Joseph A Kotarba
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 110501 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Joseph A Kotarba |
| PRENOMES | Joseph A |
| SOBRENOME | Kotarba |
| ASSINATURA | KOTARBA J A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Houston |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5345-8152 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 51 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 162 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 51 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1975 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Existential Sociology
In their chapter, Kotarba and Melnikov propose that existential ideas have historically found a home and even become crucial to theoretical sociology as it has developed. Even so, existentialist ideas have also been “frequently and naively considered as expressions of rebellion, radical subjectivism and irrationalism, that reject abstract scientific method, depersonalized formal logic and social milieu as conditions of authentic existence.” Hence…
Symbolic Interaction and Music
This chapter outlines symbolic interactionist approaches to understanding music with a particular emphasis on the sensitizing concepts of subculture, self, identity, community, scene, sense of place, idioculture, interaction, organization, and authenticity. Sensitizing concepts that serve to illuminate a topic area and to analytically connect across different topic areas are at the heart of the symbolic interactionist perspective. Moving beyond t…
Music in the Course of Life
Art of Memories
The Everyday Life Intersection of Translational Science and Music
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the theoretical relationship between translational science and music. The relationship between science and music has been of great interest to philosophers, historians, and musicologists for centuries. From a sociological perspective, we argue that science and music are closely linked at the level of everyday life in contemporary biomedical science. Translational science is a scientific movement that aims t…
Midcentury America through the Eyes and Ears of Popular Music
Symbolic Interactionist Takes on Music
Socialization, Adult
Socialization refers to the process by which people learn and internalize the attitudes, values, beliefs, and norms of our culture and develop a sense of self. The concept of socialization is among the most important in sociology, because it attempts to illustrate and explain the tremendous impact living in society has on shaping the individual. The individual becomes a human being through socialization, and what it means to be an individual evol…
Existential Sociology
Existential sociology emerged in the 1960s as an alternative to the excesses of abstract objectivism, which was dominant. Writers holding this perspective have attempted to integrate symbolic interactionism's powerful concepts of the self and the situation, phenomenological sociology's emphasis on the social construction of reality, and ethnomethodology's telling critique of conventional sociological theory and methods with an innovative argument…
The Death and Resurrection of Deviance
Are reports of the 'death of deviance' premature? This collection brings together leading international scholars to analyse uses of the 'deviance' concept to argue its vitality and show its possible u
Symbolic Interaction and Applied Social Research
In symbolic interaction, a traditional yet unfortunate and unnecessary distinction has been made between basic and applied research. The argument has been made that basic research is intended to generate new knowledge, whereas applied research is intended to apply knowledge to the solution of practical (social and organizational) problems. I will argue that the distinction between basic and applied research in symbolic interaction is outdated and…
The Culture of Translational Science Research
We apply a symbolic interactionist framework and a qualitative methodology to the examination of the everyday reality of translational science research (TSR). This is a growing scientific movement that aims to facilitate the efficient application of basic research to clinical service design and delivery. We describe the emerging culture of translational research at a mid-size medical center that received a Clinical and Translational Science Award…
Macro-Level Social Forces and Micro-Level Consequences
This article is an empirical examination of the ways in which macro-level social forces have had micro-level consequences in the New Orleans drug market. The article illustrates a clear connection between poverty and entrance into the drug market, as mitigated by race, lack of societal opportunity, lack of social capital, distressed families, and closed neighborhoods. Specifically, the research illustrates the mechanisms by which macro-level soci…
Coda
