Emily Barman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3610130 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emily Barman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emily |
| FAMILY NAME | Barman |
| SIGNATURE | BARMAN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 272 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Round table: Is the common ground between pragmatism and critical realism more important than the differences
One theme of this special issue is an incitement to reconsider the relationship between pragmatism and critical realism. While their advocates sometimes come into conflict, there are also clearly borrowings and overlaps between the traditions, and we therefore invited scholars with feet in either or indeed both camps to discuss their relationship. The discussion was conducted virtually, with participants submitting initial contributions, reviewin…
De quoi le capitalisme se soucie-t-il
The Gates Foundation's Rise to Power: Private Authority in Global Politics
The Social Bases of Philanthropy
Philanthropy-private giving for public purposes by individuals, corporations, and foundations-is a widespread activity. Scholarship on philanthropy is long-standing and can be traced to competing theorizations of gift-giving, wherein the gift has been framed as a case of altruism, self-interest, or reciprocity. Much of the resulting scholarship, in the disciplines of anthropology, economics, evolutionary biology, and psychology, has retained a fo…
Caring Capitalism: The Meaning and Measure of Social Value
Companies are increasingly championed for their capacity to solve social problems. Yet what happens when such goods as water, education, and health are sold by companies - rather than donated by nonprofits - to the disadvantaged and when the pursuit of mission becomes entangled with the pursuit of profit? In Caring Capitalism, Emily Barman answers these important questions, showing how the meaning of social value in an era of caring capitalism ge…
Varieties of Field Theory and the Sociology of the Non‐profit Sector
This paper reviews the use of field theory in the sociological study of the non‐profit sector. The review first shows how field theory, as a conceptual framework to explain social action, provides a valuable sociological counterweight to prevailing economic and psychological orientations in the interdisciplinary scholarship on the non‐profit sector. However, despite its certain shared assumptions, field theory in sociology encompasses three disti…
Of Principle and Principal: Value Plurality in the Market of Impact Investing
Impact investing-investment with the intentional expectation of social or environmental impact alongside financial return-constitutes one of a growing array of “concerned markets” where economic exchange is employed as a means to pursue financial and social or environmental value. Drawing from the pragmatist turn in valuation studies, this article attends to the valuation work that took place in the formation of this new market, examining how mar…
Public or private? The role of the state and civil society in health and health inequalities across nations
Classificatory Struggles in the Nonprofit Sector: The Formation of the National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities, 1969–1987
Employing Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of classificatory struggles and sociological literature on professions’ construction of jurisdiction, this article examines the origins of the National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE), the dominant classification system for the US nonprofit sector. Using data drawn from archival research and secondary research, I show that the establishment of the NTEE was part of a larger symbolic struggle over the proper c…
Institutional Pressures and Organizational Capacity: The Case of Outcome Measurement 1
A central claim of new institutional theory is that organizations in a field come to exhibit shared characteristics over time. Recent literature emphasizes variation across field members, but has yet to concur on why differences occur. This study tests institutional explanations for the uneven implementation of one organizational practice—outcome measurement, an evaluative technique used to assess the impact of an organization’s programs. We anal…
What is the Bottom Line for Nonprofit Organizations? A History of Measurement in the British Voluntary Sector
Over the last two decades, nonprofit organizations in the United Kingdom (UK) have faced increased pressure to measure their activities in order to demonstrate their competency, to achieve legitimacy, and to obtain funding. This paper draws from recent literature in the sociology of science to examine quantification in the British voluntary sector as a historically situated and socially constructed process. Using archival and secondary documents,…
An Institutional Approach to Donor Control: From Dyadic Ties to a Field-Level Analysis
Literature on the nonprofit sector focuses on charities and their interactions with clients or governmental agencies; donors are studied less often. Studies on philanthropy do examine donors but tend to focus on microlevel factors to explain their behavior. This study, in contrast, draws on institutional theory to show that macrolevel factors affect donor behavior. It also extends the institutional framework by examining the field‐level configura…
Contesting Communities: The Transformation of Workplace Charity
