Thomas J. Scheff
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Thomas J. Scheff's Degrees
- PhD Sociology University of California, Berkeley
- Masters Sociology University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors Sociology University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Thomas J. Scheff is an American Professor, Emeritus, Department of Sociology at University of California, Santa Barbara. His fields of study are the emotional/relational world, mental illness, restorative justice, and collective violence. He holds a BS from the University of Arizona in Physics , and a PhD in sociology from the University of California . He was at University of Wisconsin from 1959–63, when he joined the faculty at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Thomas J. Scheff's Published Works
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Published Works
- Shame and conformity: The deference-emotion system. (1988) (664)
- How Emotions Work (2002) (621)
- Microsociology: Discourse, Emotion, and Social Structure (1990) (530)
- Shame and the Social Bond: A Sociological Theory* (2000) (486)
- Being Mentally Ill: A Sociological Theory. (1967) (380)
- Bloody Revenge: Emotions, Nationalism and War (1994) (354)
- Shame in Self and Society (2003) (346)
- The labelling theory of mental illness. (1974) (316)
- Being Mentally Ill (1984) (260)
- Emotions and Violence: Shame and Rage in Destructive Conflicts (1993) (248)
- Catharsis in healing, ritual, and drama (1979) (223)
- Emotions, the Social Bond, and Human Reality: Part/Whole Analysis (1997) (207)
- TOWARD A SOCIOLOGICAL MODEL OF CONSENSUS (1967) (205)
- Being mentally ill : a sociological theory (1966) (198)
- The Jury and the Defense of Insanity. (1968) (148)
- Negotiating Reality: Notes on Power in the Assessment of Responsibility (1968) (145)
- The shame-rage spiral: A case study of an interminable quarrel. (1987) (132)
- Blind Trust : Large Groups and Their Leaders in Times of Crisis and Terror (2004) (128)
- Goffman Unbound!: A New Paradigm for Social Science (2006) (123)
- The Role of the Mentally Ill and the Dynamics of Mental Disorder: A Research Framework * (1963) (117)
- Looking-Glass Self: Goffman as Symbolic Interactionist (2005) (105)
- The Structure of Context: Deciphering Frame Analysis * (2005) (102)
- The Societal Reaction to Deviance: Ascriptive Elements in the Psychiatric Screening of Mental Patients in a Midwestern State (1964) (88)
- The Distancing of Emotion in Ritual [and Comments and Reply] (1977) (82)
- Medical Dominance (1976) (73)
- Emotions and violence (1991) (70)
- Toward Integration in the Social Psychology of Emotions (1983) (69)
- DSM-III field trials. (1986) (69)
- Shame and Community: Social Components in Depression (2001) (67)
- Emotion, alienation, and narratives: Resolving intractable conflict (2000) (66)
- Users and non-users of a student psychiatric clinic. (1966) (65)
- Decision rules, types of error, and their consequences in médical diagnosis (2007) (63)
- Cognition and emotion? The dead end in self-esteem research (2004) (62)
- The distancing of emotion in psychotherapy. (1981) (58)
- The Ubiquity of Hidden Shame in Modernity (2014) (57)
- Shame and the Social Bond (2001) (55)
- Control over policy by attendants in a mental hospital (1962) (53)
- Schizophrenia as Ideology (1970) (44)
- Goffman on Emotions: The Pride‐Shame System (2014) (38)
- Male Emotions/Relationships and Violence: A Case Study (2003) (37)
- Toward Defining Basic Emotions (2015) (34)
- Social–emotional origins of violence: A theory of multiple killing (2011) (31)
- Mental illness and social processes (1967) (31)
- Hypermasculinity and Violence as a Social System (2006) (30)
- Social Conditions for Rationality: How Urban and Rural Courts Deal with the Mentally Ill (1964) (30)
- Catharsis and other heresies: A theory of emotion. (2007) (30)
- Being mentally ill: A sociological theory, 3rd ed. (1984) (29)
- A theory of catharsis (1984) (28)
- A social/emotional theory of ‘mental illness’ (2013) (27)
