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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.» journal's homepage
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- Coping with Conflict, Confronting Resistance: Fieldwork Emotions and Identity Management in a South Korean Evangelical Community
<p class="abstract"><div class="Abstract"><a name="Abs1"></a><span class="AbstractHeading">Abstract </span>Methodological difficulties attendant to ethnographic fieldwork—such as gaining access, maintaining fieldwork relations, objectivity, and fieldwork stresses—are intensified for researchers working with “absolutist” religious group, groups that hold an exclusivist or totalistic definition of truth. Based on my fieldwork in a conservative South Korean evangelical community, I explore in this article two central and related methodological dilemmas pertaining to studying absolutist religious groups: identity negotiation and emotional management during fieldwork. Writing from my complex location as a feminist and a cultural/religious insider/outsider in relation to the South Korean evangelical community, I explore in particular the challenges posed by identity/role management in the field and its emotional dimensions, including the issue of the researcher’s power and vulnerability, the quandary of “conformity,” and the emotional costs of self-repression arising from the researcher’s fundamental value conflicts with the group. I conclude with a reflection on the implications of these experiences for ethnographic methodology, most centrally, how we manage our emotional responses in the field, including “inappropriate” ones, and how we can relate them to the research process. </div></p><ul> <li><span class="labelName">Content Type </span><span class="labelValue">Journal Article</span></li><li>DOI 10.1007/s11133-008-9114-0</li><li><span class="labelName">Authors</span><ul> <li>Kelly H. Chong, University of Kansas Department of Sociology 1415 Jayhawk Blvd., Fraser Hall, Rm. 716 Lawrence KS 66045-7556 USA</li> </ul></li> </ul><ul class="parents"> <ul class="details"> <li><span class="header labelName">Journal </span><span class="labelValue"><a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/105337/">Qualitative Sociology</a></span></li><li><span class="labelName">Online ISSN </span><span class="labelValue">1573-7837</span></li><li><span class="labelName">Print ISSN </span><span class="labelValue">0162-0436</span></li> </ul> </ul> - More and More Scholars on Drugs
<p class="abstract">More and More Scholars on Drugs</p><ul> <li><span class="labelName">Content Type </span><span class="labelValue">Journal Article</span></li><li>Category REVIEW ESSAY</li><li>DOI 10.1007/s11133-008-9115-z</li><li><span class="labelName">Authors</span><ul> <li>Paul Gootenberg, Stony Brook University Department of History Stony Brook NY 11794 USA</li> </ul></li> </ul><ul class="parents"> <ul class="details"> <li><span class="header labelName">Journal </span><span class="labelValue"><a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/105337/">Qualitative Sociology</a></span></li><li><span class="labelName">Online ISSN </span><span class="labelValue">1573-7837</span></li><li><span class="labelName">Print ISSN </span><span class="labelValue">0162-0436</span></li> </ul> </ul> - Interviewing Elderly Residents in Assisted Living
<p class="abstract"><div class="Abstract"><a name="Abs1"></a><span class="AbstractHeading">Abstract </span>The interpretation of interview data requires an understanding of its context. In this study, the context was Assisted Living (AL). Twenty-one interviews were conducted with elderly residents of 4 Midwestern Assisted Living Facilities (ALFs). Institutional fear and loneliness associated with ALF living framed residents’ interpretation of and responses to the interview questions. Residents feared transfer to a nursing home, and they experienced the loneliness of being cut off from their homes and put into the care of busy staff members. Their framing of and responses to questions (both qualitative and quantitative) reflected this context, and included the invocation of impairments, the reluctance to criticize staff, and the refusal to complain about the ALF or their present situation. </div></p><ul> <li><span class="labelName">Content Type </span><span class="labelValue">Journal Article</span></li><li>DOI 10.1007/s11133-008-9116-y</li><li><span class="labelName">Authors</span><ul> <li>Carol A. B. Warren, University of Kansas Department of Sociology Lawrence KS 66045 USA</li><li>Kristine N. Williams, University of Kansas School of Nursing Mail Stop 4043, 3901 Rainbow Blvd. Kansas City KS 66160 USA</li> </ul></li> </ul><ul class="parents"> <ul class="details"> <li><span class="header labelName">Journal </span><span class="labelValue"><a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/105337/">Qualitative Sociology</a></span></li><li><span class="labelName">Online ISSN </span><span class="labelValue">1573-7837</span></li><li><span class="labelName">Print ISSN </span><span class="labelValue">0162-0436</span></li> </ul> </ul> - Listening Past the Lies that Make Us Sick: A Voice-Centered Analysis of Strength and Depression among Black Women
