Helen B Schwartzman
Biographic Data
| ID | 432014 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helen B Schwartzman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helen B |
| FAMILY NAME | Schwartzman |
| SIGNATURE | SCHWARTZMAN H B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northwestern University |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-7495-5103 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 150 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 24 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Play à la mode
How do we imagine play? Are there as if models or metaphors that underlie and influence our understanding of play and, if so, how do they affect the questions that we ask about this phenomenon? The goal of my talk is to call attention to the model of play that views it as a mode or disposition that can be adopted toward any activity and not, itself, a separate category of behavior. This is not a new argument but I suggest that it is one that need…
Materializing Children
Ethnography in Organizations
Introduction What Happened at Hawthorne? What Happened to Anthropology? Studying Up and Studying Down Fieldwork Roles and Fieldwork Processes Conclusion
The Social Production of Indifference
Collegial Discourse
Short Takes
Meetings as Tools/Meetings as Topics
Decisions and Power
Meetings, Time, and Attention
Occasions and Gatherings
Constructing a Meeting
Meetings, Culture, and Society
Expressions and Emotions
An Organized Anarchy
The Meeting
History, Boundaries, and Ideological Conflict
The Meeting
Applied Anthropology
The significance of meetings in an American mental health center
Anthropologists are increasingly turning their attention to the study of complex organizations. This paper uses the study of an American mental health center to examine a previously taken‐for‐granted social form in these settings, the meeting. In this way, the organization is used as a context for examining the significance of meetings in American life, and at the same time meetings are used as a context for understanding events within a specific…
Applied Anthropology
Children, Families, and Mental Health Service Organizations
This paper applies the concepts of culture, organizational culture, and culture conflict to a study of relationships between children, their families and a number of mental health and other social service organizations. The culture of a specific children's mental hospital ward is examined and a sample of 12 patients is followed on their course through the service system (pre- and post-hospitalization). A cultural interpretation of current mental …
The Ethnographic Evaluation of Human Services Programs
This paper suggests a series of guidelines for the conduct of ethnographic evaluations of human service programs. An attempt is made here to synthesize previous research in this area in order to further the development of a multi-perspective, context-sensitive evaluation model This approach is illustrated using material collected in the evaluation of an early intervention program for preschool children attending an urban day care center. It is su…
Culture Conflict in a Community Mental Health Center
The ordinary ambiguity of clients' membership in service organizations is heightened when lay members of an organization's service community or catchment area are made members of its service staff. It is further heightened when the methods of training, supervising, and governing staff resemble the methods of serving or treating clients. The ethos or culture of the early community mental health movement promoted an extreme form of this ambiguity: …
The Anthropological Study of Children's Play
The Meeting
The Anthropological Study of Children's Play
Materializing Children
The significance of meetings in an American mental health center
Anthropologists are increasingly turning their attention to the study of complex organizations. This paper uses the study of an American mental health center to examine a previously taken‐for‐granted social form in these settings, the meeting. In this way, the organization is used as a context for examining the significance of meetings in American life, and at the same time meetings are used as a context for understanding events within a specific…
Applied Anthropology
The Social Production of Indifference
Culture Conflict in a Community Mental Health Center
The ordinary ambiguity of clients' membership in service organizations is heightened when lay members of an organization's service community or catchment area are made members of its service staff. It is further heightened when the methods of training, supervising, and governing staff resemble the methods of serving or treating clients. The ethos or culture of the early community mental health movement promoted an extreme form of this ambiguity: …
The Ethnographic Evaluation of Human Services Programs
This paper suggests a series of guidelines for the conduct of ethnographic evaluations of human service programs. An attempt is made here to synthesize previous research in this area in order to further the development of a multi-perspective, context-sensitive evaluation model This approach is illustrated using material collected in the evaluation of an early intervention program for preschool children attending an urban day care center. It is su…
Play à la mode
How do we imagine play? Are there as if models or metaphors that underlie and influence our understanding of play and, if so, how do they affect the questions that we ask about this phenomenon? The goal of my talk is to call attention to the model of play that views it as a mode or disposition that can be adopted toward any activity and not, itself, a separate category of behavior. This is not a new argument but I suggest that it is one that need…
The Anthropological Study of Children's Play
Culture Conflict in a Community Mental Health Center
The ordinary ambiguity of clients' membership in service organizations is heightened when lay members of an organization's service community or catchment area are made members of its service staff. It is further heightened when the methods of training, supervising, and governing staff resemble the methods of serving or treating clients. The ethos or culture of the early community mental health movement promoted an extreme form of this ambiguity: …
The Ethnographic Evaluation of Human Services Programs
This paper suggests a series of guidelines for the conduct of ethnographic evaluations of human service programs. An attempt is made here to synthesize previous research in this area in order to further the development of a multi-perspective, context-sensitive evaluation model This approach is illustrated using material collected in the evaluation of an early intervention program for preschool children attending an urban day care center. It is su…
Children, Families, and Mental Health Service Organizations
This paper applies the concepts of culture, organizational culture, and culture conflict to a study of relationships between children, their families and a number of mental health and other social service organizations. The culture of a specific children's mental hospital ward is examined and a sample of 12 patients is followed on their course through the service system (pre- and post-hospitalization). A cultural interpretation of current mental …
Applied Anthropology
The significance of meetings in an American mental health center
Anthropologists are increasingly turning their attention to the study of complex organizations. This paper uses the study of an American mental health center to examine a previously taken‐for‐granted social form in these settings, the meeting. In this way, the organization is used as a context for examining the significance of meetings in American life, and at the same time meetings are used as a context for understanding events within a specific…
Applied Anthropology
Meetings as Tools/Meetings as Topics
Decisions and Power
Meetings, Time, and Attention
Occasions and Gatherings
Constructing a Meeting
Meetings, Culture, and Society
Expressions and Emotions
An Organized Anarchy
The Meeting
History, Boundaries, and Ideological Conflict
The Meeting
Short Takes
Collegial Discourse
Ethnography in Organizations
Introduction What Happened at Hawthorne? What Happened to Anthropology? Studying Up and Studying Down Fieldwork Roles and Fieldwork Processes Conclusion
The Social Production of Indifference
Materializing Children
Play à la mode
How do we imagine play? Are there as if models or metaphors that underlie and influence our understanding of play and, if so, how do they affect the questions that we ask about this phenomenon? The goal of my talk is to call attention to the model of play that views it as a mode or disposition that can be adopted toward any activity and not, itself, a separate category of behavior. This is not a new argument but I suggest that it is one that need…
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