Phil Francis Carspecken
Biographic Data
| ID | 86465 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Phil Francis Carspecken |
| GIVEN NAMES | Phil Francis |
| FAMILY NAME | Carspecken |
| SIGNATURE | CARSPECKEN P F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Houston |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
A Review on Carspecken’s Critical Ethnography
Critical ethnography is a research methodology that examines the influence of elements of power and domination on production, reproduction, and reflection in social life. Although researchers have used critical ethnography as a way to describe and represent culture in recent decades, methodological challenges have hindered the spread of critical ethnographic research. Among recent researchers, Carspecken has played a significant role in the devel…
Love in the Time of Ethnography
Love in the Time of Ethnography explores love – variously defined – as an important facet of human life and a worthy focus of study. The authors look at love in association with an Alevi and Sunni couple in Turkey, organizers of Mexican American and immigrant youth movements, Christian missionaries in China, an elderly man with dementia, two women “coming home” to queer identity, a White researcher working with Black women in the US, the common g…
Reconstructive Analyses
Reconstructive analysis refers to a specific method of analyzing qualitative data based primarily on principles from universal pragmatics and critical theory, but employing adapted insights from hermeneutics and structuralism as well. It is used to study meaning and symbolically structured forms of experience at many different substantive levels: from analysis of singular meaningful actions to analysis of themes and discourses that distinguish an…
Critical Ethnography and Ecological Psychology
The authors present a conceptual analysis and a demonstration of the synthesis of two methodologies, set in two very different academic traditions, in a single research design used to investigate an academic department: Carspecken's five-stage critical qualitative research (CQR) and Barker's Behavior Setting Survey (BSS). They show that (a) conceptually, constructs associated with the BSS can be relocated within CQR as contributions to its theory…
Critical Ethnography and Education
Preface / Geoffrey Walford -- Critical ethnographies from Houston: distinctive features and directions / Phil Francis Carspecken -- Between the lines: constructing parallel levels of meaning and identity in discussions about multicultural literature / Joan Parker-Webster -- The class clown and negotiated epistemology in a classroom / Judy Radigan -- Instructional supervision: collaborative power, super power or visionary power? / Ruth Silva -- A …
Reform and Resistance in Schools and Classrooms
Reform and Resistance in Schools and Classrooms: An Ethnographic View of the Coalition of Essential Schools. Donna E. Muncey and Patrick J. McQuillan New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996. 320 pp
Being, Doing, and Becoming
The study of social identity can unlock many features of local culture. This article presents a theoretical model of social identity as a pragmatic text iterated within routine social interaction. Identities are repeatedly claimed during social life as part of the pragmatic infrastructures through which humans interact. Qualitative researchers can study social identity through direct observations of social life and through encouraging participant…
How a minority of the minority succeed
Twenty highly successful Hispanic High School students were studied ethnographically for half of their junior year and all of their senior year. Ten were male, ten were female. All had come from low socio‐economic backgrounds with no role models of educational achievement in their immediate families. This study examines the key life events and cultural conditions that played a part in these students’ school careers. The identities and interpretat…
Pragmatic binary oppositions and intersubjectivity in an illegally occupied school
This paper analyzes ethnographic data collected on a school that was illegally occupied and run by a militant working‐class community. The study focuses on the pragmatic infrastructures through which communicative acts were constructed between the participants. The infrastructures display a structure of binary identity oppositions that were linked across settings in relations of homology. In addition, assumptions and beliefs the activists held ab…
Being, Doing, and Becoming
The study of social identity can unlock many features of local culture. This article presents a theoretical model of social identity as a pragmatic text iterated within routine social interaction. Identities are repeatedly claimed during social life as part of the pragmatic infrastructures through which humans interact. Qualitative researchers can study social identity through direct observations of social life and through encouraging participant…
Critical Ethnography and Ecological Psychology
The authors present a conceptual analysis and a demonstration of the synthesis of two methodologies, set in two very different academic traditions, in a single research design used to investigate an academic department: Carspecken's five-stage critical qualitative research (CQR) and Barker's Behavior Setting Survey (BSS). They show that (a) conceptually, constructs associated with the BSS can be relocated within CQR as contributions to its theory…
Reform and Resistance in Schools and Classrooms
Reform and Resistance in Schools and Classrooms: An Ethnographic View of the Coalition of Essential Schools. Donna E. Muncey and Patrick J. McQuillan New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996. 320 pp
How a minority of the minority succeed
