J David Knottnerus
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 116278 |
|---|---|
| NOME | J David Knottnerus |
| PRENOMES | J David |
| SOBRENOME | Knottnerus |
| ASSINATURA | KNOTTNERUS J D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Oklahoma State University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 127 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1980 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2018 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Virtual Rituals
Millions of people worldwide immerse themselves in massive multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs). These games generate large, diverse communities that engage in rituals within the game, completing missions or quests. What role do these MMORPG rituals play in commitment to these gaming communities? To address this question, we extend structural ritualization theory to explain the impact of ritual events and emotion on commitment to commu…
The Khmer Rouge, Ritual and Control
On April 17th 1975 the communist party of Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge, took power and evacuated the cities forcing citizens into the countryside while killing many in an attempt to eradicate members of the previous government of the Khmer Republic, as well as former soldiers, intellectuals, and artists. The Khmer Rouge employed various tactics to increase their power during this time including the elimination of ritual practices such as dance drama…
Ritualized ethnic identity
This study examines identity construction among first-generation Asian Indian immigrants who reside in the Southern Plains region of the United States. Employing structural ritualization theory this study focuses on how three types of ritualized behaviors - regional-ethnic, pan-ethnic, and host - play a crucial role in constructing "multi-ritual" ethnic identity of Indian immigrants. In determining the rank or overall importance of ritualized sym…
Bureaucratic Culture and Escalating World Problems
On the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The Sociological Imagination by C. Wright Mills, the 'bureaucratic ethos' that he described continues to define our world more than ever before. In Bureaucratic Culture and Escalating World Problems eleven contributors systematically continue and develop Mills' broad vision of the scientific method. They analyse escalating bureaucratic barriers that prevent us from solving our many pressing social…
Disruptions in Task Groups
Objective This research addresses the effect of interruptions on task groups; interactions and individual group members’ feelings about the task and the group itself. The interruptions that we consider are not generated from within the group, but have their source outside the group. Emphasizing the theories of structural ritualization, relational cohesion, and productive exchange, we predict that interruptions that have positive, negative, or neu…
Organizational and Leadership Practice of Micro Ethnic Entrepreneurship in Multicultural Context
One of the salient developments in North America’s direct selling industry is the increasing diversity in both distributor and clientele base. It has been frequently noted that direct selling organizations comprised of certain ethnic minorities have been exceptional in terms of stability and growth in contrast to the industry’s reputation for a high turnover rate. Focusing on direct selling organizations led by ethnic entrepreneurs of Chinese imm…
Urban Ritual Events and Coping with Disaster Risk a Case Study of Lalitpur, Nepal
This study analyzes the role of ritual for enhancing the capacity of a community in Nepal to adapt to disaster risk. Personal accounts of 1934 earthquake survivors of Lalitpur City were recorded and analyzed to better understand the social dynamics that occurred during this event. This data was supplemented and expanded upon with more recent interviews, observations, and other forms of evidence concerning the experiences of modern-day residents i…
Exchange, Conflict and Coercion
This study investigates patterns of social relationships involving the Notting Hill Carnival. Two theoretical approaches are employed elementary relations theory and structural ritualization theory - to explain how the carnival has been strategically used in very different ways by various groups to accomplish their objectives. We suggest the Notting Hill Carnival is a special collective ritual event that has played a crucial role in three quite d…
The Orange Order
This study investigates the ritualized practices engaged in by members of the Orange Order in Northern Ireland and how participating in such activities affects group members and that society; for example, how rituals such as parading contribute to the beliefs and ultimately the power of the Orange Order. This study contributes to a growing body of work dealing with the relationship between ritual, symbolism, and power in modern society, in this c…
Illusions of Affection
This research uses 40 ethnographies, biographies, and autobiographies to explore various symbolic themes expressed through everyday interaction in nursing homes. The themes involve bureaucratic concepts such as staff separation, rules, documentation, and efficiency. They also involve ideas of emotional abuse and neglect, like objectification, compassion transgressions, and spiritual negligence. Relying on structural ritualization theory, we argue…
Sacrificing Women
This study addresses issues related to inequality formation and reproduction, especially in regard to gender dynamics operating in a non-western society. Grounded in a post-colonial understanding of urban educated upper and middle class women NGO volunteers in contemporary India, it analyzes how they negotiate new approaches to challenge existing traditional gender roles, yet in critical ways contribute to their reproduction, particularly the tra…
