January 2017
Curriculum Vitae
GARY ALAN FINE
Department of Sociology
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL 60208
(847) 491-3495
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
2016-present
JAMES E. JOHNSON PROFESSOR OF SOCIOLOGY
Department of Sociology, Northwestern University
2004-2016
JOHN EVANS PROFESSOR OF SOCIOLOGY
Department of Sociology, Northwestern University
2016
VISTING FACULTY
Department of Sociology, Observatoire
Sociologique du Changement, Sciences Po, Paris,
France
2016-2019
INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH FELLOW
Centre for Corporate Reputation, Said Business
School, Oxford University, Oxford, Great Britain
2014-2015
MEMBER
Institute for Advanced Studies, School of Social
Science, Princeton, New Jersey
2014-present
SENIOR FELLOW (non-resident)
Yale Ethnography Project, Yale University
2011-2014
DIRECTOR OF GRADUATE STUDIES
Department of Sociology, Northwestern University
2012
VISITING FELLOW
Institute for Advanced Studies, Indiana
University
2010-2011
FELLOW
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral
Sciences, Palo Alto, California
2010-present
FACULTY FELLOW (non-resident)
Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University
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2010
VISITING FELLOW
Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University
2009
VISITING FELLOW
Kings’ College, Cambridge, England
2008
FELLOW
Rockefeller Study Center, Bellagio, Italy
2006 - 2007
JEAN GIMBEL LANE PROFESSOR OF HUMANITIES
Alice Berline Kaplan Humanities Institute,
Northwestern University
2007
VISITING PROFESSOR
Qualitative Research Methods in the Social
Sciences Program, University of Cardiff
2005 - 2006
FELLOW
Russell Sage Foundation, New York
2004 - 2005
DIRECTOR
Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Theatre and Drama
2004
FELLOW
Lady Davis Fellowship, Department of Sociology
and Anthropology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2004
HOOKER DISTINGUISHED VISITING PROFESSOR
Department of Sociology, McMaster University,
Hamilton, Ontario
2003
FELLOW
Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the
Social Sciences, Uppsala
1997 - 2004
PROFESSOR
Department of Sociology, Northwestern University
1997 - present
ASSOCIATE FACULTY
American Studies Program, Northwestern
University
1998 - present
ASSOCIATE FACULTY
Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Theatre and Drama
Summer 1999
VISITING SCHOLAR
Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of
American Art
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1990 - 1997
PROFESSOR
Department of Sociology, University of Georgia
Faculty Member: Environmental Ethics Certificate
Program
Fellow: International Laboratory for SocioPolitical Ecology
Executive Director, Summer Research Workshop in
Field Methods (National Science Foundation
funded, 1992-1995)
1994 - 1995
FELLOW
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral
Sciences, Palo Alto
1990 - 1993
DEPARTMENT HEAD
Department of Sociology, University of Georgia
Spring 1991
VISITING PROFESSOR
Human Sciences Research Council, Pretoria, South
Africa
1985 - 1990
PROFESSOR
Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota
Fall 1988
VISITING PROFESSOR
Department of Sociology, University of Iceland
Spring 1986
VISITING PROFESSOR
Department of Sociology, University of Bremen
(Germany)
1980 - 1985
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota
Winter 1985
VISITING ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Department of Sociology, University of Chicago
Fall 1980
VISITING RESEARCH ASSOCIATE
Department of Sociology and Folklore Institute
Indiana University
1976 - 1980
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota
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1977 - 1979
RESEARCH CONSULTANT
Natural Hazards Warning Research Project
University of Minnesota
1974 - 1975
LECTURER
Department of Sociology, Boston College
EDUCATION
1972 - 1976
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Ph.D. in Social Psychology
1968 - 1972
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
B.A. in Psychology
Phi Beta Kappa, Dean's List with Distinction
AWARDS
George Herbert Mead Award for Lifetime Contributions, Society for
the Study of Symbolic Interaction, 2003
Elected Fellow, Academy of Leisure Sciences, 2008
Department of Sociology Nominee, Clarence Ver Steeg Graduate
Faculty Award for Student Mentoring, 2008
John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, 2010-2011
Mentoring Award, Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction,
2011
Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences Award for Excellence in
Mentoring Undergraduate Research, Northwestern University, 2013
Cooley-Mead Award for Lifetime Achievement in Social Psychology,
Social Psychology Section, American Sociological Association,
2013
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
A.
National
American Sociological Association,
Member, Committee on Committees (1985-1987)
Member, Committee on Distinguished Scholarly
Contribution to Sociology Award (1987-1988, 19891990)
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Chair, Committee on Distinguished Scholarly
Contribution to Sociology Award (1988-1989)
Member, Committee on Awards Policy (1991-1992)
Chair, Committee on Awards Policy (1992-1994)
Member, Committee on the Public Understanding of
Sociology (1998-2001)
Member, Chicago Area Spotlight Subcommittee (1998-1999)
Member, Excellence in Reporting of Social Issues Award
Selection Committee (2014-2017, Chair 2015-2016)
Social Psychology Section
Chair, Committee on the Creation of the Social
Psychology Award (1976-1977)
Chair, Social Psychology Award Committee (1978)
Member, Nominations Committee (1981)
Secretary (1983-1986)
Organizer, Social Psychology Roundtables at the ASA
(1986-1987)
Council Member (1990-1993)
Chair, Social Psychology Section (1993-1994)
Chair, Graduate Student Participation Committee (19911992)
Member, Graduate Student Participation Committee (19921993)
Member, Publications Committee (1992-1994)
Member, Cooley-Mead Award Committee (2002-2003)
Member, Distinguished Contribution Award Committee
(2011-2012)
Member, Nominations Committee (2012-2013)
Chair, Cooley-Mead Award Committee (2013-2014)
Member, Cooley-Mead Award Committee (2014-2015)
Sociology of Culture Section
Chair (1989-1990)
Member, Handbook Committee (1989-1990)
Chair, Nominations Committee (1990-1991)
Member, Nominations Committee (1991-1992)
Sociology of Children and Youth Section
Member, Council (1994-1996)
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Member, Nominations Committee (1998-1999)
Chair (2002-2003)
Chair, Student Paper Committee (2003-2004)
Collective Behavior and Social Movements Section
Member, Elections Committee (1979-1980)
Member, Publications and Workshops Committee
(1981-1984)
Chair, Publications and Workshops Committee (1984)
Member, Nominations Committee (1988-1989)
Council Member (1991-1994)
Sociological Theory Section
Member, Council (1997-2000)
Chair (2001-2002)
Member, Nominations Committee (2002-2003)
Member, Publications Committee (2002-2003)
Member, Theory Prize Committee (2004-2005)
History of Sociology Section
Member, Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award
Committee (2008-2009)
Chair, Distinguished Lifetime Contributions Award
(2009-2010)
Chair (2010-2011)
Chair, Nominations Committee (2011-2012)
Chair, Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award
Committee (2016-2017)
National Science Foundation
Panelist, Sociology Dissertation Grant Committee (20072010)
Midwest Sociological Society
Member, Program Committee (1989-1990)
Member, Local Arrangements Committee (2000)
President-Elect (2000-2001)
President (2001-2002)
Member, Distinguished Book Award Committee (2015-2016)
Southern Sociological Society
Member, Committee on the Profession (1994-1995)
Vice-President (1996-1997)
Society for the Advancement of Social Psychology
Steering Committee (1975-1979)
Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction
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Chair, Committee on Regional Coordination (1977)
Chair, 1978 Program Committee (1977-1978)
Regional Coordinator, Midwest Region (1977-1981)
Member, 1979 Program Committee (1978-1979)
Member, Publications Committee (1980-1983)
Chair, 1983 Program Committee (1982-1983)
Vice President (1982-1983)
President (1990-1991)
Chair, George Herbert Mead Award Committee (1999-2000,
2011-2012)
International Sociological Association
Executive Board, Research Committee 37 (Sociology of
Art) (1982-1986, 1990-1994)
Co-organizer, Working Group on Social Movements and
Collective Behavior (1988-1994)
Executive Board, Research Committee 48 (Social
Movements, Social Class, and Collective Behavior
(1994-1998)
Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues
Advisory Committee on SPSSI-Sponsored Social Psychology
Text (1978-1981)
American Folklore Society
Co-Chair, Ad Hoc Publications Committee (1977-1978)
Organizing Committee, Foodways Folklore Section
(1978-1979)
Treasurer, Children's Folklore Section (1978-1979)
President, Children's Folklore Section (1979-1980)
Co-Chair, 1980 Program Committee (1979-1980)
Chair, Local Arrangements Committee (1981-1982)
Member, 1989 Opie Prize Award Committee, Children's
Folklore Section (1989)
Co-Chair, 1992 and 1993 Aesop Prize Award Committee,
Children's Folklore Section (1991-1993)
Fellow of the American Folklore Society (1994- )
Member, 1996 Newell Prize Award Committee, Children's
Folklore Section (1996)
Folklore Fellows International
Full Member (Elected 1995)
Popular Culture Association
Section Coordinator, Psychology and Popular Culture
(1975-1976)
Section Coordinator, Sociology and Popular Culture
(1979-1980)
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The Association for the Study of Play
Member, Membership Committee (1980-1981)
Member, Executive Board (1983-1985)
President (1985-1986)
Member, Nominations Committee (1987-1988)
Society for the Study of Social Problems
Member, Media Committee (1987-1988)
Member, Lee Founders Award Committee (1988-1989)
Chair, Division on Social Problems Theory (1990-1992)
Chair, Council of Special Problems Division
Chairpersons (1991)
Member, Board of Directors (1993-1996)
Member, C. Wright Mills Award Committee (2000-2001,
2006-2007)
President (2004-2005)
Member, Bylaws Committee (2007-2009)
Chair, Social Problems Theory Book Award Committee
(2011-2012)
Association of Humanistic Sociology
Midwestern Regional Representative, AHS Board (19781980)
Minnesota Folklife Society
Organizing Committee (1977)
Publications Vice-President (1977-1979)
Secretary (1979-1980)
PUBLICATIONS AND CONSULTING SERVICES
Editor, Social Psychology Quarterly, 2007-2010
Editorial Board, Sage Encyclopedia of Research Methods, 2016Associate Editor, Irish Journal of Sociology, 2014Editorial Board, Heartland Foodways series, University of
Illinois Press, 2014Editorial Board, Memory Studies, 2010International Editorial Board, Etnografia e Ricerca Qualitativa,
2008Advisory Board, Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, 2006Editorial Board, Journal of Boyhood Studies, 2006-2010
Consulting Editor, Qualitative Sociology Review, 2005International Editorial Board, Socio/logica, 2006Editorial Board, Small Groups Research, 2005Editorial Board, Contexts, 2004-2007, 2013-2016
Editorial Board, Cultural Sociology, 2006Board of Consulting Editors, Humor, 2003-2014
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Advisory Editor, Encyclopedia of Social Theory, 2002-2005
Consulting Editor, Acta Sociologica, 2002Editorial Board, The Sociological Quarterly, 2000-2006
Editorial Board, Sociological Studies of Children and Youth,
2000Editorial Board, Qualitative Research, 2000Editorial Board, Sociological Theory, 2000-2003
Advisory Board, Journal of Consumer Culture, 2000Editorial Board, American Sociological Review, 1997-2000
Editorial Board, The American Sociologist, 1997Editorial Board, Administrative Science Quarterly, 1994-1998
Associate Editor, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 1994Editorial Board, Contemporary Sociology, 1984-1987, 1993-1995,
2017-2019
Advisory Editor, Play Theory and Research, 1993-1994
Advisory Board, Symbolic Interaction, 1992Associate Editor, Visual Sociology, 1991Newsletter Editor, Social Movements/Collective Behavior Section,
International Sociological Association, 1990-1994
Review Editor, Symbolic Interaction, 1989-1991
Editor, Symbolic Interaction, 1986-1988
Editorial Board, Play and Culture, 1988-1992
Editorial Board, Humor, 1988-2002
Ad Hoc Advisory Editor, Contemporary Psychology, 1988-1989
Contributor, Journal of American Folklore, Centennial Index,
1986-1988
Associate Editor, Symbolic Interaction, 1983-1986
Consulting Editor, American Journal of Sociology, 1983-1985,
1996-1998
Associate Editor, Sociological Observations, 1983-1985
Issue Editor, Symbolic Interaction, 1983, 2007
Editorial Board, Sport Sociology Journal, 1983-1986
Editor, ASA Social Psychology Section Newsletter, 1981-1984
Editorial Board, Qualitative Sociology, 1982-1986
Editorial Board, Social Psychology Quarterly, 1980-1983, 19901992
Editorial Board, Humanity and Society, 1977-1980
Issue Editor, Journal of Popular Culture, Sociology and Popular
Culture, 1977
Advisory Editor, Journal of Popular Culture, 1977-1983
Co-Editor, Humor Research Newsletter, 1976-1979
Section Editor, SASP Newsletter, Section on Social Psychological
Theory, 1974-1979
Contributor, Abstracts of Folklore Studies, 1973-1975
Contributing Editor, Folklore Forum, 1973-1975
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Consultant, Nexus Contemporary Art Center; South African
Breweries; British Broadcasting Corporation; Yankelovich,
Skelly, and Wright; Center for Applied Linguistics; United
Press International; Urban Poverty Project, University of
Chicago; St. Paul Pioneer Press; Minnesota Public Radio:
Gustavus Adolphus College
Expert Witness, United States Ninth Circuit Court (U.S. v Lees),
Seattle, Washington, June 1991
Defense Consultant, (Brownlee v Sunnyvale School District),
Yakima,
Washington, December 1994; (Procter and Gamble v
Amway), Chicago, Illinois, 1996 - 1998, 2000-2007
BOOKS
Ralph L. Rosnow and Gary Alan Fine. Rumor and Gossip: The
Social Psychology of Hearsay. New York: Elsevier, 1976.
(Translated into Japanese, Iwanami Publishing Company,
1982).
Gary Alan Fine. Shared Fantasy: Role-Playing Games as Social
Worlds. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983.
Selections (“Frames and Games”) reprinted in The Game Design
Reader: A Rules of Play Anthology, ed. By Katie Salen and
Eric Zimmerman. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2006.
Gary Alan Fine.
Talking Sociology.
Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 1985.
Gary Alan Fine. With the Boys: Little League Baseball and
Preadolescent Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
1987.
Recipient of the 1988 Opie Award for the Best Scholarly
Book in the field of Children's Folklore and Culture
(American Folklore Society, Children's Folklore
Section)
Selections reprinted in Inside Social Life: Readings in
Social Psychology and Microsociology, ed. Spencer
Cahill. Los Angeles: Roxbury.
Selections reprinted in Sociology: Social Life and
Social Issues, 2nd Edition, ed. Linda L. Lindsey and
Stephen Black. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall.
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Gary Alan Fine (ed.). Meaningful Play, Playful Meaning.
Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics Press, 1987.
Gary Alan Fine and Kent Sandstrom. Knowing Children: Participant
Observation Among Minors. Newbury Park, California: Sage,
1988.
Gary Alan Fine. Talking Sociology, Second Edition. Boston: Allyn
& Bacon, 1990.
Gary Alan Fine, Harvey A. Farberman, and John Johnson (eds.).
Sociological Slices: Introductory Readings From the
Interactionist Perspective. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1992.
Harvey A. Farberman, Gary Alan Fine, and John Johnson (eds.).
Social Psychological Foundations: Readings From the
Interactionist Perspective. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1992.
John M. Johnson, Harvey Farberman, and Gary Alan Fine (eds.). The
Cutting Edge: Advanced Interactionist Theory. Greenwich, CT:
JAI Press, 1992.
Gary Alan Fine. Manufacturing Tales: Sex and Money in
Contemporary Legends. Knoxville: University of Tennessee
Press, 1992.
Nominated for the Chicago Folklore Prize and the John Hope
Franklin Publication Prize (American Studies Association)
Gary Alan Fine, Talking Sociology, Third Edition. Boston: Allyn
and Bacon, 1993.
Karen Cook, Gary Alan Fine, and James S. House (eds.),
Sociological Perspectives on Social Psychology. Boston:
Allyn and Bacon, 1995.
Gary Alan Fine (ed.), A Second Chicago School?: The Development
of a Postwar American Sociology. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1995.
Gary Alan Fine, Kitchens: The Culture of Restaurant Work.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.
(Translated into Japanese, Hosei University Press, 2000)
Gary Alan Fine, Talking Sociology, Fourth Edition. Boston: Allyn
and Bacon, 1996.
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Gary Alan Fine, Morel Tales: The Culture of Mushrooming.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998.
Recipient of the 1999 Charles Horton Cooley Award, Society
for the Study of Symbolic Interaction
Gary Alan Fine and Gregory W. H. Smith (eds), Erving Goffman.
Four volumes. London: Sage, 2000.
Gary Alan Fine, Difficult Reputations: Collective Memories of the
Evil, Inept and Controversial. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 2001.
Gary Alan Fine, Gifted Tongues: High School Debate and Adolescent
Culture. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001.
Gary Alan Fine and Patricia Turner, Whispers On the Color Line:
Rumor and Race in America. Berkeley: University of
California Press, 2001.
Finalist, C. Wright Mills Award, Society for the Study of
Social Problems, 2002
Gary Alan Fine and David Shulman, Talking Sociology, Fifth
Edition. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2003.
Kent Sandstrom, Daniel D. Martin, and Gary Alan Fine, Symbols,
Selves and Social Life: A Symbolic Interactionist Approach
to Sociology and Social Psychology. Los Angeles: Roxbury,
2003.
Gary Alan Fine, Everyday Genius: Self-Taught Art and the Politics
of Authenticity. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.
(Translated into Chinese, Yilin Press, 2015).
Gary Alan Fine, Veronique-Campion-Vincent, and Chip Heath (eds.),
Rumor Mills: The Social Impact of Rumor and Legend. New
Brunswick: Transaction Press, 2005.
Kent Sandstrom, Daniel D. Martin, and Gary Alan Fine, Symbols,
Selves and Social Life: A Symbolic Interactionist Approach
to Sociology and Social Psychology. Second Edition. Los
Angeles: Roxbury, 2006.
Gary Alan Fine, Authors of the Storm: Meteorology and the Culture
of Prediction. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007.
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Recipient of the 2008 Charles Horton Cooley Award, Society
for the Study of Symbolic Interaction
Kent Sandstrom, Daniel D. Martin, and Gary Alan Fine, Symbols,
Selves and Social Life: A Symbolic Interactionist Approach
to Sociology and Social Psychology. Third Edition. New York:
Oxford University Press, 2009.
Gary Alan Fine and Bill Ellis, The Global Grapevine: Why Rumors
of Terrorism, Immigration, and Trade Matter. New York:
Oxford University Press, 2010.
First runner-up, Katharine Briggs Award for outstanding work
of folklore, The Folklore Society (Great Britain), 2011
Finalist, Scholarly Achievement Award, North Central
Sociological Association, 2012.
Gary Alan Fine, Sticky Reputations: The Politics of Collective
Memory in Midcentury America. New York: Routledge, 2012.
Gary Alan Fine, Tiny Publics: A Theory of Group Action and
Culture. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2012.
Kent Sandstrom, Kathryn J. Lively, Daniel D. Martin, and Gary
Alan Fine, Symbols, Selves and Social Life: A Symbolic
Interactionist Approach to Sociology and Social Psychology.
Fourth Edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
(Translated into Italian, Orthotes Editrice of Nocera
Inferiore, 2013)
Gary Alan Fine, Players and Pawns: How Chess Creates Community
and Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2015.
SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY ARTICLES
Gianna Mosser, Hannah Wohl, and Gary Alan Fine, “Alone in
Publand: Leaving Academics to Themselves.” The American
Sociologist 47: 238-52. 2016.
Kevin Loughran, Marcus Hunter, and Gary Alan Fine, “Urban Spaces,
City Cultures, and Collective Memories.” Pp. 193-204 in
Anna-Lisa Tota and Trever Hagan, Routledge International
Handbook of Memory Studies. New York: Routledge. 2016.
Daphne Demetry, Jessica Thurk, and Gary Alan Fine, “Strategic
Poverty: How Social and Cultural Capital Shapes Low-Income
Life.” Journal of Consumer Culture 15: 86-109. 2015.
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Gary Alan Fine, “Participant Observation.” Pp. 530-34 in
International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral
Sciences. Volume 17. Second Edition. London: Elsevier. 2015.
