James J Chri
Biographic Data
| ID | 78407 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James J Chri |
| GIVEN NAMES | James J |
| FAMILY NAME | Chri |
| SIGNATURE | CHRI J J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cleveland State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6726-7290 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 95 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The Structure of Social Action
Ethos and Espionage in Jaworski’s Erving Goffman and the Cold War
Jaworski’s Erving Goffman and the Cold War offers a fresh approach to Goffman studies via its examination of Goffman’s work as a unique response to the “ethos” of the American Cold War. This paper charts the genealogy of Jaworski’s approach by examining its roots—from Romanticism to phenomenology and on to Goffman’s frame analysis—of “ethos” as an intellectual strategy in the sociology of knowledge; and it explores the book’s examination of spies…
Art and Sociology: Thoughts on Staubmann’s Efforts
Norm of Reciprocity
Over the course of the development of human society, the mark of civilization has been the readiness of actors to engage in thoughtful contemplation of others with whom they interact. This sociability was not natural to the human species but had to be developed and refined across four stages of social evolution. The norm of reciprocity appears with the “gift,” that is, your bestowal of something of value on a person who did a good turn for you in…
Alvin W. Gouldner: Sociologist and Outlaw Marxist
Published in 1999, this book is an exploration of the life and work of American sociologist Alvin W. Gouldner. Gouldner's life and contribution to legal theory is a case study in the limits of critical, self-reflexive inquiry. Hegel's dialect is a major theme running throughout Gouldner's work, and, even throughout his life, Gouldner himself seemed trapped in the unfolding of the spirit through three distinct stages: 1945-1960 - thesis; 1960-1970…
G ouldner, A lvin W ard
Alvin Ward Gouldner (1920–1980) was an American sociologist who contributed to social theory in his criticisms of functionalism, organizational theory, the sociology of strike behavior, and the Marxist theory. He held various professorships in the United States and The Netherlands, and was the president of the Society for the Study of Social Problems (1962).
On Karl N. Llewellyn, Jurisprudence: Realism in Theory and Practice
This chapter offers a brief biography of Karl N. Llewellyn, which will place his work within the broader historical and cultural context of American jurisprudence since 1870. It compares Llewellyn's work with that of Roscoe Pound whose own program of sociological jurisprudence preceded Llewellyn's by some twenty years. Although Pound and Llewellyn both advocated legal realism, their versions were incompatible to such an extent that heated exchang…
Recognition
An ongoing trend across the human sciences is the concern with reflection, reflexivity, or reflective practice. Reacting to Descartes who launched the idea that mathematical thinking and reasoning leads us to certitude about (at least) the physical universe, Vico has argued that since human beings make the human social world, they should understand it better than nature, the laws of which are not available to experience but must be conjured throu…
My Son the Poet
Recognition
The course of human history has registered a slow and inexorable transition from fear of the other to thoughtful reflection on the worth of the other. This opening up of humanistic sentiment across a growing diversity of human groupings beginning with the Enlightenment has culminated more recently in a politics of recognition. This is the project of making claims against a state that allegedly has denied full participation in society because of d…
Confronting Gouldner: Sociology and Political Activism
Alvin W. Gouldner (1920-1980) was a leading sociologist of his era who provided groundbreaking analyses in the areas of industrial sociology, critical sociological theory, ideology, reciprocity, and class analysis. Even as a self-avowed radical sociologist, Gouldner was unable to maintain allegiance to any particular theorist or theoretical school, for doing so could lead to theory becoming blind partisanship leading to unreflective and sometimes…
Social Bond
Following Parsons (1968), Habermas (1984) notes that sociology is the science primarily concerned with explaining human co‐operation. Explanations of the forms of human co‐operation have preoccupied philosophy, the humanities, and science since the time of the ancient Greeks. It was not until philosophy was able to separate itself from religious doctrine, beginning with Hobbes (the state) and Locke and Rousseau (the social contract), that a searc…
Networks
The concept of social networks finds its beginnings in the work of Georg Simmel. Simmel argued that a pure or formal sociology ought to take as its special focus the study of societal forms. Employing a geometric analogy, Simmel suggested that social forms can be identified and defined, thereby allowing the sociologist to group together a myriad of substantive phenomena under the broader or more abstract formal categories
Nudging and Social Marketing
Social Bond
Following Parsons (1968), Habermas (1984) is correct in noting that sociology is the science primarily concerned with explaining human cooperation. Explanations of the forms of human cooperation have preoccupied philosophy, the humanities, and science since the time of the ancient Greeks. It was not until philosophy was able to separate itself from religious doctrine, beginning with Hobbes (the state) and Locke and Rousseau (the social contract),…
Offending Women: Power, Punishment, and the Regulation of Desire
Networks
The concept of social networks finds its beginnings in the work of Georg Simmel. Simmel argued that a pure or formal sociology ought to take as its special focus the study of societal forms. Employing a geometric analogy, Simmel suggested that social forms can be identified and defined, thereby allowing the sociologist to group together a myriad of substantive phenomena under the broader or more abstract formal categories.