The Social Dynamics of Elder Care
This research concerns nursing home rituals involving bureaucracy and physical neglect. It uses 40 ethnographies, biographies, and autobiographies to explore various symbolic themes expressed through everyday interaction in nursing homes. The themes involve bureaucratic concepts such as staff separation, rules, documentation, and efficiency. They also involve ideas of physical neglect, such as medical dereliction, personal negligence, environment…
Long-term Care Workers and Bureaucracy the Occupational Ritualization of Maltreatment in Nursing Homes and Recommended Policies
This article proposes that occupational rituals are an important part of social life for long-term care workers. Using 40 biographies, autobiographies, and research monographs to examine nursing homes, it reviews various symbolic themes expressed through daily work rituals in nursing homes. The themes involve concepts related to the culture of bureaucracy. This includes staff separation, rules, documentation, efficiency, and meetings. Using struc…
Disaster and deritualization
This study investigates how ritual practices are disrupted in disasters and the ways people deal with those situations. We employ structural ritualization theory to conduct this investigation focusing on deritualization, which refers to the breakdown or loss of ritualized activities that occur in daily life. The thesis of this paper is that ritual practices are disrupted in a disaster leading to the breakdown of action and meaning. Data were coll…
Exposing Enron
This article argues that rituals are an important part of corporate culture. However, they can involve deviance. Employing multiple media sources, this study identifies symbolic themes expressed through daily work rituals at Enron's corporate headquarters. The themes involve risk, gratification, pride, and fantasy imagery. Utilizing structural ritualization theory, this article suggests that ritualized symbolic practices expressing these themes e…
The Need for Theory and the Value of Cooperation
This paper focuses on theory in sociology. I suggest that, notwithstanding the benefits that accrue from the development of theoretical ideas and research in a competitive environment, competition can also have undesirable consequences. I argue that such tendencies should be countered by cooperation in our theoretical and research efforts (e.g., multimethod research). I also advocate the development of formulations that are precise and systematic…
Structure, Culture, and History
Chapter 1 Preface Part 2 Part I. Structural Analysis: Past, Present, and Future Chapter 3 History of Social Structural Analysis Chapter 4 Social Structure: The Future of a Concept Part 5 Part II. Culture and Social Structure Chapter 6 How Are Structures Meaningful? Cultural Sociology and Theories of Structure Chapter 7 Agency, Structure and Deritualization: A Comparative Investigation of Extreme Disruptions of Social Order Chapter 8 Global Power,…
Strategic Ritualization and Ethnicity
This investigation utilizes a theoretical framework that focuses on ritual enactments to examine the ways members of an Italian American community in southeastern Oklahoma use social rituals to achieve different outcomes. Several methodological strategies (especially interviews and historical analysis) are utilized to document how individuals within this ethnic community have, for over the last century, employed numerous rituals to, among other t…
Civility, Rituals, and Exclusion
This study examines the relationship between golf and civility and advances the work of Norbert Elias by providing a theoretically informed analysis of the ritual dynamics involved in the civilizing process. Employing content analysis of texts and other forms of data, the authors examine the origins of American golf between 1894 and 1920 and the way various attributes of civility were expressed in this newly emerging recreational pursuit. This re…
Reproducing Social Structure in Task Groups
The reproduction of social structure occurs with regularity even when it is not in the interest of the group, the individual, or the society This article uses the theories of structural ritualization and expectation states to examine a specific case of social reproduction: the reproduction of hierarchical group procedure and practices in small task groups. The experimental test examines forty-four task groups under three different conditions: a b…
Social Movement Endurance
In this paper we argue that a movement's longevity depends on its ability to develop and sustain a strong sense of collective identity. We investigate social movement endurance by examining the Rastafari, whose membership is comprised primarily of disadvantaged Jamaicans of African descent. While many social movements fade after a short-lived peak, the Rastafari not only has persisted, but it also has become globally important. Despite its radica…
Plantation Society and Race Relations
For more than three hundred years, the American South was essentially a plantation society, in which the plantation system penetrated all aspects of social, cultural, economic, and political life. During this period, plantation slavery evolved into the key institutional component of Southern society and played an integral role in its development. This interdisciplinary collection of essays provides a sociological framework for the interpretation …
Beyond the Pales of Babylon
While resource mobilization theory has been the dominant paradigm for the study of social movements in the last several decades, critics contend that it is flawed because it glosses over the role of ideational elements in the development of such collective ventures. As a corrective to the weaknesses of this approach, we utilize a recently developed social psychological framework derived from the social constructionist perspective and the new soci…
