Professor and Chair
Editor, Social Problems
Office: Lalumiere Hall, 366
Phone: (414) 288-5804
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Education
Postdoc University of California, Los Angeles: Sociology: 1981-84
Ph.D. University of Michigan: Sociology, 1981
M.A. University of Michigan: Sociology; 1976
B.A. University of California, Berkeley: Sociology; 1973
Academic Experience
Chair, Department of Social and Cultural Sciences, Marquette University,
2003-
Professor of Sociology. Department of Social and Cultural Sciences,
Marquette University; 1994-present. (Assistant professor 1984-90;
Associate Professor 1990-94.
Visiting Professor. Department of Sociology, University of Lund.
Sweden. 1998 (summer)
Adjunct Assistant Professor. Department of Sociology, UCLA; 1981-1984
Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Michigan; 1977-79
(summers)
Publications
Books
2006 Couples, Kids, and Family Life (Edited with J. Gubrium). 2006 New York; Oxford University Press.
2004 The Active Interview (with J. Gubrium). 2004. Japanese translation by T. Yamada, et al. Tokyo; Serica Shobu Publishers
2003 Challenges and Choices: Constructionist Perspectives on
Social Problems. (Edited with G. Miller). 2003 Hawthorne, NY: Aldine
de Gruyter.
Inside Interviewing. (Edited with J. Gubrium). 2003 Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Postmodern Interviewing . (Edited with J. Gubrium). 2003 Thousand Oaks,
CA: Sage.
Ways of Aging. (Edited with J. Gubrium). 2003. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
Inner Lives and Social Worlds. (Authored/edited with J. Gubrium).
2003. New York: Oxford University Press.
2002 Handbook of Interview Research. (Edited with J. Gubrium).
2002. Thousand Oaks, CA. Sage.
2001 Institutional Selves: Troubled Identities in Organizational
Context. (Edited with J. Gubrium). 2001. New York: Oxford University Press.
2000 The Self We Live By. (with J. Gubrium). 2000. New
York: Oxford University Press.
Constructing the Life Course, 2nd ed. (with
J. Gubrium). 2000. Walnut Creek, CA: Alta Mira
Press.
Aging and Everyday Life. (Edited with J. Gubrium). 2000. Malden,
MA: Blackwell.
Perspectives on Social Problems: A Research Annual. 2000. (Edited
with G. Miller). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press. Volume 12.
1999 Perspectives on Social Problems: A Research Annual.
1999. (Edited with G. Miller). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press. Volume 11.
1998 Perspectives on Social Problems: A Research Annual.
1998. (Edited with G. Miller). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press. Volume 10.
1997 The New Language of Qualitative Method . (with J.
Gubrium). 1997. New York: Oxford University Press.
What is Family? Japanese translation by J. Ayukawa, N. Nakagawa,
and S. Yukawa. 1997. Tokyo: Shinyo-sha.
What is Family? Korean translation by Y. Choi et al. 1997. Seoul:
Hawoo Publishing Co.
Social Problems in Everyday Life: Studies of Social Problems Work.
(Edited with G. Miller). 1997. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.
Perspectives on Social Problems: A Research Annual. 1997. (Edited
with C.B.
Gardner and G. Miller). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.
Volume 9.
1996 Dispute Domains and Welfare Claims: Conflict and
Law in Public Bureaucracies. (with G. Miller) 1996. Greenwich, CT: JAI
Press.
Perspectives on Social Problems: A Research Annual. 1996. (Edited with
G. Miller). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press. Volume 8.
1995 The Active Interview. (with J. Gubrium)
1995. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
Perspectives on Social Problems: A Research Annual. 1995. (Edited
with G. Miller). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press. Volume 7.
1994 Constructing the Life Course. (with J. Gubrium
and D. Buckholdt). 1994. Dix Hills, NY: General Hall.
Perspectives on Social Problems: A Research Annual. 1994. (Edited with
G. Miller). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press. Volume 6.
Perspectives on Social Problems: A Research Annual. 1994. (Edited
with G. Miller). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press. Volume 5.
1993 Court-Ordered Insanity: Interpretive Practice and Involuntary Commitment.
1993. Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter.
Reconsidering Social Constructionism: Debates in Social Problems Theory. (Edited with G. Miller) 1993. Hawthorne, NY: Aldine
de Gruyter.
Constructionist Controversies: Issues in Social Problems Theory.
(Edited with G.
Miller). 1993. Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter.
1992
Perspectives on Social Problems: A Research Annual. 1992. (Edited
with G. Miller). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press. Volume 4.
Perspectives on Social Problems: A Research Annual. 1992. (Edited with
G. Miller). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press. Volume 3.
1990 What is Family? (with J. Gubrium). 1990. Mt. View, CA: Mayfield.
Perspectives on Social Problems: A Research Annual. 1990. (Edited with
G. Miller). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press. Volume 2.
1989 Perspectives on Social Problems: A Research Annual. 1989. (Edited
with G. Miller). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press. Volume 1.
Articles and Chapters
In Press "Active Interviewing" (with J. Gubrium). Forthcoming in Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
"Biographical Work and the Future of the Aging Self." (with J. Gubrium). Forthcoming in The Future of Old Age, edited by M. Downs, C. Phillipson and J. Vincent. London: Sage.
2006 "Family Life (with J. Gubrium). 2006. Pp. 1-14 in Couples, Kids, and Family Life edited by J. Gubrium and J. Holstein, New York: Oxford University Press.