Twenty highly successful Hispanic High School students were studied ethnographically for half of their junior year and all of their senior year. Ten were male, ten were female. All had come from low socio‐economic backgrounds with no role models of educational achievement in their immediate families. This study examines the key life events and cultural conditions that played a part in these students’ school careers. The identities and interpretat…
Reconstructive Analyses
Reconstructive analysis refers to a specific method of analyzing qualitative data based primarily on principles from universal pragmatics and critical theory, but employing adapted insights from hermeneutics and structuralism as well. It is used to study meaning and symbolically structured forms of experience at many different substantive levels: from analysis of singular meaningful actions to analysis of themes and discourses that distinguish an…
Pragmatic binary oppositions and intersubjectivity in an illegally occupied school
This paper analyzes ethnographic data collected on a school that was illegally occupied and run by a militant working‐class community. The study focuses on the pragmatic infrastructures through which communicative acts were constructed between the participants. The infrastructures display a structure of binary identity oppositions that were linked across settings in relations of homology. In addition, assumptions and beliefs the activists held ab…
Pragmatic binary oppositions and intersubjectivity in an illegally occupied school
This paper analyzes ethnographic data collected on a school that was illegally occupied and run by a militant working‐class community. The study focuses on the pragmatic infrastructures through which communicative acts were constructed between the participants. The infrastructures display a structure of binary identity oppositions that were linked across settings in relations of homology. In addition, assumptions and beliefs the activists held ab…
How a minority of the minority succeed
Twenty highly successful Hispanic High School students were studied ethnographically for half of their junior year and all of their senior year. Ten were male, ten were female. All had come from low socio‐economic backgrounds with no role models of educational achievement in their immediate families. This study examines the key life events and cultural conditions that played a part in these students’ school careers. The identities and interpretat…
Being, Doing, and Becoming
The study of social identity can unlock many features of local culture. This article presents a theoretical model of social identity as a pragmatic text iterated within routine social interaction. Identities are repeatedly claimed during social life as part of the pragmatic infrastructures through which humans interact. Qualitative researchers can study social identity through direct observations of social life and through encouraging participant…
Reform and Resistance in Schools and Classrooms
Reform and Resistance in Schools and Classrooms: An Ethnographic View of the Coalition of Essential Schools. Donna E. Muncey and Patrick J. McQuillan New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996. 320 pp
Critical Ethnography and Education
Preface / Geoffrey Walford -- Critical ethnographies from Houston: distinctive features and directions / Phil Francis Carspecken -- Between the lines: constructing parallel levels of meaning and identity in discussions about multicultural literature / Joan Parker-Webster -- The class clown and negotiated epistemology in a classroom / Judy Radigan -- Instructional supervision: collaborative power, super power or visionary power? / Ruth Silva -- A …
Critical Ethnography and Ecological Psychology
The authors present a conceptual analysis and a demonstration of the synthesis of two methodologies, set in two very different academic traditions, in a single research design used to investigate an academic department: Carspecken's five-stage critical qualitative research (CQR) and Barker's Behavior Setting Survey (BSS). They show that (a) conceptually, constructs associated with the BSS can be relocated within CQR as contributions to its theory…
Love in the Time of Ethnography
Love in the Time of Ethnography explores love – variously defined – as an important facet of human life and a worthy focus of study. The authors look at love in association with an Alevi and Sunni couple in Turkey, organizers of Mexican American and immigrant youth movements, Christian missionaries in China, an elderly man with dementia, two women “coming home” to queer identity, a White researcher working with Black women in the US, the common g…
Reconstructive Analyses
Reconstructive analysis refers to a specific method of analyzing qualitative data based primarily on principles from universal pragmatics and critical theory, but employing adapted insights from hermeneutics and structuralism as well. It is used to study meaning and symbolically structured forms of experience at many different substantive levels: from analysis of singular meaningful actions to analysis of themes and discourses that distinguish an…
A Review on Carspecken’s Critical Ethnography
Critical ethnography is a research methodology that examines the influence of elements of power and domination on production, reproduction, and reflection in social life. Although researchers have used critical ethnography as a way to describe and represent culture in recent decades, methodological challenges have hindered the spread of critical ethnographic research. Among recent researchers, Carspecken has played a significant role in the devel…
Sociology (9 works) · Anthropology (6 works) · Ethnography (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (3 works)