The Works of Peter M. Blau
This paper examines the fundamental theoretical approaches and research interests of Peter M. Blau by focusing upon three distinct stages in his work: exchange theory, status attainment theory, and macrostructural theory. A discussion of four general issues reveals various continuities and transitions in these analytical strategies. The features examined are (a) research interests in social stratification, (b) investigative strategies, (c) analyt…
Current Perspectives in Social Theory. Supplement 1
Status Attainment Research and its Image of Society
This paper delineates the image of society underlying status attainment research as found in the formulations of Blau and Duncan and the Wisconsin research program of Sewell and associates. The image of the social structure and social actor underlying this research tradition is influenced by certain popular themes in post-World War II sociological thought. Society is depicted as fluid, stable, and becoming increasingly middle class due to technol…
Strategic Ritualization and Ethnicity
This investigation utilizes a theoretical framework that focuses on ritual enactments to examine the ways members of an Italian American community in southeastern Oklahoma use social rituals to achieve different outcomes. Several methodological strategies (especially interviews and historical analysis) are utilized to document how individuals within this ethnic community have, for over the last century, employed numerous rituals to, among other t…
Plantation Society and Race Relations
For more than three hundred years, the American South was essentially a plantation society, in which the plantation system penetrated all aspects of social, cultural, economic, and political life. During this period, plantation slavery evolved into the key institutional component of Southern society and played an integral role in its development. This interdisciplinary collection of essays provides a sociological framework for the interpretation …
Virtual Rituals
Millions of people worldwide immerse themselves in massive multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs). These games generate large, diverse communities that engage in rituals within the game, completing missions or quests. What role do these MMORPG rituals play in commitment to these gaming communities? To address this question, we extend structural ritualization theory to explain the impact of ritual events and emotion on commitment to commu…
Sacrificing Women
This study addresses issues related to inequality formation and reproduction, especially in regard to gender dynamics operating in a non-western society. Grounded in a post-colonial understanding of urban educated upper and middle class women NGO volunteers in contemporary India, it analyzes how they negotiate new approaches to challenge existing traditional gender roles, yet in critical ways contribute to their reproduction, particularly the tra…
The Need for Theory and the Value of Cooperation
This paper focuses on theory in sociology. I suggest that, notwithstanding the benefits that accrue from the development of theoretical ideas and research in a competitive environment, competition can also have undesirable consequences. I argue that such tendencies should be countered by cooperation in our theoretical and research efforts (e.g., multimethod research). I also advocate the development of formulations that are precise and systematic…
Exposing Enron
This article argues that rituals are an important part of corporate culture. However, they can involve deviance. Employing multiple media sources, this study identifies symbolic themes expressed through daily work rituals at Enron's corporate headquarters. The themes involve risk, gratification, pride, and fantasy imagery. Utilizing structural ritualization theory, this article suggests that ritualized symbolic practices expressing these themes e…
Civility, Rituals, and Exclusion
This study examines the relationship between golf and civility and advances the work of Norbert Elias by providing a theoretically informed analysis of the ritual dynamics involved in the civilizing process. Employing content analysis of texts and other forms of data, the authors examine the origins of American golf between 1894 and 1920 and the way various attributes of civility were expressed in this newly emerging recreational pursuit. This re…
Social Life Through Literature
This paper presents a strategy for utilizing literary documents for the purpose of social description and analysis. It is argued that literature in the realist tradition can be used to generate a "literary ethnography" or composite portrait of social and historical phenomena. This is accomplished through the identification of dominant themes within a collection of literary works. A six stage procedure and set of guidelines for conducting such an …
The Orange Order
This study investigates the ritualized practices engaged in by members of the Orange Order in Northern Ireland and how participating in such activities affects group members and that society; for example, how rituals such as parading contribute to the beliefs and ultimately the power of the Orange Order. This study contributes to a growing body of work dealing with the relationship between ritual, symbolism, and power in modern society, in this c…
Reproducing Social Structure in Task Groups
The reproduction of social structure occurs with regularity even when it is not in the interest of the group, the individual, or the society This article uses the theories of structural ritualization and expectation states to examine a specific case of social reproduction: the reproduction of hierarchical group procedure and practices in small task groups. The experimental test examines forty-four task groups under three different conditions: a b…
Disaster and deritualization
