Jack Haas, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus, sociologist, speaker, publisher

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About the Author

Education

• B.S., Brockport State University, Sociology,1962.
• Doctor of Social Science, Syracuse University, Sociology, January, 1971.
• Dissertation Title: From Punk to Scale: A Study of High-Steel Ironworkers.

Current Status at McMaster

• Professor Emeritus

Professional Organizations

• American Sociological Association,
• Society for the Study of Symbolic-Interaction
• Canadian Anthropology and Sociology Association
• American Psychological Association
• Society for Community Research and Action

Teaching Experience

• Instructor, Syracuse University, 1966-67
• Instructor, Penn State University, 1967-69
• Instructor, Southern Illinois University, 970-71
• Assistant Professor, Southern Illinois University, 1970-71
• Assistant Professor, McMaster University, 1971-75
• Associate Professor, McMaster University, 1976-89
• Professor, McMaster University, 1989
• Professor Emeritus, McMaster University, 1996

Professional Activities

• 1. Reviewer of submitted articles for Sociology of Education, Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, Sociological Quarterly, Work and Occupations, Qualitative Methods, Symbolic Interaction, Sociological Focus,American Journal of Sociology, Sociology of Occupations and Professions.
• 2. North Central Awards Committee, 1973-74.
• 3. Review editor for Symbolic Interaction 1985-88, Sociological Focus, 1982-85.
• 4. External Reviewer for Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, 1984 and Department of Labour, 1981.
• 5. Chair and discussant for numerous sessions and roundtables.
• 6. Organizer session on Qualitative Sociology, North Central meetings, Spring '87.
• 7. Co-chair Ethnographic Conference at McMaster, May, 1987.
• 8. Organizer and Chair, "Addiction and Recovery," Learneds, Victoria, B.C. June 1989.
• 9. Chair "Special Issues in Qualitative Research", Qualitative Conference, York University. May '90.
• 10. Chair - "Special Topics in Methodology", Qualitative Research Conference, Ottawa, 1991.

Major Academic Interests

• Cooperatives and self-help organizations
• Sociology of occupations (training) and education
• Qualitative methods
• Social organization with an emphasis upon social control agents and processes
• The relationship between symbolic interactionism and structural theories
• Deviance
• Medical sociology
• Professions, adult socialization
• Dramaturgical analysis
• Addictive behaviour and Recovery
• Sex Abuse and Recovery
• Consulting
• 1) With Helen Thomas, HSC, on Health Study at Waterdown High, 90-91.
• 2) Have co-led Male Survivors of Sex Abuse Group for Halton Sex Abuse Programme. Spring-Summer 1991.
• 3) Elected to Board of Halton Sex Abuse Centre, Summer 1991-present.
• 4) Led a therapy group of sexually abused adolescent males for Hamilton- Wentworth Children's Aid, October, 1991-92
• 5) Co-facilitator of Spousal Survival Group, 1992-93.
• 6) Co-facilitator of Adult Male Survivor Group, 1993.

Honours and Awards

• Magna cum laude
• Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities
• Kappa Delta Pi
• Alpha Kappa Delta
• Maurice Manel Memorial Lecture - Department of Sociology, York University

Courses Taught

• i) Undergraduate Introductory, Social Problems, Principles of Sociology, Social Psychology, Race and Ethnic Relations, Deviance, Qualitative Methods, Occupations and Professions, Education, Special Topics in Deviance, Education, Social Psychology, Sociology of Addiction and Recovery. Dysfunctional Families. Sociology of Family Violence and Abuse
• ii) Graduate

Graduate Supervision

• M.A.s - 6 completed;
• Ph.D.s - 2 completed; 2 inactive

Graduate Teaching

• 1978-79 Soc. 6R3 - Individual and Society I, Soc. 742 - Field Study Methodology
• 1980-81 Soc. 718 - Sociology of Occupations
• 1981-82 Soc. 718 - Sociology of Occupations
• 1982-83 Soc. 742 - Field Study Methodology
• 1983-84 Soc. 718 - Sociology of Occupations
• 1985-94 Soc. 742 - Field Study Methodology (alternate years)
• 1997-Soc.742

Research Grants

• Professional Socialization Study
  • SSHRC Grants
    J. Haas, V. Marshall, 1974-75 $6,507
    W. Shaffir J. Haas, W. Shaffir 1975-76 $7,350
    J. Haas, W. Shaffir 1976-77 $9,383
    J. Haas, N. Herman 1987, SSHRC
• Qualitative Research
  • Conference at McMaster University
    J. Haas, R. Hornosty, 1990
    J. Richardson, W. Shaffir,
    Arts and Science Programme,
    Arts Research Board
    

