Linda Quirke
Biographic Data
| ID | 3686342 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Linda Quirke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Linda |
| FAMILY NAME | Quirke |
| SIGNATURE | QUIRKE L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wilfrid Laurier University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5923-8222 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The joy of foodwork: Allergies, gendered foodwork and emotion work in parenting advice, 1991–2020
At a time when child health is receiving considerable attention, child feeding practices are under intense scrutiny as the site for developing healthy habits and preventing childhood illness. Previous scholars of foodwork detail the various types of labor involved in feeding children, purchasing foods, researching foods, preparing appealing meals, and managing emotions around these activities. Less scholarly attention has been given to the advice…
What’s the Harm? The Coverage of Ethics and Harm Avoidance in Research Methods Textbooks
Methods textbooks play a role in socializing a new generation of researchers about ethical research. How do undergraduate social research methods textbooks portray harm, its prevalence, and ways to mitigate harm to participants? We conducted a content analysis of ethics chapters in the 18 highest-selling undergraduate textbooks used in sociology research methods courses in the United States and Canada in 2013. We found that experiments are portra…
Co-Sleeping: Parents, Children, and Musical Beds
Crafting Legitimate Identities: Promotional Strategies in the Ontario Non-Elite Private School Sector
Conventional wisdom within the sociology of education and organizations posits that schools achieve legitimacy by conforming to institutionalized norms and mimicking the actions of successful peers. Recent work on non-elite private schools (NEPS) shows that this institutional type may serve as an exception to this logic, generally adopting what can be perceived as illegitimate forms and practices. We conduct a mixed-methods analysis of the promot…
“Fat-proof your child”: Parenting advice and “child obesity”
How are fat children represented in media parenting advice? I examine how fat children and “childhood obesity” are depicted in popular media, using dominant cultural models of child fatness and the “obesity epidemic,” as presented in two flagship parenting magazines over the past three decades. Profiling the specific life experiences of individual children and their parents, parenting magazines offer “expert” advice and everyday tips for managing…
Allison James, Socialising Children
T his book provides a critique of traditional ways of understanding how children are "socialized" by agents such as the family or school.It argues that while the concept of socialization seems to have fallen out of fashion within current sociological research, it is vitally important and worthy of our attention.Even the title of the book points to dual understandings of socialization: 1) the notion that children actively "come to know and underst…
Looking for Work: The Coverage of Work in Canadian Introductory Sociology Textbooks
This paper examines the textual coverage of the topic of work in Canadian English–language introductory sociology textbooks. Our findings are based on a content analysis of 21 Canadian texts published between 2008 and 2012. We found that only 12 of 21 textbooks included a chapter on work, suggesting that work occupies a peripheral position in Canadian sociology texts. Most chapters on work discussed economic systems, economic sectors (e.g., secon…
Annette Lareau, Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life, Second Edition with an Update a Decade Later
Annette Lareau, Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life, Second Edition with an Update a Decade Later. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011, 480 pp. $US 24.95 paper (978-0-520-27142-5) The second edition of Annette Lareau's award-winning Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race and Family Life was released in 2011, adding more than 100 pages of new material. At its heart, the second edition tells two stories--one empirical, and the othe…
Does Market Competition Encourage Strategic Action in the Private Education Sector
This article examines whether market forces encourage private education entrepreneurs to strategically outsmart the competition in ways that improve the quality of their programs or service delivery. Based on interviews with eighty private education entrepreneurs, we find that market competition does not inform how they understand their role in the wider education sector or how they made sense of their actions. Instead entrepreneurs tie their pro…
Legitimacy through alternate means: Schools without professionals in the private sector
The new institutionalism predicts that professionalism is a key element of organizations’ ability to be seen as legitimate. Emphasizing the professionalism and formal credentials of its members lends legitimacy to the organization, protecting it from scrutiny. What happens when this norm of professionalism is absent? How do schools legitimate themselves, if not through professionalism? This paper examines a population of small, secular non‐elite …
The Impact of Sector on School Organizations: Institutional and Market Logics
Drawing on new institutional and market theories, this article derives three hypotheses for the effects of markets on educational organizations: They (1) weaken formal structures, (2) reverse tendencies toward isomorphism, and (3) force schools to recouple and compete via performance indicators. These ideas are investigated with data on private and public schools in Toronto, which, the authors argue, is a strategic research site. The findings var…
Keeping Young Minds Sharp”: Children's Cognitive Stimulation and the Rise of Parenting Magazines, 1959–2003