Gary Alan Fine, “Micro-Cultures.” In Emerging Trends in the
Social and Behavioral Sciences, edited by Robert Scott and
Stephen Kosslyn.
(http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/mrw/advanced/search?doi=10.1
002/9781118900772). New York: Wiley Blackwell, 2015.
Hannah Wohl and Gary Alan Fine, “The Art of Together: Social
Coordination as Dyadic Achievement.” Pp. 248-67 in Edward
Lawler, Shane Thye, and Jeongkoo Yoon, eds. Order on the
Edge of Chaos: Social Psychology and the Problem of Social
Order. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2015.
Gary Alan Fine and Tim Hallett, “Group Cultures and the Everyday
Life of Organizations: Interaction Orders and MesoAnalysis.” Organization Studies 35(12): 1773-92. 2014.
Gary Alan Fine and Tim Hallett, “Stranger and Stranger: Creating
Theory through Ethnographic Distance and Authority.” Journal
of Organizational Ethnography 3: 188-203. 2014.
Gary Alan Fine, “The Hinge: Civil Society, Group Culture, and the
Interaction Order.” Social Psychology Quarterly 77: 5-26.
2014.
Gary Alan Fine, “The Mind, The Body, and the Soul of Chess.”
American Journal of Play 6: 321-44. 2014.
Gary Alan Fine and Harvey Young, “Still Thrills: The Drama of
Chess.” The Drama Review 58: 87-98. 2014.
Gary Alan Fine and Christine Simonian Bean, “Dining with Joe
McCarthy: Performing Partisanship at American Political
Banquets.” Pp. 155-63 in Regina Bendix and Michaela Fenske,
eds. Political Meals. Berlin: Lit Verlag. 2014.
Al Muniz, Toby Norris, and Gary Alan Fine, “Marketing Artistic
Careers: Pablo Picasso as Brand Manager.” European Journal
of Marketing 48: 68-88. 2014.
David Schieber, Al Hunter, and Gary Alan Fine, “Alcohol in
Heavenston: Shifting Moral Orders and Economic Interests in
a Suburban Community.” Social History of Alcohol and Drugs
27: 174-88. 2013.
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Gary Alan Fine, “Sticky Cultures: Memory Publics and Communal
Pasts in Competitive Chess.” Cultural Sociology 7: 395-414.
2013.
Gary Alan Fine, “Apology and Redress: Escaping the Dustbin of
History in the Post-Segregationist South.” Social Forces 91:
1319-42. 2013.
Gary Alan Fine, “If You Can’t Stand the Heat: The Business of
Observing Restaurant Kitchens.” Journal of Business
Anthropology 2(2): 141-45. 2013.
Raynald Harvey Lemelin and Gary Alan Fine, “Leisure on the
Recreational Fringe: Naturework and the Place of Amateur
Mycology and Entomology.” PAN: Philosophy, Activism, Nature
10: 77-86. 2013.
Jeong-Chul Kim and Gary Alan Fine, “Collaborators and National
Memory: The Creation of the Encyclopedia of Pro-Japanese
Collaborators in Korea.” Memory Studies 6: 130-45. 2013.
Antony Puddephatt and Gary Alan Fine, “Chess as Art, Science, and
Sport.” Pp. 390-404 in David Andrews and Ben Carrington,
eds., A Companion to Sport. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell. 2013.
Gary Alan Fine, “Group Culture and the Interaction Order: Local
Sociology on the Meso-Level.” Annual Review of Sociology 38:
159-79. 2012.
Gary Alan Fine, “”Time to Play: The Temporal Organization of
Chess Competition.” Time & Society 21: 395-416. 2012.
Gary Alan Fine and Daphne Demetry, “Contemporary Gastronomic
Identities.” Food and History 10: 195-209. 2012.
Gary Alan Fine and Bin Xu, “Honest Brokers: The Politics of
Expertise in the ‘Who Lost China?’ Debate.” Social Problems
58: 593-614. 2011.
Erin McDonnell and Gary Alan Fine, “Pride and Shame in Ghana:
Collective Memory and Nationalism among Elite African
Students.” African Studies Review 54: 121-42. 2011.
Gary Alan Fine and Lisa-Jo van den Scott, “Wispy Communities:
Transient Gatherings and Imagined Micro-Communities.”
American Behavioral Scientist 55: 1319-35. 2011.
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Gary Alan Fine and Nicholas DiFonzo, “Uncertain Knowledge: Rumor
and Collective Sense-Making.” Contexts (Summer 2011): 16-21.
Gary Alan Fine. “Jonathan Swift: Political Satire and the Public
Sphere.” Pp. 245-52 in Christofer Edling and Jens Rydgren,
eds., Sociological Insights of Great Thinkers: Sociology
through Literature, Philosophy, and Science. Santa Barbara:
Praeger, 2011.
Gary Alan Fine, “The Sociology of the Local: Action and Its
Publics.” Sociological Theory 28: 355-76. 2010.
Max Clarke and Gary Alan Fine. “’A’ is for Apology: Slavery and
the Discourse of Remonstrance in American Universities.”
History & Memory 22: 81-112. 2010.
Bin Xu and Gary Alan Fine, “Memory Movements and the StateSociety Relationship in the Chinese WWII Victims’
Reparations Movement Against Japan.” Pp. 166-89 in Barry
Schwartz and Mikyoung Park (eds.), Northeast Asia’s
Difficult Past: Essays in Collective Memory. New York:
Palgrave-Macmillan. 2010.
Reprinted in Japanese in Northeast Asia's History and Memory
(Tohoku Ajia'no Rekishi'to Kioku). Tokyo: Keisoshobo. 2014.
Gary Alan Fine. “Group Cultures and Subcultures.” In John Hall
(ed.), Handbook of Cultural Sociology. Abingdon, UK:
Routledge. 2010.
Gary Alan Fine and Shannon Fitzsimons, “The Secret Life of
Readers.” Society 47(3): 353-55. 2010.
Gary Alan Fine, Calvin Morrill, and Sharmi Surianarain.
“Ethnography in Organizational Settings.” Pp. 602-19 in
David Buchanan and Alan Bryman (eds.), Handbook of
Organizational Research Methods. London: Sage, 2009.
Gary Alan Fine and David Shulman, “Lies from the Field: Ethical
Issues in Organizational Ethnography.” Pp. 177-95 in Sierk
Ybema, Dvora Yanow, Harry Wels, and Frans Kamsteeg (eds.),
Organizational Ethnography: Studying the Complexities of
Everyday Life. London: Sage. 2009.
Tim Hallett, David Shulman, and Gary Alan Fine. “Peopling
Organizations: The Promise of Classical Symbolic
Interactionism for Inhabited Institutionalism.” Pp. 486-509
in Paul S. Adler (ed.), Oxford Handbook for Sociology and
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Organizational Studies: Classical Foundations. New York:
Oxford University Press, 2009.
Gary Alan Fine, “Does Rumor Lie? Narrators, Trust, and the
Framing of Unsecured Information.” Pp. 183-200 in Brooke
Harrington (ed.), Deception: From Ancient Empires to
Internet Dating. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2009.
Michaela DeSoucey, Daphne Demetry, and Gary Alan Fine, “The
Foodie’s Dilemma: Snobbery No More.” Sociologica (number 1),
online, 2009.
Michael Sauder and Gary Alan Fine, “Arbiters, Entrepreneurs and
Business School Reputation.” Sociological Forum 23: 699-723.
2008.
Gary Alan Fine, Brooke Harrington, and Sandro Segre, “Politics in
the Public Sphere: The Power of Tiny Publics in Classical
Sociology.” Sociologica (Number 1), online. 2008.
Gary Alan Fine, Brooke Harrington, and Sandro Segre, “Tiny
Publics and Group Practice.” Sociologica (Number 1), online.
2008.
Japonica Brown-Saracino, Jessica Thurk, and Gary Alan Fine,
“Beyond Groups: Seven Pillars of Peopled Ethnography in
Organizations and Communities.” Qualitative Research 8(3):
547-67. 2008.
Reprinted in Paul Atkinson and Sara Delamont (eds.), SAGE
Qualitative Research Methods. London: Sage, 2010.
Gary Alan Fine and Corey Fields, “Culture and Microsociology:
Anthills and the Veldt.” Annals of the American Academy of
Political and Social Sciences. 619 (1): 130-48. 2008.
Michaela Desoucey, Jo-Ellen Pozner, Corey Fields, Kerry
Dobransky, and Gary Alan Fine, “Memory and Sacrifice: An
Embodied Theory of Martyrdom.” Cultural Sociology 2: 99-121.
2008.
Amin Ghaziani and Gary Alan Fine, “Infighting and Ideology: How
Conflict Informs the Local Culture of the Chicago Dyke
March.” International Journal of Politics, Culture and
Society 20: 51-67. 2008.
Julia Rothenberg and Gary Alan Fine, “Artworlds and Their
Ethnographers.” Ethnologie Francaise 38: 33-39. 2008.
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Gary Alan Fine and Terrence McDonnell, “Erasing the Brown Scare:
Referential Afterlife and the Power of Memory Templates.”
Social Problems 54: 170-87. 2007.
Co-recipient, Society for the Study of Social Problems
Social Problems Theory Division Outstanding Article Award,
2009
Aaron Beim and Gary Alan Fine, “Trust in Testimony: The
Institutional Embeddedness of Holocaust Survivor
Narratives.” European Journal of Sociology 48: 55-74. 2007.
Gary Alan Fine, “Rumor, Trust and Civil Society: Collective
Memory and Cultures of Judgment.” Diogenes 54: 5-18. 2007.
Reprinted in Chinese in Cultural Study (source journal of
the CSSCI), 2015.
Aaron Beim and Gary Alan Fine, “The Cultural Frameworks of
Prejudice: Reputational Images and the Postwar Disjuncture
of Jews and Communism.” The Sociological Quarterly 48: 37397. 2007.
Gary Alan Fine, “The Construction of Historical Equivalence:
Weighing the Red and Brown Scares.” Symbolic Interaction 30:
27-39. 2007.
Gary Alan Fine and Aaron Beim, “Interactionist Approaches to
Collective Memory.” Symbolic Interaction 30: 1-5. 2007.
Gary Alan Fine, “Notorious Support: The America First Committee
and the Personalization of Policy.” Mobilization 11: 405-26.
2006.
Reprinted in Hank Johnston (ed.), Culture, Social Movements,
and Protest. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2008.
Kerry Dobransky and Gary Alan Fine, “The Native in the Garden:
Floral Politics and Cultural Entrepreneurs.” Sociological
Forum 21: 559-85. 2006.
Gary Alan Fine, “Attraverso un Vetro Scuro: Le Previsioni
Meteorologiche e le Promesse de ‘Lavoro Sul Futuro.’” Studi
Culturali 3(2): 215-47. 2006.
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Gary Alan Fine and Rashida Z. Shaw, “An Isolationist Blacklist?:
Lillian Gish and the America First Committee.” Theatre
Survey 47: 283-88. 2006.
Albert Muniz, Thomas O’Guinn, and Gary Alan Fine, “Rumor in Brand
Communities.” Pp. 227-47 in Donald Hantula (ed.), Advances
in Theory and Methodology in Social and Organizational
Psychology: A Tribune to Ralph Rosnow. Mahwah, New Jersey:
Lawrence Erlbaum, 2006.
Gary Alan Fine, “The Chaining of Social Problems.” Social
Problems 53: 3-17. 2006.
Brooke Harrington and Gary Alan Fine, “Where the Action Is: Small
Groups and Recent Developments in Sociological Theory,”
Small Group Research 37: 4- 19. 2006.
Gary Alan Fine, “Humor Me.” Studies in American Humor 3.13 (New
Series): 99-106. 2006.
Gary Alan Fine, “Ground Truth: Verification Games in Operational
Meteorology.” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 37: 3-23:
2006.
Gary Alan Fine, “Shopfloor Cultures: The Idioculture of
Production in Operational Meteorology.” The Sociological
Quarterly 47: 1-20. 2006.
Gabrielle Ferrales and Gary Alan Fine, “Sociology as a Vocation:
Reputations and Group Cultures in Graduate School.” The
American Sociologist 36: 57-75. 2006.
Gary Alan Fine, “Rumeur, Confiance, et Société Civile.” Diogenes
213: 3-22. 2006.
Gary Alan Fine and Michaela DeSoucey, “Joking Cultures: Humor
Themes as Social Regulation in Group Life.” Humor 18: 1-22.
2005.
Steven G. Hoffman and Gary Alan Fine, “The Scholar’s Body: Mixing
It Up with Loïc Wacquant.” Qualitative Sociology 28: 151-57.
2005.
Gary Alan Fine and Irfan Khawaja, “Celebrating Arabs and Grateful
Terrorists: Rumor and the Politics of Plausibility.” Pp.
185-205 in Gary Alan Fine, Veronique-Campion-Vincent, and
Chip Heath (eds.), Rumor Mills: The Social Impact of Rumor
and Legend. New Brunswick: Transaction Press, 2005.
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Gary Alan Fine, “Rumor Matters: An Introductory Essay.” Pp. 1-7
in Gary Alan Fine, Veronique-Campion-Vincent, and Chip Heath
(eds.), Rumor Mills: The Social Impact of Rumor and Legend.
New Brunswick: Transaction Press, 2005.
Chip Heath, Veronique Campion-Vincent, and Gary Alan Fine, “Rumor
and Legend: Seven Questions.” Pp. 255-65 in Gary Alan Fine,
Veronique-Campion-Vincent, and Chip Heath (eds.), Rumor
Mills: The Social Impact of Rumor and Legend. New Brunswick:
Transaction Press, 2005.
Gary Alan Fine and Kent Sandstrom, “Wild Thoughts: An
Interactionist Analysis of Ideology, Emotion, and Nature.”
Pp. 237-58 in Peter Kivisto (ed.), Illuminating Social Life,
Third Edition. Thousand Oaks, California: Pine Forge. 2005.
Gary Alan Fine and Brooke Harrington, “Tiny Publics: Small Groups
and Civil Society.” Sociological Theory 22: 341-56. 2004.
Gary Alan Fine, Tim Hallett, and Michael Sauder, “The Myth and
Meaning of Bowling Alone.” Society 47-49. July/August 2004.
Gary Alan Fine, “Adolescence as a Cultural Toolkit: High School
Debate and the Repertoires of Childhood and Adulthood.” The
Sociological Quarterly 45: 1-20. 2004.
Gary Alan Fine, “Crafting Authenticity: The Validation of
Identity in Self-Taught Art.” Theory and Society. 32: 153180. 2003.
Gary Alan Fine, “On the Trail of Tribal Sociology” (Review Essay
of five books). Sociological Forum 18: 653-65. 2003.
Gary Alan Fine and Philip Manning, “Preserving Philip Rieff: The
Reputation of a Fellow Teacher.” Journal of Classical
Sociology. 3:227-233. 2003.
Gary Alan Fine and Tim Hallett, “Dust: A Study in Sociological
Miniaturism.” The Sociological Quarterly. 44: 1-15. 2003.
Reprinted in Michael Carroll and Jerry P. White (eds.),
Images of Society: Readings that Inspire and Inform
Sociology. Pp. 13-18. Toronto: Thompson Nelson Publishers,
2005.
Gary Alan Fine, “Tornadoes and Ground Truth.” Contexts. 2: 56-57.
2003.
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Gary Alan Fine, “Toward a Peopled Ethnography: Developing Theory
from Group Life.” Ethnography. 4:41-60. 2003.
Reprinted in Paul Atkinson and Sara Delamont (eds.), SAGE
Qualitative Research Methods. London: Sage, 2010.
Reprinted in Sam Hillyard (ed.), Approaches to Fieldwork.
London: Sage, 2014.
Jessica Thurk and Gary Alan Fine, “The Problem of Tools:
Technology and the Sharing of Knowledge.” Acta Sociologica.
46: 107-17. 2003.
Kent Sandstrom and Gary Alan Fine, “Triumphs, Emerging Voices,
and the Future.” Pp. 1041-57 in Larry T. Reynolds and Nancy
J. Herman-Kinney (eds.), The Handbook of Symbolic
Interactionism. Walnut Creek, CA: Alta Mira Press, 2003.
Gary Alan Fine and Emily Eisenberg, “Tricky Dick and Slick
Willie: Despised Presidents and Generational Imprinting.”
American Behavioral Scientist. 46: 553-65. 2002.
Gary Alan Fine and Ryan D. White, “Creating Collective Attention
in the Public Domain: Human Interest Narratives and the
Rescue of Floyd Collins.” Social Forces. 81: 57-85. 2002.
Minna Bromberg and Gary Alan Fine, “Romancing the Red: Pete
Seeger and the Purification of Difficult Reputations.”
Social Forces 80: 1135-1155. 2002.
Gary Alan Fine, “Coordination, Symbolic Action and the Quadrants
of Social Order.” Pp. 15-31 in Elzbieta Halas (eds.),
Symbols, Power and Politics. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2002.
Gary Alan Fine, “Thinking About Evil: Adolf Hitler and the
Dilemma of the Social Construction of Reputation.” Pp. 227237 in Karen Cerulo (ed.), Culture in Mind: Toward a
Sociology of Culture and Cognition. New York: Routledge,
2002.
Gary Alan Fine, “The Storied Group: Social Movements as ‘Bundles
of Narratives.’” Pp. 229-45 in Joseph E. Davis (ed.),
Stories of Change: Narratives of Social Movements. Albany:
SUNY Press, 2002.
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Gary Alan Fine, “Participant Observation.” Pp. 11073-78 in
International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral
Sciences. Volume 16. London: Elsevier. 2002.
Michael Flaherty and Gary Alan Fine, “Present, Past and Future:
Conjugating Mead’s Perspective of Time.” Time and Society.
10: 147-161. 2001.
John Stolte, Gary Alan Fine, and Karen Cook, “Sociological
Miniaturism: Seeing the Big Through the Small in Social
Psychology.” Annual Review of Sociology 27: 387-413. 2001.
Gary Alan Fine, “Enacting Norms: Mushrooming and the Culture of
Expectations and Explanations.” Pp. 139-64 in Michael
Hechter and Karl-Dieter Opp (eds.), Social Norms. New York:
Russell Sage Foundation, 2001.
Gary Alan Fine, Wendy Espeland, and Dean Rojek, “Young Citizens:
The Position of Children in Communitarian Theory.”
Sociological Studies of Children and Youth 8: 295-414, 2001.
Christopher Wellin and Gary Alan Fine, “Ethnography as Work:
Career Socialization, Settings and Problems.” Pp. 323-38 in
Paul Atkinson, Amanda Coffey, Sara Delamont, John Lofland,
and Lyn Lofland (eds.), Handbook of Ethnography. London:
Sage, 2001.
Kent Sandstrom, Daniel D. Martin, and Gary Alan Fine, “Symbolic
Interaction in an American Century.” Pp. 217-231 in George
Ritzer and Barry Smart (eds.), Handbook of Social Theory.
London: Sage. 2001.
Brooke Harrington and Gary Alan Fine, “Opening the Black Box:
Small Groups and Twenty-First Century Sociology.” Social
Psychology Quarterly 63: 312-23. 2000.
Gary Alan Fine, “Games and Truths: Learning to Construct Social
Problems in High School Debate.” The Sociological Quarterly
41: 103-23. 2000.
Gary Alan Fine, “Normative Troubles: Social Expectations as
Cultural Productions.” Studies in Symbolic Interaction 24:
33-39. 2000.
Tim Hallett and Gary Alan Fine, “Learning From the Field Research
of an Old Century.” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 29:
593-617. 2000.
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Gary Alan Fine, Philip Manning, and Gregory W. H. Smith,
“Introduction.” Pp. ix-xliv in Gary Alan Fine and Gregory
W.H. Smith (eds.), Erving Goffman (London: Sage, 2000).
Adam King and Gary Alan Fine, “Ford on the Line: Business Leader
Reputation and the Multiple Audience Problem.” Journal of
Management Inquiry. 9(1): 71-86. 2000.
Gary Alan Fine, “Learning About Work from Creative Nonfiction.”
Journal of Management Inquiry. 9(1): 65-66. 2000.
Gary Alan Fine and Kimberly D. Elsbach, “Ethnography and
Experiment in Social Psychological Theory Building: Tactics
for Integrating Qualitative Field Data With Quantitative Lab
Data.” Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 36: 51-76.
2000.
Gary Alan Fine and Philip Manning. “Erving Goffman.” Pp. 457-85
in George Ritzer (ed.), Blackwell Companion to Major Social
Theorists. Oxford: Blackwell. 2000.
