Nancy J Herman
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 84899 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Nancy J Herman |
| PRENOMES | Nancy J |
| SOBRENOME | Herman |
| ASSINATURA | HERMAN N J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Central Michigan University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 9 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 56 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1984 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1998 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Qualitative Methods
Resistance Among Ex-Psychiatric Patients
Symbolic interaction has increasingly emphasized cultural domination and resistance, human agency, and the variety of ways power and inequality are reproduced. How subjects construct social meanings under oppressive conditions has become a major research focus. This study reconceptualizes deviance in light of the above. Descriptive data were collected during two periods of research (1980-85; 1989-1991) on the posthospital worlds of psychiatric pa…
New Ethnographies
Return to Sender
With the exception of a few studies, little systematic attention has been given to individuals in their postdeviant careers. Drawing on data collected through participant observation and informal interviews with 146 nonchronic ex-psychiatric patients, this article explicates dimensions of their exit process and social reintegration. Specifically, attention is given to ex-patients' perceptions of mental illness as a stigmatizable/stigmatizing attr…
The Homeless Mentally Ill
Sociology of Mental Disorder
The positive consequences of stigma
Mixed nutters' and 'Looney tuners
This study systematically examines the rise and nature of two subcultures of discharged, chronic psychiatric patients, and the various positive and negative functions such subcultural formations serve for their members. Participant observation and informal interviewing over a three year period with ninety‐seven chronic ex‐psychiatric patients provides an ethnographic description of the structural and interactional factors giving rise to the devel…
Conflict in the Church
While the social network analytic approach has gained increasing popularity, it has been employed rather infrequently in the study of the social organization of religious groups. This study uses the analytic approach developed by H. C. White and his collaborators (1975, 1976a) to examine and interpret patterns both within and across social networks of members of a small Anglican congregation. The blockmodel interpretation of the data, coupled wit…
Return to Sender
With the exception of a few studies, little systematic attention has been given to individuals in their postdeviant careers. Drawing on data collected through participant observation and informal interviews with 146 nonchronic ex-psychiatric patients, this article explicates dimensions of their exit process and social reintegration. Specifically, attention is given to ex-patients' perceptions of mental illness as a stigmatizable/stigmatizing attr…
The positive consequences of stigma
Resistance Among Ex-Psychiatric Patients
Symbolic interaction has increasingly emphasized cultural domination and resistance, human agency, and the variety of ways power and inequality are reproduced. How subjects construct social meanings under oppressive conditions has become a major research focus. This study reconceptualizes deviance in light of the above. Descriptive data were collected during two periods of research (1980-85; 1989-1991) on the posthospital worlds of psychiatric pa…
Mixed nutters' and 'Looney tuners
This study systematically examines the rise and nature of two subcultures of discharged, chronic psychiatric patients, and the various positive and negative functions such subcultural formations serve for their members. Participant observation and informal interviewing over a three year period with ninety‐seven chronic ex‐psychiatric patients provides an ethnographic description of the structural and interactional factors giving rise to the devel…
Conflict in the Church
While the social network analytic approach has gained increasing popularity, it has been employed rather infrequently in the study of the social organization of religious groups. This study uses the analytic approach developed by H. C. White and his collaborators (1975, 1976a) to examine and interpret patterns both within and across social networks of members of a small Anglican congregation. The blockmodel interpretation of the data, coupled wit…
Conflict in the Church
While the social network analytic approach has gained increasing popularity, it has been employed rather infrequently in the study of the social organization of religious groups. This study uses the analytic approach developed by H. C. White and his collaborators (1975, 1976a) to examine and interpret patterns both within and across social networks of members of a small Anglican congregation. The blockmodel interpretation of the data, coupled wit…
Mixed nutters' and 'Looney tuners
This study systematically examines the rise and nature of two subcultures of discharged, chronic psychiatric patients, and the various positive and negative functions such subcultural formations serve for their members. Participant observation and informal interviewing over a three year period with ninety‐seven chronic ex‐psychiatric patients provides an ethnographic description of the structural and interactional factors giving rise to the devel…
Sociology of Mental Disorder
The positive consequences of stigma
The Homeless Mentally Ill
Return to Sender
With the exception of a few studies, little systematic attention has been given to individuals in their postdeviant careers. Drawing on data collected through participant observation and informal interviews with 146 nonchronic ex-psychiatric patients, this article explicates dimensions of their exit process and social reintegration. Specifically, attention is given to ex-patients' perceptions of mental illness as a stigmatizable/stigmatizing attr…
New Ethnographies
Qualitative Methods
Resistance Among Ex-Psychiatric Patients
Symbolic interaction has increasingly emphasized cultural domination and resistance, human agency, and the variety of ways power and inequality are reproduced. How subjects construct social meanings under oppressive conditions has become a major research focus. This study reconceptualizes deviance in light of the above. Descriptive data were collected during two periods of research (1980-85; 1989-1991) on the posthospital worlds of psychiatric pa…
Sociology (8 obras) · Psychology (7 obras) · Social Psychology (4 obras) · Social Psychology (4 obras) · Social science (4 obras) · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control (3 obras) · Criminology (3 obras) · Political science (3 obras) · Anthropology (2 obras) · Ethnography (2 obras)