Donileen Loseke

CONTEMPORARY THINKERS AND TOPICS
IN SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM

Donileen Loseke

Donileen Loseke, a full professor at the University of South Florida in the Department of Sociology, earned a PhD in 1982 from the University of California at Santa Barbara. Throughout her career, Loseke has been a major contributor to the field of sociology as well as to the symbolic interactionist perspective. Her research has included domestic violence, social problems, family violence, social movements and rape culture. Loseke has been a proponent of the symbolic interactionist perspective.
Professor Loseke is currently interested in studying social problems, identity and the sociology of social services. Her latest publication, Thinking about Social Problems: An Introduction to Constructionist Perspectives, has received excellent reviews for being a truly sociological text. This particular social problems book does not, as many social problems texts do, analyze what current social problems are and what can be done about them. Instead, it analyzes, in true symbolic interactionist and constructionist fashion, the way that social problems are conceived and who is in power to control such conceptions.

Loseke also won the Charles Horton Cooley Award for a book she published titled The Battered Woman and Shelters: The Social Construction of Wife Abuse.

Currently, Loseke is on the Board of Directors of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. She is also an advisory editor for the Journal, Social Problems. Loseke was the president of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction from 1996-1997 as well as the co-editor of the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography from 1994-1999. Loseke has made significant contributions to sociological literature through the use of the symbolic interactionists perspective.

For more information see the following website:
http://www.ualberta.ca/~cjscopy/reviews/.index.html


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CONTEMPORARY THINKERS AND TOPICS IN SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM Donileen Loseke Donileen Loseke, a full professor at the University of South Florida in the Department of Sociology, earned a PhD in 1982 from the University of California at Santa Barbara. Throughout her career, Loseke has been a major contributor to the field of sociology as well as to the symbolic interactionist perspective. Her research has included domestic violence, social problems, family violence, social movements and rape culture. Loseke has been a proponent of the symbolic interactionist perspective. Professor Loseke is currently interested in studying social problems, identity and the sociology of social services. Her latest publication, Thinking about Social Problems: An Introduction to Constructionist Perspectives, has received excellent reviews for being a truly sociological text. This particular social problems book does not, as many social problems texts do, analyze what current social problems are and what can be done about them. Instead, it analyzes, in true symbolic interactionist and constructionist fashion, the way that social problems are conceived and who is in power to control such conceptions. Loseke also won the Charles Horton Cooley Award for a book she published titled The Battered Woman and Shelters: The Social Construction of Wife Abuse. Currently, Loseke is on the Board of Directors of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. She is also an advisory editor for the Journal, Social Problems. Loseke was the president of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction from 1996-1997 as well as the co-editor of the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography from 1994-1999. Loseke has made significant contributions to sociological literature through the use of the symbolic interactionists perspective. For more information see the following website: http://www.ualberta.ca/~cjscopy/reviews/.index.html