Lois Weis
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3638739 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Lois Weis |
| NOMBRES | Lois |
| APELLIDO | Weis |
| FIRMA | WEIS L |
| AFILIACIONES | University at Buffalo, State University of New York |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9495-9025 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 65 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 258 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 63 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1981 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Who benefits from high school exit exams? Examining variations in math course-taking by abilities and socioeconomic status
Using the High School Longitudinal Study of 2009, the association between high school exit exams and mathematics course-taking patterns is explored. Exit exams are linked to a decreased likelihood of students taking upward-bound mathematics during their four years of high school. Exit exams are also associated with fewer mathematics credits earned. However, exit exams are linked to increased likelihood of students completing Precalculus or higher…
Shattering monolithic myths
On Track or Off Track? Identifying a Typology of Math Course-Taking Sequences in U.S. High Schools
The authors examine students’ linear progression histories in mathematics throughout high school years, using the High School Longitudinal Study of 2009. Although scholars have attended to this before, the authors provide a new organizing framework for thousands of heterogenous mathematics course-taking sequences. Using cluster analysis, the authors identify eight distinctive course-taking sequence typologies. Approximately 45 percent of students…
Intersecting capitals
We explore how Black and Latino/a students from economically marginalized communities drew upon dominant capitals accrued by virtue of attendance at elite secondary schools in conjunction with non-dominant family and community capitals to chart their postsecondary lives through college and beyond. In so doing, we point to affordances offered by the authors' longitudinal qualitative research investigation, as we work to understand individual and c…
Complexifying Asian American student pathways to STEM majors
Despite growing diversity among Asian Americans, little attention has been given to the diverse experiences and outcomes of Asian American subgroups in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. Using a nationally representative data set, High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 (HSLS:09), this study examines Asian American students’ various pathways of entrance into STEM majors by college selectivity. Results show different p…
STEM for All
Background/Context Calls to increase participation in and access to STEM education have been loud and frequent. These democratizing efforts have targeted the aspirations and expectations of non-dominant students attending U.S. secondary schools, promising pathways to college and opportunities for social mobility, yet the results have been mixed. While some exemplars exist, recent research has identified a number of social and structural challenge…
Between Two Worlds
First published in 1985, this book explores the ‘lived culture’ of urban black students in a community college located in a large northeastern city in the United States. The author immersed herself in the institution she was studying for a full academic year, exploring both the direct experiences of education, and the way these experiences were worked over and through the praxis of cultural discourse. She examines in detail the messages of the sc…
Which Type of High School Maximizes Students’ College Match? Unequal Pathways to Postsecondary Destinations for Students From Varying High School Settings
Through multilevel analyses of Educational Longitudinal Study and National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)-Barron’s data sets, this study examined unequal chances for college enrollment for students from different high school types and locations. The study shows that students from more privileged high school sectors are able to maximize attendance at better academically matched colleges and that the structural type and location of high sch…
In the Guise of STEM Education Reform
In this article, we present findings from a three-year comparative longitudinal and ethnographic study of how schools in two cities, Buffalo and Denver, have taken up STEM education reform, including the idea of “inclusive STEM-focused schools,” to address weaknesses in urban high schools with majority low-income and minority students. Although introduced with great fanfare, the data indicate that well-meaning efforts toward expanding opportuniti…
Class Warfare
A comment on class productions in elite secondary schools in twenty-first-century global context
In this closing essay, Lois Weis offers a broad overview of the contributions of this Special Issue on class production in elite secondary schools in the twenty-first-century global context. Drawing upon her own research within US privileged secondary schools, Weis explores the contemporary social, economic and political landscape as connected to much larger global shifts and increasing social stratification. The author further reflects upon the …
Tributes to Jean Anyon
Working Class Without Work
The author wxplores issues of race, class, and gender among white working class youths, and she considers the roles of school and family in the production of the self. The book also examines the working class teens' attitudes toward and readiness for postfeminist thinking and the emerging American New Right. Presenting the first sustained ethnographic investigation of white working class youth in the context of deindustrializatin, Weis offers a c…
Class work’
Drawing upon two ethnographic studies of affluent and elite co-educational secondary schools in the United States, Weis and Cipollone spotlight the explicit ‘class work’ of a now highly insecure middle/upper middle class, as they attempt to maintain advantage via entrance to particularly located post-secondary destinations. Affirming the notion that class position must now be ‘won’ at both the individual and collective level, rather than constitu…
A Methodological Response from the Field to D ouglas F oley
In this paper we are explicitly in conversation with D oug F oley's recently published paper in AEQ . Given our shared commitment to the linkages between intersectionality and broader social and economic arrangements, two noted ethnographers argue that the paradigmatic shift highlighted by F oley demands detailed attention to what this means for questions of design, method and analysis
How Did Jews Become White Folks?