Lifetime Publications

• a) Books
  • Jack Haas and William Shaffir, eds., Decency and Deviance: Studies in Deviant Behaviour (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart Ltd., 1974).
  • Jack Haas and William Shaffir, eds., Shaping Identity in Canadian Society (Toronto: Prentice-Hall Ltd., 1978).
  • Jack Haas and William Shaffir, Becoming Doctors: The Adoption of a Cloak of Competence (Connecticut: J.A.I. Press, 1987).
• b) Chapters in Books
  • Jack Haas, Blanche Geer, Charles ViVona, Marilyn Walker, Clyde Woods, and Howard S. Becker, "Learning the Ropes: Studies in Situational Learning," In I. Deutscher and E. Thompson, eds., Among the People: Studies of the Urban Poor, Basic Books, 1968:209-233. (Adapted and reprinted as "On the Job" in John Beck, et. al., eds., Toward a Sociology of Education, New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Books, 1976:346-352.)
  • Jack Haas and William Shaffir, "Field Workers' Mistakes at Work: Problems in Maintaining Research and Researcher Bargains" in William Shaffir, et. al., The Social Experience of Doing Field Work (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1980). Adapted and extended in Haas and Shaffir, Becoming Doctors: The Adoption of a Cloak of Competence. Connecticut: JAI Press, 1987.)
  • Jack Haas, Victor Marshall and William Shaffir, "Initiation into Medicine: Neophyte Uncertainty and the Ritual Ordeal of Professionalization." Pp. 109-123 in K. Lundy and B. Warme, eds., Work in the Canadian Context: Continuity Despite Change. Toronto: Butterworths, 1981.
  • Jack Haas, "The Process of Apprenticeship: Ritual Ordeal and the Adoption of a Cloak of Competence" in M. Coy, Anthropological Perspectives on Apprenticeship: From Theory to Method and Back Again, Albany: State University of New York, 1988.
  • Jack Haas and William Shaffir, "Becoming a Doctor: Professionalization of the Self," in M.L. Dietz, et.al., eds., Doing Everyday Life: Ethnography as Human Lived Experience. (Toronto: Copp, ClarkeandPittman), 1994.
  • Jack Haas and William Shaffir, "Socialization," in R. Brym, ed., Introduction to Sociology, (Toronto: Harcourt, Brace and Co.), 1995. Revised for second edition,forthcoming 1998.
• c) Refered Articles
  • Jack Haas, "Binging: Educational Control Among High-Steel Ironworkers," The American Behavioral Scientist 1 (Sept., Oct., 1972): 27-34. Reprinted in B. Geer, ed., Learning to Work, Sage Publications, 1972 and in R. Khoury, ed., The Sociology of the Offbeat. New York: Nellen, 1980.
  • Jack Haas, "Learning Real Feelings: A Study of High Steel Ironworkers Reactions to Fear and Danger," Sociology of Work and Occupations 4 (May) 1977:147-170. Reprinted in J. Haas and W. Shaffir, Shaping Identity in Canadian Society (Toronto: Prentice-Hall Ltd., 1978) and H. Applebaum, Work in Market and Industrial Society, Vol. II. New York: State University of New York Press, 1984.
  • Jack Haas, "The Stages of the High-Steel Ironworker Apprentice Career." Sociological Quarterly 15 (Winter) 1974:93-108. Reprinted in G. L. Sicard and P. Weinberger, Sociology For Our Times. Chicago: Scott Foresman and Co., 1977.
  • Jack Haas and William Shaffir, "The Professionalization of Medical Students: Developing Competence and a Cloak of Competence," Symbolic Interaction 1(Nov. 1977): 71-88. Reprinted in J. Haas and W. Shaffir, Shaping Identity in Canadian Society, Toronto: Prentice-Hall, 1978. Slightly adapted for David Coburn, et al, eds., Health and Canadian Society: A Sociological Perspective, Toronto: Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 1980. In L. Tepperman and J. Curtis, eds., Sociology: An Introduction, Toronto: McGraw-Hill, Ryerson, Ltd., 1988 and in J. Henslin Down to Earth Sociology, 2nd-5th eds., Glencoe, Ill.: Free Press, 1988.
