Jonathan R Wynn
Biographic Data
| ID | 85633 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathan R Wynn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathan R |
| FAMILY NAME | Wynn |
| SIGNATURE | WYNN J R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8670-1101 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 83 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The ( Cultural ) War of the Worlds: Framing Urban Redevelopment as ‘Terraforming’
External forces always shape the social construction of ‘the local’. In this article we offer a framework for understanding how external players and strategies reconfigure the social and symbolic character of local culture for new investments and new populations. We aim not only to propose a theory of urban cultural processing by nonlocals—what we call ‘urban cultural terraforming’—but to identify pressure points for local groups to make claims o…
Everyday public sociology
Bringing sociology to the public means sharing sociological concepts, research and perspectives in spaces beyond traditional academic boundaries. This chapter examines the Everyday Sociology Blog as one form of public sociology. The ESB is one of the longest running group sociology blogs, with more than seven million hits, having published more than 1,000 posts since 2007. A core sentiment of the ESB is that sociology is for the public. As Karen …
Urban Hospitals as Anchor Institutions: Frameworks for Medical Sociology
Recent policy developments are forcing many hospitals to supplement their traditional focus on the provision of direct patient care by using mechanisms to address the social determinants of health in local communities. Sociologists have studied hospital organizations for decades, to great effect, highlighting key processes of professional socialization and external influences that shape hospital-based care. New methods are needed, however, to cap…
Skateboarding LA: Inside Professional Street Skateboarding
My teenaged years were largely spent on my Tommy Guerrero skateboard, looking for the perfect place to grind, pop an ollie-to-tail slide, and just hang out. As a onetime recreational participant of the sport and now a qualitative urban culture researcher, I read Gregory J. Snyder’s new book, Skateboarding LA, with great enthusiasm. Skateboarding LA is an in-depth examination of the $5 billion industry of professional skateboarding in its primary …
An arson spree in college town: Community enhancement through media convergence
Fears of media and technology undermining ‘community’ have persisted for half a century. It is believed that, in the digital age, place-based collectivities of people become isolated and individualized through media and technology, replacing ‘place-based’ communities with placeless ‘communities of interest’. While this greater trend may well exist, it is hardly uniform. This research examines how sufficiently flexible technologies and media can d…
Sociology Afoot
The Sites and Sounds of Placemaking: Branding, Festivalization, and the Contemporary City: The Sites and Sounds of Placemaking
On the Sociology of Occasions
This article fills a long-standing gap, proposing a framework for what Goffman called for in 1967's Interaction Ritual: a sociology of occasions. Occasions are omnipresent throughout the sociological literature yet are often only casually analyzed. The author proposes a perspective that solidifies occasions as a basic unit of sociological analysis. This proposal offers a framework based on (1) four resources, (2) three patterns, and (3) five prop…
Music/City: American Festivals and Placemaking in Austin, Nashville, and Newport
The Ethics of Sightseeing
Guides through Cultural Work: A Methodological Framework for the Study of Cultural Intermediaries
Through their work, walking tour guides make the abstract histories and cultural flows of cities present and tangible for their followers - merging physical spaces, mental maps of information, and experiences through a kind of spatial storytelling. This social actor's position in regard to consumption and production thus lends itself to conceptualization as a pivotal cultural worker. To better understand this condition, this article has two inter…
The Hobo to Doormen: The characters of qualitative analysis, past and present
Types, roles, and individuals have collectively held a place in qualitative research alongside and at times within neighborhood and community studies but have not enjoyed systematization. This article examines how 'characters' have been, and can be, developed for sociological analysis. Moving from an abridged history of what I will call 'character-focused study' - from Simmel, Park, and Hughes to more contemporary work - this article proposes sev…
City Tour Guides: Urban Alchemists at Work
Urban sociology, often and quite reasonably, emphasizes the effects of large–scale and corporate cultures of cities and yet, at the smaller scale, there is a diverse and complex set of practices that reinvigorate the urban landscape. By pairing ethnographic fieldnotes with interviews, this paper offers a limited rejoinder to these narratives, evincing the lived interactions of one set of characters that reenchants cities. for the purposes of this…
Digital Sociology: Emergent Technologies in the Field and the Classroom
