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Four Temporalities: Toward a Typology of Narrative Forms Sociological Theory (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-11 Simeon J. Newman
I outline four temporalities that appear in highly regarded explanatory historical social science. Given William Sewell’s centrality to the literature, I do so through a critique of his proposition that there are “three temporalities”—experimental time, teleology, and eventfulness—and that only the last of them is valid. I concede that his rejection of “experimental” time is justified. But I argue
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Rights Projects: A Relational Sociology of Rights in Globalization Sociological Theory (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-28 Minwoo Jung
Building on and extending relational sociology, this article establishes a relational sociology of rights. I argue that rights should not be viewed as substances but as social constructs that derive their meanings and significance within a relational setting. To illustrate how rights are constructed relationally, I introduce a new analytic concept: the rights project, the context-specific endeavor
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The Entangled Emergencies of COVID-19 Sociological Theory (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Claire Laurier Decoteau
City of Chicago officials adopted a “racial equity” approach to mitigate the disproportionate racial impact of COVID-19, yet according to interviews with racially and socioeconomically marginalized Chicagoans, this approach failed to address core vulnerabilities associated with health, housing, mental health, and welfare. This article argues that COVID-19 represents and reifies the convergence of three
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Class Experience Mobility through Consumption, Work, and Relationships Sociological Theory (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Taylor Laemmli
Sociological analyses of class mobility focus on enduring class movement. How might we reconceptualize class mobility to capture more shifting experiences of class? I propose a new way to theorize class mobility that is oriented toward the analysis of short-term class mobility. Class experience mobility (CEM) is a form of class mobility in which people temporarily access a class lifestyle that does
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Relational Durkheim: Homo Duplex as the Foundation of a Formalist Cultural Sociology Sociological Theory (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Kyle Puetz
I propose that the sociology of Émile Durkheim can serve as a useful foundation for a formalist cultural sociology. Durkheim’s homo duplex model of human cognition directs analytic attention to the relative balance of opportunities that the moral integration of society as a system of representations affords for establishing moral unity with others, on one hand, and realizing personal autonomy, on the
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Stranger in the Mirror: Exploring Somatic Defamiliarization Sociological Theory (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Eduardo Duran
This study explores the centrality of the senses for the maintenance or disruption of people’s commonsensical familiarity with the world. Drawing from in-depth interviews with people affected by depersonalization/derealization, which the American Psychiatric Association defines as a dissociative condition in which people perceive the world as dream-like, I conceptualize what I term somatic defamiliarization
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Playing up Difference Sociological Theory (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Krystal Laryea
How do groups reckon with differences in members’ identities and beliefs? A tension exists between groups, whose identities are singular and stably positioned, and their members, whose identities are intertwined and constituted in interaction. Existing work shows how this tension is addressed through downplaying difference, but we know less about how differences are played up in group life. Drawing
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The Interactional Zoo: Lessons for Sociology from Erving Goffman’s Engagement with Animal Ethology Sociological Theory (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Colin Jerolmack, Belicia Teo, Abigail Westberry
Erving Goffman is one of sociology’s most influential thinkers. Scholars debate the extent to which he worked in competing theoretical traditions (e.g., interactionist or structuralist), yet few acknowledge his intellectual indebtedness to animal ethology. This article traces how naturalistic studies of paralinguistic animal communication influenced Goffman’s corpus and specifies the ideas he built
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From Public Sociology to Sociological Publics: The Importance of Reverse Tutelage to Social Theory Sociological Theory (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Ali Meghji
This article develops an alternative vision of public sociology. Whereas public sociology is often defined through the actions of professional sociologists, this article calls for a recognition of reverse tutelage in public sociology. Here, publics are seen as sociological interlocutors who can, and often do, produce sociological theories and analyses that can inform professional sociology. I demonstrate
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Performing Social Control: Poverty Governance, Public Finance, and the Politics of Visibility Sociological Theory (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 John N. Robinson, Spencer Headworth, Shai Karp
The visibility of populations, policies, and the state matters greatly for questions of power, inequality, and democratic life. This article builds on existing scholarship by examining how visibility operates as a lever and effect of social control in a racially and economically stratified society. By doing so, the article identifies a paradox. Race- and class-empowered groups often pressure state
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Morality, Affect, and Reputation in the Making of a Motivated Social Self Sociological Theory (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Seth Abrutyn, Jienian Zhang
Despite the prevalence of symbolic interaction’s theory of the self, alongside alternative implicit models in dual-process and practice theory, sociology continues to struggle with incorporating affect into models of the self. To address this gap, we distinguish between the conventional sociological understanding of Goffman’s self as cynical and masked and an alternative construct we excavate by paying
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The Bio-Habitus: Using Pain Science to Reconstruct Bourdieusian Theory Sociological Theory (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Tyler Leeds
Habitus is society inscribed on the body, but Bourdieu does not explore how biological processes interact with habitus, namely, how action flows from a bio-habitus. I engage pain science to illustrate this point. First, I document how dispositions—specific components of habitus—mediate pain both before and after its onset. Second, I explain how pain alters cognition and affect, an interaction I contend
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Exit, Voice, and Gender Sociological Theory (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Rogers Brubaker
Albert Hirschman’s exit-voice paradigm provides a useful lens for analyzing the current neo-categorical phase of gender politics in which attention has shifted from the content of the binary gender...
