Paula Dressel
Biographic Data
| ID | 4267547 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paula Dressel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paula |
| FAMILY NAME | Dressel |
| SIGNATURE | DRESSEL P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgia State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Second-Order Victim-Blaming
Second-order victim-blaming emerges within a host of rationales given when designated solutions to first-order social problems do not produce the desired results. In certain cases second-order victim-blaming is built upon first-order victim blaming. This article develops a typology of second-order victim blaming based on the nature of problems forthcoming from failed social interventions. It then explores the implications of the phenomenon for th…
And We Keep on Building Prisons: Racism, Poverty, and Challenges to the Welfare State
Prison-building is argued to be an intervention of last resort when a nation loses faith in the social welfare enterprise. Recent proposals for more punitive regulations for means-tested benefits, along with the recent dramatic growth in the construction of prisons and in the size of the inmate population, indicate that we are moving as a society toward heightened levels of scapegoating and victim-blaming as a response to troubles generated by si…
Beyond An Underclass: An Essay on Up-Front Politics
Debate about underclass conceptualization has once again forced sociologists to acknowledge the political context and implications of our work. This article extends the critical examination of underclass conceptualization to relatively undeveloped but politically important areas of concern. Initially we discuss the political economic context of conceptual controversies surrounding poverty. With a preference for structural analysis, we call for th…
Exchange Rules in the Mediation of Social Welfare Work
This article demonstrates the utility of the concept of exchange rules for understanding welfare worker agency in the mediation of workplace ideologies and behaviors. The exchange rules of complementarity, reciprocity, and beneficence are applied to the issues of service worker burnout, worker-client interactions, and labor issues to illustrate their conceptual and practical power. This analysis from an interactionist perspective complements the …
Films That Put Social Problems in Global Context
Teachers of social problems are presently faced with considerable challenges. Even as social scientists articulate increasingly the international context of selected domestic social problems (e.g., drug use, unemployment, the arms race), high school students who soon will populate our classes have significant deficiencies in international geography, history, and politics (Washington Post 1988). Furthermore, controversial national discourse appear…
A Critical Look at Family Care
Welfare Workers as Surplus Population: A Useful Model
Analysts of organizational and employment issues in social welfare are in need of a more critical orientation for framing debate. We propose that an understanding of welfare workers as surplus population offers critical insights into a number of longstanding welfare concerns, including political coalitions, professional standards, and worker burnout. Empirical evidence is presented to undergird the credibility of the surplus population argument
Deprofessionalization, Proletarianization, and Social Welfare Work
In this paper we explore the personnel transformations which have occurred in social welfare work. Specifically, we examine the tensions between the dynamics of professionalization and deprofessionalization and how these trends have impacted upon those who work in the social welfare enterprise. Another concern of the paper is the effect of the proletarianization of social welfare work in the face of increasing efforts of some to create profession…
Patriarchy and Social Welfare Work
In this study, I use the case of social welfare work to build upon Hartmann's (1976) analysis of sex-based occupational segregation and Braverman's (1974) analysis of the transformation of the labor process under monopoly capitalism in order to demonstrate how patriarchy operates within the work place. Specifically, I show how deskilling in this female-intensive occupation furthered the subordination of women in the social welfare labor process a…
Verbal Strategies that Succeed when Job Performance Fails or How to Eschew Social Work through Convincing Conversation (A Pocket Guide for the Weary)
The seemingly endless parade of literature on burnout among social service workers is the source of inspiration for this pocket guide. With the creative tailoring of some of the following vignettes to local situations, it will be almost impossible for you, the service worker, to achieve burn-out. Daily interactions with your clients and your co-workers can be accomplished with the greatest of ease, and services delivered with no muss or fuss. If …
The Service Trap: From Altruism to Dirty Work
Policy Sources of Worker Dissatisfactions: The Case of Human Services in Aging
This article explores job dissatisfaction experienced by service providers in the field of aging and the policy sources of such dissatisfactions. Workers interviewed identified four major areas of complaint about their jobs: lack of resources, agency problems, mandates and regulations, and client characteristics. Such problems, it is argued, are associated with specific characteristics of policies under which the respondents work. These character…
Equal Time for Women: Social Notes on the Male Strip Show
This article utilizes data from observations at a male strip club and semistructured interviews with the club's strippers to explore the gender roles and the sexual behaviors associated with the strip show and with dancer-audience interaction. The male strip show is described in terms of three interrelated features: (1) the fabricated egalitarian motif of the show; (2) the heterosexual and homosocial functions of the club setting; and (3) the dan…
Becoming a Male Stripper: Recruitment, Socialization, and Ideological Development
Using interview data from fourteen male strippers, this article examines several occupational issues related to this nontraditional work role for men. The intention is to concentrate on the individual dynamics of becoming a male stripper. Specifically, we discuss (a) the situational contingencies affecting how males are recruited to stripping, (b) the socialization process they undergo, and (c) the outcome of socialization, which is the developme…
Sex Differences in Prescription Drug Use of Older Adults
Professional Burnout: Sociocultural and Sociopolitical Perspectives