This study investigates how ritual practices are disrupted in disasters and the ways people deal with those situations. We employ structural ritualization theory to conduct this investigation focusing on deritualization, which refers to the breakdown or loss of ritualized activities that occur in daily life. The thesis of this paper is that ritual practices are disrupted in a disaster leading to the breakdown of action and meaning. Data were coll…
The Effects of Differential Evaluations on Status Generalization
This research examines the nature of the evaluation process that underlies status generalization. Expectation-states theory presents a formal theoretical explanation of how and why status characteristics initiate inequalities in power and prestige. A central concept in this formulation is the differentially-evaluated characteristic, which allows for generalization to specific performance expectations. The assumption that status generalization res…
Ritualized ethnic identity
This study examines identity construction among first-generation Asian Indian immigrants who reside in the Southern Plains region of the United States. Employing structural ritualization theory this study focuses on how three types of ritualized behaviors - regional-ethnic, pan-ethnic, and host - play a crucial role in constructing "multi-ritual" ethnic identity of Indian immigrants. In determining the rank or overall importance of ritualized sym…
The Social Dynamics of Elder Care
This research concerns nursing home rituals involving bureaucracy and physical neglect. It uses 40 ethnographies, biographies, and autobiographies to explore various symbolic themes expressed through everyday interaction in nursing homes. The themes involve bureaucratic concepts such as staff separation, rules, documentation, and efficiency. They also involve ideas of physical neglect, such as medical dereliction, personal negligence, environment…
Beyond the Pales of Babylon
While resource mobilization theory has been the dominant paradigm for the study of social movements in the last several decades, critics contend that it is flawed because it glosses over the role of ideational elements in the development of such collective ventures. As a corrective to the weaknesses of this approach, we utilize a recently developed social psychological framework derived from the social constructionist perspective and the new soci…
The status of sociology departments
This paper examines the present and future status of sociology departments in the United States. An assessment is provided of both positive developments and problems experienced by departments and the discipline in general. Issues examined include student enrollment and degree recipients over the last two decades, enrollment trends in other disciplines, recent trends in advertised sociology faculty positions, the status of women and minorities, a…
A Critique of Expectation States Theory
Expectation states theory and one of its major branches, status characteristics theory, have been some of the most active research programs within sociological social psychology in recent years. Unfortunately, little attention has been given to the theoretical assumptions underlying these programs and the way social cognition and status generalization are depicted. It is argued that structural functionalist theory and the information processing p…
The Melanesian Cargo Cults
This research examines Smelser's value-added theory of collective behavior. According to Smelser, six determinants are necessary for the development of a social movement: structural conduciveness, structural strain, generalized beliefs, precipitating factors, mobilization of participants, and social control. As a test of this analytic framework, two Melanesian cargo cult movements and the general history of these movements are investigated. On th…
The Khmer Rouge, Ritual and Control
On April 17th 1975 the communist party of Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge, took power and evacuated the cities forcing citizens into the countryside while killing many in an attempt to eradicate members of the previous government of the Khmer Republic, as well as former soldiers, intellectuals, and artists. The Khmer Rouge employed various tactics to increase their power during this time including the elimination of ritual practices such as dance drama…
Exchange, Conflict and Coercion
This study investigates patterns of social relationships involving the Notting Hill Carnival. Two theoretical approaches are employed elementary relations theory and structural ritualization theory - to explain how the carnival has been strategically used in very different ways by various groups to accomplish their objectives. We suggest the Notting Hill Carnival is a special collective ritual event that has played a crucial role in three quite d…
Social Movement Endurance
In this paper we argue that a movement's longevity depends on its ability to develop and sustain a strong sense of collective identity. We investigate social movement endurance by examining the Rastafari, whose membership is comprised primarily of disadvantaged Jamaicans of African descent. While many social movements fade after a short-lived peak, the Rastafari not only has persisted, but it also has become globally important. Despite its radica…
Status and Performance Characteristics in Social Interaction
J. David Knottnerus, Theodore N. Greenstein, Status and Performance Characteristics in Social Interaction: A Theory of Status Validation, Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 44, No. 4 (Dec., 1981), pp. 338-349
Illusions of Affection
This research uses 40 ethnographies, biographies, and autobiographies to explore various symbolic themes expressed through everyday interaction in nursing homes. The themes involve bureaucratic concepts such as staff separation, rules, documentation, and efficiency. They also involve ideas of emotional abuse and neglect, like objectification, compassion transgressions, and spiritual negligence. Relying on structural ritualization theory, we argue…
