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Qualitative sociology

Qualitative Sociology is dedicated to the qualitative interpretation and analysis of social life. The journal offers both theoretical and analytical research, and publishes manuscripts based on research methods such as interviewing, participant observation, ethnography, historical analysis, content analysis and others which do not rely primarily on numerical data.
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Cowboy of the World? Gender Discourse and the Iraq War Debate
<div class="Abstract"><a name="Abs1"></a>Abstract  In this article we examine the debate preceding the most recent war in Iraq to show how gendered framing can compromise the quality of debate. Drawing on a sample of national news discourse in the year before the war began, we show that both anti-war and pro-war speakers draw on binary images of gender to construct their cases for or against war. Speakers cast the Bush administration’s argument for invasion either as a correct “macho” stance or as inappropriate, out-of-control masculinity. The most prominent gendered image in war debate is that of the cowboy, used to characterize both President Bush and US foreign policy in general. The cowboy is positioned against a diplomatic form of masculinity that is associated with Europe and valued by anti-war speakers, but criticized by pro-war speakers. Articles that draw on gender images show a lower quality of the debate, measured by the extent to which reasons rather than ad hominem arguments are used to support or rebut assertions. </div><ul> <li>Content Type Journal Article</li><li>Category SPECIAL ISSUE ON POLITICAL VIOLENCE</li><li>DOI 10.1007/s11133-008-9106-0</li><li>Authors<ul> <li>Wendy M. Christensen, University of Wisconsin Department of Sociology 8128 Sewell Social Science Building, 1180 Observatory Dr. Madison WI 53706 USA</li><li>Myra Marx Ferree, University of Wisconsin Department of Sociology 8128 Sewell Social Science Building, 1180 Observatory Dr. Madison WI 53706 USA</li> </ul></li> </ul><ul class="parents"> <ul class="details"> <li>Journal <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/105337/">Qualitative Sociology</a></li><li>Online ISSN 1573-7837</li><li>Print ISSN 0162-0436</li> </ul> </ul>
Progressive Polemics: Reflections on Four Stimulating Commentaries
Progressive Polemics: Reflections on Four Stimulating Commentaries<ul> <li>Content Type Journal Article</li><li>Category Symposium on McAdam, Tarrow and Tilly's "Measuring Mechanisms of Contention"</li><li>DOI 10.1007/s11133-008-9103-3</li><li>Authors<ul> <li>Doug McAdam, Stanford University Department of Sociology Stanford CA 94305 USA</li><li>Charles Tilly, Columbia University Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science 413 Fayerweather Hall, MC 2552 New York NY 10027-7001 USA</li><li>Sidney Tarrow, Cornell University Department of Government Ithaca NY 14853 USA</li> </ul></li> </ul><ul class="parents"> <ul class="details"> <li>Journal <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/105337/">Qualitative Sociology</a></li><li>Online ISSN 1573-7837</li><li>Print ISSN 0162-0436</li> </ul> </ul>
From Process to Mechanism: Varieties of Disaggregation
From Process to Mechanism: Varieties of Disaggregation<ul> <li>Content Type Journal Article</li><li>Category Symposium on McAdam, Tarrow and Tilly's "Measuring Mechanisms of Contention"</li><li>DOI 10.1007/s11133-008-9102-4</li><li>Authors<ul> <li>Tulia G. Falleti, University of Pennsylvania Department of Political Science 208 South 37th Street, Stiteler Hall, Room 237 Philadelphia PA 19104–6215 USA</li><li>Julia Lynch, University of Pennsylvania Department of Political Science 243 Stiteler Hall Philadelphia PA 19104 USA</li> </ul></li> </ul><ul class="parents"> <ul class="details"> <li>Journal <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/105337/">Qualitative Sociology</a></li><li>Online ISSN 1573-7837</li><li>Print ISSN 0162-0436</li> </ul> </ul>
Seeing Mechanisms in Action
