Stan J Knapp
Biographic Data
| ID | 79196 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stan J Knapp |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stan J |
| FAMILY NAME | Knapp |
| SIGNATURE | KNAPP S J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brigham Young University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 103 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Theorizing Family Change: A Review and Reconceptualization
We review how recent family scholarship theorizes recent family change as either a process of deinstitutionalization, in which family can no longer be understood in institutional terms, or a process of diversification, in which family life is expanding but not losing its institutional character. We argue that both approaches emerge out of and depend on a social institutional framework for understanding family that was developed in 20th‐century so…
The Ethical Phenomenology of Emmanuel Levinas: Drawing on Phenomenology to Explore the Central Features of Family Life
Phenomenology is introduced as a source of new insights into how family relations are lived and experienced today. The ethical phenomenology of Emmanuel Levinas holds particular promise in this endeavor, as his work highlights the ways in which family life emerges out of an ethical relationality that is operative in virtually all family relations. Through learning to see how ethical relationality informs the active, ongoing responsiveness of the …
The Promise of Salvation: A Theory of Religion by Martin Reisebrodt
Forming the Central Framework for a Science of Marital Quality: An Interpretive Alternative to Marital Satisfaction as a Proxy for Marital Quality
The central framework for contemporary marital science was formed in the 1930s and centers on the uncritical acceptance of the primacy of method over theory in the pursuit of disengaged, amoral knowledge claims. This pursuit results in the unexamined commitment to an ontology of an essentialist and atomistic self and marriage as a self‐defining relation. An interpretive alternative based in the work of Charles Taylor understands marital actors as…
Introducing a Special Issue: On the Need to Theorize Marital Quality
We suspect no concept has been the subject of more research—generally as the dependent variable of interest—than marital quality, including marital satisfaction, adjustment, success, and their various permutations. Some may wonder reasonably why there is a need to “theorize” marital quality. However, it is the often taken‐for‐granted feature of marital quality, the lack of adequately calling into question just how one is to theorize the marital r…
Critical Theorizing: Enhancing Theoretical Rigor in Family Research
Theory performs vital descriptive, sensitizing, integrative, explanatory, and value functions in the generation of knowledge about families. Yet theory and research can also simultaneously misconceive, desensitize, misdirect, misinterpret, and devalue. Overcoming the degenerative potentialities of theory and research requires attention to critical theorizing, a joint process of (a) critically examining the explicit and implicit assumptions of the…
Authorizing Family Science: An Analysis of the Objectifying Practices of Family Science Discourse
Contemporary objectifying practices in family science discourse, grounded in an objectivist epistemological framework, often deauthorize the scientific text and fail to frame the constructs in an explicit argumentative and theoretical context. Such practices contribute to the marginalization of theory and the acceptance of insufficiently analyzed empirical claims about families. Adopting an alternative set of objectifying practices, grounded in a…
Analyzing Narratives of Expertise: Toward the Development of a Burkeian Pentadic Scheme
Recent work in the sociology of professions highlights the central importance of abstract discourse in professionalization processes. Drawing on the work of Kenneth Burke, I argue that broadening the focus of analysis from “abstract discourse” to “narratives of expertise” will provide the ability to (1) more clearly analyze the social conditions that are conducive to the efficacy of abstraction as a basis for a claim of expertise and (2) theorize…
Family Theories: An Introduction
1. What Is a Theory? 2. Theoretical Assumptions 3. The Rational Choice and Social Exchange Framework 4. The Symbolic Interaction Framework 5. The Family Life Course Development Framework 6. The Systems Framework 7. The Conflict Framework 8. The Feminist Framework 9. The Ecological Framework 10. Theorizing About Families 11. Epilogue
Analyzing Historical Contingency with Formal Methods: The Case of the “Relief Explosion” and 1968
Historical sociologists have been properly critical of the tendency within the social sciences to ignore temporality and, consequently, historical contingency in social processes. These critical assessments have generated alternative formal research methods that either (a) continue to use variable-centered procedures but allow relations between variables to change through time, or (b) abandon variable-centered procedures altogether and move exclu…
Have Historical Sociologists Forsaken Theory: Thoughts on the History/Theory Relationship
