Joseph Gusfield Papers
Scope and Content of Collection
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Correspondence 1981-2009
Curriculum Vitae 1988
Interview by Abbie Pike - Transcript undated
My Life and Soft Times - Autobiography 1984-1985
News clippings 1973-1982
SUBJECT FILES
Fulbright Grant - India 1980
San Diego Summer School of Alcohol Studies (UC San Diego Extension) 1972-1978
Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) 1989
WRITINGS BY GUSFIELD
General
The Academic Milieu: Students and Teachers in India and the United States 1970
Alcohol Problems - An Interactionist View 1983-1984
Benevolent Repression: Popular Culture, Social Structure, and the Control of Drinking 1984-1988
The Bridge Over Separated Lands: Kenneth Burke's Significance for the Study of Social Action 1990
Buddy, Can You Paradigm? The Crisis of Theory in the Welfare State 1977-1978
Categories of Ownership and Responsibility in Social Issues: Alcohol Abuse and Automobile Use 1975
Constructing the Ownership of Social Problems: Fun and Profit in the Welfare Society - Presidential address for the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) 1989
Contested Meanings: The Construction of Alcohol Problems (1996) - Correspondence, permissions, and introduction 1993-1996
The Control of Drinking-Driving in the Unites States: A Period in Transition? 1987
The Crime in Traffic 1977
The Culture of Public Problems: Drinking, Driving and the Social Order (1981)
Drafts and reviews 1977-1983
Drafts and reviews 1977-1981
The Current State of Social Problems Theory 1983
The Decline of a Cultural Elite: Aspects of Faculty Power and Authority undated
Despite Setbacks, India's Story So Far a Net Success 1984
Deviance in the Welfare State: The Alcoholism Profession and the Entitlements of Stigma 1978
The "Double Plot" in Institutions undated
Education and the Changing Indian Elite undated
Egalitarian Politics, Mass Education and the Academic Cultures in India and the United States undated
The Emergence of the Problem-Solving Professions: The Case of the Alcoholism Industry 1978
Foreword to Confronting Drunk Driving: Social Policy for Saving Lives (H. Laurence Ross, 1992) 1991
Foreword to Deviance: From Badness to Sickness 1978-1979
Foreword to Yesterday's Young in Today's Traffic: The Safety of Elderly Drivers (J. Peter Rothe, 1990) 1989
The "Grass-Roots" Movement Against Drinking-Driving 1981
The Illusion of Authority 1977-1978
Introduction to Bureaucratic Propaganda (David L. Altheide and John M. Johnson, 1979) 1978
Japan Lectures: "On the Symbolic Function of Law" and "The Symbolic Order and Legal Control of Alcohol in the United States" 1988
Lecture Notes
Dramaturgical Perspective - Sociology 290C 1982
M.K. Gandhi Lecture for Extension Course: Makers of Modern History 1976
Myth and Symbol 1982-1983
Sociology and Culture, Sociology 160 1992
Sociology of Law, Sociology 140 1987
The Literary Rhetoric of Science: Comedy and Pathos in Drinking Driver Research 1976
Mass Society and Extremist Politics 1962
The Modernity of Social Movements: Public Roles and Private Parts 1979
The Nation - Article drafts and correspondence 1979-1989
NSF Report undated
Occupational Roles and Forms of Enterprise 1961
On the Side: Practical Action and Social Constructivism in Social Problems Theory 1984
Passage to Play: The Symbolism of Drinking Time in American Society 1978-1987
Political Community and Group Interests in Modern India 1964
The Prevention of Drinking Problems 1974
Prevention: Rise, Decline, and Renaissance 1980-1985
Prohibition: The Impact of Political Utopianism undated
Public Problems as Phenomena: The Shape of a Humanistic Social Science 1983-1986
The Romanticization of the Other: On Understanding Alien Cultures undated
San Diego Study 1972 1968-1977
The Scholarly Tension: Graduate Craft and Undergraduate Imagination. General Education in the Social Sciences: Reflection on 40 Years of Social Sciences 2. University of Chicago 1982 November 12
Science as a Form of Bureaucratic Discourse: Rhetoric and Style in Formal Organizations 1982-1985
Searching for the Silences: The Rhetorics of Social Research 1989-1991
Social and Cultural Contexts of the Drinking-Driving Event 1985
The Social Construction of Tradition: An Interactionist View of Social Change 1970-1971
The Social Meaning of Meals: Hierarchy and Equality in the American Pot-Luck undated
Social Movements and Social Change: Perspectives of Linearity and Fluidity 1980
The Sociological Reality of America: An Essay on Mass Culture 1979
Sociology and the Humanities Closing the Gap 1989
Sociology's Critical Irony: Countering American Individualism (The Creation and Destruction of Meaning: The Political Significance of Sociology in America) 1987-1990
Some Notes Toward a Theory of Culture Shock 1962
The Structural Context of College Drinking 1961
Symbolic Aspects of Societal Risk: Food and Drink as Sources of Danger. International Colloquium on Social Sciences and Societal Risks. Paris 1986 January 20-22
