Linda Markowitz
Biographic Data
| ID | 3701226 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Linda Markowitz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Linda |
| FAMILY NAME | Markowitz |
| SIGNATURE | MARKOWITZ L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Southern Illinois University Edwardsville |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5222-9259 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Sexism in Facebook discourse about clergy misconduct
Sexism and sexist ideology have significant negative consequences for female victims of sexual assault and other crimes. Thus, uncovering how language is used as a discursive tool for maintaining unequal power relations is extremely important in discourses around sexual misconduct and sexualized violence. In this study we used Critical Discourse Analysis and Manne’s theory of the moral economy of patriarchy to analyze Facebook posts supporting a …
Clergy Sexual Misconduct and Competitive Sensegiving Frames: Loyalist, Rebel, Rationalist and Processor
Generally, writings about clergy sexual misconduct of adults tend to focus on a victim-abuser model, theorizing the causes and/or consequences or solutions to such abuse. With the exception of some analysis about the growth of Voice of the Faithful inside the Catholic Church (see), few researchers have focused theoretically on how members of religious groups make sense of and respond to accusations of clergy sexual misconduct against adults. In t…
Christmas in U.S. K-12 schools: Categorizing and explaining teacher awareness of Christo-normativity
To reduce Christo-normativity in United States of America schools, most schools tend to only educate teachers about what religious practices are allowed by law. The question we ask is whether a focus on structural policies, like law, works. We apply Bourdieu's theory of habitus, capital, and field to discuss the findings from 27 interviews we completed with teachers/administrators. We found that participants tended to fit into five categories rel…
Structural ignorance of Christian privilege
Despite claims of a so-called war on Christmas, Christmas in the United States is still celebrated widely in public spaces. The question is why some people ignore, what some scholars call, their Christian privilege? In this paper, we explore the ignoring of Christian privilege in one public space: USA elementary schools. Using 27 interviews, we show that most of the teachers/administrators adopted what we are calling Christian ignorance –– a stru…
Troubling the ontological bubble: Middle School Students Challenging Gender Stereotypes
In this paper, we discuss how a selection of eighth-grade students (13–14-year-olds) responded when they were asked to publicly challenge the gender binary for a critical media literacy school assignment in the USA. We describe the ways in which students negotiated the dual projects of complying with the assignment to create video ads that challenged gender stereotypes and maintaining their gendered sense of self. While the videos had virtually a…
Racial Diversity in the Schools: A Necessary Evil
White teachers see racial diversity in the schools as a “necessary evil.” Common beliefs are that a) Black students are saved by nurturing White teachers and well-behaved White children, and b) White students learn from “disadvantaged“ Black children the dual lesson of empathy and gratitude
Using an adult development model to help explain pre-service teacher resistance to learning about race
This article shows the potential usefulness of applying Kegan’s constructive-developmental model to White teacher education students’ difficulties in understanding racial dynamics in US society. The data for this analysis come from a study examining the evolution of White teacher candidates’ understandings and practices related to diversity as they experienced different parts of an undergraduate teacher education program over a two-semester perio…
Framing ambiguity: Insider/outsiders and the successful legitimation project of the socially responsible mutual fund industry
This article uses a Bourdieuian notion of organizational field and social movement’s frame analysis to understand the successful legitimation project of the socially responsible (SR) mutual fund industry. We show how institutional entrepreneurs, as both insiders and outsiders of the dominant organizational field, compete with existing mutual fund logics and become a legitimate presence in the mutual fund industry. The SR mutual fund industry has …
Can Strategic Investing Transform the Corporation
The purpose of this article is to critique the main claim of the socially responsible (SR) investment industry: that through strategic investing investors can transform corporate power. I argue that businesses often respond to the demand by investors for short-term economic growth by making choices that run counter to the interests of corporate social responsibility; they reduce labor and material costs in ways that disrupt workers, communities a…
Structural Innovators and Core-Framing Tasks: How Socially Responsible Mutual Fund Companies Build Identity among Investors
Institutional entrepreneurs in organizational fields sometimes adopt collective-action frames that generate subcultural identities among consumers and mobilize them into purchasing goods. This article examines how socially responsible (SR) mutual fund companies use core-framing tasks to shore up the 'corporate social responsibility' collective-action frame and to create an 'SR' identity among investors. Analyzing the Web sites of thirty-four mutu…
Unmasking moral dichotomies: Can feminist pedagogy overcome student resistance
Scholarship on feminist pedagogy suggests that challenges to traditional forms of knowledge help university students overcome resistance to discussions about oppression. Because students assume that ‘truth’ is objective, they are unwilling to consider alternative voices from the ‘margins’. This paper theoretically argues and empirically examines whether feminist pedagogy expands students' morally dichotomous frameworks and, thus, decreases studen…
