M Mcdermott
Biographic Data
| ID | 78910 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Mcdermott |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcdermott |
| SIGNATURE | MCDERMOTT M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Southern Illinois University Carbondale |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0159-6550 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 187 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1964 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Weaving work and motherhood: A narrative study of identity integration
Balancing work and motherhood involves complex identity work that shapes women’s well-being and sense of self. Guided by a matricentric feminist framework and identity-development theory, this qualitative study examined how working mothers construct meaning and integration across professional and maternal roles within the Canadian context. Seven mothers of children under five participated in two narrative interviews, which were analyzed using nar…
Native for a Day: Non‐Native Perceptions of Native American Life
Social science research about non‐Native attitudes and beliefs about Native Americans (NA) shows that stereotypes are widely endorsed and that their racist content has changed little from the original imperial conception of “the Indian” described in critical historiography and Native studies. What we understand less is how non‐Natives understand NA in relation to the self and how this relationship might reproduce or challenge racial hierarchy. We…
The Graduate School Pipeline and First-Generation/Working-Class Inequalities
Sociological research has long been interested in inequalities generated by and within educational institutions. Although relatively rich as a literature, less analytic focus has centered on educational mobility and inequality experiences within graduate training specifically. In this article, we draw on a combination of survey and open-ended qualitative data from approximately 450 graduate students in the discipline of sociology to analyze gradu…
Varieties of White Working-Class Identity
The present work demonstrates that, contrary to popular political narratives, working-class White Americans are far from monolithic in their class identities, social attitudes, and political preferences. Latent profile analysis is used to distinguish three types of identity in a nationally representative sample of working-class Whites: Working Class Patriots, who valorize responsibility, embrace national identity, and disparage the poor; Class Co…
Mobility and Inequality in the Professoriate: How and Why First-Generation and Working-Class Backgrounds Matter
Social science research has long recognized the relevance of socioeconomic background for mobility and inequality. In this article we interrogate how and why working-class and first-generation backgrounds are especially meaningful and take as our case in point the professoriate and the discipline of sociology, - i.e., a field that intellectually prioritizes attention to group inequality and that arguably offers a conservative empirical test compa…
Terminal Identities: The Racial Classification of Immigrants in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-century Death Records
Death certificates are a means of assessing the racial classification of foreign-born Americans that is based neither on a set of formal racial identification criteria nor self-identification. Instead, local informants typically report the race of decedents. According to a sample of 1,884 records filed between 1859 and 1960, individuals born in China were progressively less likely to be identified by racial terms (e.g., white or yellow) and more …
Out of context: The absence of geographic variation in US immigrants' perceptions of discrimination
Immigrants' perceptions of discrimination (PD) correlate strongly with various political outcomes, including group consciousness and partisan identity. Here, we examine the hypothesis that immigrants' PD vary across US localities, as threatened responses by native-born residents may increase perceived discrimination among neighboring immigrants. We also consider the alternative hypothesis that barriers to the expression and detection of discrimin…
Color-Blind and Color-Visible Identity Among American Whites
Many signs point to the contemporary period as a color-blind era, one in which Whites purport to be unaware of race in social or political life. At the same time, White ethnic and racial identity continues to be measured in official government statistics such as the decennial U.S. Census and the annual American Community Survey (ACS). To adjudicate between the two, the ACS ancestry question response can be used not just as a means to measure the …
Reducing nitrogen fertilizer application as a climate change mitigation strategy: Understanding farmer decision-making and potential barriers to change in the US
Racial Attitudes in City, Neighborhood, and Situational Contexts
Multiple social contexts have been shown to affect racial attitudes both positively and negatively when considered at different levels. In this article, context is simultaneously considered at three different levels: the metropolitan area, the census block group, and the interview situation (as measured by race of interviewer/race of respondent matching). Significant effects can be classified into three categories: the effects of the racial compo…
The Presence of Organizational Resources in Poor Urban Neighborhoods: An Analysis of Average and Contextual Effects
