Professor of Sociology
Research Professor of Social and Cultural Science
Office: Lalumiere Hall, 370
Phone: (414) 288-5117
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Education
B.A. (1969): University of Nebraska at Omaha
M.A. (1972): University of Nebraska at Omaha
M.Phil. (1975): University of Kansas
Ph.D. (1976): University of Kansas
Other affiliations
Committee on Career Criminals, Milwaukee District Attorney's Office: Milwaukee, WI (1977-1978)
Research Associate, Institute for Family Studies: Marquette University (1986-1995)
Senior Research Associate, Brief Family Therapy Center: Milwaukee, WI (1988-2001)
Writing Staff Member, Writing Across the Curriculum: Marquette Univerisity (1990).
Research Consultant, Mayor's Commission on Police-Community Relations: Milwaukee, WI (1991)
Research Consultant, Milwaukee Fire and Police Comission: Milwaukee, WI (1991-1992)
Member, International Scientific Council, Institute of Systemic Coaching and Institute of Systemic Studies, Prague, Czech Republic (1999-present)
Full-time Faculty Positions
Marquette University:
Assistant Professor, 1976-81
Associate Professor, 1981-1989
Professor, 1989-present
Department Chairperson, 2000-2003
Research Professor of Social and Cultural Sciences, 2004-present
Courses Taught
Undergraduate Classes
Complex Organizations
Conflict and Control
Criminology
Growing Up and Growing Old
Juvenile Deviance and Delinquency
Principles of Sociology
Practicuum in Sociology
Self, Language and Social Interaction
Social Problems
Social Psychology of Organizations
Social Relations in Organizations (The syllabus for this course was published in Teaching Formal Organizations, David Knoke, Naomi Kaufman and John Freeman, editors, New York: American Sociological Association, 1992)
Society in Film
Sociological Theory
Sociology of Business and Industry
Sociology of Community
Sociology of the Life Course
Sociology of Work and Occupations (The syllabus for this course was published in Teaching in Sociology of Work and Occupations, Jane C. Hood and David B. Booth, editors, New York: American Sociological Association, 1985)
Urban Life
Graduate Classes
Contemporary Sociological Theory
Proseminar in Sociology
Social Interaction
Qualitative Methods
Sociology of Knowledge and Values
Social Problems Theory
Social Psychology of Institutions
Social Relations in Organizations
Supervision of Student Research
Ph.D. Dissertations
B. Schneider - Talking, Writing, Managing: The Social Construction of Managerial Work (University of Calgary)
P. Crane - Product and Technique Development: Accomplishing Scientific Innovation (Loyola University of Chicago)
S. Holtan - Journalism Education and Journalistic Practice: A Qualitative Assessment (Marquette University)
M.A. Theses
J. Carlson - Social Change: A Political Analysis. (Marquette University)
S. Maronek - The Nullification of the Assumption of Innocence in the Local Felony Court. (Marquette University)
W. Miller - Police Attitudes Toward Juvenile Delinquents and Juvenile Justice. (Marquette University)
M. Blum - Creating Reality at a Radio Station. (Marquette University)
K. Genich - Sociology as Ideology. (Marquette University)
G. Eckstein - The Relationship Between Crime and Labor Market Conditions. (Marquette University)
G. Parangimalil - Ethnic Identity and Assimilation Among Recent Indian Immigrants to Milwaukee (Marquette University)
L. Marks-Haack - The Organization of Interactions Between Dental Students and Patients. (Marquette University)
U. Steiner - Effects of Solutions-Focused Intake Questionnaires on Hope. (Purdue University - Calumet)
M.A. Specialty Essays
W. Swart - One Person's Terrorist is Another's Freedom Fighter: Rhetoric and Claims-Making in Terrorist Assignment Practices
S. Xin - The Sociology of White Collar Crime
L. Marks-Haack - Conversation Analysis in Medical Settings
N. Verma - The Social Construction of Ethnicity
M. Simiele - Toward a New Understanding of Pornography
V. Gunhus - Institutional Ethics Committees and the Social Dynamics of Ethical Decision-Making
A. Braun - The Social Construction of Homelessness
B.A. (Senior) Thesis:
C. Wotowis - The Diversion of Offenders in the Criminal Justice System.
Major University Service Activities
Department Activities:
Criminology and Criminal Justice Programs: Graduate and Undergraduate (1976-1984; Chair 1977-80)
Research and Teaching Assistant Coordinator (1977-81; 1985-88)
Colloquium Committee (1977-78)
Graduate Studies Committee (1977-80; 1982-89; 1991-93; Chair, 1977-80)
Committee on Research, Publications and Leaves (1978-79)
Social Work Committee (1978-85)
Urban Life (Urban Society) Program; Graduate (1980-89; Chair, 1980-89)
Social Interaction Program: Graduate (1978-93; Chair, 1987-93)
Lecture Committee (1981-82, 1984-87, 1990-present; Chair, 1981-82, 1984-87
Advisory (to Department Chair) Committee (1981-87, 1994-95, 2004-05)
Department Chair, Summer Terms (1986, 1987)
Department Liaison to the College of Arts and Sciences Committee on National and International Fellowships (1990-1991)
Coordinator, Sociology Program (1990-91, 1994-95)
Undergraduate Committee (1990-91, 1994-95; Chair, 1990-91, 1994-95)
Faculty Recruitment Committee, Chair (1994-96; 2000-03)
Social Welfare and Justice Major Committee, Chair (2000-03)
Internship Committee (2000-04)
Committee on Department By-Laws, (2003-04)
Coordinator for Faculty Development (2003-05)
Committee on the Criminology and Law Studies Major (2003-06)
Committee on Faculty Development, Chair (2003-05)
Assistant Department Chairperson (2003-05)
University Activities:
Advisory Committee: University Multicultural Center (1979-81)
Liberal Arts Faculty Committee (1980-81)
Faculty Mentor: Advisor for Students in the University Equal Opportunity Program (1980-86)
Committee on the Law Enforcement Program (1981-84)
Committee on Research (1981-84)
Committee on Sabbaticals and Leaves (1985-88; Chair, 1986-87)
Participant in Writing Across the Curriculum Workshop and (semester long) Seminar (1989)
McNair Faculty Mentor: Provides and Supervises Research Experiences for Students in the University Equal Opportunity Program (1990-91)
University Board of Graduate Studies (1990-93)
Dean's Committee (Arts and Sciences) Committee on College Procedures (1999-2000)
Dean's Advisory Council (Arts and Sciences) (2000-2003)
Dean's Committee (Arts and Sciences) Committee on College Relations with the College of Professional Studies (2001)
Premajor Advisor, (2003-present)
Promotion and Tenure Area Committee, College of Arts and Sciences (2003-2006)
Provost's Academic Task Force on the Nature of Research at Marquette University (2004-2005)
Committee Appointments/Offices Held in Professional Associations:
Midwest Editor, Organizations and Occupations Section Newsletter, American Sociological Association (1984-1991)
Wisconsin State Director, Midwest Sociological Society (1985-1987)
Publications Committee, Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction (1986-1989; Chair, 1987-88)
Election Committee, Society for the Study of Social Problems (Chair, 1987)
Nominations Committee, Community Section, American Sociological Association (1987-88)
Chair, Theory Section, Society for the Study of Social Problems (1988-1990)
Publications Committee, Midwest Sociological Society (1992-1994; Chair, 1994)
Nominations Committee, Organizations and Occupations Section, American Sociological Association (1992-1993)
Student Paper Award Committee, Social Problems Theory Division, Society for the Study of Social Problems (1993-1997)
Mead Award Committee, Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction (1994-1995)
Publications Committee, Society for the Study of Social Problems (1994-1997;
Chair, 1995-1996)
Research Committee, European Brief Therapy Association (1999-2001)
Lee Founders Award Committee, Society for the Study of Social Problems (2004-2005)
Activities at Professional Meetings:
Panelist, Organizer or Discussant:
Sociology of Education Session: Midwest Sociological Society, Minneapolis (1971)
Sociology of Work and Occupations Session: Southern Sociological Society, Atlanta (1977)
Conference on Utopias and Communes, Omaha (1978)
Race and Crime Session: Midwest Sociology Society, Milwaukee (1980)
Organizations and Occupations Roundtable Sessions: American Sociological Association, Toronto, (1981)
The Social Reality of Field Research: Midwest Sociological Society, St. Louis (1985)
Perspectives on Contemporary Social Problems Theory Session: Midwest Sociological Society, Des Moines (1986)
The Construction of Social Problems: Society for the Study of Social Problems, Chicago (1987)
Contemporary Issues in Work and Organizations, Wisconsin Sociological Society, Milwaukee (1988)
Sociology as a Social Problem, Society for the Study of Social Problems, San Francisco (1989)
The Pleasures of Criminology, Society for the Study of Social Problems, Washington, D.C. (1990)
Issues in Social Problems Theory, Society for the Study of Social Problems, Washington, D.C. (1990)
Interpretive Perspectives on Work, Occupations and Organizations, Midwest Sociological Society, Kansas City (1992)
The Rhetorics of Symbolic Interactionism, Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, Pittsburgh (1992)
Conflict and Disputing, Society for Applied Sociology, Cleveland (1992)
Social Constructionism and Social Problems Theory, Qualitative Research Conference, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada (1993)
Sociology of Work Session: American Sociological Association, Miami (1993)
Social Constructionism, Midwest Sociology Society, Chicago (1993)
Social Problems Work. Society for the Study of Social Problems, Miami (1993)
Collective Identity, Midwest Sociological Society, St. Louis (1994)
Getting to the Problems of the Surface. Therapeutic Conversations 2: The International Conference on Narrative and Cooperative Approaches to Therapy, Reston, VA (1994)
Deviance, Control, and Organizations. American Sociological Association, Los Angeles (1994)
Contemporary Applications of Social Problems Theory, Society for the Study of Social Problems, Washington, D.C. (1995)
What Can Therapists Learn from Clients About Constructivism. Therapeutic Conversations 3, Denver (1996)
Counseling Societies, Stone Symposium (Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction), University of Nottingham, UK (1996)
Discourse and Power, Qualitative Analysis Conference, Toronto, (1997)