<p class="abstract"><div class="Abstract"><a name="Abs1"></a><span class="AbstractHeading">Abstract </span>An emerging feminist paradigm likens depression to silencing, as women disconnect from important aspects of their realities in an attempt to meet cultural standards of feminine goodness. While offering a provocative re-evaluation of hegemonic feminine norms and depressive episodes, little in this literature explores connections between silencing and depression within other, non-white constructions of feminine goodness. Employing a voice-centered method that illuminates areas of conflict between cultural scripts and individual meaning making, I forward that being strong is both the depiction of Black feminine goodness and an important contributor to depressive episodes. Drawing on interview data from a nonclinical sample of 58 Black women, I illustrate three depression-relevant aspects of Black women’s gendered experiences: the promotion of their stoicism, silence, and selflessness through the prevailing discourse of the “strong Black woman”; the active suppression of discourse-discrepant realities which the women associate with depressive experiences; and the psychological healing attendant on supplanting this discourse with experience-based knowledge of their social realities. Voice-centeredness, I conclude, brings a needed sensitivity to depression as a racialized and gendered experience of distress tied to the normative conditions of Black women’s lives. </div></p><ul> <li><span class="labelName">Content Type </span><span class="labelValue">Journal Article</span></li><li>DOI 10.1007/s11133-008-9113-1</li><li><span class="labelName">Authors</span><ul> <li>Tamara Beauboeuf-Lafontant, DePauw University Department of Education Studies 7 Asbury Hall Greencastle IN 46135 USA</li> </ul></li> </ul><ul class="parents"> <ul class="details"> <li><span class="header labelName">Journal </span><span class="labelValue"><a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/105337/">Qualitative Sociology</a></span></li><li><span class="labelName">Online ISSN </span><span class="labelValue">1573-7837</span></li><li><span class="labelName">Print ISSN </span><span class="labelValue">0162-0436</span></li> </ul> </ul> - The Body, the Ghetto and the Penal State
<p class="abstract"><div class="Abstract"><a name="Abs1"></a><span class="AbstractHeading">Abstract </span>This article dissects the author’s approach to ethnography, social theory, and the politics of knowledge through a dialogue retracing his intellectual trajectory and the analytic linkages between his inquiries into embodiment, comparative urban marginality and the penal state. It draws out the practical connections and epistemological rationale behind his main research projects, explicates the distinctive ways in which he deploys observational fieldwork in each of them, and examines the roles of intellectuals in advanced society in the era of hegemonic neoliberalism. Rejecting both Humean empiricism and neo-Kantian cognitivism, the author argues for the use of ethnography as an instrument of rupture and construction, the potency of carnal knowledge, the imperative of epistemic reflexivity, and the need to expand textual genres and styles so as to better capture the taste and ache of social action. In the public sphere, he proposes that social science can act as a solvent of doxa and a beacon casting light on latent properties and unnoticed trends in social transformations so as to disrupt and broaden civic debate. </div></p><ul> <li><span class="labelName">Content Type </span><span class="labelValue">Journal Article</span></li><li>DOI 10.1007/s11133-008-9112-2</li><li><span class="labelName">Authors</span><ul> <li>Loïc Wacquant, University of California Department of Sociology Berkeley CA 94720 USA</li> </ul></li> </ul><ul class="parents"> <ul class="details"> <li><span class="header labelName">Journal </span><span class="labelValue"><a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/105337/">Qualitative Sociology</a></span></li><li><span class="labelName">Online ISSN </span><span class="labelValue">1573-7837</span></li><li><span class="labelName">Print ISSN </span><span class="labelValue">0162-0436</span></li> </ul> </ul> - The Moral Accounting of Terrorism: Competing Interpretations of September 11, 2001
