<scp>J</scp>APANESE <scp>A</scp>MERICAN WARTIME EXPERIENCE, <scp>T</scp>AMOTSU <scp>S</scp>HIBUTANI AND METHODOLOGICAL INNOVATION, 1942–1978

Inouye, Karen M.

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“…Therefore, she became a participant observer by joining the games alongside the gamers while recognizing her role both as a researcher and as a participant in all situations (Berg ). This membership helped her collect information about the inner workings of the game and gamer interactions as an “insider.” Membership also gave her better insight into cultural understandings of the gamers through their subjective game play (Inouye ; Prus ; Tan ; Van Maanen ).…”

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Construction and Management of Stigma Based on a Voluntary‐Achieved Status

Ritter

Ueno

2017

Symbolic Interaction

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Previous research on stigma has focused on ascribed personal attributes that are either impossible or difficult to change. Less is known, however, about how people voluntarily join stigmatized groups and manage stigma based on an achieved status. This paper sought to answer this question by focusing on stigma management strategies used by a Humans vs. Zombies (HvZ) gaming organization in a southeastern university. Data were collected through four months of fieldwork and twelve interviews with HvZ gamers and moderators. Results showed that gamers' decision to join the group reflected their effort to strengthen a sense of moral worth. Furthermore, in order to keep receiving this benefit and minimize potential costs, they used three strategies to manage their stigma based on the voluntary, achieved status: (1) by "othering" stereotypical members; (2) by challenging the stereotype; and (3) by reappropriating the stigma. As they employed these strategies, gamers drew on social discourses available in the organizational and life course context.Harris and Mark were relaxing on one of the benches outside of Range Building, the largest classroom building in the most populated area of central campus prior to a weekly skirmish. One of Mark's classmates saw him and stopped to chat when several gamers arrived. The previously friendly conversation between Mark and his classmate quickly ended as the classmate realized Mark played Humans vs. Zombies (HvZ) and told Mark that he did not know "you were a nerd, man … I thought you were cool! Guess I'll leave ya to hang with your friends."

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Construction and Management of Stigma Based on a Voluntary‐Achieved Status

Ritter

Ueno

2017

Symbolic Interaction

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“…This essay builds from Starn's attention to disciplinary thinking and provides the first sustained account of the Poston BSR that preceded the more well‐studied CAS, convinced the WRA of the utility of social scientific analysis, and provided a model for that analysis (Guerrier, ; Hayashi, ; Hirabayashi, ; Ichioka, ; Inouye, ; Murray, ; Suzuki, 1986). In line with the history of science scholarship, it considers disciplinary conventions and conditions in the field as well as state needs.…”

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“…And despite a good deal of evidence to the contrary, the WRA researchers assumed that the Japanese Americans shared their own desire to prevent disturbances that threatened stability (Guerrier, 2007;Sady, 1987;Starn, 1986Starn, , 1987. This essay builds from Starn's attention to disciplinary thinking and provides the first sustained account of the Poston BSR that preceded the more well-studied CAS, convinced the WRA of the utility of social scientific analysis, and provided a model for that analysis (Guerrier, 2007;Hirabayashi, 1999;Ichioka, 1989;Inouye, 2012;Murray, 1991;Suzuki, 1986). In line with the history of science scholarship, it considers disciplinary conventions and conditions in the field as well as state needs.…”

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Japanese‐American confinement and scientific democracy: Colonialism, social engineering, and government administration

Rosemblatt

Benmergui

2018

J History Behavioral Science

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During World War II, the U.S. Indian Service conducted social science experiments regarding governance among Japanese Americans imprisoned at the Poston, Arizona, camp. Researchers used an array of techniques culled from anthropological culture and personality studies, psychiatry, psychology, medicine, and public opinion research to probe how the personality traits of the confined Japanese-Americans and camp leaders affected the social interactions within each group and between them. The research drew on prior studies of Indian personality in the US Southwest, Mexico's Native policies, and indirect colonial rule. Researchers asked how democracy functioned in contexts marked by hierarchy and difference. Their goal was to guide future policies toward US "minorities" and foreign races in post-war occupied territories. We show how researchers deployed ideas about race, cultural, and difference across a variety of cases to create a universal, predictive social science, which they combined with a prewar romanticism and cultural relativism. These researchers made ethnic, racial, and cultural difference compatible with predictive laws of science based on notions of fundamental human similarities.

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“…One need look no further than the ethical problems in her Japanese and Resettlement Study (JERS). She hired interned Japanese American students to serve as participant observers while they were dependent on “Thomas and other white researchers for academic opportunities” (Inouye 2012:324), thus ensuring their compliance.…”

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Sociology Engaged in Social Justice

Romero

2020

Am Sociol Rev

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This article expands on my presidential address to further bolster the case that sociology has, from its inception, been engaged in social justice. I argue that a critical review of our discipline and our Association’s vaunted empiricist tradition of objectivity, in which sociologists are detached from their research, was accomplished by a false history and sociology of sociology that ignored, isolated, and marginalized some of the founders. In the past half-century, scholar-activists, working-class sociologists, sociologists of color, women sociologists, indigenous sociologists, and LGBTQ sociologists have similarly been marginalized and discouraged from pursuing social justice issues and applied research within our discipline. Being ignored by academic sociology departments has led them to create or join homes in interdisciplinary programs and other associations that embrace applied and scholar-activist scholarship. I offer thoughts about practices that the discipline and Association should use to reclaim sociology’s social justice tradition.

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JAPANESE AMERICAN WARTIME EXPERIENCE, TAMOTSU SHIBUTANI AND METHODOLOGICAL INNOVATION, 1942–1978

Cited by 4 publications

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Construction and Management of Stigma Based on a Voluntary‐Achieved Status

Construction and Management of Stigma Based on a Voluntary‐Achieved Status

Japanese‐American confinement and scientific democracy: Colonialism, social engineering, and government administration

Sociology Engaged in Social Justice

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