Seeing Mechanisms in Action<ul> <li>Content Type Journal Article</li><li>Category Symposium on McAdam, Tarrow and Tilly's "Measuring Mechanisms of Contention"</li><li>DOI 10.1007/s11133-008-9101-5</li><li>Authors<ul> <li>Suzanne Staggenborg, McGill University Department of Sociology 855 Sherbrooke St. W. Montreal Quebec H3A 2T7 Canada</li> </ul></li> </ul><ul class="parents"> <ul class="details"> <li>Journal <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/105337/">Qualitative Sociology</a></li><li>Online ISSN 1573-7837</li><li>Print ISSN 0162-0436</li> </ul> </ul>
Modeling Mechanisms of Contention: MTT’s Positivist Constructivism
Modeling Mechanisms of Contention: MTT’s Positivist Constructivism<ul> <li>Content Type Journal Article</li><li>Category Symposium on McAdam, Tarrow and Tilly's "Measuring Mechanisms of Contention"</li><li>DOI 10.1007/s11133-008-9104-2</li><li>Authors<ul> <li>Mark Irving Lichbach, University of Maryland Department of Government and Politics 3140 Tydings Hall College Park MD 20742-7231 USA</li> </ul></li> </ul><ul class="parents"> <ul class="details"> <li>Journal <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/105337/">Qualitative Sociology</a></li><li>Online ISSN 1573-7837</li><li>Print ISSN 0162-0436</li> </ul> </ul>
An Admirable Call to Improve, But Not Fundamentally Change, Our Collective Methodological Practices
An Admirable Call to Improve, But Not Fundamentally Change, Our Collective Methodological Practices<ul> <li>Content Type Journal Article</li><li>Category Symposium on McAdam, Tarrow and Tilly's "Measuring Mechanisms of Contention"</li><li>DOI 10.1007/s11133-008-9105-1</li><li>Authors<ul> <li>Jennifer Earl, University of California Department of Sociology Santa Barbara CA 93106-9430 USA</li> </ul></li> </ul><ul class="parents"> <ul class="details"> <li>Journal <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/105337/">Qualitative Sociology</a></li><li>Online ISSN 1573-7837</li><li>Print ISSN 0162-0436</li> </ul> </ul>
Methods for Measuring Mechanisms of Contention
<div class="Abstract"><a name="Abs1"></a>Abstract  A substantial intellectual movement has been growing in the social sciences around the adoption of mechanism- and process-based explanations as complements to variable-based explanations, or even as substitutes for them. But once we have recognized the validity and dignity of studying mechanisms and processes, what is the next step? Recently, both political scientists’ and sociologists’ discussions have begun to turn away from correlation to mechanism-based approaches to causation. But there is still a widespread assumption that mechanisms are unobservable. We maintain that ways can be developed to observe the presence or absence of mechanisms either directly or indirectly. In this paper, by way of example, we put forward four methods—two direct and two indirect—for measuring mechanisms of contention. </div><ul> <li>Content Type Journal Article</li><li>Category Symposium on McAdam, Tarrow and Tilly's "Measuring Mechanisms of Contention"</li><li>DOI 10.1007/s11133-008-9100-6</li><li>Authors<ul> <li>Doug McAdam, Stanford University Department of Sociology Stanford CA 94305 USA</li><li>Sidney Tarrow, Cornell University Department of Government Ithaca NY 14853 USA</li><li>Charles Tilly, Columbia University Social Science 413 Fayerweather Hall, MC 2552 New York 10027-7001 USA</li> </ul></li> </ul><ul class="parents"> <ul class="details"> <li>Journal <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/105337/">Qualitative Sociology</a></li><li>Online ISSN 1573-7837</li><li>Print ISSN 0162-0436</li> </ul> </ul>
Reply to Critics
Reply to Critics<ul> <li>Content Type Journal Article</li><li>Category Symposium on Sudhir Venkatesh's Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor</li><li>DOI 10.1007/s11133-008-9095-z</li><li>Authors<ul> <li>Sudhir Venkatesh, Columbia University Dept. of Sociology 413 Fayerweather Hall, 1180 Amsterdam Ave New York NY 10027 USA</li> </ul></li> </ul><ul class="parents"> <ul class="details"> <li>Journal <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/105337/">Qualitative Sociology</a></li><li>Online ISSN 1573-7837</li><li>Print ISSN 0162-0436</li> </ul><ul class="details"> <li>Journal Volume Volume 31</li> </ul><ul class="details"> <li>Journal Issue <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/w2701xj63r16/">Volume 31, Number 2 / June, 2008</a></li> </ul> </ul>
