Norman K Denzin: 21 books
Indians in Color
Native Art, Identity, and Performance in the New West
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
In Indians in Color, noted cultural critic Norman K. Denzin addresses the acute differences in the treatment of artwork about Native America created by European-trained artists compared to those by Native artists. In his fourth volume exploring race and culture in the New West, Denzin zeroes in on...
Childhood Socialization
Revised Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Norman Denzin presents a social psychological account of how the lives of children are shaped by social interaction, particularly interaction with parents and other caretakers. He examines the special language of children, their socialization experiences, and the emergence of their selfconceptions-...
The Qualitative Manifesto
A Call to Arms
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Now issued as part of the Routledge Education Classic Edition series, A Qualitative Manifesto provides a "call to arms" for researchers from the leading figure in the qualitative research commnunity, Norman Denzin. Denzin asks for a research tradition engaged in social justice, sensitive...
by Norman K. Denzin
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
“It is time to chart a new course”, writes Norman K. Denzin in Interpretive Autoethnography, Second Edition. “I want to turn the traditional life story, biographical project into an interpretive autoethnographic project, into a critical, performative practice, a practice that begins with the...
Qualitative Inquiry Under Fire
Toward a New Paradigm Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
This collection of recent works by Norman K. Denzin provides a history of the field of qualitative inquiry over the past two decades. As perhaps the leading proponent of this style of research, Denzin has led the way toward more performative writing, toward conceptualizing research in terms of social...
Searching for Yellowstone
Race, Gender, Family and Memory in the Postmodern West
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2016
Yellowstone. Sacagawea. Lewis & Clark. Transcontinental railroad. Indians as college mascots. All are iconic figures, symbols of the West in the Anglo-American imagination. Well-known cultural critic Norman Denzin interrogates each of these icons for their cultural meaning in this finely woven...
Hollywood Shot by Shot
Alcoholism in American Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
To what extent have Hollywood feature films shaped the meanings that Americans attach to alcoholics, their families, and the alcoholic condition? To what extent has the mass culture of the movie industry itself been conceptually shaped by a broad, external societal discourse? Norman Denzin brings...
Interpretive Ethnography
Ethnographic Practices for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 1996
As the world's culture has become both postmodern and multinational, so too must ethnography. In this volume, Norman K Denzin examines the changes and sounds a call to transform ethnographic writing in a manner befitting a new age. The author ponders the prospects, problems, and forms of ethnographic...
Reading Race
Hollywood and the Cinema of Racial Violence
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2001
In this insightful book, one of America's leading commentators on culture and society turns his gaze upon cinematic race relations, examining the relationship between film, race and culture.
Norman K Denzin argues that the cinema, like society, treats all persons as equal but struggles to define...
by Norman K. Denzin
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
To mark 40 volumes of Studies in Symbolic Interaction, this volume includes a special introduction from Series Editor, Norman K. Denzin. This 40th volume advances critical discourse on several fronts at the same time, including a report from the First Contemporary Ethnography Across the Disciplines...
Indians on Display
Global Commodification of Native America in Performance, Art, and Museums
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Even as their nations and cultures were being destroyed by colonial expansion across the continent, American Indians became a form of entertainment, sometimes dangerous and violent, sometimes primitive and noble. Creating a fictional wild west, entrepreneurs then exported it around the world. Exhibitions...
Custer on Canvas
Representing Indians, Memory, and Violence in the New West
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
The 1876 events known as Custer’s Last Stand, Battle of Little Big Horn, or Battle of Greasy Grass have been represented over 1000 times in various artistic media, from paintings to sculpture to fast food giveaways. Norman Denzin shows how these representations demonstrate the changing perceptions—often...
The Research Act
A Theoretical Introduction to Sociological Methods
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
At once a unique textbook for methods courses and a major contribution to sociological theory, this book teaches students the principles of research and how to construct and test theories. It brings coherence to the study of methods by presenting four major approaches to experimentation: survey research,...
Contesting Empire, Globalizing Dissent
Cultural Studies After 9/11
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
"Denzin and Giardina have brought together the works of leading cultural critics who have given cultural studies a global framework that meets our need to examine the governing strategies of the military, the economy, the media, and educational elites...This is a must-read for those who want...
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