Social Problems Theory and Film, Society for the Study of Social Problems, Toronto (1997)
Constructing Social Problems in Cultural Context: Japanese and American Visions, Society for the Study of Social Problems, Chicago (1999)
The Future of Social Problems: Japanese and American Perspectives. Society for the Study of Social Problems, Chicago (2002)
Toward a Sociology of Coping? Midwest Sociological Society, Kansas City (2004)
The Culture of Social Problems Theory, Society for the Study of Social Problems, San Francisco (2004)
Artfulness and Everyday Life, Midwest Sociological Society, Omaha (2006)
Conference Presentations:
Open Systems, Environment and Social Organizations, Midwest Sociological Society, Omaha (1974)
The Current Status of Occupational Sociology (with George Ritzer, Richard Bell and Virginia McKefery), Midwest Sociological Society, Omaha (1974)
Organizations in Environments, Midwest Sociology Society, Chicago (1975)
Toward a Theory of Work (with David R. Dickens), Midwest Sociological Society, Chicago (1975)
Purposive Social Change and Interorganizational Networks, Midwest Sociological Society, Minneapolis (1977)
Intellectual Craftsmanship and the Teaching of Sociology, Wisconsin Sociological Society, Oshkosh (1979)
The Social Construction of Work in Modern Society, Midwest Sociological Society, Milwaukee (1980)
Doing Research in an Age of Austerity, Wisconsin Sociological Society, Beloit, WI (1981)
Fieldwork in Organizations, American Sociological Association, San Francisco (1982)
Labor Markets, Attitudes and Organizational Process, Midwest Sociological Society, Kansas City (1983)
Languages and the Professions, Midwest Sociological Society, Chicago (1984)
Clients as (Hidden) Workers, American Sociological Association, San Antonio (1984)
Unemployment as a Dramaturgical Problem, Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, San Antonio (1984)
Producing Family Problems, Western Social Science Association, El Paso (1987)
Complaint-Making and Deviance Attribution as Organizational Work, American Sociological Association, Chicago (1987)
Labor Market Images as Quasi-Theories. Midwest Sociological Society, Minneapolis (1988)
Interpretive Perspectives on Social Problems Work: A Critical Appraisal. Interactionist Research '88 Conference. Windsor, Canada (1988)
Producing 'Reports' and 'Symptoms': The Clinical Orientation in Family Therapy. Society for the Study of Social Problems, Atlanta (1988)
Social Problems Work as Rhetoric. American Sociological Society, Atlanta (1988)
Reproducing Managers. (With James A. Holstein, Norman C. Sullivan and Richard S. Jones) Wisconsin Sociological Association, Milwaukee (1988)
Family Rhetoric and Organizational Process. (with James A. Holstein) Wisconsin Sociological Association, Milwaukee, WI (1988)
Theorizing Social Class. Midwest Sociological Society, St. Louis (1989)
Organization Analysis and Social Problems. Society for the Study of Social Problems, San Francisco (1989)
Producing Organizational Identity. Qualitative Research Conference, York University, Toronto (1990)
Speaking for Others in Family Therapy. Qualitative Research Conference, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada (1991)
Settling Disputes: Interactional Process and Organizational Setting (with James A. Holstein) Midwest Sociological Society, Kansas City (1992)
Organizational Contexts and Disputing Discourses: Legal and Nonlegal Management of Organizational Conflict, British Socio-Legal Studies Association Keele, UK (1992)
Dispute Processes and Organizational Context (with James A. Holstein) Qualitative Research Conference, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada (1992)
Dispute Domains and Welfare Claims, (with James A. Holstein) Law and Society Association (1992)
The Rhetoric of Setting in Symbolic Interactionist Ethnography. Society for the Study of Social Interaction, Pittsburgh (1992)
Organizational Conflict and Disputing. Society for Applied Sociology, Cleveland (1992)
Recent Debates in Social Constructionism. Qualitative Research Conference, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada (1993)
Prospective and Retrospective Formulations of Disputes. Law and Society Association, Chicago (1993)
The Social Problems Work Perspective. Society for the Study of Social Problems, Miami (1993)
Ethnographic Knowledge and Authority. Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, Miami (1993)
Identity Work in Organizations, Midwest Sociological Society, St. Louis (1994)
From Method to Analytics. Stone Symposium, University of Illinois, Urbana (1994)
Unfolding Administrative Hearings. British Socio-Legal Studies Association, Nottingham, UK (1994)
People and Jobs. Society for Phenomenology and Human Sciences. Seattle (1994)
Analyzing Work Sites. The Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, Washington, D.C. (1995)
The Therapeutic Conversation. (with Steve de Shazer) Family Therapy Network Symposium, Washington, D.C. (1995)
Reflections on Constructionism and Constructivism. Society for the Study of Social Problems, New York City (1996).
Rethinking Qualitative Studies of Work and the Workplace. Pacific Sociological Association, San Diego (1997)
The Brief Therapy Movement. Stone Symposium (Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction), University of Nottingham, UK (1996)
Discourse and Social Context, Qualitative Analysis Conference, Toronto (1997)
An Interactional Approach to Cinematic Representation. Society for the Study of Social Problems, Toronto (1997)
Working with Constructionist Therapists: A Case of Applied Discourse Analysis. International Sociological Society, Montreal (1998)
Social Interaction in Solution-Focused Brief Therapy. (with Steve de Shazer and Matthis Von Kibéd, European Brief Therapy Association, Salamanca, Spain (1998)
Language Use and Supervision. (with Insoo Kim Berg) European Brief Therapy Association, Salamanca, Spain. (1998)
Language in Supervision. (with Insoo Kim Berg) The Family Therapy Network Symposium. Washington D.C. (1998)
The Practical Relevance of Social Constructionism? Society for the Study of Social Problems, Chicago (1999)
Solution-Focused Mediation. Wisconsin Association of Mediators, Madison (1999)
Solution-Focused Mediation, European Brief Therapy Association, Dublin, Ireland (2001)
