Gaye Tuchman

• Ph. D., Brandeis university, 1969
• Professor Emeritus at University of Connecticut

The contemporary definition of racial, ethnic, and class diversity is very different than that of the late nineteenth-century. Then people identified what today we call ethnic groups as races; their distinctions within and among social classes also diverged from ours. Yet, by late nineteenth-century criteria—even by twentieth-century standards—high...

Although presidents of US universities are traditionally drawn from the professoriate, once appointed campus presidents tend become top managers in the “corporate university.” University administration therefore increasingly involves the development of strategic plans and other business-based strategies designed to maximize revenues and instantiate...

Since roughly 1980, the rationalization of higher education has been escalating. That is, means-end schema and bureaucratic organization have become ever more dominant as the authority over academic matters has been shifting from the professoriate to managers who in the mid-twentieth century had been mainly responsible for economic affairs and “mak...

To be published in Tressie McMillan Cottom and Wiliam Darity, eds., For-Profit U: The Growing Role of For-Profit Colleges in Higher Education;" eds. forthcoming from AERA Publishing

Journalism's transition from an industrial age to an information age and the unstable economics of profit-driven newsmaking have allowed for an unprecedented level of citizen input and involvement in the making of news. Here, new relationships between legacy and innovative newsmaking are forged and new models of newsmaking emerge. In this article,...

In most debates over its future, the university is represented—by both its critics and its champions—as a secular temple for learning, a sacred space freed from the more mundane concerns that trouble other institutions. But lately this lofty image looks increasingly tarnished, especially with regard to public research universities. There, a new...

I have a colleague in the Department of Journalism who speaks about his work with a degree of passion that one usually doesn‘t hear in academic circles. An expert on Central Asian reporters. he covers reporters and editors working – or trying to work -- in these authoritarian countries that were once part of the Soviet Union. My colleague‘s departm...

Journalistic practices so limit access to the media that they have become “a means not to know.”

L'A. etudie la question des effets des medias sur les individus dans la societe americaine, dans le cadre des theories que certains chercheurs en communication ont presentees a ce sujet. Il met en evidence deux etudes recentes menees sur le theme des effets des medias, qui mettent l'accent sur le facteur culturel rattache a ces effets

Drawing on data gathered through qualitative techniques, I suggest that the management of problems faced by children with a specific invisible neurological difference, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, teaches us about problematic areas of postindustrial society. I pay particular attention to how members of the children's and parents' separ...

[examine] the use of historical methods in social science research / this essay has an implicit theme: whether done by social scientists or historians, historical work requires a point of view / a point of view necessarily includes an interpretive framework that implicitly contains some notion of the "meaning of history" (PsycINFO Database Record (...

For more than 50 years, the children and grandchildren of Jews who immigrated from Eastern Europe to New York City have loved Chinese restaurant food and incorporated it into their new culture and identity as New York Jews. This practice goes against the general sociological understanding that ethnic groups form their identities out of their “tradi...

the social construction of an ethnic pattern

Before about 1840, there was little prestige attached to the writing of novels, and most English novelists were women. By the turn of the twentieth century, “men of letters” acclaimed novels as a form of great literature, and most critically successful novelists were men. In the book, sociologist Gaye Tuchman examines how men succeeded in redefinin...

This article expands previous work on the impact of the consolidation of literature on the opportunities for Victorian women writers. That work had indicated that, as the high-culture novel evolved, the occupation "novelist" behaved like an "empty field" and men edged women out of their former numerical dominance as novelists. This paper examines t...

Reviewing past research on news and mass media, this article charges it is “administrative” research which accepts the presuppositions of the media being studied, particularly their emphasis on “facts” as discrete and objective phenomena. It also suggests that there are epistemological problems implicit in such concepts as “bias” and “refraction” u...

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Gaye Tuchman, Arlene Kaplan Daniels, and James Benet, eds. Hearth and Home: Ima9es of llomen in the Mass Media (New York: Oxford University Press, 1978—no price given, but available in hardback and paperback) Maurice Horn's Women in the Comics (New York: Chelsea House, 1977—$15.00) Charles K. Wolfe's Tennessee Strings: The Story of Country Music in...

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Explores the ways in which television newsmen maintain objectivity by drawing upon visual perceptions associated with either sociocultural or role definitions. (DM)

The newspapermen studied believe they may mitigate such continual pressures as deadlines, possible libel suits, and anticipated reprimands of superiors by being able to claim that their work is "objective." This article examines three factors which help a newsman to define an "objective fact": form, content, and interorganizational relationships. I...

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Traducción de: Making News. A Study in the Construction of Reality Estudio sobre los recursos de que pueden disponer los informadores, en cuanto profesionales de los periódicos, los servicios informativos como organizaciones complejas y finalmente, sobre los métodos de organización: cómo los informadores determinan los hechos y enmarcan los acontec...

Xerox reproduction. Thesis (Ph. D.)--Brandeis University, 1969.