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Doug Schrock


Doug Schrock (North Carolina State University 2001) examines the reproduction and challenging of inequalities from an interactionist perspective. Much of his work focuses on gender, with a focus on culture and identity, emotion and embodiment, and personal and social change.

Contact Information:

Office: Bellamy 511
Phone: 644-4033
Fax: N/A
Email: dschrock@fsu.edu

Areas of Specialization:

Research:

  • Social Psychology
  • Race, Class, and Gender
  • Social Movements
  • Qualitative Methods

Teaching:

  • Undergraduate:
    • Social Psychology
    • Introduction to Sociology
    • Race and Ethnicity
    • The Global Justice Movement
    • Social Problems
    • Social Change
  • Graduate:
    • Introduction to Qualitative Methods
    • Fieldwork
    • Advanced Qualitative Research
    • Social Interaction
    • Men and Masculinities
    • Proseminar in Sociology
    • Social Interaction and Inequalities

Education and Recent Professional Experience:

  • 2001 Ph.D. in sociology, North Carolina State University
  • 1995 M.S. in sociology, North Carolina State University
  • 1991 B.S. in sociology, Indiana University, Bloomington

Selected Papers and Publications:

  • Sumerau, J. Edward, and Douglas Schrock. 2011. “‘It’s Important to Show Your Colors’: Counter-Heteronormative Embodiment in a Metropolitan Community Church.” In Embodied Resistance: Breaking the Rules, Challenging the Norms, edited by Chris Bobel and Samantha Kwan. Vanderbilt University Press. READ
  • Leaf, Margaret, and Douglas Schrock. 2011. “’What I Had to do to Survive’: Self-Injurers’ Bodily Emotion Work.” In Embodied Resistance: Breaking the Rules, Challenging the Norms, edited by Chris Bobel and Samantha Kwan. Vanderbilt University Press. READ
  • Schrock, Douglas, and Schwalbe, Michael. 2009. “Men, Masculinity, and Manhood Acts.” Annual Review of Sociology. READ
  • Schrock, Douglas, Emily M. Boyd, and Margaret Leaf. 2009. “Emotion Work in the Public Performances of Male-to-Female Transsexuals.” Archives of Sexual Behavior. READ
  • McCabe, Janice, and Douglas Schrock. 2009. “Further Reflections on the Term ‘Bitch’.” Sociological Analysis. READ
  • Holden, Daphne, and Douglas Schrock. 2009. “Performing Authentic Selfhood in an Intentional Community.” In Authenticity in Culture, Self, and Society, edited by Phillip Vannini and Patrick Williams. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate.
  • Eastman, Jason and Douglas Schrock. 2008. “Southern Rock Musicians’ Construction of White Trash.” Race, Gender, and Class, 15:208-219. READ
  • Schrock, Douglas, and Irene Padavic. 2007. “Negotiating Hegemonic Masculinity in a Batterer Intervention Program.” Gender & Society, 21:625-649. READ
  • Martin, Patricia Yancey, Douglas Schrock, Margaret Leaf, and Carmen Von Rohr. 2007. "Rape work: Emotional dilemmas in work with victims." In Understanding Emotions at Work. Ed. by Steve Fineman. Blackwell. READ
  • Holden, Daphne and Doug Schrock. 2007. "'Get therapy and work on it': Managing Dissent in an Intentional Community." Symbolic Interaction, 30:175-198.
  • Schrock, Douglas, and Emily Boyd. 2006. "Reflexive Transembodiment." In Body/Embodiment: Symbolic Interactionism and the Sociology of the Body, edited by Dennis Waskull and Phillip Vannini. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate. READ
  • Schrock, Douglas, and Lori Reid. 2006. “Transsexuals’ Sexual Stories.” Archives of Sexual Behavior, 35:75-86. READ
  • Schrock, Douglas, Lori Reid, and Emily Boyd. 2005. “Transsexuals’ Embodiment of Womanhood.” Gender and Society, 19: 317-335. READ
  • Schrock, Douglas, Daphne Holden, and Lori Reid. 2004. “Creating Emotional Resonance: Interpersonal Emotion Work and Motivational Framing in a Transgender Community.” Social Problems, 51:61-81. READ
  • Schrock, Douglas. 2002. “Emotional Stories: Narrative Conflict in a Men's Anti-Battering Program.” Pp. 219-233 in Postmodern Existential Sociology, edited by Joseph A. Kotarba and John M. Johnson. AltaMira Press.
  • Michael Schwalbe, Sandra Godwin, Daphne Holden, Douglas Schrock, Shealy Thompson, and Michele Wolkomir. 2000. “Generic Processes in the Reproduction of Inequality: An Interactionist Analysis.” Social Forces, 79:419-452. READ
  • Schrock, Douglas. 1996. "Transsexuals' Narrative Construction of the 'True Self.'" SocialPsychology Quarterly, 59:176-192. READ
  • Schwalbe, Michael, and Douglas Schrock. 1996. "Identity Work as Group Process." Advances in Group Processes, 13: 113-147. READ

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