Timothy Jon Curry
Biographic Data
| ID | 4178002 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Timothy Jon Curry |
| GIVEN NAMES | Timothy Jon |
| FAMILY NAME | Curry |
| SIGNATURE | CURRY T J |
| AFFILIATIONS | 1The Ohio State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 228 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Deviance, Sport and
Sports may be defined as physical contests that are competitive, fair, and guided by rules, organization, and/or tradition. The roots of sport are ancient, and probably stem from hunting. Although modern sports have more symbolic quests than the choice cuts of meat available to the successful prehistoric hunter, the thrill of the chase is much the same (Carroll 2000). The rules and traditions of sport may or may not be codified, but they ensure t…
Richer and Whiter: How Publishers of Popular Magazines Construct their Readerships for Advertisers
This research examines the role magazines play as part of popular culture in the reproduction of inequality. We analyze statistics and images that magazine publishers make available to advertisers through media kits (n = 63). We hypothesize that race, class, and gender logic within the industry affect what information is presented to advertisers and that this information emphasizes what editors and publishers believe to be the characteristics of …
Reply to “A Conversation (Re)Analysis of Fraternal Bonding in the Locker Room”
A Comment on the Use of Anabolic Steroids in Women's Olympic Swimming: A Chronicle of the 100-Meters Freestyle
Focusing on gold medal times in the women's 100-meters freestyle from the 1912 to 1996 Olympics, we compare the effects of anabolic steroids to other innovations. Following a discussion of factors such as changing conceptions of femininity, improved facilities and training methods, and the recruitment of elite athletes, we conclude that anabolic steroids have had a significant but relatively minor impact
Beyond the Locker Room: Campus Bars and College Athletes
This paper extends the research conducted on male bonding in locker rooms to another well-known but under-researched site, the campus bar. Through a life history of a former athlete, we learn about the connection between what is said in the locker room and behavior outside. We also gain insight into the role campus bars play in facilitating aggression and sexual misconduct by male athletes
Black Americans in Popular Magazines: The Effects of Audience Characteristics and the Persistence of Stereotypes
This study examines the effects of size and wealth of the black audience on minority representation in 88 popular national magazines. We find that 1) size and wealth of the black audience are positively associated with greater representation of blacks in feature articles, on covers and in advertisements; 2) as size and wealth of the black audience increases, so do stereotypic role-portrayals of blacks and 3) magazines with primarily white audienc…
The Effects of Receiving a College Letter on the Sport Identity
This study examines the effects of winning a college letter on the sport identity of athletes participating at different levels of competition. The sample consisted of 276 male and 229 female athletes drawn from similar teams from three colleges in Ohio. The colleges were affiliated with the NCAA Divisions I and III and the NAIA. It was hypothesized that winning a letter would strengthen the sport identity, and that athletes participating at the …
A Little Pain Never Hurt Anyone: Athletic Career Socialization and the Normalization of Sports Injury
How do pain and risk of injury come to be accepted as a normal part of an athlete's role-identity? Through an examination of the career history of Sam, an amateur wrestler, the normalization of injury is seen as a traditional form of role socialization. Sam learned to define pain and injury as a routine part of his sports career by observing and interacting with a variety of significant others. As he progressed into higher levels of competition, …
Fraternal Bonding in the Locker Room: A Profeminist Analysis of Talk about Competition and Women
A profeminist perspective was employed to study male bonding in the locker rooms of two “big time” college sport teams. Locker room talk fragments were collected over the course of several months by a participant observer, a senior varsity athlete, and by a nonparticipant observer, a sport sociologist. Additional data were collected by means of field observations, intensive interviews, and life histories and were combined to interpret locker room…
Sport Identity and Motivation for Sport Participation: A Comparison between American College Athletes and Austrian Student Sport Club Members
The aim of this study is to compare competition, fitness, and social motivation for sport participation between American college athletes and Austrian student sport club members. Our hypotheses are drawn from symbolic interactionist theory, and we define sport motivation as the reasons that people give for participating in sport. The respondents are 301 University of Vienna student members of Austrian sport clubs and 397 college athletes drawn fr…
Comparing Commitment to Sport and Religion at a Christian College
