J Stephen Kroll‐Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 4986071 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Stephen Kroll‐Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | J Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Kroll‐Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH J S K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Witnessing for Sociology: Sociologists in Court
The American court system is making increasing use of sociologists as expert witnesses. From toxic torts to religious cults and brainwashing, sociological knowledge is becoming increasingly more commonplace in the legal arena. This edited volume is a collection of the experiences of sociologists who have appeared as expert witnesses in a variety of court cases. Many of the cases covered in this book revolve around central issues of murder, self-d…
Communities at Risk: Collective Responses to Technological Hazards
The Real Disaster is Above Ground: A Mine Fire and Social Conflict
In the 1950s Centralia was a small town, like many others, in the anthracite region of Pennsylvania. But since the 1960s, it has been consumed, outwardly and inwardly, by a fire that has inexorably spread in the abandoned mines beneath it. The earth smokes, subsides, and breathes poisonous gases. No less destructive has been the spread of dissension and enmity among the townspeople. This is a book about that disaster and about the tragic failure …
Shared Vulnerability: The Media and American Perceptions of the Bhopal Disaster
Illustrations Preface The Year of Bhopal The Scholarly Framework Bhopal in Black and White The Living Room Tragedy Patterns of Power The Public Perception What Price Connection? Shared Vulnerability Selected Bibliography Index
A Chronic Technical Disaster and the Irrelevance of Religious Meaning: The Case of Centralia, Pennsylvania
lasted a long time, was caused by human beings, and required sophisticated technical apparatus to detect and abate. In addition, the patterns of victimization associated with the chronic technical are different from those resulting from immediate impact natural disasters. These differences resulted in the acceptance of a technical, not moral or religious, definition of the problem. Implications of this for religion's response to other chronic tec…
New Ethnographies
American Evangelicalism: Conservative Religion and the Quandary of Modernity
Transmitting a Revival Culture: The Organizational Dynamic of the Baptist Movement in Colonial Virginia, 1760-1777
J. Stephen Kroll-Smith, Transmitting a Revival Culture: The Organizational Dynamic of the Baptist Movement in Colonial Virginia, 1760-1777, The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 50, No. 4 (Nov., 1984), pp. 551-568
Foxfire 7
God Comes to America: Father Divine and the Peace Mission Movement
New Ethnographies: The Craft of Dying: The Modern Face of Death
Sunday Morning: Aspects of Urban Ritual
The Testimony as Performance: The Relationship of an Expressive Event to the Belief System of a Holiness Sect
J. Stephen Kroll-Smith, The Testimony as Performance: The Relationship of an Expressive Event to the Belief System of a Holiness Sect, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 19, No. 1 (Mar., 1980), pp. 16-25
The Testimony as Performance: The Relationship of an Expressive Event to the Belief System of a Holiness Sect
J. Stephen Kroll-Smith, The Testimony as Performance: The Relationship of an Expressive Event to the Belief System of a Holiness Sect, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 19, No. 1 (Mar., 1980), pp. 16-25
Communities at Risk: Collective Responses to Technological Hazards
A Chronic Technical Disaster and the Irrelevance of Religious Meaning: The Case of Centralia, Pennsylvania
lasted a long time, was caused by human beings, and required sophisticated technical apparatus to detect and abate. In addition, the patterns of victimization associated with the chronic technical are different from those resulting from immediate impact natural disasters. These differences resulted in the acceptance of a technical, not moral or religious, definition of the problem. Implications of this for religion's response to other chronic tec…
Transmitting a Revival Culture: The Organizational Dynamic of the Baptist Movement in Colonial Virginia, 1760-1777
J. Stephen Kroll-Smith, Transmitting a Revival Culture: The Organizational Dynamic of the Baptist Movement in Colonial Virginia, 1760-1777, The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 50, No. 4 (Nov., 1984), pp. 551-568
New Ethnographies: The Craft of Dying: The Modern Face of Death
Sunday Morning: Aspects of Urban Ritual
The Testimony as Performance: The Relationship of an Expressive Event to the Belief System of a Holiness Sect
J. Stephen Kroll-Smith, The Testimony as Performance: The Relationship of an Expressive Event to the Belief System of a Holiness Sect, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 19, No. 1 (Mar., 1980), pp. 16-25
God Comes to America: Father Divine and the Peace Mission Movement
New Ethnographies: The Craft of Dying: The Modern Face of Death
Foxfire 7
New Ethnographies
American Evangelicalism: Conservative Religion and the Quandary of Modernity
Transmitting a Revival Culture: The Organizational Dynamic of the Baptist Movement in Colonial Virginia, 1760-1777
J. Stephen Kroll-Smith, Transmitting a Revival Culture: The Organizational Dynamic of the Baptist Movement in Colonial Virginia, 1760-1777, The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 50, No. 4 (Nov., 1984), pp. 551-568
A Chronic Technical Disaster and the Irrelevance of Religious Meaning: The Case of Centralia, Pennsylvania
lasted a long time, was caused by human beings, and required sophisticated technical apparatus to detect and abate. In addition, the patterns of victimization associated with the chronic technical are different from those resulting from immediate impact natural disasters. These differences resulted in the acceptance of a technical, not moral or religious, definition of the problem. Implications of this for religion's response to other chronic tec…
Shared Vulnerability: The Media and American Perceptions of the Bhopal Disaster
Illustrations Preface The Year of Bhopal The Scholarly Framework Bhopal in Black and White The Living Room Tragedy Patterns of Power The Public Perception What Price Connection? Shared Vulnerability Selected Bibliography Index
The Real Disaster is Above Ground: A Mine Fire and Social Conflict
In the 1950s Centralia was a small town, like many others, in the anthracite region of Pennsylvania. But since the 1960s, it has been consumed, outwardly and inwardly, by a fire that has inexorably spread in the abandoned mines beneath it. The earth smokes, subsides, and breathes poisonous gases. No less destructive has been the spread of dissension and enmity among the townspeople. This is a book about that disaster and about the tragic failure …
Communities at Risk: Collective Responses to Technological Hazards
Witnessing for Sociology: Sociologists in Court
The American court system is making increasing use of sociologists as expert witnesses. From toxic torts to religious cults and brainwashing, sociological knowledge is becoming increasingly more commonplace in the legal arena. This edited volume is a collection of the experiences of sociologists who have appeared as expert witnesses in a variety of court cases. Many of the cases covered in this book revolve around central issues of murder, self-d…
Sociology (10 works) · Political science (6 works) · History (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Criminology (3 works) · Disaster Management and Resilience (3 works)