2005 "Interpretive Practice and Social Action." (with J. Gubrium) Pp. 483-505 in Handbook of Qualitative Research, 3rd ed., edited by N. Denzin and Y. Lincoln. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
2004 "Preface" to the Japanese edition of the Active Interview, translated by T. Yamada, et al. Tokyo: Serica Shobu Publishers. (with J. Gubrium). Forthcoming.
"Context: Working It Up, Down, and Across." (with J. Gubrium). 2004. Pp. 297-311 in Qualitative Research Practice, edited by Seale et al. London: Sage.
"The Active Interview".(with J. Gubrium). 2004 Pp. 140-161 in Qualitative Research: Theory, Method, and Practice, 2nd Ed., edited by D. Silverman. London: Sage.
2003 "
A Constructionist Analytics for Social Problems." (with
J. Gubrium). Pp. 187-208 in Challenges and Choices edited by J. Holstein and
G. Miller. Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter.
"
Inside Interviewing: New Lenses, New Concerns." (with
J. Gubrium). Pp. 3-30 in Inside Interviewing edited by J. Holstein and J. Gubrium.
Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
"
Postmodern Sensibilities." (with J. Gubrium). p. 3-18
in Postmodern Interviewing edited by J. Gubrium and J. Holstein. Thousand
Oaks, CA: Sage.
"
Beyond Stereotypes." (with J. Gubrium). 2003. Pp. 3-10
in Ways of Aging edited by J. Gubrium and J. Holstein.
Malden, MA: Blackwell.
"
A Fork in the Road: Challenges and Choices in Social Constructionism." (with
G. Miller). Pp. 1-13 in Challenges and Choices edited
by J. Holstein and G. Miller. Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter.
"
The Life Course." (with J. Gubrium.) Pp. 835-855 in Handbook
of Symbolic
Interactionism edited by L. Reynolds and N. Herman.
Walnut Creek, CA: Alta Mira.
"
The Everyday Visibility of the Aging Body." (with J. Gubrium).
Pp. 205-228 in Aging Bodies: Images and Everyday Experience and Perspectives
edited by Christopher A. Faircloth. Walnut Creek, CA: Alta Mira Press.
"
Qualitative Research." (with J. Gubrium). Pp. 1155-1158
in Macmillan Encyclopedia of Aging , edited by David
J. Ekerdt. New York: Macmillan.
"
Narrative Gerontology." (with J. Gubrium). Pp. 971-974
in Macmillan Encyclopedia of Aging , edited by David J.
Ekerdt. New York: Macmillan.
2002 "
The Active Subject in Qualitative Gerontology." (with
J. Gubrium). 2002. Pp. 154-171 in Qualitative Gerontology
edited by G. Rowles and N. Schoenberg. New York: Springer.
"
From the Individual Interview to the Interview Society." (with
J. Gubrium). 2002. Pp. 3-31 in Handbook of Interview Research
edited by J. Gubrium and J. Holstein. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
"
Going Concerns and Their Bodies." (with J. Gubrium). Pp.
191-206 in Cultural Gerontology edited by Lars Andersson. Westport,
CT: Greenwood.
2001 "
Trying Times, Troubled Selves." (with J. Gubrium) 2001.
Pp. 1-20 in Institutional Selves: Troubled Identities in Organizational
Context edited by J. Gubrium and J. Holstein. New York: Oxford University Press.
"
Victims, Villains, and Talk Show Selves." (with K. Lowney)
2001. Pp. 23-45 in
Institutional Selves: Troubled Identities in Organizational
Context edited by J.
Gubrium and J. Holstein. New York: Oxford University
Press.
"
From the Individual Interview to the Interview Society." (with
J. Gubrium). 2001. Pp. 1-37 in Handbook of Interviewing
edited by J. Gubrium and J. Holstein. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
2000 "The Self in a World of Going Concerns." (with J.
Gubrium). 2000. Symbolic Interaction 23: 95-115.
"
An Interpretive Analytics for Social Problems." (with
J. Gubrium) 2000. Japanese Journal of Sociological Criminology 25:29-48.
"
Analyzing Interpretive Practice." (with J. Gubrium). 2000.
Pp. 487-508 in Handbook of Qualitative Research, 2nd Edition,
edited by N. Denzin and Y. Lincoln. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
[Reprinted in Strategies of Qualitative Inquiry , 2nd ed.,
edited by N. Denzin and Y. Lincoln. 2003. Thousand Oaks,
CA: Sage.]
"
The Active Interview." (with J. Gubrium) 2000. In Encyclopedia
of Social Research Methods edited by Robert Burgess. London: Routledge.
"
Aging and Everyday Life: Introduction." (with J. Gubrium)
2000. Pp. 1-11 in Aging and Everyday Life edited by J.
Gubrium and J. Holstein. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
"
Reconstituting the Constructionist Program." (with G.
Miller). 2000. Translated into Japanese and reprinted in Sociology of Constructionism
(pp. 105-121) edited by Hidemi Taira and Nobutoshi Nakagawa. Kyoto, Japan:
Sekaishiso-sha.
"
Social Constructionism and Its Critics: Assessing Recent Challenges." (with
G. Miller). 2000. Translated into Japanese and reprinted in
Sociology of Constructionism (pp. 122-147) edited by H. Taira and Nobutoshi
Nakagawa. Kyoto, Japan: Sekaishiso-sha.
