Jon Wagner
Biographic Data
| ID | 3600100 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jon Wagner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jon |
| FAMILY NAME | Wagner |
| SIGNATURE | WAGNER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Davis |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Reaching out to Howie Becker
With images in mind , 2022: Photographywritingmusic
"With images in mind, 2022." Visual Studies, 38(2), pp. 164–165 Additional informationNotes on contributorsJon WagnerJon Wagner is Professor Emeritus in Education at the University of California, Davis. His current interests include the phenomenology of Alzheimer's and dementia care; visual communication for public and private audiences; and the visual commons of residential landscapes. Past interests include children's material culture, qualitat…
Rediscovering visual sociology, once again
This essay explores four different versions of visual sociology – and a fifth that centers on their relatedness – that scholar-practitioners frequently have to navigate, acknowledge or otherwise attend to in their own research and teaching. Over the past five decades, the first four became familiar to me through my own engagement in visual sociology, and the fifth emerged while writing this essay. Taken together, these different versions of visua…
What is an Image? Artists’ panel transcription, International Visual Sociology Association annual conference, 16 September 2022
Does she still recognise you
Looking into Visual Studies
The future of visual studies live roundtable. International Visual Sociology Association 40th annual conference, 7 July 2021
Politics and Change in the Middle East: 10E
A longtime bestseller, Politics and Change in the Middle East employs a multidisciplinary approach to comprehensively and evenhandedly study the region‘s past, present, and future. Through politics, economics, culture, and history, this text offers a rugged analytical framework that familiarizes students with the Middle East and helps them to critically evaluate contemporary developments. Thematically organized, Politics and Change in the Middle …
Jon Rieger In Memorium 1936-2020
Jon Rieger and the IVSA Jon Rieger was critically important in helping establish the IVSA and a strong supporter ever after. To put his contributions in perspective, it’s useful to know a little ab
Intimations of Immortality: Death/Life Mediations in Star Trek
Politics and Change in the Middle East: Pearson New International Edition PDF eBook
This book focuses on range and intensity of social changes that have occurred in the Middle East, examining specific issues important to an understanding of contemporary Middle Eastern politics, up to and including events in the twenty-first century.
Updating the Up Series: 56 Up directed by Michael Apted and Paul Almond, edited by Kim Horton
Updating the Up Series: 56 Up directed by Michael Apted and Paul Almond, edited by Kim Horton." Visual Studies, 31(1), pp. 89–90
Visual sociology
Visual Studies and Empirical Social Inquiry
Seeing Things: Visual Research and Material Culture
Hong Kong: Migrant lives, landscapes, and journeys
by Caroline Knowles and Douglas Harper Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009, 270 pages ISBN: 978-0-226-44856-5 Reviewed by Jon Wagner, University of California, Davis Hong Kong is a richly de
Coming Home: The Evolutionary Roots of Utopia
Research Article| January 01 2009 Coming Home: The Evolutionary Roots of Utopia Jon Wagner Jon Wagner Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Utopian Studies (2009) 20 (2): 299–320. https://doi.org/10.2307/20719950 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Jon Wagner; Coming Home: The Evolutionary Roots of Utopia. Utopian Studies 1 January 2009; 20 (2): 299–320. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/207199…
Visible materials, visualised theory and images of social research
Reciprocal relationships between visualising and seeing undergird all empirical investigations, but they are frequently neglected. That neglect leads to distortions in how social researchers think about the visual dimensions of their data, the visual challenge of communicating their research to others, and the images and visualisations that guide their theorising. Paying more attention to these elements can enrich our understanding of culture and…
Constructing Credible Images: Documentary Studies, Social Research, and Visual Studies
Documentary photographers and visual social researchers both rely on visual, real-world data but differ in how they address three key challenges: creating empirically credible images of culture and social life, framing empirical observations to highlight new knowledge, and challenging existing social theory. A close look at these shared challenges and contrasting conventions recommends exemplary documentary studies as an empirically viable altern…
