Finding Aid for the Robert M. Emerson Papers LSC.2211
Processed by Kelly Besser with assistance from Kamarin Takahara, 2014. Finding aid prepared by Kelly Besser, 2021.
UCLA Library Special Collections
2014
Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
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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
.
Restrictions on Access
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.
Preferred Citation
[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.
Processing Information
Processed by Kelly Besser with assistance from Kamarin Takahara, 2014.
UCLA Catalog Record ID
Biography/History
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.
Scope and Content
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).
Organization and Arrangement
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.
Juvenile court research files.
1964-1968.
Scope and Content
Emerson's research files concerning his institutional analysis of a Boston juvenile court and the societal reaction approach
to deviance with an emphasis on the labeling process in the court's handling of delinquency. Materials include papers, proposals,
historical writings, field notes, lists of offenses and frequencies, probation officer personnel sheets, his signed dissertation,
and guidelines and recommended practices for police and probation procedures in juvenile cases.
Box 2, Folder 1: Restricted access and use because of probation officer names and personally identifiable information. This
material is closed for 75 years from 1966.
Box 3-4: Restricted access and use because of "juvenile offender" names and personally identifiable information. This material
is closed for 75 years from 1966.
box 1, folder 1
Juvenile court - early papers and proposals.
box 1, folder 3
Thesis - cases, outlines.
box 1, folder 4
Boston Juvenile Court - historical writings.
box 2, folder 1
Documents, historical and personnel materials - BJC.
Scope and Content
Restricted access and use because of probation officer names and personally identifiable information. This material is closed
for 75 years from 1966.
box 2, folder 2
Field notes - psychiatric evaluations of juveniles.
box 2, folder 3
The Juvenile Court: Labeling and Institutional Careers.
Scope and Contents
Emerson's bound, signed copy of his dissertation.
box 4, folder 1, box 3
Field notes.
Scope and Content
Restricted access and use because of "juvenile offender" names and personally identifiable information. This material is closed
for 75 years from 1966.
box 4, folder 2
Guides to fieldnotes - BJC.
Scope and Content
Restricted access and use because of "juvenile offender" names and personally identifiable information. This material is closed
for 75 years from 1966.
box 4, folder 3
Juvenile court clerk roll sheets.
Scope and Content
Restricted access and use because of "juvenile offender" names and personally identifiable information. This material is closed
for 75 years from 1966.
box 4, folder 4
Boston Juvenile Court miscellaneous writings.
Scope and Content
Restricted access and use because of "juvenile offender" names and personally identifiable information. This material is closed
for 75 years from 1966.
box 4, folder 5
Juvenile court revisions.
Scope and Content
Restricted access and use because of "juvenile offender" names and personally identifiable information. This material is closed
for 75 years from 1966.
box 4, folder 6
Court related agencies.
Scope and Content
Restricted access and use because of "juvenile offender" names and personally identifiable information. This material is closed
for 75 years from 1966.
Pro se litigant research files.
1988-1991.
Scope and Content
Files regarding Emerson and Dr. Susan M. McCoin's National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant funded project entitled,
"The Pro Se Litigant: Self-Representation in Consequential Civil Cases." Materials include correspondence, grant proposals
and evaluations, interviews with judges, Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) forms, Instructions for Lawsuits to Prohibit Harassment,
Domestic Violence Project TRO forms and instructions, clippings and field notes. The acronym SMSC refers to Santa Monica Superior
Court.
Box 5, folders 4-5, 7, 11 and Box 6, folders 3-11: Restricted access and use because of litigant/subject names and personally
identifiable information. This material is closed for 75 years from 1988.
box 5, folder 1
Pro per - correspondence with judges.
box 5, folder 3
Pro per grant - correspondence, official papers, evaluations.
box 5, folder 4
Pro se grant - budget and administrative.
Scope and Content
Restricted access and use because personally identifiable information. This material is closed for 75 years from 1988.
box 5, folder 5
Pro se/pro per - proposal copies.
Scope and Content
Restricted access and use because of personally identifiable information. This material is closed for 75 years from 1988.
box 5, folder 6
Pro per - interviews with LA judges.
box 5, folder 7
Pro per - field notes and interviews.
