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Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Robert M. Emerson papers
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.2211
Physical Description:
4.4 Linear Feet
(5 document boxes, 2 half size document boxes and 2 record cartons.)
Date (inclusive): 1964-1995
Abstract: Professor Emeritus Robert M. Emerson has worked for the Department of Sociology at UCLA for 45 years as a leader who was instrumental
in building ethnomethodology as a field of inquiry. The collection consists of field notes, subject interview transcripts,
academic papers, correspondence, grant proposals, reports and audiovisual recordings of his research projects concerning juvenile
court and delinquency labeling, "The Pro Se Litigant: Self-Representation in Consequential Civil Cases," and "Resisting Imposed
Relationships" which is also referred to as the Domestic Violence Project (DVP).
Physical Location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library Special
Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Language of Material:
English
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COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Open for research. Advance notice required for access. Contact the UCLA Library Special
Collections Reference Desk for paging information. The following materials are restricted for 75 years from the dates listed
due to personally identifiable information: Box 2 folder 1 (1966), Box 3-4 (1966), Box 5 folders 4-5, 7, 11(1988), Box 6 folders
3-11(1988) and Box 8 folders 5-51(1989).
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright,
are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright
and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
[Identification of item], Robert M. Emerson papers (Collection 2211). Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library, UCLA.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Bob Emerson, 2008.
Processed by Kelly Besser with assistance from Kamarin Takahara, 2014.
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
7349948
Robert M. Emerson is UCLA Department of Sociology Professor Emeritus. Emerson graduated magna cum laude from Harvard's History
Department in 1962 and received his M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology from Brandeis University in 1964 and 1968. His dissertation
is entitled
The Juvenile Court: Labeling and Institutional Careers. Emerson began his career at UCLA in 1969 as Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology, served as Vice Chair and
Director of Graduate Studies from 1989-1992, and as Department Chair from 1995-1999. At the conclusion of his chairmanship,
he worked as Faculty Director for UCLA's Center for Experiential Education and Service Learning (CEESL) from 2000-2001. Building
on the foundational work of UCLA Sociology Professor Harold Garfinkel, Emerson was instrumental in the Department's development
of ethnomethodology as a field of inquiry. Emerson is a committed ethnographer and prolific writer who authored numerous publications
with fellow ethnomethodologist, UCLA Sociology Professor Melvin Pollner. Emerson's professional activities include work for
the Editorial and Publications Committee of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, committee work for the American
Sociological Association and editorial service for the following publications:
Californian Sociologist,
Journal of Contemporary Ethnography,
Qualitative Sociology,
Social Problems,
Symbolic Interaction,
Urban Life and
Ethnography. Emerson describes his research as using qualitative field methods to examine both the indigenous dynamics of troubles, as
in domestic violence situations, stalking and neighbor disputes, and formal, institutional responses to these troubles, particularly
by the criminal justice and mental health systems.
The collection consists of field notes, subject interview transcripts, academic papers, correspondence, grant proposals, reports
and audiovisual recordings of his research projects concerning juvenile court and delinquency labeling, "The Pro Se Litigant:
Self-Representation in Consequential Civil Cases," and "Resisting Imposed Relationships" which is also referred to as the
Domestic Violence Project (DVP).
This collection has been arranged in the following series:
Series 1: Juvenile court research files.
Series 2: Pro se litigant research files.
Subseries 2.1: Domestic violence research files.
Series 3: Audio visual materials.