1999 "
What is Family? Further Thoughts on a Constructionist Approach." (with
J. Gubrium) 1999. Marriage and Family Review 28:3/4:3-20.
[Reprinted in Concepts and Definitions of Family for the 21st Century
edited by B. Settles, S. Steinmetz, G. Peterson, and M.
Sussman. 1999. Binghampton, NY: Haworth.]
"
The Nursing Home as a Discursive Anchor for the Aging Body." (with
J. Gubrium). 1999. Aging and Society 19:519-538.
"
At the Border of Narrative and Ethnography." (with J.
Gubrium). 1999. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 28:561-573.
"
Constructionist Perspectives on Aging." (with J. Gubrium).
1999. Pp. 287-305 in Handbook of Theories of Aging edited by V. Bengtson
and K.W. Schaie. New York: Springer.
"
Method Talk." (with J. Gubrium) 1999. In Qualitative Research,
vol. 1: Fundamental Issues in Qualitative Research edited by A. Bryman
and R. Burgess. London: Sage. [Chapter adapted from The New Language
of Qualitative Method]
"
Active Interviewing." (with J. Gubrium). 1999. In Qualitative
Research, vol. 1:
Fundamental Issues in Qualitative Research edited
by A. Bryman and R. Burgess. London: Sage. [Chapter adapted from
paper of same title in Qualitative Analysis: Issues of Theory and Method , edited
by D. Silverman. London: Sage..]
1998 "
Narrative Practice and the Coherence of Personal Stories." (with
J. Gubrium) 1998. The Sociological Quarterly 39:163-187.
"
Standing Our Middle Ground." (with J. Gubrium) 1998. Journal
of Contemporary
Ethnography 27: 417-422.
1997 "
Active Interviewing." (with J. Gubrium). 1997. Pp. 113-129
in Qualitative Research: Theory, Method, and Practice edited
by David Silverman. 1997. London: Sage.
[Reprinted in Qualitative Research, vol. 2:
Methods of Qualitative Research
edited by A. Bryman and R. Burgess. 1999. London: Sage;
Qualitative Research Methods edited by Darin Weinberg Silverman. 2002. Malden:
MA: Blackwell; Postmodern Interviewing edited by J. Gubrium and J.
Holstein. Thousand Oaks: CA: Sage.]
"
Social Problems as Work." (with G. Miller). 1997. Pp.
ix-xxi in Social Problems in Everyday Life. Greenwich CT: JAI Press.
1995 "
Deprivatization and the Construction of Domestic Life." (with
J. Gubrium) 1995. Journal of Marriage and the Family 57:607-622.
"
Individual Agency, the Ordinary, and Postmodern Life." (with
J. Gubrium) 1995. The Sociological Quarterly 36:701-716
"
Life Course Malleability: Biographical Work and Deprivatization." (with
J. Gubrium). 1995. Sociological Inquiry 65:207-223.
"
Qualitative Inquiry and the Deprivatization of Experience." (with
J. Gubrium) 1995. Qualitative Inquiry. 1:204-222.
"
Biographical Work and New Ethnography." (with J. Gubrium)
1995. Pp. 45-58 in The Narrative Study of Lives , edited by A. Lieblich
and R. Josselson. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
1994 "
Grounding the Postmodern Self." (with J. Gubrium) 1994.
The Sociological Quarterly 35:685-703.
"
Dispute Domains: Organizational Contexts and Dispute Processing." (with
G. Miller) 1994. The Sociological Quarterly 36:301-325.
"
Phenomenology, Ethnomethodology, and Interpretive Practice." (with
J. Gubrium). 1994. Pp. 262-272 in Handbook of Qualitative
Methods edited by N. Denzin and Y. Lincoln. Newbury Park, CA: Sage. [Reprinted in
Strategies of Qualitative Inquiry, 1st ed. edited by N. Denzin and Y. Lincoln.
Newbury Park, CA: Sage.]
"
Constructing Family: Descriptive Practice and Domestic Order." (with
J. Gubrium). 1994 Pp. 232-250 in Constructing the Social
edited by T. Sarbin and J. Kitsuse. London: Sage.
"
Analyzing Talk and Interaction." (with J. Gubrium). 1994.
Pp. 173-188 in Qualitative Methods in Aging Research edited by J. Gubrium
and A. Sankar. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
"
New Ethnography and the Social Construction of Lives." (with
J. Gubrium) 1994. Janus 4:352-361. (University of Tampere,
Finland).
"
Settling Disputes: Interactional Process and Organizational Setting." (with
G. Miller). 1994. Pp. 290-304 in Doing Everyday Life: Ethnography
as Human Lived
Experience edited by Robert Prus, Mary Lou Dietz,
and William Shaffir. Toronto: Copp Clark Longman.
1993 "
Family Discourse, Organizational Embeddedness, and Local Enactment." (with
J.
Gubrium). 1993. Journal of Family Issues 14:66-81. (Special issue on "Rethinking
the Family as a Social Form.")
"
Disputing in Organizations: Dispute Domains and Interactional
Process." (with
G. Miller). 1993. Mid-American Review of Sociology 17(2):1-18.
"
Phenomenology, Ethnomethodology, and Family Discourse." (with
J. Gubrium). 1993. Pp. 649-70 in Sourcebook of Family
Theories and Methods: A Contextual Approach edited by P. Boss,
W. Doherty, R. LaRossa, W. Schum, and S. Steinmetz. New York:
Plenum.