Worker Activism after Successful Union Organizing
Shows how different levels of worker participation during a union organizing campaign influence the perceptions and actions of those same workers after the campaign ends, and, thereby, the long-term effectiveness and success of the organizing effort. Drawing on historical and current examples, the author analyzes the political and economic contexts within which today's unions are organizing, including a detailed examination of the impact of the W…
Avoiding Moral Dichotomies: Teaching Controversial Topics to Resistant Students
We argue that students' classroom resistance to the analysis of social inequality and other controversial topics commonly involves their application of norm/other logic to course material. Such logic manifests itself as morally laden dichotomies that identify the norm as superior to all other alternatives. Further, we argue that norm/other dichotomies exist as social constructs that rely on dualism to foster a moral hegemony justifying social ine…
After the Organizing Ends: Workers, Self-Efficacy, Activism, and Union Frameworks
Because union organizing is commonly studied as a single event rather than the beginning of a process, little is understood about how union organizing strategies continue to affect workers after campaigns end. In this article, I analyze interviews with workers organized by two union campaign strategies, the "comprehensive campaign" and the "blitz," which differ significantly in the degree of participation they foster among the rank and file. I ap…
Employee Participation at the Workplace: Capitalist Control or Worker Freedom
Participatory work strategies are praised by some labor advocates while condemned by others. Proponents claim that employee involvement strategies create cooperation between workers and management and that this cooperation benefits both groups. Critics argue that capitalist's goal of profit makes cooperation between managers and workers impossible. Is worker participation, then, a goal for labor advocates to strive towards or an end to avoid? I a…
The Mutual Gains Enterprise: Forging a Winning Partnership Among Labor, Management, and Government
Human resources, national competitiveness and employee welfare the mutual gains enterprise choice and diffusion of mutual gains strategies human resources and organizational governance the role of labour and worker representation institutions and policies for human resource development toward a mutual gains labour-management policy building a mutual gains coalition
Union Presentation of Self and Worker Participation in Organizing Campaigns
Worker participation, or lack thereof, in union organizing campaigns has mainly been explained by workers' individual characteristics. This article takes a broader perspective: It postulates that union characteristics, and most importantly, the manner in which the union presents itself, are crucial in individuals' decisions to participate. The article shows, through analyses of interviews with workers collected after a union organizing campaign, …
In Labor
Avoiding Moral Dichotomies: Teaching Controversial Topics to Resistant Students
We argue that students' classroom resistance to the analysis of social inequality and other controversial topics commonly involves their application of norm/other logic to course material. Such logic manifests itself as morally laden dichotomies that identify the norm as superior to all other alternatives. Further, we argue that norm/other dichotomies exist as social constructs that rely on dualism to foster a moral hegemony justifying social ine…
After the Organizing Ends: Workers, Self-Efficacy, Activism, and Union Frameworks
Because union organizing is commonly studied as a single event rather than the beginning of a process, little is understood about how union organizing strategies continue to affect workers after campaigns end. In this article, I analyze interviews with workers organized by two union campaign strategies, the "comprehensive campaign" and the "blitz," which differ significantly in the degree of participation they foster among the rank and file. I ap…
Unmasking moral dichotomies: Can feminist pedagogy overcome student resistance
Scholarship on feminist pedagogy suggests that challenges to traditional forms of knowledge help university students overcome resistance to discussions about oppression. Because students assume that ‘truth’ is objective, they are unwilling to consider alternative voices from the ‘margins’. This paper theoretically argues and empirically examines whether feminist pedagogy expands students' morally dichotomous frameworks and, thus, decreases studen…
Structural Innovators and Core-Framing Tasks: How Socially Responsible Mutual Fund Companies Build Identity among Investors
Institutional entrepreneurs in organizational fields sometimes adopt collective-action frames that generate subcultural identities among consumers and mobilize them into purchasing goods. This article examines how socially responsible (SR) mutual fund companies use core-framing tasks to shore up the 'corporate social responsibility' collective-action frame and to create an 'SR' identity among investors. Analyzing the Web sites of thirty-four mutu…
Structural ignorance of Christian privilege
Despite claims of a so-called war on Christmas, Christmas in the United States is still celebrated widely in public spaces. The question is why some people ignore, what some scholars call, their Christian privilege? In this paper, we explore the ignoring of Christian privilege in one public space: USA elementary schools. Using 27 interviews, we show that most of the teachers/administrators adopted what we are calling Christian ignorance –– a stru…
Can Strategic Investing Transform the Corporation
The purpose of this article is to critique the main claim of the socially responsible (SR) investment industry: that through strategic investing investors can transform corporate power. I argue that businesses often respond to the demand by investors for short-term economic growth by making choices that run counter to the interests of corporate social responsibility; they reduce labor and material costs in ways that disrupt workers, communities a…
