Description: Sociologist Frances Chaput Waksler offers information about her writings on phenomenological sociology, sociology of childhood, the Other, face-to-face interaction, and the New Orleans sniper, as well as on whippets, dogs, and gardening.
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I received my Ph.D. from the Boston University Department of Sociology in 1973. I taught sociology at Wheelock College from 1973 to 2008 and retired as Professor Emerita. Since my retirement I have continued my scholarly pursuits, writing books and articles and attending conferences.
Phenomenology has offered me a congenial philosophical framework for doing sociology. It counsels minimizing assumptions and letting the data speak for itself. Sociological topics that I have investigated from within this framework:
Interaction and Everyday Life: Phenomenological and Ethnomethodological Essays in Honor of George Psathas