Elizabeth Seale
Biographic Data
| ID | 4264971 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Seale |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Seale |
| SIGNATURE | SEALE E |
| AFFILIATIONS | SUNY Oneonta |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9296-5250 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Dark Side of Agency: A Life Course Exploration of Agency among White, Rural, and Impoverished Residents of New York State
This study examines how people who have been constrained by extreme or chronic poverty, rural location, and adversity in interpersonal relationships make decisions and engage in agency through their narratives and everyday experiences. As a social scientific concept, the agency indicates the intentional behavior of individuals in the context of their environments, relations, and situations. In-depth, semi-structured interviews were collected with…
Covid-19 and Social Capital Loss: The Results of a Campus Outbreak
Social capital as mediating factor on Covid‐19 induced psychological distress: The case of college students living through an outbreak
This investigation examines the interplay between individual‐level social capital, psychological distress, and the effects of a coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) outbreak on a college campus. Data were collected from students at two colleges in early 2021. Hypotheses were formed based on prior research on social capital and the COVID pandemic. A structural equation model was constructed to allow the modeling of both latent and observed variable…
Strategies for Conducting Post-Culture-of-Poverty Research on Poverty, Meaning, and Behavior
The Relational Experience of Poverty: Challenges for Family Planning and Autonomy in Rural Areas
This is a qualitative study of a family planning education program in New York State using in‐depth interviews with 16 low‐income participants. The study demonstrates how challenges faced by the rural poor in family planning and health autonomy are exacerbated by lack of social support and isolation. Service providers are therefore critical to clients’ achievement of health and family planning goals. Such services are needed not merely because of…
Welfare and the Culture of Conservatism: A Contextual Analysis of Welfare-to-Work Participation in North Carolina
Welfare participation varies across the United States due to a myriad of welfare program differences specific to geographical locations. The purpose of this study is to examine Work First participation rates among the eligible poor utilizing a county-level analysis of North Carolina. Findings suggest the proportion of poor single mothers, region, county political orientation, and rates of disability receipt affect program participation. Findings …
The Cynical Public: Claims about Science in the Discourse on Hydrofracking
This content analysis of newspaper articles and online social media from English-speaking sources on the topic of 'fracking' interrogates the use of scientific legitimacy in claims-makings and how public understandings of science develop through these media. In both forms of media, science is invoked in one sense as rational and objective to either neutralize or support emotionally-charged accounts and fears of hydraulic fracturing dangers. In an…
Implementing Welfare-to-Work: Program Managers’ Identities and Service Delivery in North Carolina
Using telephone interviews, we examine the professional identities of welfare-to-work managers in North Carolina counties and explore how their identities correlate with county characteristics and the structuring of services. We find social work and efficiency engineer approaches to be distinct and influential with the street-level bureaucrat often conflicted, caught between helping and policing clients. In our study, conflicted managers often do…
Coping Strategies of Urban and Rural Welfare Organisations and the Regulation of the Poor
With a comparative case study of the social welfare systems of an urban and a rural county in the United States, I explore variation in local welfare implementation by examining organisational strategies. Service provision in the rural county is less diverse and less effective than in the urban county due to place-based factors; however, in the urban county more financial resources and capacity translates into more regulation of the clientele as …
The Case of Cooperstown, New York: The Makings of a Perfect Village in an Urbanising World
In this paper we examine the question of how rural communities adapt to global processes of urbanisation and economic restructuring. We do this through a visual and historical case study analysis of Cooperstown, New York. This location is selected because it is a self-proclaimed 'perfect village' and by many counts a successful tourist destination. The impact on this community is examined using theoretical concepts that include urbanormativity, r…
Who's to Blame? The Identity Talk of Welfare-To-Work Program Managers
U.S. welfare policy and devolution involve contradictions in implementing financial assistance as welfare workers must attempt to place clients with severe barriers in formal employment while meeting restrictive requirements. In interviews with North Carolina welfare-to-work program managers, the authors find that they engage in identity talk to construct images of themselves as effective workers despite these contradictions, using the symbolic i…
Helping the Poor or the System? Examining My Participation: Observation in Social Service Organizations
In this article I examine my experiences of practice and research in the social service field, which may be relevant to applied and clinical sociologists who work beyond academia, as well as academic ethnographers in general. Although the researcher as a person from a particular background profoundly impacts the data collected, examining the role of the researcher in everyday situations (at some research site) sheds light on important social proc…
Katrina That Bitch!” Hegemonic Representations of Women's Sexuality on Hurricane Katrina Souvenir T-Shirts: “Katrina That Bitch!”
Who's to Blame? The Identity Talk of Welfare-To-Work Program Managers
U.S. welfare policy and devolution involve contradictions in implementing financial assistance as welfare workers must attempt to place clients with severe barriers in formal employment while meeting restrictive requirements. In interviews with North Carolina welfare-to-work program managers, the authors find that they engage in identity talk to construct images of themselves as effective workers despite these contradictions, using the symbolic i…
Covid-19 and Social Capital Loss: The Results of a Campus Outbreak
Implementing Welfare-to-Work: Program Managers’ Identities and Service Delivery in North Carolina
Using telephone interviews, we examine the professional identities of welfare-to-work managers in North Carolina counties and explore how their identities correlate with county characteristics and the structuring of services. We find social work and efficiency engineer approaches to be distinct and influential with the street-level bureaucrat often conflicted, caught between helping and policing clients. In our study, conflicted managers often do…
Coping Strategies of Urban and Rural Welfare Organisations and the Regulation of the Poor
With a comparative case study of the social welfare systems of an urban and a rural county in the United States, I explore variation in local welfare implementation by examining organisational strategies. Service provision in the rural county is less diverse and less effective than in the urban county due to place-based factors; however, in the urban county more financial resources and capacity translates into more regulation of the clientele as …
Katrina That Bitch!” Hegemonic Representations of Women's Sexuality on Hurricane Katrina Souvenir T-Shirts: “Katrina That Bitch!”