- A theory of social coordination applicable to mixed-motive games. (1967) (26)
- Editor's Introduction (1995) (25)
- A Concept of Social Integration (2007) (25)
- Reply to Chauncey and Gove (1975) (24)
- Academic gangs (1995) (22)
- Reevaluation Counseling: Social Implications (1972) (22)
- Universal Expressive Needs: A Critique and a Theory* (1985) (22)
- The Sociology of Norbert Elias: Elias, Freud and Goffman: shame as the master emotion (2004) (20)
- The primacy of affect. (1985) (20)
- Aggression, Hypermasculine Emotions and Relations: The Silence/Violence Pattern (2006) (18)
- Cognitive and emotional conflict in anorexia: reanalysis of a classic case. (1989) (18)
- A Social Theory and Treatment of Depression (2009) (18)
- Social-emotional world: Mapping a continent (2011) (18)
- Emotions, the social bond, and human reality: References (1997) (17)
- The S-Word is Taboo: Shame is Invisible in Modern Societies (2016) (15)
- Toward Resolving the Controversy over "Thick Description" (1986) (14)
- Self-defense against verbal assault: shame, anger, and the social bond. (1995) (14)
- Single-case analysis in the health sciences (1995) (13)
- Intersubjectivity and Emotion (1973) (12)
- Concepts and concept formation : Goffman and Beyond / Thomas J. Scheff. (2006) (11)
- Emotions, the social bond, and human reality: Acknowledgments (1997) (11)
- Differential Displacement of Treatment Goals in a Mental Hospital (1962) (10)
- The Catastrophe of Scientism in Social/Behavioral Science* (2011) (10)
- 1996 Presidential Address: A Vision of Sociology (1997) (10)
- Micro-Linguistics and Social Structure: A Theory of Social Action (1986) (10)
- Labelling mental illness (1996) (9)
- What Are Emotions? A Physical Theory (2015) (9)
- The Emotional/Relational World: Shame and the Social Bond (2001) (9)
- Looking Glass Selves : The Cooley / Goffman Conjecture (2007) (9)
- Is Accurate Cross-Cultural Translation Possible? (1987) (9)
- Normalizing Symptoms: Neither Labeling nor Enabling (2010) (8)
- Toward a social psychological theory of mind and consciousness (1993) (8)
- The stability of deviant behavior over time: a reassessment. (1970) (8)
- Toward a Sociological Imagination: Bridging Specialized Fields (2002) (7)
- Getting Unstuck: Interdisciplinarity as a New Discipline (2013) (7)
- Toward a Sociological Imagination: Bridging Specialized Fields (2002) (7)
- A Retrospective Look at Emotions (2014) (6)
- Toward a concept of stigma (2014) (6)
- 2 – Schizophrenia as Ideology* (1974) (6)
- Politics of Hidden Emotions: Responses to a War Memorial (2007) (6)
- Bloody Revenge (2019) (6)
- Social support for stereotypes of mental disorder. (1963) (6)
- Awareness structures: defining alienation/solidarity 1 (2008) (6)
- What's Love Got to Do with It?: Emotions and Relationships in Pop Songs (2011) (6)
- Qualitative methods in the health sciences (1997) (6)
- Preferred Errors in Diagnosis (1964) (6)
- Part/Whole Morphology: Unifying Single Case and Comparative Methods (1997) (6)
- Is Hatred Formed by Hidden Shame and Rage? (2004) (5)
- Hierarchy and its discontents. (2009) (5)
- Runaway Nationalism: Alienation, Shame, and Anger, (2015) (5)
- GUEST EDITORIALQualitative methods in the health sciences (1997) (5)
- THE GOFFMAN LEGACY : DECONSTRUCTING / RECONSTRUCTING SOCIAL SCIENCE (2018) (5)
- Role-Taking, Emotion and the Two Selves (2014) (4)
- A Note on the Origins of Deinstitutionalization (2014) (4)
- Violent males: A theory of their emotional/relational world. (2004) (4)
- Diagnosis as Part of a Large Social Emotional System (2013) (4)
- The Labeling Theory Paradigm (1981) (4)
- Emotion and False Consciousness: The Analysis of an Incident from Werther (1988) (4)
- Silence and Mobilization: Emotional/relational Dynamics (2006) (4)
- Parts and Wholes: Goffman and Cooley (2011) (4)
- Reply to Comment by Horwitz (1979) (4)
- Changes in Public and Private Language among Spanish‐Speaking Migrants to an Industrial City* (1965) (4)
- Collective Emotions in Warfare (2008) (4)
