Conroy, Tom

Bio Sketch

Tom Conroy is a sociologist at Lehman College—CUNY, working on everyday life, ethnomethodology, and cultural theory. His article "Culturally 'Doped' or Not?" compares Michel de Certeau, Harold Garfinkel, and John Fiske on the everyday, asking whether ordinary actors are compliant "cultural dopes" or active, creative producers of meaning. He matters to Geoffrey's research as a comparative voice who stages the everyday's practice-theory against ethnomethodology and cultural studies.

Key Works

• "Culturally 'Doped' or Not?: On Ethnomethodology, Critical Theory and the Exegesis of Everyday Life Practices" (c. 2010) — de Certeau vs. Garfinkel vs. Fiske on the everyday; the "cultural dope" question; methodological eclecticism.

Key Concepts

Concepts associated with this author that have pages in this wiki:

• Everyday Life — the everyday as a "gloss term"; practice (de Certeau) vs. context (Garfinkel/Fiske).

Relevance to Geoffrey's Research

Conroy's "cultural dope" question — are ordinary actors compliant or creative? — directly stages the wiki's Theories of the Everyday debate (de Certeau's tactics vs. Lefebvre's alienation vs. Felski's affirmation). His reading of Fiske's habitus (via Bourdieu) connects to Upton's materialist account of the everyday, and his ethnomethodological alternative offers a third way that avoids both critical-theory dualism and the cultural-studies celebration of resistance.

Source Support

Source notes in this wiki drawn from this author's work:

• Culturally 'Doped' or Not? (Conroy)