In this essay, I use my own research experiences to address a critical intersection between technology and sociology. I suggest that thinking reflexively about technology might enhance both how sociologists do research and how they teach about it
Haunting Orpheus: Problems of Space and Time in the Desert
Guiding Practices: Storytelling Tricks for Reproducing the Urban Landscape
Bobos on the Road, or Would Sal Paradise Have Super Sized
This article studies the co-optation of bohemian life into the bourgeois realm-positioning contemporary cultural critics Peter Brooks and Thomas Frank within a critical discussion of the Beats and the social theories of the Frankfurt School. Personal concerns are connected with larger social issues, situating them within lived, autoethnographic experiences to facilitate sociological analysis. Although Adorno and Habermas avoid discussion of direc…
On the Sociology of Occasions
This article fills a long-standing gap, proposing a framework for what Goffman called for in 1967's Interaction Ritual: a sociology of occasions. Occasions are omnipresent throughout the sociological literature yet are often only casually analyzed. The author proposes a perspective that solidifies occasions as a basic unit of sociological analysis. This proposal offers a framework based on (1) four resources, (2) three patterns, and (3) five prop…
Music/City: American Festivals and Placemaking in Austin, Nashville, and Newport
Digital Sociology: Emergent Technologies in the Field and the Classroom
In this essay, I use my own research experiences to address a critical intersection between technology and sociology. I suggest that thinking reflexively about technology might enhance both how sociologists do research and how they teach about it
The Hobo to Doormen: The characters of qualitative analysis, past and present
Types, roles, and individuals have collectively held a place in qualitative research alongside and at times within neighborhood and community studies but have not enjoyed systematization. This article examines how 'characters' have been, and can be, developed for sociological analysis. Moving from an abridged history of what I will call 'character-focused study' - from Simmel, Park, and Hughes to more contemporary work - this article proposes sev…
Guiding Practices: Storytelling Tricks for Reproducing the Urban Landscape
Urban Hospitals as Anchor Institutions: Frameworks for Medical Sociology
Recent policy developments are forcing many hospitals to supplement their traditional focus on the provision of direct patient care by using mechanisms to address the social determinants of health in local communities. Sociologists have studied hospital organizations for decades, to great effect, highlighting key processes of professional socialization and external influences that shape hospital-based care. New methods are needed, however, to cap…
Guides through Cultural Work: A Methodological Framework for the Study of Cultural Intermediaries
Through their work, walking tour guides make the abstract histories and cultural flows of cities present and tangible for their followers - merging physical spaces, mental maps of information, and experiences through a kind of spatial storytelling. This social actor's position in regard to consumption and production thus lends itself to conceptualization as a pivotal cultural worker. To better understand this condition, this article has two inter…
City Tour Guides: Urban Alchemists at Work
Urban sociology, often and quite reasonably, emphasizes the effects of large–scale and corporate cultures of cities and yet, at the smaller scale, there is a diverse and complex set of practices that reinvigorate the urban landscape. By pairing ethnographic fieldnotes with interviews, this paper offers a limited rejoinder to these narratives, evincing the lived interactions of one set of characters that reenchants cities. for the purposes of this…
Bobos on the Road, or Would Sal Paradise Have Super Sized
This article studies the co-optation of bohemian life into the bourgeois realm-positioning contemporary cultural critics Peter Brooks and Thomas Frank within a critical discussion of the Beats and the social theories of the Frankfurt School. Personal concerns are connected with larger social issues, situating them within lived, autoethnographic experiences to facilitate sociological analysis. Although Adorno and Habermas avoid discussion of direc…
Bobos on the Road, or Would Sal Paradise Have Super Sized
This article studies the co-optation of bohemian life into the bourgeois realm-positioning contemporary cultural critics Peter Brooks and Thomas Frank within a critical discussion of the Beats and the social theories of the Frankfurt School. Personal concerns are connected with larger social issues, situating them within lived, autoethnographic experiences to facilitate sociological analysis. Although Adorno and Habermas avoid discussion of direc…
Guiding Practices: Storytelling Tricks for Reproducing the Urban Landscape
Haunting Orpheus: Problems of Space and Time in the Desert
Digital Sociology: Emergent Technologies in the Field and the Classroom
In this essay, I use my own research experiences to address a critical intersection between technology and sociology. I suggest that thinking reflexively about technology might enhance both how sociologists do research and how they teach about it
