Jack Katz Vita

VITA

Jack Katz

Professor of Sociology, UCLA

Department of Sociology

University of California at Los Angeles

Los Angeles, CA 90095-1551

office phone: (310) 825-6904; FAX: (310) 206 9838

JackKatz@soc.ucla.edu

http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/soc/faculty/katz

EDUCATION:

Northwestern University

Degree: Ph.D. (Sociology), 1976.

University of Chicago Law School

Degree: J.D., 1969.

Colgate University

Degree: B.A., 1966.

FACULTY CAREER:

Yale Law School, 1977-1979. Research Associate.

UCLA, Assistant Professor of Sociology, 1979; Associate Professor, 1982; Professor, 1989.

MISCELLANEOUS PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Russell Sage Law and Society Fellow, 1973-1975, Yale Law School.

Consulting Editor, American Journal of Sociology, 1977- 1979; Associate Editor, Symbolic Interaction, 1995-1999; current: Advisory Board, Western Criminology Review, Theoretical Criminology, Ethnography; Editor Board, American Sociological Review, 2001-4.

Trustee, Law and Society Association, 1984-1986.

Consulting for university presses, law and social science journals, defense in death penalty cases.

Co-Editor, with Robert Emerson, of “Field Encounters and Discoveries,” an ethnographic book series for the University of Chicago Press

TEACHING SPECIALIZATIONS:

Social Psychology: Selves in Their Sensualities; Ethnographic Methods; Urban Neighborhoods in Comparative and Historical Perspective; Crime, Law and Deviance

HONORS and INVITED LECTURES:

Cooley Award, SSSI, 1989; Hans W. Mattick lecturer, University of Illinois, 1989; Snortum lecturer, Association of Criminal Justice Research, 1989; Pacific Sociological Association annual scholarship award, 1990; Invited Professor, University of Paris, 8, 1991-1992; Stanley L. Common lecturer, Union Theological Seminary, fall 1992; Fortunoff Criminal Justice speaker, NYU, 1998; fellow, Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, 2000-2001; Invited Professor, EHESS, Paris, November 2001; College de France, November 2001; Law & Society Center, Boalt Hall law school, 2004; CUNY, Princeton, Columbia, University of Chicago law school, 2004; University of Southern California, 2005; Loyola Marymount AKD, 2007.

BOOKS:

Poor People's Lawyers in Transition. New Brunswick: Rutgers. 1982.

Excerpts in T. Ehrlich and G.C.Hazard, Jr., Going to Law School?, Boston: Little Brown, 1975; R. Abel, ed., Lawyers: A Critical Reader. New York: New Press. 1997.

Seductions of Crime. New York: Basic Books. 1988.

Reprints: "Seductions and Repulsions of Crime," in Decision Making: Alternatives to Rational Choice Models, M. Zey, ed. Newbury Park: Sage. 1992. pp. 140-157; "Seductions and Repulsions of Crime," in Criminological Perspectives, J. Muncie, E. McLaughlin, and M. Langan, eds., Sage. 1995; Le Droit de Tuer (French translation of chapter 2, Righteous Slaughter), Actes de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales, 120 (Décembre): 45-59. 1997. (Tr., M.-C. Rehm and L. Wacquant). Foundations of Criminal Law, L. Katz, M. S. Moore, and S.J. Morse, eds., Oxford. 1999; “Sneaky Thrills,” in About Criminals: a view of the offender's world. M. R. Pogrebin, ed. Sage. 2004; M. Kimmel and S. Messner, Men’s Lives, 2006.

How Emotions Work. Chicago: University of Chicago. 1999.

Six Hollywoods: Biography, Street Life and Community in Emerging Neighborhoods, 1970-2000. (in preparation)

ARTICLES and CHAPTERS:

Deviance, Charisma, and Rule-Defined Behavior

Social Problems, 20 (Fall): 186-202, 1972.

Essences as Moral Identities: On Verifiability and Responsibility in Imputations of Deviance and Charisma.

American Journal of Sociology, 80 (May): 1369-1390, 1975.

Cover-up and Collective Integrity

Social Problems, 25 (Fall): 1-25, 1977.

Lawyers for the Poor in Transition

Law & Society Review, 12 (Winter): 275-300, 1978.

Legality and Equality: Plea Bargaining in the Prosecution of White-Collar and Common Crimes

Law & Society Review, 13 (Winter): 431-59, 1979.

Concerted Ignorance: The Social Construction of Cover-up

Urban Life, 8 (October): 295-316, 1979.

[Also published as Concerted Ignorance: the Social Psychology of Cover-up, in Management Fraud, R.K. Elliott and J.J. Willingham, eds. New York: Petrocelli, 1980, pp. 149-170.]

The Social Movement Against White-Collar Crime

Vol.II, Criminology Review Yearbook. Egon Bittner and Sheldon Messinger, eds. (Beverly Hills: Sage). pp. 161-184, 1980.

A Theory of Qualitative Methodology:

The Social System of Analytic Fieldwork

Contemporary Field Research. Robert Emerson, ed. (Prospect Heights, Ill.: Waveland). pp. 127-148. 1988 (c. 1983).

Caste, Class and Counsel for the Poor

American Bar Foundation Research Journal, 1985 (Spring): 251-291, 1985.

What Makes Crime "News"?

Media, Culture & Society. 9 (January): 47-75, 1987.

[reprinted in John Muncie, ed., Criminology. 2005]

The Motivation of the Persistent Robber

Michael Tonry and Norval Morris, eds., vol. 14, Crime and Justice. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. pp. 277-306. 1990.

[reprinted as chap. 15 in John E. Conklin, ed., Criminology in the 1990s. Allyn & Bacon. 1996.]