"
Reconsidering Social Constructionism." (with G. Miller). 1993.
Pp. 5-23 in econsidering
Social Constructionism: Debates in Social Problems Theory edited by J. Holstein and G. Miller. Hawthorne,
NY: Aldine de Gruyter.
"
Social Constructionism and Social Problems Work." (with
G. Miller). 1993. Pp. 151-172 in Reconsidering Social
Constructionism: Debates in Social Problems Theory edited by J. Holstein and G. Miller. Hawthorne,
NY: Aldine de Gruyter.
[Reprinted in Challenges and Choices: Constructionist Perspectives
on Social Problems edited by J. Holstein and G. Miller.
Hawthorne, NY:
Aldine de Gruyter. Also in Social Problems in Everyday
Life: Studies of Social Problems Work edited by G. Miller and
J.
Holstein).
1997. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.]
"
Reconstituting the Constructionist Program." (with G.
Miller). 1993. Pp. 241-250 in Reconsidering Social Constructionism: Debates
in Social Problems Theory edited by J. Holstein and G. Miller. Hawthorne,
NY: Aldine de Gruyter.
"
Social Constructionism and Its Critics: Assessing Recent Challenges." (with
G. Miller). 1993. Pp. 535-548 in Reconsidering Social
Constructionism: Debates in Social Problems Theory edited by J. Holstein and G. Miller.
Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter.
"
Constructing Social Problems: Context and Legacy." (with
G. Miller). 1993. Pp. 3-18 in Constructionist Controversies: Issues in Social
Problems Theory edited by G. Miller and J. Holstein. Hawthorne, NY: Aldine
de Gruyter.
1992 " Producing Evaluative Knowledge: The Interaction al Bases of Social Science
Findings." (with W. Staples). 1992. Sociological Inquiry
62:11-35.
"
Producing People: Descriptive Practice in Human Service Work." 1992.
Current
Research on Occupations and Professions 6:23-39.
Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.
"Short Time, Hard Time: Accounts of Short-Term Imprisonment." (with
R. Jones). 1992. Perspectives on Social Problems 3:289-309.
"Qualitative Methods." (with J. Gubrium). 1992. Pp. 1577-1582
in The Encyclopedia of Sociology edited by E. Borgatta. New York: Macmillan.
"Field Research Methods." (with J. Gubrium). 1992. Pp.
711-716 in The Encyclopedia of Sociology edited by E. Borgatta. New York: Macmillan.
1991 " Social Problems Work in Street-Level Bureaucracies: Rhetoric and Organizational
Process." (with G. Miller). 1991. Pp. 175-197 in Studies
in Organizational Sociology. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.
1990
" Describing Home Care: Discourse and Image in Involuntary Commitment
Proceedings." 1990. Pp. 209-226 in J. Gubrium and A. Sankar
(eds.), The Home Care Experience .Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
"Rethinking Victimization: An Interactional Approach to Victimology." (with
G. Miller). 1990. Symbolic Interaction 13:103-22.
[Reprinted in Social Problems in Everyday Life: Studies in
Social Problems Work. Edited by G. Miller and J. Holstein.
1997. Greenwich,
CT: JAI
Press.]
"The Discourse of Age in Involuntary Commitment Proceedings." 1990.
Journal of Aging Studies 4:111-130.
[Reprinted in Aging, Self, and Community edited by J. Gubrium
and K. Charmaz. 1992. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.]
1989 "On the Sociology of Social Problems." (with G. Miller).
1989. Perspectives on Social Problems 1:1-16. Greenwich, CT: JAI.
1988 " Court Ordered Incompetence: Conversational Organization in Involuntary
Commitment Hearings." 1988. Social Problems 35:801-816.
"Studying 'Family Usage': Family Image and Discourse in Mental Hospitalization
Decisions." 1988. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography
17:247-273.
1987 "Producing Gender Effects on Involuntary Mental Hospitalization." 1987.
Social Problems 34:141-155.
"The Private Image: Experiential Location and Method in Family Studies." (with
J. Gubrium). 1987. Journal of Marriage and the Family
49:773-786.
"Mental Illness Assumptions in Civil Commitment Proceedings." 1987.
Journal of
Contemporary Ethnography 16:147-175.
"Descriptive Evaluations of Community Support Programs." (with
Grusky et al.)
1987 International Journal of Mental Health 15:26-43.
1986 "
Models of Local Mental Health Care Systems." (with Grusky
et al.). 1986. Pp. 159-96 in The Organization of Mental Health Services edited
by R. Scott and B. Black. Beverly Hills: Sage.
1985 "
Jurors' Interpretations and Jury Decision-Making." 1985.
Law and Human Behavior 9:83-100.
"
Psychological Well-being and the Socio-symbolics of Athletic Contests." (with
M. Pollner). 1985. Sociological Inquiry 55:291-309.
"
Models of Local Mental Health Delivery Systems." (with
O. Grusky, et al.) 1985. American Behavioral Scientist 28:685-703.
1984 " The Placement of Insanity: Assessments of Grave Disability and Involuntary
Commitment
Decisions." 1984. Urban Life 13:35-62.
1983 " Grading Practices: The Construction and Use of Background Knowledge
in Evaluative
Decision-Making." 1983. Human Studies 6:377-392.