Dans cet article, l'auteure etudie l'éthos changeant du métier de parent en se fondant sur l'examen des magazines et des articles sur l'art d'être parent. La diversification et l'augmentation substantielle du nombre de magazines sur l'éducation des enfants dans quatre pays industrialisés d'expression anglaise démontrent une grande préoccupation par rapport à l'« art d'etre parent » en tant qu'entreprise intentionnelle. Une analyse de contenu de p…
Providing for the Priceless Student: Ideologies of Choice in an Emerging Educational Market
The growing popularity of school choice is typically linked to the spread of neoliberal ideology. Identifying four components of this ideology, we examine the rationales of providers in an emerging private school market. Data come from interviews and site visits at 45 “third‐sector” private schools in Toronto, Canada. We find that only one of the four components has a strong resonance among these educators. Few private school operators sharply cr…
Keeping Young Minds Sharp”: Children's Cognitive Stimulation and the Rise of Parenting Magazines, 1959–2003
Dans cet article, l'auteure etudie l'éthos changeant du métier de parent en se fondant sur l'examen des magazines et des articles sur l'art d'être parent. La diversification et l'augmentation substantielle du nombre de magazines sur l'éducation des enfants dans quatre pays industrialisés d'expression anglaise démontrent une grande préoccupation par rapport à l'« art d'etre parent » en tant qu'entreprise intentionnelle. Une analyse de contenu de p…
The Impact of Sector on School Organizations: Institutional and Market Logics
Drawing on new institutional and market theories, this article derives three hypotheses for the effects of markets on educational organizations: They (1) weaken formal structures, (2) reverse tendencies toward isomorphism, and (3) force schools to recouple and compete via performance indicators. These ideas are investigated with data on private and public schools in Toronto, which, the authors argue, is a strategic research site. The findings var…
What’s the Harm? The Coverage of Ethics and Harm Avoidance in Research Methods Textbooks
Methods textbooks play a role in socializing a new generation of researchers about ethical research. How do undergraduate social research methods textbooks portray harm, its prevalence, and ways to mitigate harm to participants? We conducted a content analysis of ethics chapters in the 18 highest-selling undergraduate textbooks used in sociology research methods courses in the United States and Canada in 2013. We found that experiments are portra…
The joy of foodwork: Allergies, gendered foodwork and emotion work in parenting advice, 1991–2020
At a time when child health is receiving considerable attention, child feeding practices are under intense scrutiny as the site for developing healthy habits and preventing childhood illness. Previous scholars of foodwork detail the various types of labor involved in feeding children, purchasing foods, researching foods, preparing appealing meals, and managing emotions around these activities. Less scholarly attention has been given to the advice…
Providing for the Priceless Student: Ideologies of Choice in an Emerging Educational Market
The growing popularity of school choice is typically linked to the spread of neoliberal ideology. Identifying four components of this ideology, we examine the rationales of providers in an emerging private school market. Data come from interviews and site visits at 45 “third‐sector” private schools in Toronto, Canada. We find that only one of the four components has a strong resonance among these educators. Few private school operators sharply cr…
Looking for Work: The Coverage of Work in Canadian Introductory Sociology Textbooks
This paper examines the textual coverage of the topic of work in Canadian English–language introductory sociology textbooks. Our findings are based on a content analysis of 21 Canadian texts published between 2008 and 2012. We found that only 12 of 21 textbooks included a chapter on work, suggesting that work occupies a peripheral position in Canadian sociology texts. Most chapters on work discussed economic systems, economic sectors (e.g., secon…
Legitimacy through alternate means: Schools without professionals in the private sector
The new institutionalism predicts that professionalism is a key element of organizations’ ability to be seen as legitimate. Emphasizing the professionalism and formal credentials of its members lends legitimacy to the organization, protecting it from scrutiny. What happens when this norm of professionalism is absent? How do schools legitimate themselves, if not through professionalism? This paper examines a population of small, secular non‐elite …
Crafting Legitimate Identities: Promotional Strategies in the Ontario Non-Elite Private School Sector
Conventional wisdom within the sociology of education and organizations posits that schools achieve legitimacy by conforming to institutionalized norms and mimicking the actions of successful peers. Recent work on non-elite private schools (NEPS) shows that this institutional type may serve as an exception to this logic, generally adopting what can be perceived as illegitimate forms and practices. We conduct a mixed-methods analysis of the promot…
Does Market Competition Encourage Strategic Action in the Private Education Sector
This article examines whether market forces encourage private education entrepreneurs to strategically outsmart the competition in ways that improve the quality of their programs or service delivery. Based on interviews with eighty private education entrepreneurs, we find that market competition does not inform how they understand their role in the wider education sector or how they made sense of their actions. Instead entrepreneurs tie their pro…
Providing for the Priceless Student: Ideologies of Choice in an Emerging Educational Market
The growing popularity of school choice is typically linked to the spread of neoliberal ideology. Identifying four components of this ideology, we examine the rationales of providers in an emerging private school market. Data come from interviews and site visits at 45 “third‐sector” private schools in Toronto, Canada. We find that only one of the four components has a strong resonance among these educators. Few private school operators sharply cr…