Contrasting images, complementary trajectories: Sociology, visual sociology and visual research
Recent books by Jon Prosser (Image-based Research 1998) and by Michael Emmison and Philip Smith (Researching the Visual 2000) recommend increased research attention to the visual dimensions of culture and social life, but their contrasting perspectives raise questions about how research of this sort can be pursued most productively: as a strand or dimension of sociological inquiry or through cross-disciplinary work in qualitative research or cult…
Does image‐based field work have more to gain from extending or from rejecting scientific realism? An essay in review
Beyond the body in a box: Visualizing contexts of children's action
Social scientists refer routinely to a range of social and cultural contexts in trying to understand children's lives, but this range may not include what children think or say about what they do. In this article, I examine how two girls thought about their efforts to mummify a Barbie Doll as part of a school project. Attending to what the girls said about their project led me to regard strings of related activities—as defined by kids—as an impor…
Politics and Change in the Middle East: Sources of Conflict and Accommodation
Introduction. 1. Traditional Cultures of the Middle East: The Cradle of Civilization and Politics. 2. The Foundations of Islam. 3. The Political Legacy of Islam, A.D. 632-1800. 4. Western Imperialism, A.D. 1800-1914. 5. The Rise of the State System, A.D. 1914-1950. 6. The Drive for Self-Determination, 1950-1990. 7. Turning Points. 8. The Politics of Religion, Culture, and Social Life. 9. Political Elites. 10. Political Leadership in the Contempor…
Pairing General Purpose Computer Programs to Analyze Qualitative Data: An Illustration Based on MS Word(R) and FileMaker Pro(R)
The Unavoidable Intervention of Educational Research: A Framework for Reconsidering Researcher-Practitioner Cooperation
As a framework for stimulating further, empirical investigation, I describe three different forms of direct researcher practitioner cooperation: data-extraction agreements, clinical partnerships, and co-learning agreements. Each form reflects different social arrangements, inquiry and reporting strategies, and operating assumptions, and each form also has different implications for supporting educational research and reform. Distinctions between …
The Unavoidable Intervention of Educational Research: A Framework for Reconsidering Researcher-Practitioner Cooperation
As a framework for stimulating further, empirical investigation, I describe three different forms of direct researcher practitioner cooperation: data-extraction agreements, clinical partnerships, and co-learning agreements. Each form reflects different social arrangements, inquiry and reporting strategies, and operating assumptions, and each form also has different implications for supporting educational research and reform. Distinctions between …
Ignorance in Educational Research Or, How Can You Not Know That
In this article I argue that ignorance is a better criterion than truth for determining the usefulness of knowledge generated through different forms of educational research. This argument has implications for how we conceptualize educational research, how we teach it, and how we frame and support relationships between researchers and their subjects. The argument draws on a distinction between "blind spots" and "blank spots," and it is supported …
Does image‐based field work have more to gain from extending or from rejecting scientific realism? An essay in review
Educational research as a full participant: Challenges and opportunities for generating new knowledge
Politics and Change in the Middle East: Sources of Conflict and Accommodation
Introduction. 1. Traditional Cultures of the Middle East: The Cradle of Civilization and Politics. 2. The Foundations of Islam. 3. The Political Legacy of Islam, A.D. 632-1800. 4. Western Imperialism, A.D. 1800-1914. 5. The Rise of the State System, A.D. 1914-1950. 6. The Drive for Self-Determination, 1950-1990. 7. Turning Points. 8. The Politics of Religion, Culture, and Social Life. 9. Political Elites. 10. Political Leadership in the Contempor…
Bricolage and Teachers' Theorizing
Strategies of Dismissal: Ways and Means of Avoiding Personal Abuse
This paper describes the mechanisms by which individuals "dismiss" or render ineffective the symbolic attacks to which they are subjected. Among the strategies useful to this protection of the self are those which focus on the situation of the attack, the nature of the self, and the nature of the attacker. Characteristic of many of these individual approaches to defense is an underlying concept of the "real self, " a symbolic identity, the manife…
Constructing Credible Images: Documentary Studies, Social Research, and Visual Studies