Organizations as Rational Systems? Conference on Systemic Management an International Management, Prague, Czech Republic (2002)
Getting Serious about an Applied Constructionism of Social Problems. Midwest Sociological Society, Chicago (2003)
Wishful Interviewing. (with Erica Owens) Midwest Sociological Society, Kansas City (2004)
The Pre-employment Interview (with John Briggs) SOL 2004, Stockholm, Sweden (2004)
Establishing the Moral Stance for Blame and Blaming in Narrative (with Erica Owens) Couch-Stone Symposium 2005, Boulder Colorado (2005)
The Social Construction of Problems and Solutions. Midwest Sociological Society, Minneapolis (2005)
Distanced Attribution as Rhetorical Tactic (with Erica Owens) Midwest Sociological Society, Minneapolis (2005)
Social Troubles: Getting Beyond Personal Troubles vs. Social Issues. Society for the Study of Social Problems, Philadelphia (2005)
Other Presentations
Work Realities and Time Conventions. Department of Sociology, Pennsylvania State University (1981)
Managing Clients in a Work Incentive Program. Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin, Madison (1983)
The Sociological Study of Knowledge. Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (1984)
Family Discourse and Family Therapy. School of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin, Madison (1987)
Ethnomethodology and Structuralism. Ethnomethodology Group, University of Wisconsin, Madison (1987)
Work in Contemporary Society. St. Norbert College, DePere, Wisconsin (1987)
Rhetoric, Collective Representations and Organizational Process. Department of Sociology, Cleveland State University (1988)
Rhetoric in Family Therapy, School of Social Welfare, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (1989)
Social Interaction and the Therapeutic Process. Brief Family Therapy Center, Milwaukee (1989)
The Narrative Organization of Family Therapy. Brief Family Therapy Center, Milwaukee (1990)
Social Interaction and the Therapeutic Process. Brief Family Therapy Center, Milwaukee (1991)
Work as Rhetoric. Department of Sociology, University of Kentucky, Lexington (1991)
Constructing Justice: Administrative Hearings in a Welfare Program. Department of Sociology, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK (1992)
Teaching Workshop on Qualitative Analysis. (with Jaber F. Gubrium and James A. Holstein) Qualitative Research Conference, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada (1992)
Social Problems: The Constructionist Stance. (with James A. Holstein) National Endowment for the Humanities Seminar, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL (1992)
Field Research on Organizational Conflict and Disputing. School of Justice Studies, Arizona State University, Tempe (1993)
Contested Claims and Dispute Domains: The Ethnography of Organizational Conflict. Department of Sociology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL (1994)
Symposium on Social Problems Theory and Symbolic Interactionism, (2 day seminar) University of Dayton, Dayton (1994)
Issues in Social Problems Theory, National Endowment for the Humanities Seminar, (1 day seminar) Southern Illinois University, Carbondale (1994)
Qualitative Research on Family Therapy. Mandel School of Applied Social Science, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland (1996)
The Evolution of Brief Therapy Discourse. (1 day seminar) Alexandievske University Hospital, Sofia, Bulgaria (1996)
Poststructuralism and Family Therapy. Institute for Systemic Experience. (1 day seminar) Prague, Czech Republic (1996)
Methods for Analyzing Poststructuralist Therapy. City Psychiatry Dispensary. (1 day seminar) Rousse, Bulgaria (1996)
The Micropolitics of Trouble in Brief Therapy. Brief Therapy Practice, London, UK (1996)
Politics and Field Research. Department of Sociology, UCLA (1997)
A Sociology of Brief Therapy. Department of Sociology, UCLA (1997)
Speaking of Solutions: A Conversation about Language Use in Brief Therapy (with Steve de Shazer), European Brief Therapy Association, Sofia, Bulgaria (1997)
Wittgenstein for Therapists (2 day seminar/workshop done with Steve de Shazer, Hans Rudi Fisher and Matthias Varga Von Kibéd). Institut für Famlientherapie und Systemberatung, Vienna, Austria (1997)
Social Interaction in Brief Therapy. Department of Psychiatry. Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (1998)
The Language of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy. Hôpital Equorol, (2 day seminar/workshop) Paris, France (1998)
Brief Therapy and Human Service Practice. Brief Therapy Practice, (2 day seminar/workshop) London, England (1998)
Constructing Social Realities in Organizations, Department of Social Policy, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland (1998)
The Sociology of Troubles and Brief Therapy, Department of Sociology, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland (1998)
From Problems to Solutions: The Implications of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy for Sociology. School of Social Studies, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, England (1998)
Language and Meaning in Brief Therapy. Institut für Famlientherapie und Systemberatung, (2 day seminar/workshop) Munich, Germany (1998)
Organizations as Clients: Doing Solution-Focused Therapy in Organizational Settings. NIK (Kurzkofernz, Berlin (1998)
Applied Constructionism. Brief Family Therapy Center-Korea and Department of Social Work Soong Sil University, (2-day seminar/workshop) Seoul, Korea (1998)
Social Constructionism and Solution-Focused Brief Therapy, Department of Social Work and Social Administration, Hong Kong University, (2 day seminar/workshop) Hong Kong (1998)
The Micro-Politics of Trouble and Solution-Focused Brief Therapy. Graduate School of Social Work, Hamyll University, Seoul, Korea (1998)
Problems and Solutions as Social Realities. Fukuoka Brief Therapy Institute, (2 day seminar/workshop) Fukuoka, Japan (1998)
Effective Language Use in Solution-Focused Brief Therapy. Interactive Therapy and Research Center. (2 day seminar/workshop) Tokyo, Japan (1998)
From Problems to Solutions: Toward a New Sociological Discourse, Keynote Address for the Law and Society and Theory Sections. Society for the Study of Social Problems, Chicago (1999)