" Jurors' Use of Judges' Instructions: Conceptual and Methodological Issues
for Simulated
Jury Studies." 1983. Sociological Methods and Research
11:501-518.
Research Reports
Dispute Domains and Welfare Claims. (With G. Miller) Report to National Institute for Dispute Resolution. 1993. Milwaukee: Marquette
"Organizational Contexts and Disputing Discourses: Staff-Client Disputing in a Work Incentive Program.: (with G. Miller) 1992. National Institute for Dispute Resolution Research Working Paper. Washington, DC.
"Research Program for Studying Police-Citizen Disputes." Report to the Fire and Police Commission. (with G. Miller and R. Jones) Milwaukee, WI. 1992.
"Strategies for Studying Police-Community Disputes." Report to the Mayor's Citizen Commission on Police-Community Relations/Police and Fire Commission. (with G. Miller) Milwaukee, WI. 1991.
NIMH Report on the Cass County Community Support Site. (with O. Grusky et al). 1984. Los Angeles: NIMH.
NIMH Report on the Onondaga Counterpunching Psychiatric Center Community Support Site. (with ). Grusky et al). 1983. Los Angeles: NIMH.
NIMH Report on the Jefferson, Blunt and St. Claire Counties, Community Support Site (with O. Grusky et al). 1983. Los Angeles: NIMH.
NIMH Report on the Cabanas County Community Support Site (with O. Grusky et al). 1982. Los Angeles: NIMH.
"Promotion of Organizational Interaction." 1982. Pp. 165-271 in Community Cancer Control: Contractor's Final Report, V. 1 edited by E. Brando and B. Gerber. Washington, DC: National Cancer Institute.
"Evaluation: Industrially Based Quit Smoking Program." 1982. Pp. 113-47 in Community Cancer Control: Contractor's Final Report, V, 2 edited by E. Brando and B. Gerber. Washington, DC: National Cancer Institute.
Other Publications
"What's new at Social Problems? Social Problems Forum 33(1):5-6.
Course syllabus for "Self, Language and Interaction" published in Social Psychology: A Collection of Syllabi and Instructional Materials. 1990. Washington, DC: American Sociological Association. (jointly assembled with G. Miller.)
Film Review: Man Oh Man? (with R. Jones) 1989. Teaching Sociology 17:401-2.
Major Professional Activities
Elected Positions
Chair: Theory Division, Society for the Study of Social Problems,
1994-96
Editor and Publications Committee SSSP , 1998-2001
Board of Directors, SSSP (ex officio), 2002-2005.
Editorial Positions
Editor:
Social Problems , 2002-2005
Editor:
Perspectives on Social Problems ; JAI Press 1989-2001
(co-editor with Gale Miller).
Editor: Social Problems, 2002-2005.
Editor: Perspectives on Social Problems: JAI Press
(co-editor with Gale Miller). 1989-2001.
Associate Editor: Social Problems 1993 - 2002.
Editorial Board:
American Sociological Review , 1997-2001
Auto/Biography, 2003-present.
Sociological Inquiry ; 1993-1999
Journal of Family Issues ; 1995-1999
Journal of Contemporary Ethnography , 1995-present
Urban Life ; 1984-1987.
Manuscript Reviewer
Social Problems
Sociological Focus
American Sociological Review
Deviant Behavior
Journal of Marriage and the Family
Sociological Inquiry
Sociological Quarterly
Symbolic Interaction
Journal of Contemporary Ethnography
Field Methods
Journal of Aging Studies
Personal Relationships
Sociological Methods and Research
Cultural Studies
Journal of Family Issues
University of California Press
Organization Sciences
Sage Publications, London
Qualitative Health Research
Lexington Publishers
Social Studies of Science
Qualitative Sociology
Teaching Sociology
Studies in Symbolic Interaction
Canadian Journal on Aging
Selected Papers and Presentations at Professional Meetings
"Writing for Social Problems." 2004. Meetings of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. San Francisco.
"Constructing Social Problems: Its Past and Future." 2002. Meetings of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Chicago.
"Social Problems Images in the Media." 2001. Meetings of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Anaheim.
"Construction ism in the U.S. and Japan: International Contacts and Context." 1999. Annual meetings of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Chicago.
"Studying the Self We Live by." 1999. Annual meetings of the American Sociological Association. Chicago.
"Institutional Selves." 1999. Annual meetings of the Midwest Sociological Society. Minneapolis, MN.
"Family Rhetoric and social Problems Discourse." 1997. Meetings of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Toronto.
"New Directions in Qualitative Research." (with J. Gubrium). 1997. Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Toronto.
"Family Rhetoric and Social Problems Discourse." 1997. Meetings of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Toronto.
"New Directions in qualitative Research." (with J. Gubrium). 1997. Didactic Seminary presented for ASA. Toronto
"Locating Narrative Practice." (with J. Gubrium). 1997. International Symposium on Cultural Gerontology. Copenhagen, Denmark.
"Qualitative Research.: (with J. Gubrium) 1995. 2nd International Conference on Home and community Care for Persons Living with HIV/AIDS. Montreal.
"Biographical Work and Life Course Malleability." (with J. Gubrium) 1994. Meetings of American Sociological Association. Los Angeles.
"De privatization and Domestic Life." (with J. Gubrium) 1994. Meetings of the American Sociological Association. Los Angeles.