Criminals' Passions and the Progressive's Dilemma

Alan Wolfe, ed., America at Century's End, Berkeley: University of California Press. pp. 396-417. 1991.

[reprinted as "Kiminalitetens lockelser och reformvännernas dilemma," M. Åkerström, Kriminalitet Kultur Kontroll. Carlssons. 1996.]

Jazz in Social Interaction: Personal Creativity, Collective Constraint, and Motivational Explanation in the Social Thought of Howard S. Becker.

Symbolic Interaction. 17 (fall): 253-279, 1994.

Families and Funny Mirrors: A Study of the Social Construction and Personal Embodiment of Humor.

American Journal of Sociology, 101 (March, 5): 1194-1237, 1996.

[previously available as Working Paper 3.18, Center for German and European Studies. UC Berkeley. Nov. 1994.]

Le Droit de Tuer

(new Introductory section plus translation of excerpts from Righteous Slaughter, chapter 2 in Seductions of Crime)

Actes de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales, 120 (Décembre): 45-59. 1997. (Tr., M.-C. Rehm and L. Wacquant)

The Social Psychology of Adam and Eve

Theory and Society, 25 (4, August): 545-582, 1996.

Ethnography's Warrants

Sociological Methods & Research, 25 (4, May): 391-423, 1997.

The Elements of Shame

The Widening Scope of Shame. Melvin Lansky and Andrew Morrison, eds. Hillsdale, N.J.: Analytic Press. pp.231-260. 1997.

Hunting for Bias

Social Science, Social Policy and Law. Austin Sarat, Robert Kagan and Patricia Ewing, eds., New York: Russell Sage. pp.210-257. 1999.

The Gang Myth

Social Dynamics of Crime and Control: New Theories for a World in Transition. Suzanne Karstedt and Kai‑D. Bussmann, eds. Oxford, UK and Portland, Oregon: Hart. Pp. 171-187. 2000.

Analytic Induction

International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes, eds. Oxford, U.K.: Elsevier. Vol. 1, Pp. 480-484. 2001.

From How to Why: on Luminous Description and Causal Inference in Ethnography. Part 1.

Ethnography. 2 (4): 443-473. 2001.

From How to Why: on Luminous Description and Causal Inference in Ethnography. Part 2.

Ethnography. 3 (1): 63-90. 2002.

Start Here: Social Ontology and Research Strategy.

Theoretical Criminology. 6 (3): 255-278. 2002.

Metropolitan Crime Myths.

In D. Halle, ed., New York and Los Angeles: Politics, Society and Culture, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Pp. 195-224. 2003.

Phenomenological Ethnography in Sociology and Anthropology.

Ethnography. 4(3): 275-288. (With Thomas Csordas). 2003.

Provocative Looks: Gang Appearance and Dress Codes in an Inner-City Alternative School.

Ethnography. 4(3): 421-454. (With Robert Garot). 2003.

The Criminologists’ Gang.

In C. Sumner, ed., Blackwell Companion to Criminology. London: Blackwell. (With Curtis Jackson-Jacobs). Pp.91-124. 2004.

On the Rhetoric and Politics of Ethnographic Methodology.

Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 595 (September): 280-308. 2004.

Everyday Lives and Extraordinary Research Methods.

Social Science Information. 43(4): 609-619. 2004.

Ethical Escape Routes for Underground Ethnographers.

American Ethnologist. 33 (4, November): 499-506. 2006.

Fourfold Tables v. Three Dimensional Realities: Review Essay on

Charles Tilly’s Why?. Qualitative Sociology. 29 (4): 557-563. 2006.

Toward a Natural History of Ethical Censorship: Comment on

Presidential Address. Law & Society Review. 41 (4): 797-810. 2007.

Websites

Personal Home Page: http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/soc/faculty/katz/

NSF-REU “LA at Play” website: http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/nsfreu/

Class websites: see personal home page for links.

CURRENT GRANT RESEARCH

P.I. on ALA at Play, NSF-REU, 2000-2009. (an ethnographic study, Research Experience for Undergraduates program for young researchers, on the use of a variety of public spaces for leisure activities by diverse populations in Los Angeles). (Co-PI, Jill Stein, 2002-2003; Robert Emerson, 2004-2009). $120,000 annually.

BOOK REVIEWS

Of Rotenberg, Damnation and Deviance.

American Journal of Sociology, 87 (Nov.): 735-738. 1981.

Of Epstein, Women in Law.

Work and Occupations, 11 (Nov.): 500-505. 1984.

Of Segal, Blacks in the Law.

Qualitative Sociology, 9 (spring): 85-88. 1985.

Of Flood, Barrister's Clerks

Contemporary Sociology, 15 (Jan.): 69-70. 1986.

Of Abelson, When Ladies Go A-Thieving

New York Times Book Review, Feb. 18, 1990: 13.

Of Wheeler, Mann and Sarat, Sitting in Judgment.

Contemporary Sociology, 19 (July): 584-586. 1990.

Of Case, Down the Backstretch

American Journal of Sociology, 93 (4): 945-946. 1993.

Of Granfield, Making Elite Lawyers

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 22 (April): 117-121. 1993.

Of Wright and Decker, Burglars on the Job

Contemporary Sociology, 24 (November): 798-799. 1995.

"Favorite Book" Appreciation of Andrew Meltzoff's work

Contemporary Sociology, 25 (July): 453. 1996.

Of Ahearne, Michel de Certeau, Interpretation and its Other

American Journal of Sociology, (May): 1739-1741. 1997.

Of Stoller, The Sensual Scholar. Contemporary Sociology, 27 (May): 270-271. 1998.