Union Presentation of Self and Worker Participation in Organizing Campaigns
Worker participation, or lack thereof, in union organizing campaigns has mainly been explained by workers' individual characteristics. This article takes a broader perspective: It postulates that union characteristics, and most importantly, the manner in which the union presents itself, are crucial in individuals' decisions to participate. The article shows, through analyses of interviews with workers collected after a union organizing campaign, …
Sexism in Facebook discourse about clergy misconduct
Sexism and sexist ideology have significant negative consequences for female victims of sexual assault and other crimes. Thus, uncovering how language is used as a discursive tool for maintaining unequal power relations is extremely important in discourses around sexual misconduct and sexualized violence. In this study we used Critical Discourse Analysis and Manne’s theory of the moral economy of patriarchy to analyze Facebook posts supporting a …
Clergy Sexual Misconduct and Competitive Sensegiving Frames: Loyalist, Rebel, Rationalist and Processor
Generally, writings about clergy sexual misconduct of adults tend to focus on a victim-abuser model, theorizing the causes and/or consequences or solutions to such abuse. With the exception of some analysis about the growth of Voice of the Faithful inside the Catholic Church (see), few researchers have focused theoretically on how members of religious groups make sense of and respond to accusations of clergy sexual misconduct against adults. In t…
Christmas in U.S. K-12 schools: Categorizing and explaining teacher awareness of Christo-normativity
To reduce Christo-normativity in United States of America schools, most schools tend to only educate teachers about what religious practices are allowed by law. The question we ask is whether a focus on structural policies, like law, works. We apply Bourdieu's theory of habitus, capital, and field to discuss the findings from 27 interviews we completed with teachers/administrators. We found that participants tended to fit into five categories rel…
Using an adult development model to help explain pre-service teacher resistance to learning about race
This article shows the potential usefulness of applying Kegan’s constructive-developmental model to White teacher education students’ difficulties in understanding racial dynamics in US society. The data for this analysis come from a study examining the evolution of White teacher candidates’ understandings and practices related to diversity as they experienced different parts of an undergraduate teacher education program over a two-semester perio…
Employee Participation at the Workplace: Capitalist Control or Worker Freedom
Participatory work strategies are praised by some labor advocates while condemned by others. Proponents claim that employee involvement strategies create cooperation between workers and management and that this cooperation benefits both groups. Critics argue that capitalist's goal of profit makes cooperation between managers and workers impossible. Is worker participation, then, a goal for labor advocates to strive towards or an end to avoid? I a…
In Labor
The Mutual Gains Enterprise: Forging a Winning Partnership Among Labor, Management, and Government
Human resources, national competitiveness and employee welfare the mutual gains enterprise choice and diffusion of mutual gains strategies human resources and organizational governance the role of labour and worker representation institutions and policies for human resource development toward a mutual gains labour-management policy building a mutual gains coalition
Union Presentation of Self and Worker Participation in Organizing Campaigns
Worker participation, or lack thereof, in union organizing campaigns has mainly been explained by workers' individual characteristics. This article takes a broader perspective: It postulates that union characteristics, and most importantly, the manner in which the union presents itself, are crucial in individuals' decisions to participate. The article shows, through analyses of interviews with workers collected after a union organizing campaign, …
Employee Participation at the Workplace: Capitalist Control or Worker Freedom
Participatory work strategies are praised by some labor advocates while condemned by others. Proponents claim that employee involvement strategies create cooperation between workers and management and that this cooperation benefits both groups. Critics argue that capitalist's goal of profit makes cooperation between managers and workers impossible. Is worker participation, then, a goal for labor advocates to strive towards or an end to avoid? I a…
After the Organizing Ends: Workers, Self-Efficacy, Activism, and Union Frameworks
Because union organizing is commonly studied as a single event rather than the beginning of a process, little is understood about how union organizing strategies continue to affect workers after campaigns end. In this article, I analyze interviews with workers organized by two union campaign strategies, the "comprehensive campaign" and the "blitz," which differ significantly in the degree of participation they foster among the rank and file. I ap…
Avoiding Moral Dichotomies: Teaching Controversial Topics to Resistant Students
We argue that students' classroom resistance to the analysis of social inequality and other controversial topics commonly involves their application of norm/other logic to course material. Such logic manifests itself as morally laden dichotomies that identify the norm as superior to all other alternatives. Further, we argue that norm/other dichotomies exist as social constructs that rely on dualism to foster a moral hegemony justifying social ine…
Worker Activism after Successful Union Organizing