- Shame and a Theory of war and violence (2018) (3)
- Concepts and Concept Formation: Goffman and Beyond (2006) (3)
- Emotions, the social bond, and human reality: Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction (1997) (3)
- Audience awareness and catharsis in drama. (1976) (3)
- Reply to Nettler (1974) (3)
- Legitimate, transitional, and illegitimate mental patients in a Midwestern State. (1963) (3)
- Repression of Emotion: A Danger to Modern Societies? (2013) (3)
- Emotions, the social bond, and human reality: Punishment, child development and crime: the concept of the social bond (1997) (2)
- Cooperative Learning Groups and Streaming (2012) (2)
- Three Scandals in Psychology: The Need for a New Approach (2015) (2)
- Hidden Shame as a Cause of Violence (2015) (2)
- The Cooley-Elias-Goffman Theory (2017) (2)
- Toward Integration: Disciplines, Specialties and Journals (2015) (2)
- Looking Glass Selves: the Cooley/Goffman Conjecture[1] (2010) (2)
- Cultural influences on personalized e-learning systems (2012) (1)
- Another look at the hospital variable. (1979) (1)
- Is Humor Serious? (2007) (1)
- The Heart has its Reasons@@@The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling. (1984) (1)
- Reply to Imershein and Simons (1976) (1)
- A Social-Emotional Theory of Depression (2012) (1)
- Staff Resistance to Change in a Mental Hospital (1962) (1)
- 02 Hypermasculinity and Violence as a Social System (2007) (1)
- Constructive Induction (2010) (1)
- What They’re Watching (2013) (1)
- Violence and secret shame. (2012) (1)
- Routines: Every Day a Groundhog Day? (2007) (1)
- Emotions, the social bond, and human reality: Origins of the First World War: integrating small parts and great wholes (1997) (1)
- Two Studies of Emotion: Crying and Anger Control@@@Crying: The Mystery of Tears.@@@Anger: The Struggle of Emotional Control in America's History. (1987) (1)
- Emotions, the social bond, and human reality: Gender wars: love and conflict in Much Ado About Nothing (1997) (1)
- SHAME AS THE MASTER EMOTION: EXAMPLES FROM POP SONGS (2010) (1)
- Responses to a War Memorial (2007) (1)
- Social Perspectives on Emotions, Vol. 2. (1995) (1)
- Repression of Emotion (2013) (1)
- Depression, Bipolarity and Aggression as Emotion Sequences (2016) (1)
- Reply [to Review Essays] (1993) (0)
- The psychological uses of fiction. (2001) (0)
- Sociology after the Crisis.Charles Lemert (1996) (0)
- A Biological Theory of Emotions (2016) (0)
- Book Review: Moral Selves, Evil Selves: The Social Psychology of Conscience (2009) (0)
- Outpatient psychiatry: Diagnosis and treatment: 2nd edn, Edited by A. LAZARE, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, MD, 1989. 726 + xxiv pp. (1990) (0)
- Humor and Catharsis: The Effect of Comedy on Audiences (2014) (0)
- Hiding Shame in Science and Scholarship (2018) (0)
- Testing a Theory of Laughter. (1975) (0)
- Emotions, the social bond, and human reality: Boy's talk, girl's talk: a theory of social integration (1997) (0)
- Shame on you: Origins of social conventions in modern society. (2013) (0)
- Comment [from Thomas J. Scheff] (2003) (0)
- A Theory of War and Violence (2017) (0)
- Emotions, the social bond, and human reality: Generating theory: the social bond (1997) (0)
- Can We Understand World Conflict in Psychological Terms (2005) (0)
- EPA-1159 – Defining Emotions: Exploring Chaos (2014) (0)
- Art and science cannot exist but in minutely organized particulars (2010) (0)
- The World Social System: The Origins of World War I (2019) (0)
- An (Emotion) Problem in Cooperative Education (2015) (0)
- Quarrel and Impasse in a Marriage (2019) (0)
- The Case for More Generalists (2012) (0)
- Creating an Onion: Alternatives to Biopsychiatry (2007) (0)
- Book Reviews (2000) (0)
- Alienation and Conflict: A Theory of Interminable Conflict (2019) (0)
- Outpatient psychiatry: Diagnosis and treatment (1980) (0)
- AWARENESS STRUCTURES: CONCEPTUALIZING ALIENATION/SOLIDARITY (2006) (0)
- Comment [from Thomas J. Scheff and Professor Emeritus] (2003) (0)