<p class="abstract"><div class="Abstract"><a name="Abs1"></a><span class="AbstractHeading">Abstract </span>Drawing on comparative case studies, the research elucidates competing constructions of justice, responsibility, and victimhood articulated in response to September 11, 2001 on three digital discourse fora in Brazil, France, and the United States. The research extracts the moral metaphors through which Brazilian, French, and American participants judge the terrorist acts. It contrasts the underlying moral accounting schemes employed to legitimize or delegitimize the use of terrorism on 9/11. Two contrasting standpoints on political violence and associated moral underpinnings are elucidated: the morality of retribution and the morality of absolute goodness (Lakoff <cite>2002</cite>). One ideological faction uses the morality of retribution to hold the US accountable for inciting the terrorists to act. For these individuals, political violence can be seen as a form of action that upholds a binary framing of moral order in which all moral debts must be paid. By contrast, opposing camps employ the morality of absolute goodness to condemn the terrorists by arguing that terrorist violence is inherently unjustifiable, as it necessarily results in human suffering. </div></p><ul> <li><span class="labelName">Content Type </span><span class="labelValue">Journal Article</span></li><li>Category SPECIAL ISSUE ON POLITICAL VIOLENCE</li><li>DOI 10.1007/s11133-008-9108-y</li><li><span class="labelName">Authors</span><ul> <li>Laura Robinson, Santa Clara University Sociology Department 500 El Camino Real Santa Clara CA 95053 USA</li> </ul></li> </ul><ul class="parents"> <ul class="details"> <li><span class="header labelName">Journal </span><span class="labelValue"><a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/105337/">Qualitative Sociology</a></span></li><li><span class="labelName">Online ISSN </span><span class="labelValue">1573-7837</span></li><li><span class="labelName">Print ISSN </span><span class="labelValue">0162-0436</span></li> </ul><ul class="details"> <li><span class="header labelName">Journal Volume </span><span class="labelValue">Volume 31</span></li> </ul><ul class="details"> <li><span class="header labelName">Journal Issue </span><span class="labelValue"><a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/rww0153u54m2/">Volume 31, Number 3 / September, 2008</a></span></li> </ul> </ul> - Introduction to the Special Issue on Political Violence
<p class="abstract">Introduction to the Special Issue on Political Violence</p><ul> <li><span class="labelName">Content Type </span><span class="labelValue">Journal Article</span></li><li>Category SPECIAL ISSUE ON POLITICAL VIOLENCE</li><li>DOI 10.1007/s11133-008-9111-3</li><li><span class="labelName">Authors</span><ul> <li>Patricia Steinhoff, University of Hawaii Department of Sociology 240 Saunders Hall, 2424 Maile Way Honolulu HI 96822 USA</li><li>Gilda Zwerman, SUNY—Old Westbury Department of Sociology Old Westbury NY 11568 USA</li> </ul></li> </ul><ul class="parents"> <ul class="details"> <li><span class="header labelName">Journal </span><span class="labelValue"><a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/105337/">Qualitative Sociology</a></span></li><li><span class="labelName">Online ISSN </span><span class="labelValue">1573-7837</span></li><li><span class="labelName">Print ISSN </span><span class="labelValue">0162-0436</span></li> </ul><ul class="details"> <li><span class="header labelName">Journal Volume </span><span class="labelValue">Volume 31</span></li> </ul><ul class="details"> <li><span class="header labelName">Journal Issue </span><span class="labelValue"><a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/rww0153u54m2/">Volume 31, Number 3 / September, 2008</a></span></li> </ul> </ul> - Research on Social Movements and Political Violence
<p class="abstract"><div class="Abstract"><a name="Abs1"></a><span class="AbstractHeading">Abstract </span>Attention to extreme forms of political violence in the social sciences has been episodic, and studies of different forms of political violence have followed different approaches, with “breakdown” theories mostly used for the analysis of right-wing radicalism, social movement theories sometimes adapted to research on left-wing radical groups, and area study specialists focusing on ethnic and religious forms. Some of the studies on extreme forms of political violence that have emerged within the social movement tradition have nevertheless been able to trace processes of conflict escalation through the detailed examination of historical cases. This article assesses some of the knowledge acquired in previous research approaching issues of political violence from the social movement perspective, as well as the challenges coming from new waves of debate on terrorist and counterterrorist action and discourses. In doing this, the article reviews contributions coming from research looking at violence as escalation of action repertoires within protest cycles; political opportunity and the state in escalation processes; resource mobilization and violent organizations; narratives of violence; and militant constructions of external reality. </div></p><ul> <li><span class="labelName">Content Type </span><span class="labelValue">Journal Article</span></li><li>Category SPECIAL ISSUE ON POLITICAL VIOLENCE</li><li>DOI 10.1007/s11133-008-9109-x</li><li><span class="labelName">Authors</span><ul> <li>Donatella della Porta, European University Institute Department of Political and Social Sciences Badia Fiesolana, Via dei Roccettini 9 50016 San Domenico di Fiesole Firenze Italy</li> </ul></li> </ul><ul class="parents"> <ul class="details"> <li><span class="header labelName">Journal </span><span class="labelValue"><a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/105337/">Qualitative Sociology</a></span></li><li><span class="labelName">Online ISSN </span><span class="labelValue">1573-7837</span></li><li><span class="labelName">Print ISSN </span><span class="labelValue">0162-0436</span></li> </ul><ul class="details"> <li><span class="header labelName">Journal Volume </span><span class="labelValue">Volume 31</span></li> </ul><ul class="details"> <li><span class="header labelName">Journal Issue </span><span class="labelValue"><a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/rww0153u54m2/">Volume 31, Number 3 / September, 2008</a></span></li> </ul> </ul> - A Measure of Justice: The Rabinal Human Rights Movement in Post-War Guatemala
<p class="abstract"><div class="Abstract"><a name="Abs1"></a><span class="AbstractHeading">Abstract </span>This article explores one region’s struggle for human rights and legal justice in post-war Guatemala. Rabinal—a target of state-directed genocide in the 1980s—suffered one of the highest fatality levels of the war. In the post-war era, Rabinal human rights activists have led the struggle to demand exhumations of mass graves, build memorials, and push for criminal investigations and trials. Despite some important local victories, few of those responsible for the violence have received punishment. But that does not mean this movement is a failure. Instead, this article highlights the cultural, expressive and inprocess benefits of mobilization. Rabinal activists have restored their sense of agency and confirmed their collective identity as fighters for legal justice. Meanwhile, this local mobilization has contributed to Guatemala’s uneven process of democratization. </div></p><ul> <li><span class="labelName">Content Type </span><span class="labelValue">Journal Article</span></li><li>Category SPECIAL ISSUE ON POLITICAL VIOLENCE</li><li>DOI 10.1007/s11133-008-9110-4</li><li><span class="labelName">Authors</span><ul> <li>Julie Stewart, University of Utah Department of Sociology 380 South 1530 East, Rm 301 Salt Lake City UT 84112 USA</li> </ul></li> </ul><ul class="parents"> <ul class="details"> <li><span class="header labelName">Journal </span><span class="labelValue"><a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/105337/">Qualitative Sociology</a></span></li><li><span class="labelName">Online ISSN </span><span class="labelValue">1573-7837</span></li><li><span class="labelName">Print ISSN </span><span class="labelValue">0162-0436</span></li> </ul><ul class="details"> <li><span class="header labelName">Journal Volume </span><span class="labelValue">Volume 31</span></li> </ul><ul class="details"> <li><span class="header labelName">Journal Issue </span><span class="labelValue"><a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/rww0153u54m2/">Volume 31, Number 3 / September, 2008</a></span></li> </ul> </ul> - The Impacts of State Surveillance on Political Assembly and Association: A Socio-Legal Analysis
<p class="abstract"><div class="Abstract"><a name="Abs1"></a><span class="AbstractHeading">Abstract </span>Based on group interviews conducted in 2006 that included 71 social justice organizations, this paper analyzes the impact of surveillance on the exercise of assembly and association rights. We link these protected legal activities with analytic frameworks from social movements scholarship in order to further a socio-legal conception of political violence against social movements. </div></p><ul> <li><span class="labelName">Content Type </span><span class="labelValue">Journal Article</span></li><li>Category SPECIAL ISSUE ON POLITICAL VIOLENCE</li><li>DOI 10.1007/s11133-008-9107-z</li><li><span class="labelName">Authors</span><ul> <li>Amory Starr, P.O. Box 1198 Venice Los Angeles CA 90294 USA</li><li>Luis A. Fernandez, Northern Arizona University NAU Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice P.O. Box 15005 Flagstaff AZ 86011-5005 USA</li><li>Randall Amster, Prescott College Peace Studies and Social Thought 220 Grove Ave. Prescott AZ 86301 USA</li><li>Lesley J. Wood, York University Department of Sociology 2067 Vari Hall, 4700 Keele Street Toronto Ontario Canada M3J 1P3</li><li>Manuel J. Caro, Centro Norteamericano de Estudios Interculturales C/ Harinas 16-18 41001 Sevilla Spain</li> </ul></li> </ul><ul class="parents"> <ul class="details"> <li><span class="header labelName">Journal </span><span class="labelValue"><a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/105337/">Qualitative Sociology</a></span></li><li><span class="labelName">Online ISSN </span><span class="labelValue">1573-7837</span></li><li><span class="labelName">Print ISSN </span><span class="labelValue">0162-0436</span></li> </ul><ul class="details"> <li><span class="header labelName">Journal Volume </span><span class="labelValue">Volume 31</span></li> </ul><ul class="details"> <li><span class="header labelName">Journal Issue </span><span class="labelValue"><a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/rww0153u54m2/">Volume 31, Number 3 / September, 2008</a></span></li> </ul> </ul> - Cowboy of the World? Gender Discourse and the Iraq War Debate