Social psychological, organizational, and administrative orientations dominate the literature on the phenarenon of professional burnout. This paper argues that sociocultural and sociopolitical perspectives offer additional insights into the issue. By the application of such perspectives we are compelled to examine how certain characteristics of social policies impact dysfunctionally on service providers as well as service recipients. Furthermore,…
Assortive Mating in Later Life: Some Initial Considerations
BASED on initial concerns expressed in this article over lack of information on assortive mating in later life, a theoretical model of structural and attitudinal variables is developed for utilization in the comparative study of endogamy and homogamy. Exploratory data are presented to compare mating parameters between the young and the old and between older men and older women. From this effort, it is concluded that information about young adults…
Aging and College Family Textbooks
This paper analyzes twelve contemporary textbooks in family sociology for their portrayal of older families and older family members. Particular attention is given to the context of discussion, the topics in which older families are included and excluded, and the emphasis and interpretations given to materials included. On the basis of this analysis, recommendations are made with regard to both the content and the context of materials on aging fa…
Becoming a Male Stripper: Recruitment, Socialization, and Ideological Development
Using interview data from fourteen male strippers, this article examines several occupational issues related to this nontraditional work role for men. The intention is to concentrate on the individual dynamics of becoming a male stripper. Specifically, we discuss (a) the situational contingencies affecting how males are recruited to stripping, (b) the socialization process they undergo, and (c) the outcome of socialization, which is the developme…
Equal Time for Women: Social Notes on the Male Strip Show
This article utilizes data from observations at a male strip club and semistructured interviews with the club's strippers to explore the gender roles and the sexual behaviors associated with the strip show and with dancer-audience interaction. The male strip show is described in terms of three interrelated features: (1) the fabricated egalitarian motif of the show; (2) the heterosexual and homosocial functions of the club setting; and (3) the dan…
A Critical Look at Family Care
Assortive Mating in Later Life: Some Initial Considerations
BASED on initial concerns expressed in this article over lack of information on assortive mating in later life, a theoretical model of structural and attitudinal variables is developed for utilization in the comparative study of endogamy and homogamy. Exploratory data are presented to compare mating parameters between the young and the old and between older men and older women. From this effort, it is concluded that information about young adults…
Policy Sources of Worker Dissatisfactions: The Case of Human Services in Aging
This article explores job dissatisfaction experienced by service providers in the field of aging and the policy sources of such dissatisfactions. Workers interviewed identified four major areas of complaint about their jobs: lack of resources, agency problems, mandates and regulations, and client characteristics. Such problems, it is argued, are associated with specific characteristics of policies under which the respondents work. These character…
Aging and College Family Textbooks
This paper analyzes twelve contemporary textbooks in family sociology for their portrayal of older families and older family members. Particular attention is given to the context of discussion, the topics in which older families are included and excluded, and the emphasis and interpretations given to materials included. On the basis of this analysis, recommendations are made with regard to both the content and the context of materials on aging fa…
Exchange Rules in the Mediation of Social Welfare Work
This article demonstrates the utility of the concept of exchange rules for understanding welfare worker agency in the mediation of workplace ideologies and behaviors. The exchange rules of complementarity, reciprocity, and beneficence are applied to the issues of service worker burnout, worker-client interactions, and labor issues to illustrate their conceptual and practical power. This analysis from an interactionist perspective complements the …
Films That Put Social Problems in Global Context
Teachers of social problems are presently faced with considerable challenges. Even as social scientists articulate increasingly the international context of selected domestic social problems (e.g., drug use, unemployment, the arms race), high school students who soon will populate our classes have significant deficiencies in international geography, history, and politics (Washington Post 1988). Furthermore, controversial national discourse appear…
Patriarchy and Social Welfare Work
In this study, I use the case of social welfare work to build upon Hartmann's (1976) analysis of sex-based occupational segregation and Braverman's (1974) analysis of the transformation of the labor process under monopoly capitalism in order to demonstrate how patriarchy operates within the work place. Specifically, I show how deskilling in this female-intensive occupation furthered the subordination of women in the social welfare labor process a…
Aging and College Family Textbooks
This paper analyzes twelve contemporary textbooks in family sociology for their portrayal of older families and older family members. Particular attention is given to the context of discussion, the topics in which older families are included and excluded, and the emphasis and interpretations given to materials included. On the basis of this analysis, recommendations are made with regard to both the content and the context of materials on aging fa…
Assortive Mating in Later Life: Some Initial Considerations
BASED on initial concerns expressed in this article over lack of information on assortive mating in later life, a theoretical model of structural and attitudinal variables is developed for utilization in the comparative study of endogamy and homogamy. Exploratory data are presented to compare mating parameters between the young and the old and between older men and older women. From this effort, it is concluded that information about young adults…
Sex Differences in Prescription Drug Use of Older Adults
Professional Burnout: Sociocultural and Sociopolitical Perspectives
