Jared Del Rosso
Biographic Data
| ID | 3686247 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jared Del Rosso |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jared |
| FAMILY NAME | Del Rosso |
| SIGNATURE | DEL ROSSO J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Denver |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Nothing Personal
What Birds Know
What can birdwatching teach us about teaching? This Final Thought recounts how, by learning to watch and identify birds, one sociologist developed more expansive senses of visual, experiential, and social teaching and learning
Can We Have Class Outside?”
Can we have class outside? This question raises issues about the conditions in which we teach and learn, as well as about the power relations of the classroom. This Final Thought makes a case for surrendering to the question. Can we learn to love it? Can we learn, even, to begin asking it to the people who learn with us in our courses
How Loss Teaches
This Final Thought challenges two assumptions in commentary on teaching and learning amid the COVID-19 pandemic: (1) that the compassionate teaching strategies used to help students learn amid the pandemic inherently undercut academic standards and (2) that these teaching strategies weren’t previously needed, during the so-called “normal time” that preceded the pandemic. By contrast, this essay argues that educators have and will always teach stu…
Emotions into Disorder
This article explores what we refer to asnorm-stimuli-state discrepancies, which are disparities between people's physical-emotional responses to emotional cues and the normative meanings of those cues. Drawing on forty qualitative interviews and participant observation research at support groups, we show that people with anxiety disorders describe two forms of norm-stimuli-state discrepancies. The first form involves discrepancies oftype, in whi…
From Claims to Chains
Constructionism and the Textuality of Social Problems
Building on the work of Dorothy Smith and Bruno Latour, this article examines the textual mediation of social problems activities. Because of their materiality and/or digitality, texts preserve constructions of reality, rendering those constructions durable and mobile. This, in turn, allows claims-makers distant in time or space to access those constructions as interpretive resources for claims-making. Texts, then, help us account for how social …
Post-Ethical Society
The Toxicity of Torture
Drawing on a qualitative analysis of 21 hearings held by the US Congress in 2007 and 2008, this manuscript examines the discursive work that proponents and opponents of waterboarding used to maintain and challenge the legitimacy of the practice. The juxtaposition reveals that US political discourse of waterboarding orients to a long-standing cultural coding of torture as antithetical to liberal democracy. Specifically, I show that proponents defe…
Textuality and the Social Organization of Denial
Recent studies suggest that denial is a socially organized and culturally mediated process. This article furthers the study of socially organized denial by theorizing and empirically examining the role of texts in official denial. I examine the ways that institutional documents serve as resources for state officials to interpret and typify instances of state violence. To do so, I draw on a qualitative content analysis of 10 U.S. Congressional hea…
Film Review
The penis as public part
Drawing on an online ethnography at PeniSanity.com, a support site for men who perceive their penises to be small, this article examines site members’ descriptions of their everyday experiences of exposure to the gaze of other men. Site members describe offline exposure as inducing anxieties about having their ‘small penises’ seen. In contrast, online exposure, particularly at the website itself, is often described as liberating. I conclude with …
The Textual Mediation of Denial
The rhetorical techniques by which governments deny, justify, and qualify alleged instances of torture have been well documented. Sociologists, however, have neglected the social contexts in which officials confront allegations of torture, as well as officials' use of evidence to strengthen their own or weaken competing claims about torture. Relying on findings from a qualitative content analysis of seven Senate Armed Services Committee hearings …
Emergent Objects, Developing Practices
Over the last three decades, sociologists have expanded the scope of sociological analysis to include nonhuman objects. We build on these works to address the role of nonhuman, nonphysical objects in social interaction. Through participant observation at a Reiki training course, we examine how students learned to identify, experience, and meaningfully interact with Reiki energy, a nonhuman, nonphysical object. We show how Reiki energy emerged as …
The Textual Mediation of Denial
The rhetorical techniques by which governments deny, justify, and qualify alleged instances of torture have been well documented. Sociologists, however, have neglected the social contexts in which officials confront allegations of torture, as well as officials' use of evidence to strengthen their own or weaken competing claims about torture. Relying on findings from a qualitative content analysis of seven Senate Armed Services Committee hearings …
Textuality and the Social Organization of Denial
Recent studies suggest that denial is a socially organized and culturally mediated process. This article furthers the study of socially organized denial by theorizing and empirically examining the role of texts in official denial. I examine the ways that institutional documents serve as resources for state officials to interpret and typify instances of state violence. To do so, I draw on a qualitative content analysis of 10 U.S. Congressional hea…
Constructionism and the Textuality of Social Problems
Building on the work of Dorothy Smith and Bruno Latour, this article examines the textual mediation of social problems activities. Because of their materiality and/or digitality, texts preserve constructions of reality, rendering those constructions durable and mobile. This, in turn, allows claims-makers distant in time or space to access those constructions as interpretive resources for claims-making. Texts, then, help us account for how social …