Gary Alan Fine, “John Brown’s Body: Elites, Cultural Resonance
and the Legitimation of Political Violence.” Social Problems
46: 225-249. 1999.
Leigh Thompson and Gary Alan Fine, “Socially Shared Cognition,
Affect and Behavior: A Review and Integration.” Personality
and Social Psychology Review. 3: 278-302. 1999.
Gary Alan Fine, “Field Labor and Ethnographic Reality.” Journal
of Contemporary Ethnography. 28: 532-539. 1999.
Gary Alan Fine, “Tworzenie Ram Dla Norm: Kultura Oczekiwan i
Wyjasnien.” Pp. 65-94 in Elzbiety Halas, Teoria
Socjologiczna Floriana Znanieckiego a Wyzwania XXI Wieku
(Lublin, Poland: Towarzystwo Naukowe Katolickiego
Uniwersytetu Lubelskiego). 1999. (In Polish: “Framing Norms:
The Culture of Expectations and Explanations”)
Reprinted as “Framing Norms: The Culture of Expectations and
Explanations’ in Elzbieta Halas (ed.), Florian Znaniecki’s
Sociological Theory and the Challenges of the 21st Century.
Pp. 49-67. Frankfurt: Peter Lang. 2000.
Gary Alan Fine, "Claiming the Text: Parsing the Sardonic Visions
of Erving Goffman and Thorstein Veblen." Pp. 177-197 in Greg
Smith (ed.), Goffman and Social Organization: Studies in a
Sociological Legacy. London: Routledge. 1999.
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Gary Alan Fine, "Art Centers: Southern Folk Art and the
Splintering of a Hegemonic Market." Pp. 148-162 in Barry
Smart (ed.), Resisting McDonaldization. London: Sage. 1999.
Judith Preissle, Linda Grant, Josephine Beoku-Betts, William
Finlay, and Gary Alan Fine, "Fieldwork in Familiar Places:
The UGA Workshop in Fieldwork Methods,” Anthropology and
Education Quarterly 30: 238-248. 1999.
Gary Alan Fine, Beth Montemurro, Bonnie Semora, Marybeth Stalp,
Dane S. Claussen, and Zayda Sierra, “Social Order Through a
Prism: Color as Collective Representation.” Sociological
Inquiry 68 443-57. 1998.
Jeanne Barker-Nunn and Gary Alan Fine, “The Vortex of Creation:
Literary Politics and the Demise of Herman Melville’s
Reputation.” Poetics 26: 81-98. 1998.
Amy Campion and Gary Alan Fine, “Main Street on Main Street:
Community Identity and the Reputation of Sinclair Lewis.”
The Sociological Quarterly 39: 79-99. 1998.
Gary Alan Fine, "Scandal, Social Conditions and the Creation of
Public Attention: 'Fatty' Arbuckle and the 'Problem' of
Hollywood." Social Problems 44: 297-323. 1997.
Lori Holyfield and Gary Alan Fine, "Adventure as Character Work:
The Collective Taming of Fear." Symbolic Interaction 20:
343-363. 1997.
Gary Alan Fine, "Symbolic Interaction: An Introduction." In Craig
Calhoun and George Ritzer (eds.), Social Problems. New York:
McGraw-Hill/Primis. 1997.
Gary Alan Fine, "Naturework and the Taming of the Wild: The
Problem of 'Overpick' in the Culture of Mushroomers." Social
Problems 44: 68-88. 1997.
Calvin Morrill and Gary Alan Fine, "Ethnographic Contributions to
Organizational Sociology," Sociological Methods and Research
25: 424-51. 1997.
Nancy Wisely and Gary Alan Fine, "Making Faces: Portraiture as a
Negotiated Worker-Client Relationship." Work and Occupations
24: 164-87. 1997.
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Gary Alan Fine and James Deegan, "Three Principles of Serendip:
The Role of Chance in Ethnographic Research." Qualitative
Studies in Education. 9: 434-47. 1996.
Todd Bayma and Gary Alan Fine, "Fictional Features and Imaginary
Relations: The Transformation of Lolita From Victim to
Vixen." Studies in Symbolic Interaction 20: 165-178. 1996.
Gary Alan Fine, "Justifying Work: Occupational Rhetorics as
Resources in Restaurant Kitchens." Administrative Science
Quarterly 41: 90-115. 1996.
Gary Alan Fine and Lori Holyfield, "Secrecy, Trust, and Dangerous
Leisure: Generating Group Cohesion in Voluntary
Organizations." Social Psychology Quarterly 59: 22-38. 1996.
Reprinted in Philip Stone and Mark Cannon (eds.),
Organizational Psychology, Volume II. Aldershot, England:
Dartmouth, 1997.
Gary Alan Fine, "Reputational Entrepreneurs and the Memory of
Incompetence: Melting Supporters, Partisan Warriors, and
Images of President Harding." American Journal of Sociology
101: 1159-93. 1996.
Melissa Landers and Gary Alan Fine, "Learning Life's Lessons in
Tee Ball: The Solidification of Gender and Status in
Preschool Sport." Sociology of Sport Journal 13: 87-93.
1996.
Gary Alan Fine, "Wittgenstein's Kitchen: Sharing Meaning in
Restaurant Work." Theory and Society. 24: 245-269. 1995.
Lori Ducharme and Gary Alan Fine, "The Construction of
Nonpersonhood and Demonization: Commemorating the
'Traitorous' Reputation of Benedict Arnold." Social Forces.
73: 1309-31. 1995.
James House, Gary Alan Fine, and Karen Cook, "The Promise of
Sociological Social Psychology." Social Psychology Quarterly
58: 336-338. 1995.
Gary Alan Fine, "Public Narration and Group Culture: Discerning
Discourse in Social Movements." Pp. 127-143 in Hank Johnston
and Bert Klandermans (eds.), Social Movements and Culture.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota
Press. 1995.
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Shun Lu and Gary Alan Fine, "The Presentation of Ethnic
Authenticity: Chinese Food as a Social Accomplishment." The
Sociological Quarterly. 36: 601-619,
1995.
Spencer Cahill, Gary Alan Fine, and Linda Grant, "Dimensions of
Qualitative Research." Pp. 605-29 in Karen Cook, Gary Alan
Fine, and James S. House (eds.), Sociological Perspectives
on Social Psychology. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1995.
Gary Alan Fine, "Building Blocks and the Quadrant of Action." Pp.
1-7 in Karen
Cook, Gary Alan Fine, and James S. House
(eds.), Sociological Perspectives on Social Psychology.
Boston: Allyn and Bacon. 1995.
Gary Alan Fine, James S. House,
"Introduction." Pp. ix-xii
and James S. House (eds.),
Social Psychology. Boston:
and Karen S. Cook,
in Karen Cook, Gary Alan Fine,
Sociological Perspectives on
Allyn and Bacon. 1995.
Gary Alan Fine, James S. House, and Karen S. Cook, "Invitation to
Methodology." Pp. 601-603 in Karen Cook, Gary Alan Fine, and
James S. House (eds.), Sociological Perspectives on Social
Psychology. Boston: Allyn and Bacon. 1995.
Gary Alan Fine, "The Social Construction of Style: Reading
Veblen, Judging Veblen." The Sociological Quarterly. 35:
457-72. 1994.
Reprinted in Jeffrey Alexander, Raymond Boudon, and Mohammed
Cherkaoui (eds.), The Classical Tradition in Sociology.
(London: Sage, 1998).
Reprinted in Rick Tilman (ed.), The Legacy of Thorstein
Veblen. (Cheltenham, United Kingdom, 2003)
Lori Ducharme and Gary Alan Fine, "No Escaping Obligation: Erving
Goffman on the Demands and Constraints of Play." Pp. 89-111
In Ronald Bogue and Mihai Spariousu (eds.), The Play of the
Self. Albany: SUNY Press. 1994.
Gary Alan Fine and Jeffrey Victor, "Satanic Tourism: Adolescent
Dabbling in 'Demonic Culture.'" Phi Delta Kappan. 76:70-72.
1994.
Gary Alan Fine, "The Sad Demise, Mysterious Disappearance, and
Glorious Triumph of Symbolic Interactionism." Annual Review
of Sociology. 19: 61-87. 1993.
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Reprinted in Portuguese in Revista de Administracao de
Empresas (Sao Paulo), 2005.
Reprinted in Portuguese in Teoria das Organizações, edited
by Miguel P. Caldas and Carlos Osmar Bertero. Sao Paulo:
Editora Atlas, S.A., 2007. Pp. 257-288.
Gary Alan Fine, "Ten Lies of Ethnography: Moral Dilemmas of Field
Research." Journal of Contemporary Ethnography. 22: 267-294.
1993.
Reprinted in Polish as "Dziesięć kłamstw etnografii dylematy etyczne w terenie." Pp. 87-112 in Etyczne Problemy
Bada ń Antropologicznych, edited by Katarzyny Kaniowskiej and
Noemi Modnickiej. Warsaw: Polskie Towarzystwo
Ludoznawcze. 2010.
Gary Alan Fine and Nancy Wisely, "Learning From Symbolic
Interaction: Portraits as Communicative Meaning," Art and
Academe 5: 31-47. 1993.
Gary Alan Fine and Laura Leighton, "Nocturnal Omissions: Steps
Toward a Sociology of Dreams." Symbolic Interaction 16: 95104. 1993.
Gary Alan Fine and Kent Sandstrom, "Ideology in Action: A
Pragmatic Approach to a Contested Concept." Sociological
Theory. 11: 21-38. 1993.
Gary Alan Fine and Jay Mechling, "Child Saving and Children's
Cultures." Pp. 120-146 in Shirley B. Heath and Milbrey W.
McLaughlin (eds.), Identity and Inner-City Youth: Beyond
Ethnicity and Gender. New York: Teachers College Press.
1993.
Gary Alan Fine, "The Culture of Production: Aesthetic Choices and
Constraints in Culinary Work." American Journal of
Sociology. 97:1268-1294. 1992.
Reprinted in The Anthropology of Organisations, Alberto
Corsin Jiminez (ed.). Aldershot: Ashgate.
Reprinted in Creative Industries: Critical Readings, Brian
Moeran and Ana Alacovska (eds.). Oxford: Berg.
Reprinted in Food and Folklore Reader, Lucy Long (ed.). New
York: Bloomsbury.
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Gary Alan Fine, "The Depths of Deep Play: The Rhetoric and
Resources of Morally Controversial Leisure." Play and
Culture. 5: 246-251. 1992.
Helen M. Reid and Gary Alan Fine, "Self-Disclosure in Men's
Friendships: Variations Associated With Intimate Relations."
Pp. 132-152 in Peter Nardi (ed.), Men's Friendships.
Newbury Park, California: Sage. 1992.
Gary Alan Fine, "Agency, Structure, and Comparative Contexts:
Toward a Synthetic Interactionism." Symbolic Interaction.
15: 87-107. 1992.
Gary Alan Fine, "Wild Life: Authenticity and the Human Experience
of 'Natural'
Places." Pp. 156-175 in Carolyn Ellis and
Michael Flaherty (eds.), Investigating Subjectivity:
Research on Lived Experience. Newbury Park, California:
Sage. 1992.
Linda Grant and Gary Alan Fine, "Sociology Unleashed: Creative
Directions in Classical Ethnography." Pp. 405-446 in
Margaret D. LeCompte, Wendy L. Milroy, and Judith Preissle
(eds.), Handbook of Qualitative Research in Education New
York: Academic Press. 1992.
Diana K. Harris, Gary Alan Fine, and Thomas C. Hood, "The Aging
of Desire: Playboy Centerfolds and the Graying of America."
Journal of Aging Studies. 6: 301-306. 1992.
Gary Alan Fine and Lazaros Christophorides, "Dirty Birds, Filthy
Immigrants, and the English Sparrow War: Metaphorical
Linkage in Constructing Social Problems." Symbolic
Interaction. 14: 375-393. 1991.
Gary Alan Fine and Jay Mechling, "Minor Difficulties: Changing
Children in the Late Twentieth Century." Pp. 58-78 in Alan
Wolfe (ed.), America at Century’s End. Berkeley: University
of California Press. 1991.
Gary Alan Fine, "On the Microfoundations of Macrosociology:
Constraint and the Exterior Reality of Structure." The
Sociological Quarterly. 32: 161-177. 1991.
Daniel D. Martin and Gary Alan Fine, "Satanic Cults, Satanic
Play: Is Dungeons & Dragons a Breeding Ground for the
Devil." Pp. 107 - 123 in James Richardson, David Bromley,
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and Joel Best (eds.), The Satanism Scare. New York: Aldine
de Gruyter. 1991.
Gary Alan Fine, "Justifying Fun: Or, Why We Do Not Teach "Exotic
Dance" in High School." Play and Culture. 4: 87-99. 1991.
Reprinted in revised form in Philip Smith (ed.), The New
American Cultural Sociology. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1998.
Ramona M. Asher and Gary Alan Fine, "Fragile ties: Shaping
research relationships with women married to alcoholics."
Pp. 196- 205 in William Shaffir and Robert Stebbins (eds.),
Experiencing Field Work: Qualitative Research in the Social
Sciences. Newbury Park: Sage. 1991.
Gary Alan Fine, Jeylan T. Mortimer, and Donald F. Roberts,
"Leisure, work, and mass media." Pp. 225-252 in Shirley
Feldman and Glen Elliott (eds.), At the Threshold: The
Developing Adolescent. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
1990.
Gary Alan Fine, "Credit and blame in ethnographic writing." The
American Sociologist. 21: 76-79. 1990.
Susan M. Fournier and Gary Alan Fine, "Jumping Grannies: Exercise
as a Buffer Against Becoming 'Old.'" Play & Culture 3: 337342. 1990.
Gary Alan Fine, "Organizational time: Temporal demands and the
experience of work in restaurant kitchens." Social Forces.
69: 95 - 114. 1990.
Reprinted in Lorne Tepperman and James Curtis, Everyday
Life: A Reader (Whitby, Ontario: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1995)
Gary Alan Fine, "Symbolic interaction in the post-Blumerian age."
Pp. 117-157 in George Ritzer (ed.), Frontiers of Social
Theory. New York: Columbia University Press. 1990.
Gary Alan Fine and Daniel D. Martin, "A partisan view: Sarcasm,
satire, and irony as voices in Erving Goffman's Asylums."
Journal of Contemporary Ethnography. 19: 89-115. 1990.
Reprinted in John Van Maanen (ed.), Representation in
Ethnography (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1995), pp. 165-197.
Reprinted in Gary Alan Fine and Gregory W.H. Smith (eds.),
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Erving Goffman (London: Sage, 2000), volume II, pp. 135-155.
Reprinted in Paul Atkinson and Sara Delamont (eds.),
Ethnographic Discourse. London: Sage. 2008.
Gary Alan Fine, "Mobilizing fun: Provisioning resources in
leisure worlds," Sport Sociology Journal. 6:319-334. 1989.
Reprinted in Peter Kivisto (ed.), Exploring the Social:
Readings in Contemporary Sociology (Boston: McGraw-Hill,
2001), pp. 103-115.
Reprinted in French as "Pour une Sociologie des Loisirs : La
Mise á Disposition des Ressources." In Tracés, Issue Number
28, 2015 (ENS Editions, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon).
Gary Alan Fine, "The process of tradition: cultural models of
change and content." Pp. 263-277 in Craig Calhoun (ed.),
Comparative Social Research. Volume 11: Culture. Greenwich,
CT: JAI Press. 1989.
Gary Alan Fine, "Art forgery." In George Gerbner (ed.),
International Encyclopedia of Communications. New York:
Oxford University Press. 1989.
John Bloom and Gary Alan Fine, "Windows on fantasy: Studying
public and private components of imagination." ARENA Review.
13: 20-27, 1989.
Gary Alan Fine, "Little League baseball as sport, play and work."
Pp. 39-57 in Jeffrey Goldstein (ed.), Sports, Games and
Play, 2nd Edition. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum
Associates, 1989.
Gary Alan Fine, "A Theory for the Republic," Symbolic
Interaction. 12: 93-96, 1989.
Gary Alan Fine, "The Ten Commandments of Writing," The American
Sociologist 19: 152-157, 1988.
Reprinted in revised form in Write Margin: Newsletter of the
Atlanta Writing Resource Center. 5(3): 2, 1991.
Gary Alan Fine, "Good Children and Dirty Play," Play and Culture
1: 43-56, 1988.
Gary Alan Fine, "One of the Boys: Women in Male-Dominated
Settings." In Michael S. Kimmel (ed.), Changing Men: New
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Directions in Research on Men and Masculinity. Newbury Park,
California: Sage, 1987.
Gary Alan Fine, "Working Cooks: The Dynamics of Professional
Kitchens." In Helena Lopata (ed.), Current Research on
Occupations and Professions, vol. 4. Greenwich, Connecticut:
JAI Press, 1987.
Gary Alan Fine, "The strains of idioculture: External threat and
internal crisis on a Little League baseball team." In Gary
Alan Fine (ed.), Meaningful Play, Playful Meaning.
Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics Press, 1987.
Gary Alan Fine, "Adolescent gossip as social interaction." In
Jenny Cook-Gumperz, William A. Corsaro and Jurgen Streeck
(eds.), Children's Worlds and Children's Language. Berlin:
Mouton de Gruyter, 1986.
Gary Alan Fine, "The Dirty Play of Little Boys," Society /
Transaction 24, 1986, 63-67.
Reprinted in Michael S. Kimmel and Michael A. Messner
(eds.), Men's Lives. New York: Macmillan, 1989, pp. 171-179.
Reprinted in Michael S. Kimmel and Michael A. Messner
(eds.), Men's Lives, Second Edition. New York: Macmillan,
1992, pp. 135-143.
Gary Alan Fine and Sherryl Kleinman, "Interpreting the
sociological classics: Can there be a 'true' meaning of
Mead?" Symbolic Interaction 9:129-46, 1986.
Reprinted in Symbolic Interactionism, Volume I: Foundations
and History, edited by Ken Plummer. Brookfield, Vermont:
Edward Elgar, 1991, pp. 95-112.
Reprinted in The Cutting Edge: Advanced Interactionist
Theory, edited John Johnson, Harvey Farberman, and Gary Alan
Fine. Greenwich, Connecticut: JAI Press, 1992, pp. 1-18.
Gary Alan Fine, "Small groups and sports: A symbolic
interactionist analysis." In C. Roger Rees and Andrew W.
Miracle (eds.), Sport and Social Theory. Champaign,
Illinois: Human Kinetics Press, 1986, pp. 159-169.
Gary Alan Fine, "The diffusion structure of common knowledge,"
Zeitschrift fur Soziologie 15:302-303, 1986.
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Gary Alan Fine, "Friendships in the workplace," in Val Derlaga
and Barbara Winstead (eds.), Friendship and Social
Interaction. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1986, pp. 185-206.
Gary Alan Fine, "Behavioral change in group space: A
reintegration of Lewinian theory in small group research,"
in Edward Lawler (ed.), Advances in Group Process: Theory
and Research, Vol. 3, 23-50. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press,
1986.
Gary Alan Fine, "Rumors and gossiping." In Teun Van Dijk (ed.),
Handbook of Discourse Analysis, Volume Three. London:
Academic Press, 1985, pp. 223-237.
Gary Alan Fine, "Occupational aesthetics: How trade school
students learn to cook," Urban Life 14:3-32, 1985.
Gary Alan Fine, "Team sports, seasonal histories, significant
events: Little League baseball and the creation of
collective meaning." Sociology of Sport Journal 2:299-313,
1985.
Gary Alan Fine and Janet S. Severance, "Great men and hard times:
Sociology at the University of Minnesota." The Sociological
Quarterly 26:117-134, 1985.
Gary Alan Fine and Deborah Shatin, "Crimes against art: Social
meanings and symbolic attacks." Empirical Studies of the
Arts 3:135-152, 1985.
Gary Alan Fine and Randy Stoecker, "Can the circle be unbroken?:
Small groups and social movements." Advances in Group
Processes 2:1-28, 1985.
Reprinted in Social Psychology of Groups: A Reader, edited
by Edward J. Lawler and Barry Markovsky. Greenwich, CT: JAI
Press, 1993, pp. 225-52.
Gary Alan Fine, Jeffrey Stitt and Michael Finch, "Couple tie
signs and interpersonal threat: A field experiment," Social
Psychology Quarterly 47:282-286, 1984.