The American nation was founded and developed by the Nordic race, but if a few more million members of the Alpine, Mediterranean and Semitic races are poured among us, the result must inevitably be a hybrid race of people as worthless and futile as the good-fornothing mongrels of Central America and Southeastern Europe.
Witnessing Whiteness/Gathering Intelligence
November 2003. As I sat at my second-grade son’s soccer game, trying to focus on the game and thinking about revising this essay, a young father of a teammate asked, “Was your [high school] son at the party on Valley Road last night?” I answered that he wasn&s;t, and Joe continued, “Because I heard there were no parents there, and lots of drinking. A friend from the police department called me about 10:30 and said, ‘Joe, is your daughter at a par…
Critical Bifocality and Circuits of Privilege
In this article, Lois Weis and Michelle Fine introduce critical bifocality as a way to render visible the relations between groups to structures of power, to social policies, to history, and to large sociopolitical formations. In this collaboration, the authors draw upon ethnographic examples highlighting the macro-level structural dynamics related to globalization and neoliberalism. The authors focus on the ways in which broad-based economic and…
Off White
Walking the Methodological Tightrope
Though researcher dilemmas are not new to the pages of Qualitative Inquiry, we argue that the current contemporary context has both altered and intensified issues associated with conducting qualitative research within sites most affected by more recent social, political, and economic shift. Navigating such sites as researchers poses new questions and new "speed bumps," going well beyond those highlighted by Weis and Fine more than ten years ago. …
The global auction
Ideology, Curriculum, and the New Sociology of Education
Introduction. Ideology, Curriculum, and the New Sociology of Education: Revisiting the Work of Michael Apple, Greg Dimitriadis, Lois Weis, and Cameron McCarthy Section One: Revisiting the New Sociology of Education 1. Retrieving the Ideological Past: Critical Sociology, Gender Theory and the School Curriculum 2. Social Class, School Knowledge, and the Hidden Curriculum: Re-Theorizing Reproduction 3. Schooling, Power, and the Exile of the Soul Sec…
Masculinity, Whiteness, and the New Economy
This article takes up the varying ways in which white working-class men remake class and masculinity in the context of massive changes in the global economy. Situated in the northeast rust belt in the United States, the piece draws upon data gathered at two points in time-during the men's third year of secondary school in l985, and again when these same men reached the ages of 30-31. Data gathered via participant observation and indepth interview…
Beyond Silenced Voices
Working Method
Working Method focuses on the theory, method, and politics of contemporary social research. As ethnographic and qualitative research become more popular, noted scholars Weis and Fine provide a roadmap for understanding the complexities involved in doing this research.
Writing the "Wrongs" of Fieldwork
Inspired by Laurel Richardson's (1995) call for "writing stories," the authors of this essay struggle with how to produce scholarly texts drawn from narratives of over 150 poor and working-class men and women-White, African American, Latino, and Asian American. They unveil a set of knotty, emergent ethical and rhetorical dilemmas they have encountered in their attempt to write for, with, and about poor and working-class informants at a time when …
(In) Secure Times
This article documents a moment in history when poor and working-class white boys and men are struggling in their schools, communities, and workplaces against the 'Other' as a means of framing identities. Drawing on two independent qualitative studies, the authors investigate distinct locations where poor and working-class boys and men invent, relate to, and distance from marginalized groups in an effort to create self. First the authors look at …
Between Two Worlds
First published in 1985, this book explores the ‘lived culture’ of urban black students in a community college located in a large northeastern city in the United States. The author immersed herself in the institution she was studying for a full academic year, exploring both the direct experiences of education, and the way these experiences were worked over and through the praxis of cultural discourse. She examines in detail the messages of the sc…
Between Two Worlds
Working Method
Working Method focuses on the theory, method, and politics of contemporary social research. As ethnographic and qualitative research become more popular, noted scholars Weis and Fine provide a roadmap for understanding the complexities involved in doing this research.
