Hidden Dimensions of Work: Revisiting The Chicago School Methods of Everett Hughes and Anselm Strauss

This book is a compilation of articles written from 1971 to 1996 and written for Dr. Everett Hughes at Boston College or Dr. Anselm Strauss at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center. The articles describe different work scenarios from the perspective of the workers. The early ones were written for class assignments at Boston College or were part Dr. Davis’s dissertation work. The later ones were written for conferences or journal articles. None of the papers have appeared in print but all represent the qualitative approach known as the Chicago school or Chicago tradition as taught by both Dr. Hughes and Dr. Strauss.

Dr. Davis has taught sociology at Boston College, California State University at East Bay and Chico (where he received his B.A. and M.A. degrees in sociology), Dominican University of California, State University of New York College at Fredonia, and the University of Maryland University College Asian Division where he served also as Area Director for Korea and Okinawa, Japan. Dr. Davis is currently Dean of Business, Social Science and Humanities and Career Technical Education at Yuba College in Marysville, California, where he started his college career as a freshman in 1964. Dr. Davis served six years in the U.S. Naval Reserves from 1963-1968, conducted community development research in India in 1986 and has been an organizational consultant in San Francisco, California for several years. His current research interests include the study of work and social worlds, the social construction of illusions and the sociology of organizational failure. You may contact him at his office email address at edavis@yccd.edu.