- A Note on the Invention of Society, by Serge Moscovici (1997) (0)
- Capturing Attitudes, Dead or Alive? (1993) (0)
- Gender Wars: Emotions in Much Ado About Nothing (1993) (0)
- RAMPAGE SHOOTING: EMOTIONS AND RELATIONSHIPS AS CAUSES (2007) (0)
- The Social Institution of Insanity (2017) (0)
- 16. Punishment, Child Development, and Crime: A Theory of the Social Bond (2017) (0)
- Reply to Frosch. (1981) (0)
- Towards Neuroecosociality:MentalHealth in Adversity (2020) (0)
- Toward Integration: Disciplines, Specialties and Journals (2015) (0)
- Mental Illness as Residual Deviance (2018) (0)
- Response to Commentary (1997) (0)
- Letter to the Editor. (1997) (0)
- *G. Reginald Daniel and Joseph Loe-Sterphone contributed material to the analyses of Elliot Rodger and Hitler’s rise to power. A Theory of War and Violence (2018) (0)
- Emotions, the social bond, and human reality: Introduction (1997) (0)
- Emotions, the social bond, and human reality: Conflict in family systems (1997) (0)
- Who, me, angry? (2008) (0)
- Emotions, the social bond, and human reality: Generating theory: emotions and conflict (1997) (0)
- Emotions Need to be Defined (2017) (0)
- Emotions, the social bond and human reality. Part/whole analysis. BY THOMAS J. SCHEFF. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1997. ix + 249 pp. Pb.: 14.95. ISBN 0 521 58545 7 (2000) (0)
- Toronto:Hypermasculinity and Violence as a Social System (2006) (0)
- Acknowledgment and Reconciliation (2019) (0)
- Emotions, the social bond and human reality. Part/whole analysis. BY THOMAS J. SCHEFF. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1997. ix + 249 pp. Pb.: 14.95. ISBN 0 521 58545 7 (2000) (0)
- Breaking out of the bio-medical trap. (1981) (0)
- 43 – The Societal Reaction to Deviance: Ascriptive Elements in the Psychiatric Screening of Mental Patients in a Midwestern State*† (1974) (0)
- A Psychiatric Interview : Alienation between Patient and Psychiatrist 1 (2017) (0)
- Comment: Yamane on "Profscam" (1995) (0)
- A Review Article of Outpatient Psychiatry: Diagnosis and Treatment, Lazare Aaron (Ed.). Williams & Wilkins, New York (1979), 672 (1980) (0)
- Conclusion: integrating the human sciences (1997) (0)
- What ’ s Love Got to Do with It ? (2006) (0)
- Emotions, the social bond, and human reality: Microanalysis of discourse: the case of Martha Johnson and her therapist (1997) (0)
- Qualitative Sociology Review Volume II , Issue 3 – December 2006 (2006) (0)
- Looking glass selves (2018) (0)
- Conceptions of Love: The Eternal Debate (2015) (0)
- Response to Jasper (2011) (0)
- Emotions, the social bond, and human reality: Theory and method (1997) (0)
- The limits of literary analyses of texts (1997) (0)
- Punishment, Child Development, and Crime (2005) (0)
- Labeling in the Family : Hidden Shame and Anger (2017) (0)
- Genuine Love and Connectedness (2015) (0)
- A new voice in social and behavioral science. (2008) (0)
- The Beat Goes On: Alienation and Curtailment of Emotions (2015) (0)
- Letters to the Editor (2001) (0)
- Response to Commentary by Link (2014) (0)
- Treatment of Depression (2007) (0)
- Cooley and Goffman on the Ubiquity of Shame (2012) (0)
- Alienation in Top 40 Songs 1930–2000 (2015) (0)
- Part/Whole Discovery: Stages of Inquiry (2018) (0)
- The World Politics of Dominique Moisi (2018) (0)
- Scientists, Lawyers, and Admirals (1964) (0)
- The Origins of World War II: Hitler's Appeal to the Germans (2019) (0)
- Letter to the Editor (1998) (0)
- Perceptual Orientation and Role Performance of Staff Members in a Mental Hospital Ward (1962) (0)
- Scientists, Lawyers, and Admirals. (1964) (0)
- What Emotion Is the Shadow of Love (2015) (0)
- Emotions and the social bond. A REPLY FROM TOM SCHEFF . (2001) (0)
- Letters to the Editors (2010) (0)
- AWARENESS STRUCTURES: CONCEPTUALIZING ALIENATION/SOLIDARITY 1 (2006) (0)
- Pride and Shame: The Master Emotions (2019) (0)
- Macho/Madonna Link? Hypermasculine Violence as a Social System (2015) (0)
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