Educating beyond the Borders of Schooling
In our recent interviews with 154 poor and working-class young adults, male and female, across racial and ethnic groups, we hear whispers of hope amid the narratives of despair. In both jersey City and Buffalo, we have wandered through communities that have been ravaged by deindustrialization and a withering of the public sphere. Here we turn our attention to what Boyte and Evans call 'free spaces'-those spaces in which hope is nourished in spite…
Extraordinary conversations in public schools
This article reviews two ethnographic studies in which "disruptive pedagogies" are engaged in public schools, designed to enable youth to work across categories of difference toward a grounded sense of social critique and participation. Respectfully challenging/extending the premises of reproduction theory, it is argued that educational researchers not only need to theorize the means of (re)production by which public schools insure class, race, e…
Narrating the 1980s and 1990s
Moving beyond our earlier analyses of secondary students' perspectives, we focus here on the voices of poor and working–class African American and white men and the ways in which they fashion social critique. What or whom does each group hold accountable for its current condition? Although the economy is choking both groups, their different vantages–their biographies of race–stimulate them to live out class and gender locations differently, encou…
Class work’
Drawing upon two ethnographic studies of affluent and elite co-educational secondary schools in the United States, Weis and Cipollone spotlight the explicit ‘class work’ of a now highly insecure middle/upper middle class, as they attempt to maintain advantage via entrance to particularly located post-secondary destinations. Affirming the notion that class position must now be ‘won’ at both the individual and collective level, rather than constitu…
Puerto Rican Men and the Struggle for Place in the United States
This article explores the construction of masculinity among poor and working-class Puerto Rican men on the mainland, filling a distinct gap in both the literatures on Puerto Ricans' and men's studies. Based on extensive interviews with a group of Puerto Rican men, the authors focus on the ways in which these men are staking out their identity on the mainland, as well as the social context in which this identity construction is taking place. It is…
Imagining possibilities with and for contemporary youth
Over the years, each of the authors has explored the lives of young people in a range of sites and settings, from community centers to schools and beyond. They have seen senses of self and community that exceed the narrow and debilitating categories into which they are so readily cast. In this article, they join forces in highlighting two key (though clearly not exhaustive) examples from their recent research ideas: first, black history and gener…
Crime stories
This qualitative analysis of 154 life-histories with poor and working-class young adults uncovers both broad and deep concern with urban crime and violence. More powerful and unanticipated, however, the analysis reveals how profoundly race, ethnicity, and gender shape the kinds of violence experienced and feared and the kinds of remedies urban residents envision. Overall, the narratives portray urban communities traumatized by three kinds of viol…
I've Slept in Clothes Long Enough”
In the Guise of STEM Education Reform
In this article, we present findings from a three-year comparative longitudinal and ethnographic study of how schools in two cities, Buffalo and Denver, have taken up STEM education reform, including the idea of “inclusive STEM-focused schools,” to address weaknesses in urban high schools with majority low-income and minority students. Although introduced with great fanfare, the data indicate that well-meaning efforts toward expanding opportuniti…
Walking the Methodological Tightrope
Though researcher dilemmas are not new to the pages of Qualitative Inquiry, we argue that the current contemporary context has both altered and intensified issues associated with conducting qualitative research within sites most affected by more recent social, political, and economic shift. Navigating such sites as researchers poses new questions and new "speed bumps," going well beyond those highlighted by Weis and Fine more than ten years ago. …
Producing Whiteness
In this essay we enter the terrain of 'whiteness' studies, drawing upon data gathered in two ethnographic investigations conducted in a large northeastern city in the United States. In the first study we focus on the ways in which whiteness among working-class men emerges in relation to a constructed 'other', in this case a black/Latino other who is held to have unpleasant characteristics. In the second, we problematize the idea that the white Eu…
Refusing the Betrayal
A suitable correlation can be made to represent the simulated distillation of heavy oils starting from thennoaravimetric measurements. This method is applicable to hydrocarbons having an initial boiling point equal or greater than 200°C. The simulated thermogravimetric distillation fit was obtained from experiments with the standard compounds obtained from ASTM D-2887-83 (Boiling range distribution of petroleum fractions by gas chromatography). T…
Where the Girls (and Women) Are
This paper takes up a theoretical and empirical investigation of how two community‐based projects for young women both create safety from community and domestic violence but how, in the process, discourses of multicultural inclusion define one site, and racist discourses of exclusion float through the other site. By relying on two intensive qualitative case studies of community‐based organizations for girls, one exclusively White and working clas…
Without dependence on welfare for life
Out of the Cupboard
Drawing from two large‐scale ethnographic investigations in which we interview poor and working‐class white girls and women living in post‐industrial cities in the Northeastern US, we argue that violence of all sorts is deeply embedded inside poor and working‐class white communities, domestic violence in particular. The date reveal that children experience, witness and learn the rhythms by which their mothers, siblings and, perhaps, they are beat…
At the Intersection of Silencing and Voice
A Methodological Response from the Field to D ouglas F oley
In this paper we are explicitly in conversation with D oug F oley's recently published paper in AEQ . Given our shared commitment to the linkages between intersectionality and broader social and economic arrangements, two noted ethnographers argue that the paradigmatic shift highlighted by F oley demands detailed attention to what this means for questions of design, method and analysis