This research replicates a previous study that examined key components of Stryker’s identity theory as applied to the sport role. In addition, while the previous study examined components of the sport role just for male students at a large state university, this study includes 149 female and 199 male students at a small college and tests the model on both the sport and the religious identities. The instrument used is the Sport Identities Index. W…
Sport Identity Salience, Commitment, and the Involvement of Self in Role: Measurement Issues
The social psychological concept of identity has been recognized as an important approach to the study of role-related behavior, including sports behavior. Identity has been linked theoretically to the self-concept via the notion of a salience hierarchy, and the salience of an identity in turn has been shown to be associated with time spent in role and other measures of role performance. In this article we present some measurement procedures for …
A Visual Method of Studying Sports: The Photo-Elicitation Interview
Photo-elicitation is a technique of interviewing in which photographs are used to stimulate and guide a discussion between the interviewer and the respondent. While much of the previous research done with the method has been conducted by anthropologists in foreign cultures, the technique is also well suited for the study of sports in America. This article discusses the advantages and disadvantages of this method in comparison to standard intervie…
Frederick Wiseman: Sociological Filmmaker
In a fit of empiricism, I once instructed a student researcher to count the number of photographs in fourteen of the leading social science journals and fourteen of the leading biological science journals. The results were not too surprising: The biological sciences used photographs nearly twenty-five times as often as the social sciences, 799 photographs to 32 (a list of the journals sampled is available on request). Not surprising either are th…
Sociological Films
Developing Visual Literacy: Use of Magazine Advertisements Depicting Gender Roles
Timothy Jon Curry, Alfred C. Clarke, Developing Visual Literacy: Use of Magazine Advertisements Depicting Gender Roles, Teaching Sociology, Vol. 10, No. 3, The Use of Mass Media in Sociology Curricula (Apr., 1983), pp. 361-369
Fraternal Bonding in the Locker Room: A Profeminist Analysis of Talk about Competition and Women
A profeminist perspective was employed to study male bonding in the locker rooms of two “big time” college sport teams. Locker room talk fragments were collected over the course of several months by a participant observer, a senior varsity athlete, and by a nonparticipant observer, a sport sociologist. Additional data were collected by means of field observations, intensive interviews, and life histories and were combined to interpret locker room…
A Little Pain Never Hurt Anyone: Athletic Career Socialization and the Normalization of Sports Injury
How do pain and risk of injury come to be accepted as a normal part of an athlete's role-identity? Through an examination of the career history of Sam, an amateur wrestler, the normalization of injury is seen as a traditional form of role socialization. Sam learned to define pain and injury as a routine part of his sports career by observing and interacting with a variety of significant others. As he progressed into higher levels of competition, …
Beyond the Locker Room: Campus Bars and College Athletes
This paper extends the research conducted on male bonding in locker rooms to another well-known but under-researched site, the campus bar. Through a life history of a former athlete, we learn about the connection between what is said in the locker room and behavior outside. We also gain insight into the role campus bars play in facilitating aggression and sexual misconduct by male athletes
A Visual Method of Studying Sports: The Photo-Elicitation Interview
Photo-elicitation is a technique of interviewing in which photographs are used to stimulate and guide a discussion between the interviewer and the respondent. While much of the previous research done with the method has been conducted by anthropologists in foreign cultures, the technique is also well suited for the study of sports in America. This article discusses the advantages and disadvantages of this method in comparison to standard intervie…
Black Americans in Popular Magazines: The Effects of Audience Characteristics and the Persistence of Stereotypes
This study examines the effects of size and wealth of the black audience on minority representation in 88 popular national magazines. We find that 1) size and wealth of the black audience are positively associated with greater representation of blacks in feature articles, on covers and in advertisements; 2) as size and wealth of the black audience increases, so do stereotypic role-portrayals of blacks and 3) magazines with primarily white audienc…
Sport Identity and Motivation for Sport Participation: A Comparison between American College Athletes and Austrian Student Sport Club Members
The aim of this study is to compare competition, fitness, and social motivation for sport participation between American college athletes and Austrian student sport club members. Our hypotheses are drawn from symbolic interactionist theory, and we define sport motivation as the reasons that people give for participating in sport. The respondents are 301 University of Vienna student members of Austrian sport clubs and 397 college athletes drawn fr…
Developing Visual Literacy: Use of Magazine Advertisements Depicting Gender Roles
