Susan Pitchford
Biographic Data
| ID | 4224533 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan Pitchford |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan |
| FAMILY NAME | Pitchford |
| SIGNATURE | PITCHFORD S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Identity Tourism
This article considers identity tourism, which comprises both ethnic and heritage tourism, as a medium for the projection of ethnic and nationalist messages. Marginalized peoples acquire "spoiled" or stigmatized identities through stories that use their alleged inferiority to "explain" their position. They may counter the negative group images created through these stories by fashioning new stories of their history and culture, in an effort to se…
Image-Making Movements
Despite much scholarly interest in stereotyping, stigma, and collective identity construction, collective action aimed at changing negative ethnic images has received little attention. Using Welsh national- ism as an image-making movement, this analysis shows how activists use framing strategies to construct a positive alternative image. Specie cally, image makers use symbols of difference, dominance, resistance and tran- scendence, drawn from th…
Doing Field Studies of Religious Movements
Although the social scientific study of religion has seen the accumulation of numerous case studies, comparative work involving substantial numbers of cases is rare. In the absence of an accepted agenda for field research, field studies contain information relevant to the study at hand, but do not add systematically to a cumulative database. By contrast, field studies in anthropology may contain idiosyncratic information relevant to the author's …
Work and Crime
Ethnic tourism and nationalism in wales
Social-Scientific and Legal Challenges to Education and Test Requirements in Employment
Human capital theory suggests that education and test scores are related to earnings because they are related to productivity. Competing theories disagree, claiming that education and test scores are used as employment criteria either for convenience or because they exclude members of groups employers wish to discriminate against. This paper examines how this social science controversy comes to have practical implications in equal employment oppo…
Work and Crime
Ethnic tourism and nationalism in wales
Social-Scientific and Legal Challenges to Education and Test Requirements in Employment
Human capital theory suggests that education and test scores are related to earnings because they are related to productivity. Competing theories disagree, claiming that education and test scores are used as employment criteria either for convenience or because they exclude members of groups employers wish to discriminate against. This paper examines how this social science controversy comes to have practical implications in equal employment oppo…
Doing Field Studies of Religious Movements
Although the social scientific study of religion has seen the accumulation of numerous case studies, comparative work involving substantial numbers of cases is rare. In the absence of an accepted agenda for field research, field studies contain information relevant to the study at hand, but do not add systematically to a cumulative database. By contrast, field studies in anthropology may contain idiosyncratic information relevant to the author's …
Image-Making Movements
Despite much scholarly interest in stereotyping, stigma, and collective identity construction, collective action aimed at changing negative ethnic images has received little attention. Using Welsh national- ism as an image-making movement, this analysis shows how activists use framing strategies to construct a positive alternative image. Specie cally, image makers use symbols of difference, dominance, resistance and tran- scendence, drawn from th…
Social-Scientific and Legal Challenges to Education and Test Requirements in Employment
Human capital theory suggests that education and test scores are related to earnings because they are related to productivity. Competing theories disagree, claiming that education and test scores are used as employment criteria either for convenience or because they exclude members of groups employers wish to discriminate against. This paper examines how this social science controversy comes to have practical implications in equal employment oppo…
Ethnic tourism and nationalism in wales
Work and Crime
Image-Making Movements
Despite much scholarly interest in stereotyping, stigma, and collective identity construction, collective action aimed at changing negative ethnic images has received little attention. Using Welsh national- ism as an image-making movement, this analysis shows how activists use framing strategies to construct a positive alternative image. Specie cally, image makers use symbols of difference, dominance, resistance and tran- scendence, drawn from th…
Doing Field Studies of Religious Movements
Although the social scientific study of religion has seen the accumulation of numerous case studies, comparative work involving substantial numbers of cases is rare. In the absence of an accepted agenda for field research, field studies contain information relevant to the study at hand, but do not add systematically to a cumulative database. By contrast, field studies in anthropology may contain idiosyncratic information relevant to the author's …
Identity Tourism
This article considers identity tourism, which comprises both ethnic and heritage tourism, as a medium for the projection of ethnic and nationalist messages. Marginalized peoples acquire "spoiled" or stigmatized identities through stories that use their alleged inferiority to "explain" their position. They may counter the negative group images created through these stories by fashioning new stories of their history and culture, in an effort to se…
Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Ethnic group (3 works) · History (3 works) · Nationalism (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Biology (2 works)