Wilson (1987) and others argue that poor neighborhoods lack important organizational resources the middle class takes for granted, such as childcare centers, grocery stores and pharmacies. However, this approach does not distinguish poor neighborhoods from segregated neighborhoods, ignores immigration and neglects city differences. Using Department of Commerce and 2000 Census data for zip codes in 331 MSA/PMSAs, we estimate HGLM models predicting…
Response to Flanakin and Walsh
When Advocacy for Domestic Violence Victims Backfires: Types and Sources of Victim Disempowerment
This article argues that although victim advocacy in domestic violence has brought significant improvement in victim services, there are instances in which advocacy backfires: The very interventions designed to help and empower victims contain the seeds of disempowerment. After discussing types and sources of victim disempowerment from their own research and that of others, the authors draw attention to some macro issues related to domestic viole…
Lilith in Myth, Melodrama, and Criminology
This article illustrates how the social construction of both knowledge and popular culture has been influenced by mythic images of “fair and virginal” good women and “dark and sensual” evil women-what is commonly called the madonna/whore duality. The article examines the myth of Lilith, first wife of Adam, and the images of good and evil women that we can distill from creation myths. We then demonstrate how these images of good and evil women are…
Honky
Class Structure and Racial Consciousness Among Black Americans
Analyses of class cleavages among Black Americans have taken on a new importance since the growth of a sizeable black middle class during the post-Civil Rights era. Less often analyzed are the cleavages within the black middle class itself; small employers, well-educated professionals and others in supervisory positions often have differing interests and beliefs. Wright's (1985) 12-celled class typology provides a means of obtaining a more nuance…
The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work
Journal Article The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work Get access The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work by Arlie Russell Hochschild. New York, Metropolitan Books, 1997. 306 pp. $22.50. Monica McDermott Monica McDermott Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 113, Issue 1, Spring 1998, Pages 169–170, https://doi.org/10…
Criminology as Peacemaking, Feminist Ethics and the Victimization of Women
This paper identities similarities between the ethical concerns and priorities of criminology as peacemaking and those of feminist ethics, two areas of scholarship that have developed largely since the early 1980s. Criminology as peacemaking and feminist ethics are remarkably similar in their conceptions of justice and morality. Within the context of peacemaking and feminist ethical concerns, the second section of the paper examines conflicting f…
Race/Class Interactions in the Formation of Political Ideology
Interactions between race and class in the formation of ideology are of vital theoretical importance, yet they have been seriously underresearched. Those studies that do note the significance of race/class interactions have been mainly descriptive, with no adequate theoretical explanation of the interactions. Using data from the 1987 GSS, the complexity of the interaction effects upon different aspects of political ideology, particularly in regar…
The personal is empirical: Feminism, research methods, and criminal justice education
Feminist scholars in criminal justice and other social science disciplines have been critical of conventional or “malestream” theories and methods, and have suggested alternative methods for producing knowledge. This paper examines some themes that have emerged in feminist discussions of research methodology and shows how these ideas might be integrated into criminal justice education. The first part of the paper explains why feminists have becom…
An Analysis of Serious Crime by Young Black Women
This research focuses on a relatively unexplored phenomenon—black female juvenile offenders. Both theoretical and research work are weak or nonexistent regarding these offenders. This paper seeks to fill some of these gaps. In addition, this research effort draws on a source of data that has in frequently been adapted to study offenders, National Crime Survey (NCS) victimization data. Utilizing NCS data from 1973 through 1981, a comparative analy…
National Victim Compensation: Its Cost and Coverage
In recent years, numerous states have established programs to compensate victims of violent crime, and efforts to enact a national victim compensation law continue. One of the major obstacles to positive legislative action on victim compensation programs has been the lack of reliable estimates of the potential costs of such programs. In this article, a series of compensation program models with varying eligibility criteria are examined. Data from…
An Investigation into Differences in Respiratory Illness in Overseas and UK Students: A Report to the Medical Research Council's Committee on the Aetiology of Chronic Bronchitis
It has been suggested that overseas students may have a worse experience of respiratory illness while in the United Kingdom than students from the United Kingdom itself. If this were so it might be due to infection of overseas students with viruses to which United Kingdom students are, by adult age, immune, or because of differences in living con- ditions between the two groups of students in the United Kingdom
The Presence of Organizational Resources in Poor Urban Neighborhoods: An Analysis of Average and Contextual Effects