"Recent Developments in Social Construction ism." 1994. Meetings of the society for the Study of Social Problems. Los Angeles.
"The New Language of Qualitative Method." (with J. Gubrium) 1994. Equalization Health Research Conference. Hershey, PA.
"The New Language of Qualitative Method in Aging Research." (with J. Gubrium) Symposium on Methodological Diversity and Quality in Applied Social and Health Research on Aging and Seniors' Issues. Calmer, Quebec, Canada.
"What is Marriage and Family? 1993. Meeting of the National Council on Family Relations. Baltimore, MD.
"New Developments in Social Construction ism." (with G. Miller) 1993. Meeting of The Society for the Study of Social Problems, Miami, FL.
"Reconsidering Social Construction ism," 1993. Meeting of the Midwest Sociological Society Chicago.
"Analyzing Family Discourse." (with J. Gubrium). 1992. Meeting of the National Council on Family Relations. Orlando, FL.
"The Emergence and Organization of disputes in Organization." (with G. Miller). 1992. Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Ass. Pittsburgh, PA.
"Dispute Domains and WElfare Claims." (with G. Miller). 1992. Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Ass. Philadelphia.
"Disputing Processes and Organizational Context." (with G. Miller). 1992. Qualitative Research Conference. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
"Settling Disputes: Interactional Process and ORganizational Setting." (with G. Miller) 1992. Annual Meting of the Midwest Sociological Society. Kansas City, MO
"Organizational Contexts and Disputing Discourses." (with G. Miller). 1992 Meeting of the British Sociology Studies Ass. Keeled, England.
"Constructing Justice: Administrative Hearings in a Welfare Program." (with G. Miller). 1992. University of Nottingham, England.
"Family Discourse and Domestic Diversity." 1991. Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Ass. Cincinnati.
" 'Let Me Speak Your Mind': The Interactional Organization of Speaking for Others." 1991. Qualitative Research Conference. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
"Analyzing Inmate Accounts." (with R. Jones). 1990. Annual Meetings of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Washington DC.
"Descriptive Cultures of Community Mental Health Care." 1990. Qualitative Research Conference. Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
"'What is Family?' An Detainment Approach to Family Studies." 1990. Annual Loyola Sociological Convention. Loyola University. Chicago.
"Images of Aging and the Life Course in Involuntary Commitment Proceedings." 1989. Meetings of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Berkeley, CA.
"Reproducing Managers: The Case of Major League Baseball.: (with N. Sullivan, G. Miller, and R. S. Jones). 1988. Meetings of the Wisconsin Sociological Ass. Milwaukee.
"Family Rhetoric and Organizational Process." (with G. Miller). 1988. Annual Meetings of the Wisconsin Sociological Association. Milwaukee, WI.
"Court-Ordered Insanity: Conversational Practice and Organization in Involuntary Commitment Hearings." 1988. Meetings of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Atlanta, GA.
"Victimization as Descriptive Practice." 1988. Inter actionist Research '88 Conference. Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
"Studying 'Family-In-Use': Inter actionist Issues." 1988. Annual Meetings of the Midwest Sociological Society. Minneapolis, MN.
"Experiential Location and Method in Family Studies." (with J. Gubrium). 1987. Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Chicago.
"Bounding the Inter organizational Domain: A New Method for Studying Local Mental Health Delivery Systems." (with O. Grusky and S. Webster). 1984. Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association. San Antonio.
"Models of Local Mental Health Delivery Systems.: (with O. Grusky, K. Tierney, R. Anspach, D. Davis, D. Unruh, S. Webster, S. Vanderwater, and H. Allen). 1984. NIMH Conference on Organizations and Mental Health. Washington, D.C.
"Models of Mental Health Delivery Systems in the US (with O. Grusky, K. Tierney, R. Anspach, D. Davis, D. Unruh, and S. Vanderwater). 1983. Symposium on "The future of the Chronically Mentally Ill in Society." Jerusalem, Israel.
Other Presentations and Colloquia
"Publishing in Social Problems." University of North Carolina, Charlotte Department of Sociology and Anthropology. March 2004.
"Publishing Research in Peer Reviewed Journals." Boston College Department of Sociology Lecture. December 2003.
"Context: Working It Up and Down." UCLS Department of Sociology Colloquium. March 2003.
"Publishing Qualitative Research." UCLA Department of Sociology Seminar. March 2003.
"Qualitative Interviewing." Veterans Administration Hospital Stroke Research Staff, Gainesville, FL. Spring 2001.
"New Developments in Ethnomethodology and Constructionism." Lecture series, Lund University, Sweden. May 1998.
"The New Language of Qualitative Inquire." 1998. Mental Health Services Research Program. University of Wisconsin, Madison.
"Place and Space in Qualitative Research." 1997. Research Symposium, School of Architecture, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
"The New Language of Qualitative Method." (with J. Gubrium). 1997. Sociology Symposium. Lund University. Sweden.
"Narrative Practice and Life History Research." (with J. Gubrium). 1996. University of Tampere School of Medicine. Tampere, Finland.
"Social Constructionism and Social Theory." 1996. "Symposium on Social Theory and Everyday Life." University of Florida, Gainesville.
"Interpretive Practice and Involuntary Commitment." Seminar on Social Research. University of Tampere. Tampere, Finland.
"Workshop on Narrative and Description: The New Language of Qualitative Method." (with J. Gubrium) 1995. University of Florida School of Nursing, Jacksonville, FL.
