Medication and the Self, with Jennifer Davis-Berman

An analysis of interviews of people taking psychiatric medication and how this experience impacts their self.   This paper is currently under review at Studies in Symbolic Interaction

 “Psychiatric Medication:  Use, Attitudes and Effect in Social Work Students and Clinicians”   with Jennifer Davis-       Berman.  Social Work in Mental Health 1, 2:31-42.  A descriptive analysis of psychiatric medication use in two samples.

The Sociology of Difference 

An analysis of definitions of deviance in sociology and the failure of theorists and researchers to consider the integration and acceptance of difference in the social response to deviance.   This manuscript is being prepared for submission to the Journal Deviant Behavior.

The Promise of Pragmatism: Towards a Sociology of Difference, with Stanley L. Saxton.  Studies in Symbolic Interaction, 2000

This paper uses the study of deviance as a means to reconsider the connection between pragmatism and symbolic interactionism. We first describe the promise of pragmatism. We then discuss what happened to this promise when pragmatism was translated for purposes of sociology. We then turn to applying this analysis to the study of deviance and in so doing suggest how the study of deviance would be altered if the full promise of pragmatism would have been used for a pragmatic would be altered if the full promise of pragmatism would have been used for a pragmatic sociology. We close with suggestions for a sociology of difference which is true to the full implications of a pragmatic sociology.  

Consistency Between Attitudes and Behavior written with Fred P. Pestello,   Sociological Inquiry, Spring, 2000

This paper examines the issue of consistency in the study of attitudes and behavior. It argues that consistency is a socially constructed phenomenon.
 

Just What Happens When You Invite an Art Historian into the Senior Seminar, with Roger Crum.  This paper is a description and reflection on our experiences in our collaboratively taught Senior Seminar in Sociology.