Dennis Brissett
Biographic Data
| ID | 94368 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dennis Brissett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dennis |
| FAMILY NAME | Brissett |
| SIGNATURE | BRISSETT D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minnesota, Duluth |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 224 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
A nation of meddlers
This book examines the emergent meddling phenomenon with insightful and provocative descriptions about why meddling is so appealing and how meddling is packaged and marketed. It is a testimony to a life filled with accomplishment, loyalty, friendship, laughter, and love
Boredom: Where the Future Isn't
This article examines the experience and meaning of boredom in modern society. Boredom is understood as an experience of a lack of momentum or flow in a person's life. Boredom is conceptualized as an interactional phenomenon that is inextricably connected to social rhythm. The communication of boredom is examined with respect to its consequences in self and motive presentation. The article also describes those features of contemporary American li…
Health Nazis and the Cult of the Perfect Body: Some Polemical Observations
Sex as god's work
Pauses: Explorations in Social Rhythm
Despite the ubiquity of pauses in the personal and social fabric of everyday life, sociological analysis of this phenomenon has been limited in both scope and concern. In this article it is argued that pausing should not be relegated to the status of a residual category nor should pauses merely be conceptualized as breaks in action or periods of inactivity. Rather, it is suggested that pauses are an essential element of the social rhythm that dem…
Excuses: Masquerades in Search of Grace
Introduction to the Percheron Press Edition 1. Browsing Through the Excuses Costume Shop 2. The Philosophical Backdrop to the Excuse Masquerade 3. Theory of Excuses: Positive Images for Adults and Others 4. Retrospective Excuses: Masquerades for the Past 5. Anticipatory Excuses: Masquerades for the Future 6. The Excuse-Making Actors: Individual Differences in Locus of Control 7. The Development of Excuse-Making 8. Excuses Gone Awry 9. Interventio…
The third place
Paradise on demand
The big toe, armpits, and natural perfume: Notes on the production of sexual ecstasy
The Natural Health Food Movement: A Study of Revitalization and Conversion
Toward an Interactionist Understanding of Heavy Drinking
Few people would quarrel with the notion that the prevalence of heavy drinking in American society constitutes a serious problem. That approximately 1.5 million people in the USA are classified as chronic alcoholics and that about 7.5 million more people drink to the point of significantly interfering with their lives (AMA, 1973) are clear indications that heavy drinking is indeed a social problem of considerable magnitude in this society. This p…
Guidelines for Marital Sex: An Analysis of Fifteen Popular Marriage Manuals
Collective Search for Identity
Vicarious Behavior: Leisure and the Transformation of Playboy Magazine
Collective Behavior: The Sense of a Rubric
This paper is a discussion of the relationship between dramaturgical social psychology and the study of collective behavior. Initially, the relevance of the traditional conceptualization of collective behavior is examined with reference to the questions of the dramaturgical model. The contributions of the collective behaviorists to dramaturgical social psychology and general sociology are then specified
Sex as Work: A Study of Avocational Counseling
This paper examines how sex play is represented in fifteen popular marriage manuals. The authors of these books are viewed as avocational counselors advising Americans about sexual activity in marriage. An analysis revealed that sex play is treated as work by these authors. Those engaged in sexual relations are urged to put forth a great deal of effort. The orgasm is portrayed as the product of marital sex. Other aspects of a job deemed necessary…
The third place
Pauses: Explorations in Social Rhythm
Despite the ubiquity of pauses in the personal and social fabric of everyday life, sociological analysis of this phenomenon has been limited in both scope and concern. In this article it is argued that pausing should not be relegated to the status of a residual category nor should pauses merely be conceptualized as breaks in action or periods of inactivity. Rather, it is suggested that pauses are an essential element of the social rhythm that dem…
Health Nazis and the Cult of the Perfect Body: Some Polemical Observations
Boredom: Where the Future Isn't
This article examines the experience and meaning of boredom in modern society. Boredom is understood as an experience of a lack of momentum or flow in a person's life. Boredom is conceptualized as an interactional phenomenon that is inextricably connected to social rhythm. The communication of boredom is examined with respect to its consequences in self and motive presentation. The article also describes those features of contemporary American li…
Sex as Work: A Study of Avocational Counseling
