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Seeing Crime And Punishment Through A Sociological Lens: Constributions, Practices, And The Future, Calvin Morrill, John Hagan, Bernard E. Harcourt, Tracey Meares
Seeing Crime And Punishment Through A Sociological Lens: Constributions, Practices, And The Future, Calvin Morrill, John Hagan, Bernard E. Harcourt, Tracey Meares
Calvin Morrill
No abstract provided.
Legal Mobilization In Schools: The Paradox Of Rights And Race Among Youth, Calvin Morrill, Lauren B. Edelman, Karolyn Tyson, Richard Arum
Legal Mobilization In Schools: The Paradox Of Rights And Race Among Youth, Calvin Morrill, Lauren B. Edelman, Karolyn Tyson, Richard Arum
Calvin Morrill
In this article, we analyze ethnoracial patterns in youth perceptions and responses to rights violations and advance a new model oflegal mobilization that includes formal, quasi-, and extralegal action. Slightly more than half of the 5,461 students in our sample reported past rights violations involving discrimination, harassment, freedom of expression/assembly, and due process violations in disciplinary procedures. Students, regardless of race, are more likely to take extralegal than formal legal actions in response to perceived rights violations. Self-identified African American and Latina/a students are significantly more likely than white and Asian American students to perceive rights violations and are more …
Institutional Change Through Interstitial Emergence: The Growth Of Alternative Dispute Resolution In U.S. Law, 1970-2000, Calvin Morrill
Institutional Change Through Interstitial Emergence: The Growth Of Alternative Dispute Resolution In U.S. Law, 1970-2000, Calvin Morrill
Calvin Morrill
No abstract provided.
Organizational Conflict Management As Disputing Process: The Problem Of Social Escalation, Calvin Morrill, Cheryl King Thomas
Organizational Conflict Management As Disputing Process: The Problem Of Social Escalation, Calvin Morrill, Cheryl King Thomas
Calvin Morrill
In this article, organizational conflict management is conceived as a "disputing process" involving the social escalation from grievance stage to conflict and dispute stages. The Disputing Process Instrument (DPI) was designed us a way to study these phenomena quantitatively. Seven behuviors are represented in the instrument: conciliatory negutiution, third-party mobilization, overt retaliation, covert retaliation, toleration, avoidance, and discipline. The DPI demonstrated high reliability, content, discriminant, and construct validity relative to wrlier conflict instruments. An empirical study of sociul esculution was conducted among peers with different strengths of informal relations in an electronicsfinn. Thestudy results rewaled that interpersonal problems among weakly …
Dmitri Shalin Interview With Calvin Morrill About Erving Goffman Entitled "Turns Out Goffman Had Been Observing Students The Whole Time And Used The Notes He Had Taken While Observing Their Behavior", Calvin Morrill
Calvin Morrill
This interview with Calvin Morrill, Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine, was recorded on August 3, 2008, during the ASA meeting in Boston. A group of sociologists assembled in the hallway was reminiscing about Goffman when Calvin Morrill volunteered this story and agreed to have it recorded. After Dmitri Shalin transcribed the interview, Dr. Morrill corrected the transcript and gave his approval for posting the present version in the Erving Goffman Archives.. Breaks in the conversation flow are indicated by ellipses. Supplementary information appears in square brackets. Undecipherable words and unclear passages are identified in the text …
Power Plays: How Social Movements And Collective Action Create New Organizational Forms, Hayagreeva Rao, Calvin Morrill, Mayer N. Zald
Power Plays: How Social Movements And Collective Action Create New Organizational Forms, Hayagreeva Rao, Calvin Morrill, Mayer N. Zald
Calvin Morrill
Organizational theory emphasizes how new organizational forms are produced by technological innovation but has glossed over the role of cultural innovation. This chapter suggests that social movements are important sources of cultural innovation and identifies the scope conditions under which social movements create new organizational forms. By doing so, it lends substance to the notion of institutional entrepreneurship and enlarges the theoretical reach of neo-institutionalism.
Covert Political Conflict In Organizations: Challenges From Below, Calvin Morrill, Mayer N. Zald, Hayagreeva Rao
Covert Political Conflict In Organizations: Challenges From Below, Calvin Morrill, Mayer N. Zald, Hayagreeva Rao
Calvin Morrill
This review considers a class of political activity that has largely been ignored by researchers extending social movement theory into organizations: covert political conflict. Although much of the literature we discuss focuses on contemporary corporations where the bulk of research on covert conflict has occurred, we also explore studies of covert conflict in a range of historical and organizational contexts that fall outside the contemporary work world. As we define it, covert political conflict encompasses four interrelated elements: contestation of institutionalized power and authority, perceptions of collective injury, social occlusion, and officially forbidden forms of dissent. Beyond these elements, covert …
The Customs Of Conflict Management Among Corporate Executives, Calvin Morrill
The Customs Of Conflict Management Among Corporate Executives, Calvin Morrill
Calvin Morrill
This article examines the customs of conflict management among executives at the tops of two large business organizations. The argument advanced here derives ftom the notion that conflict management varies with the informal norms that govern interpersonal networks. Ethnographic, social network, and perceptual data collected in the present investigation suggest that where executives experienceftagmented and atomized interpersonal networks, they are more likely to manage conflict without conftontation than in networks of strongly and densely connected individuals. The results of this study carry implications for the relationship between attitudes and behaviors among corporate managers regarding conflict management, for the normative bases …
Conflict Management, Honor, And Organizational Change, Calvin Morrill
Conflict Management, Honor, And Organizational Change, Calvin Morrill
Calvin Morrill
How do top managers of a large American corporation manage conflict among themselves? This article investigates intracorporate executive conflict management in a Fortune 500 manufacturer via ethnographic methods. It focuses on the links between executive conflict management and widespread innovations in (1) top managerial formal structure and (2) hostile takeovers and their symbolic imagery. More specifically, the article focuses on how these innovations disrupted the traditional social structure and "rules of the game" among top managers. The resulting new "culture of honor" suggests several implications for the study of managerial uncertainty, inertia, accountability, and control in contemporary American corporations.