Reprinted in Gary Alan Fine and Gregory W.H. Smith (eds.),
Erving Goffman (London: Sage, 2000), volume II, pp. 244-251.
Gary Alan Fine and Nora L. Ross, "Symbolic meaning and cultural
organizations."
In Samuel Bachrach and Edward Lawler
(eds.), Perspectives in Organizational Sociology: Theory and
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Research, Vol. 4, pp. 237-256. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press,
1984.
Gary Alan Fine, "Negotiated orders and organizational cultures."
Annual Review of Sociology 10:239-62, 1984.
Gary Alan Fine, "Humorous interaction and the social construction
of meaning: Making sense in a jocular vein." In Norman
Denzin (ed.), Studies in Symbolic Interaction, Vol. 5, 5:83101, 1984.
Gary Alan Fine, "Sociological aspects of humor." In Jeffrey
Goldstein and Paul McGhee (eds.), Humor Research Handbook.
New York: Springer-Verlag, 1983, pp. 159-182.
Gary Alan Fine and Sherryl Kleinman. "Network and meaning: An
interactionist approach to structure." Symbolic Interaction
6:97-110, 1983.
Gary Alan Fine, "Cheating history: Rhetorics and art forgery."
Empirical Studies in the Arts 1:75-93, 1983.
Reprinted in Italian: "Ingannare la storia: le
argomentazioni del falsario d'arte." Rivista d'Psicologia
dell' Arte 6: 81-98, 1985.
Gary Alan Fine. "Fantasy role-playing gaming as a social world."
In John Loy (ed.), Play as Paradox. Corning, NY: Leisure
Press. 1982, pp. 215-224.
Gary Alan Fine. "Fantasy games and social worlds: Simulation as
leisure." Simulation and Games 12:251-280. 1981.
Gary Alan Fine. "Rude words: Insults and narration in
preadolescent obscene talk." Maledicta 5:51-68. 1981.
Reprinted in Paul Atkinson and Sara Delamont, Narrative
Research Methods (London: Sage, 2006)
Frederick L. Linsk and Gary Alan Fine. "The role of implicit
social influence on humor response: A social evaluation
perspective." Sociology and Social Research 66:69-79. 1981.
Gary Alan Fine. "Impression management and preadolescent
behavior." In Steven Asher and John Gottman, The
Development of Children's Friendships. Cambridge: Cambridge
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University Press. 1981, pp. 29-50 (Volume Sponsored by the
Society for Research in Child Development).
Reprinted in G. Stone and H. Farberman, Social Psychology
Through Symbolic Interaction. New York: Wiley. 1980, pp.
257-273.
Reprinted in Gerald Handel, Childhood Socialization. New
York: Aldine. 1988, pp. 209-233.
Reprinted in Gerald Handel, Childhood Socialization. Second
Edition. New York: Aldine. 2004.
Gary Alan Fine. "Little League baseball and the development of
the male sex role." In R.A. Lewis (Ed.), Men In Difficult
Times. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall. 1981, pp.
62-74.
Gary Alan Fine and Sherryl Kleinman. "Mass and specialized
media: Reply to Corzine." American Journal of Sociology
87:173-177. 1981.
Gary Alan Fine. "The natural history of preadolescent male
friendship groups."
In H. Foot, A.J. Chapman and J. Smith,
Friendship and Social Relations in Childhood. Chichester:
Wiley. 1980, pp. 293-320.
Gary Alan Fine. "Cracking diamonds: The relationship between
observer role and observed content in Little League baseball
settings." In W. Shaffir, A. Turowetz, and R. Stebbins
(Eds.), The Social Experience of Field Work. New York: St.
Martins. 1980, pp. 117-132.
Charles B. Thomas, Judith A. Hall, Frederick Miller, Joseph
Dewhirst, Gary Alan Fine, Marylee Taylor and Ralph L.
Rosnow. "Evaluation apprehension and interpretation of test
correlations." Social Behavior and Personality 7:193-197.
1979.
Gary Alan Fine and Sherryl Kleinman. "Rethinking subcultures:
An interactionist approach." American Journal of Sociology
85:1-20. 1979.
Gary Alan Fine. "Small groups and cultural creation: The
idioculture of Little League baseball teams." American
Sociological Review 44:733-745. 1979.
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Reprinted in Italian in Marco Santoro and Roberta
Sassatelli, eds., Studiare la Cultura. Bologna: Il Mulino,
2009.
Gary Alan Fine and Barry Glassner. "Participant observation with
children: Promise and problems." Urban Life 8:153-74. 1979.
Sherryl Kleinman and Gary Alan Fine. "Rhetorics and action in
moral organizations: Social control of Little Leaguers and
ministry students." Urban Life 8:275-294. 1979.
Gary Alan Fine. "The Pinkston settlement: An historical and
social psychological investigation of the contact hypothesis
in the rural Midwest." Phylon 40:229-242. 1979.
James M. Jones, Gary Alan Fine, and Robert Brust. "Interactive
effects of picture and captions on funniness ratings of
cartoons." Journal of Social Psychology 108:193-198. 1979.
Gary Alan Fine. "Preadolescent socialization through organized
athletics: The construction of moral meanings in Little
League baseball. In M. Krotee (Eds.), Dimensions of Sport
Sociology. Corning, NY: Leisure Press. 1979.
Reprinted in Marie Hart and Susan Birrell, Sport in the Social
Cultural Process. Third Edition. Dubuque: W.C. Brown, 1981, pp.
79-105.
Gary Alan Fine and Ralph L. Rosnow. "Gossip, gossipers,
gossiping." Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
4:161-168. 1978.
Frances V. Bigda-Peyton and Gary Alan Fine. "The Hephaestus
Complex: Power themes in the life of James Thurber."
Biography 1:37-60. 1978.
Gary Alan Fine. "Popular culture and social interaction:
Production, consumption, and usage." Journal of Popular
Culture 11:453-466. 1977.
Gary Alan Fine "Popular...culture: Sociological issues and
explorations." Journal of Popular Culture 11:381-384. 1977.
Gary Alan Fine "Humour in situ: The role of humour in small
group culture." In A.J. Chapman and H.C. Foot (Eds.), It's
a Funny Thing, Humour. London: Pergamon, 1977, pp.
315-318.
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Gary Alan Fine
H.C. Foot
Pergamon.
"Humour and communication." In A.J. Chapman and
(Eds.), It's a Funny Thing, Humour. London:
1977, pp. 329-333.
Gary Alan Fine "Social components of children's gossip."
Journal of Communication 27:181-185. 1977.
Gary Alan Fine "Obscene joking across cultures." Journal of
Communication 26:134-140. 1976.
Gary Alan Fine "Recall of information about the diffusion of a
major news event: The aftermath of the Agnew resignation."
Journalism Quarterly 52:751-755. 1975.
Robert J. Wolosin, James Esser, and Gary Alan Fine. "Effects of
justification and vocalization on actors' and observers'
attributions of freedom." Journal of Personality 43:612-633.
1975.
Gary Alan Fine. "The psychology of cigarette advertising."
Journal of Popular Culture 8:513-522. 1974.
Reprinted in J. Nachbar and J.L. Wright, The Popular Culture
Reader. Popular Press. Bowling Green, Ohio. 1977, pp.
63-72.
FOLKLORE ARTICLES
Gary Alan Fine and Barry O’Neill. “Policy Legends and Folklists:
Traditional Beliefs in the Public Sphere.” Journal of
American Folklore 123: 150-178. 2010.
Gary Alan Fine and Christine Wood. “Accounting for Jokes: Jocular
Performance in a Critical Age.” Western Folklore 69: 299321. 2010.
Gary Alan Fine, “The Sweep of Knowledge: The Politics of Grand
and Local Theory in Folkloristics.” Journal of Folklore
Research 45: 11-18. 2008.
Reprinted in Lee Haring (ed.) Grand Theory in Folkloristics.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2016.
Gary Alan Fine, “In the Company of Men: Female Accommodation and
the Culture of Male Groups.” Pp. 61-76 in Simon Bronner
(ed.), Manly Traditions: The Folk Roots of American
Masculinities. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2005.
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Gary Alan Fine and Patricia Turner, “Contemporary Legend and
Claims of Corporate Malfeasance: Race, Fried Chicken and the
Marketplace.” DePaul Law Review 50: 635-646. 2000.
Gary Alan Fine, "Accounting for Rumor: The Creation of
Credibility in Folk Knowledge." Pp. 123-36 in Regina Bendix
and Rosemary Zumwalt (ed.), Folklore Interpreted: Essays in
Honor of Alan Dundes. New York: Garland, 1995.
Gary Alan Fine, "Methodological Problems of Collecting Folklore
from Children." Pp. 121-139 in Brian Sutton-Smith, Jay
Mechling, Thomas Johnson, and Felicia McMahon (eds.),
Children's Folklore: A Sourcebook. New York: Garland. 1995.
Gary Alan Fine, "Rumors of Apartheid: The Ecotypification of
Contemporary Legends in the New South Africa." Journal of
Folklore Research. 29: 53-71. 1992.
Gary Alan Fine, "Redemption Rumors and the Power of Ostension."
Journal of American Folklore. 104: 179-181. 1991.
Gary Alan Fine, "Among Those Dark Satanic Mills: Rumors of Kooks,
Cults, and Corporations." Southern Folklore. 47: 133-146,
1990.
Gary Alan Fine, "Mercantile legends and the world economy:
Dangerous products from abroad." Western Folklore. 48: 153162, 1989.
Gary Alan Fine and Julie Ford, "Magic Settings: The Reflection of
Middle-Class Life in 'Beauty and the Beast'." Midwestern
Folklore 15: 89-100. 1989.
Gary Alan Fine, "What Have Our Histories Taught Us." The
Folklore Historian. 6: 20-23. 1989.
Gary Alan Fine, "The Third Force in American Folklore: Folk
Narratives and Social Structures." Fabula 29: 342-353, 1988.
Reprinted (pp. 331-46) in Paul Smith and Gillian Bennett
(eds.), New Perspectives on Contemporary Legend. Sheffield:
Hisilisk Press, 1996.
Reprinted (pp. 311-24) in Gillian Bennett and Paul Smith
(eds.),
Contemporary Legend: A Reader. New York: Garland
Press, 1996.
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Gary Alan Fine, "Dying for a Laugh: Negotiating Risk and Creating
Personas in the Humor of Mushroom Collectors." Western
Folklore 47: 177-194, 1988.
Gary Alan Fine, "Letting off steam?: Redefining a restaurant's
work environment." In Michael Owen Jones, Michael D. Moore,
and Richard C. Snyder (eds.), Inside Organizations:
Understanding the Human Dimension. Newbury Park, California:
Sage, 1988, pp. 119-127.
Gary Alan Fine, "Joseph Jacobs: A sociological folklorist."
Folklore 98: 183-193, 1987.
Gary Alan Fine, "Community and boundary: Personal experience
stories of mushroom collectors." Journal of Folklore
Research 24: 223-240, 1987.
Gary Alan Fine, "Welcome to the world of AIDS: Fantasies of
female revenge." Western Folklore 46: 192-197, 1987.
Gary Alan Fine, "The city as a folklore generator: Legends in the
metropolis." Urban Resources 4: 3-6, 61, 1987.
Gary Alan Fine. "Organized baseball and its folk equivalents:
The transition from informal to formal control." In Bernard
Mergen (ed.), The Cultural Dimensions of Play, Games, and
Sport. Champaign, Illinois: Human Kinetics Press, 1986.
Gary Alan Fine, "Redemption rumors: Mercantile legends and
corporate beneficence," Journal of American Folklore
99:208-22, 1986.
Reprinted in Spanish as "Rumores de Expiacion: Leyendas
mercantiles y Beneficencia Empresaria" in Marta Blanche
(ed.), Serie de Folklore 12: 3-33, 1991. (Translated by
Diana Lenton and Jorge Sosa).
Reprinted in Spanish as "Rumores de Expiacion: Leyendas
mercantiles y Beneficiencia Empresaria." Pp. 75-98 in Marta
Blanche (ed.), Narrativa Folklorica. Buenos Aires: Centro
Editor de America Latina. (Translated by Diana Lenton, Jorge
Sosa, and Maria Ines Palleiro).
Gary Alan Fine, "The Goliath effect: Corporate dominance and
mercantile legends." Journal of American Folklore 98:63-84,
1985.
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Gary Alan Fine, "Social change and folklore: The interpenetration
of social structure and culture." Arv 41: 7-15, 1985.
Gary Alan Fine, "Evaluating psychoanalytic folklore: Are
Freudians ever right?"
New York Folklore 10:5-20, 1984.
Gary Alan Fine, "Legendary creatures and small group culture:
Medieval lore in a contemporary role-play game." Keystone
Folklore 24:11-27, 1982.
Gary Alan Fine. "The Manson Family as a folk group: Small groups
and folklore." Journal of the Folklore Institute 19:47-60.
1982.
Cindy Steiner and Gary Alan Fine, "Beaneology: The growth of a
local folk tradition." Southwestern Folklore 5: 24-28,
1981.
Gary Alan Fine. "Childlore, friendship and performance."
Southwestern Folklore 4:87-92. 1980.
Gary Alan Fine. "Preadolescent slang: Local, regional and
national speech patterns among American children."
Midwestern Journal of Language and Folklore 6:5-16. 1980.
Gary Alan Fine. "Children and their culture: Exploring Newell's
paradox." Western Folklore 39:170-183. 1980.
Gary Alan Fine. "Multi-conduit transmission and social
structure: Expanding a folklore classic." In Nikolai
Burlakoff and Carl Lindahl (eds.), Folklore on Two
Continents: Essays in Honor of Linda Degh. Bloomington, IN:
Trickster Press, 1980, pp. 300-309.
Reprinted in Spanish as "Transmission multiconducto y
estructura social: Expansion deun clasico de folklore." In
Marta Blanche (ed.), Serie de Folklore. Buenos Aires,
Argentina, 1989, pp. 3-20.
Gary Alan Fine. "The Kentucky Fried Rat: Legends and modern
society." Journal of the Folklore Institute 17:222-243.
1980.
Reprinted in Spanish. In Cristina Sanchez-Carretero and
Dorothy Noyes (eds.), American Folkloristics in Translation.
Spain: Sendoa Editorial, 1999.
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Gary Alan Fine and Bruce N. Johnson. "The promiscuous
cheerleader: An adolescent male legend." Western Folklore
39:120-129. 1980.
Gary Alan Fine. "Folklore diffusion through interactive social
networks." New York Folklore 5:99-125. 1979.
Gary Alan Fine. "Cokelore and Coke law: Urban belief tales and
the problem of multiple origins." Journal of American
Folklore. 92:478-482. 1979.
Gary Alan Fine and Beverly Crane. "The expectancy effect in
anthropological research: An experimental study of riddle
collection." American Ethnologist 4:517-524. 1977.
ARTICLES ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION
Gary Alan Fine, “Devoted Strangers: Managing Detachment in
Skeptical Ethnography.” Sociological Methods and Research,
in press.
Gary Alan Fine and Ugo Corte, “Group Pleasures: Collaborative
Commitments, Narrative Gratification, and the Sociology of
Fun.” Sociological Theory, in press.
Gary Alan Fine, “The Promiscuity of Facts: Barack Obama and
Uncertain Knowledge.” Diogenes, in press.
Translated into French as “Barack Obama et la Connaissance
Incertaine.” Diogène 249-250: 130-142. 2015.
Gary Alan Fine, “My Kids: Fair Warnings and Brazen Methods.”
Sociological Studies of Children and Youth: Researching Kids
and Teens: Methodological Issues, Strategies, and
Innovations 22, in press.
Gary Alan Fine and Black Hawk Hancock, “The New Ethnographer at
Work.” Qualitative Research, in press.
Clare Forstie and Gary Alan Fine, “Signaling Perversion: Senator
David Walsh and the Politics of Euphemism and Dysphemism.”
Sexualities, in press.
Angel Escamilla Garcia and Gary Alan Fine, “Fair Warnings: The
Ethics of Ethnography with Children.” In Ron Iphofen and
Martin Tolich (eds.), SAGE Handbook of Ethics in Qualitative
Research. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. In press.
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Hannah Wohl and Gary Alan Fine, “Reading Rites: Teaching Textwork
in Graduate Education.” The American Sociologist, in press.
Gary Alan Fine. “Group Cultures and Subcultures.” In John Hall
(ed.), Handbook of Cultural Sociology, Second Edition.
Abingdon, UK: Routledge, in press.
OTHER ARTICLES
Gary Alan Fine, “Wanted in the World of Politics: A Dirty Little
Scandal to Get Voters to the Polls.” Chicago Tribune (October
18, 2016)
Gary Alan Fine, “Dining in Style.” Discover Society,
http://discoversociety.org/2016/09/06/dining-in-style/.
(September 6, 2016)
Gary Alan Fine, “The Futures We Build: Local Sociology and the
Struggles for Better Worlds.” International Sociological
Association Futures Forum, http://futureswewant.net/garyalan-fine-local/ (February 25, 2016)
Gary Alan Fine, “Dzielenie Się Fantazją” (in Polish, “Sharing
Fantasy,” translated by Mateusz Kominiarczuk). Spotkania
Losowe 3(1): 104-5. 2015.
Gary Alan Fine and Christine Simonian Bean, “Red Meat: American
Political Banquets and Partisan Culture.” Gastronomica
15(2): 1-2. 2015.
Gary Alan Fine, Marcus Hunter, and Kevin Loughran, “Getting Malled
in Philadelphia: The Growth Coalition and the Historic City.”
Discover Society,
http://discoversociety.org/2015/06/03/getting-malled-inphiladelphia-the-growth-coalition-and-the-historic-city/
(June 3, 2015)
Gary Alan Fine, “Charlie and the Ducks.” Huffington Post,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gary-alan-fine/charlie-and-theducks_b_6471528.html?1421255389 (January 14, 2015)
Gary Alan Fine, Adam Mendel, Heather Menefee, and Forrest Bruce,
“Sand Creek Massacre a Moral Stain on NU’s Past.” Daily
Northwestern (January 24, 2013): 4.
Gary Alan Fine, “George Orwell and the N.C.A.A.,” New York Times,
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/25/opinion/penn-statesvacated-victories.html?hp (July 24, 2012)
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Gary Alan Fine and Shannon Fitzsimons, “Learning to Read, Again,”
Chronicle of Higher Education (February 4, 2011): B4-B5.
Gary Alan Fine, “Geek Chic.” Oxford University Press Blog,
http://blog.oup.com/2012/05/geek-chic-culture-pride/
(May 25, 2012)
Gary Alan Fine, “Dark Fears and Bright Children: Adults and
Children Together.” Psychology Today,
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-globalgrapevine/201111/dark-fears-and-bright-children-adults-andchildren-together (November 21, 2011)
Gary Alan Fine, “Fact and Fancy: The Case of Herman Cain.”
Psychology Today, http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/theglobal-grapevine/201111/fact-and-fancy-the-case-herman-cain
(November 6, 2011)
Gary Alan Fine, “Amero Dreams: The North American Currency Union.”
Psychology Today, http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/theglobal-grapevine/201108/amero-dreams-the-north-americancurrency-union (August 4, 2011)
Gary Alan Fine, “The Great Nebraska Nuclear Meltdown?: Analogy and
the Appeal of Rumor.” Psychology Today,
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-globalgrapevine/201106/the-great-nebraska-nuclear-meltdown-analogyand-the-appeal-rumor (June 26, 2011)
Gary Alan Fine, “Rumors on Fire: Illegal Immigrants and the
Arizona Blaze.” Psychology Today,
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-globalgrapevine/201106/rumors-fire-illegal-immigrants-and-thearizona-blaze (June 17, 2011)
Gary Alan Fine, “Women Behaving Badly?: Are Male Politicians
Unique?: Psychology Today,
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-globalgrapevine/201106/women-behaving-badly-are-male-politiciansunique (June 13, 2011)
Gary Alan Fine, “Weiner Redux: The ‘I’m Special’ Rule.” Psychology
Today, http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-globalgrapevine/201106/weiner-redux-the-i-m-special-rule (June 6,
2011)
Gary Alan Fine, “Of Weiners and Wieners: The Personalization of
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Policy and Its Dangers.” Psychology Today,
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-globalgrapevine/201106/weiners-and-wieners-the-personalizationpolicy-and-its-dangers (June 1, 2011)
Gary Alan Fine, “Mitch and Nation: When Family Comes First.”