Is "community" in America in decline? If so, does this mean that charitable giving in the United States is also in decline? In this innovative and original work, Emily Barman offers new insights into this important issue. Analyzing workplace charity in different cities across the United States, Contesting Communities shows that while traditional notions of community might be in decline, new types and visions of community have emerged. Barman trac…
What a Weberian approach to interests can contribute to economic sociology
Asserting Difference: The Strategic Response of Nonprofit Organizations to Competition
Sociological research on nonprofit organizations has identified several strategies by which nonprofits may respond to environmental challenges. I explicate a strategic response that I call differentiation, and I locate the specific condition under which it is implemented, the condition of competition. I compare the strategic responses adopted by one nonprofit, a large United Way, in two different moments: a period of monopoly and a subsequent per…
Congregations in Conflict: Cultural Models of Local Religious Life
The National Congregations Study: Background, Methods, and Selected Results
The National Congregations Study (NCS) was conducted in conjunction with the 1998 General Social Survey (GSS). The 1998 GSS asked respondents who attend religious services to name their religious congregation, thus generating a nationally representative sample of religious congregations. Data about these congregations were collected via a one-hour interview with one key informant - a minister, priest, rabbi, or other staff person or leader - from…
Reply to Comments
These comments have one common theme but raise as well number of minor issues. We shall allow the common theme to emerge from discussion of the comments in order. Carley is right that the coding of texts at the level here discussed is a formidable task. Indeed, it seems unlikely that the methods discussed here will see widespread use in textual analysis except where coding can be routinized. On her issue of Gibbs sampling versus simulated anneali…
Sequence Comparison Viaalignment and Gibbs Sampling: A Formal Analysis of the Emergence of the Modern Sociological Article
Various substantive literatures in sociology seek small regularities in sequences: turning points in the life course, catalytic moments in organizational change, sharp turns in occupational trajectories, and the like. Commonly these are turning points, but they may also be simple local patterns. This paper reports a method for discovering such regularities even when they are quite faint, applying that method to rhetorical regularities in sociolog…
The National Congregations Study: Background, Methods, and Selected Results
The National Congregations Study (NCS) was conducted in conjunction with the 1998 General Social Survey (GSS). The 1998 GSS asked respondents who attend religious services to name their religious congregation, thus generating a nationally representative sample of religious congregations. Data about these congregations were collected via a one-hour interview with one key informant - a minister, priest, rabbi, or other staff person or leader - from…
Asserting Difference: The Strategic Response of Nonprofit Organizations to Competition
Sociological research on nonprofit organizations has identified several strategies by which nonprofits may respond to environmental challenges. I explicate a strategic response that I call differentiation, and I locate the specific condition under which it is implemented, the condition of competition. I compare the strategic responses adopted by one nonprofit, a large United Way, in two different moments: a period of monopoly and a subsequent per…
The Social Bases of Philanthropy
Philanthropy-private giving for public purposes by individuals, corporations, and foundations-is a widespread activity. Scholarship on philanthropy is long-standing and can be traced to competing theorizations of gift-giving, wherein the gift has been framed as a case of altruism, self-interest, or reciprocity. Much of the resulting scholarship, in the disciplines of anthropology, economics, evolutionary biology, and psychology, has retained a fo…
Of Principle and Principal: Value Plurality in the Market of Impact Investing
Impact investing-investment with the intentional expectation of social or environmental impact alongside financial return-constitutes one of a growing array of “concerned markets” where economic exchange is employed as a means to pursue financial and social or environmental value. Drawing from the pragmatist turn in valuation studies, this article attends to the valuation work that took place in the formation of this new market, examining how mar…
Institutional Pressures and Organizational Capacity: The Case of Outcome Measurement 1
A central claim of new institutional theory is that organizations in a field come to exhibit shared characteristics over time. Recent literature emphasizes variation across field members, but has yet to concur on why differences occur. This study tests institutional explanations for the uneven implementation of one organizational practice—outcome measurement, an evaluative technique used to assess the impact of an organization’s programs. We anal…
Varieties of Field Theory and the Sociology of the Non‐profit Sector