Wilson (1987) and others argue that poor neighborhoods lack important organizational resources the middle class takes for granted, such as childcare centers, grocery stores and pharmacies. However, this approach does not distinguish poor neighborhoods from segregated neighborhoods, ignores immigration and neglects city differences. Using Department of Commerce and 2000 Census data for zip codes in 331 MSA/PMSAs, we estimate HGLM models predicting…
When Advocacy for Domestic Violence Victims Backfires: Types and Sources of Victim Disempowerment
This article argues that although victim advocacy in domestic violence has brought significant improvement in victim services, there are instances in which advocacy backfires: The very interventions designed to help and empower victims contain the seeds of disempowerment. After discussing types and sources of victim disempowerment from their own research and that of others, the authors draw attention to some macro issues related to domestic viole…
Color-Blind and Color-Visible Identity Among American Whites
Many signs point to the contemporary period as a color-blind era, one in which Whites purport to be unaware of race in social or political life. At the same time, White ethnic and racial identity continues to be measured in official government statistics such as the decennial U.S. Census and the annual American Community Survey (ACS). To adjudicate between the two, the ACS ancestry question response can be used not just as a means to measure the …
Reducing nitrogen fertilizer application as a climate change mitigation strategy: Understanding farmer decision-making and potential barriers to change in the US
Racial Attitudes in City, Neighborhood, and Situational Contexts
Multiple social contexts have been shown to affect racial attitudes both positively and negatively when considered at different levels. In this article, context is simultaneously considered at three different levels: the metropolitan area, the census block group, and the interview situation (as measured by race of interviewer/race of respondent matching). Significant effects can be classified into three categories: the effects of the racial compo…
An Analysis of Serious Crime by Young Black Women
This research focuses on a relatively unexplored phenomenon—black female juvenile offenders. Both theoretical and research work are weak or nonexistent regarding these offenders. This paper seeks to fill some of these gaps. In addition, this research effort draws on a source of data that has in frequently been adapted to study offenders, National Crime Survey (NCS) victimization data. Utilizing NCS data from 1973 through 1981, a comparative analy…
Mobility and Inequality in the Professoriate: How and Why First-Generation and Working-Class Backgrounds Matter
Social science research has long recognized the relevance of socioeconomic background for mobility and inequality. In this article we interrogate how and why working-class and first-generation backgrounds are especially meaningful and take as our case in point the professoriate and the discipline of sociology, - i.e., a field that intellectually prioritizes attention to group inequality and that arguably offers a conservative empirical test compa…
Out of context: The absence of geographic variation in US immigrants' perceptions of discrimination
Immigrants' perceptions of discrimination (PD) correlate strongly with various political outcomes, including group consciousness and partisan identity. Here, we examine the hypothesis that immigrants' PD vary across US localities, as threatened responses by native-born residents may increase perceived discrimination among neighboring immigrants. We also consider the alternative hypothesis that barriers to the expression and detection of discrimin…
The Graduate School Pipeline and First-Generation/Working-Class Inequalities
Sociological research has long been interested in inequalities generated by and within educational institutions. Although relatively rich as a literature, less analytic focus has centered on educational mobility and inequality experiences within graduate training specifically. In this article, we draw on a combination of survey and open-ended qualitative data from approximately 450 graduate students in the discipline of sociology to analyze gradu…
Terminal Identities: The Racial Classification of Immigrants in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-century Death Records
Death certificates are a means of assessing the racial classification of foreign-born Americans that is based neither on a set of formal racial identification criteria nor self-identification. Instead, local informants typically report the race of decedents. According to a sample of 1,884 records filed between 1859 and 1960, individuals born in China were progressively less likely to be identified by racial terms (e.g., white or yellow) and more …
Class Structure and Racial Consciousness Among Black Americans
Analyses of class cleavages among Black Americans have taken on a new importance since the growth of a sizeable black middle class during the post-Civil Rights era. Less often analyzed are the cleavages within the black middle class itself; small employers, well-educated professionals and others in supervisory positions often have differing interests and beliefs. Wright's (1985) 12-celled class typology provides a means of obtaining a more nuance…
Race/Class Interactions in the Formation of Political Ideology
Interactions between race and class in the formation of ideology are of vital theoretical importance, yet they have been seriously underresearched. Those studies that do note the significance of race/class interactions have been mainly descriptive, with no adequate theoretical explanation of the interactions. Using data from the 1987 GSS, the complexity of the interaction effects upon different aspects of political ideology, particularly in regar…