Solution-Focused Therapy and Mediation (with Richard Besenhofer). Wisconsin Association of Mediators, Madison (2000)
Therapy as Shamanism? Department of Anthropology, University of Paris, Paris, France (2000)
Solution-Focused Mediation (with Richard Besenhofer), SIKT (1 day seminar/workshop) Malmo, Sweden (2001)
Solution-Focused Organizing, (with Richard Besenhofer), SIKT (1 day seminar/workshop) Malmo, Sweden (2001)
What Works in Psychotherapy, Centrum Terapii Krótkotweminowe (2 day seminar/workshop), Lodz, Poland (2002)
Organizational Leadership, SIKT (2 day seminar/workshop), Malmo, Sweden (2002)
Organizational Leadership, Institut für Lösungsfokussierte Kommunikation (2 day seminar/workshop), Bielefeld, Germany (2002)
Solution-Focused Mediation, University of Helsinki (2 day seminar/workshop) Helsinki, Finland (2002)
Solution-Focused Mediation, Dynamics (1 day seminar) Helsingborg, Sweden (2002)
Solution-Focused Mediation, Reviva Communication (2 day seminar/workshop) Stockholm, Sweden (2002)
Solution-Focused Mediation, Solution Focus (2 day seminar/workshop) Copenhagen, Denmark (2003)
The Solution-Focused Use of Language (2 day seminar with Michael Hjerth and Mark McKergow) Solution Work and FKC, Stockholm, Sweden (2004)
Do You Know More Than You Think You Do? Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Purdue University (2005)
Social Constructionism as Science?, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Purdue University (2005)
Artfulness and Everyday Life, Danish National Institute for Social Research, Copenhagen, Denmark (2005)
Funded Research
Work, Ideology and Social Change, Marquette University Research grant, $4000 (1978)
Solving Family Problems: Interaction, Rhetoric and Decision-Making in a Family Therapy Agency, Institute for Family Studies (Marquette University), $8,500 (1988-89)
Enforcing the Work Ethic (with James A. Holstein, Department of Social and Cultural Sciences, Marquette University), American Sociological Association/National Science Foundation Small Grants Program, $2500 (1989)
Dispute Domains and Welfare Claims: Organization and Evolution of Disputes in a Work Incentive Program (with James A. Holstein, Department of Social and Cultural Sciences, Marquette University), Marquette University Research Grant, $6200 (1989-1990)
Dispute Domains and Welfare Claims: Organization and Evolution of Disputes in a Work Incentive Program (with James A. Holstein, Department of Social and Cultural Sciences, Marquette University), Fund for Research on Dispute Resolution (Ford Foundation), $55,000 (1990-1991)
Constructing Troubles in Two Counseling Sites: A Study of Brief and Systemic Therapies, Marquette University Research Grant, $6800 (1997-98).
Counseling in Physician-Patient Interactions: The Cases of Primary Care and Family Medicine (with Timothy Halkowski, Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin Medical School - Milwaukee Campus) Dr. Scholl Foundation, $20,000 (1999)
Reports/Working Papers and Interviews
Rationale and Strategies for Studying Police-Community Relations. (with James A. Holstein) Report to Mayor's Citizen Commission on Police-Community Relations, Milwaukee, WI (1991)
Research Program for Studying Police-Citizen Disputes. (with James A. Holstein) Report to the Milwaukee Fire and Police Commission, Milwaukee, WI (1992)
Dispute Domains and Welfare Claims. Report to the National Institute for Dispute Resolution, Washington, DC (1993)
Organizational Contexts and Disputing Discourses. Research Working Paper for the National Institute for Dispute Resolution, Washington, DC (1993)
"It's Not What You Say that Matters. It's the Conversational Exchange," Interview published in The Psychotherapy Letter 7, 6, June (1995): 1, 4-5
Report on "Counseling in Physician-Patient Interactions: The Cases of Primary Care and Family Medicine" (with Timothy Halkowski) to Dr. Scholl Foundation. (2001)
Päo Internationally Spaning (with Martin Söderquist and Innsoo Kim Berg) In Martin Söderquist (ed.), Möjligheter: Handledning Och Konsultation I Systemteoretiskt Perspecktiv. Stockholm: Mareld (2002): 43-77. (This is a transcript of an analysis of a therapy session which I observed and then discussed at the annual meetings of the European Brief Therapy Association, Salamanca Spain. (1998)
A Practitioner With a Special Ability to Link Abstract Concepts with Concrete Therapy Practices. Journal of Systemic Therapies 24, 4 (2005): 14-15.
Books
Odd Jobs: The World of Deviant Work. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall (1978)
It's a Living: Work in Modern Society. New York: St. Martin's Press (1981)
Enforcing the Work Ethic: Rhetoric and Everyday Life in a Work Incentive Program. Albany, NY: SUNY Press (1991)
Dispute Domains and Welfare Claims: Law and Conflict in Public Bureaucracies (with James A. Holstein) Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, Inc. (1996)
Becoming Miracle Workers: Language and Meaning in Brief Therapy. Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter (1997)
Edited Volumes
Perspectives on Social Problems: A Research Annual. (with James A. Holstein) Vol 1. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press (1989)
Perspectives on Social Problems: A Research Annual. (with James A. Holstein) Vol 2. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press (1990)
Studies in Organizational Sociology. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press (1991)
Perspectives on Social Problems: A Research Annual. (with James A. Holstein) Vol 3. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press (1992)
Current Research on Occupations and Professions Vol. 7 (Special Issue on Human Service Occupations and Professions) Greenwich, CT: JAI Press (1992)
Perspectives on Social Problems: A Research Annual. (with James A. Holstein) Vol 4. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press (1992)
Constructionist Controversies: Issues in Social Problems Theory (with James A. Holstein) Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter (1993)
Reconsidering Social Constructionism: Debates in Social Problems Theory (with James A. Holstein) Hawthorn, NY: Aldine de Gruyter (1993)
Perspectives on Social Problems(with James A. Holstein) Vol. 5. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press (1994)