Symbolic Crusade: Status Politics and the American Temperance Movement (1963) - Epilogue and reviews 1964-1985
Taking the Starch Out of Social Problems (Choosing Sides: The Messages of Social Problems Theory) 1980-1983
The Teach-in and Vietnam Policy 1965
The Tension Between Humanism and Science: Sociology in the 1980s 1979
Utopian Myths in Modern Societies 1972
Reviews
The American University (Talcott Parsons and Gerald M. Platt, 1973) 1973
Changing Styles of American Character: The Lonely Crowd Forty Years Later 1990
Communicating Ideas: The Crisis of Publishing in a Post-Industrial Society (Irving Louis Horowitz, 1986) 1986
Creating the Past: Seven Books in Search of a Reviewer 1989-1990
Critique of Class and Class Conflict in Industrial Society (Ralf Dahrendorf, 1959) 1965
Drinking and Crime (James J. Collins, Jr., 1981) 1982
The Ethnographic Imagination: Textual Construction of Reality (Paul Atkinson, 1990) 1991
Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life (Robert N. Bellah, et al., 1985)
Money, Morals and Manners (Michele Lamont, 1992) 1991
Power, Power, Who's Got the Power? A Review of Floyd Hunter, Community Power Succession: Atlanta's Policy Makers Revisited (1980) 1981
Roots of Criminality: Review of Crime and Human Nature (James Q. Wilson and Richard J. Herrnstein, 1985) 1985-1986
The Struggle for Auto Safety (Jerry L. Mashaw and David L. Harfst, 1990) 1991
Theories and Hobgoblins (Response to Steve Woolgar and Dorothy Pawluch, "Ontological Gerrymandering: The Anatomy of Social Problems Explanations") 1984-1985
Collaborations
Gusfield, Joseph and David Riesman. Academic Standards and "The Two Cultures" in the Context of a New State College 1966
Gusfield, Joseph R. and Jerzy Michalowicz. Secular Symbolism: Studies on Ritual, Ceremony and the Symbolic Orders in Modern Life
Drafts undated
Drafts and correspondence 1981-1984
Gusfield, Joseph R., Joseph Kotarba, and Paul Rasmussen
Managing Competence: An Ethnographic Study of Drinking-Driving and the Context of Bars 1979
The Public Society of Intimates: Friends, Wives, Lovers, and Others in the Drinking-Driving Drama 1979-1980
The Social Control of Drinking-Driving: An Ethnographic Study of Bar Settings 1979
Gusfield, Joseph and Michael Schwartz. The Meanings of Occupational Prestige: Reconsideration of the NORC Scale 1963
2022 Additions
Ecology: The New Approach. Review of Paul and Anne Ehrlich, Population, Resources, Environment Issues in Human Ecology 1970
David Riesman, Joseph Gusfield, and Zelda Gamson. Academic Values and Mass Education: The Early Years of Oakland and Monteith - Review 1970
Review of James M. Freeman, Untouchable: An Indian Life History 1979
Knowledge: The Power or the Glory? Review of Burkart Holzner and John Marx, Knowledge Application 1981
Narrativity and Reader Readiness in Two Genres of Sociology: A Literary Study of The American Occupational Structure and Tally's Corner 1985
Nature's Body and the Metaphors of Food 1986
Sports as Story: Form and Content in Agonistic Games 1990
Symbolic Categories of Conflict in Middle Class Movements: Food and Drink. International Sociological Association, Madrid 1990 July 11
Poems: "How to Succeed in Sociology Without Much Trying" and "Ode on the Occasion of the Sixtieth Birthday of Jerome Rothenberg" 1991
The Process is the Punishment - Foreword 1992
The Social Symbolism of Smoking and Health 1992
Alcohol in America: The Twisted Frames of Health and Morality. MacArthur Conference on Morality and Health 1992 June
Languages of Health: Social Movements as Interpretations of Reality. Workshop on Culture and Social Movements, UC San Diego 1992 June 19
Review of Jonathan Freedman, From Cradle to Grave: The Human Face of Poverty in America 1993
Nationalism and National Types 1995 July 20
The Anti-Modern Temper: Studies of Discontent with Civilization 1996
Review of Zaheer Baber, The Science of Empire: Scientific Knowledge, Civilization, and Colonial Rule in India 1996
"Conflict of generations" presentation for Society for the Study of Social Problems, New York 1996 August 16
Review of Gregg Lee Carter, The Gun Control Movement (1997) 1999
Review of Andrew Barr, Drink: A Social History of America 1999
Review of Robert Deliege, The Untouchables of India (translation by Nora Scott) 1999
Primitivist Anthropology: Romantic Ethnography as Cultural Critique 1999-2000
Romantic Primitivism and Discontent with Modern Civilization. ICL lecture 2003 April 18
Truly an American Generation 2004
The Contexts of Social Mobility - Introduction 2005
"Culture Wars" and the Decline of Protestant Domination 2005
A Memoriam for Cesar Grana - Twenty Years Late 2006 January 16
Review of Geneviève Zubrzycki, The Crosses of Auschwitz: Nationalism and Religion in Post-Communist Poland (2006) 2007
Reflections of an Aged Sociologist 2008
Gauguin in Tahiti: The Legend of the Artist as Primitive
Present Shortly After the Creation: Sociology in the Early Seventies
Visions of the Primitive: The Other as Icon
UC SAN DIEGO/THIRD COLLEGE
Third College/Lumumba-Zapata College 1968-1970
University controversies 1970 May