The Works of Peter M. Blau
This paper examines the fundamental theoretical approaches and research interests of Peter M. Blau by focusing upon three distinct stages in his work: exchange theory, status attainment theory, and macrostructural theory. A discussion of four general issues reveals various continuities and transitions in these analytical strategies. The features examined are (a) research interests in social stratification, (b) investigative strategies, (c) analyt…
The Effects of Differential Evaluations on Status Generalization
This research examines the nature of the evaluation process that underlies status generalization. Expectation-states theory presents a formal theoretical explanation of how and why status characteristics initiate inequalities in power and prestige. A central concept in this formulation is the differentially-evaluated characteristic, which allows for generalization to specific performance expectations. The assumption that status generalization res…
Status and Performance Characteristics in Social Interaction
J. David Knottnerus, Theodore N. Greenstein, Status and Performance Characteristics in Social Interaction: A Theory of Status Validation, Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 44, No. 4 (Dec., 1981), pp. 338-349
The Melanesian Cargo Cults
This research examines Smelser's value-added theory of collective behavior. According to Smelser, six determinants are necessary for the development of a social movement: structural conduciveness, structural strain, generalized beliefs, precipitating factors, mobilization of participants, and social control. As a test of this analytic framework, two Melanesian cargo cult movements and the general history of these movements are investigated. On th…
Emile Durkheim
Despite a resurgence of interest in Durkheim, insufficient attention has been directed toward his social morphology. The result is an underestimation of the role of history in his sociology and conception of unified science. The author argues that from the earliest stages of his intellectual career Durkheim displayed a sensitivity to the value of historical investigation for social explanation. This interest, reflecting various influences in the …
Status Attainment Research and its Image of Society
This paper delineates the image of society underlying status attainment research as found in the formulations of Blau and Duncan and the Wisconsin research program of Sewell and associates. The image of the social structure and social actor underlying this research tradition is influenced by certain popular themes in post-World War II sociological thought. Society is depicted as fluid, stable, and becoming increasingly middle class due to technol…
A Critique of Expectation States Theory
Expectation states theory and one of its major branches, status characteristics theory, have been some of the most active research programs within sociological social psychology in recent years. Unfortunately, little attention has been given to the theoretical assumptions underlying these programs and the way social cognition and status generalization are depicted. It is argued that structural functionalist theory and the information processing p…
Status attainment's image of society
In this article, I assess the validity of the optimistic image of modern, mass, industrial society underlying status‐attainment research as found in the formulations of Blau and Duncan and the Wisconsin research program of Sewell and associates. Three issues are examined: the role of individual factors, the way social‐structural factors are conceptualized, and the possibility that historical developments at the societal and global levels are chan…
Youth Society in Early Modern France
This study examines the youth society which was created in the lycées and collèges of France in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Using literary and social-historical records the personal and social experiences of youth in this milieu are delineated. A literary ethnography is constructed that presents a composite portrait of these actors'lives and society. In addition to certain beliefs, practices, and rules, authoritarian/coercive re…
Social Life Through Literature
This paper presents a strategy for utilizing literary documents for the purpose of social description and analysis. It is argued that literature in the realist tradition can be used to generate a "literary ethnography" or composite portrait of social and historical phenomena. This is accomplished through the identification of dominant themes within a collection of literary works. A six stage procedure and set of guidelines for conducting such an …
The status of sociology departments
This paper examines the present and future status of sociology departments in the United States. An assessment is provided of both positive developments and problems experienced by departments and the discipline in general. Issues examined include student enrollment and degree recipients over the last two decades, enrollment trends in other disciplines, recent trends in advertised sociology faculty positions, the status of women and minorities, a…
Current Perspectives in Social Theory. Supplement 1
Description, Explanation and Understanding
Calamity bay men and barbed wire friends, enemies and the polite fiction cliques and cabals micropolitics the sociology of industry sociological explanation consumer behaviour the revolt of the privileged public service and private world leisure in industrial society the organization of public opinion sovereignty, interests and bureaucracy in the modern state
Theoretical Research Programs
The Works of Peter M. Blau
