John Lofland

Biographic Data

ID76914
NAMEJohn Lofland
GIVEN NAMESJohn
FAMILY NAMELofland
SIGNATURELOFLAND J
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of California, Davis
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS64
TOTAL CITATIONS649
AUTHOR COUNT64
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1961
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
H-INDEX8

  • On Becoming a World-Saver: A Theory of Conversion to a Deviant Perspective

    John Lofland, Rodney StarkCHAPTERCults in Context2018

    This chapter outlines a model of the conversion process through which a group of people came to see the world in terms set by the doctrines of one such obscure and devalued perspective—a small millenarian religious cult. The model suggests some rudiments of a general account of conversion to deviant perspectives. The chapter investigates two genres of conditions or factors to account for the process by which persons came to be world-savers for th…

  • The Handbook of Ethnography

    Open AccessElvi Whittaker, Paul Atkinson et al.ARTICLEAnthropologica2004Cited by: 4

    Paul Atkinson, Amanda Coffey, Sara Delamont, John Lofland and Lyn Lofland (eds.), The Handbook of Ethnography, London: Sage, 2002, xviii + 507 pages.Rather surprisingly The Handbook of Ethnography, edited by three British and two American sociologists, arrives hot on heels of another sociological Handbook devoted to ethnography. This earlier one edited by Norman and Yvonna Lincoln is in its second edition (1994, 2000) and in preparation stages fo…

  • Revisiting the Relationship Between Participant Observation and Interviewing

    Paul Atkinson, Debra T Silverman et al.CHAPTERInside Interviewing2003

  • Cross-Cultural Interviewing

    A Abeyewardene, Lila Abu‐lughod et al.CHAPTERInside Interviewing2003

  • Analytic Ethnography Features, Failings, and Futures

    John LoflandCHAPTERThe Qualitative Researcher's…2002

  • Deviance and Identity

    John LoflandBOOKDeviance and Identity2002

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  • Handbook of Ethnography

    George Gaskell, Paul Atkinson et al.BOOKQualitative Researching with…2001Cited by: 260

    Introduction to Part One The Chicago School of Ethnography - Mary Jo Deegan Symbolic Interactionism and Ethnography - Paul Rock Currents of Cultural Fieldwork - James D Faubion British Social Anthropology - Sharon Macdonald Into the Community - Lodewijk Brunt Mass-Observation's Fieldwork Methods - Liz Stanley Orientalism - Julie Marcus Ethnomethodology and Ethnography - Melvin Pollner and Robert M Emerson Phenomenology and Ethnography - Ilja Maso…

  • How to Make Out in Graduate School: One Observer's View

    Open AccessJohn LoflandARTICLESocial Thought and Research2000

    The establishment of new graduate sociology programs and the rapid expansion of such programs in general have created a deficit of peer socialization as to the latent, unwritten "requirements" of successfullY attaining the Ph.D. The present paper seeks partiallY to correct this deficit through explicating a number of existing but unwritten requirements ofsuccess in graduate sociology. The explication focuses upon six informal aspects of the gradu…

  • Systematizing Research Findings on Collective Behavior and Social Movements

    John LoflandARTICLEMobilization An International…1997Cited by: 1References: 14

    If it is reasonable to think of collective behavior and social movement (CBSM) studies as the production, organization, and cumulation of research findings, why are there so few efforts to carry out the second and third of these tasks, those of organizing and cumulating findings? One answer is that very few CBSM scholars in fact think in such terms. Instead, many if not most order CBSM in terms of other principles and these principles compete amo…

  • Social Movement Organizations: Guide to Research on Insurgent Realities

    John LoflandBOOKSocial movement organizations1996

    "Well-known for his sociological studies of social movements, John Lofland has now written the authoritative guide to research on social movement organizations viewed as insurgent realities - countercurrents of varying intensity and duration, which challenge mainstream conceptions of how society ought to be organized and how life ought to be lived."--BOOK JACKET