On the Power of Separate Spaces
The debate on segregated and desegregated schools generally has been framed as an either-or matter, and in fact, legally, this has been the case. What we have not investigated to any great extent are programs within already desegregated schools that serve an identifiable population of students for the express purpose of cultural affirmation and advancement of the targeted group. In this article we provide data that attest to the potential power o…
Complexifying Asian American student pathways to STEM majors
Despite growing diversity among Asian Americans, little attention has been given to the diverse experiences and outcomes of Asian American subgroups in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. Using a nationally representative data set, High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 (HSLS:09), this study examines Asian American students’ various pathways of entrance into STEM majors by college selectivity. Results show different p…
Masculinity, Whiteness, and the New Economy
This article takes up the varying ways in which white working-class men remake class and masculinity in the context of massive changes in the global economy. Situated in the northeast rust belt in the United States, the piece draws upon data gathered at two points in time-during the men's third year of secondary school in l985, and again when these same men reached the ages of 30-31. Data gathered via participant observation and indepth interview…
Schooling and Patterns of Access in Ghana
(1981). Schooling and Patterns of Access in Ghana. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des etudes africaines: Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 311-322
Inequality in Ghanaian secondary schools
Introducing the Real Sociology of Education
Seeing Education Relationally
Education perpetuates inequality directly, in that messages distributed by schools are linked to student social class. A specific focus on the response of white working‐class and minority students' attitudes to school (in the USA) reveals that elites maintain themselves not only through their own education but also through the education of others; and that those at the bottom contribute to the maintenance of class structure through their own crea…
Without dependence on welfare for life
Thirty Years Old and I'm Allowed to be Late”
Within recent years scholars in both sociology of education and curriculum studies have explored what it is about the school that reproduces class, race and gender relations that maintain an unequal social structure. While it has long been recognized that school outcomes differ along these lines, the role that the school plays in creating differential outcomes and forms of consciousness that sustain fundamental inequalities and antagonisms has be…
Radical Socioeducational Analysis
Class, Race, and Gender in American Education
Between Two Worlds
Class, Race and Gender in American Education
Dropouts from School
Dropouts from School
The Sociology of Childhood at and in an Uncertain Age
Working Class without Work
At the Intersection of Silencing and Voice
Narrating the 1980s and 1990s
Moving beyond our earlier analyses of secondary students' perspectives, we focus here on the voices of poor and working–class African American and white men and the ways in which they fashion social critique. What or whom does each group hold accountable for its current condition? Although the economy is choking both groups, their different vantages–their biographies of race–stimulate them to live out class and gender locations differently, encou…
Writing the "Wrongs" of Fieldwork
Inspired by Laurel Richardson's (1995) call for "writing stories," the authors of this essay struggle with how to produce scholarly texts drawn from narratives of over 150 poor and working-class men and women-White, African American, Latino, and Asian American. They unveil a set of knotty, emergent ethical and rhetorical dilemmas they have encountered in their attempt to write for, with, and about poor and working-class informants at a time when …
Communities of Difference
In this article, Michelle Fine, Lois Weis, and Linda Powell juxtapose three different school communities and the schools' various approaches to dealing with differences among their students. They use notions of equal status contact theory, supplemented by three literatures — those of community, difference, and democracy, to discuss three desegregated spaces on a continuum, from one in which racial differences are unquestioned and racist discourse…
(In) Secure Times
This article documents a moment in history when poor and working-class white boys and men are struggling in their schools, communities, and workplaces against the 'Other' as a means of framing identities. Drawing on two independent qualitative studies, the authors investigate distinct locations where poor and working-class boys and men invent, relate to, and distance from marginalized groups in an effort to create self. First the authors look at …
The unknown city
In The Unknown City Michelle Fine and Lois Weis offer a groundbreaking, theoretically sophisticated ethnography of the lives of young adults, ages 23 to 35, in two large East Coast cities. Analyzing interviews with hundreds of young people, Fine and Weis provide insights into their startling and often harrowing experiences. A major focus of the book is on the "fractures" in American society: how and why those of different races, ethnicities, and …
Crime stories
This qualitative analysis of 154 life-histories with poor and working-class young adults uncovers both broad and deep concern with urban crime and violence. More powerful and unanticipated, however, the analysis reveals how profoundly race, ethnicity, and gender shape the kinds of violence experienced and feared and the kinds of remedies urban residents envision. Overall, the narratives portray urban communities traumatized by three kinds of viol…
Out of the Cupboard
Drawing from two large‐scale ethnographic investigations in which we interview poor and working‐class white girls and women living in post‐industrial cities in the Northeastern US, we argue that violence of all sorts is deeply embedded inside poor and working‐class white communities, domestic violence in particular. The date reveal that children experience, witness and learn the rhythms by which their mothers, siblings and, perhaps, they are beat…
I've Slept in Clothes Long Enough”
Off White
With a fascinating new introduction on the proliferation and development of the field of whiteness studies and updated essays throughout, this much-anticipated Second Edition continues to redefine our understanding of race and society. Also inlcludes three maps
We Need to Come Together and Raise Our Kids and Our Communities Right”
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