Danny L Jorgensen
Biographic Data
| ID | 86737 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Danny L Jorgensen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Danny L |
| FAMILY NAME | Jorgensen |
| SIGNATURE | JORGENSEN D L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Florida |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 116 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Participant Observation
Participant observation (a mainstay of ethnography, fieldwork, and field research) is a method of study whereby the researcher becomes immersed in the ebb and flow of the phenomenon being investigated. The participant observer may be overt or covert and perform a variety of passive and active roles, including membership, aimed at securing rapport and acquiring truthful information about the lifeways of societal members. Records of the participant…
Life and Times of John Pierce Hawley: Mormon Ulysses of the American West
Book Review| January 01 2020 Life and Times of John Pierce Hawley: Mormon Ulysses of the American West Melvin C. Johnson. Life and Times of John Pierce Hawley: Mormon Ulysses of the American West. Salt Lake City, UT: Greg Kofford Books, 2019. xvii + 210 pp. Appendices, bibliography, index. Paperback: $24.99. Hardcover: $34.95. Danny L. Jorgensen Danny L. Jorgensen Reviewed by DANNY L. JORGENSEN (PhD, sociology, Ohio State, 1979) is professor emer…
Principles, Approaches and Issues in Participant Observation
This book provides a succinct, student-friendly outline of the principles, approaches, and issues in participant observation. An examination of these basic tenets is important for clarifying the philosophical rationale for conducting participant observation, making important research decisions, and appreciating the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches within the method. Participant observation as a formal means of inquiry is developed…
Participant Observation
Investigating the meanings of human existence as they are constructed and enacted by people in everyday life situations and settings presents serious challenges for all forms of human studies. Participant observation, whereby the researcher interacts with people in everyday life while collecting information, is a unique method for investigating the enormously rich, complex, conflictual, problematic, and diverse experiences, thoughts, feelings, an…
An Amish Paradox: Diversity and Change in the World's Largest Amish Community
Daughters of the Goddess: Studies of Healing, Identity, and Empowerment
Journal Article Daughters of the Goddess: Studies of Healing, Identity, and Empowerment, by Wendy Griffin (ed.). Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 2000, 236pp., $62.00 (cloth), $24.95 (paper) Get access Danny L. Jorgensen Danny L. Jorgensen Department of Religious Studies University of South Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 62, Issue 3, Fall 2001, Pages 405–407, https:/…
Gender-Inclusive Images of God: A Sociological Interpretation of Early Shakerism and Mormonism
Research Article| October 01 2000 Gender-Inclusive Images of God: A Sociological Interpretation of Early Shakerism and Mormonism Danny L. Jorgensen Danny L. Jorgensen Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nova Religio (2000) 4 (1): 66–85. https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2000.4.1.66 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Ic…
The Cutlerites of Southwestern Iowa: A Latter-Day Saint Schism and Its Role in the Early Settlement of Iowa
ALPHEUS CUTLER (1784-1864) and about one hundred devoted followers formally organized the schismatic Church of Jesus Christ (Cutlerite) in southwestern Iowa on September 19, 1853. These people, known popularly as "Cutlerites" after their primary leader, were Latter-day Saint {LDS or Mormor\) dissenters.' Shortly after the martyrdom of Joseph Smith Jr., the founding LDS prophet, in 1844, the future Cutlerites initially accepted Brigham Young's lea…
American Neopaganism: The Participants' Social Identities
Social characteristics of Neopagans from across the United States are described on the basis 643 self-administered questionnaires. A majority of these new religionists are young to middle-aged adults; a slight majority are women; and most of them are white, working-class to middle-class, urbanites. Except for their rejection of traditional religion and selection of this innovative alternative, they are rather ordinary Americans. Neopaganism canno…
The Esoteric Scene, Cultic Milieu, and Occult Tarot
New Ethnographies
New Ethnographies
Generally, reviews of new ethnographies or methods texts are solicited and compiled by the New Ethnographies editor. The preferred form, unless specified otherwise is an 800 to 1,000 word critical essay addressing theoretical, methodological, and/or substantive contributions of recently published materials relevant to ethnographic inquiry. Unsolicited reviews are welcome, but without the assurance of publication. Abstracts of Ph.D. dissertations …
Interpretive Interactionism
Participant Observation: A Methodology for Human Studies
Participant Observation: A Methodology for Human Studies
While providing an introduction to basic principles and strategies, this volume also explores the philosophy and methodology underlying the practice of participant observation. Taking a practical approach to the methods of participant observation, Jorgensen illustrates these methods with classic and current research studies
Early Mormonism and the Magical World View
God's Choice: The Total World of a Fundamentalist Christina School.Alan Peshkin
Divinatory Discourse
Using data from an ethnographic study oftarot divination, occult claims to knowledge are analyzed and interpreted. Attention is focused on theproceduresparties to occult divination employ to claim and sustain what they regard as extraordinary knowledge. This view of occult knowledge stands opposed to efforts to discredit occult claims as unscientific or the result of psychosocial conditions like deprivation and marginality. Like knowledge in gene…