This coda provides a response to and assessment of the essays in this collection, which take a creative stance by focusing attention on performance itself, as opposed to the composition on one hand or the audience on the other. The effect of such work is to nudge the performance scholar/ethnographer further along the path to becoming an ethnographic and/or performance critic. The scholars here take a very courageous leap on stage where they share…
Existential Sociology
Making Connections
Between August 29 and September 7, 2005, almost all New Orleans residents were evacuated from the area in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. News reports indicate that almost 130,000 New Orleans Evacuees (NOEs) were evacuated to Houston, Texas, the largest recipient of the civilian population from New Orleans. Some of these NOEs were active participants in the illicit drug market in New Orleans prior to the hurricane. The period between the floo…
I'm just as Rock 'n' Roll fan
Critics and fans alike have traditionally viewed popular music, especially in terms of its rock‘n’roll iterations, as a meaning resource for youth navigating through adolescence. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the relevance of popular music for self-identity through middle age and beyond. The theoretical basis for this exploration is a composite of ideas from existential social thought and symbolic interactionist views on aging. Existent…
An Ethnography of Emerging Latino Music Scenes
We report on an ethnographic study of three emerging scenes in which Latino music is produced, performed, experienced, and celebrated in Houston, Texas: rock en Espanol, gay Latino dance music, and professional soccer supporters' music. Music is an important feature of Latino culture, since it informs migration, citizenship, spirituality, and other aspects of the contemporary Latino experience. Three interactionist concepts inform this study. The…
Drugs, Clubs and Young People
Racism and Well-Meaning People
Existential Sociology
Existential sociology emerged in the late 1970s as the most recent version of everyday life sociology. Writers in this perspective have attempted to integrate symbolic interactionism's powerful concepts of the self and the situation, phenomenological sociology's emphasis on the social construction of reality, and ethnomethodology's telling critique of conventional sociological theory and methods, with an innovative argument for the centrality of …
Introduction
Rock 'n' Roll Experiences in Middle Age
Although many observers still assume that rock 'n'roll is essentially a feature of youth culture, the author argues that it is a key feature of adult culture and a primary source of everyday meanings for the first generation raised on it. The concept of the existential self, which focuses on the situational and evolving aspects of individuality in a rapidly changing social world, informs several qualitative studies to produce the following ways t…
Studies in Symbolic Interaction, Vol. 24
Rock 'n' Roll Music as a Timepiece
This essay illustrates the value of time in understanding baby boomers' experiences of rock 'n' roll. In a distinctively interactionist style, I use time as a sensitizing concept in my research on this phenomenon. The orientation that guides this research is methodological tourism, by which the researcher treats something as common and taken-for-granted as rock 'n' roll music in everyday life as strange if not exotic. Structurally, songs about ti…
The Existential self in society
Ethnography and Aids
Ethnography has become an important research method in social scientific efforts to understand AIDS. The relationship between ethnography and AIDS has had numerous consequences on the conduct of ethnographic work: (a) the influx of large-scale government funding; (b) the bureaucratization of the ethnographic team; (c) the need for sophisticated, computerized data management systems; (d) the use of ethnography as a mechanism for empowerment; (e) t…
Social Control Function of Holistic Health Care in Bureaucratic Settings
Workplace wellness participation and the becoming of self
Perceptions of death, belief systems and the process of coping with chronic pain
An Ethnography of Emerging Latino Music Scenes
We report on an ethnographic study of three emerging scenes in which Latino music is produced, performed, experienced, and celebrated in Houston, Texas: rock en Espanol, gay Latino dance music, and professional soccer supporters' music. Music is an important feature of Latino culture, since it informs migration, citizenship, spirituality, and other aspects of the contemporary Latino experience. Three interactionist concepts inform this study. The…
American Acupuncturists
Managing the problem pain patient
Chronic Pain Center
The Social Control of Drinking‐Driving
Rather than being considered merely an illegal act, the drinking‐driving phenomenon can be viewed as a form of social behavior, governed by a set of socially shared rules. This article reports a study which identifies these rules through observation of individuals participating in drinking‐driving behavior in four different settings: a close‐knit neighborhood bar, a neighborhood bar that draws on a larger population, a social club, and “a fairly …