Perspectives on Social Problems (with James A. Holstein) Vol. 6. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press (1994)
Perspectives on Social Problems (with James A. Holstein) Vol. 7. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press (1995)
Perspectives on Social Problems (with James A. Holstein) Vol. 8. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press (1996)
Context and Method in Qualitative Research (with Robert Dingwall) London: Sage Publications. (1997)
Social Problems in Everday Life: Studies of "Social Problems Work" (with James A. Holstein) Greenwich, CT: JAI Press (1997)
Perspectives on Social Problems: A Research Annual (with James A. Holstein) Vol. 10. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press (1998)
Perspectives on Social Problems: A Research Annual (with James A. Holstein) Vol. 11. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press (1999)
Perspectives on Social Problems: A Research Annual (with James A. Holstein) Vol. 12. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press (2000)
Challenges and Choices: Constructionist Perspectives on Social Problems Theory (with James A. Holstein) Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter (2003)
Articles/Chapters
Conflict in Deviant Occupations. In George Ritzer. Working (second edition), Prentice-Hall (1977): 298-325
Intellectual Craftsmanship in Sociology. Wisconsin Sociologist, 17, Winter (1979): 3-9
The Interpretation of Nonoccupational Work in Modern Society. Social Problems, 27, April (1980): 381-391
Professional Power and Social Change at the Community Level. (with Charles K. Warriner) The Social Science Journal 17, October (1980): 1-19
Purposive Social Change and Interorganizational Networks. (with Charles K. Warriner) Journal of Sociology and Social Work, 7, September (1980); 755-772
Holding Clients Accountable: The Micro-politics of Trouble in a Work Incentive Program. Social Problems, 31, December (1983): 139-151
Client Attitude and Organizational Process: Staff Assessment and Use of Client Attitude in a Work Incentive Program, Urban Life, 13, January (1985): 367-394
Work, Ritual Structures and the Legitimization of Alternative Communities. Work and Occupations, 12, February (1985): 3-22
Conflict in Deviant Occupations. In George Ritzer. Working (third edition), Prentice-Hall (1986): 373-401
Depicting Family Troubles: A Micro-Political Analysis of the Therapeutic Interview. Journal of Strategic and Systemic Therapies 5, Spring/Summer (1986): 1-13
Unemployment as a Dramaturgical Problem. Sociological Quarterly 27, Winter (1986): 479-494
Producing Family Problems: Organization and Uses of the Family Perspective and Rhetoric in Family Therapy. Symbolic Interaction 10, Fall (1987): 245-266
On the Sociology of Social Problems. (with James A. Holstein) Perspectives on Social Problems, 1 (1989): 1-16
Defining Proper Work Performance. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 18, April (1989): 30-49
Negotiating Labor Market Effects. Symbolic Interaction 12, Spring (1989): 125-141
Work as Reality Maintaining Activity. Current Research on Occupations and Professions, 5 (1990): 163-183
Rethinking Victimization. (with James A. Holstein), Symbolic Interaction, 13, Winter (1990): 101-120
Social Problems Work in Street-Level Bureaucracies (with James A. Holstein) In Gale Miller (ed.). Studies in Organizational Sociology. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press (1991): 175-197
Jenseits von Beschwerden: Ein Entwurf der Kruztherapie (Beyond Complaints: A Foundation of Brief Therapy)(with Steve de Shazer) In L. Steiner and C. Ahlers (eds) Systemisches Denken und therapeutisher ProzeB (Systemic Thinking and Therapeutic Process). Heidelberg: Springer-Verlga (1991): 117-135
Mind as Descriptive Activity. Journal of Mental Imagery 15, Spring/Summer (1991): 147-150
Family as Excuse and Extenuating Circumstance: Social Organization and Use of Family Rhetoric in a Work Incentive Program. Journal of Marriage and the Family 53, August (1991): 609-621
Case Studies. In Edgar F. Borgatta and Marie L. Borgatta (eds.) Encyclopedia of Sociology. Volume 1. New York, Macmillan Publishing Company (1992): 167-172
Human Service Practice as Social Problems Work, Current Research on Occupations and Professions, 7, (1992): 3-21
Reconsidering Social Constructionism, (with James A. Holstein) in James A. Holstein and Gale Miller (eds), Reconsidering Social Constructionism: Debates in Social Problems Theory. Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter (1993): 5-23
Social Constructionism and Social Problems Work, (with James A. Holstein) in James A. Holstein and Gale Miller (eds.), Reconsidering Social Constructionism: Debates in Social Problems Theory. Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter (1993): 151-172
Reconstituting the Constructionist Program, (with James A. Holstein) in James A Holstein and Gale Miller (eds.), Reconsidering Social Constructionism: Debates in Social Problems Theory. Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter (1993): 241-250
New Challenges to Social Constructionism: Alternative perspectives on Social Problems Theory, in James A. Holstein and Gale Miller (eds.), Reconsidering Social Constructionism: Debates in Social Problems Theory. Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter (1993): 253-278
Constructionism and Its Critics, (with James A. Holstein) in James A. Holstein and Gale Miller (eds.), Reconsidering Social Constructionism: Debates in Social Problems Theory. Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter (1993): 535-548
Constructing Social Problems: Context and Legacy, (with James A. Holstein) in James A. Holstein and Gale Miller (eds.), Constructionist Controversies: Issues in Social Problems Theory. Hawthrone, NY: Aldine de Gruyter (1993): 3-18
Disputing in Organizations: Dispute Domains and Interactional Processes. (with James A. Holstein) Mid-American Review of Sociology 17, 2 (1993): 1-18
Settling Disputes: Interactional Process and Organizational Setting (with James A. Holstein), In Mary Lou Dietz, William Shaffir and Robert Prus (eds.), Doing Everyday Life: Ethnography as Human Lived Experience. Toronto: Copp Clark Longman Ltd. (1994): 290-304.
