Contents
HUMAN ARCHITECTURE
Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge
Volume IV • Issues 1&2 • Fall 2005 / Spring 2006
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SCHOLARSHIPS OF LEARNING
vii Editor’s Note: Peer Reviewing the Peer Review Process
1 Rules of the Game: Finding My Place in a Racialized World
James Barrett, University of Massachusetts Boston
9 In Digestion: Processing Self in a Cycle of Consumption
Jennifer Maniates, University of Massachusetts Boston
21 From Laundry to Social Justice to Counseling: Redefining Work as Synonymous to Life
Caitlin Farren, University of Massachusetts Boston
29 Accepting Myself: Negotiating Self-Esteem and Conformity in Light of Sociological Theories
Sheerin Hosseini, University of Massachusetts Boston
45 An Unusual Immigration Tale: Why I Am Miserable in the Land of Opportunity
T. Portal, University of Massachusetts Boston
53 Transracial Adoption and Sociological Theory: Understanding My Identity
Elena VanderMolen, University of Massachusetts Boston
63 Why Am I Watching This?
Kristen Slavin, University of Massachusetts Boston
69 To Be or Not to Be…Thin: Sociological Reflections on the Price I Paid to Fit In
Kristin White, University of Massachusetts Boston
77 My Father, My Self: Employing a Sociological Imagination to Transcend the Imaginary in Both Self and Society
Sean Conroy, University of Massachusetts Boston
87 Coaching Myself Beyond Self-doubt: The Significance of the Subconscious Mind in the Sociological Imagination
Christine Berry, University of Massachusetts Boston
99 Sociology of My Anger: A Single Mother’s Struggles to Survive in A Patriarchal World
Jennifer Pike, University of Massachusetts Boston
115 Multicultural Literacy: Steve’s Treatment Plan
Noah Youngstrom, University of Massachusetts Boston
121 “Why Am I So Fat?”: A Study of the Interrelationship Between Poor Body Image and Social Anxiety
Jessica Haley, University of Massachusetts Boston
131 Growing Up African-American, Christian, and Female: The Dichotomies of My Life
Kemba Gray, University of Massachusetts Boston
139 Making a Home, Building a Family: Traditions, Boundaries, and Virtues
Verena-Cathérine Niederhöfer, University of Massachusetts Boston
147 Altruism or Guilt: Applying My Sociological Imagination to Choosing a Helping Profession
Elizabeth McCauley, University of Massachusetts Boston
157 Not Just a Wave, But Part of the Ocean: Examining My Small Town Roots
Jennie Porter, University of Massachusetts Boston
165 Women of Color and TANF (Temporary Aid to Needy Families): Issues, Barriers, and Hindrances
Asjah Monroe, University of Massachusetts Boston
179 Private Sociologies and Burawoy’s Sociology Types:
Reflections on Newtonian and Quantal Sociological Imaginations
Mohammad H. Tamdgidi, University of Massachusetts Boston
SYMPOSIUM: ON HEALING
199 Ode to Mortar and Bricks
Shoshana Lev
201 The Case of Maria and Me: Diagnosing the Ills of Western Psychiatry
Rachel Lev, New York University
207 Regression in the Service of Transcendence: Reading Michael Washburn
Shoshana Lev, The Institute of Transpersonal Psychology
211 From Blocks to Bridges
Arie Kupferwasser, Creative Art Therapist
227 The Struggle for Identity: Issues and Debates in the Emerging Specialty of
American Psychiatry from the Late 19th Century to Post-WWII
Kristen Ellard
265 Tables of Contents of Previous Issues
271 Journal Order Form
