Tabi White
Tabi
White received her Bachelor’s degree summa cum laude in Sociology
from the University of California, Berkeley in 2005 before moving to
Bloomington to enter the Sociology program at Indiana University. Her areas
of interest are broadly concentrated in Organizational and Institutional
Theory, Medical Sociology, and Innovation and Diffusion as Network
Processes. Her next project will be studying the role of diffusion of
information and agency in creating epidemics, and is involved at varying
levels with several other active studies. Tabi’s most recent research
project was a study of tuberculosis clinics in San Francisco applying
symbolic interactionism to neoinstitutionalism.
While Tabi is an adherent to the philosophy of mixed methodologies in social
science research, her research experience has traditionally been
qualitatively focused; her preferred method is the extended case method. In
addition to her experience as an ethnographer, she has used mixed
interviews, surveys, questionnaires and vignettes, focus groups, and
triangulated secondary resource analysis in previous research projects. Her
current and past projects have made use of these methods in examining the
construction of gender through symbolic gestures, conflict abatement within
correctional systems, sex clubs and identity formation, and immigration
patterns in urban settings.
In addition to sociological research, Tabi is an active member of the
Organizations, Occupations, and Work (OOW) section of the American
Sociological Association (ASA), holds a position in the Graduate Student
Association within the Department, and the owner of the graduate listserv.
If you have any questions or common interests you would like to discuss,
feel free contact Tabi by email at tabwhite(at)indiana(dot)edu.