Toward Ethnographies of Institutional Discourse: Proposal and Suggestions. Contemporary Journal of Ethnography 23, October (1994): 280-306.
Conflict and Disputing in Human Service Organizations. Forum 26, Summer (1994): 23-28.
Reflections on Ethnographic Knowledge and Constituencies. Studies in Symbolic Interaction 7 (1995): 73-88.
Dispute Domains: Organizational Contexts and Dispute Processing, (with James A. Holstein). The Sociological Quarterly 36, 1 (1995): 37-60.
Troubles Talk and Counseling Discourse: A Comparative Study (with David Silverman). The Sociological Quarterly 36, 4 (1995): 725-747.
Introduction: Context and Method Qualitative Research. In Gale Miller and Robert Dingwall (eds.), Context and Method in Qualitative Research. London: Sage Publications. (1997): 1-11.
Contextualizing Texts: Qualitative Strategies for Studying Organizational Texts. In Gale Miller and Robert Dingwall (eds.). Context and Method in Qualitative Research. London: Sage Publications. (1997): 77-91.
Building Bridges: The Possibility of Analytic Dialogue Between Ethnography, Conversation Analysis, and Foucault. In David Silverman (ed.), Qualitative Analysis: Issues of Theory and Method. London: Sage Publications. (1997): 24-44.
Systems and Solutions: The Discourses of Brief Therapy. Contemporary Family Therapy 19, March (1997): 5-22.
Social Problems as Work. (with James A. Holstein) pp 1-10 in Gale Miller and James A. Holstein (eds.) Social Problems in Everyday Life: Studies of Social Problems Work (with James A. Holstein) Greenwich, CT: JAI Press (1997)
Documenting Disputes: Law and Bureaucracy in Organizational Disputing. Sociology of Crime, Law, and Deviance 1 (1998): 203-229.
Have You Heard the Latest Rumor About. . .? Solution-Focused Therapy as Rumor (with Steve de Shazer), Family Process 37, Fall (1998): 363-378.
Learning from Sociological Practice: The Case of Applied Constructionism (with Kathryn J. Fox), The American Sociologist 30, Spring 1999): 55-74.
A Man From Milwaukee Walked into a Bar: Short Cuts on Ethnography. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 26, December (1999): 628-640.
Mit Gefühlen arbeiten: Die Sprace der Gefülhle in der lönsungsorentieron Kruztherapie. (Doing Emotions: Language and Feeling in Solution-Focused Brief Therapy.) (With Steve de Shazer) Familien-dynamik Heft 2, April (2000): 206-228.
Emotions in Solution-Focused Therapy: A Re-Examination. (with Steve de Shazer) Family Process 39, Spring (2000): 5-24
From "How" to "What" Questions: Thinking about Social and Cultural Factors in Therapy. Ratkes 2, May (2000): 24-29
Changing the Subject: Self-Construction in Brief Therapy. In Jaber F. Gubrium and James A. Holstein (eds) Institutional Selves: Personal Troubles in Organizational Contexts. New York: Oxford University Press (2000): 64-83.
Therapy as Interactive Work: The Case of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy. Terapia Familiare 6, June (2000)
Case Studies. (with Richard S. Jones), In Edgar F. Borgatta and Rhonda J.V. Montgomery (eds.). Encyclopedia of Sociology. (2nd Edition) Volume 1. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company (2000): 243-249.
Therapy Interviewing. (with Peter De Jong and Steve de Shazer) In Jaber F. Gubrium and James A. Holstein (eds.), Handbook of Interviewing. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications. (2001): 385-410.
Lessons from Brief Therapy? Some Interactional Suggestions for Family Mediators (with Robert Dingwall). Conflict Resolution Quarterly 19, Spring (2002): 269-287.
Wittgenstein and Solution-Focused Therapy. Ratkes, 1, Feb. (2003): 18-24
From Theory to Application? The Constructionist Sociology of Social Problems. Culture and Society: International Journal of the Human Sciences, 4, Feb. (2003): 57-82
A Fork in the Road: Challenges and Choices in Social Constructionism. (with James A. Holstein) In James A. Holstein and Gale Miller (eds.), Challenges and Choices: Constructionist Perspectives on Social Problems Theory Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter (2003): 1-16
Getting Serious About an Applied Constructionism of Social Problems. In James A. Holstein and Gale Miller (eds), Challenges and Choices: Constructionist Perspective on Social Problems Theory Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter (2003): 236-255.
Writers, Clients, Counselors and Readers: Perspectives on Constructing Client Resistance. In Chris Hall, Kirsi Juhila, Nigel Parton and Tarja Pösö (eds.), Constructing Clienthood in Social Work and Human Services: Interactions, Identities and Practices. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers (2003): 208-222
Building Bridges: The Possibility of Analytic Dialogue Between Ethnography, Conversation Analysis, and Foucault. (with Kathryn J. Fox) In David Silverman (ed.) Qualitative Analysis: Issues of Theory and Method. (Second edition) London: Sage Publications. (2004): 35-55
Using Qualitative Data and Analyses: Issues of Theory and Method. (with Robert Dingwall and Elizabeth Murphy) In David Silverman (ed.) Qualitative Analysis: Issues of Theory and Method (Second edition) London: Sage Publications. (2004): 324-340
Success Enhancing Supervision. (with John Briggs) Journal of Family Psychotherapy, 16, 1-2 (2005): 199-222
Mixing Techniques and Models in Therapy: Some Practical Consequences (with John Briggs) Therapie Familiale (In press)
Reprints/Translations
Producing Family Problems: Organization and Uses of the Family Perspective and Rhetoric in Family Therapy. In Garn Alan Fine, John Johnson, and Harvey A. Barberman (eds), Sociological Slices: Introductory Readings from the Interactionist Perspective. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press Inc. (1992): 249-272.
