UMass Boston

Medical Sociology, Care Work, Work and Occupations, Health and Aging, Health Services Organizations, Sociology of Mental Health, Emotions, Qualitative Methodology

PhD, University of Massachusetts Amherst

• BOOK

   

• Jason Rodriquez. 2014. Labors of Love: Nursing Homes and the Structures of Care Work. New York: NYU Press.

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  PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES

   

• Rodriquez, Jason, Anmol Gupta, Staci Ballard, and Gary Siperstein. 2023. “Positive Identity Development through Community Engagement Among Emergent Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.” Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities.

• Rodriquez, Jason. 2022. “Reconfiguring the social organization of work in the intensive care unit: Changed relationships and new roles during COVID-19. Social Science & Medicine (2022): 115600.

• Jason Rodriquez, Anika Lanser, Holly E. Jacobs, Ashlyn Smith, Sharbari Ganguly. 2022. “When the Normative is Formative: Parents’ Perceptions of the Impacts of Inclusive Sports Programs.” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 19 (17):10889.

• Siperstein, Gary N., Staci C. Ballard, Holly E. Jacobs, Jason Rodriquez, and Timothy P. Shriver. 2022. “’A Place for Everybody’: Students’ Perspectives on Inclusive Behavior in School.” Educational Researcher. May 2022: Doi: https://doi.org/10.3102/001318

• Rodriquez, Jason. 2021. Negotiating Medical Authority: Shared Decision-Making in the ICU. Symbolic Interaction. 44(3) 555-575. https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.514

• Rodriquez, Jason and Kathrin Boerner. 2018. Social and organizational practices that influence hospice utilization in nursing homes. Journal of Aging Studies. Vol. 46: 76-81. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaging.2018.06.004

• Kathrin Boerner, Jason Rodriquez, Emma Quach, and Meghan Hendrickson. 2018. “Implementing the MOLST (Medical Order for Life-Sustaining Treatments): Challenges Faced by Nursing Home Staff. Geriatric Nursing. Volume 39(4): Pages 465–470. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gerinurse.2018.01.003

• Jason Rodriquez and Susan D. Scott. 2018. “When Clinicians Drop Out and Start Over After an Adverse Clinical Event.” Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety. Vol. 44:137–145. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcjq.2017.08.008

• Jason Rodriquez 2017. Doing More with Less: Intensive Care and the Logic of Flexible Teamwork. Research in the Sociology of Work: Emerging Conceptions of Work, Management, and the Labor Market. Vol. 30: 117-140. doi:10.1108/S0277-283320170000030006

Rodriquez's current research focuses on two areas: 1) ICU workers management of patients’ family involvement in end-of-life care decision-making and 2) social inclusion of children with intellectual and developmental disabilities in schools and communities. More broadly, his research interests include medical sociology, aging and the life course, work & occupations, identity, emotions, and qualitative methodology. Rodriquez's book, Labors of Love: Nursing Homes and the Structures of Care Work, published by NYU Press (2014) examines the moral meanings of work in the nursing home industry.