The accomplishment of intimacy in the jail visiting room
Rock 'n' Roll Music as a Timepiece
This essay illustrates the value of time in understanding baby boomers' experiences of rock 'n' roll. In a distinctively interactionist style, I use time as a sensitizing concept in my research on this phenomenon. The orientation that guides this research is methodological tourism, by which the researcher treats something as common and taken-for-granted as rock 'n' roll music in everyday life as strange if not exotic. Structurally, songs about ti…
An Ethnography of an Aids Hospice
This article describes everyday life at a hospice that provides terminal, residential care to persons with AIDS. Data were gathered over 12 months of participant observation and a series of formal interviews. The hospice is a nonprofit organization that receives most of its financial support from local community churches and agencies. The philosophy of the hospice is common to its genre-that is, care for dying patients should be holistic, persona…
Symbolic Interaction and Applied Social Research
In symbolic interaction, a traditional yet unfortunate and unnecessary distinction has been made between basic and applied research. The argument has been made that basic research is intended to generate new knowledge, whereas applied research is intended to apply knowledge to the solution of practical (social and organizational) problems. I will argue that the distinction between basic and applied research in symbolic interaction is outdated and…
Black Men, Black Voices
Black Men, Black Voices is an educational, entertainment, and ethnographic program in which African American male musicians perform a variety of musical styles influenced by the blues idiom (e.g., jazz, gospel, rap, rhythm and blues, zydeco, and hip-hop/spoken word). The artists also discuss their musical careers and the musical and cultural links among their diverse styles of music. This program is an example of synthetic performance ethnography…
Existential Sociology
Existential sociology emerged in the 1960s as an alternative to the excesses of abstract objectivism, which was dominant. Writers holding this perspective have attempted to integrate symbolic interactionism's powerful concepts of the self and the situation, phenomenological sociology's emphasis on the social construction of reality, and ethnomethodology's telling critique of conventional sociological theory and methods with an innovative argument…
Introduction
Rock 'n' Roll Experiences in Middle Age
Although many observers still assume that rock 'n'roll is essentially a feature of youth culture, the author argues that it is a key feature of adult culture and a primary source of everyday meanings for the first generation raised on it. The concept of the existential self, which focuses on the situational and evolving aspects of individuality in a rapidly changing social world, informs several qualitative studies to produce the following ways t…
Thoughts on the Body
Good Days, Bad Days: The Self in Chronic Illness and Time, by Kathy Charmaz.At The Will of The Body: Reflections on Illness, by Arthur W. Frank.The Body: Social Process and Cultural Theory, edited by Mike Featherstone, Mike Hepworth, and Bryan S. Turner
I'm just as Rock 'n' Roll fan
Critics and fans alike have traditionally viewed popular music, especially in terms of its rock‘n’roll iterations, as a meaning resource for youth navigating through adolescence. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the relevance of popular music for self-identity through middle age and beyond. The theoretical basis for this exploration is a composite of ideas from existential social thought and symbolic interactionist views on aging. Existent…
Existential Sociology
Existential sociology emerged in the late 1970s as the most recent version of everyday life sociology. Writers in this perspective have attempted to integrate symbolic interactionism's powerful concepts of the self and the situation, phenomenological sociology's emphasis on the social construction of reality, and ethnomethodology's telling critique of conventional sociological theory and methods, with an innovative argument for the centrality of …
Realities and Relationships
Preface From Individual Knowledge to Communal Construction The Impasse of Individual Knowledge Crisis in Representation and the Emergence of Social Construction Constructionism in Question Social Construction and Moral Orders Criticism and Consequence Social Psychology and the Wrong Revolution The Cultural Consequences of Deficit Discourse Objectivity as Rhetorical Achievement From Self to Relationship Self-Narration in Social Life Emotion as Rel…
How HIV+ Persons Manage Everyday Life in the Hospital and at Home
This article presents findings from an interview-based study of the ways persons living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV) manage their illness in the hospital and at home. The present investigation supports an earlier study that isolated six management styles used in the hospital; summarized in terms of general patient identities, they are the loner, the medic, the time keeper, the activist, the mystic, and the victim. This study discovered another strategy,…