Counseling as a Discourse of Enablement (with David Silverman). In David Silverman, The Discourse of Counseling. London: Sage Publications (1997): 185-210. (This is a revised version of "Troubles Talk and Counseling Discourse: A Comparative Study")
Toward Ethnographies of Institutional Discourse: Proposal and Suggestions. In Gale Miller and Robert Dingwall (eds.) Context and Method in Qualitative Research. London: Sage Publications. (1997): 155-171.
Lösungsorentierte Therapie als Gerücht. (Solution-Focused Therapy as a Rumor) (with Steve de Shazer). Familien-dynamik, Heft 1, January (1999): 4-28.
Rethinking Victimization. (with James A. Holstein) In Gale Miller and James A. Holstein (eds.) Social Problems in Everyday Life: Studies of Social Problems Work (with James A. Holsten) Greenwich, CT: JAI Press (1997)
La Construction Des Émotions: Le Langage Des Sentiments Dans Les Thérapies Brèves Centrées Sur La Solution Des Problèms. (Doing Emotions: Language and Feeling in Solution-Focused Brief Therapy) (with Steve de Shazer) Therapie Familiale 21, Number 3 (2000): 233-253
Kochiku-shugi puroguramu no sai-kosei (Reconstituting the Constructionist Program) (with James A. Holstein). In Hidem Taira and Nobutoshi Nakagawa (eds) Kochiku-shugi no Shakaigaku (Sociology of Constructionism). Kyoto, Japan: Sekaisshiso-sha (2000): 105-121
Shakai kochicu-shugi to sono hinhansa-tachi: Saikin no chosen wo hyoka sura (Social Constructionism and Its Critics: Assessing Recent Challenges) (with James A. Holstein). In Hidemi Taira and Nobutoshi Nakagawa (eds) Kochiku-shugi no Shakaigaku (Sociology of Constructionism). Kyoto, Japan: Sekaisshiso-sha (2000): 122-147
Las emociaones en la terapia centeada en soluciones: un reexaamin (Emotions in Solutions-Focused Therapy: A Re-Examination) (with Steve de Shazer) Sistemas Familiares, 16, November (2000): 7-25
Success Enhancing Supervision. (with John Briggs) pp. 199-222 in Thorana Nelson (ed.), Education and Training in Solution-Focused Brief Therapy. New York: The Hayworth Press (2005)
Becoming Miracle Workers: Language and Meaning in Brief Therapy. Toyko: Kongo Shuppan (In Press)
Audio and Video Tapes
Wittgenstein for Therapists. Audiotape with Steve de Shazer. Milwaukee, WI: Brief Family Therapy Center (1998)
The Right Path or the Other Path: Working with a Teenage Substance Misuser. Videotape with Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg. Milwaukee, WI: Brief Family Therapy Center (1998)
Talking Solutions with "Mandated" Clients. Videotape with Insoo Kim Berg, Peter DeJong, Ann Lutz and John Lutz. Milwaukee WI: Brief Family Therapy Center (1998)
Book Reviews
Review of Ralph L. Blankenship's (editor) Colleagues in Organizations. Wisconsin Sociologist, 14. Spring-Summer (1977): 71-74
Review of Stewart E. Perry's San Francisco Scavengers, Contemporary Sociology, 8, July (1979): 659
Review of Barbara Sherman Heyl's The Madam as Entrepreneaur, The Social Science Quarterly, 60, December (1979): 544-545.
Review of Marilyn E. Walsh's The Fence, Contemporary Sociology, 9, January (1980): 73
Review of Bernard Cohen's Deviant Street Networks, American Journal of Sociology, 87, March (1982): 1230-1232
Review of David M. Hayano's Poker Faces, Work and Occupations, 11, February (1984): 99-101
Review of the International Labour Organisation's New Forms of Work Organization, Anthropology of Work Review, 5, March (1984): 10
Review of Paul C. Higgins' The Rehabilitation Detectives, Anthropology of Work Review, 7, September (1986): 36-37
Review of David Clutterbuck's (ed.) New Patterns of Work and Hoard F. Didsbury, Jr.'s (ed.) The World of Work, Contemporary Sociology 16, May (1987): 336-337
Review of David J. Hickson, Richard J. Butler, David Cray, Geoffrey R. Mallory and David C. Wilson's Top Decisions, Contemporary Sociology 16, September (1987): 649-650
Review of Robert E. Cole's Strategies for Learning, Work and Occupations 17, August (1990): 362-363
Review of Pat Lauderdale and Michael Cruit's The Struggle for Control, Contemporary Sociology 23, January (1994): 113-114
Review of Michael Lynch and David Bogen's The Spectacle of History: Speech, Text, and Memory at the Iran-Contra Hearings, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 553, September (1997): 222
Review of James J. Chriss's Counseling and the Therapeutic State, Contemporary Sociology 30, 3 (2001): 3-4
Review of Alex Dennis's Making Decisions About People: The Organizational Contingencies of Illness, Contemporary Sociology 30, 3 (2001): 3-4
Review of Otomar J. Bartos and Paul Wehr's Using Conflict Theory, Contemporary Sociology 32, 4(2003): 524-525.
Review of Jonathan Cole's Still Lives: Narratives of Spinal Cord Injury, Contemporary Sociology 3, 1 (2005): 38-39
Review of Larry T. Reynolds' and Nancy J. Herman-Kinney's (ed.'s) Handbook of Symbolic Interactionism, Symbolic Interaction 28, 4 (2005): 600-602.
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