National Victim Compensation: Its Cost and Coverage
In recent years, numerous states have established programs to compensate victims of violent crime, and efforts to enact a national victim compensation law continue. One of the major obstacles to positive legislative action on victim compensation programs has been the lack of reliable estimates of the potential costs of such programs. In this article, a series of compensation program models with varying eligibility criteria are examined. Data from…
An Investigation into Differences in Respiratory Illness in Overseas and UK Students: A Report to the Medical Research Council's Committee on the Aetiology of Chronic Bronchitis
It has been suggested that overseas students may have a worse experience of respiratory illness while in the United Kingdom than students from the United Kingdom itself. If this were so it might be due to infection of overseas students with viruses to which United Kingdom students are, by adult age, immune, or because of differences in living con- ditions between the two groups of students in the United Kingdom
National Victim Compensation: Its Cost and Coverage
In recent years, numerous states have established programs to compensate victims of violent crime, and efforts to enact a national victim compensation law continue. One of the major obstacles to positive legislative action on victim compensation programs has been the lack of reliable estimates of the potential costs of such programs. In this article, a series of compensation program models with varying eligibility criteria are examined. Data from…
An Analysis of Serious Crime by Young Black Women
This research focuses on a relatively unexplored phenomenon—black female juvenile offenders. Both theoretical and research work are weak or nonexistent regarding these offenders. This paper seeks to fill some of these gaps. In addition, this research effort draws on a source of data that has in frequently been adapted to study offenders, National Crime Survey (NCS) victimization data. Utilizing NCS data from 1973 through 1981, a comparative analy…
The personal is empirical: Feminism, research methods, and criminal justice education
Feminist scholars in criminal justice and other social science disciplines have been critical of conventional or “malestream” theories and methods, and have suggested alternative methods for producing knowledge. This paper examines some themes that have emerged in feminist discussions of research methodology and shows how these ideas might be integrated into criminal justice education. The first part of the paper explains why feminists have becom…
Criminology as Peacemaking, Feminist Ethics and the Victimization of Women
This paper identities similarities between the ethical concerns and priorities of criminology as peacemaking and those of feminist ethics, two areas of scholarship that have developed largely since the early 1980s. Criminology as peacemaking and feminist ethics are remarkably similar in their conceptions of justice and morality. Within the context of peacemaking and feminist ethical concerns, the second section of the paper examines conflicting f…
Race/Class Interactions in the Formation of Political Ideology
Interactions between race and class in the formation of ideology are of vital theoretical importance, yet they have been seriously underresearched. Those studies that do note the significance of race/class interactions have been mainly descriptive, with no adequate theoretical explanation of the interactions. Using data from the 1987 GSS, the complexity of the interaction effects upon different aspects of political ideology, particularly in regar…
The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work
Journal Article The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work Get access The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work by Arlie Russell Hochschild. New York, Metropolitan Books, 1997. 306 pp. $22.50. Monica McDermott Monica McDermott Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 113, Issue 1, Spring 1998, Pages 169–170, https://doi.org/10…
Class Structure and Racial Consciousness Among Black Americans
Analyses of class cleavages among Black Americans have taken on a new importance since the growth of a sizeable black middle class during the post-Civil Rights era. Less often analyzed are the cleavages within the black middle class itself; small employers, well-educated professionals and others in supervisory positions often have differing interests and beliefs. Wright's (1985) 12-celled class typology provides a means of obtaining a more nuance…
Lilith in Myth, Melodrama, and Criminology
This article illustrates how the social construction of both knowledge and popular culture has been influenced by mythic images of “fair and virginal” good women and “dark and sensual” evil women-what is commonly called the madonna/whore duality. The article examines the myth of Lilith, first wife of Adam, and the images of good and evil women that we can distill from creation myths. We then demonstrate how these images of good and evil women are…
Honky
When Advocacy for Domestic Violence Victims Backfires: Types and Sources of Victim Disempowerment
This article argues that although victim advocacy in domestic violence has brought significant improvement in victim services, there are instances in which advocacy backfires: The very interventions designed to help and empower victims contain the seeds of disempowerment. After discussing types and sources of victim disempowerment from their own research and that of others, the authors draw attention to some macro issues related to domestic viole…