Norm of Reciprocity
According to Lester Ward (1883, 1: 464–8), human society has passed through three stages of development, with a fourth stage not yet realized. In the first stage (the autarchic), human beings were savage and solitary creatures. With their higher mental powers in comparison to the lower animals, human beings gained mastery over most other creatures, yet what they required most was protection from their own kind
Recognition
One of the more notable trends in the human sciences of late is a growing concern with reflection, reflexivity, and reflexive or reflective practice (Sandywell 1996). Wilhelm Dilthey is most directly linked to the concept of reflexivity as it has developed in hermeneutics, phenomenology, existentialism, and other interpretive theories in sociology. Dilthey's thought is located within the line of German idealism beginning with Kant and especially …
The Functions of The Social Bond
Travis Hirschi's control or social bonding theory argues that those persons who have strong and abiding attachments to conventional society (in the form of attachments, involvement, investment, and belief) are less likely to deviate than persons who have weak or shallow bonds. Later, Gottfredson and Hirschi moved away from the social bond as the primary factor in deviance, and toward an emphasis on self-control. In short, low self-control is asso…
Product Review: Lester F. Ward: A Life's Journey
Giddings and the Social Mind
The idea of a social (or general) mind was prevalent in early American sociology from the 1880s through about the 1910s. As a concept, the social mind served as a proxy for what would later be defined and understood as culture and other collective phenomena such as social movements, crowd behavior, organizational behavior (e.g. 'corporate actors'), and so forth. In the early stages of the development of sociology in America, sociologists such as …
The Place of Lester Ward among the Sociological Classics
Although there is a thriving industry of classical sociology within the discipline of sociology, not much attention has been focused on the early American sociologists. This paper offers a six-fold typology of the uses of the classics within sociology, and argues that the neglect of early American sociology among contemporary sociologists requires correction. For reasons delineated, Lester F. Ward is the overlooked early American sociologist most…
The perils of risk assessment
Gouldner's Tragic Vision
Classical literature, specifically ancient Greek philosophy and especially the study of Greek tragedy, is helpful in tracing out and understanding the transitions Alvin Gouldner made during his career as a sociologist. This article argues that a latent tragic orientation or vision existed during Gouldner's early career as a standout in the field of industrial sociology and that this tragic vision became manifest around 1962 as Gouldner was develo…
Habermas, Goffman, and Communicative Action: Implications for Professional Practice
L'A. examine un ouvrage de Habermas: « Theorie de l'action communicative ». Habermas y expose une critique de la theorie de Goffman dont l'approche strategique et teleologique serait incapable de definir les conditions d'une communication raisonnee et non contraignante : caracteristique essentielle du langage pour Habermas. Cet article veut concilier les deux perspectives qui ne se placent pas sur le meme plan. Si Habermas cherche les conditions …
Durkheim's cult of the individual as civil religion: Its appropriation by Erving Goffman
The purpose of this article is to provide a systematic analysis of the place of Durkheim's “cult of the individual” in Erving Goffman's sociology.1 I have reviewed the most pertinent aspects of Durkheim's sociology of religion. This article discusses and/or analyzes the development of the cult of the individual primarily within the context of Durkheim's (1951) monograph on suicide; Durkheim's notions of sacred, profane, and ritual; Goffman's two‐…
Alvin W. Gouldner: Sociologist and Outlaw Marxist
Published in 1999, this book is an exploration of the life and work of American sociologist Alvin W. Gouldner. Gouldner's life and contribution to legal theory is a case study in the limits of critical, self-reflexive inquiry. Hegel's dialect is a major theme running throughout Gouldner's work, and, even throughout his life, Gouldner himself seemed trapped in the unfolding of the spirit through three distinct stages: 1945-1960 - thesis; 1960-1970…
Offending Women: Power, Punishment, and the Regulation of Desire
The Functions of The Social Bond
Travis Hirschi's control or social bonding theory argues that those persons who have strong and abiding attachments to conventional society (in the form of attachments, involvement, investment, and belief) are less likely to deviate than persons who have weak or shallow bonds. Later, Gottfredson and Hirschi moved away from the social bond as the primary factor in deviance, and toward an emphasis on self-control. In short, low self-control is asso…
