Gaye Tuchman

NEW YORK JEWS AND CHINESE FOOD The Social Construction of an Ethnic Pattern

For more than 50 years, the children and grandchildren of Jews who immigrated from Eastern Europe to New York City have loved Chinese restaurant food and incorporated it into their new culture and identity as New York Jews. This practice goes against the general sociological understanding that ethnic groups form their identities out of their “traditional” customs. Using a combination of qualitative methods and analytic tools, the researchers provide an analysis of the New York Jewish attachment to Chinese food by focusing on the meanings that Jews projected onto the food. The article demonstrates how patterns of ethnic cultures in general, and of this one in particular, are recursive; that is, socially constructed meanings become the raw materials for new cultural creations.

Role Portrayal and Stereotyping on Television: An Annotated Bibliography of Studies Relating to Women, Minorities, Aging, Sexual Behavior, Health, and Handicaps.

Role Portrayal And Stereotyping On Stereotyping: Stereotype and American President  Stereotyping in America Today Society can be broken up into many groups by gender, race, or even traits The world is made up of males and females, whites and blacks, and liberals and conservatives, all with a particular way of life. People are stereotyping others all the time without even noticing it, because of race or color.

WHEN INNOVATION MEETS LEGACY

Journalisms transition from an industrial age to an information age and the unstable economics of profit-driven newsmaking have allowed for an unprecedented level of citizen input and involvement in the making of news. Here, new relationships between legacy and innovative newsmaking are forged and new models of newsmaking emerge. In this article, we discuss the case of The New Orleans Eye, an attempt at innovative newsmaking rooted in an individual citizen who started blogging in the wake of hurricane Katrina. The New Orleans Eye is a largely foundation-funded, non-profit online news organization composed of bloggers and former ink reporters, and has a unique relationship with the local Fox television station. We treat The New Orleans Eye as an example of a mixed-media system and discuss the tensions that emerge over innovative newsmaking within a context of a profit-driven legacy news industry and a neoliberal state.

The Technology of Objectivity: Doing "Objective" TV News Film.

AUTHOR’S NOTE: Rose Laub Coser and Erich Goode provided valuable criticisms of an earlier draft. Everett C. Hughes, Maurice R. Stein, and Kurt H. Wolff supervised my dissertation, from which this paper is adapted. GAYE TUCHMAN is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Queens College, CUNY. She has published other articles about the social construction of news and is presently doing research on the concept of community and on the nature of social memory, in particular, the use of time-markers.

Edging Women out: Some Suggestions about the Structure of Opportunities and the Victorian Novel

Students of womens participation in the arts have persuasively argued that the relative dearth of famous women writers and artists results from the historical structure of opportunities-or more accurately, lack of them. For instance, until recently, women writers, artists, and composers had less formal education and training than their male counterparts.2 Except for the daughters of families in the arts, as well as some of the

Accountability Regimes in Flagship Universities: How Strategic Planning Encourages Academic Capitalism

Although presidents of US universities are traditionally drawn from the professoriate, once appointed campus presidents tend become top managers in the “corporate university.” University administration therefore increasingly involves the development of strategic plans and other business-based strategies designed to maximize revenues and instantiate market logics. Drawing on a case study of “Wannabe University,” this chapter examines the use of strategic plans as an instance of an accountability regime that is designed to minimize uncertainty in a turbulent environment. As market logics and the strategy of the business plan are internalized, individual administrators enact neoliberal processes without necessarily intending to do so. The result is an understanding of academic corporatization less as a top-down process driven by aggressive managers than as a practical and gradual response to changing environmental conditions.

Stratification and the Public Good: The Changing Ideology of Higher Education

The contemporary definition of racial, ethnic, and class diversity is very different than that of the late nineteenth-century. Then people identified what today we call ethnic groups as races; their distinctions within and among social classes also diverged from ours. Yet, by late nineteenth-century criteria—even by twentieth-century standards—higher education was expanding and becoming more diverse. Then, as now, elite groups claimed that expanding educational opportunities gave members of the working-class and also of some racial/ethnic groups a measure of upward mobility; however, the schools designed for them also functioned as agents of social control.