Dr. Alan Ryave
aryave@csudh.edu
(310)243-3430
 

Education

Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles, 1973

M.A., University of California at Los Angeles, 1966

B.A., University of California at Los Angeles, 1964

Courses:

Methods of Sociological Research, Qualitative Research Methods, Social Psychology, Small Group Interactions, Introduction to Sociology

Other teaching interests:

Conversation analysis, Belief systems, Ethnomethodology

Research Interests:

Details of everyday social life, e.g., Gossip interactions, Non-production of behavior, Systematic self-observation, Story-telling in conversation

Selected Publications:
Systematic Self-Observation, Sage Publications, Qualitative Research Methods Series, No. 49, Thousand Oaks, CA, 2002. (with Noelie Rodriguez)

“Withholding Compliments in Everyday Life and the Covert Management of Disaffiliation”, in Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Vol. 27, No. 3, October, 1999. (with Noelie Rodriguez and Joseph Tracewell)

“On the Competitive Management of Face: A Case Study of Mentally Retarded Interaction”, Semiotica, Spring, 1995. (with Noelie Rodriguez)

“The Structural Organization and Micropolitics of Everyday Secret Telling Interactions”, in Qualitative Sociology, Vol. 15, No. 2, Spring, 1992. (with Noelie Rodriguez)

“Telling Lies in Everyday Life: Motivational and Organizational Consequences of Sequential Preference”, in Qualitative Sociology, Vol. 13, No. 3, Fall, 1998. (with Noelie Rodriguez)

“On Studying Interaction in Everyday Life”, in Shakaigakku- Ronso, Nihon University, Japan, March, 1988. (with Noelie Rodriguez)