<p class="abstract"><div class="Abstract"><a name="Abs1"></a><span class="AbstractHeading">Abstract </span>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 <i>ad hominem</i> arguments are used to support or rebut assertions. </div></p><ul> <li><span class="labelName">Content Type </span><span class="labelValue">Journal Article</span></li><li>Category SPECIAL ISSUE ON POLITICAL VIOLENCE</li><li>DOI 10.1007/s11133-008-9106-0</li><li><span class="labelName">Authors</span><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><span class="header labelName">Journal </span><span class="labelValue"><a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/105337/">Qualitative Sociology</a></span></li><li><span class="labelName">Online ISSN </span><span class="labelValue">1573-7837</span></li><li><span class="labelName">Print ISSN </span><span class="labelValue">0162-0436</span></li> </ul><ul class="details"> <li><span class="header labelName">Journal Volume </span><span class="labelValue">Volume 31</span></li> </ul><ul class="details"> <li><span class="header labelName">Journal Issue </span><span class="labelValue"><a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/rww0153u54m2/">Volume 31, Number 3 / September, 2008</a></span></li> </ul> </ul> - Progressive Polemics: Reflections on Four Stimulating Commentaries
<p class="abstract">Progressive Polemics: Reflections on Four Stimulating Commentaries</p><ul> <li><span class="labelName">Content Type </span><span class="labelValue">Journal Article</span></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><span class="labelName">Authors</span><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><span class="header labelName">Journal </span><span class="labelValue"><a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/105337/">Qualitative Sociology</a></span></li><li><span class="labelName">Online ISSN </span><span class="labelValue">1573-7837</span></li><li><span class="labelName">Print ISSN </span><span class="labelValue">0162-0436</span></li> </ul> </ul> - From Process to Mechanism: Varieties of Disaggregation
<p class="abstract">From Process to Mechanism: Varieties of Disaggregation</p><ul> <li><span class="labelName">Content Type </span><span class="labelValue">Journal Article</span></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><span class="labelName">Authors</span><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><span class="header labelName">Journal </span><span class="labelValue"><a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/105337/">Qualitative Sociology</a></span></li><li><span class="labelName">Online ISSN </span><span class="labelValue">1573-7837</span></li><li><span class="labelName">Print ISSN </span><span class="labelValue">0162-0436</span></li> </ul> </ul> - Seeing Mechanisms in Action
<p class="abstract">Seeing Mechanisms in Action</p><ul> <li><span class="labelName">Content Type </span><span class="labelValue">Journal Article</span></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><span class="labelName">Authors</span><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><span class="header labelName">Journal </span><span class="labelValue"><a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/105337/">Qualitative Sociology</a></span></li><li><span class="labelName">Online ISSN </span><span class="labelValue">1573-7837</span></li><li><span class="labelName">Print ISSN </span><span class="labelValue">0162-0436</span></li> </ul> </ul> - Modeling Mechanisms of Contention: MTT’s Positivist Constructivism
<p class="abstract">Modeling Mechanisms of Contention: MTT’s Positivist Constructivism</p><ul> <li><span class="labelName">Content Type </span><span class="labelValue">Journal Article</span></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><span class="labelName">Authors</span><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><span class="header labelName">Journal </span><span class="labelValue"><a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/105337/">Qualitative Sociology</a></span></li><li><span class="labelName">Online ISSN </span><span class="labelValue">1573-7837</span></li><li><span class="labelName">Print ISSN </span><span class="labelValue">0162-0436</span></li> </ul> </ul> - An Admirable Call to Improve, But Not Fundamentally Change, Our Collective Methodological Practices