The Esoteric Community: An Ethnographic Investigation of the Cultic Milieu
Social Meanings of the Occult
Data from a participant-observational study of the tarot are used to explore the social meanings of modern occultism and to examine certain rival contentions about these beliefs, practices, adherents, and the manner in which activities are or are not organized socially. Unlike collective behavioral audiences, which employ occultisms as a form of popular entertainment, the occult practitioners reported here participate in an “esoteric community” i…
Networks of Occultists: Comment on Stark and Bainbridge
The social construction and interpretation of deviance: Jonestown and the mass media
This paper reports on an investigation and analysis of social reactions to the events of November 1978 in Jonestown, Guyana. Critical attention is focused on the manner in which an official reality of these events was fashioned and presented by the mass media. Findings support the contention that the resulting interpretation was highly selective and stylized. Reasons for the symbolic construction of this reality of Jonestown are explored and rela…
The Social Construction of Professional Knowledge: Social Work Ideology, 1956-1973
This paper reports on patterns and trends of ideological advocacy in social work. Findings from a content analysis of Social Work indicate that conceptions of this service profession have changed over a recent eighteen year period. Changes in professional meanings are analyzed in terms of authors' educational status, employment setting, and the problematic topics they discussed. This analysis supports a process model of reality construction in pr…
Participant Observation: A Methodology for Human Studies
While providing an introduction to basic principles and strategies, this volume also explores the philosophy and methodology underlying the practice of participant observation. Taking a practical approach to the methods of participant observation, Jorgensen illustrates these methods with classic and current research studies
Participant Observation
Investigating the meanings of human existence as they are constructed and enacted by people in everyday life situations and settings presents serious challenges for all forms of human studies. Participant observation, whereby the researcher interacts with people in everyday life while collecting information, is a unique method for investigating the enormously rich, complex, conflictual, problematic, and diverse experiences, thoughts, feelings, an…
American Neopaganism: The Participants' Social Identities
Social characteristics of Neopagans from across the United States are described on the basis 643 self-administered questionnaires. A majority of these new religionists are young to middle-aged adults; a slight majority are women; and most of them are white, working-class to middle-class, urbanites. Except for their rejection of traditional religion and selection of this innovative alternative, they are rather ordinary Americans. Neopaganism canno…
The Esoteric Community: An Ethnographic Investigation of the Cultic Milieu
Social Meanings of the Occult
Data from a participant-observational study of the tarot are used to explore the social meanings of modern occultism and to examine certain rival contentions about these beliefs, practices, adherents, and the manner in which activities are or are not organized socially. Unlike collective behavioral audiences, which employ occultisms as a form of popular entertainment, the occult practitioners reported here participate in an “esoteric community” i…
Divinatory Discourse
Using data from an ethnographic study oftarot divination, occult claims to knowledge are analyzed and interpreted. Attention is focused on theproceduresparties to occult divination employ to claim and sustain what they regard as extraordinary knowledge. This view of occult knowledge stands opposed to efforts to discredit occult claims as unscientific or the result of psychosocial conditions like deprivation and marginality. Like knowledge in gene…
An Amish Paradox: Diversity and Change in the World's Largest Amish Community
Interpretive Interactionism
Networks of Occultists: Comment on Stark and Bainbridge
The Social Construction of Professional Knowledge: Social Work Ideology, 1956-1973
This paper reports on patterns and trends of ideological advocacy in social work. Findings from a content analysis of Social Work indicate that conceptions of this service profession have changed over a recent eighteen year period. Changes in professional meanings are analyzed in terms of authors' educational status, employment setting, and the problematic topics they discussed. This analysis supports a process model of reality construction in pr…
The social construction and interpretation of deviance: Jonestown and the mass media
This paper reports on an investigation and analysis of social reactions to the events of November 1978 in Jonestown, Guyana. Critical attention is focused on the manner in which an official reality of these events was fashioned and presented by the mass media. Findings support the contention that the resulting interpretation was highly selective and stylized. Reasons for the symbolic construction of this reality of Jonestown are explored and rela…
Networks of Occultists: Comment on Stark and Bainbridge
The Esoteric Community: An Ethnographic Investigation of the Cultic Milieu
Social Meanings of the Occult
Data from a participant-observational study of the tarot are used to explore the social meanings of modern occultism and to examine certain rival contentions about these beliefs, practices, adherents, and the manner in which activities are or are not organized socially. Unlike collective behavioral audiences, which employ occultisms as a form of popular entertainment, the occult practitioners reported here participate in an “esoteric community” i…
