Archives: Publications
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Picturing Labor: A Visual Ethnography of the Coal Mine Labor Process
Coal mining was among the most dangerous, physically demanding, and socially consequential forms of industrial labor in American history. In Picturing Labor, Eric Margolis applies visual ethnographic methods to the coal mine labor process, using photographs to document and analyze…
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Architectural and built environment discourses in an educational context: the Gottscho and Schleisner Collection
This article was downloaded by: [Sheila Fram] On: 24 October 2011, At: 06:54 Publisher: Routledge Informa Ltd Registered in England and Wales Registered Number: 1072954 Registered office: Mortimer House, 37-41 Mortimer Street, London W1T 3JH, UK Visual Studies Publication details,…
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Caught Napping: Images of Surveillance, Discipline and Punishment on the Body of the Schoolchild
This article examines how surveillance, discipline, and punishment have been inscribed on the bodies of schoolchildren throughout history. Drawing on historical photographs and visual ethnographic methods, Margolis and Fram analyze the ways schools have used physical control and monitoring to…
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School as Ceremony and Ritual: How Photography Illuminates Performances of Ideological Transfer
Images of the places and activities called “school” as a formal institution are rich data for the inquiring gaze. This article
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Images of assimilation: photographs of Indian schools in Arizona
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the United States government established a network of boarding schools designed to assimilate Native American children into white American culture. In this article, Eric Margolis and Jeremy Rowe examine photographs from these…
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Integrating Sociology: Observations on Race and Gender Relations in Sociology Graduate Programs
What do the experiences of graduate students reveal about the state of race and gender relations within sociology itself? In this collaborative study, Eric Margolis and Mary Romero surveyed graduate students across multiple departments to document patterns of inclusion and…
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Looking at Discipline, Looking at Labor: Photographic Representations of Indian Boarding Schools
Eric Margolis is a sociologist in the Division of Educational Leadershipand Policy Studies at Arizona State University. His article, ‘ClassPictures: Representations of Race, Gender and Ability in a Century of SchoolPhotography’ (Visual Sociology Vol. 14,1999) was reprinted in Education Policy…
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Paradigms, Disciplines and Human Understanding
In this theoretical article, Eric Margolis examines three influential paradigms for understanding education — those associated with Talcott Parsons, B.F. Skinner, and Adam Smith — and argues that each offers only a partial and static explanation for what is fundamentally…
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Three Static Explanations for Describing Education: Parsons, Skinner and Smith
essay on Durkheim and Freire (above). The form of Parsons ' discussions of the functions of education systems is the familiar LIGA "paradigm. "2 In going beyond these general functions, Parsons differentiates four functions of the higher education complex, each…
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Liberal Documentary Goes to School: Farm Security Administration Photographs of Students, Teachers and Schools
During the Great Depression, photographers working for the Farm Security Administration produced some of the most iconic images of American hardship and resilience. In this article, Eric Margolis turns his attention to the FSA photographs that documented schools, teachers, and…