Jodi O’brien
Biographic Data
| ID | 98719 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jodi O’brien |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jodi |
| FAMILY NAME | O’brien |
| SIGNATURE | O’BRIEN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Seattle University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1944-7967 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 77 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Ken Plummer Memorial
Jodi O'Brien remembers Ken Plummer
Seeing Agnes
In this article, I revisit Harold Garfinkel's classic ethnomethodological account of Agnes, a transgender woman he met in the 1950s. I situate this case in its larger historical context, within the arc of a contemporary transgender studies, and incorporate recent material from bio‐neuro‐cultural studies of gender and sexuality. Within this framework I ask: what can ethnomethodology learn from transgender studies and what can it contribute
Heterosexism and Homophobia
Seldom Told Tales from the Field
Sociology as an Epistemology of Contradiction
Human social life is messy, and as a result the practice of sociology is filled with tension, contradiction, conflict, and ambiguity. As a discipline, sociology has generated excellent theories and methodologies for dealing with this complexity. This presidential address suggests that the impact and resonance of sociological knowledge is enhanced further when we open ourselves to the tensions and contradictions we experience personally in our wor…
Afterword
A Sociology of Religion and Homosexuality
Clashes of Christianity and sexuality have been front page news contenders for the past several months. Recently, a handful of U.S. Catholic Bishops indicated that they intend to take seriously a missive from the Pope stating that Catholics who disagree with church teaching on matters of abortion and same-sex marriage should not receive Holy Communion. In one extreme case, a Denver Bishop has proclaimed that Catholics who vote for politicians who…
Wrestling the Angel of contradiction
This ethnographically based article is about the ways in which individuals who choose to remain in mainstream Christian denominations while being out about their sexuality make sense of and manage the presumed discontinuity of homosexuality and Christianity. In this article I focus specifically on the processes whereby lesbian and gay Christians forge an integration of Christian doctrine, spirituality and sexuality. My central interpretive claim …
Social Prisms
Live Sex Acts
To Be or Not to Be
Roberts, Keith A. 1993. Toward a Sociology ofWriting. Teaching Sociology 21:317-24. Schwehn, Mark R. 1993. Exilesfrom Eden. NewYork: Oxford University Press. Smith, David Horton and Michael A. Malec. 1995. Learning Students' Names in Sociology Classes: Interactive Tactics, Who Uses Them. Teaching Sociology 23:280-86. Taylor, Charles, 1989. Sources ofthe Self Cambridge: Harvard University Press. . 1991. The Malaise ofModernity. Concord, Ontario: T…
Changing the subject
Current research, science fiction, and wishful thinking suggest that cyberspace will be a realm in which physical markers such as sex, race, age, body type, and size will eventually lose their salience as a basis for the categorization of self/other. Because these features are not obviously discernible in cyberspace, the logic runs, they will cease to be a primary means of structuring interaction. Here is a typically hopeful expression of the pot…
Sociology for the Student as Public
Teachers and Teaching
Part 1 Setting the stage: frames of reflection - an introduction, Hugh Munby and Tom Russell the significance of teachers' frames for teaching, Douglas Barnes. Part 2 Reflection in teaching: collaborative reflection, systematic enquiry, better teaching, John R. Baird a cognitive analysis of patterns in science instruction by expert and novice teachers, Hilda Borko et al. Part 3 Reflection in cases of teaching: philosophical, subject matter, and c…
Money, Morals and Manners
Wrestling the Angel of contradiction
This ethnographically based article is about the ways in which individuals who choose to remain in mainstream Christian denominations while being out about their sexuality make sense of and manage the presumed discontinuity of homosexuality and Christianity. In this article I focus specifically on the processes whereby lesbian and gay Christians forge an integration of Christian doctrine, spirituality and sexuality. My central interpretive claim …
Afterword
Sociology as an Epistemology of Contradiction
Human social life is messy, and as a result the practice of sociology is filled with tension, contradiction, conflict, and ambiguity. As a discipline, sociology has generated excellent theories and methodologies for dealing with this complexity. This presidential address suggests that the impact and resonance of sociological knowledge is enhanced further when we open ourselves to the tensions and contradictions we experience personally in our wor…