This paper reviews the use of field theory in the sociological study of the non‐profit sector. The review first shows how field theory, as a conceptual framework to explain social action, provides a valuable sociological counterweight to prevailing economic and psychological orientations in the interdisciplinary scholarship on the non‐profit sector. However, despite its certain shared assumptions, field theory in sociology encompasses three disti…
Sequence Comparison Viaalignment and Gibbs Sampling: A Formal Analysis of the Emergence of the Modern Sociological Article
Various substantive literatures in sociology seek small regularities in sequences: turning points in the life course, catalytic moments in organizational change, sharp turns in occupational trajectories, and the like. Commonly these are turning points, but they may also be simple local patterns. This paper reports a method for discovering such regularities even when they are quite faint, applying that method to rhetorical regularities in sociolog…
An Institutional Approach to Donor Control: From Dyadic Ties to a Field-Level Analysis
Literature on the nonprofit sector focuses on charities and their interactions with clients or governmental agencies; donors are studied less often. Studies on philanthropy do examine donors but tend to focus on microlevel factors to explain their behavior. This study, in contrast, draws on institutional theory to show that macrolevel factors affect donor behavior. It also extends the institutional framework by examining the field‐level configura…
Public or private? The role of the state and civil society in health and health inequalities across nations
What is the Bottom Line for Nonprofit Organizations? A History of Measurement in the British Voluntary Sector
Over the last two decades, nonprofit organizations in the United Kingdom (UK) have faced increased pressure to measure their activities in order to demonstrate their competency, to achieve legitimacy, and to obtain funding. This paper draws from recent literature in the sociology of science to examine quantification in the British voluntary sector as a historically situated and socially constructed process. Using archival and secondary documents,…
Classificatory Struggles in the Nonprofit Sector: The Formation of the National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities, 1969–1987
Employing Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of classificatory struggles and sociological literature on professions’ construction of jurisdiction, this article examines the origins of the National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE), the dominant classification system for the US nonprofit sector. Using data drawn from archival research and secondary research, I show that the establishment of the NTEE was part of a larger symbolic struggle over the proper c…
What a Weberian approach to interests can contribute to economic sociology
Reply to Comments
These comments have one common theme but raise as well number of minor issues. We shall allow the common theme to emerge from discussion of the comments in order. Carley is right that the coding of texts at the level here discussed is a formidable task. Indeed, it seems unlikely that the methods discussed here will see widespread use in textual analysis except where coding can be routinized. On her issue of Gibbs sampling versus simulated anneali…
Sequence Comparison Viaalignment and Gibbs Sampling: A Formal Analysis of the Emergence of the Modern Sociological Article
Various substantive literatures in sociology seek small regularities in sequences: turning points in the life course, catalytic moments in organizational change, sharp turns in occupational trajectories, and the like. Commonly these are turning points, but they may also be simple local patterns. This paper reports a method for discovering such regularities even when they are quite faint, applying that method to rhetorical regularities in sociolog…
The National Congregations Study: Background, Methods, and Selected Results
The National Congregations Study (NCS) was conducted in conjunction with the 1998 General Social Survey (GSS). The 1998 GSS asked respondents who attend religious services to name their religious congregation, thus generating a nationally representative sample of religious congregations. Data about these congregations were collected via a one-hour interview with one key informant - a minister, priest, rabbi, or other staff person or leader - from…
Congregations in Conflict: Cultural Models of Local Religious Life
Asserting Difference: The Strategic Response of Nonprofit Organizations to Competition
Sociological research on nonprofit organizations has identified several strategies by which nonprofits may respond to environmental challenges. I explicate a strategic response that I call differentiation, and I locate the specific condition under which it is implemented, the condition of competition. I compare the strategic responses adopted by one nonprofit, a large United Way, in two different moments: a period of monopoly and a subsequent per…
What a Weberian approach to interests can contribute to economic sociology
Contesting Communities: The Transformation of Workplace Charity
Is "community" in America in decline? If so, does this mean that charitable giving in the United States is also in decline? In this innovative and original work, Emily Barman offers new insights into this important issue. Analyzing workplace charity in different cities across the United States, Contesting Communities shows that while traditional notions of community might be in decline, new types and visions of community have emerged. Barman trac…