This paper examines how sex play is represented in fifteen popular marriage manuals. The authors of these books are viewed as avocational counselors advising Americans about sexual activity in marriage. An analysis revealed that sex play is treated as work by these authors. Those engaged in sexual relations are urged to put forth a great deal of effort. The orgasm is portrayed as the product of marital sex. Other aspects of a job deemed necessary…
Collective Behavior: The Sense of a Rubric
This paper is a discussion of the relationship between dramaturgical social psychology and the study of collective behavior. Initially, the relevance of the traditional conceptualization of collective behavior is examined with reference to the questions of the dramaturgical model. The contributions of the collective behaviorists to dramaturgical social psychology and general sociology are then specified
Guidelines for Marital Sex: An Analysis of Fifteen Popular Marriage Manuals
Vicarious Behavior: Leisure and the Transformation of Playboy Magazine
Toward an Interactionist Understanding of Heavy Drinking
Few people would quarrel with the notion that the prevalence of heavy drinking in American society constitutes a serious problem. That approximately 1.5 million people in the USA are classified as chronic alcoholics and that about 7.5 million more people drink to the point of significantly interfering with their lives (AMA, 1973) are clear indications that heavy drinking is indeed a social problem of considerable magnitude in this society. This p…
Sex as Work: A Study of Avocational Counseling
This paper examines how sex play is represented in fifteen popular marriage manuals. The authors of these books are viewed as avocational counselors advising Americans about sexual activity in marriage. An analysis revealed that sex play is treated as work by these authors. Those engaged in sexual relations are urged to put forth a great deal of effort. The orgasm is portrayed as the product of marital sex. Other aspects of a job deemed necessary…
Collective Behavior: The Sense of a Rubric
This paper is a discussion of the relationship between dramaturgical social psychology and the study of collective behavior. Initially, the relevance of the traditional conceptualization of collective behavior is examined with reference to the questions of the dramaturgical model. The contributions of the collective behaviorists to dramaturgical social psychology and general sociology are then specified
Vicarious Behavior: Leisure and the Transformation of Playboy Magazine
Guidelines for Marital Sex: An Analysis of Fifteen Popular Marriage Manuals
Collective Search for Identity
The Natural Health Food Movement: A Study of Revitalization and Conversion
Toward an Interactionist Understanding of Heavy Drinking
Few people would quarrel with the notion that the prevalence of heavy drinking in American society constitutes a serious problem. That approximately 1.5 million people in the USA are classified as chronic alcoholics and that about 7.5 million more people drink to the point of significantly interfering with their lives (AMA, 1973) are clear indications that heavy drinking is indeed a social problem of considerable magnitude in this society. This p…
The big toe, armpits, and natural perfume: Notes on the production of sexual ecstasy
Paradise on demand
The third place
Excuses: Masquerades in Search of Grace
Introduction to the Percheron Press Edition 1. Browsing Through the Excuses Costume Shop 2. The Philosophical Backdrop to the Excuse Masquerade 3. Theory of Excuses: Positive Images for Adults and Others 4. Retrospective Excuses: Masquerades for the Past 5. Anticipatory Excuses: Masquerades for the Future 6. The Excuse-Making Actors: Individual Differences in Locus of Control 7. The Development of Excuse-Making 8. Excuses Gone Awry 9. Interventio…
Sex as god's work
Pauses: Explorations in Social Rhythm
Despite the ubiquity of pauses in the personal and social fabric of everyday life, sociological analysis of this phenomenon has been limited in both scope and concern. In this article it is argued that pausing should not be relegated to the status of a residual category nor should pauses merely be conceptualized as breaks in action or periods of inactivity. Rather, it is suggested that pauses are an essential element of the social rhythm that dem…
Health Nazis and the Cult of the Perfect Body: Some Polemical Observations
Boredom: Where the Future Isn't
This article examines the experience and meaning of boredom in modern society. Boredom is understood as an experience of a lack of momentum or flow in a person's life. Boredom is conceptualized as an interactional phenomenon that is inextricably connected to social rhythm. The communication of boredom is examined with respect to its consequences in self and motive presentation. The article also describes those features of contemporary American li…
A nation of meddlers
This book examines the emergent meddling phenomenon with insightful and provocative descriptions about why meddling is so appealing and how meddling is packaged and marketed. It is a testimony to a life filled with accomplishment, loyalty, friendship, laughter, and love
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