Scope and Content
Restricted access and use because of litigant/subject names and personally identifiable information. This material is closed
for 75 years from 1988.
box 5, folder 9
Clippings - pro per SMSC.
box 5, folder 10
Pro per study interviews with SMSC officials
box 5, folder 11
SMSC/pro per.
Scope and Content
Restricted access and use because of litigant/subject names and personally identifiable information. This material is closed
for 75 years from 1988.
box 6, folder 1
Pro per court papers and forms.
box 6, folder 3
Pro pers SMSC field notes.
1989 Feb.
Scope and Content
Restricted access and use because of litigant/subject names and personally identifiable information. This material is closed
for 75 years from 1988.
box 6, folder 4
Pro pers SMSC field notes.
1989 Mar.
Scope and Content
Restricted access and use because of litigant/subject names and personally identifiable information. This material is closed
for 75 years from 1988.
box 6, folder 5
Field notes SMSC - Dept. J.
1989 April
Scope and Content
Restricted access and use because of litigant/subject names and personally identifiable information. This material is closed
for 75 years from 1988.
box 6, folder 6
Pro per SMSC field notes.
1989 May
Scope and Content
Restricted access and use because of litigant/subject names and personally identifiable information. This material is closed
for 75 years from 1988.
box 6, folder 7
Notes - Dept. J.
1989 Jun.-1989 Aug.
Scope and Content
Restricted access and use because of litigant/subject names and personally identifiable information. This material is closed
for 75 years from 1988.
box 6, folder 8
Notes - Dept. J.
1989 Oct.
Scope and Content
Restricted access and use because of litigant/subject names and personally identifiable information. This material is closed
for 75 years from 1988.
box 6, folder 9
Pro per interview guides.
Scope and Content
Restricted access and use because of litigant/subject names and personally identifiable information. This material is closed
for 75 years from 1988.
box 6, folder 10
Pro per trials.
Scope and Content
Restricted access and use because of litigant/subject names and personally identifiable information. This material is closed
for 75 years from 1988.
box 6, folder 11
Interviewee information.
Scope and Content
Restricted access and use because of litigant/subject names and personally identifiable information. This material is closed
for 75 years from 1988.
box 7, folder 1
Domestic violence/law - lit.
box 7, folder 2
Restraining orders - lit.
box 7, folder 4
Self-representation - lit.
box 7, folder 5
Yvette Guerra.
Scope and Contents
A copy of Guerra's paper, "Court Processing of Temporary Restraining Order Petitions" which includes Emerson's annotations
and suggestions for revisions.
box 7, folder 6
Pro per - Garot ms/paper.
Scope and Contents
A copy of Robert Garot's paper, "The Separate Worlds of the Courthouse Workgroup and Litigants" which includes Emerson's annotations.
box 7, folder 7
Pro per/TRO - writings and abstracts.
Scope and Contents
Abstracts, manuscripts, conference papers and working papers by Emerson and Susan McCoin and NSF proposal evaluation forms.
Domestic violence project research files.
1989-1995
Scope and Content
These research files concern Emerson's "Resisting Imposed Relationships" research project which focused on women who have
had an unwanted romantic relationship imposed upon them by means of harassment and violence. The proposal grew directly out
of Emerson and Susan McCoin's NSF research project, "Self Representation in Consequential Civil Cases." The "Resisting Imposed
Relationships" project was also referred to as the Domestic Violence Project (DVP) and focused on the problems people confront
in completing applications for domestic violence temporary restraining orders (TROs) and was concerned with the help and support
provided by family members, relatives, friends and others, in the decision to seek such restraining orders. The DVP project
was funded in 1992 by the UCLA Center for the Study of Women (CSW) mini-grant program established in 1984 to assist faculty
with pilot research projects that would ultimately lead to the development of a research proposal for extramural funding.
Materials include CSW correspondence and grant application, notes for papers, correspondence with and application to UCLA
Human Subject Protection Committee, Torrance domestic violence forms, Torrance Domestic Violence Clinic interviews, Domestic
Violence Prevention Act face sheets, TRO coding sheets and field notes.
Box 8, folders 5-51: Restricted access and use because of litigant/subject names and personally identifiable information.