Keeping Young Minds Sharp”: Children's Cognitive Stimulation and the Rise of Parenting Magazines, 1959–2003
Dans cet article, l'auteure etudie l'éthos changeant du métier de parent en se fondant sur l'examen des magazines et des articles sur l'art d'être parent. La diversification et l'augmentation substantielle du nombre de magazines sur l'éducation des enfants dans quatre pays industrialisés d'expression anglaise démontrent une grande préoccupation par rapport à l'« art d'etre parent » en tant qu'entreprise intentionnelle. Une analyse de contenu de p…
The Impact of Sector on School Organizations: Institutional and Market Logics
Drawing on new institutional and market theories, this article derives three hypotheses for the effects of markets on educational organizations: They (1) weaken formal structures, (2) reverse tendencies toward isomorphism, and (3) force schools to recouple and compete via performance indicators. These ideas are investigated with data on private and public schools in Toronto, which, the authors argue, is a strategic research site. The findings var…
Legitimacy through alternate means: Schools without professionals in the private sector
The new institutionalism predicts that professionalism is a key element of organizations’ ability to be seen as legitimate. Emphasizing the professionalism and formal credentials of its members lends legitimacy to the organization, protecting it from scrutiny. What happens when this norm of professionalism is absent? How do schools legitimate themselves, if not through professionalism? This paper examines a population of small, secular non‐elite …
Does Market Competition Encourage Strategic Action in the Private Education Sector
This article examines whether market forces encourage private education entrepreneurs to strategically outsmart the competition in ways that improve the quality of their programs or service delivery. Based on interviews with eighty private education entrepreneurs, we find that market competition does not inform how they understand their role in the wider education sector or how they made sense of their actions. Instead entrepreneurs tie their pro…
Annette Lareau, Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life, Second Edition with an Update a Decade Later
Annette Lareau, Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life, Second Edition with an Update a Decade Later. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011, 480 pp. $US 24.95 paper (978-0-520-27142-5) The second edition of Annette Lareau's award-winning Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race and Family Life was released in 2011, adding more than 100 pages of new material. At its heart, the second edition tells two stories--one empirical, and the othe…
Looking for Work: The Coverage of Work in Canadian Introductory Sociology Textbooks
This paper examines the textual coverage of the topic of work in Canadian English–language introductory sociology textbooks. Our findings are based on a content analysis of 21 Canadian texts published between 2008 and 2012. We found that only 12 of 21 textbooks included a chapter on work, suggesting that work occupies a peripheral position in Canadian sociology texts. Most chapters on work discussed economic systems, economic sectors (e.g., secon…
Allison James, Socialising Children
T his book provides a critique of traditional ways of understanding how children are "socialized" by agents such as the family or school.It argues that while the concept of socialization seems to have fallen out of fashion within current sociological research, it is vitally important and worthy of our attention.Even the title of the book points to dual understandings of socialization: 1) the notion that children actively "come to know and underst…
“Fat-proof your child”: Parenting advice and “child obesity”
How are fat children represented in media parenting advice? I examine how fat children and “childhood obesity” are depicted in popular media, using dominant cultural models of child fatness and the “obesity epidemic,” as presented in two flagship parenting magazines over the past three decades. Profiling the specific life experiences of individual children and their parents, parenting magazines offer “expert” advice and everyday tips for managing…
Crafting Legitimate Identities: Promotional Strategies in the Ontario Non-Elite Private School Sector
Conventional wisdom within the sociology of education and organizations posits that schools achieve legitimacy by conforming to institutionalized norms and mimicking the actions of successful peers. Recent work on non-elite private schools (NEPS) shows that this institutional type may serve as an exception to this logic, generally adopting what can be perceived as illegitimate forms and practices. We conduct a mixed-methods analysis of the promot…
What’s the Harm? The Coverage of Ethics and Harm Avoidance in Research Methods Textbooks
Methods textbooks play a role in socializing a new generation of researchers about ethical research. How do undergraduate social research methods textbooks portray harm, its prevalence, and ways to mitigate harm to participants? We conducted a content analysis of ethics chapters in the 18 highest-selling undergraduate textbooks used in sociology research methods courses in the United States and Canada in 2013. We found that experiments are portra…
Co-Sleeping: Parents, Children, and Musical Beds
The joy of foodwork: Allergies, gendered foodwork and emotion work in parenting advice, 1991–2020
At a time when child health is receiving considerable attention, child feeding practices are under intense scrutiny as the site for developing healthy habits and preventing childhood illness. Previous scholars of foodwork detail the various types of labor involved in feeding children, purchasing foods, researching foods, preparing appealing meals, and managing emotions around these activities. Less scholarly attention has been given to the advice…
Sociology (9 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Private sector (4 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Elite (3 works)