Sherryl Kleinman
Biographic Data
| ID | 95555 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sherryl Kleinman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sherryl |
| FAMILY NAME | Kleinman |
| SIGNATURE | KLEINMAN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9676-857X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 50 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 500 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 50 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
We've Come a Long Way, Guys! Rhetorics of Resistance to the Feminist Critique of Sexist Language
We provide a qualitative analysis of resistance to calls for gender-neutral language. We analyzed more than 900 comments responding to two essays-one on AlterNet and another on Vox posted to the Vox editor's Facebook page-that critiqued a pervasive male-based generic, 'you guys.' Five rhetorics of resistance are discussed: appeals to origins, appeals to linguistic authority, appeals to aesthetics, appeals to intentionality and inclusivity, and ap…
The Gift of a Vocation: Learning, Writing, and Teaching Sociology
To write a sociological festschrift for a scholar necessarily means looking at a chain of influence instead of one person. In this essay, I honor William Shaffir, Emeritus Professor of Sociology at McMaster University, who taught me as I worked towards the MA. I examine what I learned from him by starting with my undergraduate experiences at McGill University, where Billy (I never heard anyone call him William) received his PhD. We shared influe…
Towards a feminist symbolic interactionism
In this chapter, we will discuss trends in feminist symbolic interactionism and offer a critique of some of the recent work. Specifically, we will address scholarship that highlights expressions of ‘individual agency’ and ‘personal choice’ while ignoring how those choices are shaped and constrained by women’s subordination in the gender order as well as in racial and class hierarchies. What are the negative consequences of some of those ‘choices’…
Passion and Paranoia: Emotions and the Culture of Emotion in Academia
Opposing “both sides”: Rhetoric, reproductive rights, and control of a campus women's center
Traps on the Path of Analysis
Qualitative researchers experience common traps as we build our analyses. These traps include (1) becoming attached to studies related to our topic; (2) feeling overly sympathetic toward participants; (3) unknowingly taking on lay assumptions and beliefs; and (4) falling into subjectivism. These categories are neither exhaustive nor mutually exclusive but represent the stumbling blocks we have encountered in our research and in others' work. We e…
Denying Social Harm: Students' Resistance to Lessons About Inequality
Students share folk beliefs that make it difficult for them to understand inequality, especially the harmful consequences of social practices they routinely engage in, are attached to, and take for granted. Four of these beliefs include: (a) harm is direct, extreme, and the product of an individual's intentions; (2) harm is the product of the psyche; (3) for harm to occur, there must be an individual to blame; (4) beliefs and practices that stude…
Feminist Fieldwork Analysis
"This book teaches researchers how to think in terms of the feminist perspective and how to translate their research into feminist practice and analysis. This "tricks of the trade" guide gives researchers the principles for doing qualitative work, examples of solid feminist studies, and analytic questions to help identify feminist issues while in the field or at the desk. This is an excellent supplementary text for advanced undergraduate and grad…
Making Sexism Visible: Birdcages, Martians, and Pregnant Men
This paper offers six strategies for dealing with students' resistance to learning about the oppression of women: making the familiar strange, substituting race for sex, distinguishing between intentions and consequences, imagining men in women's bodies, exposing students' claims of equal gender oppression as false parallels, and analyzing some of women's desires as instances of false power. These teaching strategies, along with Marilyn Frye's (1…
Older Sister
Opposing Ambitions: Gender and Identity in an Alternative Organization
This chapter contains sections titled: Money as Moral Currency A Physician's Reflected Glory Money-talk as Moral Currency Fund-Raising as Failure Wrong and Right Ways to Talk about Money Keeping Things the Same
Essay: Why Sexist Language Matters
Always Rinse Twice
Opposing Ambitions: Gender and Identity in an Alternative Organization
Opposing Ambitions: Gender and Identity in an Alternative Organization
Essaying the Personal: Making Sociological Stories Stick
Abortion at Work: Ideology and Practice in a Feminist Clinic
Qualitatively Different: Teaching Fieldwork to Graduate Students
What is it like to teach qualitative methods to graduate students in predominantly quantitative departments? We draw on our experiences teaching fieldwork in three departments to show that folk notions of science-ideas about how scientific work should be done-make it difficult to teach an inductive approach to fieldwork. Specifically, these folk notions make it hard for students to take an open approach to their studies, use their emotions in dev…