Looking back on Goffman: The excavation continues
Giddings and the Social Mind
The idea of a social (or general) mind was prevalent in early American sociology from the 1880s through about the 1910s. As a concept, the social mind served as a proxy for what would later be defined and understood as culture and other collective phenomena such as social movements, crowd behavior, organizational behavior (e.g. 'corporate actors'), and so forth. In the early stages of the development of sociology in America, sociologists such as …
Some thoughts on recent efforts to further systematize goffman
The Place of Lester Ward among the Sociological Classics
Although there is a thriving industry of classical sociology within the discipline of sociology, not much attention has been focused on the early American sociologists. This paper offers a six-fold typology of the uses of the classics within sociology, and argues that the neglect of early American sociology among contemporary sociologists requires correction. For reasons delineated, Lester F. Ward is the overlooked early American sociologist most…
Alvin W. Gouldner and the Tragic Vision in Sociology
Alvin Gouldner's life and work is considered within the framework of his own attempt to fashion a reflexive sociology during the second half of his career. In the first half, Gouldner was a functionalist and dutifully contributed insights and theoretical innovations to the paradigm, even while remaining critical of Talcott Parsons' own version of structura/functionalism. Later; by 1962, Gouldner broke from the dominant tradition to become an outs…
Alvin W. Gouldner and industrial sociology at Columbia University
Alvin W. Gouldner (1920-1980) was a prolific sociologist of the post-World War II era who spent the early part of his career (the 1950s) in the field of industrial sociology. A case study of Gouldner's early life and career is useful insofar as it intertwines with the development of industrial sociology as a distinct subfield within sociology. Through this analysis we are also better able to understand how and in what ways a burgeoning organizati…
Art and Sociology: Thoughts on Staubmann’s Efforts
Nudging and Social Marketing
How Is Society Possible? Intersubjectiviity and the Fiduciary Attitude as Problems of the Social Group in Mead, Gurwitsch, and Schutz
Looking back on Goffman: The excavation continues
Durkheim's cult of the individual as civil religion: Its appropriation by Erving Goffman
The purpose of this article is to provide a systematic analysis of the place of Durkheim's “cult of the individual” in Erving Goffman's sociology.1 I have reviewed the most pertinent aspects of Durkheim's sociology of religion. This article discusses and/or analyzes the development of the cult of the individual primarily within the context of Durkheim's (1951) monograph on suicide; Durkheim's notions of sacred, profane, and ritual; Goffman's two‐…
The Decomposition of Sociology
Spain on Status and Space: A Comment
Daphne Spain (1992, 1993) has marshaled a great deal of evidence which suggests a correlation between women's low social status in relation to men's and the degree of spatial gender segregation. Specifically, she hypothesizes that the lower a woman's status in a society, the greater the degree of spatial segregation that may be observed between women and men in that society. This physical exclusion of women from men's spaces helps to perpetuate o…
Some thoughts on recent efforts to further systematize goffman
Habermas, Goffman, and Communicative Action: Implications for Professional Practice
L'A. examine un ouvrage de Habermas: « Theorie de l'action communicative ». Habermas y expose une critique de la theorie de Goffman dont l'approche strategique et teleologique serait incapable de definir les conditions d'une communication raisonnee et non contraignante : caracteristique essentielle du langage pour Habermas. Cet article veut concilier les deux perspectives qui ne se placent pas sur le meme plan. Si Habermas cherche les conditions …
Language and Reason: A Study of Habermas's Pragmatics.Maeve Cooke
The young parsons and the mature habermas
Toward an Interparadigmatic Dialogue on Goffman
Many observers have lamented the fact that sociology continues to fragment into a number of allegedly incompatible theoretical camps. To countervail such sectarian tendencies, I suggest that we return to the writings of key thinkers in our field-here specifically Erving Goffman-and search for those findings, observations, concepts, or analyses which have found purchase across the discipline and which seemingly defy the forces of theoretical balka…
Alvin W. Gouldner and the Tragic Vision in Sociology
Alvin Gouldner's life and work is considered within the framework of his own attempt to fashion a reflexive sociology during the second half of his career. In the first half, Gouldner was a functionalist and dutifully contributed insights and theoretical innovations to the paradigm, even while remaining critical of Talcott Parsons' own version of structura/functionalism. Later; by 1962, Gouldner broke from the dominant tradition to become an outs…