Divinatory Discourse
Using data from an ethnographic study oftarot divination, occult claims to knowledge are analyzed and interpreted. Attention is focused on theproceduresparties to occult divination employ to claim and sustain what they regard as extraordinary knowledge. This view of occult knowledge stands opposed to efforts to discredit occult claims as unscientific or the result of psychosocial conditions like deprivation and marginality. Like knowledge in gene…
God's Choice: The Total World of a Fundamentalist Christina School.Alan Peshkin
Early Mormonism and the Magical World View
Participant Observation: A Methodology for Human Studies
While providing an introduction to basic principles and strategies, this volume also explores the philosophy and methodology underlying the practice of participant observation. Taking a practical approach to the methods of participant observation, Jorgensen illustrates these methods with classic and current research studies
New Ethnographies
Generally, reviews of new ethnographies or methods texts are solicited and compiled by the New Ethnographies editor. The preferred form, unless specified otherwise is an 800 to 1,000 word critical essay addressing theoretical, methodological, and/or substantive contributions of recently published materials relevant to ethnographic inquiry. Unsolicited reviews are welcome, but without the assurance of publication. Abstracts of Ph.D. dissertations …
Interpretive Interactionism
Participant Observation: A Methodology for Human Studies
New Ethnographies
The Esoteric Scene, Cultic Milieu, and Occult Tarot
The Cutlerites of Southwestern Iowa: A Latter-Day Saint Schism and Its Role in the Early Settlement of Iowa
ALPHEUS CUTLER (1784-1864) and about one hundred devoted followers formally organized the schismatic Church of Jesus Christ (Cutlerite) in southwestern Iowa on September 19, 1853. These people, known popularly as "Cutlerites" after their primary leader, were Latter-day Saint {LDS or Mormor\) dissenters.' Shortly after the martyrdom of Joseph Smith Jr., the founding LDS prophet, in 1844, the future Cutlerites initially accepted Brigham Young's lea…
American Neopaganism: The Participants' Social Identities
Social characteristics of Neopagans from across the United States are described on the basis 643 self-administered questionnaires. A majority of these new religionists are young to middle-aged adults; a slight majority are women; and most of them are white, working-class to middle-class, urbanites. Except for their rejection of traditional religion and selection of this innovative alternative, they are rather ordinary Americans. Neopaganism canno…
Gender-Inclusive Images of God: A Sociological Interpretation of Early Shakerism and Mormonism
Research Article| October 01 2000 Gender-Inclusive Images of God: A Sociological Interpretation of Early Shakerism and Mormonism Danny L. Jorgensen Danny L. Jorgensen Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nova Religio (2000) 4 (1): 66–85. https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2000.4.1.66 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Ic…
Daughters of the Goddess: Studies of Healing, Identity, and Empowerment
Journal Article Daughters of the Goddess: Studies of Healing, Identity, and Empowerment, by Wendy Griffin (ed.). Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 2000, 236pp., $62.00 (cloth), $24.95 (paper) Get access Danny L. Jorgensen Danny L. Jorgensen Department of Religious Studies University of South Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 62, Issue 3, Fall 2001, Pages 405–407, https:/…
An Amish Paradox: Diversity and Change in the World's Largest Amish Community
Participant Observation
Investigating the meanings of human existence as they are constructed and enacted by people in everyday life situations and settings presents serious challenges for all forms of human studies. Participant observation, whereby the researcher interacts with people in everyday life while collecting information, is a unique method for investigating the enormously rich, complex, conflictual, problematic, and diverse experiences, thoughts, feelings, an…
Life and Times of John Pierce Hawley: Mormon Ulysses of the American West
Book Review| January 01 2020 Life and Times of John Pierce Hawley: Mormon Ulysses of the American West Melvin C. Johnson. Life and Times of John Pierce Hawley: Mormon Ulysses of the American West. Salt Lake City, UT: Greg Kofford Books, 2019. xvii + 210 pp. Appendices, bibliography, index. Paperback: $24.99. Hardcover: $34.95. Danny L. Jorgensen Danny L. Jorgensen Reviewed by DANNY L. JORGENSEN (PhD, sociology, Ohio State, 1979) is professor emer…
Principles, Approaches and Issues in Participant Observation
This book provides a succinct, student-friendly outline of the principles, approaches, and issues in participant observation. An examination of these basic tenets is important for clarifying the philosophical rationale for conducting participant observation, making important research decisions, and appreciating the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches within the method. Participant observation as a formal means of inquiry is developed…
Participant Observation
Participant observation (a mainstay of ethnography, fieldwork, and field research) is a method of study whereby the researcher becomes immersed in the ebb and flow of the phenomenon being investigated. The participant observer may be overt or covert and perform a variety of passive and active roles, including membership, aimed at securing rapport and acquiring truthful information about the lifeways of societal members. Records of the participant…
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