The Dark Side of Agency: A Life Course Exploration of Agency among White, Rural, and Impoverished Residents of New York State
This study examines how people who have been constrained by extreme or chronic poverty, rural location, and adversity in interpersonal relationships make decisions and engage in agency through their narratives and everyday experiences. As a social scientific concept, the agency indicates the intentional behavior of individuals in the context of their environments, relations, and situations. In-depth, semi-structured interviews were collected with…
Social capital as mediating factor on Covid‐19 induced psychological distress: The case of college students living through an outbreak
This investigation examines the interplay between individual‐level social capital, psychological distress, and the effects of a coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) outbreak on a college campus. Data were collected from students at two colleges in early 2021. Hypotheses were formed based on prior research on social capital and the COVID pandemic. A structural equation model was constructed to allow the modeling of both latent and observed variable…
Strategies for Conducting Post-Culture-of-Poverty Research on Poverty, Meaning, and Behavior
Helping the Poor or the System? Examining My Participation: Observation in Social Service Organizations
In this article I examine my experiences of practice and research in the social service field, which may be relevant to applied and clinical sociologists who work beyond academia, as well as academic ethnographers in general. Although the researcher as a person from a particular background profoundly impacts the data collected, examining the role of the researcher in everyday situations (at some research site) sheds light on important social proc…
Katrina That Bitch!” Hegemonic Representations of Women's Sexuality on Hurricane Katrina Souvenir T-Shirts: “Katrina That Bitch!”
Coping Strategies of Urban and Rural Welfare Organisations and the Regulation of the Poor
With a comparative case study of the social welfare systems of an urban and a rural county in the United States, I explore variation in local welfare implementation by examining organisational strategies. Service provision in the rural county is less diverse and less effective than in the urban county due to place-based factors; however, in the urban county more financial resources and capacity translates into more regulation of the clientele as …
The Case of Cooperstown, New York: The Makings of a Perfect Village in an Urbanising World
In this paper we examine the question of how rural communities adapt to global processes of urbanisation and economic restructuring. We do this through a visual and historical case study analysis of Cooperstown, New York. This location is selected because it is a self-proclaimed 'perfect village' and by many counts a successful tourist destination. The impact on this community is examined using theoretical concepts that include urbanormativity, r…
Who's to Blame? The Identity Talk of Welfare-To-Work Program Managers
U.S. welfare policy and devolution involve contradictions in implementing financial assistance as welfare workers must attempt to place clients with severe barriers in formal employment while meeting restrictive requirements. In interviews with North Carolina welfare-to-work program managers, the authors find that they engage in identity talk to construct images of themselves as effective workers despite these contradictions, using the symbolic i…
Implementing Welfare-to-Work: Program Managers’ Identities and Service Delivery in North Carolina
Using telephone interviews, we examine the professional identities of welfare-to-work managers in North Carolina counties and explore how their identities correlate with county characteristics and the structuring of services. We find social work and efficiency engineer approaches to be distinct and influential with the street-level bureaucrat often conflicted, caught between helping and policing clients. In our study, conflicted managers often do…
The Cynical Public: Claims about Science in the Discourse on Hydrofracking
This content analysis of newspaper articles and online social media from English-speaking sources on the topic of 'fracking' interrogates the use of scientific legitimacy in claims-makings and how public understandings of science develop through these media. In both forms of media, science is invoked in one sense as rational and objective to either neutralize or support emotionally-charged accounts and fears of hydraulic fracturing dangers. In an…
Welfare and the Culture of Conservatism: A Contextual Analysis of Welfare-to-Work Participation in North Carolina
Welfare participation varies across the United States due to a myriad of welfare program differences specific to geographical locations. The purpose of this study is to examine Work First participation rates among the eligible poor utilizing a county-level analysis of North Carolina. Findings suggest the proportion of poor single mothers, region, county political orientation, and rates of disability receipt affect program participation. Findings …
The Relational Experience of Poverty: Challenges for Family Planning and Autonomy in Rural Areas
This is a qualitative study of a family planning education program in New York State using in‐depth interviews with 16 low‐income participants. The study demonstrates how challenges faced by the rural poor in family planning and health autonomy are exacerbated by lack of social support and isolation. Service providers are therefore critical to clients’ achievement of health and family planning goals. Such services are needed not merely because of…
Strategies for Conducting Post-Culture-of-Poverty Research on Poverty, Meaning, and Behavior
Social capital as mediating factor on Covid‐19 induced psychological distress: The case of college students living through an outbreak
This investigation examines the interplay between individual‐level social capital, psychological distress, and the effects of a coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) outbreak on a college campus. Data were collected from students at two colleges in early 2021. Hypotheses were formed based on prior research on social capital and the COVID pandemic. A structural equation model was constructed to allow the modeling of both latent and observed variable…
Covid-19 and Social Capital Loss: The Results of a Campus Outbreak
The Dark Side of Agency: A Life Course Exploration of Agency among White, Rural, and Impoverished Residents of New York State
This study examines how people who have been constrained by extreme or chronic poverty, rural location, and adversity in interpersonal relationships make decisions and engage in agency through their narratives and everyday experiences. As a social scientific concept, the agency indicates the intentional behavior of individuals in the context of their environments, relations, and situations. In-depth, semi-structured interviews were collected with…
Sociology (12 works) · Political science (9 works) · Economics (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (4 works) · Politics (4 works)