Michael Schwalbe
Biographic Data
| ID | 3685480 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Schwalbe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Schwalbe |
| SIGNATURE | SCHWALBE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | North Carolina State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 55 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 988 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 54 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Power and Interaction
In this chapter we draw on G. H. Mead to formulate a definition of power as an organism’s capacity to modify its environment to satisfy its needs and desires. We argue that in the social world this capacity is exercised by individuals and groups through forms of action that elicit the cooperation of others. This fundamentally symbolic interactionist approach to power helps us see how power operates on both situational and structural levels. Our a…
The Crisis of Expertise
Upscaling Goffman
Mainstream sociology and conventional interactionism suffer from a tendency to take the metaphor of ‘social structure’ literally, thus falling into the trap of reification: misconceiving structure as an independent force that affects human affairs. Neostructural interactionism rejects this view, conceiving of structure as recurrent patterns of joint action. If there is no such action, no structure exists. Defining structure in this way makes the …
The Spirit of Blumer's Method as a Guide to Sociological Discovery
Herbert Blumer did not offer textbook‐style instructions for how to do research. What he offered, in his classic 1969 essay “The Methodological Position of Symbolic Interactionism,” is a broad account of what research must entail to accord with symbolic interactionist premises that human social life depends on meanings, interpretation, and interaction. Blumer's essay also voices a spirit of research that is ardently empirical, sociological, and c…
Manhood Acts: Gender and the Practices of Domination
In Manhood Acts Michael Schwalbe offers a new perspective on the social construction of manhood and its relationship to male domination. Schwalbe argues that study of masculinity has lost touch with its feminist roots and has been seduced by the politically safe notion of 'multiple masculinities'. Manhood Acts delineates the practices males use to construct 'women' and 'men' as unequal categories. Schwalbe reclaims the radical feminist insights t…
Handbook of the Social Psychology of Inequality
This volume provides the first comprehensive overview of social psychological research on inequality for a graduate student and professional audience. Drawing on all of the major theoretical traditions in sociological social psychology, its chapters demonstrate the relevance of social psychological processes to this central sociological concern. Each chapter in the volume has a distinct substantive focus, but the chapters will also share common e…
Picturing Disability: Beggar, Freak, Citizen, and Other Photographic Rhetoric
Manning Up: How the Rise of Women Has Turned Men into Boys
In Search of Craft
Framing the Self
The meaning of a photograph depends on the story we tell about it. In the case of portraits, these narrative frames shape the self we impute to the sitter. The interiority of the portrait subject, the inner character we imagine is revealed in the photograph, is a result of what we know about photographic portraits, about the sitter, about the photographer, and about the context in which the image was made. Likewise in everyday life, the selves we…
Men, Masculinity, and Manhood Acts
In the 1980s research on men shifted from studying the 'male sex role' and masculinity as a singular trait to studying how men enact diverse masculinities. This research has examined men's behavior as gendered beings in many contexts, from intimate relationships to the workplace to global politics. We consider the strengths and weaknesses of the multiple masculinities approach, proposing that further insights into the social construction of gende…
Emile Durkheim and Erving Goffman Meet Dr. Magneto
Fatherhood Politics in the United States: Masculinity, Sexuality, Race, and Marriage
Men and Masculinities: Key Themes and New Directions
Everything Is Data: A Response to Brooke Harrington
The Sociologically Examined Life: Pieces of the Conversation
1. Making Sense of the World Differently 2. Inventing the Social World 3. Seeing Connections 4. Relationships, Groups, and Interdependence 5. Becoming Human 6. Behavior as a Product of Interaction 7. Seeing Patterns 8. Contingency and Cause 9. Images, Representations, and Accounts 10. Understanding Power in Social Life 11. Differences and Inequalities 12. Studying and Changing the Social World
Interviewing Men
The sociologically examined life: Pieces of the Conversation