Seldom Told Tales from the Field
Seeing Agnes
In this article, I revisit Harold Garfinkel's classic ethnomethodological account of Agnes, a transgender woman he met in the 1950s. I situate this case in its larger historical context, within the arc of a contemporary transgender studies, and incorporate recent material from bio‐neuro‐cultural studies of gender and sexuality. Within this framework I ask: what can ethnomethodology learn from transgender studies and what can it contribute
To Be or Not to Be
Roberts, Keith A. 1993. Toward a Sociology ofWriting. Teaching Sociology 21:317-24. Schwehn, Mark R. 1993. Exilesfrom Eden. NewYork: Oxford University Press. Smith, David Horton and Michael A. Malec. 1995. Learning Students' Names in Sociology Classes: Interactive Tactics, Who Uses Them. Teaching Sociology 23:280-86. Taylor, Charles, 1989. Sources ofthe Self Cambridge: Harvard University Press. . 1991. The Malaise ofModernity. Concord, Ontario: T…
Teachers and Teaching
Part 1 Setting the stage: frames of reflection - an introduction, Hugh Munby and Tom Russell the significance of teachers' frames for teaching, Douglas Barnes. Part 2 Reflection in teaching: collaborative reflection, systematic enquiry, better teaching, John R. Baird a cognitive analysis of patterns in science instruction by expert and novice teachers, Hilda Borko et al. Part 3 Reflection in cases of teaching: philosophical, subject matter, and c…
Money, Morals and Manners
Sociology for the Student as Public
To Be or Not to Be
Roberts, Keith A. 1993. Toward a Sociology ofWriting. Teaching Sociology 21:317-24. Schwehn, Mark R. 1993. Exilesfrom Eden. NewYork: Oxford University Press. Smith, David Horton and Michael A. Malec. 1995. Learning Students' Names in Sociology Classes: Interactive Tactics, Who Uses Them. Teaching Sociology 23:280-86. Taylor, Charles, 1989. Sources ofthe Self Cambridge: Harvard University Press. . 1991. The Malaise ofModernity. Concord, Ontario: T…
Changing the subject
Current research, science fiction, and wishful thinking suggest that cyberspace will be a realm in which physical markers such as sex, race, age, body type, and size will eventually lose their salience as a basis for the categorization of self/other. Because these features are not obviously discernible in cyberspace, the logic runs, they will cease to be a primary means of structuring interaction. Here is a typically hopeful expression of the pot…
Live Sex Acts
Social Prisms
Wrestling the Angel of contradiction
This ethnographically based article is about the ways in which individuals who choose to remain in mainstream Christian denominations while being out about their sexuality make sense of and manage the presumed discontinuity of homosexuality and Christianity. In this article I focus specifically on the processes whereby lesbian and gay Christians forge an integration of Christian doctrine, spirituality and sexuality. My central interpretive claim …
A Sociology of Religion and Homosexuality
Clashes of Christianity and sexuality have been front page news contenders for the past several months. Recently, a handful of U.S. Catholic Bishops indicated that they intend to take seriously a missive from the Pope stating that Catholics who disagree with church teaching on matters of abortion and same-sex marriage should not receive Holy Communion. In one extreme case, a Denver Bishop has proclaimed that Catholics who vote for politicians who…
Afterword
Sociology as an Epistemology of Contradiction
Human social life is messy, and as a result the practice of sociology is filled with tension, contradiction, conflict, and ambiguity. As a discipline, sociology has generated excellent theories and methodologies for dealing with this complexity. This presidential address suggests that the impact and resonance of sociological knowledge is enhanced further when we open ourselves to the tensions and contradictions we experience personally in our wor…
Seldom Told Tales from the Field
Heterosexism and Homophobia
Seeing Agnes
In this article, I revisit Harold Garfinkel's classic ethnomethodological account of Agnes, a transgender woman he met in the 1950s. I situate this case in its larger historical context, within the arc of a contemporary transgender studies, and incorporate recent material from bio‐neuro‐cultural studies of gender and sexuality. Within this framework I ask: what can ethnomethodology learn from transgender studies and what can it contribute
Ken Plummer Memorial
Jodi O'Brien remembers Ken Plummer
Sociology (12 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Epistemology (9 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (4 works) · Political science (4 works)