Response to Flanakin and Walsh
The Presence of Organizational Resources in Poor Urban Neighborhoods: An Analysis of Average and Contextual Effects
Wilson (1987) and others argue that poor neighborhoods lack important organizational resources the middle class takes for granted, such as childcare centers, grocery stores and pharmacies. However, this approach does not distinguish poor neighborhoods from segregated neighborhoods, ignores immigration and neglects city differences. Using Department of Commerce and 2000 Census data for zip codes in 331 MSA/PMSAs, we estimate HGLM models predicting…
Racial Attitudes in City, Neighborhood, and Situational Contexts
Multiple social contexts have been shown to affect racial attitudes both positively and negatively when considered at different levels. In this article, context is simultaneously considered at three different levels: the metropolitan area, the census block group, and the interview situation (as measured by race of interviewer/race of respondent matching). Significant effects can be classified into three categories: the effects of the racial compo…
Reducing nitrogen fertilizer application as a climate change mitigation strategy: Understanding farmer decision-making and potential barriers to change in the US
Color-Blind and Color-Visible Identity Among American Whites
Many signs point to the contemporary period as a color-blind era, one in which Whites purport to be unaware of race in social or political life. At the same time, White ethnic and racial identity continues to be measured in official government statistics such as the decennial U.S. Census and the annual American Community Survey (ACS). To adjudicate between the two, the ACS ancestry question response can be used not just as a means to measure the …
Out of context: The absence of geographic variation in US immigrants' perceptions of discrimination
Immigrants' perceptions of discrimination (PD) correlate strongly with various political outcomes, including group consciousness and partisan identity. Here, we examine the hypothesis that immigrants' PD vary across US localities, as threatened responses by native-born residents may increase perceived discrimination among neighboring immigrants. We also consider the alternative hypothesis that barriers to the expression and detection of discrimin…
Terminal Identities: The Racial Classification of Immigrants in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-century Death Records
Death certificates are a means of assessing the racial classification of foreign-born Americans that is based neither on a set of formal racial identification criteria nor self-identification. Instead, local informants typically report the race of decedents. According to a sample of 1,884 records filed between 1859 and 1960, individuals born in China were progressively less likely to be identified by racial terms (e.g., white or yellow) and more …
Varieties of White Working-Class Identity
The present work demonstrates that, contrary to popular political narratives, working-class White Americans are far from monolithic in their class identities, social attitudes, and political preferences. Latent profile analysis is used to distinguish three types of identity in a nationally representative sample of working-class Whites: Working Class Patriots, who valorize responsibility, embrace national identity, and disparage the poor; Class Co…
Mobility and Inequality in the Professoriate: How and Why First-Generation and Working-Class Backgrounds Matter
Social science research has long recognized the relevance of socioeconomic background for mobility and inequality. In this article we interrogate how and why working-class and first-generation backgrounds are especially meaningful and take as our case in point the professoriate and the discipline of sociology, - i.e., a field that intellectually prioritizes attention to group inequality and that arguably offers a conservative empirical test compa…
Native for a Day: Non‐Native Perceptions of Native American Life
Social science research about non‐Native attitudes and beliefs about Native Americans (NA) shows that stereotypes are widely endorsed and that their racist content has changed little from the original imperial conception of “the Indian” described in critical historiography and Native studies. What we understand less is how non‐Natives understand NA in relation to the self and how this relationship might reproduce or challenge racial hierarchy. We…
The Graduate School Pipeline and First-Generation/Working-Class Inequalities
Sociological research has long been interested in inequalities generated by and within educational institutions. Although relatively rich as a literature, less analytic focus has centered on educational mobility and inequality experiences within graduate training specifically. In this article, we draw on a combination of survey and open-ended qualitative data from approximately 450 graduate students in the discipline of sociology to analyze gradu…
Weaving work and motherhood: A narrative study of identity integration
Balancing work and motherhood involves complex identity work that shapes women’s well-being and sense of self. Guided by a matricentric feminist framework and identity-development theory, this qualitative study examined how working mothers construct meaning and integration across professional and maternal roles within the Canadian context. Seven mothers of children under five participated in two narrative interviews, which were analyzed using nar…
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