With the re-emergence of historical sociology as a dominant focus of inquiry has come a renewed interest in more general methodological, theoretical, and epistemological issues that have long occupied debates about the relationship between history and theory. A recently published article by Edgar Kiser and Michael Hechter brings to the fore several core themes in these debates. Kiser and Hechter claim that comparative historical sociologists not …
Have Historical Sociologists Forsaken Theory: Thoughts on the History/Theory Relationship
With the re-emergence of historical sociology as a dominant focus of inquiry has come a renewed interest in more general methodological, theoretical, and epistemological issues that have long occupied debates about the relationship between history and theory. A recently published article by Edgar Kiser and Michael Hechter brings to the fore several core themes in these debates. Kiser and Hechter claim that comparative historical sociologists not …
Analyzing Historical Contingency with Formal Methods: The Case of the “Relief Explosion” and 1968
Historical sociologists have been properly critical of the tendency within the social sciences to ignore temporality and, consequently, historical contingency in social processes. These critical assessments have generated alternative formal research methods that either (a) continue to use variable-centered procedures but allow relations between variables to change through time, or (b) abandon variable-centered procedures altogether and move exclu…
Critical Theorizing: Enhancing Theoretical Rigor in Family Research
Theory performs vital descriptive, sensitizing, integrative, explanatory, and value functions in the generation of knowledge about families. Yet theory and research can also simultaneously misconceive, desensitize, misdirect, misinterpret, and devalue. Overcoming the degenerative potentialities of theory and research requires attention to critical theorizing, a joint process of (a) critically examining the explicit and implicit assumptions of the…
Forming the Central Framework for a Science of Marital Quality: An Interpretive Alternative to Marital Satisfaction as a Proxy for Marital Quality
The central framework for contemporary marital science was formed in the 1930s and centers on the uncritical acceptance of the primacy of method over theory in the pursuit of disengaged, amoral knowledge claims. This pursuit results in the unexamined commitment to an ontology of an essentialist and atomistic self and marriage as a self‐defining relation. An interpretive alternative based in the work of Charles Taylor understands marital actors as…
The Ethical Phenomenology of Emmanuel Levinas: Drawing on Phenomenology to Explore the Central Features of Family Life
Phenomenology is introduced as a source of new insights into how family relations are lived and experienced today. The ethical phenomenology of Emmanuel Levinas holds particular promise in this endeavor, as his work highlights the ways in which family life emerges out of an ethical relationality that is operative in virtually all family relations. Through learning to see how ethical relationality informs the active, ongoing responsiveness of the …
Analyzing Narratives of Expertise: Toward the Development of a Burkeian Pentadic Scheme
Recent work in the sociology of professions highlights the central importance of abstract discourse in professionalization processes. Drawing on the work of Kenneth Burke, I argue that broadening the focus of analysis from “abstract discourse” to “narratives of expertise” will provide the ability to (1) more clearly analyze the social conditions that are conducive to the efficacy of abstraction as a basis for a claim of expertise and (2) theorize…
Introducing a Special Issue: On the Need to Theorize Marital Quality
We suspect no concept has been the subject of more research—generally as the dependent variable of interest—than marital quality, including marital satisfaction, adjustment, success, and their various permutations. Some may wonder reasonably why there is a need to “theorize” marital quality. However, it is the often taken‐for‐granted feature of marital quality, the lack of adequately calling into question just how one is to theorize the marital r…
Authorizing Family Science: An Analysis of the Objectifying Practices of Family Science Discourse
Contemporary objectifying practices in family science discourse, grounded in an objectivist epistemological framework, often deauthorize the scientific text and fail to frame the constructs in an explicit argumentative and theoretical context. Such practices contribute to the marginalization of theory and the acceptance of insufficiently analyzed empirical claims about families. Adopting an alternative set of objectifying practices, grounded in a…
Family Theories: An Introduction
1. What Is a Theory? 2. Theoretical Assumptions 3. The Rational Choice and Social Exchange Framework 4. The Symbolic Interaction Framework 5. The Family Life Course Development Framework 6. The Systems Framework 7. The Conflict Framework 8. The Feminist Framework 9. The Ecological Framework 10. Theorizing About Families 11. Epilogue
Have Historical Sociologists Forsaken Theory: Thoughts on the History/Theory Relationship