Psychology Today, http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/theglobal-grapevine/201105/mitch-and-nation-when-family-comesfirst (May 28, 2011)
Gary Alan Fine, “Dominique Strauss-Kahn and the Charmed Circle of
Scandal.” Psychology Today,
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-globalgrapevine/201105/dominique-strauss-kahn-and-the-charmedcircle-scandal (May 18, 2011)
Reprinted on Deliberately Considered,
http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/ (May 26, 2011).
Gary Alan Fine, “The Roving Eye of Newt.” Psychology Today,
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-globalgrapevine/201105/the-roving-eye-newt (May 10, 2011)
Gary Alan Fine, “Barack the Birther.” Psychology Today,
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-globalgrapevine/201105/barack-the-birther-0 (May 3, 2011)
Gary Alan Fine, “Shark Fin Soup and Sauteed Kitten: The Cultural
Politics of Cuisine.” Grist: A Beacon in the Smog,
http://www.grist.org/food/2011-04-11-shark-fin-soup-andsauteed-kitty-the-cultural-politics-of-cuisin (April 11,
2011)
Gary Alan Fine, “Sandy Hook and Hitler.” Deliberately Considered,
http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/ (December 24, 2012)
Gary Alan Fine, “All-Consuming Liberalism.” Deliberately
Considered, http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/ (November
23, 2012)
Gary Alan Fine, “47: A Prime Political Number for Romney and
America.” Deliberately Considered,
http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/ (October 1, 2012)
Gary Alan Fine, “The Three Stigmata of Todd Akin.” Deliberately
Considered, http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/ (September
12, 2012)
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Gary Alan Fine, “Reflections on Chick-Fil-A Appreciation Day.”
Deliberately Considered,
http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/ (August 6, 2012)
Gary Alan Fine, “Partisan Change.” Deliberately Considered,
http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/ (July 16, 2012)
Gary Alan Fine, “’Through No Fault of Their Own’: Immigration,
Social Injustice, and the Bank Bailout.” Deliberately
Considered, http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/ (June 25,
2012)
Gary Alan Fine, “Marriage Equality and the Dustbin of History.”
Deliberately Considered,
http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/ (May 23, 2012)
Reprinted on Oxford University Press blog,
http://blog.oup.com/2012/06/marriage-equality-and-thedustbin-of-history/ (June 10, 2012)
Gary Alan Fine, “Hoodie Nights: Trayvon Martin and the Racial
Politics of Small Things.” Deliberately Considered,
http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/ (April 2, 2012)
Gary Alan Fine, “Mandates and Their Foes.” Deliberately
Considered, http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/ (March 8,
2012)
Gary Alan Fine, “Promiscuous Facts: Barack Obama and Uncertain
Knowledge.” Deliberately Considered,
http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/ (February 10, 2012)
Reprinted on Psychology Today,
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-globalgrapevine/201202/promiscuous-facts-Barack-Obama-anduncertain-knowledge (February 10, 2012)
Gary Alan Fine, “The Florida Primary and the ADD Electorate.”
Deliberately Considered,
http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/ (February 1, 2012)
Gary Alan Fine, “My Magazine.” Deliberately Considered,
http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/ (January 5, 2012)
Gary Alan Fine, “Brokered Democracy.” Deliberately Considered,
http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/ (December 8, 2011)
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Gary Alan Fine, “Glenn Beck, Prophet?.” Deliberately Considered,
http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/ (November 21, 2011)
Gary Alan Fine, “The Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street: Unhappy
Warriors.” Deliberately Considered,
http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/ (November 4, 2011)
Gary Alan Fine, “Our Heroes: Responsibility and War.” Deliberately
Considered, http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/ (October
12, 2011)
Gary Alan Fine, “Two Deaths.” Deliberately Considered,
http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/ (September 26, 2011)
Gary Alan Fine, “Forgetting 9/11.” Deliberately Considered,
http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/ (September 7, 2011)
Reprinted on Psychology Today,
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-globalgrapevine/201109/forgetting-911 (September 8, 2011)
Gary Alan Fine, “Means Testing: The GOP’s Surprising Class
Warfare.” Deliberately Considered,
http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/ (July 25, 2011)
Gary Alan Fine, “Red Jobs, Blue Jobs.” Deliberately Considered,
http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/ (July 15, 2011)
Gary Alan Fine, “Medicare: Redux or Redo.” Deliberately
Considered, http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/ (June 27,
2011)
Gary Alan Fine, “Atrocity and Epistemology: Cruel Claims in
Troubled Times.” Deliberately Considered,
http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/ (June 21, 2011).
Reprinted on Psychology Today,
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-globalgrapevine/201106/atrocity-and-epistemology-cruel-claims-introubled-times (June 23, 2011)
Gary Alan Fine, “The Weiner Follies: The Personification of
Politics.” Deliberately Considered,
http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/ (June 13, 2011).
Gary Alan Fine, “In Praise of Serious Pols.” Deliberately
Considered, http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/ (May 24,
2011).
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Gary Alan Fine, “Newt Gingrich and the Politics of Rumor.”
Deliberately Considered,
http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/ (May 18, 2011).
Gary Alan Fine, “The Human Comedy.” Deliberately Considered,
http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/ (May 7, 2011).
Gary Alan Fine, “Easy Targets.” Deliberately Considered,
http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/ (May 3, 2011).
Gary Alan Fine, “The Tea Party is No Thing.” Deliberately
Considered, http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/ (April 13,
2011).
Gary Alan Fine, “War Games.” Deliberately Considered,
http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/ (April 1, 2011).
Gary Alan Fine, “Candid Camera Politics.” Deliberately Considered,
http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/ (March 23, 2011).
Gary Alan Fine, “Ducks, Docks, and Disasters: Joking About Japan.”
Deliberately Considered
http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/ (March 17, 2011).
Gary Alan Fine, “On Moral Sentiments in Shaky Times.” Deliberately
Considered, http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/ (March 17,
2011).
Gary Alan Fine, “Jesus, King, and Collective Guilt.” Deliberately
Considered, http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/ (March 9,
2011).
Gary Alan Fine, “Hate Speech or Biting Political Provocation?”
Deliberately Considered,
http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/ (March 1, 2011).
Gary Alan Fine, “Who Lost Egypt?” Deliberately Considered,
http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/ (February 16, 2011).
Gary Alan Fine, “Beck and Call.” Deliberately Considered,
http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/ (February 2, 2011).
Gary Alan Fine, “The Conundrum of their Character.” Deliberately
Considered, http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/ (January
19, 2011).
Gary Alan Fine, “Jared Lee Loughner.” Deliberately Considered,
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http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/ (January 12, 2011).
Gary Alan Fine, “Rumor in Collective Behavior and Social
Movements.” Pp. 1129-1131 in David Snow, Donatella Della
Porta, Bert Klandermans, and Doug McAdam, eds., The Blackwell
Encyclopedia of Political and Social Movements. Oxford:
Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
Gary Alan Fine and Kent Sandstrom, “Symbolic Interaction.” Oxford
Bibliographies Online. 2011.
Daphne Demetry and Gary Alan Fine. "Dining Out." in Encyclopedia
of Consumer Culture, edited by D. Southerton. Thousand Oaks,
CA: Sage. 2011.
Gary Alan Fine, “The Conundrum of Character,” Chicago Tribune
(October 15, 2010): 39.
Alice Eagly and Gary Alan Fine, “Bridging Social Psychologies.”
Social Psychology Quarterly 73: 313-15. 2010.
Gary Alan Fine and Bill Ellis, “Five Bogus Immigrant Rumors.”
Washingtonpost.com (June 4, 2010).
Bill Ellis and Gary Alan Fine, “Islam Just the Latest Loathed
Faith in U.S.” Philadelphia Inquirer (August 31, 2010).
Bill Ellis and Gary Alan Fine, “Immigration Debate Won’t Change:
Political Arguments Mirror Those of Candidates in 1910.”
Arizona Republic (July 27, 2010).
Roberta Sassatelli, “A Serial Ethnographer: An Interview with Gary
Alan Fine.” Qualitative Sociology 33: 79-96. 2010.
Gary Alan Fine. “The Colorist: Marcia R. Cohen/Sight Specific.”
Pp. 8-13 in Working Artist Project, 2008-2009. Atlanta:
Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia. 2009.
Gary Alan Fine. “Introduction to the Introduction.” Social
Psychology Quarterly 72 (3): 206. 2009.
Gary Alan Fine. “The Boy in the (Public) Sphere.” Thymos: Journal
of Boyhood Studies 3(2): 117-18. 2009.
Gary Alan Fine, “Robbers Cave Experiment.” In Rick Schaefer (ed.)
Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity and Society. Thousand Oaks,
CA: Sage. 2008.
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Gary Alan Fine. “Reputation.” Contexts (Summer 2008): 78-79.
Michaela DeSoucey and Gary Alan Fine. 2008. “Virtuous Food:
Conscientious Production as Moral Imperative.” Pp. 93-102 in
Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 2007.
Prospect Books.
Gary Alan Fine. “The Last Editor’s Note.” Social Psychology
Quarterly 70 (1): 1-3. 2007.
Eric W. Larson and Gary Alan Fine, “High School Debate.” Pp. 11112 in Kathryn Borman, Spencer Cahill, and Bridget Cotner
(eds.), The Praeger Handbook of American High Schools.
Westport, Connecticut: Praeger. 2007.
Gary Alan Fine, “Reputation.” In George Ritzer (ed.), Blackwell
Encyclopedia of Sociology. Cambridge: Blackwell. 2007.
Revised for Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology,
Second Edition, in press.
Gary Alan Fine, “Robert Freed Bales.” In Bryan Turner (ed.)
Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press. 2006.
Gary Alan Fine, “Group Dynamics.” In Bryan Turner (ed.) Cambridge
Dictionary of Sociology. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press. 2006.
Gary Alan Fine, “Small Groups.” In Bryan Turner (ed.) Cambridge
Dictionary of Sociology. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press. 2006.
Gary Alan Fine and Kent Sandstrom, “Symbolic Interaction.” In
Bryan Turner (ed.) Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2006.
Kent Sandstrom and Gary Alan Fine, “Stigma.” In Bryan Turner
(ed.) Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press. 2006.
Gary Alan Fine, “Skeptics and Believers.” Social Problems Forum.
37(2): 11-12. 2006.
Gary Alan Fine, “Kids Gone Wild? In Praise of Hazing.” Chicago
Tribune (June 20, 2006): 15.
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Gary Alan Fine, “Prema Napu enoj Etnografiji. Razvijanje Teorije
iz Grupnog ivota.” Diskrepancija 11, 83-98, 2006.
Gary Alan Fine and Jacqueline Boles, “Chain Letter.” Pp. 166-70
in Simon Bronner (ed.), Encyclopedia of American Folklore.
Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2006.
Gary Alan Fine, “Little League Baseball and Youth Sports
Organizations.” Pp. 706-709 in Simon Bronner (ed.),
Encyclopedia of American Folklore. Armonk, New York: M.E.
Sharpe, 2006.
Gary Alan Fine and Patricia Turner, “Cultural Myths Behind
Katrina Whispers.” Christian Science Monitor (October 4): 9.
2005.
Gary Alan Fine, “Collective Memory.” Pp. 116-17 in George Ritzer
(ed.), Encyclopedia of Social Theory. Newbury Park: Sage.
2005.
Gary Alan Fine, “Bush-contempt, Kerry-scorn: Is it ‘HateThought’?” Christian Science Monitor 96 (October 18): 9.
2004.
Gary Alan Fine, “Ire to the Chief.” Washington Post (August 6):
A19. 2004.
Gary Alan Fine, “The When of Ethnographic Theory.” Perspectives:
The Newsletter of the Theory Section of the American
Sociological Association. 27(1): 4, 5, 11. 2004.
Gary Alan Fine, “Mushroom Collectors.” In Solomon H. Katz (ed.),
Encyclopedia of Food and Culture. New York: Charles
Scribner’s Sons, 2003.
Gary Alan Fine, “Crafting Authenticity: The Politics of Identity
in Self-Taught Art.” Folk Art Messenger 15(3) (Winter 2002):
12-17.
Gary Alan Fine, “Presidential Commendation Awarded to Without
Sanctuary.” SSSP Newsletter 32 (Fall 2001): 8-9.
Gary Alan Fine, “In Chaotic Times, Rumors Soothe, Frighten and
Divide.” Newsday (October 10, 2001): A42.
Gary Alan Fine and Kevin T. Leicht, “The Sociological Quarterly:
Directions for the Future.” The Midwest Sociologist (June)
73-74, 2000.
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Lori Holyfield and Gary Alan Fine, "Francis Stuart Chapin." Pp.
690-692 in John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes (eds.)
Encyclopedia of American Biography, Volume Four. New York:
Oxford University Press. 1999.
Christena Nippert-Eng and Gary Alan Fine, “The Changing Worlds of
Workplace Culture.” Newsletter of the Sociology of Culture
Section of the American Sociological Association. 13 (3,
Spring-Summer): 1, 6-9. 1999.
Gary Alan Fine. "Ritual Murder." Pp. 555-56 in Mary Ellen Brown
and Bruce A. Rosenberg (eds.), Folklore and Literature: An
Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio. 1998.
Gary Alan Fine, “The Collecting Urge.” Mushroom 59 (Spring 1998):
7, 9, 11-14.
Gary Alan Fine, “Alarms and Dangers.” Mushroom 58 (Winter 19971998): 5-7, 9-10.
Gary Alan Fine, “...Until the Scandals Start to Surface.” Chicago
Tribune (March 2, 1998): 11.
Gary Alan Fine, "On Jokes Having the Right to be Told." Humor 10
(4): 498-500. 1997.
Gary Alan Fine, "Rumor." Pp. 741-744 in Thomas A. Green (ed.),
Folklore: An Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio. 1997.
Gary Alan Fine, "Gossip." Pp. 422-423 in Thomas A. Green (ed.),
Folklore: An Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio. 1997.
Gary Alan Fine, "Hail to the Crook?: Clinton, Harding, and the
Politics of Reputation." Reason (November 1996): 5-7.
Gary Alan Fine, "Sociological Approaches." Pp. 675-77 in Jan H.
Brunvand (ed.), American Folklore: An Encyclopedia. New
York: Garland Press. 1996.
Gary Alan Fine, "Just Ask." Pp. 16-18 in Mistakes That Social
Scientists Make: Error and Redemption in the Research
Process, edited by Richard Seltzer. New York: St. Martin's,
1995.
Gary Alan Fine, "Trials and Tribulations: Sense of Deja Vu"
Atlanta Journal/ Constitution. February 1, 1995: A11.
50
Gary Alan Fine and Lazaros Christophorides. "Bedwetting." In
Donald Ward (ed.), Encyclopedia of American Popular Beliefs
and Superstition. Berkeley: University of California Press,
1994.
Gary Alan Fine, "Absent-Mindedness." In Donald Ward (ed.),
Encyclopedia of American Popular Beliefs and Superstition.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
Gary Alan Fine and Jacqueline Boles. "Chain Letters." In Donald
Ward (ed.), Encyclopedia of American Popular Beliefs and
Superstition. Berkeley: University of California Press,
1994.
Gary Alan Fine, "Isn't Sociological Style Swell?" Writing
Sociology 1: 4-5. 1993.
Gary Alan Fine. "Dreams of Field." In Newsletter of the Sociology
of Culture Section of the American Sociological Association.
6(4): 6-7. Summer 1992.
Gary Alan Fine, "Americans Should Admit It: We Love a Good
Scandal," Atlanta Journal/Constitution. February 16, 1992:
F2.
Patrick Schmidt and Gary Alan Fine. "Coaching." The Forensic
Educator 6(2): 7-9. 1991-1992.
Gary Alan Fine and Dean G. Rojek. "Atlanta's Curfew Was
Overrated," Atlanta Journal/Constitution. October 20, 1991:
G1-G2.
Gary Alan Fine. "World Series Ticket System Needs Justice,"
Atlanta Constitution. October 4, 1991: A11.
Gary Alan Fine. "The Republic of Rumor: Corporate Targets,"
Indicator South Africa. 8 (4), Spring 1991: 80-84.
Gary Alan Fine and Laura Fischer Leighton. "Imagery, Dreams, and
Social Order," Journal of Mental Imagery. 15: 113-115. 1991.
Gary Alan Fine, "Learning With the Boys." In Beth B. Hess,
Elizabeth W. Markson, and Peter J. Stein, Sociology, Fourth
Edition. New York: Macmillan, 1991, p. 37.
Reprinted in Charles Bazerman (ed.), Involved: Writing for
College, Writing for Your Self. Everett, MA: Houghton
Mifflin, 1996.
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Patrick Schmidt and Gary Alan Fine, "Debaters: Who are They?,"
Rostrum 65 (3, November): 8, 1990.
Gary Alan Fine, "Is Collegiate Football an Oxymoron?" Columns
(Newsletter of the University of Georgia). 18 (November 12,
1990): 6.
Gary Alan Fine, "Those Preadolescent Ninja Turtles," New York
Times. June 2, 1990: 19.
Gary Alan Fine, "Harold Finestone (1920-1989)" (obituary notice),
ASA Footnotes. 17, October 1989: 15.
Gary Alan Fine. "A Morel Community," The World and I. October
1989: 611-623.
Gary Alan Fine, "Why We Do Not Teach 'Exotic Dance' in High
School: The Social Construction of Dance." In Dance
Directions: 1990 and Beyond. Reston, Virginia: National
Dance Association, 1989.
Gary Alan Fine, "A Fungus Among Us: Images of Mushrooms in
American Culture." The Toadstool Review: Newsletter of the
Minnesota Mycological Society. 14(1): January 1989: 3.
Gary Alan Fine, "Sport as Play." The World & I October 1988, 643655.
Gary Alan Fine, "Deadly humor." Mushroom 6(3): 5-7, 1988.
Gary Alan Fine and Janet Severance, "Gerucht." In Enzyklopadie
des Marchens. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1987.
Gary Alan Fine, "Captain Billy's Whiz Bang." In David Sloane,
ed., American Humor Magazines and Comic Periodicals. New
York: Greenwood Press, 1987.
Gary Alan Fine, "Mushrooms, birds, or old bottles?": Mushroomers
and their concerns." McIlvainea 7, 1986, 23-30.
Gary Alan Fine, "Symbolic interactionism's next fifty years,"
Perspectives (the newsletter of the Theory Section of the
ASA), 1986.
Gary Alan Fine, "A response to Sutton-Smith's 'Idealization of
play.'" In C. Roger Rees and Andrew W. Miracle (eds.),
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Sport and Social Theory. Champaign, Illinois: Human Kinetics
Press, 1986, pp. 103-106.
Gary Alan Fine, "In defense of censorship...uh...selection," View
from the Loft, November 1985, pp. 7-8.
Sue Smith-Cunnien and Gary Alan Fine, "Comments on Westrum."
Zetetic Scholar 10:112-116, 1982.
Gary Alan Fine. "Recurring political satire."
6:72-75, 1982.
Gary Alan Fine.
"Cheap talk."
Maledicta
Omni (Feb.):24, 122, 1982.
Gary Alan Fine. "Children's folk speech." Children's Literature
Association Quarterly 6:28-30. Summer, 1981.
Gary Alan Fine and Sherryl Kleinman. "Comparative context
theory: A social psychological way of knowing." Society for
the Advancement of Social Psychology Newsletter 7:10-11.
1981.
Gary Alan Fine. "How children's folklore spreads."
Southern Folklore Magazine 3:8. 1980.
Center for
Gary Alan Fine. "The war of the worlds broadcast: Credibility in
the news frame." Michigan Sociological Review 5:1-11
(Special Issue on Sociology and Popular Culture). 1979.
Gary Alan Fine and C. Steven West. "Do Little Leagues work?:
Player satisfaction with organized preadolescent baseball
programs." Minnesota Journal for Health, Physical Education
and Recreation 7:4-6. 1979.
T. Michael Carter, John P. Clark, Robert K. Leik and Gary Alan
Fine. "Social factors affecting the dissemination of and
response to warnings." Proceedings of the 11th Technical
Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology. 302-309.
1978.
Gary Alan Fine. "Humor under stress: No laughing matter."
Research Newsletter 2:3-4. 1977.
Gary Alan Fine. "Social psychology, naive psychology and
folklore: All together now?" Educational Resources
Information Center. Document Ed 12036. 1977.
53
Humor
Gary Alan Fine and Susan Fine. "The use of advertising in
popular culture scholarship." Popular Culture Methods
6:46-50. 1977.
Gary Alan Fine. "Psychics, clairvoyance, and the real world."