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Unmasked: A History of the Individualization of Risk Sociological Theory (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Greta R. Krippner
In this article, I explore how risk transformed from being understood as a property of groups to being understood as a property of individuals by examining the history of public and private insuran...
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The Soils of Black Folk: W.E.B. Du Bois’s Theories of Environmental Racialization Sociological Theory (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-04-22 Ankit Bhardwaj
Sociologists have canonized W.E.B. Du Bois as a theorist of race but have neglected his engagement with environmental themes. Not only was he concerned with ecology, such as the health of soils and...
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When Is Populism Good for Liberal Democracy? Sociological Theory (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-04-20 Josh Pacewicz
Debates over populism pit those who see it as dangerous for liberal democracy against those who view it as necessary for mobilizing the marginalized. This article flips the question and asks whethe...
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Mating Call, Dog Whistle, Trigger: Asymmetric Alignments, Race, and the Use of Reactionary Religious Rhetoric in American Politics Sociological Theory (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-02-03 Samuel L. Perry
Asymmetric social alignments are transforming American partisan rhetoric, particularly how politicians leverage identity-based appeals. For example, asymmetric religious, racial, and ideological al...
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The Problem of Infinite Regress: A Stopping Rules Approach Sociological Theory (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2023-01-12 Ajay Verghese
How can social scientists uncover the root causes of contemporary outcomes? Many scholars have assumed that a problem associated with identifying root causes—the problem of infinite regress—poses a...
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Queering Doing Gender: The Curious Absence of Ethnomethodology in Gender Studies and in Sociology Sociological Theory (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2022-10-28 S. L. Crawley
“Doing Gender,” Candance West and Don Zimmerman’s famous 1987 article, has become a folk concept—a trope or commonsense resource within the sociology of gender. Yet at the same time, most gender sc...
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Interpellative Styles: Choreographies of Identity Disruptions and Repairs Sociological Theory (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2022-08-20 Taylor Paige Winfield
Drawing on ethnographic research with two Orthodox Jewish outreach organizations, this article conceptualizes interpellative styles and offers a framework to analyze how styles are variously situat...
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“All the Old Illusions”: On Guessing at Being in Crisis Sociological Theory (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2022-07-20 Ioana Sendroiu
Models of culture and action argue that crises can be generative of change, with changing contexts setting off reflexivity—a view of crisis as self-evident that is echoed in comparative historical ...
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Signs and Their Temporality: The Performative Power of Interpretation in the Supreme Court Sociological Theory (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2022-07-11 Abigail Cary Moore
Building on pragmatist uses of semiotics as a heuristic for understanding social interaction, this article argues that temporality is a significant and undertheorized component of signs and their i...
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Contentious Tactics as Jazz Performances: A Pragmatist Approach to the Study of Repertoire Change Sociological Theory (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2022-07-06 Tomás Gold
The metaphor of “repertoire” is increasingly used in the study of contention to convey the fact that people act collectively through a limited set of cultural routines. Yet despite its broad adopti...
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Varieties of Misrecognition: Connecting Bourdieu and Fanon toward an Analysis of Racialized Islamic Fields Sociological Theory (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2022-06-29 Z. Fareen Parvez
This article explains variations in misrecognition of domination among the racialized subaltern. I draw on a comparative analysis of the fields of Islam in France and India, informed by the work of...
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Theorizing from the Margins: A Tribute to Lewis and Rose Laub Coser Sociological Theory (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2022-06-13 Kimberly Kay Hoang
This article is an adaptation of the sixteenth Lewis A. Coser lecture, given virtually in 2021 for the American Sociological Association Meetings. In this article, I pay tribute to Lewis and Rose L...
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Citizenship as Accumulation by Dispossession: The Paradox of Settler Colonial Citizenship Sociological Theory (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2022-05-06 Areej Sabbagh-Khoury
This article extends critical trends of citizenship studies and the theory of accumulation by dispossession to articulate how settler colonial citizenship is instantiated through the active accrual...
