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Festschrift in Honor of David R. Maines

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Studies in Symbolic Interaction

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Studies in Symbolic Interaction Volume 57

Festschrift in Honor of David R. Maines

Edited by

Shing-Ling S. Chen

University of Northern Iowa, USA

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

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About the Editor

Shing-Ling S. Chen is a Professor of Mass Communication in the Department of Communication and Media at the University of Northern Iowa. Trained by Carl J. Couch as a symbolic interactionist, she studies information technologies and social orders, as well as communication processes and social relationships.

About the Contributors

David Aveline is of Anglo-Quebecois origins. He was born in England and grew up in Montreal, Quebec. After numerous jobs from underground miner to hotel clerk to shoe salesperson, he went to school late in life and earned a PhD in Sociology at Indiana University (Bloomington) in 1999. He is now an Associate Professor at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Alberta teaching Human Sexualities, the Sociology of the Body, and the Sociology of Religion. His research areas are symbolic interactionism, qualitative research, interviewing, and the sociology of the paranormal. His current research project is upon people believing that they have encountered ghosts.

David W. Britt is the Director of Clinical Research at Fetal Medicine Foundation of America. He received his PhD in Sociology from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He was Chair of Sociology Department at Wayne State University. Building on his training in sociology, he is a prevention theorist and researcher, he researches how patients make decisions in complex situations, and how preventive interventions may be designed, implemented, and monitored so as to increase the effectiveness of intervention processes.

Norman K. Denzin is a Distinguished Emeritus Research Professor of Communications, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author, coauthor, or coeditor of over 50 books and 200 professional articles and chapters, has founded or led several learned organizations and has founded or served as editor for five scholarly journals.

Rylan Fitzpatrick is a writer and artist, and a sociology student at Minnesota State University Moorhead.

Susan Haworth-Hoeppner received her doctorate in Sociology from Wayne State University in 1996. Her areas of specialization are gender studies, social psychology, and disordered eating. She taught at several colleges and universities throughout her career, but spent the last 20 years at Aquinas College (in Grand Rapids, MI) where she taught in the Sociology Department and was also Director of the Jane Hibbard Idema Women's Studies Center. Dr Haworth-Hoeppner is the author of Family, Culture, and Self in the Development of Eating Disorders, published by Routledge in 2017, and is an Emerita Professor of Sociology.

Elaine Bass Jenks, PhD, is a Professor of Communication and Media at West Chester University in Pennsylvania. Her area of study is the interpersonal communication among individuals who are blind, sighted, and visually impaired with a particular interest in elite blind athletes who play the sport of goalball at the Paralympic level.

Michael A. Katovich is a Professor at Texas Christian University. His work is primarily influenced by the new Iowa School in symbolic interaction. His contributions also include three articles co-authored with David Maines.

Kenneth H. Kolb is a Professor of Sociology at Furman University. He received his PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of two books, Retail Inequality: Reframing the Food Desert Debate (2022) and Moral Wages: The Emotional Dilemmas of Victim Advocacy and Counseling (2014), both published by the University of California Press. He is currently researching the work of river pilots on the Mississippi River and other occupations connected to the Port of New Orleans.

Albert J. Meehan is a Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan where he served as the Department Chair from 2006 to 2015. His primary research focus is on police practices using ethnomethodology and conversation analysis (EMCA). He has published research on police record-keeping practices, policing the mentally ill, policing juveniles, community policing, the use and impact of information technologies in law enforcement and racial profiling. Currently he is examining police–citizen interaction in traffic and street stops and deadly force encounters using body-worn and in car camera data and how video evidence is used in the trials of officer-involved shootings.

Joel O. Powell recently completed two terms on the Minnesota Board of Peace Officer Standards and Training. He is currently the Professional Peace Officer Education Coordinator at Minnesota State University Moorhead.

William K. Rawlins is a Stocker Professor Emeritus of Interpersonal Communication at Ohio University. His publications examine the unique challenges and dialectical tensions of communicating in friendships across life, how they accomplish well-being for individuals and communities, and the role of dialogue and narrative in co-authoring identities with other persons. Bill also embodies musical performances to address the esthetics of interpersonal and relational communication, music as communication, and the musicality of social life and interpretive inquiry.

Rebecca Maines Scheer is the sister of the late David Maines. She graduated from Ball State University with a BA in English, and Indiana University with a Master's in Library Science. She taught English for 35 years at Marion High School, the school from which she and David both graduated. In addition to her teaching duties, she was the advisor for Reflections, the school literary magazine, and also sponsored an animal club called PAWS. She is currently retired but keeps quite busy as a life member and Secretary of the Marion NAACP and a board member of SOS, Save Our Stories, which is a local organization that works with Indiana Landmarks in dedication to historical preservation within the community.

Jim Thomas is a Professor emeritus at Northern Illinois University, whose research was primarily ethnographic with an occasional bit quantitative analysis or multi-methods. His data-based publications were heavily focused in the area of criminal justice, especially prisons. He taught sociological theory and qualitative methods for 30 years, and in the final decade prior to semi-retirement in 2007 was involved in major correctional organizations in which he served as board member or on numerous committees of the Correctional Accreditation Managers Association, American Correctional Association, and Illinois Correctional Association. He met David Maines in the late 1970s.

Jeffery T. Ulmer is a Professor of Sociology and Criminology at Penn State University, and serves as Director of the Criminal Justice Research Center. He received his PhD in sociology in 1993 from Penn State University. While in graduate school at Penn State, Ulmer took courses from David Maines, served as Maines' editorial assistant while he edited Symbolic Interaction, and benefitted even more Maines' informal mentorship. Ulmer's research has focused on state and federal courts and disparities in criminal sentencing, and in capital murder cases. He has also published impactful research on criminological theory and symbolic interactionism, religion and crime, and race, disadvantage, and violence rates. He was named a Fellow of the American Society of Criminology in 2021, and received the 2001 Distinguished New Scholar Award and the 2012 Distinguished Scholar Award from the American Society of Criminology's Division on Corrections and Sentencing. He and coauthors won the American Society of Criminology's 2012 Outstanding Article Award and the ASC's 2006 Hindelang Award for Confessions of a Dying Thief: Understanding Criminal Careers and Illegal Enterprise (2005, Transaction).

Volume Editor Preface

David R. Maines (1940–2021), one of the most important sociological scholars in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, constructed a vast area of research to advance the field of symbolic interactionism during his career. As a premier symbolic interactionist, Maines provided not only abundant theoretical contributions, but also numerous empirical insights as he examined a wide range of topics. Maines left behind a significant body of work to guide generations of symbolic interactionists in their research endeavors. This volume documents some of Maines's most celebrated areas of scholarship – social structure, narrative sociology, social interaction, dialectic perspective, temporality, and mesostructure.

The importance of a person can be measured by the void left behind by his passing, experienced by the people around him. This volume also includes stories by individuals, associated with Maines via kinship, friendship, or professional relationship. Maines cultivated deep relationships with people around him, as all the stories evolve around a narrative structure that characterizes Maines as a loving sibling, a helpful colleague, a caring mentor, and a wonderful friend. Maines's passing left a major vacuum permanently for people around him.

To reflect Maines's interest in continuously advancing the field of symbolic interactionism with cutting edge research, two new empirical studies are included in this volume as well.

Shing-Ling S. Chen