Zeitetic 1:25-33. 1976.
Gary Alan Fine. "The dangers of a popular psychology."
Behavior. 12-13, June 1976.
Human
Gary Alan Fine. "Components of perceived sense of humor ratings
of self and other." Psychological Reports 36:793-794.
1975.
Gary Alan Fine. "Popular culture as humor: The psychology of
cultural evaluation." Proceedings of the Fifth Annual
Popular Culture Association Convention. 1975.
Ralph L. Rosnow and Gary Alan Fine.
Behavior. August 1974. 64-68.
"Inside rumors."
Human
Gary Alan Fine. "In search of the quadrennial perennials."
Folklore Forum 7:203-204. 1974.
Gary Alan Fine. "Popular culture and behavioral science."
Popular Culture Methods 1:11-13. 1973.
Alvia Y. Branch, Gary A. Fine, and James M Jones. "Laughter,
smiling, and rating scales." Proceedings of the American
Psychological Association. 189-190. 1973.
BOOK REVIEWS
The Edible South: The Power of Food and the Making of an American
Region by Marcie Cohen Ferris. Folklore in press.
The Ethnic Restaurateur by Krishnendu Ray. Gastronomica in press.
“Our Mead.” Review of Becoming Mead: The Social Process of
Academic Knowledge by Daniel Huebner. Contemporary Sociology
45: 266-68. 2016.
Everyday Troubles: The Micro-Politics of Interpersonal Conflict
by Robert Emerson. American Journal of Sociology 121: 164143. 2016.
Practically Joking by Moira Marsh. Journal of Folklore Research,
http://www.indiana.edu/~jfr/review.php?id=1920. 2015.
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The Cultivation of Taste: Chefs and the Organization of Fine
Dining by Christel Lane. American Journal of Sociology 120:
1590-92. 2015.
“The Threads of Practice.” Review of 33 Artists in 3 Acts by
Sarah Thornton. Society 52(2): 182-84. 2015.
“Distinction and Dining.” Review of Fashioning Appetite:
Restaurants and the Making of Modern Identity by Joanne
Finkelstein; How to Dine in Style: The Art of Entertaining,
1920 by J. Rey; Repast: Dining Out at the Dawn of the New
American Century, 1900-1910 by Michael Lesy and Lisa
Stoffer. Gastronomica 15(1): 90-91. 2015.
Playing Dead: Mock Trauma and Folk Drama in Staged High School
Drunk Driving Tragedies by Montana Miller. Folklore 125:
262-63. 2014.
“Kitchen Confidences.” Review of Back of the House: The Secret
Life of a Restaurant by Scott Haas; Behind the Kitchen Door
by Saru Jayaraman; Smart Casual: The Transformation of
Gourmet Restaurant Style in America by Alison Pearlman.
Gastronomica 14: 92-94. 2014.
Class Unknown: Undercover Investigations of American Work and
Poverty from the Progressive Era to the Present by Mark
Pittenger. American Journal of Sociology 119: 845-47. 2013.
Together: The Rituals, Pleasures, and Politics of Cooperation by
Richard Sennett. Archives of European Sociology 53: 372-75.
2012.
“Who Made Them Boss?” Review of Twilight of the Elites: America
After Meritocracy by Christopher Hayes. Reason
http://reason.com/archives/2012/08/08/who-made-them-boss
(August 8, 2012).
Explaining Traditions: Folk Behavior in Modern Culture by Simon
J. Bronner. Folklore 123: 234-35. 2012.
“The Culture of Couples.” Review Essay of Gripes: The Little
Quarrels of Couples by Jean-Claude Kaufmann; The Single
Woman and the Fairytale Prince by Jean-Claude Kaufmann;
Dirty Linen: Couples and Their Laundry by Jean-Claude
Kaufmann. Contemporary Sociology 39: 664-667. 2010.
Collections of Nothing by William Davies King. Journal of Modern
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Craft 3: 265-67. 2010.
Witching Culture: Folklore and Neo-Paganism in America by Sabina
Magliocco. Journal of American Folklore 122: 103-104. 2009.
Once Upon a Virus: AIDS Legends and Vernacular Risk Perception by
Diane E. Goldstein. Journal of American Folklore 122: 102103. 2009.
Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
by Rick Perlstein. Contexts 7(4): 73-75. 2008.
“Everybody’s Business.” Review of Guarding Life’s Dark Secrets:
Legal and Social Controls over Reputation, Propriety, and
Privacy by Lawrence Friedman; The Future of Reputation by
Daniel Solove. Wilson Quarterly 2008 (Winter): 92-94.
Professor Baseball: Searching for Redemption and the Perfect
Lineup on the Softball Diamonds of Central Park by Edwin
Amenta. Contemporary Sociology 37: 139-40. 2008.
Betrayals: The Unpredictability of Human Relations by Gabriella
Turnaturi. American Journal of Sociology 114: 540-41. 2008.
“Sociology at the Stove.” Review of Ratatouille (film review).
Contexts 7 (Winter): 59-61. 2008. (with Priscilla Ferguson).
The Purchase of Intimacy by Viviana Zelizer. Social Forces 86:
1353-55. 2008.
“Mind, Games.” Review of Games and Sport in Everyday Life:
Dialogues and Narratives of the Self by Robert
Perinbanayagam; Play Reconsidered: Sociological Perspectives
on Human Expression by Thomas Henricks. Contemporary
Sociology 37: 317-319. 2008.
Funny Peculiar: Gershon Legman and the Psychopathology of Humor
by Mikita Brottman; The Mirth of Nations by Christie Davies.
Journal of American Folklore 121: 497-499. 2008.
Hotel: An American History by A. K. Sandoval-Strausz. New York
Sun (January 23, 2008), 15.
”Grub and the City.” Review of the New York Fancy Food Show (food
review). Contexts 6 (Spring): 76-77. 2007.
Cracking Up: American Humor in a Time of Conflict by Paul Lewis.
The Common Review (Summer 2007): 53-55.
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Market Day in Provence by Michele de la Pradelle. American
Journal of Sociology 112: 1283-85. 2007.
Why?: What Happens When People Give Reasons by Charles Tilly; The
Elephant in the Room: Silence and Denial in Everyday Life by
Eviatar Zerubavel. European Journal of Sociology 47: 468-71.
2006.
Good Night, and Good Luck (film review). Contexts 5(3): 65-66.
Summer 2006.
Doubt (theater review). Contexts 5(2): 70-71. Spring 2006.
The Aristocrats (film review). Contexts 5(1): 63-65. Winter 2006.
Protecting Home: Class, Race, and Masculinity in Boys’ Baseball
by Sherri Grasmuck. American Journal of Sociology 111: 159698. 2006.
Interaction Ritual Chains by Randall Collins. Social Forces 83:
1287-88. 2005.
What It Takes to Pull Me Through: Why Teenagers Get in
Trouble--And How Four of Them Got Out by David L. Marcus;
I'm OK, You're My Parents: How to Overcome Guilt, Let Go of
Anger, and Create a Relationship That Works by Dale Atkins;
Ready or Not, Here Life Comes by Mel Levine. Chicago
Tribune (April 3, 2005): 4.
Arun’s (restaurant review with Jenny Korn). Contexts 4(1): 63-65.
2005.
The Know-It-All: One Man’s Humble Quest to Become the Smartest
Person in the World by A.J. Jacobs. Christian Science
Monitor 96 (November 16): 12, 2004.
Body and Soul: Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer by Loic Wacquant.
American Journal of Sociology 110: 505-507. 2004
Unpopular Culture: The Ritual of Complaint in a British Bank by
John Weeks. Cat Culture: The Social World of a Cat Shelter
by Janet M. Alger and Steven F. Alger. Journal of
Contemporary Ethnography 33: 638-44. 2004
Intergroup Conflict and Cooperation: The Robbers Cave Experiment
by Muzafer Sherif, O.J. Harvey, B. Jack White, William R.
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Hood, and Carolyn W. Sherif. Sociological Forum (Forgotten
Classics) 19: 663-666. 2004.
Engaging Humor by Elliott Oring. Journal of American Folklore
117: 224-25. 2004.
Enemies Within: The Culture of Conspiracy in Modern America by
Robert Alan Goldberg. Journal of American History 137: 31314. 2003.
Bloody Mary in the Mirror: Essays in Psychoanalytic Folkloristics
by Alan Dundes. The Shabbat Elevator and Other Sabbath
Subterfuges: An Unorthodox Essay on Circumventing Custom and
Jewish Character by Alan Dundes. Western Folklore 61: 101104. 2002.
Changing Works: Visions of a Lost Agriculture by Douglas Harper.
Society/Transaction 40(1): 114, 116. 2002.
Act Your Age!: A Cultural Construction of Adolescence by Nancy
Lesko. Teachers College Record 104 (5), 916-19. 2002.
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric
Schlosser. Reason (November 2001): 58-59, 61-62.
Review Essay: “You are Where You Eat.” Eating Out: Social
Differentiation, Consumption and Pleasure by Alan Warde and
Lydia Martens; Haute Cuisine: How the French Invented the
Culinary Profession by Amy B. Trubek; and The Invention of
the Restaurant by Rebecca L. Spang. Contemporary Sociology
30: 231-33. 2001.
Fashion and Its Social Agendas by Diana Crane. American Journal
of Sociology 106: 1828-1830. 2001.
The Truth Never Stands in the Way of a Good Story by Jan Harold
Brunvand. Southern Folklore 57. 2001.
The Tradition of the Chicago School of Sociology edited by Luigi
Tomasi. Contemporary Sociology 29: 674-75. 2000.
Riding the Black Ship: Japan and Tokyo Disneyland by Aviad E.
Raz. American Journal of Sociology. 105: 884-886. 2000.
Talk is Cheap: Sarcasm, Alienation and the Evolution of Language
by John Haiman. Journal of Communication. 49: 213-215. 1999.
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The Public Realm by Lyn Lofland. Social Forces. 78: 408-410.
1999.
Magical Mushrooms, Mischievous Molds by George Hudler. American
Scientist. 86: 578. 1999.
Tricks of the Trade by Howard S. Becker. Qualitative Sociology
22: 93-98. 1999. (co-authored with Christopher Wellin).
Humor and Laughter by Peter Berger. Contemporary Sociology 27:
383-385. 1998.
Making the Majors by Eric Leifer. Social Forces 76: 715-16. 1997.
Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom: Excursions into Eating, Culture,
and the Past by Sidney W. Mintz. American Journal of
Sociology 102: 1487-89. 1997.
Sociology as an Art Form by Robert Nisbet. Contemporary Sociology
25: 448-449. 1996.
Handbook of Qualitative Methods edited by Norman K. Denzin and
Yvonna Lincoln. Contemporary Sociology 24: 416-418. 1995.
Continual Permutations of Action by Anselm Strauss. Social Forces
74: 741-42. 1995.
Out of the Garden: Toys and Children's Culture in the Age of TV
Marketing by Stephen Kline. American Journal of Sociology
100: 1360-1362. 1995.
Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s by Ann Douglas.
Reason (July) 58-59. 1995.
Gender Play by Barrie Thorne; The People in the Playground by
Iona Opie. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 23: 526-529.
1995.
Bloodtaking and Peacemaking: Feud, Law, and Society in Saga
Iceland by William Ian Miller. American Ethnologist. 21:
1103-1104. 1994
Remembering My Birth by Alice Lovelace. Unity Magazine. (Spring):
35. 1994.
Whistling Dixie by John Shelton Reed. Sewanee Review. 101: lviilx. 1993.
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Playing With Power by Marsha Kinder and Nintendo Kids by Eugene
Provenzo. Contemporary Sociology. 21: 852-854. 1992.
Sugarball: The American Game, The Dominican Dream by Alan Klein.
Contemporary Sociology. 21: 109-110. 1992.
Creating Sociological Awareness: Collective Images and Symbolic
Representations by Anselm Strauss. Contemporary Sociology.
21: 259-261. 1992.
Alias Bill Arp: Charles Henry Smith and the South's "Goodly
Heritage" by David B. Parker. Florida Historical Quarterly.
(January): 389-391. 1991.
How to Talk Jewish by Jackie Mason. Jewish Times. (April 12): 32.
1991.
Rumors: Uses, Interpretations & Images by Jean-Noel Kapferer.
Public Opinion Quarterly. 55: 463-465. 1991.
Writing Strategies by Laurel Richardson. Contemporary Sociology.
20: 488-489. 1991.
Coming of Age in Buffalo: Youth and Authority in the Post-War Era
by William Graebner. Annals of the American Academy of
Political and Social Science. 514: 192-193. 1991.
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihalyi
Csikszentmihalyi. Star/Tribune (Minneapolis-St. Paul) (July
15): 10F. 1990.
City Games: The Evolution of American Urban Society and the Rise
of Sports by Steven A. Riess. Baseball History. 3: 145-147.
1990.
In the Field: Readings on the Field Research Experience edited by
Carolyn D. Smith and William Kornblum. Social Forces. 69:
336-338. 1990.
The Meeting: Gatherings in Organizations and Communities by Helen
Schwartzman. American Journal of Sociology 96: 241-242.
1990.
Children in the Field: Anthropological Experiences edited by Joan
Cassell. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography. 19: 240-242.
1990.
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The Social Fabric edited by James Short, Jr. Social Forces. 68:
320-321. 1990.
Laughing Matters: A Serious Look at Humor edited by John Durant
and Jonathan Miller. Contemporary Psychology. 35: 186. 1990.
The Anatomy of Humor: Biopsychosocial and Therapeutic
Perspectives by Robin Haig. Contemporary Psychology. 34:
406. 1989.
A Theory of Social Interaction by Jonathan H. Turner. American
Journal of Sociology. 95: 809-811. 1989.
Children and Play in the Holocaust: Games Among the Shadows by
George Eisen. Journal of Sport History. 16: 90-92. 1989.
American Classrooms: The Photographs of Catherine Wagner by Anne
Wilkes Tucker. Visual Sociology Review. 4: 18-19. 1989.
Grass Roots Commitment: Basketball and Society in Trinidad and
Tobago by Jay R. Mandle and Joan D. Mandle. Contemporary
Sociology. 18: 602. 1989.
Arguing and Thinking by Michael Billig. Contemporary Sociology.
18: 297-298. 1989.
Freak Show: Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and Profit by
Robert Bogdan. Contemporary Sociology. 17: 676-677. 1988.
The Quest for Excitement by Norbert Elias and Eric Dunning.
American Journal of Sociology. 93: 1520-1522. 1988.
The Inside Scoop by Jack Levin and Arnold Arluke. Journal of
Communication. 1988.
The Character Factory by Michael Rosenthal and The Games Ethic
and Imperialism by J.A. Mangan. Contemporary Sociology.
17: 80-82. 1988.
All Manners of Food by Stephen Mennell.
Sociology 92:503-505. 1986.
American Journal of
Advertising, the Uneasy Persuasion by Michael Schudson. The
Making of Modern Advertising by Daniel Pope. Contemporary
Sociology 14:688-690. 1985.
Imaginary Social Worlds by John Caughey.
14:257. 1985.
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Contemporary Sociology
The Democratic Muse by Edward Banfield.
23:89-91. 1985.
Transaction/Society
The Forger's Art, edited by Denis Dutton.
Communication 10(4):77-80. 1984.
Studies of Visual
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The Territorial Experience by E. Gordon Erickson. Contemporary
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Pipers at the Gates of Dawn by Jonathan Cott.
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Nicknames: Their Origins and Social Consequences by Jane Morgan,
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Social Interactional Theory of Emotions by Theodore Kemper.
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PRESENTATIONS
October 2016. “Group Cultures as Arenas of Action.” Economic
Sociology Conference. Chicago, IL
August 2016. Discussant. Session on Social Psychology and
Culture. American Sociological Association. Seattle, WA
July 2016. “Group Pleasures: Collaborative Commitments, Narrative
Gratification and the Sociology of Fun.” International
Sociological Association. Vienna, Austria
July 2016. Keynote Address. “Group Pleasures: Collaborative
Commitments, Narrative Gratification and the Sociology of Fun.”
Conference of the European Society for the Study of Symbolic
Interaction. Topola, Bulgaria.
April 2016. Discussant, “Geographies and Scales of Innovation.”
Lambert Family Conference on Inventing the New: Innovation in
Creative Enterprises. Northwestern University. Evanston, Illinois
March 2016. “Medium Rare: How MFA Artists Are Shaped by Talk and
Theory.” 3 Million Stories: Arts Graduates in a Changing Economy.
Arizona State University. Tempe, Arizona.
January 2016. “Gallery or Theory: The Strains of Embracing
Markets in Graduate Art Education.” The Art Market in a Global
Perspective. Amsterdam, Netherlands.
January 2016. Chair and Discussant, “Emerging Art Markets.” The
Art Market in a Global Perspective. Amsterdam, Netherlands.
November 2015. Discussant, “Difficult Reputations in Media and
Memory.” Society for Biblical Literature. Atlanta, GA
October 2015. Plenary Address. “Epistemic Generosity and Social
Comedy: The Demands of a Skeptical Ethnography.” Atlantic Centre
for Qualitative Research and Analysis Fall Conference
(“Qualitative Research Methods That Work”). Fredericton, New
Brunswick
August 2015. Chair, Session on Cultural Studies. American
Sociological Association. Chicago, IL
August 2015. “Signaling Perversion: The Politics of Euphemism and
Dysphemism.” Thematic Session, American Sociological Association.
Chicago, IL
64
August 2015. Discussant, Author Meets the Critics Session,
Becoming Mead by Daniel Huebner. American Sociological
Association. Chicago, IL
August 2015. Discussant, Junior Theorists Symposium. Theory
Section. American Sociological Association. Chicago, IL
February 2015. “Epistemic Generosity and Social Comedy: The
Demands of a Skeptical Ethnography.” Eastern Sociological
Society, New York, NY
February 2015. Chair, “Continuity and Discontinuity.” Eastern
Sociological Society, New York, NY
November 2014. Keynote Address. “Faith and Fellowship:
Reputational Entrepreneurs, Group Cultures, and the Jesus
Movement.” Society for Biblical Literature, San Diego, CA
May 2014. Chair, “Criticizing Capitalism in Our Times.”
International Critical Theory Conference, Evanston, IL
April 2014. “Speaking for the Object: Justifying the Creative
through the Power of Talk.” Conference on the Infrastructures of
Creativity, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL
March 2014. Gert Mueller Memorial Lecture. “The Hinge: Civil
Society, Group Culture, and the Interaction Order.” American
University, Washington, DC
August 2013. Keynote Speaker, “The Hinge: Civil Society, Group
Culture, and the Interaction Order.” International Conference on
Symbolic Interaction. Uppsala, Sweden
August 2013. Cooley-Mead Award Address. “The Hinge: Civil
Society, Group Culture, and the Interaction Order.” American
Sociological Association, New York, NY
August 2013. Organizer and Chair, Panel on Article and Book
Reviewing in Sociology, American Sociological Association, New
York, NY
August 2013. Panelist, “Writing Journal Articles and Books.” ASA
Directors of Graduate Studies Conference. New York, NY
May 2013. Keynote Speaker, “Group Cultures as Arenas of Action:
Inhabited Institutions as Social Worlds.” Organization Studies
Summer Workshop, Mykonos, Greece
65
May 2013. Panelist, "Methodologies in the Sociology of Culture."
Spring Institute, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago,
Chicago, IL
August 2012. Panelist. Session on “Art and Activism.” Society for
the Study of Social Problems. Denver, CO
July 2012. “Groups and Publics: Building on Action.”
Interdisciplinary Network for Group Research. Chicago, IL
May 2012. “Apology and Redress: Escaping the Dustbin of History
in the Post-Segregationist South.” Florian Znaniecki Memorial
Lecture. University of Illinois. Urbana, IL
March 2012. “Stranger and Stranger: Incorporation, Socialization,
Connection and Ethnographic Authority.” Causal Thinking and
Ethnographic Research Conference. University of Chicago, Chicago,
IL
October 2011. Keynote Speaker. “The Promiscuity of Facts: Barack
Obama and Uncertain Knowledge.” Conference on Uncertain
Knowledge: Practices, Media and Agents of (Non-)Affirmation in
Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American History. German
History Institute. Washington, DC
August 2011. Discussant, “Chicago Sociology: Service and
Professionalism.” Society for the Study of Social Problems. Las
Vegas, NV
December 2010. Discussant, “Restaurants.” Conference on Food:
Convergence and Divergence in Europe since 1800. Brussels,
Belgium
October 2010. “The Folklore of Small Things: Tiny Publics and
Realms of Local Knowledge.” Francis Lee Utley Memorial Lecture,
American Folklore Society. Nashville, TN
October 2010. Discussant, The King’s Mistress. Sarum Seminar.