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A Sociological Perspective on the Experience of Contention Sociological Theory (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2022-05-02 Johan Gøtzsche-Astrup
Contention in the form of protests, riots, and direct action is a central political practice in contemporary democracies. It is also a staple of sociological analysis, after slowly crystallizing as...
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How Can Theories Represent Social Phenomena? Sociological Theory (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2022-04-25 Jan A. Fuhse
Discussions in sociological theory often focus on ontological questions on the nature of social reality. Against the underlying epistemological realism, I argue for a constructivist notion of theor...
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Dueling with Dual-Process Models: Cognition, Creativity, and Context Sociological Theory (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2022-04-08 Gordon Brett
Sociologists increasingly draw on dual-process models of cognition to account for the ways context, cognition, and action interrelate. Drawing from 40 interviews with improvisers and observations f...
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Chance, Orientation, and Interpretation: Max Weber’s Neglected Probabilism and the Future of Social Theory Sociological Theory (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2022-03-21 Michael Strand, Omar Lizardo
The image of Max Weber as an “interpretivist” cultural theorist of webs of significance that people use to cope with a meaningless world reigns largely unquestioned today. This article presents a different image of Weber’s sociology, where meaning does not transport actors over an abyss of meaninglessness but rather helps them navigate a world of Chance. Retrieving this concept from Weber’s late writings
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Inequality without Groups: Contemporary Theories of Categories, Intersectional Typicality, and the Disaggregation of Difference Sociological Theory (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2022-02-08 Ellis P. Monk, Jr.
The study of social inequality and stratification (e.g., ethnoracial and gender) has long been at the core of sociology and the social sciences. In this article, I argue that certain tendencies have become entrenched in our dominant paradigm that leave many researchers pursuing coarse-grained analyses of how difference relates to inequality. Centrally, despite the importance of categories and categorization
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Aesthetic Style: How Material Objects Structure an Institutional Field Sociological Theory (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2022-02-08 Gary J. Adler, Jr., Daniel DellaPosta, Jane Lankes
How does material culture matter for institutions? Material objects are increasingly prominent in sociological research, but current studies offer limited insight for how material objects matter to institutional processes. We build on sociological insights to theorize aesthetic style, a shared pattern of material object presence and usage among a cluster of organizations in an institutional field.
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Can Habitus Explain Individual Particularities? Critically Appreciating the Operationalization of Relational Logic in Field Theory Sociological Theory (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2022-01-28 Sourabh Singh
Bourdieu’s concept of habitus claims to solve the problem of the individual/society duality. However, the concept of habitus appears to be inadequate to explain the idiosyncratic features of individual field actors’ practices. In this article, I argue that to explain the particularity of individual habitus, we must appreciate the operationalization of relational logic in field theory. I further argue
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The Double Meaning of Money Sociological Theory (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2022-01-10 Galit Ailon
How does monetization affect interpersonal relationships? Drawing on social phenomenology, I argue that an answer must account for money’s symbolic dualism: On the one hand, as Zelizer has shown, money is differentially earmarked according to the interpersonal relationships it flows through. On the other hand, in everyday life, people tend to associate money with cold impersonality. Money’s dual association
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Democracy’s Autonomy Dilemma: Whistleblowing and the Politics of Disclosure Sociological Theory (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2021-11-20 Thomas Olesen
Democracy has been characterized from its outset by an autonomy dilemma. On the one hand, we think it vital that organizations work according to their own codes and logics. On the other hand, we insist that autonomy must never be complete, that citizens have a right to transgress boundaries to expose wrongdoing. With their insider position in the organizations where wrongdoing occurs, whistleblowers
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The Sociology of Personal Identification Sociological Theory (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2021-11-20 Jordan Brensinger, Gil Eyal
Systems drawing on databases of personal information increasingly shape life experiences and outcomes across a range of settings, from consumer credit and policing to immigration, health, and employment. How do these systems identify and reidentify individuals as the same unique persons and differentiate them from others? This article advances a general sociological theory of personal identification
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Domesticating Danger: Coping Codes and Symbolic Security amid Violent Organized Crime in Mexico Sociological Theory (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2021-10-26 Ana Villarreal
Sociologists have long debated how labels are deployed to construct and exaggerate social threats but have yet to consider their use to cope with danger. I draw on qualitative fieldwork conducted in the midst of a gruesome turf war in Monterrey, Mexico, to conceptualize coping codes. These defensive labels emerge in everyday conversation and allow its users to allude to threatening actors without being
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Symbolic Power for Beginners: The Very First Social Efforts to Control Others’ Actions and Perceptions Sociological Theory (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2021-10-07 Wilfried Lignier
Becoming a social agent requires the ability to gain some power over others’ actions and perceptions. For that purpose, symbolic practices and language matter, especially when physical means of control are unavailable, ineffective, or illegitimate. Based on an in-depth ethnographic study, I analyze such a process of symbolic empowerment from the viewpoint of very young practitioners: children age 2
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Smithing Queer Empiricism: Engaging Ethnomethodology for a Queer Social Science Sociological Theory (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2021-09-01 S. L. Crawley, MC Whitlock, Jennifer Earles
Is queer social science possible? Early queer theorists disparaged empiricism as a normalizing, modernist discourse. Nonetheless, LGBTQI+ social scientists have applied queer concepts in empirical projects. Rather than seek a queer method, we ask, Is there an empirical perspective that (ontologically) envisions social relations more queerly—attending to discursive and materialist productions of reality
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Familiarity as a Practical Sense of Place Sociological Theory (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2021-08-10 Maxime Felder
Familiarity is an elusive concept, capturing what we know intimately and what we only recognize from having seen before. This article aims to disambiguate these interpretations by proposing a sociological conceptualization of familiarity as a dynamic relationship to the world that develops over time and through experience and that allows one to progressively disattend from what appears as “usual.”
