Jack Katz
PROFESSOR
J.D. University of Chicago , Ph. D. Northwestern University
Office: 237 HAINES
Phone: 3108256904
Fax:
310-206-9838
E-mail:
jackkatz@soc.ucla.edu
Mailing Address:
264 Haines Hall - Box 951551
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1551
Subfield
Social Psychology, Qualitative Methodology, Law and Society, Deviant Behavior/Social Disorganization
Research Interests
Social psychology, body and self, urban life, deviance and the law. Current research: I am currently analyzing the results of an interview and observational study of six neighborhoods in Hollywood. The research was conducted with (then) post-doc Peter Ibarra and (then) graduate student, Maggie Kusenbach. My studies on the relationship of the body and the self, using videotape, ethnographic observation, and historical materials on everyday life, are continuing. My long-term interests are in developing a naturalistic social psychology and in advancing the methodological understanding of ethnography.
Selected Publications
On the Rhetoric and Politics of Ethnographic Methodology. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 595 (September): 280-308. 2004.
Metropolitan Crime Myths.
In D. Halle, ed., New York and Los Angeles: Politics, Society and Culture, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2003.
Phenomenological Ethnography in Sociology and Anthropology. Ethnography. (With Thomas Csordas). 2003.
“From How to Why: On Luminous Description and Causal Inference in Ethnography. Parts 1 and 2. Ethnography. 2001, 2002.
Start Here: Social Ontology and Research Strategy. Theoretical Criminology. 2002
How Emotions Work, University of Chicago Press, 1999.
Grants
"Research Experience For Gang Impacted Youth," UCLA in LA, Center for Community Partnerships
"LA at Play," NSF-REU. Ethnographic studies of meanings of public spaces.
Grad Students
publications with grad students:
Provocative Looks: Gang Appearance and Dress Codes in an Inner-City Alternative School. Ethnography. (With Robert Garot). 2003.
The Criminologists' Gang. In C. Sumner, ed., Blackwell Companion to Criminology. London: Blackwell. (With Curtis Jackson-Jacobs). 2004.
6 Hollywoods: Hidden Dimensions of Neighborhood, Crime and Community in the Emerging Metropolis. (In preparation, with Peter Ibarra and Margarethe Kusenbach)
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