Emotions and Fieldwork: Qualitative Research Methods
Privileging Fieldwork Over Interviews: Consequences for Identity and Practice
Qualitative sociologists typically privilege fieldwork over interviews. What happens to fieldworkers who now ask questions but no longer hang out? What about those who rely exclusively on intensive interviewing while participant observation remains the standard? The authors examine the negative consequences of privileging fieldwork for identity and practice, the unique contributions of in-depth interviewing, and the differences in the tales that …
Emotions and Fieldwork
Introduction Fieldworkers as Professionals Immersion vs Analytic Ideals Feelings about Participants Conclusions
The Textual Turn
Culturally Speaking: Carolyn Ellis' 'There are Survivors
Mixed Messages: Emotions in the Modern Era
The Sociology of Emotions: Original Essays and Research Papers, Edited by David D. Franks and E. Doyle McCarthy
Making work matter: Satisfied detectives and dissatisfied campus police
Managing Emotions in Medical School: Students' Contacts with the Living and the Dead
Professionals are not supposed to feel desire or disgust for their clients, and they presumably begin to learn affective neutrality in professional school. Medical students learn to manage the inappropriate feelings they have in situations of clinical contact with the human body, but two years of participant observation revealed that the subject of is taboo. Yet the culture of medicine that informs teaching also includes a hidden curriculum of un…
Rethinking Subculture: An Interactionist Analysis
Subculture, despite the term's wide usage in sociology, has not proved to be a very satisfactory explanatory concept. Several problems in previous subculture research are discussed: (1) the confusion between subculture and subsociety, (2) the lack of a meaningful referent for subculture, (3) the homogeneity and stasis associated with the concept, and (4) the emphasis on defining subcultures in terms of values and central themes. It is argued that…
Network and Meaning: An Interactionist Approach to Structure
Social network is a concept interactionists might use to link individual behavior to the larger social system. A symbolic interactionist formulation of network would: 1) approximate the original, anthropological usage better than the current structural conception does, 2) offer symbolic interactionists a unit of social organization better suited to their perspective than the small group, and 3) allow symbolic interactionists to deal with 'macro' …
The Highs and Lows of Emotional Labor: Detectives' Encounters With Criminals and Victims
Sociologists have conceived of emotional labor as alienating. In-depth interviews with general investigative detectives revealed that even within the same occupation workers may find some emotional labor alienating, but other emotional labor bearable or even enjoyable. The detectives we studied disliked their encounters with victims, but enjoyed their encounters with criminals. The detectives discounted criminals' emotional displays as inauthenti…
Interpreting the Sociological Classics: Can There Be a 'True' Meaning of Mead
Many sociologists have tried in vain to find the 'true' meaning of the classic works in the discipline. An interactionist perspective suggests that this search is not a valid one for sociologists, especially symbolic interactionists. Although there can be no 'true' meaning, some authors use conventions of writing that make their work more or less clear. Using Mead's Mind, Self and Society as an example, we discuss the dimensions of clarity. We th…
Denying Social Harm: Students' Resistance to Lessons About Inequality
Students share folk beliefs that make it difficult for them to understand inequality, especially the harmful consequences of social practices they routinely engage in, are attached to, and take for granted. Four of these beliefs include: (a) harm is direct, extreme, and the product of an individual's intentions; (2) harm is the product of the psyche; (3) for harm to occur, there must be an individual to blame; (4) beliefs and practices that stude…
Collective Matters as Individual Concerns: Peer Culture among Graduate Students
When will recruits in socializing settings develop group culture rooted in their situationally relevant identity? Studies show that certain structural situations, such as competition, impede the development of peer culture, while more collectively oriented situations make the development of group culture more likely. Similarly, socializers' ideology of collective or individual work affects the existence and content of peer culture. A study of a f…
Making Sexism Visible: Birdcages, Martians, and Pregnant Men