Documentary photographers and visual social researchers both rely on visual, real-world data but differ in how they address three key challenges: creating empirically credible images of culture and social life, framing empirical observations to highlight new knowledge, and challenging existing social theory. A close look at these shared challenges and contrasting conventions recommends exemplary documentary studies as an empirically viable altern…
Social Contracts and University Public Service: The Case of Agriculture and Schooling
Public service programs define one set of terms by which universities negotiate -- and must continue to negotiate -- their social and political contracts with the public. Over the past several decades, these contracts have been challenged by ongoing social and technological change [28, 45], by internal changes in the structure of the university [10, 28, 44], and by the need to assimilate new generations of students and faculty members into campus…
Administrators as Ethnographers: School as a Context for Inquiry and Action
Drawing on multiyear field observations of educational administrators, I examine several parallels between the work of educational administration and school ethnography. These parallels emerge in response to structural challenges faced by administrators who work in schools and other educational programs. The parallels themselves suggest several unexamined complementarities between ethnographic and administrative orientations toward the schools. T…
Rediscovering visual sociology, once again
This essay explores four different versions of visual sociology – and a fifth that centers on their relatedness – that scholar-practitioners frequently have to navigate, acknowledge or otherwise attend to in their own research and teaching. Over the past five decades, the first four became familiar to me through my own engagement in visual sociology, and the fifth emerged while writing this essay. Taken together, these different versions of visua…
Visual sociology
Hong Kong: Migrant lives, landscapes, and journeys
by Caroline Knowles and Douglas Harper Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009, 270 pages ISBN: 978-0-226-44856-5 Reviewed by Jon Wagner, University of California, Davis Hong Kong is a richly de
Beyond the body in a box: Visualizing contexts of children's action
Social scientists refer routinely to a range of social and cultural contexts in trying to understand children's lives, but this range may not include what children think or say about what they do. In this article, I examine how two girls thought about their efforts to mummify a Barbie Doll as part of a school project. Attending to what the girls said about their project led me to regard strings of related activities—as defined by kids—as an impor…
Ignorance in Educational Research: Or, How Can You "Not" Know That
Anthropology and Human Values in Liberal Arts Education
The Urban School: A Factory for Failure
News on the Society; The Fieldworker as Artist: Symposium Sponsored by the Association for Humanistic Anthropology
Misfits and Missionaries: A School for Black Drop-Outs
Anthropology and Human Values in Liberal Arts Education
Defining Technology: Political Implications of Hardware, Software, Power, and Information
Misfits and Missionaries: A School for Black Drop-Outs
Strategies of Dismissal: Ways and Means of Avoiding Personal Abuse
This paper describes the mechanisms by which individuals "dismiss" or render ineffective the symbolic attacks to which they are subjected. Among the strategies useful to this protection of the self are those which focus on the situation of the attack, the nature of the self, and the nature of the attacker. Characteristic of many of these individual approaches to defense is an underlying concept of the "real self, " a symbolic identity, the manife…
Sex Roles in Contemporary American Communes
Amana: From Pietist Sect to American Community. Diane L. BARTHEL
Administrators as Ethnographers: School as a Context for Inquiry and Action
Drawing on multiyear field observations of educational administrators, I examine several parallels between the work of educational administration and school ethnography. These parallels emerge in response to structural challenges faced by administrators who work in schools and other educational programs. The parallels themselves suggest several unexamined complementarities between ethnographic and administrative orientations toward the schools. T…
Bricolage and Teachers' Theorizing
Educational research as a full participant: Challenges and opportunities for generating new knowledge
Ignorance in Educational Research Or, How Can You Not Know That
In this article I argue that ignorance is a better criterion than truth for determining the usefulness of knowledge generated through different forms of educational research. This argument has implications for how we conceptualize educational research, how we teach it, and how we frame and support relationships between researchers and their subjects. The argument draws on a distinction between "blind spots" and "blank spots," and it is supported …