Pain in the Act: The Meanings of Pain Among Professional Wrestlers
<div class="Abstract"><a name="Abs1"></a>Abstract  This paper draws upon the relational turn in the study of pain to understand and explain the ways in which professional wrestlers manage and make sense of physical suffering. The paper focuses on how pain-laden interactions in the ring and the gym give form to the ways in which participants of wrestling think and feel about pain. The research is based on a long-term ethnography of professional wrestling. The article does two things: (a) explores the bodily skills that wrestlers cultivate to handle a context of ever-present pain, and (b) explains what the wrestlers’ interactions tell us about the meanings of pain that wrestlers come to share. Based on the reconstruction of participants’ lived experience of pro wrestling, I suggest that pain becomes attractive to wrestlers because it is given substantive meaning which encompasses denial, authenticity, solidarity, and dominance. </div><ul> <li>Content Type Journal Article</li><li>DOI 10.1007/s11133-008-9098-9</li><li>Authors<ul> <li>R. Tyson Smith, Stony Brook University Department of Sociology Stony Brook NY 11794 USA</li> </ul></li> </ul><ul class="parents"> <ul class="details"> <li>Journal <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/105337/">Qualitative Sociology</a></li><li>Online ISSN 1573-7837</li><li>Print ISSN 0162-0436</li> </ul><ul class="details"> <li>Journal Volume Volume 31</li> </ul><ul class="details"> <li>Journal Issue <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/w2701xj63r16/">Volume 31, Number 2 / June, 2008</a></li> </ul> </ul>
List of Reviewers 2006–2007
List of Reviewers 2006–2007<ul> <li>Content Type Journal Article</li><li>DOI 10.1007/s11133-008-9099-8</li> </ul><ul class="parents"> <ul class="details"> <li>Journal <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/105337/">Qualitative Sociology</a></li><li>Online ISSN 1573-7837</li><li>Print ISSN 0162-0436</li> </ul><ul class="details"> <li>Journal Volume Volume 31</li> </ul><ul class="details"> <li>Journal Issue <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/w2701xj63r16/">Volume 31, Number 2 / June, 2008</a></li> </ul> </ul>
Saying No: Abstainers, Abstention and the Scope of Qualitative Research
Saying No: Abstainers, Abstention and the Scope of Qualitative Research<ul> <li>Content Type Journal Article</li><li>Category Review Essay</li><li>DOI 10.1007/s11133-008-9097-x</li><li>Authors<ul> <li>Staci Newmahr, Stony Brook University Department of Sociology Stony Brook NY 11794 USA</li> </ul></li> </ul><ul class="parents"> <ul class="details"> <li>Journal <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/105337/">Qualitative Sociology</a></li><li>Online ISSN 1573-7837</li><li>Print ISSN 0162-0436</li> </ul><ul class="details"> <li>Journal Volume Volume 31</li> </ul><ul class="details"> <li>Journal Issue <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/w2701xj63r16/">Volume 31, Number 2 / June, 2008</a></li> </ul> </ul>
Female Tourists, Casual Sex, and HIV Risk in Costa Rica
<div class="Abstract"><a name="Abs1"></a>Abstract  This paper describes the involvement of young female tourists who visit rural Costa Rica with gringueros (i.e., local men who actively seek relationships with foreign women), and explores the implications of these relations, which gringueros see as outlets for sexual adventure, for sexual behaviors that could contribute to the spread of HIV/AIDS. The findings highlight the need to use tourism-related locales to implement HIV/AIDS awareness strategies targeted at women tourists, gringueros, and other local youth. </div><ul> <li>Content Type Journal Article</li><li>DOI 10.1007/s11133-008-9096-y</li><li>Authors<ul> <li>Nancy