Telling Tales In School: Youth Culture And Conflict Narratives, Calvin Morrill, Madelaine Adelman, Michael Musheno, Cindy Bejarano
Telling Tales In School: Youth Culture And Conflict Narratives, Calvin Morrill, Madelaine Adelman, Michael Musheno, Cindy Bejarano
Calvin Morrill
This study departs from mainstream criminology to approach youth conflict and violence from a youth-centered perspective drawn from cultural studies of young people and sociolegal research. To access youth orientations, we analyze experiential stories of peer conflict written by students at a multiethnic, low-income high school situated in an urban core of the western United States. We argue that youth narratives of conflict offer glimpses into how young people make sense of conflict in their everyday lives, as well as insights as to how the images and decisional bases embedded in their storytelling connect to adult-centered discourses found in popular …
Institutional Isomorphism And Informal Social Control: Evidence Form A Community Mediation Center, Calvin Morrill, Cindy Mckee
Institutional Isomorphism And Informal Social Control: Evidence Form A Community Mediation Center, Calvin Morrill, Cindy Mckee
Calvin Morrill
Widespread satisfaction among users of community mediation, but low voluntary usage, provides a context within which institutional isomorphism between state and informal social control organizations can be empirically investigated. Data drawn from a triangulated ethnography of a single community mediation center suggest that community mediation centers come to be isomorphic with more established governmental social control agencies in order to manage resource uncertainties and assure organizational survival. These findings are relevant to an understanding of linkages between community mediation centers and the state, the struggle for autonomy from the state by mediation practitioners, institutional constraints on community mediation centers generating …
Voice And Context In Simulated Everyday Legal Discourse: The Influence Of Sex Differences And Social Ties, Calvin Morrill, Tyler Harrison, Michelle Johnson
Voice And Context In Simulated Everyday Legal Discourse: The Influence Of Sex Differences And Social Ties, Calvin Morrill, Tyler Harrison, Michelle Johnson
Calvin Morrill
Everyday legal discount refers to the spoken language with which ordinary people constitute the law-in-action. In this article, we experimentally investigate the social distribution of rule-and relationally-oriented discourse found by ethnographers in small-claims court settings. We examine the influences of sex differences and social ties between disputants on these types of discourse in a mock small-claims setting using a quantitative content coding scheme. We do not find empirical support for sex differences in the production of simulated everyday legal discourse. The relational context of a dispute (operationalized as the strength of social ties between disputants) has significant effects on the …
Seeing Crime And Punishment Through A Sociological Lens: Contributions, Practices, And The Future, Tracey L. Meares, Calvin Morrill, John Hagan, Bernard E. Harcourt
Seeing Crime And Punishment Through A Sociological Lens: Contributions, Practices, And The Future, Tracey L. Meares, Calvin Morrill, John Hagan, Bernard E. Harcourt
Calvin Morrill
There is a rich intellectual history to the sociological study of crime and punishment that encompasses multiple and interrelated traditions. Some of these traditions trace their roots to the European social theorists of the nineteenth century, particularly Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, and Karl Marx. Although only Durkheim and Weber systematically studied law (and only Durkheim actually studied punishment), all three social theorists facilitated the development of sociological research and theory on crime and punishment. Durkheim's Suicide: A Study in Sociology, for example, investigated the relationship between social integration and suicide rates, which, in turn, provided a model of inquiry for …
The Power Of Language In Adjudication And Mediation: Institutional Contexts As Predictors Of Social Evaluation, Calvin Morrill, Peter C. Facciola
The Power Of Language In Adjudication And Mediation: Institutional Contexts As Predictors Of Social Evaluation, Calvin Morrill, Peter C. Facciola
Calvin Morrill
Previous research has charged that the language used by witnesses & litigants influences evaluations of credibility & blame made by legal decisionmakers. To determine the extent of this influence at different levels within the dispute resolution process, 3 experiments measured how speech style (powerful, powerless) & discourse (rule, relational) impacts sitting superior court judges, practicing mediators, & undergraduates at the U of Arizona (N = 42, 33, & 71, respectively). It was determined that students' & judges' evaluations are influenced by speech style while mediators are swayed only by particular aspects of speech style & discourse. Why these groups differed …
Seeing Crime And Punishment Through A Sociological Lens: Constributions, Practices, And The Future, Calvin Morrill, John Hagan, Bernard E. Harcourt, Tracey Meares
Seeing Crime And Punishment Through A Sociological Lens: Constributions, Practices, And The Future, Calvin Morrill, John Hagan, Bernard E. Harcourt, Tracey Meares
Calvin Morrill
No abstract provided.