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Melvin Pollner
Researcher at University of California, Los Angeles
Publications - 20
Citations - 1905
Melvin Pollner is an academic researcher from University of California, Los Angeles. The author has contributed to research in topics: Ethnomethodology & Mental health. The author has an hindex of 15, co-authored 20 publications receiving 1837 citations.
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Divine relations, social relations, and well-being.
TL;DR: Regression analysis reveals that divine relationships have a significant effect on several measures of well-being (controlling for sociodemographic background variables and church attendance).
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Mundane Reason: Reality in Everyday and Sociological Discourse
TL;DR: The social construction of mundane reason has been studied in this paper, where the authors discuss the self-preservation of reason and the politics of experience in the context of mundaneity.
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Dirty Work Designations: Their Features and Consequences in a Psychiatric Setting
Robert M. Emerson,Melvin Pollner +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the origin and consequences of a community mental health team's designation of some of its encounters with clients as "shit work" and suggest that dirty work designations function publicly to reaffirm performance criteria, to express moral distance from a particular performance, and to tutor an observer into the preferred interpretation of a particular transaction.