Elise Wolff
Biographic Data
| ID | 3603658 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elise Wolff |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elise |
| FAMILY NAME | Wolff |
| SIGNATURE | WOLFF E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9101-6707 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A Farewell to Public Religion? Retheorizing and Assessing the Public Relevance of Religion
The Emergence of Peace and Conflict Studies
This article expands the sociological scholarship on the development of academic programs in intellectual fields tied to social movements. After briefly reviewing this literature, which has especially focused on fields like ethnic studies and women's studies, it examines the development of the smaller field of peace and conflict studies. In considering the potential actors, tactics, and outcomes for programs in these kinds of fields, this article…
The Power of Naming
This article considers how name change comes about by examining fieldwide debates among actors such as professionals and activists. Analysing a range of primary qualitative materials produced by leading US organisations over a 75-year period, it focuses on a case from the disability advocacy field in several shifts from older terms to more recent 'intellectual disability' (ID) language in the United States. As opposed to framing these changes sol…
A Legacy of Revision
Drawing on publications produced by one of the oldest and leading professional associations dealing with intellectual disability (ID), this paper explores the continual maintenance of expertise over potentially contested classifications. I find that, given unforeseen difficulties among professionals in actually defining and classifying what is currently known as ID as well as the later addition of new stakeholders in the advocacy field, professio…
Forgetting the Founders? The Uses of Classical Theory Today
The Christian Science Church in the twenty-first century
The history of Christian Science is characterized by rapid growth and subsequent decline. Almost two decades ago, Rodney Stark concluded that the movement was a ‘dismal failure’ and might not even survive another generation. Richard Singelenberg drew attention to the importance of including consideration of the role of the Church’s doctrinal and financial controversies as possible determinants of the movement’s present and future development. Ind…
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The Christian Science Church in the twenty-first century
The history of Christian Science is characterized by rapid growth and subsequent decline. Almost two decades ago, Rodney Stark concluded that the movement was a ‘dismal failure’ and might not even survive another generation. Richard Singelenberg drew attention to the importance of including consideration of the role of the Church’s doctrinal and financial controversies as possible determinants of the movement’s present and future development. Ind…
Forgetting the Founders? The Uses of Classical Theory Today
The Power of Naming
This article considers how name change comes about by examining fieldwide debates among actors such as professionals and activists. Analysing a range of primary qualitative materials produced by leading US organisations over a 75-year period, it focuses on a case from the disability advocacy field in several shifts from older terms to more recent 'intellectual disability' (ID) language in the United States. As opposed to framing these changes sol…
A Legacy of Revision
Drawing on publications produced by one of the oldest and leading professional associations dealing with intellectual disability (ID), this paper explores the continual maintenance of expertise over potentially contested classifications. I find that, given unforeseen difficulties among professionals in actually defining and classifying what is currently known as ID as well as the later addition of new stakeholders in the advocacy field, professio…
A Farewell to Public Religion? Retheorizing and Assessing the Public Relevance of Religion
The Emergence of Peace and Conflict Studies
This article expands the sociological scholarship on the development of academic programs in intellectual fields tied to social movements. After briefly reviewing this literature, which has especially focused on fields like ethnic studies and women's studies, it examines the development of the smaller field of peace and conflict studies. In considering the potential actors, tactics, and outcomes for programs in these kinds of fields, this article…
Sociology (4 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Disability Rights and Representation (2 works) · Intellectual disability (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (2 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (1 work) · Ancient history (1 work)