Internships in Nontraditional Health Care Settings
This paper reports on efforts to establish master's-level internships in nontraditional health care settings. With the encouragement of the Medical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association, seven students were placed in the following settings: workplace wellness programs, a center for independent living for the physically handicapped an educational program for unwed adolescent fathers, a health policy organization, a communityba…
Styles of Adolescent Participation in an All-Ages, Rock 'N' Roll Nightclub
American Acupuncturists
The accomplishment of intimacy in the jail visiting room
Reply to Professor Deegan
Chronic Pain Center
Chronic pain
Perceptions of death, belief systems and the process of coping with chronic pain
Social Control Function of Holistic Health Care in Bureaucratic Settings
The Existential self in society
The Social Control of Drinking‐Driving
Rather than being considered merely an illegal act, the drinking‐driving phenomenon can be viewed as a form of social behavior, governed by a set of socially shared rules. This article reports a study which identifies these rules through observation of individuals participating in drinking‐driving behavior in four different settings: a close‐knit neighborhood bar, a neighborhood bar that draws on a larger population, a social club, and “a fairly …
Managing the problem pain patient
Self and Identity Beyond Mainstream Social Psychology
Styles of Adolescent Participation in an All-Ages, Rock 'N' Roll Nightclub
Society and Identity
Workplace wellness participation and the becoming of self
Cut 'n' Mix
Internships in Nontraditional Health Care Settings
This paper reports on efforts to establish master's-level internships in nontraditional health care settings. With the encouragement of the Medical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association, seven students were placed in the following settings: workplace wellness programs, a center for independent living for the physically handicapped an educational program for unwed adolescent fathers, a health policy organization, a communityba…
Ethnography and Aids
Ethnography has become an important research method in social scientific efforts to understand AIDS. The relationship between ethnography and AIDS has had numerous consequences on the conduct of ethnographic work: (a) the influx of large-scale government funding; (b) the bureaucratization of the ethnographic team; (c) the need for sophisticated, computerized data management systems; (d) the use of ethnography as a mechanism for empowerment; (e) t…
A Disease of Society
New Ethnographies
Symbolic Interaction and Cultural Studies
How HIV+ Persons Manage Everyday Life in the Hospital and at Home
This article presents findings from an interview-based study of the ways persons living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV) manage their illness in the hospital and at home. The present investigation supports an earlier study that isolated six management styles used in the hospital; summarized in terms of general patient identities, they are the loner, the medic, the time keeper, the activist, the mystic, and the victim. This study discovered another strategy,…
Thoughts on the Body
Good Days, Bad Days: The Self in Chronic Illness and Time, by Kathy Charmaz.At The Will of The Body: Reflections on Illness, by Arthur W. Frank.The Body: Social Process and Cultural Theory, edited by Mike Featherstone, Mike Hepworth, and Bryan S. Turner
An Ethnography of an Aids Hospice
This article describes everyday life at a hospice that provides terminal, residential care to persons with AIDS. Data were gathered over 12 months of participant observation and a series of formal interviews. The hospice is a nonprofit organization that receives most of its financial support from local community churches and agencies. The philosophy of the hospice is common to its genre-that is, care for dying patients should be holistic, persona…
Realities and Relationships
Preface From Individual Knowledge to Communal Construction The Impasse of Individual Knowledge Crisis in Representation and the Emergence of Social Construction Constructionism in Question Social Construction and Moral Orders Criticism and Consequence Social Psychology and the Wrong Revolution The Cultural Consequences of Deficit Discourse Objectivity as Rhetorical Achievement From Self to Relationship Self-Narration in Social Life Emotion as Rel…
Black Men, Black Voices
Black Men, Black Voices is an educational, entertainment, and ethnographic program in which African American male musicians perform a variety of musical styles influenced by the blues idiom (e.g., jazz, gospel, rap, rhythm and blues, zydeco, and hip-hop/spoken word). The artists also discuss their musical careers and the musical and cultural links among their diverse styles of music. This program is an example of synthetic performance ethnography…
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