This material is closed for 75 years from 1989.
box 8, folder 1
CSW Resisting Imposed Rels Grant
1991-1992
box 8, folder 2
Human subjects DVRO
1994-1995
box 8, folder 4
Field notes Ronna Stown DVP
box 8, folder 5
Field notes Ronna Stown DVP
Scope and Content
Restricted access and use because of litigant/subject names and personally identifiable information. This material is closed
for 75 years from 1989.
box 8, folder 6
Intake data DVP
Scope and Contents
Restricted access and use because of litigant/subject names and personally identifiable information. This material is closed
for 75 years from 1989.
box 8, folder 7
Eligibility/Screening DVP
Scope and Contents
Restricted access and use because of litigant/subject names and personally identifiable information. This material is closed
for 75 years from 1989.
box 8, folder 8
DVP demographics
Scope and Contents
Restricted access and use because of litigant/subject names and personally identifiable information. This material is closed
for 75 years from 1989.
box 8, folder 9
Domestic Violence Project field notes
Scope and Contents
Restricted access and use because of litigant/subject names and personally identifiable information. This material is closed
for 75 years from 1989.
box 8, folder 10
DVP 1
Scope and Contents
Restricted access and use because of litigant/subject names and personally identifiable information. This material is closed
for 75 years from 1989.
box 8, folder 11
DVP 2
Scope and Contents
Restricted access and use because of litigant/subject names and personally identifiable information. This material is closed
for 75 years from 1989.
box 8, folder 12
DVP 3
Scope and Contents
Restricted access and use because of litigant/subject names and personally identifiable information. This material is closed
for 75 years from 1989.
box 8, folder 13
DVP 4
Scope and Contents
Restricted access and use because of litigant/subject names and personally identifiable information. This material is closed
for 75 years from 1989.
box 8, folder 14
DVP 5
Scope and Contents
Restricted access and use because of litigant/subject names and personally identifiable information. This material is closed
for 75 years from 1989.
box 8, folder 15
DVP 6
Scope and Contents
Restricted access and use because of litigant/subject names and personally identifiable information. This material is closed
for 75 years from 1989.
box 8, folder 16
DVP 7
Scope and Contents
Restricted access and use because of litigant/subject names and personally identifiable information. This material is closed
for 75 years from 1989.
box 8, folder 17
DVP 8
Scope and Contents
Restricted access and use because of litigant/subject names and personally identifiable information. This material is closed
for 75 years from 1989.
box 8, folder 18
DVP 9A
Scope and Contents
Restricted access and use because of litigant/subject names and personally identifiable information. This material is closed
for 75 years from 1989.
box 8, folder 19
DVP 9B
Scope and Contents
Restricted access and use because of litigant/subject names and personally identifiable information. This material is closed
for 75 years from 1989.
box 8, folder 20
DVP 10
Scope and Contents
Restricted access and use because of litigant/subject names and personally identifiable information. This material is closed
for 75 years from 1989.
box 8, folder 21
DVP 12
Scope and Contents
Restricted access and use because of litigant/subject names and personally identifiable information. This material is closed
for 75 years from 1989.
box 8, folder 22
DVP 13
Scope and Contents
Restricted access and use because of litigant/subject names and personally identifiable information. This material is closed
for 75 years from 1989.
box 8, folder 23
DVP 14
Scope and Contents
Restricted access and use because of litigant/subject names and personally identifiable information. This material is closed
for 75 years from 1989.
box 8, folder 24
DVP 15
Scope and Contents
Restricted access and use because of litigant/subject names and personally identifiable information. This material is closed
for 75 years from 1989.
box 8, folder 25
DVP 16
Scope and Contents
Restricted access and use because of litigant/subject names and personally identifiable information. This material is closed
for 75 years from 1989.
box 8, folder 26
DVP 18A
Scope and Contents
Restricted access and use because of litigant/subject names and personally identifiable information. This material is closed
for 75 years from 1989.
box 8, folder 27
DVP 18B
Scope and Contents
Restricted access and use because of litigant/subject names and personally identifiable information. This material is closed
for 75 years from 1989.
box 8, folder 28
DVP 18C
Scope and Contents
Restricted access and use because of litigant/subject names and personally identifiable information. This material is closed
for 75 years from 1989.
