Michael Deland
Biographic Data
| ID | 3685256 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Deland |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Deland |
| SIGNATURE | DELAND M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Gonzaga University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Lakota Hoops
Midnight Basketball
The Ocean Run
This article investigates the production and re-production of a recurring pickup basketball game at a public park in Santa Monica, California. I argue that it is best understood as a recurring "scene"-an ecologically shaped, biographically significant, interactionally accomplished, and narratively organized pattern of social life-colloquially known as the "Ocean Run." Drawing on Kenneth Burke's dramatism, I suggest that the scene is constituted b…
Going Out
In this article we propose a framework for description and analysis of public life by treating 'outings' as a unit of sociological analysis. Studying outings requires bracketing a concern with bounded places and isolated encounters. Instead, descriptions of outings track people as they organize trips 'out,' including their preparations, turning points, and post hoc reflections. We emphasize how people understand and contextualize their time in pu…
Basketball in the Key of Law
While the conception of law as a constructive and constitutive force is often stated, we have relatively few concrete and grounded case studies showing precisely where and how social actors construct the meaning of their engagements through the invocation of legality. Drawing on Erving Goffman's Frame Analysis (1974), I use the concept of "keying" to articulate how basketball players in informal "pick-up" games transform the meaning of their acti…
Basketball in the Key of Law
While the conception of law as a constructive and constitutive force is often stated, we have relatively few concrete and grounded case studies showing precisely where and how social actors construct the meaning of their engagements through the invocation of legality. Drawing on Erving Goffman's Frame Analysis (1974), I use the concept of "keying" to articulate how basketball players in informal "pick-up" games transform the meaning of their acti…
The Ocean Run
This article investigates the production and re-production of a recurring pickup basketball game at a public park in Santa Monica, California. I argue that it is best understood as a recurring "scene"-an ecologically shaped, biographically significant, interactionally accomplished, and narratively organized pattern of social life-colloquially known as the "Ocean Run." Drawing on Kenneth Burke's dramatism, I suggest that the scene is constituted b…
Midnight Basketball
Going Out
In this article we propose a framework for description and analysis of public life by treating 'outings' as a unit of sociological analysis. Studying outings requires bracketing a concern with bounded places and isolated encounters. Instead, descriptions of outings track people as they organize trips 'out,' including their preparations, turning points, and post hoc reflections. We emphasize how people understand and contextualize their time in pu…
Basketball in the Key of Law
While the conception of law as a constructive and constitutive force is often stated, we have relatively few concrete and grounded case studies showing precisely where and how social actors construct the meaning of their engagements through the invocation of legality. Drawing on Erving Goffman's Frame Analysis (1974), I use the concept of "keying" to articulate how basketball players in informal "pick-up" games transform the meaning of their acti…
Midnight Basketball
The Ocean Run
This article investigates the production and re-production of a recurring pickup basketball game at a public park in Santa Monica, California. I argue that it is best understood as a recurring "scene"-an ecologically shaped, biographically significant, interactionally accomplished, and narratively organized pattern of social life-colloquially known as the "Ocean Run." Drawing on Kenneth Burke's dramatism, I suggest that the scene is constituted b…
Going Out
In this article we propose a framework for description and analysis of public life by treating 'outings' as a unit of sociological analysis. Studying outings requires bracketing a concern with bounded places and isolated encounters. Instead, descriptions of outings track people as they organize trips 'out,' including their preparations, turning points, and post hoc reflections. We emphasize how people understand and contextualize their time in pu…
Lakota Hoops
Basketball (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (3 works) · Action (physics (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Geography (2 works)