Romero-Daza, University of South Florida Department of Anthropology 4202 E. Fowler Avenue, SOC 107 Tampa FL 33620 USA</li><li>Andrea Freidus, 5704 Shaw Street, Unit 4 Haslett MI 48840 USA</li> </ul></li> </ul><ul class="parents"> <ul class="details"> <li>Journal <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/105337/">Qualitative Sociology</a></li><li>Online ISSN 1573-7837</li><li>Print ISSN 0162-0436</li> </ul><ul class="details"> <li>Journal Volume Volume 31</li> </ul><ul class="details"> <li>Journal Issue <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/w2701xj63r16/">Volume 31, Number 2 / June, 2008</a></li> </ul> </ul>
Off the Mark
Off the Mark<ul> <li>Content Type Journal Article</li><li>Category Symposium on Sudhir Venkatesh's Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor</li><li>DOI 10.1007/s11133-008-9093-1</li><li>Authors<ul> <li>William Kornblum, CUNY Department of Sociology, Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue New York NY 10016 USA</li> </ul></li> </ul><ul class="parents"> <ul class="details"> <li>Journal <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/105337/">Qualitative Sociology</a></li><li>Online ISSN 1573-7837</li><li>Print ISSN 0162-0436</li> </ul><ul class="details"> <li>Journal Volume Volume 31</li> </ul><ul class="details"> <li>Journal Issue <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/w2701xj63r16/">Volume 31, Number 2 / June, 2008</a></li> </ul> </ul>
The Real Economy
The Real Economy<ul> <li>Content Type Journal Article</li><li>Category Symposium on Sudhir Venkatesh's Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor</li><li>DOI 10.1007/s11133-008-9094-0</li><li>Authors<ul> <li>Viviana Zelizer, Princeton University Dept. of Sociology Princeton NJ 08544 USA</li> </ul></li> </ul><ul class="parents"> <ul class="details"> <li>Journal <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/105337/">Qualitative Sociology</a></li><li>Online ISSN 1573-7837</li><li>Print ISSN 0162-0436</li> </ul><ul class="details"> <li>Journal Volume Volume 31</li> </ul><ul class="details"> <li>Journal Issue <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/w2701xj63r16/">Volume 31, Number 2 / June, 2008</a></li> </ul> </ul>
When Teenagers Leave Home
When Teenagers Leave Home<ul> <li>Content Type Journal Article</li><li>Category Review Essay</li><li>DOI 10.1007/s11133-008-9092-2</li><li>Authors<ul> <li>Paul Attewell, CUNY Graduate Center Department of Sociology 365 Fifth Ave New York NY 10016 USA</li> </ul></li> </ul><ul class="parents"> <ul class="details"> <li>Journal <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/105337/">Qualitative Sociology</a></li><li>Online ISSN 1573-7837</li><li>Print ISSN 0162-0436</li> </ul><ul class="details"> <li>Journal Volume Volume 31</li> </ul><ul class="details"> <li>Journal Issue <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/w2701xj63r16/">Volume 31, Number 2 / June, 2008</a></li> </ul> </ul>
The Multiple Meanings of Work for Welfare-Reliant Women
<div class="Abstract"><a name="Abs1"></a>Abstract  Based on ethnographic and interview data collected at two welfare to work offices, this paper explores the various meanings that welfare-reliant women give to paid work. Although studies show that welfare-reliant women support work requirements and believe that welfare receipt should be temporary, even Progressives often fail to see the multiple meanings work has for poor women, and how similar these are to the meanings most Americans attach to work. Not only do poor women want to work for basic economic survival, but they view paid work as a means to family security, a path to fulfilling personal aspirations, and as their civic responsibility. </div><ul> <li>Content Type Journal Article</li><li>DOI 10.1007/s11133-008-9091-3</li><li>Authors<ul> <li>Kerry Woodward, University of California Department of Sociology 410 Barrows Hall Berkeley CA 94720-1980 USA</li> </ul></li> </ul><ul class="parents"> <ul class="details"> <li>Journal <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/105337/">Qualitative Sociology</a></li><li>Online ISSN 1573-7837</li><li>Print ISSN 0162-0436</li> </ul><ul class="details"> <li>Journal Volume Volume 31</li> </ul><ul class="details"> <li>Journal Issue <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/w2701xj63r16/">Volume 31, Number 2 / June, 2008</a></li> </ul> </ul>
