Our Studies, Ourselves: Sociologists' Lives and Work

289 Pages·2003·1 MB·English

by  Rosanna Hertz, Barry Glassner

Our Studies, Ourselves:
Sociologists’ Lives and
Work
BARRY GLASSNER
ROSANNA HERTZ,
Editors
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
O U R S T U D I E S , O U R S E L V E S
O U R
E D I T E D B Y
B A R R Y G L A S S N E R and R O S A N N A H E R T Z
S T U D I E S ,
Ourselves
SOC I O L O G I S T S ’ L I V E S A N D W O R K
3
2003
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Our studies, ourselves : sociologists’ lives and work /
edited by Barry Glassner and Rosanna Hertz.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 0-19-514661-1
1. Sociology—Research—North America—Case studies.
2. Sociologists—North America. 3. Sociology—Philosophy.
I. Glassner, Barry. II. Hertz, Rosanna.
HM578.N7 097 2003
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A C K N O W L E D G M E N T S
Without Dedi Felman, our editor at Oxford, this project would not have been
completed, and we especially valued her close attention to and comments on
every chapter. We are lucky to have worked with such an outstanding editor.
We thank Jennifer Rappaport and our production editor, Robin Miura.
We thank Margaret Centamore for compiling the initial chapters and
Cherie Potts and Christina E. H. LaPointe-Nelson, who turned twenty-two
separate files into a seamless manuscript.
We thank Aryeh Rothman, who generously agreed to allow us to use his
watercolor on the cover.
Thanks also to our colleagues at Wellesley College and the University of
Southern California and to our families for their support.
Above all, we thank the authors of these twenty-two chapters for agree-
ing to participate in this volume and for sharing so many insights into their
lives and their work.
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C O N T E N T S
CONTRIBUTORS ix
BARRY GLASSNER 1 Introduction 3
AND ROSANNA HERTZ
I RACE AND SOC IA L C LASS
KATHLEEN M. BLEE 1 Studying the Enemy 13
HÉCTOR L . DELGADO 2 Reflections on the Intersection of Research
and Politics in Academia 24
SUSAN A. OSTRANDER 3 Working Out Class While
Studying Elites 35
MARK S. MIZRUCHI 4 World Events and Career Experiences:
A Personal Perspective 45
WILL IAM H. FR IEDLAND 5 Searching for Action Research
and Teaching 59
HOWARD SCHUMAN 6 From Vietnam till Today 71
JOHN WALTON 7 Making Problems: Reflections on
Experience and Research 79
HERBERT J . GANS 8 My Years in Antipoverty Research
and Policy 90
I I G ENDER
PHYLL IS MOEN 9 Unscripted: Continuity and Change in the
Gendered Life Course 105
ARLENE SKOLNICK 10 Confessions of an Accidental
Sociologist 115
JANE MANSBRIDGE 11 Writing as a Democrat and
a Feminist 127
CYNTHIA FUCHS EPSTEIN 12 Decoding Dichotomies and Pushing the
Boundaries: A Lifetime of Research on
Women in the Professions 139
DOROTHY E. SMITH 13 Resisting Institutional Capture as
a Research Practice 150
BARRIE THORNE 14 The Ins and Outs of Othering 162
I I I EVOLV ING ID ENT I T I E S
ROBERT R. ALFORD 15 Musician, Sociologist, and Hearing Person:
A Crisis of Identities 177
GARY L . ALBRECHT 16 Social-Class Tensions and Value Conflicts
in the Disability World 193
CHRISTOPHER WINSHIP 17 In Defense of Foxes 202
SHERRYL KLE INMAN 18 Feminist Fieldworker: Connecting
Research, Teaching, and Memoir 215
JODY MILLER 19 Feminism in the Field 233
JOSHUA GAMSON 20 Professional Rebellions and Personal
Researches, or How I Became Bored
with Myself 245
SHULAMIT RE INHARZ 21 The Body of Knowledge 253
VERTA TAYLOR 22 My Life in Social Movements: From 1960s
Activist to Lesbian Den Mother 263
viii C O N T E N T S
C O N T R I B U T O R S
I RACE & SOC IA L C LASS
11 KATHLEEN M. BLEE
University of Pittsburgh
12 HÉCTOR L . DELGADO
University of La Verne
13 SUSAN A. OSTRANDER
Tufts University
14 MARK S. MIZRUCHI
University of Michigan
15 WILL IAM H. FR IEDLAND
University of California, Santa Cruz
16 HOWARD SCHUMAN
University of Michigan
17 JOHN WALTON
University of California, Davis
18 HERBERT J . GANS
Columbia University
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