The Masculine Self As Problem and Resource in Interview Studies of Men
The Elements of Inequality
Generic Processes in the Reproduction of Inequality: An Interactionist Analysis
Michael Schwalbe, Sandra Godwin, Daphne Holden, Douglas Schrock, Shealy Thompson, Michele Wolkomir, Generic Processes in the Reproduction of Inequality: An Interactionist Analysis, Social Forces, Vol. 79, No. 2 (Dec., 2000), pp. 419-452
The List Wangle
MICHAEL SCHWALBE North Carolina State University HM-HX). For example, a work whose first subject is United States Race relations will be located in Class E (United States history). Subject catalogers strive to be objective. They avoid assigning headings that label topics or express personal value judgments. Naturally, an individual cataloger's knowledge and judgment inevitably play a role in assessing what is significant in a work's contents. The…
Man Enough: Embodying Masculinities
Identities Authorities Aspects of Self Myths of Manhood Wounds Initiations Transitions Experience Language Emotions and Feelings Relationships Sexualities Responsibilities Spiritual Groundings
What Are We Trying to Teach
Unmasking the Masculine: Men and Identity in a Sceptical Age
Introduction The Epistemology of 'Masculinity' From Essentialism to Scepticism Male Bodies that Matter Mind over Matter 'Masculinity' and Reason 'Queering' Sexual Identity Conclusion
Men, Masculinity, and Manhood Acts
In the 1980s research on men shifted from studying the 'male sex role' and masculinity as a singular trait to studying how men enact diverse masculinities. This research has examined men's behavior as gendered beings in many contexts, from intimate relationships to the workplace to global politics. We consider the strengths and weaknesses of the multiple masculinities approach, proposing that further insights into the social construction of gende…
Generic Processes in the Reproduction of Inequality: An Interactionist Analysis
Michael Schwalbe, Sandra Godwin, Daphne Holden, Douglas Schrock, Shealy Thompson, Michele Wolkomir, Generic Processes in the Reproduction of Inequality: An Interactionist Analysis, Social Forces, Vol. 79, No. 2 (Dec., 2000), pp. 419-452
Beyond the Looking-Glass Self: Social Structure and Efficacy-Based Self-Esteem
The looking-glass has been the dominant metaphor within sociology for the development of self-conception and has contributed to an overly passive and oversocialized view of human beings. The major theme in this paper is that our self-conceptions are also based upon our actions in the world, especially efficacious actions. The notions of human agency and self-creativity, which have been a hallmark of the symbolic interactionist tradition at the ph…
Parental Behavior and Adolescent Self-Esteem
In this study we examine the relationship between parental behavior as reported by parents, children's perceptions of parental behavior, and the effects of each on various aspects of children's self-evaluations-specifically, self-worth, self-efficacy, and general self-esteem. The study is based on a sample of 128families, each consisting of a mother, afather, and a child in late adolescence (17 to 19 years of age). We found little correspondence …
The Masculine Self As Problem and Resource in Interview Studies of Men
Goffman Against Postmodernism: Emotion and the Reality of the Self
Goffman has been read as arguing that selves are no more than images created in conformity with situational expectations. I read Goffman as saying that the reality of selfhood is not an image, but a psychobiological proces shaped by signs and symbols. Seen in this way, the reality of the self is evident, as Goffman suggested, not in conformity but in moments of feeling, resistance, and choice. Drawing out what is implicit in Goffman, this article…
The responsibilities of sociological poets
Mind and Self in Society: Linking Social Structure and Social Cognition
Recent developments in social cognition could enhance sociological social psychologists' understanding of the mind as both a social product and a social force; yet this work in social cognition has received little attention. Conversely, social cognition has not fulfilled its promise to show what is truly social about cognition. We argue that more attention to social cognition on the part of sociologists would be beneficial to both fields, as woul…
Gender Differences in Sources of Self-Esteem
We explore gender differences in the importance of reflected appraisals, self-perceived competence, and social comparisons as sources of self-esteem
Autonomy in Work and Self-Esteem
The relationship between work experience and self-esteem is an important one for social psychologists interested in how social structure affects personality. Research on this relationship has consistently documented the importance of autonomy in work for self-esteem. This research has failed, however, to closely examine the meaning of autonomy within the workplace culture and, therefore, has also failed to see how this meaning allows autonomy to …