This paper examines the fundamental theoretical approaches and research interests of Peter M. Blau by focusing upon three distinct stages in his work: exchange theory, status attainment theory, and macrostructural theory. A discussion of four general issues reveals various continuities and transitions in these analytical strategies. The features examined are (a) research interests in social stratification, (b) investigative strategies, (c) analyt…
Beyond the Pales of Babylon
While resource mobilization theory has been the dominant paradigm for the study of social movements in the last several decades, critics contend that it is flawed because it glosses over the role of ideational elements in the development of such collective ventures. As a corrective to the weaknesses of this approach, we utilize a recently developed social psychological framework derived from the social constructionist perspective and the new soci…
Plantation Society and Race Relations
For more than three hundred years, the American South was essentially a plantation society, in which the plantation system penetrated all aspects of social, cultural, economic, and political life. During this period, plantation slavery evolved into the key institutional component of Southern society and played an integral role in its development. This interdisciplinary collection of essays provides a sociological framework for the interpretation …
Reproducing Social Structure in Task Groups
The reproduction of social structure occurs with regularity even when it is not in the interest of the group, the individual, or the society This article uses the theories of structural ritualization and expectation states to examine a specific case of social reproduction: the reproduction of hierarchical group procedure and practices in small task groups. The experimental test examines forty-four task groups under three different conditions: a b…
Social Movement Endurance
In this paper we argue that a movement's longevity depends on its ability to develop and sustain a strong sense of collective identity. We investigate social movement endurance by examining the Rastafari, whose membership is comprised primarily of disadvantaged Jamaicans of African descent. While many social movements fade after a short-lived peak, the Rastafari not only has persisted, but it also has become globally important. Despite its radica…
Civility, Rituals, and Exclusion
This study examines the relationship between golf and civility and advances the work of Norbert Elias by providing a theoretically informed analysis of the ritual dynamics involved in the civilizing process. Employing content analysis of texts and other forms of data, the authors examine the origins of American golf between 1894 and 1920 and the way various attributes of civility were expressed in this newly emerging recreational pursuit. This re…
Structure, Culture, and History
Chapter 1 Preface Part 2 Part I. Structural Analysis: Past, Present, and Future Chapter 3 History of Social Structural Analysis Chapter 4 Social Structure: The Future of a Concept Part 5 Part II. Culture and Social Structure Chapter 6 How Are Structures Meaningful? Cultural Sociology and Theories of Structure Chapter 7 Agency, Structure and Deritualization: A Comparative Investigation of Extreme Disruptions of Social Order Chapter 8 Global Power,…
Strategic Ritualization and Ethnicity
This investigation utilizes a theoretical framework that focuses on ritual enactments to examine the ways members of an Italian American community in southeastern Oklahoma use social rituals to achieve different outcomes. Several methodological strategies (especially interviews and historical analysis) are utilized to document how individuals within this ethnic community have, for over the last century, employed numerous rituals to, among other t…
The Need for Theory and the Value of Cooperation
This paper focuses on theory in sociology. I suggest that, notwithstanding the benefits that accrue from the development of theoretical ideas and research in a competitive environment, competition can also have undesirable consequences. I argue that such tendencies should be countered by cooperation in our theoretical and research efforts (e.g., multimethod research). I also advocate the development of formulations that are precise and systematic…
Exposing Enron
This article argues that rituals are an important part of corporate culture. However, they can involve deviance. Employing multiple media sources, this study identifies symbolic themes expressed through daily work rituals at Enron's corporate headquarters. The themes involve risk, gratification, pride, and fantasy imagery. Utilizing structural ritualization theory, this article suggests that ritualized symbolic practices expressing these themes e…
Long-term Care Workers and Bureaucracy the Occupational Ritualization of Maltreatment in Nursing Homes and Recommended Policies
This article proposes that occupational rituals are an important part of social life for long-term care workers. Using 40 biographies, autobiographies, and research monographs to examine nursing homes, it reviews various symbolic themes expressed through daily work rituals in nursing homes. The themes involve concepts related to the culture of bureaucracy. This includes staff separation, rules, documentation, efficiency, and meetings. Using struc…
Disaster and deritualization
This study investigates how ritual practices are disrupted in disasters and the ways people deal with those situations. We employ structural ritualization theory to conduct this investigation focusing on deritualization, which refers to the breakdown or loss of ritualized activities that occur in daily life. The thesis of this paper is that ritual practices are disrupted in a disaster leading to the breakdown of action and meaning. Data were coll…
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