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Denzin Page
Notes on Articles
'The Research Act'
(a useful argument about the methods of
symbolic interactionism)
'Analytic
Autoethnography,
or Deja-Vu all Over Again' (a spiky
intervention in the Ellis/Bochner vs Anderson
dispute about the value of autoethnography)
'A
Critical Performance Pedagogy That Matters' (substantial
claims for radical performances as cultural
politics)
'More Rare Air:
Michael Jordan on Michael Jordan' (Jordan
as the ideal representation of global
capital's human nature -- very much into
dominant ideology)
'Harold and Agnes: a
Feminist Narrative Undoing' (very good
detailed critique of Garfinkel's study and method.
Highly applicable to his own work!)
'Symbolic
Interactionism and Ethnomethodology: A
Proposed Synthesis'. ( OK summary on both
although domesticates ethno a bit. Open about
individuals and social dimensions, not
political)
'The Secret Downing
Street Memo and the Politics of Truth: A
Performance Text'. (tedious
virtue-signalling and imaginary politics attacking
SBR and Bush in a heavily didactic clunking
'performance text')
'Grounded
and Indigenous Theories and the Politics of
Pragmatism' (repetitive and naive,
verging on noble savagery -- see what you think)
'The Seventh Moment:
Qualitative Enquiry and the Practices of a More
Radical Consumer Research'. (Outlines the
'moments' . Same old claims and
contradictions,linked to some cultural studies
heroes (including Willis) but with none of the
problems with hegemony or audiences etc. No
audience research. Generalisations. Soft
quantification).'
(with Keller)
'Frame Analysis Reconsidered' (Goffman as an
abstract structuralist ignoring concrete reality.
Also -- Goffman's reply)
'Much Ado About
Goffman' (Goffman's legacy
reassessed as apologetic and conservative)
'Postmodern Social Theory'
(a good early piece where pomo is used to
rebuke positivism -- but the implications for his
utopian projects and paralogic efforts are not
developed)
'Ethics
in the Academy' (Denzin reviews an expose
of the collaborations between Gerth and Mills,
and discovers impression management and real
micropolitics)
'Whose Cornerville is it
anyway?' (Strong critique of the famous
study. Mixes poststructuralist and marxist
critiques though, as in early views of Foucault)
'Katrina and the
Collapse of Civil Society in New Orleans' (Short
virtue-signalling piece based on press reports.
Utopian reconstruction proposals)
Reading Cultural
texts (a spat with W Griswold about attempts
to analyse meanings in texts using Derrida -- and
Griswold's reply)
Positivism in
Sociology (a spat with J Huber on positivism
and her reply on politics of relativism -- she
goes for it!)
Future of Sociology
(spat with Collins and his reply -- classic
sociological theory, incl Goffmanian bits,
now redundant. Collins criticizes D's repetition
of 60s slogans)
Dispute with
Hammersley (astoundingly infantile 'play'
replying to Hammersley 2008
On
interpretive ethnography ( long lists of
shouldy things)
Notes on Books
The
Qualitative Manifesto (horribly
repetitive, badly organized, assertive and
paratactic. Revealing details of teaching
and doing ethics. Increasingly tactical and
university micropolitical)
My own discussions
Denzin, Goffman and
the modern university (tries out
dramaturgy and subjective creativity after a
review of the Denzin/Goffman debate)
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