"Mental Illness and Social Order: Interpretive Practice and Involuntary Commitment." 1995. Workshop for Indiana Consortium for Mental Health Services Research. Indianapolis.
"Modes of Qualitative Inquiry." 1995. Association of American Medical Colleges Health Services Research Institute for Minority Fellows. Washington, DC.
"New Developments in Constructionist Thinking about Family: Questioning Jaber Gubrium and James holstein." 1994. National Council on Family Relations. Minneapolis.
"Social Problems Work": Discussant. 1993. Meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Miami, FL.
"Interpretive Practice and the Deprivatization of Experience." 1993. Sociology Colloquium, Stevenson College, University of California, Santa Cruz.
"Social Problems: The Constructionist Stance." (with G. Miller) 1992. National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar. Southern Illinois University. Carbondale, IL.
"Teaching Workshop on Qualitative Analysis." (with G. Miller and J. Gubium). 1992. Qualitative Research Conference. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
"Evaluating Baseball Players: Systematic Approaches to Subjective Phenomena." (with G. Miller). 1991. University of Wisconsin, Parkside Extension Symposium. Racine, WI.
"The Descriptive Culture of the Family." 1988. Institute for Family Studies Colloquium, Marquette University. Milwaukee WI.
"Gender Effects on Involuntary Commitment." 1987. Department of Psychiatry Colloquium, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
"The Irony of Civil Commitment Criteria." 1986. UCLA Department of Sociology Lecture. Los Angeles, CA.
"A Multi-Level Comparative Approach to the Evaluation of Mental Health Delivery Systems." (with K. Tierney, R. Anspach, and D. Davis). 1984. Mental Health Evaluation Research Colloquium, UCLA.
"Grading Papers: The Construction and Use of Background Knowledge in Student Evaluations." 1983. Mental Health Evaluation Research Colloquium. UCLA.
"Interorganizational Coordination in Cancer Control" 1982. National Cancer Institute Panel Report. Los Angeles.
Other Professional Activities
Organized: Thematic Session: "Remembering John Kitsuse." Meetings of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. San Francisco. 2004.
Organized: Theory Division session on "The Social Constructionism of Justice." Meetings of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Atlanta. 2003.
Organized: Theory Division session on "Perspectives on Social Problems." Meetings of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Atlanta. 2003.
Organized Thematic Session: "On the 25th Anniversary of Constructing Social Problems." Meetings of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Chicago, 2002.
Organized Thematic Session: "The Future of Social problems: Japanese and American Perspectives." Meetings of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Chicago, 2002.
Discussant: Theory Division session on "Social Constructionism and Social Problems Theory." Society for the Study of Social Problems. Washington, DC. 2002.
Organized Theory Division session on "Constructing Social Problems in Cultural Context: Japanese and American Visions." for meetings of society for the Study of Social problems. Chicago, 1999.
Organized session on "Institutional Selves and Social Problems Work" for annual meetings of the Midwest Sociological Society. Minneapolis, MN 1999.
Organized session: "Graduate Student Paper Competition." 1998. Meetings of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. San Francisco.
Organized session on "Social Problems and Family." 1997. Meetings of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Toronto.
Organized session on "What is Critical About Qualitative Method?" (with J. Gubrium) 1995. Meetings of the American Sociological Association. Washington, DC.
Organized session in Social Problems Theory ("Pacific Exchanges: Constructionism in the U.S. and Japan." Co-organizer with J. Kits use). 1994. Meetings of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Los Angeles.
Organized session in Social Problems Theory ("Issues in Social Problems Theory.") (with G. Miller) 1993. Meetings of the Midwest Sociological Society.
Organized "Reconsidering Social Constructionism: A Symposium in social Problems Theory and Research (with G. Miller). 1992. Milwaukee, WI
Organized Psychiatric Sociology Session ("Interpretive Issues in Psychiatric Sociology.") 1992. Meetings of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Pittsburgh, PA.
Organized and Chaired Session: "Languages, Interaction, and Social Problems." 1990. Meetings of the Society for the Study of Social problems. Washington, DC.
Organized and Chaired Session: "Interpretive Issues in Psychiatric Sociology." 1989. Meetings of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Berkeley, CA.
Organized Psychiatric Sociology Session ("Producing Troubles: The Analysis of Discourse and Social Problems Work.") 1988. Meetings of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Atlanta, GA.
Research Grants
"Family Adaptations and Institutionalization." 1994. Marquette University Regular Research Grant and Summer Faculty Fellowship. $5,000.
"Reconsidering Social Constructionism: A Symposium" (with G. Miller). 1992. Midwest Sociological Society Scholarly Development Grant. $750.
"Dispute Domains and Welfare Claims" (with G. Miller). 1990-02. Fund for Research on Dispute Resolution (administered by National Institute for Dispute Resolution). $55,000.
"Dispute Processing in a Welfare Agency" (with G. Miller). 1990-91. Regular Research Grant. Marquette University Graduate School. $2,300.
"Dispute Processing in a Welfare Agency." 1990. Summer Faculty Fellowship. Marquette University Graduate School. $2,000.
"Enforcing the Work Ethic" (with G. Miller). 1989-90. American Sociological Association/National Science Foundation Small Grant Program. $2,500.
"Public Order of the Family." 1988-889. Marquette Institute for Family Studies. $8,500.