Timothy Jon Curry, Alfred C. Clarke, Developing Visual Literacy: Use of Magazine Advertisements Depicting Gender Roles, Teaching Sociology, Vol. 10, No. 3, The Use of Mass Media in Sociology Curricula (Apr., 1983), pp. 361-369
Sport Identity Salience, Commitment, and the Involvement of Self in Role: Measurement Issues
The social psychological concept of identity has been recognized as an important approach to the study of role-related behavior, including sports behavior. Identity has been linked theoretically to the self-concept via the notion of a salience hierarchy, and the salience of an identity in turn has been shown to be associated with time spent in role and other measures of role performance. In this article we present some measurement procedures for …
Comparing Commitment to Sport and Religion at a Christian College
This research replicates a previous study that examined key components of Stryker’s identity theory as applied to the sport role. In addition, while the previous study examined components of the sport role just for male students at a large state university, this study includes 149 female and 199 male students at a small college and tests the model on both the sport and the religious identities. The instrument used is the Sport Identities Index. W…
A Comment on the Use of Anabolic Steroids in Women's Olympic Swimming: A Chronicle of the 100-Meters Freestyle
Focusing on gold medal times in the women's 100-meters freestyle from the 1912 to 1996 Olympics, we compare the effects of anabolic steroids to other innovations. Following a discussion of factors such as changing conceptions of femininity, improved facilities and training methods, and the recruitment of elite athletes, we conclude that anabolic steroids have had a significant but relatively minor impact
The Effects of Receiving a College Letter on the Sport Identity
This study examines the effects of winning a college letter on the sport identity of athletes participating at different levels of competition. The sample consisted of 276 male and 229 female athletes drawn from similar teams from three colleges in Ohio. The colleges were affiliated with the NCAA Divisions I and III and the NAIA. It was hypothesized that winning a letter would strengthen the sport identity, and that athletes participating at the …
Richer and Whiter: How Publishers of Popular Magazines Construct their Readerships for Advertisers
This research examines the role magazines play as part of popular culture in the reproduction of inequality. We analyze statistics and images that magazine publishers make available to advertisers through media kits (n = 63). We hypothesize that race, class, and gender logic within the industry affect what information is presented to advertisers and that this information emphasizes what editors and publishers believe to be the characteristics of …
Reply to “A Conversation (Re)Analysis of Fraternal Bonding in the Locker Room”
Frederick Wiseman: Sociological Filmmaker
In a fit of empiricism, I once instructed a student researcher to count the number of photographs in fourteen of the leading social science journals and fourteen of the leading biological science journals. The results were not too surprising: The biological sciences used photographs nearly twenty-five times as often as the social sciences, 799 photographs to 32 (a list of the journals sampled is available on request). Not surprising either are th…
Sociological Films
Developing Visual Literacy: Use of Magazine Advertisements Depicting Gender Roles
Timothy Jon Curry, Alfred C. Clarke, Developing Visual Literacy: Use of Magazine Advertisements Depicting Gender Roles, Teaching Sociology, Vol. 10, No. 3, The Use of Mass Media in Sociology Curricula (Apr., 1983), pp. 361-369
Sociological Films
Frederick Wiseman: Sociological Filmmaker
In a fit of empiricism, I once instructed a student researcher to count the number of photographs in fourteen of the leading social science journals and fourteen of the leading biological science journals. The results were not too surprising: The biological sciences used photographs nearly twenty-five times as often as the social sciences, 799 photographs to 32 (a list of the journals sampled is available on request). Not surprising either are th…
A Visual Method of Studying Sports: The Photo-Elicitation Interview
Photo-elicitation is a technique of interviewing in which photographs are used to stimulate and guide a discussion between the interviewer and the respondent. While much of the previous research done with the method has been conducted by anthropologists in foreign cultures, the technique is also well suited for the study of sports in America. This article discusses the advantages and disadvantages of this method in comparison to standard intervie…
Sport Identity Salience, Commitment, and the Involvement of Self in Role: Measurement Issues
The social psychological concept of identity has been recognized as an important approach to the study of role-related behavior, including sports behavior. Identity has been linked theoretically to the self-concept via the notion of a salience hierarchy, and the salience of an identity in turn has been shown to be associated with time spent in role and other measures of role performance. In this article we present some measurement procedures for …
Comparing Commitment to Sport and Religion at a Christian College
