Articles by Eric Margolis
Refereed journal articles, book chapters, essays, and research papers.
Coal Mining
“Images in Struggle: Photographs of Colorado Coal Camps.” Visual Sociology, (1994) Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 4-26
1994
Between Feast and Famine: Coal Communities in the American West
1993
Colorado’s Wobbly Strike
1985
Life is Life: A Mining Family in The West
1992
Mining Photographs: Unearthing the Meanings of Historical Photos
2006
Picturing Labor: A Visual Ethnography of the Coal Mine Labor Process
1988
The Greater Evil: Radical Unions and the End of Industrial Feudalism
1987Review Essays and Encyclopedia Entries
“The Matter with Kids Today,” Humanity and Society (1996) Vol. 20 No 2, pp. 97-100
1996
2023 chapter by Mary Romero and Eric Margolis, Not a Total Institution
2023
Hogwarts Identified As Underperforming School! Ministry Takes Over, Headmaster Replaced Back To Basics Curriculum Imposed
2007
Teaching John Dewey: An essay review of three books on John Dewey. Education Review, 10(14) November 2007
2007
The Ghosts of Bisbee
2019Education
Architectural and built environment discourses in an educational context: the Gottscho and Schleisner Collection
2011
Caught Napping: Images of Surveillance, Discipline and Punishment on the Body of the Schoolchild
2007
Class Pictures: Representations of Race, Gender, and Ability in a Century of School of Photography
2004
Dissed in the Department: Women of Color Graduate Students Talk about Integrating Sociology
2000
Higher Education and the Capitalist Turn: Research and Reflections
2015
Images of assimilation: photographs of Indian schools in Arizona
2004
Integrating Sociology: Observations on Race and Gender Relations in Sociology Graduate Programs
1999
Liberal Documentary Goes to School: Farm Security Administration Photographs of Students, Teachers and Schools
2005
Looking at Discipline, Looking at Labor: Photographic Representations of Indian Boarding Schools
2004
Paradigms, Disciplines and Human Understanding
2011
School as Ceremony and Ritual: How Photography Illuminates Performances of Ideological Transfer
2011
The Changing Hidden Curriculum – A Personal Recollection
2001
The Department is Very Male, Very White, Very Old, Very Conservative
1998
The Shift from Internationalism to Identity Politics: From Our Oppressions to My Oppression
2019
Three Static Explanations for Describing Education: Parsons, Skinner and Smith
1988
Through a Lens Darkly: U.S. Urban schools and the photographic imagination
2011Visual Theory and Methods
Blind Spots: Thoughts for Visual Sociology Upon Reading Martin Jay’s Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought
1999Methodological Approaches to Disclosing Historic Photographs
2007
On Using Found Object Photographs in School Research
2016
Video Ethnography: Toward a Reflexive Paradigm for Documentary
1998
Visual Ethnography: Tools for Mapping the AIDS Epidemic
1995