Social psychological, organizational, and administrative orientations dominate the literature on the phenarenon of professional burnout. This paper argues that sociocultural and sociopolitical perspectives offer additional insights into the issue. By the application of such perspectives we are compelled to examine how certain characteristics of social policies impact dysfunctionally on service providers as well as service recipients. Furthermore,…
Policy Sources of Worker Dissatisfactions: The Case of Human Services in Aging
This article explores job dissatisfaction experienced by service providers in the field of aging and the policy sources of such dissatisfactions. Workers interviewed identified four major areas of complaint about their jobs: lack of resources, agency problems, mandates and regulations, and client characteristics. Such problems, it is argued, are associated with specific characteristics of policies under which the respondents work. These character…
Equal Time for Women: Social Notes on the Male Strip Show
This article utilizes data from observations at a male strip club and semistructured interviews with the club's strippers to explore the gender roles and the sexual behaviors associated with the strip show and with dancer-audience interaction. The male strip show is described in terms of three interrelated features: (1) the fabricated egalitarian motif of the show; (2) the heterosexual and homosocial functions of the club setting; and (3) the dan…
Becoming a Male Stripper: Recruitment, Socialization, and Ideological Development
Using interview data from fourteen male strippers, this article examines several occupational issues related to this nontraditional work role for men. The intention is to concentrate on the individual dynamics of becoming a male stripper. Specifically, we discuss (a) the situational contingencies affecting how males are recruited to stripping, (b) the socialization process they undergo, and (c) the outcome of socialization, which is the developme…
Verbal Strategies that Succeed when Job Performance Fails or How to Eschew Social Work through Convincing Conversation (A Pocket Guide for the Weary)
The seemingly endless parade of literature on burnout among social service workers is the source of inspiration for this pocket guide. With the creative tailoring of some of the following vignettes to local situations, it will be almost impossible for you, the service worker, to achieve burn-out. Daily interactions with your clients and your co-workers can be accomplished with the greatest of ease, and services delivered with no muss or fuss. If …
The Service Trap: From Altruism to Dirty Work
Patriarchy and Social Welfare Work
In this study, I use the case of social welfare work to build upon Hartmann's (1976) analysis of sex-based occupational segregation and Braverman's (1974) analysis of the transformation of the labor process under monopoly capitalism in order to demonstrate how patriarchy operates within the work place. Specifically, I show how deskilling in this female-intensive occupation furthered the subordination of women in the social welfare labor process a…
Welfare Workers as Surplus Population: A Useful Model
Analysts of organizational and employment issues in social welfare are in need of a more critical orientation for framing debate. We propose that an understanding of welfare workers as surplus population offers critical insights into a number of longstanding welfare concerns, including political coalitions, professional standards, and worker burnout. Empirical evidence is presented to undergird the credibility of the surplus population argument
Deprofessionalization, Proletarianization, and Social Welfare Work
In this paper we explore the personnel transformations which have occurred in social welfare work. Specifically, we examine the tensions between the dynamics of professionalization and deprofessionalization and how these trends have impacted upon those who work in the social welfare enterprise. Another concern of the paper is the effect of the proletarianization of social welfare work in the face of increasing efforts of some to create profession…
Exchange Rules in the Mediation of Social Welfare Work
This article demonstrates the utility of the concept of exchange rules for understanding welfare worker agency in the mediation of workplace ideologies and behaviors. The exchange rules of complementarity, reciprocity, and beneficence are applied to the issues of service worker burnout, worker-client interactions, and labor issues to illustrate their conceptual and practical power. This analysis from an interactionist perspective complements the …
Films That Put Social Problems in Global Context
Teachers of social problems are presently faced with considerable challenges. Even as social scientists articulate increasingly the international context of selected domestic social problems (e.g., drug use, unemployment, the arms race), high school students who soon will populate our classes have significant deficiencies in international geography, history, and politics (Washington Post 1988). Furthermore, controversial national discourse appear…
A Critical Look at Family Care
Beyond An Underclass: An Essay on Up-Front Politics
Debate about underclass conceptualization has once again forced sociologists to acknowledge the political context and implications of our work. This article extends the critical examination of underclass conceptualization to relatively undeveloped but politically important areas of concern. Initially we discuss the political economic context of conceptual controversies surrounding poverty. With a preference for structural analysis, we call for th…
And We Keep on Building Prisons: Racism, Poverty, and Challenges to the Welfare State
Prison-building is argued to be an intervention of last resort when a nation loses faith in the social welfare enterprise. Recent proposals for more punitive regulations for means-tested benefits, along with the recent dramatic growth in the construction of prisons and in the size of the inmate population, indicate that we are moving as a society toward heightened levels of scapegoating and victim-blaming as a response to troubles generated by si…
Second-Order Victim-Blaming
Second-order victim-blaming emerges within a host of rationales given when designated solutions to first-order social problems do not produce the desired results. In certain cases second-order victim-blaming is built upon first-order victim blaming. This article develops a typology of second-order victim blaming based on the nature of problems forthcoming from failed social interventions. It then explores the implications of the phenomenon for th…
Sociology (16 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Political science (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (5 works)