  • Students' Case Studies of Social Movements: Experiences with an Undergraduate Seminar

    John LoflandARTICLETeaching Sociology1996Cited by: 4

    L'A. presente son experience d'enseignement dans le domaine particulier de la sociologie des mouvements sociaux. Il souligne l'interet dans ce cadre de faire effectuer par les etudiants des programmes de recherche. Il retrace l'organisation et la mise en place d'un seminaire pour des etudiants de premier cycle universitaire. Il s'efforce d'evaluer et de comparer l'impact pedagogique de l'enseignement liberal et de l'analyse sociologique en ce qui…

  • Analytic Ethnography: Features, Failings, and Futures

    Open AccessJohn LoflandARTICLEJournal of Contemporary Ethnography1995

    The research strategy sometimes termed analytic ethnography has been a prominent—or even the dominant—form of qualitative inquiry for some decades. Lacking challenge by other qualitative approaches, however, there has been little need to articulate it as a distinctive strategy of qualitative research. The approach having now been challenged, it has become necessary clearly to adduce its defining features as a step in the larger task of undertakin…

  • Polite Protesters: The American Peace Movement of the 1980s

    D S Meyer, John LoflandARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1995

  • Polite Protesters: The American Peace Movement of the 1980s

    Amy Swerdlow, John LoflandARTICLEJournal of American History1995

    Journal Article Polite Protesters: The American Peace Movement of the 1980s. By John Lofland. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1993. xvi, 321 pp. Cloth, $34.95, ISBN 0-8156-2604-5. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-8156-2605-3.) Get access Amy Swerdlow Amy Swerdlow Emerita Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 4, March 1995, Page…

  • Polite Protesters: The American Peace Movement of the 1980s

    Stephen E Ambrose, John LoflandARTICLEForeign Affairs1994Cited by: 4

  • Understanding Religious Conversion

    John LoflandREVIEWSociology of Religion1994

  • Organizing for Peace: Neutrality, the Test Ban, and the Freeze

    Anthony Oberschall, Robert Kleidman et al.ARTICLESocial Forces1994

  • Theory-bashing and answer-improving in the study of social movements

    Open AccessJohn LoflandARTICLEThe American Sociologist1993Cited by: 12References: 6

  • The Soar and Slump of Polite Protest: Interactive Spirals and the Eighties Peace Surge

    Open AccessJohn LoflandARTICLEPeace & Change1992Cited by: 1References: 7

    Surges of citizen activism exhibit a rapid and dramatic “soar and slump” dynamic that analysts have tended to depict, using analogies to organisms, as life‐history trajectories or stages. But, because citizen surges are collective actions rather than biological entities, a more social model, such as that of a tenuously ratcheted and enlarging or contracting interaction spiral, may be more accurate. This alternative approach is elaborated in terms…

  • Peace Action in the Eighties: Social Science Perspectives

    J William Gibson, John W Gibson et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1991

  • Charisma and Control in Rajneeshpuram: The Role of Shared Values in the Creation of a Community

    John Lofland, Lewis F CarterARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1991

  • Protest: Studies of Collective Behavior and Social Movements

    M J Neitz, John LoflandARTICLEJournal for the Scientific Study…1987

  • Reflections on a Thrice-Named Journal

    Open AccessJohn LoflandARTICLEJournal of Contemporary Ethnography1987Cited by: 4

  • Protest: Studies of Collective Behavior and Social Movements

    Bert Klandermans, John LoflandARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1986

  • Social Movement Locals: Modal Member Structures

    John Lofland, Michael Jamison et al.ARTICLESociological Analysis1984Cited by: 7

    Social movement organizations are in whole or part human associations situated in some local area. Called chapters, cells, units, clubs, circles, locals, or whatever, these are the on-going and operating ends of social movements. Despite their obvious importance to the analysis of movements, little attention has been given them and we seek to remedy this neglect. In surveying the literature, we have asked: What is the “modal member” of the moveme…