From Claims to Chains
What Birds Know
What can birdwatching teach us about teaching? This Final Thought recounts how, by learning to watch and identify birds, one sociologist developed more expansive senses of visual, experiential, and social teaching and learning
How Loss Teaches
This Final Thought challenges two assumptions in commentary on teaching and learning amid the COVID-19 pandemic: (1) that the compassionate teaching strategies used to help students learn amid the pandemic inherently undercut academic standards and (2) that these teaching strategies weren’t previously needed, during the so-called “normal time” that preceded the pandemic. By contrast, this essay argues that educators have and will always teach stu…
Emergent Objects, Developing Practices
Over the last three decades, sociologists have expanded the scope of sociological analysis to include nonhuman objects. We build on these works to address the role of nonhuman, nonphysical objects in social interaction. Through participant observation at a Reiki training course, we examine how students learned to identify, experience, and meaningfully interact with Reiki energy, a nonhuman, nonphysical object. We show how Reiki energy emerged as …
The penis as public part
Drawing on an online ethnography at PeniSanity.com, a support site for men who perceive their penises to be small, this article examines site members’ descriptions of their everyday experiences of exposure to the gaze of other men. Site members describe offline exposure as inducing anxieties about having their ‘small penises’ seen. In contrast, online exposure, particularly at the website itself, is often described as liberating. I conclude with …
The Textual Mediation of Denial
The rhetorical techniques by which governments deny, justify, and qualify alleged instances of torture have been well documented. Sociologists, however, have neglected the social contexts in which officials confront allegations of torture, as well as officials' use of evidence to strengthen their own or weaken competing claims about torture. Relying on findings from a qualitative content analysis of seven Senate Armed Services Committee hearings …
Emergent Objects, Developing Practices
Over the last three decades, sociologists have expanded the scope of sociological analysis to include nonhuman objects. We build on these works to address the role of nonhuman, nonphysical objects in social interaction. Through participant observation at a Reiki training course, we examine how students learned to identify, experience, and meaningfully interact with Reiki energy, a nonhuman, nonphysical object. We show how Reiki energy emerged as …
Film Review
The Toxicity of Torture
Drawing on a qualitative analysis of 21 hearings held by the US Congress in 2007 and 2008, this manuscript examines the discursive work that proponents and opponents of waterboarding used to maintain and challenge the legitimacy of the practice. The juxtaposition reveals that US political discourse of waterboarding orients to a long-standing cultural coding of torture as antithetical to liberal democracy. Specifically, I show that proponents defe…
Textuality and the Social Organization of Denial
Recent studies suggest that denial is a socially organized and culturally mediated process. This article furthers the study of socially organized denial by theorizing and empirically examining the role of texts in official denial. I examine the ways that institutional documents serve as resources for state officials to interpret and typify instances of state violence. To do so, I draw on a qualitative content analysis of 10 U.S. Congressional hea…
Constructionism and the Textuality of Social Problems
Building on the work of Dorothy Smith and Bruno Latour, this article examines the textual mediation of social problems activities. Because of their materiality and/or digitality, texts preserve constructions of reality, rendering those constructions durable and mobile. This, in turn, allows claims-makers distant in time or space to access those constructions as interpretive resources for claims-making. Texts, then, help us account for how social …
Post-Ethical Society
From Claims to Chains
Emotions into Disorder
This article explores what we refer to asnorm-stimuli-state discrepancies, which are disparities between people's physical-emotional responses to emotional cues and the normative meanings of those cues. Drawing on forty qualitative interviews and participant observation research at support groups, we show that people with anxiety disorders describe two forms of norm-stimuli-state discrepancies. The first form involves discrepancies oftype, in whi…
How Loss Teaches
This Final Thought challenges two assumptions in commentary on teaching and learning amid the COVID-19 pandemic: (1) that the compassionate teaching strategies used to help students learn amid the pandemic inherently undercut academic standards and (2) that these teaching strategies weren’t previously needed, during the so-called “normal time” that preceded the pandemic. By contrast, this essay argues that educators have and will always teach stu…
What Birds Know
What can birdwatching teach us about teaching? This Final Thought recounts how, by learning to watch and identify birds, one sociologist developed more expansive senses of visual, experiential, and social teaching and learning
Can We Have Class Outside?”
Can we have class outside? This question raises issues about the conditions in which we teach and learn, as well as about the power relations of the classroom. This Final Thought makes a case for surrendering to the question. Can we learn to love it? Can we learn, even, to begin asking it to the people who learn with us in our courses
Nothing Personal
Sociology (12 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Law (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Criminology (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Law (4 works)