“From Her Side of the Gossamer Wall(s)”: Reflexivity and Relational Knowing
<div class="Abstract"><a name="Abs1"></a>Abstract  Drawing on a provocative metaphor from an award-winning novel, this article argues that reflexivity can be conceived as three gossamer walls through which researchers construct knowledge from within three sets of relationships, including relations with: oneself (and the ghosts that haunt us); with research participants; and with one’s readers, audiences, and epistemological communities. On the other side of a first gossamer wall are relations with our many selves as well as with ‘ghosts,’ deeply buried across time and space, that may come back to haunt us when we are physically and emotionally invested in our research. Behind a second gossamer wall are the multi-layered relations between researchers and research respondents, relationships that can involve oral, audible, physical, emotional, textual, embodied, as well as shifting theoretical and epistemological dimensions. Finally, a third gossamer wall lies between ourselves and our readers and audiences as well as the epistemological or epistemic communities wherein our work is located, read, reviewed, and received. Rooted in an ethnography of Canadian primary caregiving fathers, the article contributes to current discussions of reflexivity in qualitative research practice by expanding dominant understandings of reflexivity as a self-centered exercise towards a consideration of other critical relationships that are part of how we come to know and write about others. The metaphor of gossamer walls, combining the sheerness of gossamer and the solidity of walls, provides for creative ways of conceptualizing reflexivity in temporal and spatial terms as well as to consider the constantly shifting degrees of transparency and obscurity, connection and separation that recur in the multiple relations that constitute reflexive research and knowing. </div><ul> <li>Content Type Journal Article</li><li>DOI 10.1007/s11133-007-9090-9</li><li>Authors<ul> <li>Andrea Doucet, Carleton University Department of Sociology and Anthropology 1125 Colonel By Drive Ottawa Canada K1S 5B6</li> </ul></li> </ul><ul class="parents"> <ul class="details"> <li>Journal <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/105337/">Qualitative Sociology</a></li><li>Online ISSN 1573-7837</li><li>Print ISSN 0162-0436</li> </ul><ul class="details"> <li>Journal Volume Volume 31</li> </ul><ul class="details"> <li>Journal Issue <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/u415t34n0223/">Volume 31, Number 1 / March, 2008</a></li> </ul> </ul>
Part-Time Work and the Gender Division of Labor
<div class="Abstract"><a name="Abs1"></a>Abstract  In response to the incompatible demands of work and motherhood, many mothers seek out part-time work schedules. Although many mothers consider this option “the best of both worlds,” scholars are divided about whether part-time work is in women’s best interest because it is linked to the gender division of labor in the home, and hence, to gender inequality. In this paper, we investigate the mostly unintended consequences of part-time work on the gender division of labor within the household. Drawing on 54 in-depth interviews with mothers who voluntarily work part-time, we explore how mothers experience household work and child care arrangements when they work part-time. Three factors emerged as most important in understanding how part-time work can shape mothers’ experiences of the gender division of labor: pathway to part-time work, work location, and work schedule. Depending on these factors, part-time work may be experienced as either enhancing or undermining of the gender division of labor, and thus, as promoting or undermining