Karen Gainer Sirota
Biographic Data
| ID | 82391 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen Gainer Sirota |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen Gainer |
| FAMILY NAME | Sirota |
| SIGNATURE | SIROTA K G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 86 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Naomi R. Quinn July 22, 1939–June 23, 2019
Naomi R. Quinn
Doing Therapy with Children and Adolescents with Asperger Syndrome: Book Reviews
Narratives of transformation: Family discourse, autism and trajectories of hope
This article explores the role of personal life narrative as a self-shaping transformative process in the day-to-day family lives of 17 US children diagnosed with autism. Employing ethnographic video-and audio-taped data of naturalistic family interaction, the article illumines how family members employ conversational narrative in co-creating, with children, possible imagined futures, aspirations, and goals. Despite uncertain futures and unknown …
Narratives of Distinction: Personal Life Narrative as a Technology of the Self in the Everyday Lives and Relational Worlds of Children with Autism
Over the years, children with autism have often been portrayed in the professional literature and the popular media as asocial creatures bereft of words and subjective worldviews. Alternatively, I examine the lived contexts in which children with autism spectrum disorders actively engage with family members in coconstructed narrative recountings of personal life events, and are apprenticed into culturally consonant genres of life narrative as a t…
Fun Morality Reconsidered: Mothering and the Relational Contours of Maternal–Child Play in U.S. Working Family Life
Drawing on videotaped family interactional data, I consider Martha Wolfenstein's psychoanalytically informed conception of “fun morality” in the context of contemporary U.S. maternal–child relations. I highlight how U.S. middle‐class mothers and children craft imaginative interludes that cultivate valued aspects of personhood and relationality. Cooperative, prosocial behaviors are modeled and elicited alongside individualized self‐expression to c…
Habits of the hearth: Children's bedtime routines as relational work
Drawing from a corpus of naturalistic videotaped data documenting everyday activities of 32 middle-class dual-earner families in Los Angeles, California, this article explores children's bedtime routines as an interactional matrix for carrying out culturally salient relational work, illustrating how family members co-participate in a ‘discourse of anticipation’ that prepares for—yet simultaneously forestalls—the moment of bedtime separation. Inte…
Autism and the Social World: An Anthropological Perspective
This article offers an anthropological perspective on autism, a condition at once neurological and social, which complements existing psychological accounts of the disorder, expanding the scope of inquiry from the interpersonal domain, in which autism has been predominantly examined, to the socio-cultural one. Persons with autism need to be viewed not only as individuals in relation to other individuals, but as members of social groups and commun…
Positive politeness as discourse process: Politeness practices of high-functioning children with autism and Asperger Syndrome
This study draws upon naturalistic ethnographic data to expand current understandings regarding the socio-communicative capabilities and challenges of children with autism spectrum disorders in mid-childhood. Affording a view of the children’s spontaneous interactions within naturally occurring family and community settings, the study explores a range of discursive resources utilized by the children to accomplish socially reciprocal positive poli…
Inclusion as Social Practice: Views of Children with Autism
This study illuminates the social realities of inclusion of 16 high functioning children with autism (HFA) in public schools in the United States. The study suggests that the practice of inclusion rests primarily on unaffected schoolmates rather than teachers, who typically are occupied monitoring academic progress and disciplinary transgressions across a range of children. Utilizing ethnographic observations and video recordings of quotidian cla…
Autism and the Social World: An Anthropological Perspective
This article offers an anthropological perspective on autism, a condition at once neurological and social, which complements existing psychological accounts of the disorder, expanding the scope of inquiry from the interpersonal domain, in which autism has been predominantly examined, to the socio-cultural one. Persons with autism need to be viewed not only as individuals in relation to other individuals, but as members of social groups and commun…
Inclusion as Social Practice: Views of Children with Autism
This study illuminates the social realities of inclusion of 16 high functioning children with autism (HFA) in public schools in the United States. The study suggests that the practice of inclusion rests primarily on unaffected schoolmates rather than teachers, who typically are occupied monitoring academic progress and disciplinary transgressions across a range of children. Utilizing ethnographic observations and video recordings of quotidian cla…
Narratives of Distinction: Personal Life Narrative as a Technology of the Self in the Everyday Lives and Relational Worlds of Children with Autism
Over the years, children with autism have often been portrayed in the professional literature and the popular media as asocial creatures bereft of words and subjective worldviews. Alternatively, I examine the lived contexts in which children with autism spectrum disorders actively engage with family members in coconstructed narrative recountings of personal life events, and are apprenticed into culturally consonant genres of life narrative as a t…