  • Jack Haas, et. al.,"Competing Commitments: Unanticipated Problems of Field Research." Qualitative Sociology (Spring, 1980): 56-71.
  • Jack Haas and William Shaffir, "Ritual Evaluation of Competence: The Hidden Curriculum of Professionalization in an Innovative Medical School," Work and Occupations, (1982): 131-154.
  • Jack Haas and William Shaffir, "Taking on the Role of Doctor: A Dramaturgical Analysis of Professionalization," Symbolic Interaction, 5 (1982): 187-203. Reprinted in K. Lundy and B. Warme, ( eds.), Work in the Canadian Context: Continuity Despite Change. 2nd ed. and D. Coburn, et al, Health and Canadian Society: A Sociological Perspective,. 2nd ed.
  • Jack Haas and William Shaffir, "The Fate of Idealism Revisited," Urban Life 13, (1984): 63-81.
  • Jack Haas, "The Interpretive Process for Learning the 'Taken for Granteds': From Stranger to Confidant and Back Again," in N. Gibson, et.al., eds., Subjectivity: Perceptions and Biases, in electronic form, (Athens, G.A.: University of Georgia).1992.
  • Jack Haas, "Becoming an Addict" in N. Herman,ed.Deviance:An Interactionist Perspective,General Hall Publishing, 1995.
  • Jack Haas, "Recovery from Addiction Through Twelve Step Programs," in N. Herman, ed. Deviance: An Interactionist Perspective. General Hall Publishing, 1995.
• d) Book Reviews
  • Jacobs, Glenn (ed.), The Participant Observer: Encounters with Social Reality. New York: George Braziller, 1970 in the American Sociological Review, 36, (1971): 1115-1116.
  • Gwynn, Nettler, Social Concerns. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976 in The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology 14 (1977): 260-261.
  • Robert C. Prus and S. Irini, Hookers, Rounders, and Desk Clerks. Toronto: Gage in Canadian Journal of Criminology 23 (1981): 117-118.
  • Castel, Robert, Francoise Castel and Anne Lovell, The Psychiatric Society. New York: Columbia University Press, 1982 in Contemporary Sociology (Nov. 1983): 693-694.
  • Lane A. Gerber, Married to Their Careers: Career and Family Dilemnas in Doctors' Lives. New York: Tavistock Publications, 1983 in Contemporary Sociology 13 (May 1984): 353-354.
  • Davis M. Johnson, Physicians in the Making: Personal, Academic and Socioeconomic Characteristics of Medical Students from 1950 to 2000 in Contemporary Sociology 13 (November 1984): 756.
  • Agar, Michael H., Independents Declared: The Dilemmas of Independent Trucking. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1986 in American Journal of Sociology 48 (Spring 1988): 768-769.
• ii) Not Peer Reviewed
  • Jack Haas, Questions, Reflections and Considerations, McMaster Printing, 1975- 76, Vols. 1-7. An experimental approach to teaching through journal writing and self-directed learning.
  • Jack Haas, "Science and the State," Social Problems Theory Division Newsletter, 1977.
  • Jack Haas, Victor Marshall and William Shaffir, "First Months in the Field: Some Unanticipated Problems of Field Research," Handbook, Lifestyle and Health Research Workshop. Toronto: Department of Behavioural Science, 1978.
  • Jack Haas and R. Hawkins, Programme for Male Survivors of Sex Abuse, Halton Sex Abuse Centre, Jan., 1991.
• ii) Non-Refereed Articles
  • Jack Haas, "New Bottles but the Same Old Wine: Problems in Creating a Humanistic Physician," Journal of Alternative Medicine (Winter 1985): 20 -25.
  • Jack Haas, "Prospects for Consumer Research," in P. Anderson and M. Wallendorf (eds.), Advances in Consumer Research 14 (1986): 160-164.