box 8, folder 29
Domestic Violence Project 19
Scope and Contents
Restricted access and use because of litigant/subject names and personally identifiable information. This material is closed
for 75 years from 1989.
box 8, folder 30
DVP 20
Scope and Contents
Restricted access and use because of litigant/subject names and personally identifiable information. This material is closed
for 75 years from 1989.
box 8, folder 31
DVP 21
Scope and Contents
Restricted access and use because of litigant/subject names and personally identifiable information. This material is closed
for 75 years from 1989.
box 8, folder 32
DVP 22
Scope and Contents
Restricted access and use because of litigant/subject names and personally identifiable information. This material is closed
for 75 years from 1989.
box 8, folder 33
DVP 23
Scope and Contents
Restricted access and use because of litigant/subject names and personally identifiable information. This material is closed
for 75 years from 1989.
box 8, folder 34
DVP 24
Scope and Contents
Restricted access and use because of litigant/subject names and personally identifiable information. This material is closed
for 75 years from 1989.
box 8, folder 35
DVP 25
Scope and Contents
Restricted access and use because of litigant/subject names and personally identifiable information. This material is closed
for 75 years from 1989.
box 8, folder 36
DVP 26
Scope and Contents
Restricted access and use because of litigant/subject names and personally identifiable information. This material is closed
for 75 years from 1989.
box 8, folder 37
DVP 27
Scope and Contents
Restricted access and use because of litigant/subject names and personally identifiable information. This material is closed
for 75 years from 1989.
box 8, folder 38
DVP 28
Scope and Contents
Restricted access and use because of litigant/subject names and personally identifiable information. This material is closed
for 75 years from 1989.
box 8, folder 39
DVP 30
Scope and Contents
Restricted access and use because of litigant/subject names and personally identifiable information. This material is closed
for 75 years from 1989.
box 8, folder 40
DVP 31
Scope and Contents
Restricted access and use because of litigant/subject names and personally identifiable information. This material is closed
for 75 years from 1989.
box 8, folder 41
DVP 32
Scope and Contents
Restricted access and use because of litigant/subject names and personally identifiable information. This material is closed
for 75 years from 1989.
box 8, folder 42
DVP 33
Scope and Contents
Restricted access and use because of litigant/subject names and personally identifiable information. This material is closed
for 75 years from 1989.
box 8, folder 43
DVP 34
Scope and Contents
Restricted access and use because of litigant/subject names and personally identifiable information. This material is closed
for 75 years from 1989.
box 8, folder 44
DVP 36
Scope and Contents
Restricted access and use because of litigant/subject names and personally identifiable information. This material is closed
for 75 years from 1989.
box 8, folder 45
DVP 37
Scope and Contents
Restricted access and use because of litigant/subject names and personally identifiable information. This material is closed
for 75 years from 1989.
box 8, folder 46
DVP 38
Scope and Contents
Restricted access and use because of litigant/subject names and personally identifiable information. This material is closed
for 75 years from 1989.
box 8, folder 47
DVP 39
Scope and Contents
Restricted access and use because of litigant/subject names and personally identifiable information. This material is closed
for 75 years from 1989.
box 8, folder 48
DVP 40
Scope and Contents
Restricted access and use because of litigant/subject names and personally identifiable information. This material is closed
for 75 years from 1989.
box 8, folder 49
DVP 41
Scope and Contents
Restricted access and use because of litigant/subject names and personally identifiable information. This material is closed
for 75 years from 1989.
box 8, folder 50
Civil harassment records
1989
Scope and Contents
Restricted access and use because of litigant/subject names and personally identifiable information. This material is closed
for 75 years from 1989.
box 8, folder 51
Dom Vio records
1989
Scope and Contents
Restricted access and use because of litigant/subject names and personally identifiable information. This material is closed
for 75 years from 1989.
Audio visual materials.
Scope and Content
Materials include audio recordings of field notes, interviews with research project participants and video recordings concerning
topics such as kleptomania, multiple personality disorder and troubled kids.
box 9, folder 1-70
Audio cassette tapes.
Scope and Content
Seventy audio cassette tapes.
box 9, folder 71-76
Open reel audio tapes.
Scope and Content
Six open reel audio tapes.
box 9, folder 77-79
Video cassette tapes.
Scope and Content
Three video cassette tapes.