Stanford University. Stanford, CA
August 2010. Discussant, Author Meets Critics Session (Michael
Messner, It’s All for the Kids). American Sociological
Association. Atlanta, GA
January 2010. “Honest Brokers: American Politics and the Creation
of Communist China.” Distinguished Scholars Lecture. Hong Kong
University. Hong Kong
66
November 2009. George Herbert Mead Invited Address. “The
Sociology of the Local: Action and Its Publics.” National
Communication Association. Chicago, IL
October 2009. Invited address. “Talking Beef.” Greater Midwest
Foodways Alliance. Chicago, IL
August 2009. Thematic Session. “Wispy Communities: Temporary
Gatherings and the Shaping of Identity.” American Sociological
Association. San Francisco, CA
August 2009. Discussant. Panel on “Social Psychology: Processes
Underlying Cultural Dynamics.” American Sociological Association.
San Francisco, CA
June 2009. “Accounting for Jokes: Jocular Performance in a
Critical Age.” International Society for Folk Narrative Research.
Athens, Greece
May 2009. “The Sociology of the Local: Action and its Publics.”
Erving Goffman Memorial Lecture. University of Edinburgh.
Edinburgh, Scotland
March 2009. Discussant. Panel on “New Directions in Cultural
Sociology.” Eastern Sociological Society. Baltimore, MD
January 2009. “Kitchens: The Culture of Restaurant Work.”
Culinary Historians of Chicago, Chicago, IL
September 2008. “Honest Brokers: Owen Lattimore and the Politics
of Expertise.” Allen and Polly Grimshaw Lecture, Indiana
University, Bloomington, IN
September 2008. “The Sociology of the Local: Action and Its
Publics.” Session on “Groups, Individuals and Inequality.”
International Sociological Association, Barcelona, Spain
August 2008. Chair, Workshop on Journal Reviewing, American
Sociological Association, Boston, MA
August 2008. “Performance, Folklore, and the Theory of Action,”
ASA Culture Section Conference, Boston, MA
May 2008. “Forecasting for Land, Forecasting for People?: How
Meteorologists Make Sense of their Audiences.” Conference on
Weather, Local Knowledge and Everyday Life. Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil
67
May 2008. Chair, Session on “Forecasts and Publics.” Conference
on Weather, Local Knowledge and Everyday Life. Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil
May 2008. Keynote Address and Nels Anderson Invited Lecturer.
“Lies from the Field: Ethical Issues in Organizational
Ethnography.” Qualitative Analysis Conference. Fredericton, New
Brunswick, Canada
May 2008. Panelist. “Studying the Entertainment Process: Artists,
Producers, and Consumers.” Couch-Stone Symbolic Interactionist
Symposium. Urbana-Champaign, IL
November 2007. Panelist. Symposium on Conducting High-Quality
Field Research in (and with) Organizations. Center for
Organizational Research, University of California at Irvine,
Irvine, CA
November 2007. Invited Speaker. “Meteorologists and the Culture
of Prediction.” Chicago Humanities Festival. Chicago, IL
September 2007. “Virtuous Food: Conscientious Production as Moral
Imperative.” Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery. Oxford,
England (with Michaela Desoucey)
August 2007. “Anthills and the Veldt: Seeing Culture Under the
Micro-Scope.” ASA Culture section conference. New York, New York
August 2007. Panelist, Journal editing. American Sociological
Association, New York, New York.
August 2007. Chair, Session on Food and Social Movements.
Conference of the ASA Section on Social Movements and Collective
Behavior, Hempstead, NY
August 2007. Discussant, Session on “Food and Organization.”
Academy of Management meetings. Philadelphia, PA.
March 2007. “Memory Entrepreneurs and Uses of the Past: The
Chinese War Reparations Movement Against Japan” (with Bin Xu).
Conference on Politics of Regret: Collective Memory in Northeast
Asia. Hiroshima Peace Institute. Arlington, VA
March 2007. “Does Rumor Lie?: Narrators, Trust and the Framing of
Unsecured Information.” Conference on Deception: Methods,
Motives, Contexts, and Consequences. Santa Fe Institute. Santa
Fe, NM
68
March 2007. “Joking Cultures: How Groups Develop a Humor
Identity.” Invited Address. Aspects of Humor: The Art and Science
of Laughter. American Mensa Symposium. Oak Brook, IL
August 2006. “Towards a Sociology of Localism.” Invited Address,
American Sociological Association. Montreal, Quebec, CANADA
April 2006. “Frames and Games.” International Workshop on Strange
Convergences: Performance and Performativity in Fantasy Game
Cultures, the Gothic Milieu, and Pagan Spirituality. Amsterdam,
The Netherlands
April 2006. "The Cultural Frameworks of Prejudice: Reputational
Images and the Postwar Disjuncture of Jews and Communism"
Theodore G. Standing Lecture. State University of New York at
Albany, Albany, NY
March 2006. Keynote Address. “Ethnography as an Occupation.”
Qualitative Research Conference. State University of New York at
Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY
November 2005. Invited Address. “In the Company of Men: Female
Accommodation and the Culture of Male Groups.” Joseph S. Schick
Lecutre. Indiana Folklore Society, Terre Haute, IN
October 2005. Plenary on “Why Is There No Grand Theory in
Folkloristics.” “Ain’t Theory Grand?: The Politics of Theory in
Folkloristics.” American Folklore Society. Atlanta, GA
August 2005. “The Chaining of Social Problems: Solutions and
Unintended Consequences in the Age of Betrayal.” Society for the
Study of Social Problems Presidential Address. Philadelphia, PA
August 2005. Chair, Invited Panel on “International Approaches to
Social Problems Theory and the Challenges of Unanticipated
Consequences.” Society for the Study of Social Problems.
Philadelphia, PA
August 2005. Panelist, Author Meets the Critics Session,
Francesca Polletta, Freedom is an Endless Meeting. American
Sociological Association, Philadelphia, PA
May 2005. “Does Rumor Lie: The Framing of Unsecured Information.”
International Society for Contemporary Legend Research. Athens,
GA
May 2005. Chair, “Between Life and Death.” International Society
for Contemporary Legend Research. Athens, GA
69
April 2005. “Does Rumor Lie: The Framing of Unsecured
Information.” Conference on “Deception: Methods, Motives,
Contexts and Consequences.” Santa Fe Institute. Sante Fe, NM
February 2005. Discussant, “Goffman’s Model of Context:
Deciphering Frame Analysis.” Society for the Study of Symbolic
Interaction. Couch/Stone Symposium. Boulder, CO
August 2004. Chair, “Basic Sociobehavioral Processes and
Culture.” American Sociological Association. San Francisco, CA
August 2004. Discussant, “The Role of a Scholarly/Activist
Organization in the 21st Century.” Society for the Study of Social
Problems. San Francisco, CA
May 2004, “The Role of Status Judges in Reputation Markets.”
Conference on the Marketplace of Ideas. Durham, NC
May 2004, Chair, Symposium, “Fantastic Treasures: Preserving Art
Environments.” Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art.
Chicago, IL
October 2003, Keynote Address. “Tricky Dick and Slick Willie:
Despised Presidents and Generational Imprinting.” Illinois
Sociological Association. Chicago, IL
October 2003, “Through a Glass, Darkly: Meteorological Prediction
and the Promise of the Future.” Society for Social Studies of
Science. Atlanta, GA
August 2003, “Erving Goffman and Civil Society.” American
Sociological Association. Atlanta, GA
August 2003, Chair, Children and Their Groups: Miniature Adults,
Miniature Society. American Sociological Association, Atlanta, GA
July 2003. “The When of Theory.” Workshop on the Scientific
Foundations of Qualitative Research. National Science Foundation.
Arlington, VA
July 2003. Plenary Address. “Purple Clitocybes and Odie the
Imperiled Fish: Joking Culture as Social Regulation in Group
Interaction.” International Society for Humor Studies. Chicago,
IL
70
May 2003. Keynote Address. “Celebrating Arabs and Kindly
Terrorists: Rumor and Politics of Plausibility.” Nordic Congress
of Ethnology and Folklore. Elsinor, Denmark
April 2003. Organizer, Conference on “The Social Impact of Rumor
and Legend.” Rockefeller Foundation. Bellagio, Italy
November 2002. “Naming the World: Taxonomic Discoveries Among
Professional Mycologists.” Society for Social Studies of Science.
Milwaukee, WI
October 2002. Keynote Address. “Everyday Genius: Reputation and
the Culture of Self-Taught Art.” Folk Art Society of America.
Savannah, GA
September 2002. Keynote Address. “Towards a Peopled Ethnography:
Analyzing Small Group Culture.” Ethnography for a New Century:
Practice, Predicament, Promise. Berkeley, CA
September 2002. “Towards a Peopled Ethnography: The Observer and
the Group.” Conference on Ethnographic Organizational Studies.
Swiss Sociological Association and European Sociological
Association Research Network on “Qualitative Methods” and
“Sociology of the Arts.” St. Gallen, Switzerland
August 2002. Panelist, Panel on “IRBs and Research With Children
- Protecting Children and Promoting Research.” American
Psychological Association. Chicago, IL
August 2002. Chair, Invited Panel, “Theorizing Morality:
Assessing the Contributions of Philip Rieff.” American
Sociological Association. Chicago, IL
April 2002. Panelist, Panel on “The Direction of Sociology.”
Midwest Sociological Society. Milwaukee, WI
April 2002. “Dust,” Presidential Address, Midwest Sociological
Society. Milwaukee, WI
February 2002. Discussant, Panel on “Microstudies in Culture.”
Chicago Ethnography Conference. Chicago, IL
February 2002. “Authors of the Storm: Some Things that a
Sociologist Has Learned about Meteorologists.” American
Meteorological Society, Chicago Chapter.
71
August 2001. Invited Special Session. “Tiny Publics: Small Groups
and Civil Society” (with Brooke Harrington). American
Sociological Association. Anaheim, CA
August 2001. “Present, Past and Future: Conjugating Mead’s
Perspective of Time” (with Michael Flaherty). American
Sociological Association. Anaheim, CA
August 2001. Discussant, Session on Collective Memory. American
Sociological Association. Anaheim, CA
August 2001. Chair, Session on “Organization, Interaction, and
Culture.” Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction Annual
Meeting. Anaheim, CA
April 2001. Chair, Invited Special Session. “Is American Culture
in Decay?” Midwest Sociological Society. St. Louis, MO
February 2001. Discussant, Panel on “Identity Construction,
Social Interaction, and Culture.” Chicago Ethnography Conference.
Chicago, IL
August 2000. Panelist, Invited Panel on The State of Sociological
Social Psychology at the Millennium. American Sociological
Association, Washington, DC
August 2000. Chair, Panel on the Culture of Everyday Life.
American Sociological Association. Washington, DC
August 2000. Chair and Discussant. Breakout Session on “Culture
and Art.” Millennial Issues in the Sociology of Culture. George
Mason University. Fairfax, VA
May 2000. “Economics and Identity in the ‘Self-Taught’ Art
Market.” Conference on Negotiating Boundaries, John Michael
Kohler Arts Center. Sheboygan, WI
April 2000. Discussant, Panel on “Changes in the ‘Chicago School’
of Sociology.” Midwest Sociological Society. Chicago, IL
April 2000. “Contemporary Legend and Claims of Corporate
Malfeasance: Race and the Marketplace.” Clifford Symposium on
Tort Law and Social Policy. Chicago, IL
March 2000. Discussant, Panel on “University Life.” Chicago
Ethnography Conference. Chicago, IL
72
November 1999. “Thinking About Villains: Adolf Hitler and the
Problem of ‘Sticky Reputations’.” Conference on Culture and
Cognition. New Brunswick, NJ
November 1999. “Framing Norms: The Culture of Expectation and
Explanations.” National Communication Association. Chicago, IL
October 1999. Chair, Panel on “Folk Art.” American Folklore
Society. Memphis, TN
October 1999. “Economics and Identity in the Self-Taught Art
Market.” American Folklore Society. Memphis, TN
October 1999. Panelist, “Pro-Seminar for Researchers.” Social
Theory, Politics and the Arts Conference. Nashville, TN
October 1999. “Biography Work and the Creation of Art Markets:
The Case of Southern Contemporary Folk Art.” Social Theory,
Politics and the Arts Conference. Nashville, TN
August 1999. “Ethnography as an Occupation.” American
Sociological Association. Chicago, IL (with Christopher Wellin)
August 1999. Discussant, Panel, “New Developments in
Organizational Culture.” American Sociological Association.
Chicago, IL
May 1999. Keynote Address. “Ethnography as an Occupation.”
Qualitative Analysis Conference. Fredericton, New Brunswick.
May 1999. Chair, Forum on “Qualitative Research Ethics.”
Qualitative Analysis Conference. Fredericton, New Brunswick.
May 1999. Chair, Panel, “Experiencing Relationships.” Qualitative
Analysis Conference. Fredericton, New Brunswick.
March 1999. “Mushrooming and the Culture of Expectations and
Explanations.” Conference on Norms Russell Sage Foundation. New
York, NY.
March 1999. “Art Centers: Southern Folk Art and the Splintering
of a Hegemonic Market.” Eastern Sociological Society. Boston, MA.
February 1999. Chair, Panel, “Being Self-Conscious: Positionality
and the Role of the Researcher.” Chicago Ethnography Conference.
Chicago, IL.
73
January 1999. “Ford on the Line: Business Leader Reputation and
the Multiple Audience Problem.” International Conference on
Corporate Reputation, Identity, and Competitiveness. San Juan,
Puerto Rico
August 1998. “Alternative Perspectives on Microsocial Order”
(with Karen Cook). American Sociological Association. San
Francisco, CA
August 1998. Chair, Panel, “Social Psychology: Micro Social
Orders: Interactionist Approaches.” American Sociological
Association. San Francisco, CA
March 1999. “Framing Norms: The Culture of Expectations and
Explanations.” Russell Sage Foundation. New York, NY.
February 1998. “Images of Hitler’s Reputation.” Couch/Stone
Symposium of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction.
Houston, Texas.
October 1997. Chair, Panel on “Folk Art.” American Folklore
Society, Austin, Texas
October 1997. “Art Centers: The McDonaldization of Folk Art.”
American Folklore Society, Austin, Texas
August 1997. Chair, “Interpretive Approaches to Children and
Adolescents.” American Sociological Society, Toronto, Canada.
August 1997. “Social Order through a Prism: Color as Collective
Representation.” Alpha Kappa Delta Invited Lecture, American
Sociological Society, Toronto, Canada
May 1997. "Rumor in Black and White." International Society for
Contemporary Legend Research, Boulder, CO
May 1997. Invited Speaker, "Social Order through a Prism: Color
as Collective Representation" and "John Brown's Body: Cultural
and Political Elites and the Legitimation of Terrorism." Spring
Institute, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago,
Chicago, IL
August 1996. "Scandal, Structural Strain and the Organization of
Public Attention: Fatty Arbuckle and the 'Problem' of Hollywood."
American Sociological Association. New York, NY
74
August 1996. Panelist, Thematic Session: The Changing Nature of
Childhood and Adolescence in American Society. American
Sociological Association. New York, NY
July 1996. "John Brown's Body: Cultural and Political Elites and
the Legitimation of Terrorism." Symposium on John Brown. Mont
Alto, PA.
July 1996. "Naturework and the Construction of the Wild."
Couch/Stone Symposium of the Society for the Study of Symbolic
Interactionism. Nottingham, England.
October 1995. "Identity Art." American Folklore Society.
Lafayette, LA.
October 1995. Chair, "Folk Art." American Folklore Society.
Lafayette, LA.
October 1995. Discussant, "Methodological and Ethical Issues in
Collecting Folklore From Children." American Folklore Society.
Lafayette, LA.
August 1995. "The Summer Workshop in Field Work Methods at the
University of Georgia." American Sociological Association (with
Josephine Beoku-Betts, William Finlay, Linda Grant, and Judith
Preissle)
August 1995. "My Life as Sociologist." American Sociological
Association, Honors Program (invited address). Washington, DC
August 1995. "Secrecy, Trust, and Dangerous Leisure: Generating
Group Cohesion in Voluntary Organizations." American Sociological
Association. Washington, DC (with Lori Holyfield)
May 1995. "Wittgenstein's Kitchen." Interdisciplinary Conference
on Food and Society. Boston, MA
August 1994. Chair, "Recovering Social Psychological Classics."
American Sociological Association. Los Angeles, CA
August 1994. Panelist, "Critics Meet the Editors, Sociological
Perspectives on Social Psychology." American Sociological
Association. Los Angeles, CA
July 1994. "Rings of Order and the Quadrants of Social
Psychology." International Sociological Association. Bielefeld,
Germany
75
July 1994. Chair, "Food and Cuisine." International Sociological
Association. Bielefeld, Germany
July 1994. Chair, "Theoretical and Empirical Contributions to
Collective Behavior." International Sociological Association.
Bielefeld, Germany
July 1994. Chair, "Interactionist Approaches to Social
Psychology." International Sociological Association. Bielefeld,
Germany
June 1994. Panelist, Symposium on "Political Correctness and
Sociological Practice." Sociological Practice Association.
Atlanta, GA
May 1994. "Three Principles of Serendip: The Role of Chance in
Ethnographic Research." Qualitative Research Conference. Waterloo,
Ontario, CANADA
May 1994. Chair, "Intersubjectivity and the Social Sciences:
Dilthey, Weber, Simmel, Cooley, Mead, Blumer, Goffman."
Qualitative Research Conference. Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
May 1994. Discussant, Section on The Authority of the Text.
SSSI/Stone Symposium. Champaign, IL
May 1994. "Games or Truth: Accomplishing Persuasion in High School
Debate." SSSI/Stone Symposium. Champaign, IL
April 1994. "Games or Truth: Accomplishing Persuasion in High
School Debate." The Association for the Study of Play. Atlanta, GA
February 1994. "The Social Construction of Style: Reading Veblen,
Judging Veblen." International Thorstein Veblen Conference. New
York, NY
October 1993. "Accounting for Rumor: The Creation of Credibility
in Folk Knowledge." American Folklore Society. Eugene, OR
October 1993. Participant, Forum, "Variations in Legend Theory:
Ostension, Belief and Violence." American Folklore Society.
Eugene, OR
August 1993. "Qualitative Methods in Social Psychology." American
Sociological Association. Miami Beach, FL
August 1993. "Nonpersonhood, Demonization, and Negative
Commemoration: Constructing the 'Traitorous' Reputation of
76
Benedict Arnold." American Sociological Association. Miami Beach,
FL (with Lori Ducharme)
April 1993. Chair, Social Psychology and Justice Considerations.
Southern Sociological Society. Chattanooga, TN
March 1993. "Public Narration and Group Culture: Discerning
Discourse about Social Movements." SSSI/Stone Symposium.
Knoxville, TN
March 1993. Chair, Visual Art and the Environment. SSSI/Stone
Symposium. Knoxville, TN
March 1993. "Manufacturing Tales: The Creation of Credibility in
Rumor." Journees Europeennes D'Etudes Sur La Rumeur. Paris,
France.
October 1992. Panelist, Invited Panel on The Future of Sociology
Departments. Georgia Sociological Association. Jekyll Island, GA
October 1992. Chair, Linking Teaching and Research in the
Sociology of Culture. Georgia Sociological Association. Jekyll
Island, GA
October 1992. "The Loki Effect: The Ecotypification of
Contemporary Legends in the New South Africa. II. The Black
Reality." American Folklore Society. Jacksonville, FL
October 1992. Chair, Session on Legends and the Mass Media.
American Folklore Society. Jacksonville, FL
October 1992. Participant, Forum: "The Vanishing Hitchhiker":
Archetypical Contemporary Legend or Traditional Legend in
Disguise. American Folklore Society. Jacksonville, FL
August 1992. "Ten Lies of Ethnography." American Sociological
Association. Pittsburgh, PA
August 1992. Chair, Awards Ceremony. American Sociological
Association. Pittsburgh, PA
August 1992. Discussant, Section on Men and Families. American
Sociological Association. Pittsburgh, PA
August 1992. Chair, Section on Advances in Social Problems Theory.
Society for the Study of Social Problems. Pittsburgh, PA
77
July 1992. "The Loki Effect: The Ecotypification of Contemporary
Legends in the New South Africa. I. The Afrikaaner Reality."