Role Taking Reconsidered: Linking Competence and Performance to Social Structure
The Elements of Inequality
Fatherhood Politics in the United States: Masculinity, Sexuality, Race, and Marriage
Social Class, Occupational Conditions, and Efficacy-Based Self-Esteem
This study examines the relationship between social stratification and self-esteem by focusing on aspects of stratification and self-esteem formation processes ignored in previous research. An analysis of theoretical developments and empirical research reveals that the exclusive focus on occupational status and self-esteem derived from interpersonal comparison processes ignores an entire dimension of the relationship between social stratification…
The Sociologically Examined Life: Pieces of the Conversation
1. Making Sense of the World Differently 2. Inventing the Social World 3. Seeing Connections 4. Relationships, Groups, and Interdependence 5. Becoming Human 6. Behavior as a Product of Interaction 7. Seeing Patterns 8. Contingency and Cause 9. Images, Representations, and Accounts 10. Understanding Power in Social Life 11. Differences and Inequalities 12. Studying and Changing the Social World
The Mirrors in Men's Faces
The Autogenesis of the Self
Emile Durkheim and Erving Goffman Meet Dr. Magneto
Toward a Sociology of Moral Problem Solving
Mead Among the Cognitivists: Roles as Performance Imagery
Manning Up: How the Rise of Women Has Turned Men into Boys
Sources of Self-Esteem in Work: What's Important for Whom
Social psychologists and sociologists of work have documented the importance of numerous aspects of work experience for adult self-esteem. The social psychological dynamics of many of these work and self-esteem relationships remain, however, to be explored fully. The research reported here probes these dynamics by examining various sources of self-esteem in work and asking, What's important for whom? The data presented suggest that in the workpla…
Language and the Self: An Expanded View from a Symbolic Interactionist Perspective
Language and the self are two of the most important elements in Mead's account of human development and action. Despite the importance of language and the self to symbolic interactionism, little attention has been devoted to exploring their interrelationhip, either theoretically or empirically. Some reasons for this neglect are suggested. By merging Mead's view of language and the self with a functional linguistic perspective new possibilities ar…
Everything Is Data: A Response to Brooke Harrington
The Spirit of Blumer's Method as a Guide to Sociological Discovery
Herbert Blumer did not offer textbook‐style instructions for how to do research. What he offered, in his classic 1969 essay “The Methodological Position of Symbolic Interactionism,” is a broad account of what research must entail to accord with symbolic interactionist premises that human social life depends on meanings, interpretation, and interaction. Blumer's essay also voices a spirit of research that is ardently empirical, sociological, and c…
Beyond the Looking-Glass Self: Social Structure and Efficacy-Based Self-Esteem
The looking-glass has been the dominant metaphor within sociology for the development of self-conception and has contributed to an overly passive and oversocialized view of human beings. The major theme in this paper is that our self-conceptions are also based upon our actions in the world, especially efficacious actions. The notions of human agency and self-creativity, which have been a hallmark of the symbolic interactionist tradition at the ph…
Language and the Self: An Expanded View from a Symbolic Interactionist Perspective
Language and the self are two of the most important elements in Mead's account of human development and action. Despite the importance of language and the self to symbolic interactionism, little attention has been devoted to exploring their interrelationhip, either theoretically or empirically. Some reasons for this neglect are suggested. By merging Mead's view of language and the self with a functional linguistic perspective new possibilities ar…
Social Class, Occupational Conditions, and Efficacy-Based Self-Esteem
This study examines the relationship between social stratification and self-esteem by focusing on aspects of stratification and self-esteem formation processes ignored in previous research. An analysis of theoretical developments and empirical research reveals that the exclusive focus on occupational status and self-esteem derived from interpersonal comparison processes ignores an entire dimension of the relationship between social stratification…
Autonomy in Work and Self-Esteem