Ignorance in Educational Research: Or, How Can You "Not" Know That
Social Contracts and University Public Service: The Case of Agriculture and Schooling
Public service programs define one set of terms by which universities negotiate -- and must continue to negotiate -- their social and political contracts with the public. Over the past several decades, these contracts have been challenged by ongoing social and technological change [28, 45], by internal changes in the structure of the university [10, 28, 44], and by the need to assimilate new generations of students and faculty members into campus…
The Unavoidable Intervention of Educational Research: A Framework for Reconsidering Researcher-Practitioner Cooperation
As a framework for stimulating further, empirical investigation, I describe three different forms of direct researcher practitioner cooperation: data-extraction agreements, clinical partnerships, and co-learning agreements. Each form reflects different social arrangements, inquiry and reporting strategies, and operating assumptions, and each form also has different implications for supporting educational research and reform. Distinctions between …
Pairing General Purpose Computer Programs to Analyze Qualitative Data: An Illustration Based on MS Word(R) and FileMaker Pro(R)
Beyond the body in a box: Visualizing contexts of children's action
Social scientists refer routinely to a range of social and cultural contexts in trying to understand children's lives, but this range may not include what children think or say about what they do. In this article, I examine how two girls thought about their efforts to mummify a Barbie Doll as part of a school project. Attending to what the girls said about their project led me to regard strings of related activities—as defined by kids—as an impor…
Politics and Change in the Middle East: Sources of Conflict and Accommodation
Introduction. 1. Traditional Cultures of the Middle East: The Cradle of Civilization and Politics. 2. The Foundations of Islam. 3. The Political Legacy of Islam, A.D. 632-1800. 4. Western Imperialism, A.D. 1800-1914. 5. The Rise of the State System, A.D. 1914-1950. 6. The Drive for Self-Determination, 1950-1990. 7. Turning Points. 8. The Politics of Religion, Culture, and Social Life. 9. Political Elites. 10. Political Leadership in the Contempor…
Does image‐based field work have more to gain from extending or from rejecting scientific realism? An essay in review
Contrasting images, complementary trajectories: Sociology, visual sociology and visual research
Recent books by Jon Prosser (Image-based Research 1998) and by Michael Emmison and Philip Smith (Researching the Visual 2000) recommend increased research attention to the visual dimensions of culture and social life, but their contrasting perspectives raise questions about how research of this sort can be pursued most productively: as a strand or dimension of sociological inquiry or through cross-disciplinary work in qualitative research or cult…
Constructing Credible Images: Documentary Studies, Social Research, and Visual Studies
Documentary photographers and visual social researchers both rely on visual, real-world data but differ in how they address three key challenges: creating empirically credible images of culture and social life, framing empirical observations to highlight new knowledge, and challenging existing social theory. A close look at these shared challenges and contrasting conventions recommends exemplary documentary studies as an empirically viable altern…
Visible materials, visualised theory and images of social research
Reciprocal relationships between visualising and seeing undergird all empirical investigations, but they are frequently neglected. That neglect leads to distortions in how social researchers think about the visual dimensions of their data, the visual challenge of communicating their research to others, and the images and visualisations that guide their theorising. Paying more attention to these elements can enrich our understanding of culture and…
Coming Home: The Evolutionary Roots of Utopia
Research Article| January 01 2009 Coming Home: The Evolutionary Roots of Utopia Jon Wagner Jon Wagner Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Utopian Studies (2009) 20 (2): 299–320. https://doi.org/10.2307/20719950 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Jon Wagner; Coming Home: The Evolutionary Roots of Utopia. Utopian Studies 1 January 2009; 20 (2): 299–320. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/207199…
Visual Studies and Empirical Social Inquiry
Sociology (32 works) · Art (15 works) · Computer Science (14 works) · Political science (13 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Participatory Visual Research Methods (11 works) · Epistemology (9 works) · History (9 works) · Visual arts (9 works) · Social science (8 works)