceptualize these differences as problems of continuity and discontinuity. It is argued that men live in linea…
Conceptual Modeling as a Toolbox for Grounded Theorists
Conceptual modeling is proposed as a set of analytic procedures that further the grounded theory approach to theory-discovery and development. The compatibility between grounded theory and conceptual modeling is discussed, and data from a short ethnographic study of a hair salon are used to illustrate the roles of conceptual modeling in the early stages of theory discovery. The major focus of conceptual modeling is on three simultaneous, explicit…
Information Pools and Racialized Narrative Structures
The concept of narrative structures is theorized as cultural master frames and is distinguished from the concept of story, which refers to anything reported that contains a plot. Drawing from the literature on African American folklore, the Church's Chicken story was presented to respondents as an instance of conspiracy and contamination narrative structures. Data show that story availability and believability are clearly race-based. The data gro…
Policy as Practice: First Holy Communion as a Contested Situation
This article addresses the processes of change that were put into motion by the Second Vatican Council. Our focus is on the central liturgical Vatican II principle of the "full, active, conscious participation of the faithful." This tenet changed the terms through which community was to be enacted. Our inquiry focuses on the consequences of this policy, and we approach our concern with the Weberian and Pragmatist assumptions that all human affair…
Narrative Structures and the Analysis of Incest
Our approach to the past is informed by the central tenets of both the interactionist and narrative perspectives. Narrative structures are the cultural and structural contexts within which pasts are transacted. Accordingly, when narrative structures change, the storied characters of pasts are changed. We analyze incest and child abuse as a substantive site to illlustrate how the criteria of believability and proper tellings vary by context. We no…
Structural Parameters and Negotiated Orders: Comment on Benson, and Day and Day
1978). Structural Parameters and Negotiated Orders: Comment on Benson, and Day and Day. The Sociological Quarterly: Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 491-496
Spiritual Gatekeepers: Time and the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults
This article addresses the process of initiation into the Catholic Church by analyzing in-depth interviews with parish-based professional initiation coordinators. The formal title given to this process of initiation by the Church since Vatican II is the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA). Since the RCIA's promulgation, the Church has hired a host of lay and religious professionals to coordinate its implementation at the parish level. O…
Writing the Self versus Writing the Other: Comparing Autobiographical and Life History Data
On Methodology and Craftsmanship in the Criticism of Sociological Perspectives
Introduction to Sociology: Situations and Structures
The Self-Concept: A Review of Methodological Considerations and Measuring Instruments, Vol 1
Social Organization and Social Structure in Symbolic Interactionist Thought
Through communication processes, people transform themselves and their environments and then respond to those transformations (Stone & Farberman 1970:v). This paraphrase, for the most part, defines the central thrust of the perspective of symbolic interactionism. It easily subsumes those topics traditionally associated with the perspective, such as interaction processes, socialization, the establishment and maintenance of meaning, systematic symb…
Class, Race, and Worker Insurgency: The League of Revolutionary Black Workers
List of tables Preface List of abbreviations 1. Sociology and the dialectics of class and race Part I. Historical Context: 2. Black workers, the auto industry and the UAW 3. Detroit: evolution of a black industrial city Part II. The League of Revolutionary Black Workers: 4. The birth of the League 5. Union electoral politics 6. Ideology 7. League organisational activities 8. The League splits and dies 9. Why was the League initially so successful…
Structural Parameters and Negotiated Orders: Comment on Benson, and Day and Day
1978). Structural Parameters and Negotiated Orders: Comment on Benson, and Day and Day. The Sociological Quarterly: Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 491-496
Elements of the Perpetuation of Dependency in a Psychiatric Halfway House
Halfway houses are intended as helping institutions for those who are attempting to make the transition from institutionalized mental health facilities to autonomous living in the community. In spite of the manifest goal to produce independence for its residents, however, the halfway house contributes to patterns of dependency. In addition to the network nature of mental health care, we identify three dependency-perpetuating elements: role commit…
Mesostructure and Social Process
Symbolic Interactionism: An Introduction, an Interpretation, an Integration
Symbolic Interactionism: An Introduction, An Interpretation, An Integration
Research in the Interweave of Social Roles: Friendship
In Search of Mesostructure: Studies in the Negotiated Order
Time and Biography in Diabetic Experience
This paper offers a preliminary analysis of temporality in the lives of diabetics. It is argued that time unites the various aspects of diabetic experience, including the disease itself, and the social, emotional, institutional, and technological arenas of that experience. A depiction of diabetic experience is rendered by focusing on family life, time in the individuals' sense of being, and biographical time. It is concluded that diabetes transfo…
Bargaining: Power, Tactics, and Outcomes
The Sociological Import of G. H. Mead's Theory of the Past
Mead's theory of the past, which contains his theory of temporality, is scrutinizedfor its relevance to sociological concerns. His theory is described, and four analytical dimensions are identified which provide the basis for discussing that relevance. Several standard areas of sociological endeavor are briefly analyzed in terms of those dimensions, and then a detailed analysis of community power relations is provided in light of his theory. It i…
The Obsessive Discoverer's Complex and the "Discovery" of Growth in Sociological Theory
Reconstructive Legitimacy in Final Reports of Contract Research
It is argued that final reports of contract research firms are best understood as documents embedded in a political economy rather than as objective depictions of reality. That political economy gives rise to distortions of the research process in such reports we conceptualize as 'reconstructive legitimacy'. That concept points to a set of structural conditions which induce contractors to gloss over problems and misrepresent research events. Reco…
Social Organization of Medical Work (Book)
G. H. Mead: A Contemporary Re-examination of His Thought. Hans Joas , Raymond Meyer
Temporality and Gender: Young Adults' Career and Family Plans
Qualitative data from a study of gender differentiation in mathematics are utilized to support and develop the proposition that men and women live in different temporal worlds. Patterns concerning anticipations of how work, education, and family will be organized are clearly gender differentiated. G. H. Mead's theory of time is used to conceptualize these differences as problems of continuity and discontinuity. It is argued that men live in linea…
The Significance of Temporality for the Development of Sociological Theory
This article introduces The Sociological Quarterly's feature on temporality and sociological inquiry. It sets the context of this feature as one of sociological neglect of temporality and of an increasing univocality in sociological work, and it suggests some of the consequences of that neglect and univocality. It is argued that the incorporation of up-to-date conceptions of temporality into sociological work will contribute to improved theory an…
Myth, Text, and Interaction Complicity in the Neglect of Blumer's Macrosociology
This article depicts a major line of assessment of the work of Herbert Blumer as constituting a series of myths. Portrayals of his work as subjectivistic and ideographic combine with the predominant myth that Blumer ignored issues of large-scale organization and social structure. Documentation of his analyses of corporate power relations, racial stratification, and industrialization and industrial organization reveals the mythical character of mu…
The Alcoholic Self and Its Social Circles The Alcoholic Self. Norman K. Denzin The Recovering Alcoholic. Norman K. Denzin Treating Alcoholism: An Alcoholics Anonymous Approach. Norman K. Denzin
Further Dialectics: Strangers, Friends, and Historical Transformations
(1989). Further Dialectics: Strangers, Friends, and Historical Transformations. Annals of the International Communication Association: Vol. 12, Communication Yearbook 12, pp. 190-202
Rediscovering the Social Group: A Self-Categorization Theory. John C. Turner , Michael A. Hogg , Penelope J. Oakes , Stephen D. Reicher , Margaret S. Wetherell
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