National Institute of Mental Health Services System Research Training Program Grant: USPHS-MH14583. 1984. University of California at Los Angeles (O. Grusky, PI).
National Institute for Handicapped Research: NIHR-G00806802: "Descriptive Evaluation of Community Support Programs for the Chronically Mentally Ill." 1984. (O' Grusky, PI).
Professional Experience
Research Consultant. Veteran's Administration Medical Center, Gainesville, FL;. 2001.
Research Associate. Institute for Family Studies, Marquette University; 1986 -
Consultant. Mayor's Citizen Commission/Milwaukee Fire and Police Commission. 1991-92.
Assistant Research Sociologist II. Neuropsychiatric Institute, UCA; 1982-84.
NIMH Postdoctoral Fellow in Mental Health Evaluation Research. Department of Sociology, UCLA; 1981-84.
Associate in Research and Evaluation. San Fernando Valley Child Guidance Clinic; 1981-82.
Associate: Planning and Evaluation. Community Cancer Control/Los Angeles, Inc.; 1980-82.
Honors, Fellowships, etc.
Lawrence G. Haggerty Faculty Award for Excellence in Research Nominee. Marquette University. 2004
Edward Simmons Junior Faculty Teaching Award Nominee. Department of social and Cultural Sciences, Marquette University, 1988-1989
Wisconsin Sociological Association Teaching Award Nominee. Department of Social and Cultural Sciences, Marquette University, 1988.
NIMH Postdoctoral Fellowship in Mental Health Evaluation Research. Department of Sociology, University of California at Los Angeles, 1981-1984. (Senior Fellow 1983 - 1984).
Memberships in Professional Societies
Society for the Study of Social problems
American Sociological Association
Law and Society Association
Midwest Sociological Society
Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction
Qualitative Family Research Network
National Council on Family Relations
Research and Teaching Interests
Social Problems
Deviance and Social Control
Social Psychology: The Self and Social Interaction
Language and Interaction
Talk-In-Interaction
Institutional Discourse
Sociology of Mental Health and Illness
Psychiatric Sociology
Mental Health and the Law
Aging and Life Course
Family Studies
Qualitative Inquiry: Theory and Method
Ethnomethodology and Social Constructionism
Interview Research
Publications
Marquette University/College Service
University and Social Sciences Area Promotion and Tenure Committees. 1994-2003 (Chair, Social Sciences, 2001-2003, 1995-1998).
University Ad Hoc Promotion and Tenure Appeal Committee. 2001.
University Gender Equity Implementation Task Force, 2001-2003.
•Tenure and Promotion Sub-Committee
•Merit Salary Increase Sub-Committee
•Family Issues Sub-Committee
University Core Curriculum Assessment Committee. 2000-2003.
Mentoring Committee. 2003-present.
Arts and Sciences Advising Committee (consultant). 1994-1998.
Library Liaison Committee. 1985-present.
Arts and Sciences Pre-major Advisor. 1988-92.
Admissions Office "Shadow Program" Advisor. 1988-91.
Writing Across the Curriculum. 1989-91.
ASMU Day Care Research Committee (Advisory). 1986-88.
Truman Scholarship Screening Committee. 1986-87.
Departmental Service
Department Chair, Social and Cultural Sciences, 2003-present.
Faculty Development Coordinator. 2000-2003
• Authored departmental standards and procedures for promotion and tenure. 2002.
• Authored departmental teaching load assignment plan. 2002.
• Authored departmental faculty development plan. 2001.
SOCI Major Committee, 2001-2003.
CRLS Major Committee, 2001-2003.
ANTH Major Committee. 2001-2003.
Departmental Assessment Committee. 2001-2003.
Department Advisory Committee. 1985-92, 1998-2000.
Sociology Program Coordinator, 1994
Ad Hoc Committee to Formalize Intradepartmental Relations. (1992-93).
Strategic Planning Task Force: Chair. 1990-1991.
Primary Author: Sociology Strategic Plan, 1990-91.
Primary Author: Departmental Faculty Contributions Assessment. 1989-92.
Author of revisions of Sociology Graduate Program. 1990-91, 1987-88.
Graduate Committee, 1990-93.
Library Liaison, 1984-present.
Computer Committee. 1985-92.
Ad Hoc Committee to revise graduate program. 1987-88.
Ad Hoc Recruitment Committee, 1985-89: 1994-96
Social Work Program Committee. 1990-93.
Criminology and Law Studies Committee. 1984-87.
Undergraduate Sociology Program Committee. 1984-86.
Served on numerous Comprehensive Examination, Specialty Essay, MA Committees.
Professional Service
Board of Directors, Society for the Study of Social Problems, 2002-present.
Budget and Finance Committee. 2002-present.
Editorial and Publications Committee, Society for the Study of Social Problems. 1991-present.
Committee on Committees, Society for the Study of Social Problems. 1988-1991.
Chair, Theory Division, Society for the Study of Social Problems. 1994-1996.
Courses Prepared to Teach
Social Problems
Social Psychology/Self and Society
Deviance and Social Control
Sociology of "Deviance" and "Normalcy"
Juvenile Delinquency and Deviance
Sociology of Family
Family Troubles
Social Statistics
Methods of Social Research
Qualitative Research Methods
Ethnography and Field Methods
Ethnomethodology & Social Constructionism
Interview Research
Narrative/Discourse Analysis