What is the Bottom Line for Nonprofit Organizations? A History of Measurement in the British Voluntary Sector
Over the last two decades, nonprofit organizations in the United Kingdom (UK) have faced increased pressure to measure their activities in order to demonstrate their competency, to achieve legitimacy, and to obtain funding. This paper draws from recent literature in the sociology of science to examine quantification in the British voluntary sector as a historically situated and socially constructed process. Using archival and secondary documents,…
An Institutional Approach to Donor Control: From Dyadic Ties to a Field-Level Analysis
Literature on the nonprofit sector focuses on charities and their interactions with clients or governmental agencies; donors are studied less often. Studies on philanthropy do examine donors but tend to focus on microlevel factors to explain their behavior. This study, in contrast, draws on institutional theory to show that macrolevel factors affect donor behavior. It also extends the institutional framework by examining the field‐level configura…
Institutional Pressures and Organizational Capacity: The Case of Outcome Measurement 1
A central claim of new institutional theory is that organizations in a field come to exhibit shared characteristics over time. Recent literature emphasizes variation across field members, but has yet to concur on why differences occur. This study tests institutional explanations for the uneven implementation of one organizational practice—outcome measurement, an evaluative technique used to assess the impact of an organization’s programs. We anal…
Classificatory Struggles in the Nonprofit Sector: The Formation of the National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities, 1969–1987
Employing Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of classificatory struggles and sociological literature on professions’ construction of jurisdiction, this article examines the origins of the National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE), the dominant classification system for the US nonprofit sector. Using data drawn from archival research and secondary research, I show that the establishment of the NTEE was part of a larger symbolic struggle over the proper c…
Public or private? The role of the state and civil society in health and health inequalities across nations
Of Principle and Principal: Value Plurality in the Market of Impact Investing
Impact investing-investment with the intentional expectation of social or environmental impact alongside financial return-constitutes one of a growing array of “concerned markets” where economic exchange is employed as a means to pursue financial and social or environmental value. Drawing from the pragmatist turn in valuation studies, this article attends to the valuation work that took place in the formation of this new market, examining how mar…
Caring Capitalism: The Meaning and Measure of Social Value
Companies are increasingly championed for their capacity to solve social problems. Yet what happens when such goods as water, education, and health are sold by companies - rather than donated by nonprofits - to the disadvantaged and when the pursuit of mission becomes entangled with the pursuit of profit? In Caring Capitalism, Emily Barman answers these important questions, showing how the meaning of social value in an era of caring capitalism ge…
Varieties of Field Theory and the Sociology of the Non‐profit Sector
This paper reviews the use of field theory in the sociological study of the non‐profit sector. The review first shows how field theory, as a conceptual framework to explain social action, provides a valuable sociological counterweight to prevailing economic and psychological orientations in the interdisciplinary scholarship on the non‐profit sector. However, despite its certain shared assumptions, field theory in sociology encompasses three disti…
The Social Bases of Philanthropy
Philanthropy-private giving for public purposes by individuals, corporations, and foundations-is a widespread activity. Scholarship on philanthropy is long-standing and can be traced to competing theorizations of gift-giving, wherein the gift has been framed as a case of altruism, self-interest, or reciprocity. Much of the resulting scholarship, in the disciplines of anthropology, economics, evolutionary biology, and psychology, has retained a fo…
The Gates Foundation's Rise to Power: Private Authority in Global Politics
Round table: Is the common ground between pragmatism and critical realism more important than the differences
One theme of this special issue is an incitement to reconsider the relationship between pragmatism and critical realism. While their advocates sometimes come into conflict, there are also clearly borrowings and overlaps between the traditions, and we therefore invited scholars with feet in either or indeed both camps to discuss their relationship. The discussion was conducted virtually, with participants submitting initial contributions, reviewin…
De quoi le capitalisme se soucie-t-il
Sociology (14 works) · Political science (11 works) · Economics (10 works) · Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Management and Organizational Studies (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Social science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Public relations (5 works)