With the re-emergence of historical sociology as a dominant focus of inquiry has come a renewed interest in more general methodological, theoretical, and epistemological issues that have long occupied debates about the relationship between history and theory. A recently published article by Edgar Kiser and Michael Hechter brings to the fore several core themes in these debates. Kiser and Hechter claim that comparative historical sociologists not …
Analyzing Historical Contingency with Formal Methods: The Case of the “Relief Explosion” and 1968
Historical sociologists have been properly critical of the tendency within the social sciences to ignore temporality and, consequently, historical contingency in social processes. These critical assessments have generated alternative formal research methods that either (a) continue to use variable-centered procedures but allow relations between variables to change through time, or (b) abandon variable-centered procedures altogether and move exclu…
Family Theories: An Introduction
1. What Is a Theory? 2. Theoretical Assumptions 3. The Rational Choice and Social Exchange Framework 4. The Symbolic Interaction Framework 5. The Family Life Course Development Framework 6. The Systems Framework 7. The Conflict Framework 8. The Feminist Framework 9. The Ecological Framework 10. Theorizing About Families 11. Epilogue
Analyzing Narratives of Expertise: Toward the Development of a Burkeian Pentadic Scheme
Recent work in the sociology of professions highlights the central importance of abstract discourse in professionalization processes. Drawing on the work of Kenneth Burke, I argue that broadening the focus of analysis from “abstract discourse” to “narratives of expertise” will provide the ability to (1) more clearly analyze the social conditions that are conducive to the efficacy of abstraction as a basis for a claim of expertise and (2) theorize…
Authorizing Family Science: An Analysis of the Objectifying Practices of Family Science Discourse
Contemporary objectifying practices in family science discourse, grounded in an objectivist epistemological framework, often deauthorize the scientific text and fail to frame the constructs in an explicit argumentative and theoretical context. Such practices contribute to the marginalization of theory and the acceptance of insufficiently analyzed empirical claims about families. Adopting an alternative set of objectifying practices, grounded in a…
Critical Theorizing: Enhancing Theoretical Rigor in Family Research
Theory performs vital descriptive, sensitizing, integrative, explanatory, and value functions in the generation of knowledge about families. Yet theory and research can also simultaneously misconceive, desensitize, misdirect, misinterpret, and devalue. Overcoming the degenerative potentialities of theory and research requires attention to critical theorizing, a joint process of (a) critically examining the explicit and implicit assumptions of the…
Forming the Central Framework for a Science of Marital Quality: An Interpretive Alternative to Marital Satisfaction as a Proxy for Marital Quality
The central framework for contemporary marital science was formed in the 1930s and centers on the uncritical acceptance of the primacy of method over theory in the pursuit of disengaged, amoral knowledge claims. This pursuit results in the unexamined commitment to an ontology of an essentialist and atomistic self and marriage as a self‐defining relation. An interpretive alternative based in the work of Charles Taylor understands marital actors as…
Introducing a Special Issue: On the Need to Theorize Marital Quality
We suspect no concept has been the subject of more research—generally as the dependent variable of interest—than marital quality, including marital satisfaction, adjustment, success, and their various permutations. Some may wonder reasonably why there is a need to “theorize” marital quality. However, it is the often taken‐for‐granted feature of marital quality, the lack of adequately calling into question just how one is to theorize the marital r…
The Promise of Salvation: A Theory of Religion by Martin Reisebrodt
The Ethical Phenomenology of Emmanuel Levinas: Drawing on Phenomenology to Explore the Central Features of Family Life
Phenomenology is introduced as a source of new insights into how family relations are lived and experienced today. The ethical phenomenology of Emmanuel Levinas holds particular promise in this endeavor, as his work highlights the ways in which family life emerges out of an ethical relationality that is operative in virtually all family relations. Through learning to see how ethical relationality informs the active, ongoing responsiveness of the …
Theorizing Family Change: A Review and Reconceptualization
We review how recent family scholarship theorizes recent family change as either a process of deinstitutionalization, in which family can no longer be understood in institutional terms, or a process of diversification, in which family life is expanding but not losing its institutional character. We argue that both approaches emerge out of and depend on a social institutional framework for understanding family that was developed in 20th‐century so…
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