Gouldner's Tragic Vision
Counseling and the Therapeutic State
Part 1 Conceptualizing the state: children and the civic state - a covenant model of welfare, John O'Neill power and social action beyond the state, Roger Sibeon therapy, organization and the state - a Blackian perspective, James Tucker the institutionalization and deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill - lessons from Goffman, Philip Manning. Part 2 Counselling and therapy in institutional settings: acquiescence or consensus? consenting to th…
Alvin W. Gouldner and industrial sociology at Columbia University
Alvin W. Gouldner (1920-1980) was a prolific sociologist of the post-World War II era who spent the early part of his career (the 1950s) in the field of industrial sociology. A case study of Gouldner's early life and career is useful insofar as it intertwines with the development of industrial sociology as a distinct subfield within sociology. Through this analysis we are also better able to understand how and in what ways a burgeoning organizati…
Gouldner's Tragic Vision
Classical literature, specifically ancient Greek philosophy and especially the study of Greek tragedy, is helpful in tracing out and understanding the transitions Alvin Gouldner made during his career as a sociologist. This article argues that a latent tragic orientation or vision existed during Gouldner's early career as a standout in the field of industrial sociology and that this tragic vision became manifest around 1962 as Gouldner was develo…
David Bogen, Order Without Rules: Critical Theory and the Logic of Conversation
The perils of risk assessment
Product Review: Lester F. Ward: A Life's Journey
Giddings and the Social Mind
The idea of a social (or general) mind was prevalent in early American sociology from the 1880s through about the 1910s. As a concept, the social mind served as a proxy for what would later be defined and understood as culture and other collective phenomena such as social movements, crowd behavior, organizational behavior (e.g. 'corporate actors'), and so forth. In the early stages of the development of sociology in America, sociologists such as …
The Place of Lester Ward among the Sociological Classics
Although there is a thriving industry of classical sociology within the discipline of sociology, not much attention has been focused on the early American sociologists. This paper offers a six-fold typology of the uses of the classics within sociology, and argues that the neglect of early American sociology among contemporary sociologists requires correction. For reasons delineated, Lester F. Ward is the overlooked early American sociologist most…
Networks
The concept of social networks finds its beginnings in the work of Georg Simmel. Simmel argued that a pure or formal sociology ought to take as its special focus the study of societal forms. Employing a geometric analogy, Simmel suggested that social forms can be identified and defined, thereby allowing the sociologist to group together a myriad of substantive phenomena under the broader or more abstract formal categories.
Norm of Reciprocity
According to Lester Ward (1883, 1: 464–8), human society has passed through three stages of development, with a fourth stage not yet realized. In the first stage (the autarchic), human beings were savage and solitary creatures. With their higher mental powers in comparison to the lower animals, human beings gained mastery over most other creatures, yet what they required most was protection from their own kind
Recognition
One of the more notable trends in the human sciences of late is a growing concern with reflection, reflexivity, and reflexive or reflective practice (Sandywell 1996). Wilhelm Dilthey is most directly linked to the concept of reflexivity as it has developed in hermeneutics, phenomenology, existentialism, and other interpretive theories in sociology. Dilthey's thought is located within the line of German idealism beginning with Kant and especially …
The Functions of The Social Bond
Travis Hirschi's control or social bonding theory argues that those persons who have strong and abiding attachments to conventional society (in the form of attachments, involvement, investment, and belief) are less likely to deviate than persons who have weak or shallow bonds. Later, Gottfredson and Hirschi moved away from the social bond as the primary factor in deviance, and toward an emphasis on self-control. In short, low self-control is asso…
Social Bond
Following Parsons (1968), Habermas (1984) is correct in noting that sociology is the science primarily concerned with explaining human cooperation. Explanations of the forms of human cooperation have preoccupied philosophy, the humanities, and science since the time of the ancient Greeks. It was not until philosophy was able to separate itself from religious doctrine, beginning with Hobbes (the state) and Locke and Rousseau (the social contract),…
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