Positive politeness as discourse process: Politeness practices of high-functioning children with autism and Asperger Syndrome
This study draws upon naturalistic ethnographic data to expand current understandings regarding the socio-communicative capabilities and challenges of children with autism spectrum disorders in mid-childhood. Affording a view of the children’s spontaneous interactions within naturally occurring family and community settings, the study explores a range of discursive resources utilized by the children to accomplish socially reciprocal positive poli…
Fun Morality Reconsidered: Mothering and the Relational Contours of Maternal–Child Play in U.S. Working Family Life
Drawing on videotaped family interactional data, I consider Martha Wolfenstein's psychoanalytically informed conception of “fun morality” in the context of contemporary U.S. maternal–child relations. I highlight how U.S. middle‐class mothers and children craft imaginative interludes that cultivate valued aspects of personhood and relationality. Cooperative, prosocial behaviors are modeled and elicited alongside individualized self‐expression to c…
Narratives of transformation: Family discourse, autism and trajectories of hope
This article explores the role of personal life narrative as a self-shaping transformative process in the day-to-day family lives of 17 US children diagnosed with autism. Employing ethnographic video-and audio-taped data of naturalistic family interaction, the article illumines how family members employ conversational narrative in co-creating, with children, possible imagined futures, aspirations, and goals. Despite uncertain futures and unknown …
Inclusion as Social Practice: Views of Children with Autism
This study illuminates the social realities of inclusion of 16 high functioning children with autism (HFA) in public schools in the United States. The study suggests that the practice of inclusion rests primarily on unaffected schoolmates rather than teachers, who typically are occupied monitoring academic progress and disciplinary transgressions across a range of children. Utilizing ethnographic observations and video recordings of quotidian cla…
Autism and the Social World: An Anthropological Perspective
This article offers an anthropological perspective on autism, a condition at once neurological and social, which complements existing psychological accounts of the disorder, expanding the scope of inquiry from the interpersonal domain, in which autism has been predominantly examined, to the socio-cultural one. Persons with autism need to be viewed not only as individuals in relation to other individuals, but as members of social groups and commun…
Positive politeness as discourse process: Politeness practices of high-functioning children with autism and Asperger Syndrome
This study draws upon naturalistic ethnographic data to expand current understandings regarding the socio-communicative capabilities and challenges of children with autism spectrum disorders in mid-childhood. Affording a view of the children’s spontaneous interactions within naturally occurring family and community settings, the study explores a range of discursive resources utilized by the children to accomplish socially reciprocal positive poli…
Habits of the hearth: Children's bedtime routines as relational work
Drawing from a corpus of naturalistic videotaped data documenting everyday activities of 32 middle-class dual-earner families in Los Angeles, California, this article explores children's bedtime routines as an interactional matrix for carrying out culturally salient relational work, illustrating how family members co-participate in a ‘discourse of anticipation’ that prepares for—yet simultaneously forestalls—the moment of bedtime separation. Inte…
Narratives of transformation: Family discourse, autism and trajectories of hope
This article explores the role of personal life narrative as a self-shaping transformative process in the day-to-day family lives of 17 US children diagnosed with autism. Employing ethnographic video-and audio-taped data of naturalistic family interaction, the article illumines how family members employ conversational narrative in co-creating, with children, possible imagined futures, aspirations, and goals. Despite uncertain futures and unknown …
Narratives of Distinction: Personal Life Narrative as a Technology of the Self in the Everyday Lives and Relational Worlds of Children with Autism
Over the years, children with autism have often been portrayed in the professional literature and the popular media as asocial creatures bereft of words and subjective worldviews. Alternatively, I examine the lived contexts in which children with autism spectrum disorders actively engage with family members in coconstructed narrative recountings of personal life events, and are apprenticed into culturally consonant genres of life narrative as a t…
Fun Morality Reconsidered: Mothering and the Relational Contours of Maternal–Child Play in U.S. Working Family Life
Drawing on videotaped family interactional data, I consider Martha Wolfenstein's psychoanalytically informed conception of “fun morality” in the context of contemporary U.S. maternal–child relations. I highlight how U.S. middle‐class mothers and children craft imaginative interludes that cultivate valued aspects of personhood and relationality. Cooperative, prosocial behaviors are modeled and elicited alongside individualized self‐expression to c…
Doing Therapy with Children and Adolescents with Asperger Syndrome: Book Reviews
Naomi R. Quinn July 22, 1939–June 23, 2019
Naomi R. Quinn
Psychology (8 works) · Autism (6 works) · Developmental psychology (6 works) · Autism Spectrum Disorder Research (5 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Citation (3 works)