<p class="abstract">An Admirable Call to Improve, But Not Fundamentally Change, Our Collective Methodological Practices</p><ul> <li><span class="labelName">Content Type </span><span class="labelValue">Journal Article</span></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><span class="labelName">Authors</span><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><span class="header labelName">Journal </span><span class="labelValue"><a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/105337/">Qualitative Sociology</a></span></li><li><span class="labelName">Online ISSN </span><span class="labelValue">1573-7837</span></li><li><span class="labelName">Print ISSN </span><span class="labelValue">0162-0436</span></li> </ul> </ul> - Methods for Measuring Mechanisms of Contention
<p class="abstract"><div class="Abstract"><a name="Abs1"></a><span class="AbstractHeading">Abstract </span>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></p><ul> <li><span class="labelName">Content Type </span><span class="labelValue">Journal Article</span></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><span class="labelName">Authors</span><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><span class="header labelName">Journal </span><span class="labelValue"><a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/105337/">Qualitative Sociology</a></span></li><li><span class="labelName">Online ISSN </span><span class="labelValue">1573-7837</span></li><li><span class="labelName">Print ISSN </span><span class="labelValue">0162-0436</span></li> </ul> </ul> - Reply to Critics
<p class="abstract">Reply to Critics</p><ul> <li><span class="labelName">Content Type </span><span class="labelValue">Journal Article</span></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><span class="labelName">Authors</span><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><span class="header labelName">Journal </span><span class="labelValue"><a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/105337/">Qualitative Sociology</a></span></li><li><span class="labelName">Online ISSN </span><span class="labelValue">1573-7837</span></li><li><span class="labelName">Print ISSN </span><span class="labelValue">0162-0436</span></li> </ul><ul class="details"> <li><span class="header labelName">Journal Volume </span><span class="labelValue">Volume 31</span></li> </ul><ul class="details"> <li><span class="header labelName">Journal Issue </span><span class="labelValue"><a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/w2701xj63r16/">Volume 31, Number 2 / June, 2008</a></span></li> </ul> </ul> - Pain in the Act: The Meanings of Pain Among Professional Wrestlers
<p class="abstract"><div class="Abstract"><a name="Abs1"></a><span class="AbstractHeading">Abstract </span>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></p><ul> <li><span class="labelName">Content Type </span><span class="labelValue">Journal Article</span></li><li>DOI 10.1007/s11133-008-9098-9</li><li><span class="labelName">Authors</span><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><span class="header labelName">Journal </span><span class="labelValue"><a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/105337/">Qualitative Sociology</a></span></li><li><span class="labelName">Online ISSN </span><span class="labelValue">1573-7837</span></li><li><span class="labelName">Print ISSN </span><span class="labelValue">0162-0436</span></li> </ul><ul class="details"> <li><span class="header labelName">Journal Volume </span><span class="labelValue">Volume 31</span></li> </ul><ul class="details"> <li><span class="header labelName">Journal Issue </span><span class="labelValue"><a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/w2701xj63r16/">Volume 31, Number 2 / June, 2008</a></span></li> </ul> </ul> - List of Reviewers 2006–2007
<p class="abstract">List of Reviewers 2006–2007</p><ul> <li><span class="labelName">Content Type </span><span class="labelValue">Journal Article</span></li><li>DOI 10.1007/s11133-008-9099-8</li> </ul><ul class="parents"> <ul class="details"> <li><span class="header labelName">Journal </span><span class="labelValue"><a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/105337/">Qualitative Sociology</a></span></li><li><span class="labelName">Online ISSN </span><span class="labelValue">1573-7837</span></li><li><span class="labelName">Print ISSN </span><span class="labelValue">0162-0436</span></li> </ul><ul class="details"> <li><span class="header labelName">Journal Volume </span><span class="labelValue">Volume 31</span></li> </ul><ul class="details"> <li><span class="header labelName">Journal Issue </span><span class="labelValue"><a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/w2701xj63r16/">Volume 31, Number 2 / June, 2008</a></span></li> </ul> </ul>