City Tour Guides: Urban Alchemists at Work
Urban sociology, often and quite reasonably, emphasizes the effects of large–scale and corporate cultures of cities and yet, at the smaller scale, there is a diverse and complex set of practices that reinvigorate the urban landscape. By pairing ethnographic fieldnotes with interviews, this paper offers a limited rejoinder to these narratives, evincing the lived interactions of one set of characters that reenchants cities. for the purposes of this…
The Hobo to Doormen: The characters of qualitative analysis, past and present
Types, roles, and individuals have collectively held a place in qualitative research alongside and at times within neighborhood and community studies but have not enjoyed systematization. This article examines how 'characters' have been, and can be, developed for sociological analysis. Moving from an abridged history of what I will call 'character-focused study' - from Simmel, Park, and Hughes to more contemporary work - this article proposes sev…
The Ethics of Sightseeing
Guides through Cultural Work: A Methodological Framework for the Study of Cultural Intermediaries
Through their work, walking tour guides make the abstract histories and cultural flows of cities present and tangible for their followers - merging physical spaces, mental maps of information, and experiences through a kind of spatial storytelling. This social actor's position in regard to consumption and production thus lends itself to conceptualization as a pivotal cultural worker. To better understand this condition, this article has two inter…
Music/City: American Festivals and Placemaking in Austin, Nashville, and Newport
The Sites and Sounds of Placemaking: Branding, Festivalization, and the Contemporary City: The Sites and Sounds of Placemaking
On the Sociology of Occasions
This article fills a long-standing gap, proposing a framework for what Goffman called for in 1967's Interaction Ritual: a sociology of occasions. Occasions are omnipresent throughout the sociological literature yet are often only casually analyzed. The author proposes a perspective that solidifies occasions as a basic unit of sociological analysis. This proposal offers a framework based on (1) four resources, (2) three patterns, and (3) five prop…
An arson spree in college town: Community enhancement through media convergence
Fears of media and technology undermining ‘community’ have persisted for half a century. It is believed that, in the digital age, place-based collectivities of people become isolated and individualized through media and technology, replacing ‘place-based’ communities with placeless ‘communities of interest’. While this greater trend may well exist, it is hardly uniform. This research examines how sufficiently flexible technologies and media can d…
Sociology Afoot
Skateboarding LA: Inside Professional Street Skateboarding
My teenaged years were largely spent on my Tommy Guerrero skateboard, looking for the perfect place to grind, pop an ollie-to-tail slide, and just hang out. As a onetime recreational participant of the sport and now a qualitative urban culture researcher, I read Gregory J. Snyder’s new book, Skateboarding LA, with great enthusiasm. Skateboarding LA is an in-depth examination of the $5 billion industry of professional skateboarding in its primary …
Urban Hospitals as Anchor Institutions: Frameworks for Medical Sociology
Recent policy developments are forcing many hospitals to supplement their traditional focus on the provision of direct patient care by using mechanisms to address the social determinants of health in local communities. Sociologists have studied hospital organizations for decades, to great effect, highlighting key processes of professional socialization and external influences that shape hospital-based care. New methods are needed, however, to cap…
Everyday public sociology
Bringing sociology to the public means sharing sociological concepts, research and perspectives in spaces beyond traditional academic boundaries. This chapter examines the Everyday Sociology Blog as one form of public sociology. The ESB is one of the longest running group sociology blogs, with more than seven million hits, having published more than 1,000 posts since 2007. A core sentiment of the ESB is that sociology is for the public. As Karen …
The ( Cultural ) War of the Worlds: Framing Urban Redevelopment as ‘Terraforming’
External forces always shape the social construction of ‘the local’. In this article we offer a framework for understanding how external players and strategies reconfigure the social and symbolic character of local culture for new investments and new populations. We aim not only to propose a theory of urban cultural processing by nonlocals—what we call ‘urban cultural terraforming’—but to identify pressure points for local groups to make claims o…
Sociology (16 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Social and Cultural Dynamics (8 works) · Art (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Media studies (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Social science (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Law (5 works)