The relationship between work experience and self-esteem is an important one for social psychologists interested in how social structure affects personality. Research on this relationship has consistently documented the importance of autonomy in work for self-esteem. This research has failed, however, to closely examine the meaning of autonomy within the workplace culture and, therefore, has also failed to see how this meaning allows autonomy to …
Personality and Ideology: Towards a Materialist Understanding of the Individual
Parental Behavior and Adolescent Self-Esteem
In this study we examine the relationship between parental behavior as reported by parents, children's perceptions of parental behavior, and the effects of each on various aspects of children's self-evaluations-specifically, self-worth, self-efficacy, and general self-esteem. The study is based on a sample of 128families, each consisting of a mother, afather, and a child in late adolescence (17 to 19 years of age). We found little correspondence …
On Practical and Discursive Self-Knowledge
Mead Among the Cognitivists: Roles as Performance Imagery
The Psychosocial Consequences of Natural and Alienated Labor
Role Taking Reconsidered: Linking Competence and Performance to Social Structure
The Psychosocial Consequences of Natural and Alienated Labor
Sources of Self-Esteem in Work: What's Important for Whom
Social psychologists and sociologists of work have documented the importance of numerous aspects of work experience for adult self-esteem. The social psychological dynamics of many of these work and self-esteem relationships remain, however, to be explored fully. The research reported here probes these dynamics by examining various sources of self-esteem in work and asking, What's important for whom? The data presented suggest that in the workpla…
A Humanist Conception of Competition in Sport
Mind and Self in Society: Linking Social Structure and Social Cognition
Recent developments in social cognition could enhance sociological social psychologists' understanding of the mind as both a social product and a social force; yet this work in social cognition has received little attention. Conversely, social cognition has not fulfilled its promise to show what is truly social about cognition. We argue that more attention to social cognition on the part of sociologists would be beneficial to both fields, as woul…
Toward a Sociology of Moral Problem Solving
Gender Differences in Sources of Self-Esteem
We explore gender differences in the importance of reflected appraisals, self-perceived competence, and social comparisons as sources of self-esteem
Alienation as the Denial of Aesthetic Experience
Marx's analysis of alienated labor still explains much about how the capitalist labor process shapes the thoughts and feelings of direct producers. But Marx's analysis fares less well in explaining how the work people actually do with their hands and minds leads to specific psychological consequences. This weakness stems from an inadequate social psychology. The purpose of this article is to provide Marx with this needed social psychology by draw…
The Autogenesis of the Self
The Social Importance of Self-Esteem
The Ecology of the Self: Relocation and Self-Concept Change
List of tables Preface 1. Restructuring the ecology of the self: a framework for self-concept change 2. Method considerations for an ecological approach 3. Relocation and changes in commitment: a cross-sectional study over the first year 4. Implications of recent research in cognitive social psychology for self-concept change 5. Social psychological theories on maintenance and change 6. Sociological approached to the self-concept and change 7. Th…
Goffman Against Postmodernism: Emotion and the Reality of the Self
Goffman has been read as arguing that selves are no more than images created in conformity with situational expectations. I read Goffman as saying that the reality of selfhood is not an image, but a psychobiological proces shaped by signs and symbols. Seen in this way, the reality of the self is evident, as Goffman suggested, not in conformity but in moments of feeling, resistance, and choice. Drawing out what is implicit in Goffman, this article…
The responsibilities of sociological poets
No Man's Land: Men's Changing Commitments to Family and Work
Unlocking the iron cage: The men's movement, gender politics, and American culture
The mythopoetic men's movement grew quietly for ten years before Robert Bly's bestseller Iron John brought the movement to national attention. What is the truth about these men and their movement? Based on Michael Schwalbe's three years of experience as a participant and observer at over one hundred meetings, as well as on interviews with active members, Unlocking the Iron Cage provides a revealing look at who these men are, what they do, why myt…
The Mirrors in Men's Faces
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