gender equality in their families. </div><ul> <li>Content Type Journal Article</li><li>DOI 10.1007/s11133-007-9088-3</li><li>Authors<ul> <li>Gretchen Webber, Middle Tennessee State University Department of Sociology and Anthropology MTSU Box 10 Murfreesboro TN 37132 USA</li><li>Christine Williams, University of Texas at Austin Department of Sociology 1 University Station–A 1700 Austin TX 78712 USA</li> </ul></li> </ul><ul class="parents"> <ul class="details"> <li>Journal <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/105337/">Qualitative Sociology</a></li><li>Online ISSN 1573-7837</li><li>Print ISSN 0162-0436</li> </ul><ul class="details"> <li>Journal Volume Volume 31</li> </ul><ul class="details"> <li>Journal Issue <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/u415t34n0223/">Volume 31, Number 1 / March, 2008</a></li> </ul> </ul>
Describing, Measuring, and Explaining Struggle
<div class="Abstract"><a name="Abs1"></a>Abstract  As compared with the aggregation of rational individual decisions within well defined external structures, interactive models of social processes provide the basis of superior description, measurement, and explanation. As applied in the study of political struggle, it is possible to create rigorous descriptions and measurements, and models featuring interactive mechanisms and processes feed distinctive, valuable explanations. Classified event catalogs, ethnographic study of specific struggles, and close examination of interactions within contentious gatherings illustrate these claims. </div><ul> <li>Content Type Journal Article</li><li>DOI 10.1007/s11133-007-9089-2</li><li>Authors<ul> <li>Charles Tilly, Columbia University 413 Fayerweather Hall, MC 2552 New York NY 10027-7001 USA</li> </ul></li> </ul><ul class="parents"> <ul class="details"> <li>Journal <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/105337/">Qualitative Sociology</a></li><li>Online ISSN 1573-7837</li><li>Print ISSN 0162-0436</li> </ul><ul class="details"> <li>Journal Volume Volume 31</li> </ul><ul class="details"> <li>Journal Issue <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/u415t34n0223/">Volume 31, Number 1 / March, 2008</a></li> </ul> </ul>
Reputation Work in Selling Film and Television: Life in the Hollywood Talent Industry
<div class="Abstract"><a name="Abs1"></a>Abstract  Reputation is an important feature in the interactional contexts of work in “culture industries” such as film and television production. But few accounts have examined how reputations are produced in the everyday worlds in which cultural producers live and work. This paper introduces the concept of “reputation work” to describe the front stage and back stage interactional processes through which cultural producers continuously strive to produce their reputations. Drawing on participant observation data gathered at a Hollywood talent management company and a business school course on the talent industry, this paper shows how Hollywood agents and managers perform four types of reputation work. These include how Hollywood talent representatives work to adhere to institutionalized conventions for reputable physical settings, group contexts, giftgiving practices, and selfhoods. Such reputation work performances are done for the sake of “impression management,” but show how this strategic interaction is governed by industry-wide institutions that govern legitimacy. </div><ul> <li>Content Type Journal Article</li><li>DOI 10.1007/s11133-007-9083-8</li><li>Authors<ul> <li>Stephen Zafirau, University of Southern California Department of Sociology KAP 352 Los Angeles CA 90089 USA</li> </ul></li> </ul><ul class="parents"> <ul class="details"> <li>Journal <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/105337/">Qualitative Sociology</a></li><li>Online ISSN 1573-7837</li><li>Print ISSN 0162-0436</li> </ul><ul class="details"> <li>Journal Volume Volume 31</li> </ul><ul class="details"> <li>Journal Issue <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/w2701xj63r16/">Volume 31, Number 2 / June, 2008</a></li> </ul> </ul>