This research replicates a previous study that examined key components of Stryker’s identity theory as applied to the sport role. In addition, while the previous study examined components of the sport role just for male students at a large state university, this study includes 149 female and 199 male students at a small college and tests the model on both the sport and the religious identities. The instrument used is the Sport Identities Index. W…
Sport Identity and Motivation for Sport Participation: A Comparison between American College Athletes and Austrian Student Sport Club Members
The aim of this study is to compare competition, fitness, and social motivation for sport participation between American college athletes and Austrian student sport club members. Our hypotheses are drawn from symbolic interactionist theory, and we define sport motivation as the reasons that people give for participating in sport. The respondents are 301 University of Vienna student members of Austrian sport clubs and 397 college athletes drawn fr…
Fraternal Bonding in the Locker Room: A Profeminist Analysis of Talk about Competition and Women
A profeminist perspective was employed to study male bonding in the locker rooms of two “big time” college sport teams. Locker room talk fragments were collected over the course of several months by a participant observer, a senior varsity athlete, and by a nonparticipant observer, a sport sociologist. Additional data were collected by means of field observations, intensive interviews, and life histories and were combined to interpret locker room…
The Effects of Receiving a College Letter on the Sport Identity
This study examines the effects of winning a college letter on the sport identity of athletes participating at different levels of competition. The sample consisted of 276 male and 229 female athletes drawn from similar teams from three colleges in Ohio. The colleges were affiliated with the NCAA Divisions I and III and the NAIA. It was hypothesized that winning a letter would strengthen the sport identity, and that athletes participating at the …
A Little Pain Never Hurt Anyone: Athletic Career Socialization and the Normalization of Sports Injury
How do pain and risk of injury come to be accepted as a normal part of an athlete's role-identity? Through an examination of the career history of Sam, an amateur wrestler, the normalization of injury is seen as a traditional form of role socialization. Sam learned to define pain and injury as a routine part of his sports career by observing and interacting with a variety of significant others. As he progressed into higher levels of competition, …
Black Americans in Popular Magazines: The Effects of Audience Characteristics and the Persistence of Stereotypes
This study examines the effects of size and wealth of the black audience on minority representation in 88 popular national magazines. We find that 1) size and wealth of the black audience are positively associated with greater representation of blacks in feature articles, on covers and in advertisements; 2) as size and wealth of the black audience increases, so do stereotypic role-portrayals of blacks and 3) magazines with primarily white audienc…
Beyond the Locker Room: Campus Bars and College Athletes
This paper extends the research conducted on male bonding in locker rooms to another well-known but under-researched site, the campus bar. Through a life history of a former athlete, we learn about the connection between what is said in the locker room and behavior outside. We also gain insight into the role campus bars play in facilitating aggression and sexual misconduct by male athletes
A Comment on the Use of Anabolic Steroids in Women's Olympic Swimming: A Chronicle of the 100-Meters Freestyle
Focusing on gold medal times in the women's 100-meters freestyle from the 1912 to 1996 Olympics, we compare the effects of anabolic steroids to other innovations. Following a discussion of factors such as changing conceptions of femininity, improved facilities and training methods, and the recruitment of elite athletes, we conclude that anabolic steroids have had a significant but relatively minor impact
Reply to “A Conversation (Re)Analysis of Fraternal Bonding in the Locker Room”
Richer and Whiter: How Publishers of Popular Magazines Construct their Readerships for Advertisers
This research examines the role magazines play as part of popular culture in the reproduction of inequality. We analyze statistics and images that magazine publishers make available to advertisers through media kits (n = 63). We hypothesize that race, class, and gender logic within the industry affect what information is presented to advertisers and that this information emphasizes what editors and publishers believe to be the characteristics of …
Deviance, Sport and
Sports may be defined as physical contests that are competitive, fair, and guided by rules, organization, and/or tradition. The roots of sport are ancient, and probably stem from hunting. Although modern sports have more symbolic quests than the choice cuts of meat available to the successful prehistoric hunter, the thrill of the chase is much the same (Carroll 2000). The rules and traditions of sport may or may not be codified, but they ensure t…
Sociology (14 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Advertising (6 works) · Athletes (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works)