This paper offers six strategies for dealing with students' resistance to learning about the oppression of women: making the familiar strange, substituting race for sex, distinguishing between intentions and consequences, imagining men in women's bodies, exposing students' claims of equal gender oppression as false parallels, and analyzing some of women's desires as instances of false power. These teaching strategies, along with Marilyn Frye's (1…
Essay: Why Sexist Language Matters
Privileging Fieldwork Over Interviews: Consequences for Identity and Practice
Qualitative sociologists typically privilege fieldwork over interviews. What happens to fieldworkers who now ask questions but no longer hang out? What about those who rely exclusively on intensive interviewing while participant observation remains the standard? The authors examine the negative consequences of privileging fieldwork for identity and practice, the unique contributions of in-depth interviewing, and the differences in the tales that …
Qualitatively Different: Teaching Fieldwork to Graduate Students
What is it like to teach qualitative methods to graduate students in predominantly quantitative departments? We draw on our experiences teaching fieldwork in three departments to show that folk notions of science-ideas about how scientific work should be done-make it difficult to teach an inductive approach to fieldwork. Specifically, these folk notions make it hard for students to take an open approach to their studies, use their emotions in dev…
Making work matter: Satisfied detectives and dissatisfied campus police
Symbolic Interactionism vs. Ethnomethodology
Are ethnomethodology and symbolic interactionism essentially the same? An examination of these perspectives suggests that each offers a unique contribution to sociological knowledge. Although both perspectives have been influenced by pragmatism, ethnomethodology shares affinity with James' philosophy while symbolic interactionism is allied with Dewey's and Mead's. Both perspectives emphasize meaning and constraints, but each offers critically dif…
Traps on the Path of Analysis
Qualitative researchers experience common traps as we build our analyses. These traps include (1) becoming attached to studies related to our topic; (2) feeling overly sympathetic toward participants; (3) unknowingly taking on lay assumptions and beliefs; and (4) falling into subjectivism. These categories are neither exhaustive nor mutually exclusive but represent the stumbling blocks we have encountered in our research and in others' work. We e…
Actors' Conflicting Theories of Negotiation: The Case of a Holistic Health Center
Rhetorics and Action in Moral Organizations: Social Control of Little Leaguers and Ministry Students
We've Come a Long Way, Guys! Rhetorics of Resistance to the Feminist Critique of Sexist Language
We provide a qualitative analysis of resistance to calls for gender-neutral language. We analyzed more than 900 comments responding to two essays-one on AlterNet and another on Vox posted to the Vox editor's Facebook page-that critiqued a pervasive male-based generic, 'you guys.' Five rhetorics of resistance are discussed: appeals to origins, appeals to linguistic authority, appeals to aesthetics, appeals to intentionality and inclusivity, and ap…
The Textual Turn
Opposing “both sides”: Rhetoric, reproductive rights, and control of a campus women's center
Women in Seminary: Dilemmas of Professional Socialization
Rubin, Z. 1980 Friendships. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Scheflen, A. E. and N. Ashcraft 1976 Human Territories. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall. Schwartz, B. 1968 The social psychology of privacy. American Journal of Sociology 73:741-52. Secord, P., C. Backman, and D. Slavitt 1976 Understanding Social Life. New York: McGraw-Hill. Selman, R. L. and A. P. Selman 1979 Children's ideas about friendship: A new theory. Psychology Today…
Mass and Specialized Media: Reply to Corzine
Always Rinse Twice
Essaying the Personal: Making Sociological Stories Stick
Culturally Speaking: Carolyn Ellis' 'There are Survivors
Rhetorics and Action in Moral Organizations: Social Control of Little Leaguers and Ministry Students
Rethinking Subculture: An Interactionist Analysis
Subculture, despite the term's wide usage in sociology, has not proved to be a very satisfactory explanatory concept. Several problems in previous subculture research are discussed: (1) the confusion between subculture and subsociety, (2) the lack of a meaningful referent for subculture, (3) the homogeneity and stasis associated with the concept, and (4) the emphasis on defining subcultures in terms of values and central themes. It is argued that…
Making Professionals into "Persons": Discrepancies in Traditional and Humanistic Expectations of Professional Identity
What happens to people who are assuming a master status for which audiences have discrepant expectations, when socializers also emphasize that recruits take the desires of all audiences into account? A participant observation and in-depth interview study of ministry students in a humanistically oriented seminary revealed that these students received discrepant expectations for the professional identity from organizational personnel (the humanisti…