PAPERS PRESENTED

• i) Invited
  • Jack Haas, "Social Control Mechanisms of Bureaucracies: A Case Study," March, 1970, presented at the Pennsylvania Sociological Meetings.
  • Jack Haas, "The Hard-Hats: An Inside Look at the Non-so-Silent, Silent Majority," January, 1971, presented at the New York State Upstate Sociological Meetings.
  • Jack Haas, "The Academic Career" paper presented at American Sociological Association, August, 1976.
  • Jack Haas, "Graduate Students as Apprentices", presented at Ontario Sociological Association Meetings, October, 1985.
  • Jack Haas, "How It Works: Self Help Changing Self," Qualitative Sociology Ottawa, May 1 1991.
  • a) Peer Reviewed
  • Jack Haas, "The Stages of an Ironworker Apprentice's Career," August, 1973, presented at the American Sociological Association Meetings.
  • Jack Haas, "The Occupational Culture of High Steel Ironworkers," April, 1975, presented at the Conference on Blue Collar Workers and their Communities, York University.
  • Jack Haas, "Learning Real Feelings: A Study of High Steel Ironworkers Reactions to Work Danger," May, 1975, presented at the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association Meetings.
  • Jack Haas and William Shaffir, "The Socialization of Medical Students: Developing Competence and a Protective Carapace," paper presented at a plenary session for the Society for the Study of Social Problems. August, 1976.
  • Jack Haas and William Shaffir, "Innovative Professionalization: Does the Difference Make a Difference?" International Sociological Association, Ippsala, Sweden (August, 1978).
  • Jack Haas and William Shaffir, "Professionalizing Adaptations to Ritual Ordeals of Uncertainty," Canadian Sociological and Anthropological Association, Montreal, (June, 1980).
  • Jack Haas and William Shaffir, "Becoming Docs: A Dramaturgical Analysis of Professionalization." Paper presented at American Sociological Association Meetings, Summer, 1981.
  • Jack Haas, "Prospects for Consumer Research," Association for Consumer Research, Toronto, October, 1986.
  • b) Not Peer Reviewed
  • Jack Haas, "What do you want -- Good Grammar and Good Taste?" for section on "The Teaching of Sociology: Professionalization or Political Praxis?" June, 1971, presented at the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association Meetings.
  • Invited.
  • Jack Haas, Victor Marshall and William Shaffir, "The Socialization of Medical Students at McMaster Medical School," Spring, 1973, presented at the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association Meetings.
  • Jack Haas, and Victor Marshall and Bill Shaffir, "First Months in the Field: Methodological Concerns in a Study of Professional Socialization," Seminar given at the Graduate Faculty, City University of New York, April 23, 1975.
  • Jack Haas, William Shaffir and Victor Marshall "Anticipated and Unanticipated Problems of Field Research: Studying Medical Students at McMaster University," presented May, 1975 at the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association Meetings.
  • Jack Haas, et al, "Anxiety and Changing Conceptions of Self: A Study of First Year Medical Students" presented May, 1975 at Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association.
  • Jack Haas and William Shaffir, "Problems of Cooperative Fieldwork," Midwest Sociological Association, April, 1987.
  • Jack Haas and William Shaffir, "Professionalization as Symbolic-Ideological Legitimation," and "Field Methods in a Study of Professional Socialization,", Maurice Manel Memorial Lecture, York University, Spring, 1981.
  • Jack Haas and William Shaffir, "Innovative Curriculum but Traditional Graduate," Association for American Behavioral Sciences in Medical Education, Montreal, Fall, 1981.
  • Jack Haas and William Shaffir, "Student Perception and Adaptations to Radical Innovations in Professional Socialization." Presented at American Sociological Association Meetings, 1981.
  • Jack Haas and William Shaffir, "The Fate of Idealism Revisited," Paper Presented at American Sociological Association Meetings, Detroit, September 1983.
  • Jack Haas and William Shaffir, "From Uncertainty to Certainty: Impression Management and the Professionalizing Ordeal of Medical Students." Paper presented at Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association Meetings, Vancouver, B.C., June 1983.
  • Jack Haas, "Processes of Reputational Control: High-steel Ironworker Apprentices and Medical Students", Qualitative Research Conference, May, 1986.
  • Jack Haas, "Learning the 'Taken for Granteds'," Qualitative Research Conference, Windsor, May, 1988.
  • Jack Haas, "Alienation and Addiction: Addiction as Symptomatic of Dis-ease", Midwest Sociological Association, St. Louis, April, 1989.
  • Jack Haas, "Addiction and Recovery as Ritual Processes of Transcendence," International Sociological Association, Madrid, July, 1990.
  • Jack Haas, "`How It Works': Self-Help Changing Self," Qualitative Research Conference, Carlton, May, 1991.
  • Jack Haas, "Healing the Child Within," Qualitative Research Conference, Waterloo, May, 1992.
  • Jack Haas, "Self-help as School for Learning the Important Things," Qualitative Research Conference, Waterloo, May, 1993.
  • Jack Haas, "Becoming an Addict/Alcoholic" Qualitative Research Conference, Waterloo, May, 1994.
  • Jack Haas, "Healing Through Narrative: Sharing Their Experience, Strength and Hope," at the Qualitative Research in Education Conf. The University of Georgia, Jan., 1995.

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