International Congress for Folk Narrative Research. Innsbruck,
Austria
June 1992. "Ideological Play: Group Dynamics, Emergent Traditions,
and Movement Cultures." Plenary Session, Workshop on Culture and
Social Movements. ASA Section of Collective Behavior and Social
Movements. San Diego, CA
February 1992. Chair, Session on "Implications of Play and
Leisure." SSSI/Stone Symposium. Las Vegas, NV
February 1992. "Playing With and Within the Frame" (with Lori
Ducharme). SSSI/Stone Symposium. Las Vegas, NV
February 1992. "Trusting Fellows: The Organization of Community
and Knowledge in Amateur Mycology." SSSI/Stone Symposium. Las
Vegas, NV
January 1992. "Ten Lies of Ethnography." Keynote Address.
Conference on Qualitative Research in Education. Athens, GA
October 1991. "Wittgenstein in the Kitchen." Conference on Social
Theory, Politics, and the Arts. Jacksonville, FL
August 1991. "Dirty Birds, Filthy Immigrants, and The Great
English Sparrow War." American Sociological Association.
Cincinnati, OH
August 1991. Presider and Introducer, The Distinguished Lecture in
Symbolic Interaction, given by Professor Rom Harre. Society for
the Study of Symbolic Interaction, Cincinnati, OH
August 1991. Chair, Invited Panel on "Classics of Social Problems
Theory." Society for the Study of Social Problems, Cincinnati, OH
May 1991. "The Republic of Rumors." Invited Address. Conference on
"Battleground for Market Prediction." Southern African Marketing
Research Association and Market Research Standards Authority.
Drakensberg, South Africa.
May 1991. "The Republic of Rumors." Keynote Address. Conference on
Rumors: A Communicative Hazard. Pretoria, South Africa.
May 1991. "The Dynamics and Structure of Credibility,"
International Society for Contemporary Legend Research, South
Padre Island, TX
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April 1991. Discussant, Session on "Self and Society," Southern
Sociological Society, Atlanta, GA
March 1991. "Themes in the Writing of the Second Chicago School"
(with Lori Ducharme). Conference on the Second School of Chicago
Sociology. Atlanta, GA
February 1991. Chair, Panel on Symbolic Interaction and Social
Movement. SSSI/Stone Symposium. San Francisco, CA
February 1991. "Saving Children at Century's End" (with Jay
Mechling) Conference on Youth-Serving Organizations, Gender and
Ethnicity. Center for the Advanced Study in the Behavioral
Sciences. Palo Alto, CA
October 1990. Discussant, Panel on Sociology for the 1990s:
International Trends. Georgia Sociological Association.
Chatsworth, GA
October 1990. Panelist, Forum on The Contemporary Legend: An
Assessment of Present Scholarly Activities. American Folklore
Society. Oakland, CA
August 1990. "Organizational Time." American Sociological
Association. Washington, DC
August 1990. Chair, Session on "Creating Culture." American
Sociological Association. Washington, DC
August 1990. "Toward a Seamless Sociology: Beyond the MacroMicro Link." German-American Theory Conference. College Park,
Maryland
July 1990. "Ideology in Action: A Pragmatic Approach to a
Contested Concept." International Sociological Association.
Madrid, Spain
July 1990. "Rumors in the Marketplace." International
Sociological Association. Madrid, Spain
April 1990. "A Partisan View: Sarcasm, Satire, and Irony in
Erving Goffman's Asylums." Midwest Sociological Society.
Chicago, IL
April 1990. "The Experience of Being in Nature." The Association
for the Study of Play. Las Vegas, NV
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April 1990. Panelist, Panel on the Development of Play Research
in the Past Fifteen Years. The Association for the Study of
Play. Las Vegas, NV
March 1990. Panelist, Conference on Perspectives on American
Society, Graduate Center, City University of New York. New
York, NY
March 1990. "Minor Difficulties: Changing Children for the
Twentieth-First Century." Minerva Lecture, Union College,
Schenectady, NY
January 1990. "The Experience of Being in Nature." Stone
Symposium on Symbolic Interaction. St. Petersburg, FL
October 1989. Chair, Forum on Folk Narratives and Social
Problems. American Folklore Society. Philadelphia, PA
October 1989. "A General Theory of Contemporary Legends."
American Folklore Society. Philadelphia, PA
October 1989. Chair, Panel on Aspects of Popular Culture.
Sociologists of Minnesota. Wilder Forest, MN
August 1989. "Aesthetic Constraints: The Culture of Production in
Restaurant Kitchens." American Sociological Association. San
Francisco, CA
August 1989. Chair, Session on the Sociology of Dreams. American
Sociological Association. San Francisco, CA
June 1989. "Character and Information Control in the Icelandic
Saga" (With Thorofur Thorlindsson). International Congress
for Folk Narrative Research. Budapest, Hungary.
April 1989. "Wittgenstein in the Kitchen: The Creation of
Meanings of Talk." Midwest Sociological Society. St. Louis,
MO
April 1989. Panelist, Special Section, How to Get Published: A
Panel of Editors. Midwest Sociological Society. St. Louis, MO
April 1989. "Mercantile Legends and the World Economy: Dangerous
Products From Abroad." Conference on Perspectives on the
Contemporary Legend. College Station, TX
April 1989. Chair, Panel on Contemporary Legend and Mass
Institutions. Conference on Perspectives on the Contemporary
Legend. College Station, TX
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February 1989. Chair, Panel on The Impact of Jewish Humor on
Jewish Society. Hillel Society Symposium on Jewish Humor.
University of Minnesota. Minneapolis, MN
November 1988. "Why We Don't Teach Exotic Dance in High Schools:
The Social Construction of Dance." Plenary Address, National
Dance Association, Bloomington, MN
November 1988. "Subcultural Penumbras: Servicing Social Worlds."
Keynote Address, North American Society for the Sociology of
Sport. Cincinnati, OH
October 1988. "Magic Settings: The Reflection of Middle-Class
Life in Beauty and the Beast. American Folklore Society.
Cambridge, MA
August 1988. "Macrointeractionism: Beyond the Micro-Macro
Linkage." Conference of Theory and Research on Group
Processes, Atlanta, GA
August 1988. "The Macrofoundations of Microsociology." American
Sociological Association, Atlanta, GA
April 1988. Chair, Panel on Atypical Play. The Association for
the Study of Play, Berkeley, CA
April 1988. "Subcultural Penumbras: Servicing Social Worlds." The
Association for the Study of Play, Berkeley, CA
March 1988. Chair, Panel on Personal Narratives, Folklore and
Postmodern Life, Midwest Sociological Society, Minneapolis,
MN
March 1988. "Macrointeractionism: Beyond the Micro-Macro Link."
Midwest Sociological Society, Minneapolis, MN
March 1988. "Symbolic Interaction and Kindred Theoretical
Orientations." Midwest Sociological Society, Minneapolis, MN
March 1988. Chair, Panel on Blumer's Sociological Imagination,
Midwest Sociological Society, Minneapolis, MN
March 1988. "Symbolic Interaction." Conference on Contemporary
Sociological Theory, College Park, MD
October 1987. "A Fungus Among Us: Mushrooms in American Culture."
American Folklore Society, Albuquerque, NM
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August 1987. "The Ten Commandments of Writing." Society for the
Study of Symbolic Interaction, Chicago, IL
August 1987. "Among These Dark Satanic Mills: Rumors of
Corporations, Kooks, and Cults." World Communication
Association, Norwich, England
July 1987. "Among These Dark Satanic Mills: Rumors of
Corporations, Kooks, and Cults." Seminar on Contemporary
Legends. Sheffield, England
May 1987. "Trivial Pursuits: Mushroom Hunting and the Culture of
Nature." Qualitative Research Conference, Hamilton, Ontario
May 1987. "The Macrofoundations of Microsociology." Stone
Symposium on Symbolic Interaction, Urbana, IL
April 1987. "The Proof of the Pudding: The Production of
Aesthetics in Professional Cooking," Association for the
Study of Food, Grand Rapids, MI.
March 1987. "Dying for a Laugh: Poisoning Stories of Mushroomers
and the Shaping of Identity," The Association for the Study
of Play, Montreal, Quebec.
March 1987. Chair, Session on Play and Humor, The Association for
the Study of Play, Montreal, Quebec.
October 1986. "Community and Boundary: The Personal Experience
Stories of Mushroom Collectors," American Folklore Society,
Baltimore, MD.
April 1986. "Good Children and Dirty Play," Presidential Address,
The Association for the Study of Play, Tempe, Arizona.
October 1985. "The Third Force in Folkloristics."
OH. American Folklore Society.
Cincinnati,
August 1985. Chair, Session on the Sociology of Popular Culture.
Washington, DC. American Sociological Association.
August 1985. Discussant, Session on the Sociology of the Arts.
Washington, DC. American Sociological Association.
March 1985. Panelist, Symposium on Ethnography in Play Research.
Washington, DC. The Anthropological Association for the
Study of Play.
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March 1985. "Playing With Your Food: Expressive Culture in
Restaurant Kitchens." Washington, DC. The Anthropological
Association for the Study of Play.
November 1984. "The Folklore of Children and Other Urban Groups."
St. Paul, MN, Minnesota Folklife Society.
October 1984 "Redemption Rumors: Mercantile Legends of Corporate
Beneficence," San Diego, CA. American Folklore Society.
October 1984. Chair, Forum on Psychoanalytic Folklore, San Diego,
CA. American Folklore Society.
October 1984
Panelist, Forum on Children's Folklore, San Diego,
CA. American Folklore Society.
August 1984. "Negotiated Order and Organizational Culture," San
Antonio, TX. American Sociological Association.
August 1984. Discussant, Session on Child Development and
Symbolic Interaction, San Antonio, TX. Society for the Study
of Symbolic Interaction.
June 1984. "Bringing Humor Back Alive: Methodological Issues in
Qualitative Research on Humor," Tel Aviv, Israel.
International Conference on Humor and Laughter.
June 1984. "Social Change and Folklore," Bergen, Norway.
International Congress on Folk Narrative Research.
June 1984. "The Two Faces of Corporate Culture," Lund, Sweden.
International Conference on Organizational Symbolism.
April 1984. Chair, Session on The Illusion of the Private Life,
St. Paul, MN. Conference on Orwell's 1984.
March 1984. "Negotiated Order and Organizational Culture,"
DeKalb, IL. Stone Symposium on Symbolic Interaction.
October 1983. "Is Alan Dundes Ever Right?: Evaluating
Psychoanalytic Folklore," Nashville, TN. American Folklore
Society.
October 1983. Chair, Session on Folklore Theory, Nashville, TN.
American Folklore Society.
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September 1983. "Learning to Cook: Trade Schools as Socializers
of Aesthetics," Detroit, MI. American Sociological
Association.
September 1983. Chair, Session on Popular Culture, Detroit, MI.
American Sociological Association.
September 1983. Chair, Invited Symposium on Symbolic
Interactionism and Race Relations, Detroit, MI.
the Study of Symbolic Interaction.
Society for
May 1983. "The Sociology of Role-Playing," Minneapolis, MN.
Conference on Simulation and Gaming in Ancient Studies.
April 1983. Chair, Invited Session on Rebuilding Sociology on a
Smaller Scale, Kansas City, MO. Midwest Sociological Society.
March 1983. "Letting Off Steam? Redefining the Work Environment,"
Los Angeles, CA. Conference on Folklore and Organizational
Symbolism.
February 1983
"Seasons, Records, and Miraculous Events: The
Historical Focus in Team Sports." Baton Rouge, LA. The
Anthropological Association for the Study of Play.
February 1983. "Child and Adult Fantasies," Baton Rouge, LA. The
Anthropological Association for the Study of Play.
October 1982. "Actor and Audience," St. Paul, MN.
Theory Conference.
Art and Social
October 1982. "Joseph Jacobs: Sociological Folklorist,"
Minneapolis, MN. American Folklore Society.
September 1982. Participant, Didactic Seminar on Fieldwork
Methods. San Francisco, CA, American Sociological
Association.
September 1982. "Humorous Interaction and the Construction of
Meaning," San Francisco, CA. American Sociological
Association.
September 1982. "Cheating History: Rhetorics of Art Forgery."
San Francisco, CA. Society for the Study of Symbolic
Interaction.
August 1982. "Adolescent Gossip as Social Interaction," Mexico
City. International Sociological Association.
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March 1982. "Artistic Organizations and Symbolic Meaning,"
Dayton, OH. Stone Symposium on Symbolic Interaction.
March 1982. "Socialization Into Cooking: Conflicting
Occupational Rhetorics," New York, NY. American Educational
Research Association.
November 1981. "Small Group Research in Sports: Symbolic
Interaction," Fort Worth, TX. North American Society for
Sport Sociology.
November 1981. Discussant, Gregory Stone Memorial Lecture,
presented by Brian Sutton-Smith, Fort Worth, TX. North
American Society for Sport Sociology.
October 1981. "The Goliath Effect: Corporate Size and Urban
Legends," San Antonio, TX. American Folklore Society.
August 1981. Discussant, Session on Sociology of Art.
Ontario. American Sociological Association.
Toronto,
April 1981. "Folklore and Sociology" (Invited address in thematic
session on Cross-Disciplinary Approaches to Sociology).
Minneapolis, MN. Midwest Sociological Society.
April 1981. Chair, Session on Conducting Research with Children.
Minneapolis, MN, Midwest Sociological Society.
October 1980. "The Kentucky Fried Rat: Urban Legends and Modern
Society." Pittsburgh, PA. American Folklore Society.
October 1980. Chair, Session on Exploring Folklore Classics.
Pittsburgh, PA, American Folklore Society.
August 1980. "Oscillating Frames: Fantasy Games and 'Real'
Reality," New York, NY, American Sociological Association
(Invited session).
August 1980. (With Sherryl Kleinman) "Network as Symbolic
Interaction,"
New York, NY, American Sociological
Association.
April 1980. "Children and Popular Culture: An Ethnographic
Analysis," Detroit, MI, Popular Culture Association.
April 1980. "Fantasy Role-Play Gaming as a Social World," Ann
Arbor,MI, The Anthropological Association for the Study of
Play.
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December 1979. Panelist, Dual-Career Families.
Minnesota Council on Family Relations.
St. Paul, MN,
October 1979. Chair and Presenter, Workshop on Collecting
Folklore from Children, Los Angeles, CA, American Folklore
Society.
October 1979. "Folklore Traditions of Small Groups: The Case of
the Family of Infinite Soul," Los Angeles, CA, American
Folklore Society.
August 1979. Chair, Session on Popular Culture/Mass Society,
Boston,MA, American Sociological Association.
August 1979. "Humor and the Social Construction of Meaning:
Making Sense in a Jocular Vein," Los Angeles, CA, Second
International Conference on Humor and Laughter.
August 1979. "Dynamics of Diffusion of Sexual and Ethnic Humor,"
Los Angeles, CA, Second International Conference on Humor and
Laughter.
August 1979. "The Science of Folklore and the Problem of
Diffusion," Edinburgh, Scotland, International Congress on
Folk Narrative Research.
April 1979. (With Deborah Shatin) "Crimes Against Art: Symbolic
Attacks on Civilization and the State," Wayne, NJ, Conference
on the Sociology of Art.
November 1978. "Impression Management and Preadolescent
Behavior," Champaign, IL, Society for Research on Child
Development.
October 1978. Chair, Panel on Children's Folklore, Salt Lake
City, UT, American Folklore Society.
October 1978. "The Dissemination of Preadolescent Lore: An
Empirical Investigation of the Multi-Conduit Hypothesis of
Folklore Transmission," Salt Lake City, UT, American Folklore
Society.
September 1978. "Legendary Creatures and Small Group Culture:
Medieval Lore in a Contemporary Role-Play Game," Omaha, NB.
Creatures of Legendary Symposium.
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September 1978. Chair, Invited Panel on the Frontiers of Research
in Symbolic Interaction, San Francisco, CA, Society for the
Study of Symbolic Interaction.
April 1978. "Moral Order of Little League Baseball," Invited
paper, CIC Conference on the Sociology of Sport, Minneapolis,
MN.
April 1978. "The Pinkston Settlement: An Historical and Social
Psychological Investigation of the Contact Hypothesis,"
Omaha, NB, Midwest Sociological Society.
April 1978. Organizer, Session on "Symbolic Interaction," Omaha,
NB, Midwest Sociological Society.
March 1978. "Subcultures, interlocking group cultures, and
mechanisms of Identification" (with Sherryl Kleinman),
Columbia, SC, Fifth Annual Conference on Symbolic
Interaction.
November 1977. "Folklore Diffusion Through Interactive Social
Networks," Detroit, MI, American Folklore Society.
November 1977. Chair, Panel on "Composition and Performance,"
Detroit, MI, American Folklore Society.
October 1977. Chair, Semi-Annual Meeting, Rochester, MN,
Minnesota Folklore Society.
September 1977. "The Sociology of Humor," Roundtable, Chicago,
IL, American Sociological Association.
September 1977. "Little League Baseball and Preadolescent Youth
Culture," Chicago, IL, Society for the Study of Social
Problems.
May 1977. "Folklore and Modernization: The Case of the Urban
Belief Legend," St. Paul, MN, Minnesota Folklife Society.
April 1977. "The Promise and Problems of Participation
Observation with Children," Minneapolis, MN, Midwest
Sociological Society.
September 1976. "The Effect of a Salient Newcomer on a Small
Group: A Force Field Analysis," Washington, DC, American
Psychological Association.
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July 1976. "Humor in Situ: The Humour Culture of Small Groups,"
Cardiff, Wales, International Conference on Laughter and
Humour.
April 1976. Discussant for panel on "A Psychological Approach to
American Culture," Chicago, IL, Popular Culture Association.
August 1975. "Social Psychology, Naive Psychology, Folklore: All
Together Now?" Chicago, IL, American Psychological
Association.
April 1975. "The Actor-Observer Effect: The Effect of Modeling
and Self-presentation," New York, NY, Eastern Psychological
Association.
March 1975. "Popular Culture as Humor: The Psychology of Cultural
Evaluation," St. Louis, MO, Popular Culture Association.
May 1974. "The Psychology of Honeymoon Advertising: The First
Resort," Milwaukee, WI, Popular Culture Association.
May 1974. Chair, Panel on "Psychology and Popular Culture,"
Milwaukee, WI, Popular Culture Association.
November 1973. "The General Inquirer System as an Aid to the
Cross-Cultural Interpretation of Folktales," Nashville, TN,
American Folklore Society.
April 1973. "An Experimental Approach to Everyday Behavior: Door
Opening Rules," Indianapolis, IN, Popular Culture
Association.
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COMMUNITY SERVICE
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Joan of Arc Catholic Church (November 1976)
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Minneapolis, MN (July 1979)
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(February 1984)
Guest Speaker, Minnesota Council for the Gifted and Talented,
Plymouth, MN (April 1988)
Member, State of Minnesota Task Force on Occupancy Standards for
Family and Group Day Care Homes (November-December 1988)
Keynote Speaker, Minnesota Mycological Society Banquet (January
1989)
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1990)
Coach, Woodward Academy, North Campus, Chess Club (January 1991 May 1992)
Featured Reader, Atlanta Writing Resources Center, Atlanta, GA
(April 1991)
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1991 - December 1991)
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(Atlanta) (February 1992 - June 1993)
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Art (Atlanta) (April 1992 - )
Moderator, Panel on "Critics in the Spotlight," Alliance Theater
(Atlanta) (April 1992)
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Member, Mayor's Fellowships in the Arts Grants Advisory Panel
(Atlanta) (May - June 1993)
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(Atlanta) (June 1993 - June 1994, June 1995 - June 1997)
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(Atlanta) (June 1993 - June 1994)
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Museum of Art (Atlanta) (December 1993 - August 1994)
Panelist, "Bridging the Gap: Public Arts Funding and the Right to
Censorship." Arts Exchange (Atlanta) (January 1994)
Special Guest, "Investing in People: U.S.-South Africa Conference
on Democracy and Economic Development," Atlanta (June 1994)
Panelist, "The Zen of Collecting: A Tour of the Thrift Store
Paintings." Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA (December
1995)
Chair and Panelist, "Obsession: The Collector's Urge." Nexus
Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA (November 1996)
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Intuitive Art (1998 - 1999, 2005-2009)
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Member, Board of Directors, Intuit: Center for Self-Taught and
Intuitive Art (1999-2009)
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