Melvin Pollner
Ph. D., University of California, Santa Barbara
Office: 264 HAINES
Phone: 3108251517
Fax:
310-206-9838
E-mail:
mpollner@soc.ucla.edu
Mailing Address:
264 Haines Hall - Box 951551
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1551
Subfield
Ethnomethodology, Social Psychology, Mental Health
Research Interests
Professor Pollner's primary research interests are the sociology of mental illness; self and identity; ethnomethodology; and, recently, economic sociology. His research in these areas includes studies of psychiatric emergency teams, the construction of reality in families, the impact of religious beliefs on psychological well-being, narrative practices in Alcoholics Anonymous, the social construction of stock market bubbles, reasoning in legal contexts, the dynamics of researcher/ researched relationships and a variety of ethnomethodological studies and writings. Pollner teaches courses on the sociology of mental illness, self and identity, foundations of qualitative sociology and, occasionally, the sociology humor.
Selected Publications
"Inside the bubble: Communion, cognition, and deep play at the intersection of Wall Street and Cyberspace." In Steve Woolgar 2002. (editor) Virtual Society. Oxford UK: Oxford University Press, 230-246
(and Robert Emerson). 2001. “Ethnomethodology and Ethnography.” In Paul Atkinson et al (editors), Handbook of Ethnography, London: Sage, 118-135.
(and Jill Stein). 2000. “Doubled-over in laughter: Humor and the construction of selves in Alcoholics Anonymous.” In Jaber Gubrium and James Holstein (eds.) Institutional Selves, Oxford UK: Oxford University Press, pp. 46-63.
Mundane Reason: Reality in Everyday and Sociological Discourse. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987; Reprinted 1989; Italian Edition, Rome: Il Molino; 1995.
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