Mass and Specialized Media: Reply to Corzine
Actors' Conflicting Theories of Negotiation: The Case of a Holistic Health Center
Network and Meaning: An Interactionist Approach to Structure
Social network is a concept interactionists might use to link individual behavior to the larger social system. A symbolic interactionist formulation of network would: 1) approximate the original, anthropological usage better than the current structural conception does, 2) offer symbolic interactionists a unit of social organization better suited to their perspective than the small group, and 3) allow symbolic interactionists to deal with 'macro' …
Symbolic Interactionism vs. Ethnomethodology
Are ethnomethodology and symbolic interactionism essentially the same? An examination of these perspectives suggests that each offers a unique contribution to sociological knowledge. Although both perspectives have been influenced by pragmatism, ethnomethodology shares affinity with James' philosophy while symbolic interactionism is allied with Dewey's and Mead's. Both perspectives emphasize meaning and constraints, but each offers critically dif…
Collective Matters as Individual Concerns: Peer Culture among Graduate Students
When will recruits in socializing settings develop group culture rooted in their situationally relevant identity? Studies show that certain structural situations, such as competition, impede the development of peer culture, while more collectively oriented situations make the development of group culture more likely. Similarly, socializers' ideology of collective or individual work affects the existence and content of peer culture. A study of a f…
Women in Seminary: Dilemmas of Professional Socialization
Rubin, Z. 1980 Friendships. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Scheflen, A. E. and N. Ashcraft 1976 Human Territories. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall. Schwartz, B. 1968 The social psychology of privacy. American Journal of Sociology 73:741-52. Secord, P., C. Backman, and D. Slavitt 1976 Understanding Social Life. New York: McGraw-Hill. Selman, R. L. and A. P. Selman 1979 Children's ideas about friendship: A new theory. Psychology Today…
Equals before God, Seminarians as Humanistic Professionals
Making Sense of Interpretations: Response to Rawls on the Debate Between Symbolic Interactions and Ethnomethodology
Equals before God: Seminarians as Humanistic Professionals
Women Clergy: Breaking Through Gender Barriers
Equals before God: Seminarians as Humanistic Professionals
Interpreting the Sociological Classics: Can There Be a 'True' Meaning of Mead
Many sociologists have tried in vain to find the 'true' meaning of the classic works in the discipline. An interactionist perspective suggests that this search is not a valid one for sociologists, especially symbolic interactionists. Although there can be no 'true' meaning, some authors use conventions of writing that make their work more or less clear. Using Mead's Mind, Self and Society as an example, we discuss the dimensions of clarity. We th…
Equals Before God: Seminarians as Humanistic Professionals
Equals before God: Seminarians as Humanistic Professionals
Journal Article Equals Before God: Seminarians as Humanistic Professionals, by Sherryl Kleinman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984, ix + 133 pp. $15 Get access Richard E. Denison, Jr. Richard E. Denison, Jr. Trinity United Methodist ChurchHummelstown, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 48, Issue 3, Fall 1987, Pages 284–285, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711526 Pu…
Equals before God: Seminarians as Humanistic Professionals
Protest: Studies of Collective Behavior and Social Movements.John Lofland
Emotions, Reflexivity, and Action: An Interactionist Analysis
Uniforms and Nonuniforms: Communication through Clothing
Invisible Careers: Women Civic Leaders from the Volunteer World, by Arlene Kaplan Daniels
Managing Emotions in Medical School: Students' Contacts with the Living and the Dead
Professionals are not supposed to feel desire or disgust for their clients, and they presumably begin to learn affective neutrality in professional school. Medical students learn to manage the inappropriate feelings they have in situations of clinical contact with the human body, but two years of participant observation revealed that the subject of is taboo. Yet the culture of medicine that informs teaching also includes a hidden curriculum of un…
Speaking of Friendship: Middle-Class Women and Their Friends
The Highs and Lows of Emotional Labor: Detectives' Encounters With Criminals and Victims
Sociologists have conceived of emotional labor as alienating. In-depth interviews with general investigative detectives revealed that even within the same occupation workers may find some emotional labor alienating, but other emotional labor bearable or even enjoyable. The detectives we studied disliked their encounters with victims, but enjoyed their encounters with criminals. The detectives discounted criminals' emotional displays as inauthenti…
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