Shows how different levels of worker participation during a union organizing campaign influence the perceptions and actions of those same workers after the campaign ends, and, thereby, the long-term effectiveness and success of the organizing effort. Drawing on historical and current examples, the author analyzes the political and economic contexts within which today's unions are organizing, including a detailed examination of the impact of the W…
Unmasking moral dichotomies: Can feminist pedagogy overcome student resistance
Scholarship on feminist pedagogy suggests that challenges to traditional forms of knowledge help university students overcome resistance to discussions about oppression. Because students assume that ‘truth’ is objective, they are unwilling to consider alternative voices from the ‘margins’. This paper theoretically argues and empirically examines whether feminist pedagogy expands students' morally dichotomous frameworks and, thus, decreases studen…
Structural Innovators and Core-Framing Tasks: How Socially Responsible Mutual Fund Companies Build Identity among Investors
Institutional entrepreneurs in organizational fields sometimes adopt collective-action frames that generate subcultural identities among consumers and mobilize them into purchasing goods. This article examines how socially responsible (SR) mutual fund companies use core-framing tasks to shore up the 'corporate social responsibility' collective-action frame and to create an 'SR' identity among investors. Analyzing the Web sites of thirty-four mutu…
Can Strategic Investing Transform the Corporation
The purpose of this article is to critique the main claim of the socially responsible (SR) investment industry: that through strategic investing investors can transform corporate power. I argue that businesses often respond to the demand by investors for short-term economic growth by making choices that run counter to the interests of corporate social responsibility; they reduce labor and material costs in ways that disrupt workers, communities a…
Framing ambiguity: Insider/outsiders and the successful legitimation project of the socially responsible mutual fund industry
This article uses a Bourdieuian notion of organizational field and social movement’s frame analysis to understand the successful legitimation project of the socially responsible (SR) mutual fund industry. We show how institutional entrepreneurs, as both insiders and outsiders of the dominant organizational field, compete with existing mutual fund logics and become a legitimate presence in the mutual fund industry. The SR mutual fund industry has …
Racial Diversity in the Schools: A Necessary Evil
White teachers see racial diversity in the schools as a “necessary evil.” Common beliefs are that a) Black students are saved by nurturing White teachers and well-behaved White children, and b) White students learn from “disadvantaged“ Black children the dual lesson of empathy and gratitude
Using an adult development model to help explain pre-service teacher resistance to learning about race
This article shows the potential usefulness of applying Kegan’s constructive-developmental model to White teacher education students’ difficulties in understanding racial dynamics in US society. The data for this analysis come from a study examining the evolution of White teacher candidates’ understandings and practices related to diversity as they experienced different parts of an undergraduate teacher education program over a two-semester perio…
Troubling the ontological bubble: Middle School Students Challenging Gender Stereotypes
In this paper, we discuss how a selection of eighth-grade students (13–14-year-olds) responded when they were asked to publicly challenge the gender binary for a critical media literacy school assignment in the USA. We describe the ways in which students negotiated the dual projects of complying with the assignment to create video ads that challenged gender stereotypes and maintaining their gendered sense of self. While the videos had virtually a…
Structural ignorance of Christian privilege
Despite claims of a so-called war on Christmas, Christmas in the United States is still celebrated widely in public spaces. The question is why some people ignore, what some scholars call, their Christian privilege? In this paper, we explore the ignoring of Christian privilege in one public space: USA elementary schools. Using 27 interviews, we show that most of the teachers/administrators adopted what we are calling Christian ignorance –– a stru…
Christmas in U.S. K-12 schools: Categorizing and explaining teacher awareness of Christo-normativity
To reduce Christo-normativity in United States of America schools, most schools tend to only educate teachers about what religious practices are allowed by law. The question we ask is whether a focus on structural policies, like law, works. We apply Bourdieu's theory of habitus, capital, and field to discuss the findings from 27 interviews we completed with teachers/administrators. We found that participants tended to fit into five categories rel…
Sexism in Facebook discourse about clergy misconduct
Sexism and sexist ideology have significant negative consequences for female victims of sexual assault and other crimes. Thus, uncovering how language is used as a discursive tool for maintaining unequal power relations is extremely important in discourses around sexual misconduct and sexualized violence. In this study we used Critical Discourse Analysis and Manne’s theory of the moral economy of patriarchy to analyze Facebook posts supporting a …
Clergy Sexual Misconduct and Competitive Sensegiving Frames: Loyalist, Rebel, Rationalist and Processor
Generally, writings about clergy sexual misconduct of adults tend to focus on a victim-abuser model, theorizing the causes and/or consequences or solutions to such abuse. With the exception of some analysis about the growth of Voice of the Faithful inside the Catholic Church (see), few researchers have focused theoretically on how members of religious groups make sense of and respond to accusations of clergy sexual misconduct against adults. In t…
Sociology (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · Public relations (7 works) · Business (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (5 works)