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Relational Segregation: A Structural View of Categorical Relations Sociological Theory (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2021-07-08 Jeremy E. Fiel
This article builds a framework for a relational approach to segregation that emphasizes structures of interactions, transactions, and ties between and within social categories. Rather than explaining segregation with dominants imposing formal rules or homophilic people sorting themselves, I highlight segregation’s emergence amid dueling control efforts among actors with malleable categorical identities
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Are Theories Politically Flexible? Sociological Theory (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Federico Brandmayr
Social theories are politically flexible if people use them to support opposite political claims. But is this even possible? And what kind of theories have such a property? Moving beyond epistemological debates about neutrality and value-leadenness, this article defends an empirical approach to the study of flexible and rigid political uses of social theories. I identify two main sources of flexibility:
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The Relational Public Sociological Theory (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2021-04-21 Paul Starr
This article sets out three ways of conceiving publics: (1) an organic conception, the public as the body politic; (2) an individualized conception, the public as an aggregate of individuals, grouped by social categories; and (3) a relational conception, in which publics are defined as open-ended networks of actors linked through flows of communication, shared stories, and civic or other collective
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The Dual Dependency of Natural-Resource-Rich Labor Markets in Contemporary Society Sociological Theory (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2021-04-09 J. Tom Mueller
This article presents an integrative theoretical framework of subnational natural resource dependence. I argue that rural natural resource dependence represents a special case of the core-periphery relationship, where rural, resource-rich labor markets form a dual dependency on both the global capitalist economy and the local natural environment. This occurs because the contradiction between spatially
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On Sociological Reflexivity Sociological Theory (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2021-03-20 Monika Krause
This article offers a critique of the self-observation of the social sciences practiced in the philosophy of the social sciences and the critique of epistemological orientations. This kind of reflection involves the curious construction of wholes under labels, which are the result of a process of “distillation” or “abstraction” of a “position” somewhat removed from actual research practices and from
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Connected Audiences in Social Performance Sociological Theory (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2021-01-27 Timothy Malacarne
Previous accounts of social performance have examined the difficulties associated with multiple audiences, but few describe situations in which a performer’s audiences are not only multiple but are also connected in ways that mean the reaction of one audience will influence that of the other. I lay out the necessary conditions for audiences to be considered connected, the potential configurations of
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Three Tensions in the Theory of Racial Capitalism Sociological Theory (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2020-12-24 Julian Go
In this essay the author assesses the relevance of scholarship on racial capitalism for sociological theory. The author highlights three tensions within the existing literature: (1) whether “race” as opposed to other forms of difference is the primary mode of differentiation in capitalism, (2) whether deficiencies in existing theory warrant the new concept “racial capitalism,” and (3) whether the connection
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Transitional Temporality Sociological Theory (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2020-12-24 Daniel Hirschman
Sewell (1996b) identified three temporalities that underlie many social scientific accounts. This article identifies a fourth: transitional temporality. This approach is inspired by Polanyi’s ([1944] 2001) comparative analysis of the rate of change of economic transformation surrounding the commodification of land and labor. Following Polanyi, transitional temporality focuses not on the endpoints of
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Commodity Fetishism as Semblance Sociological Theory (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2020-11-26 Tad Skotnicki
With the aid of Hannah Arendt’s distinction between authentic and inauthentic semblances, this article reconstructs Karl Marx’s notion of commodity fetishism as a phenomenological concept. It reveals two distinct interpretive moments in the fetish: the interpretation of goods as anonymous in exchange and the interpretation of commodity-exchange as natural. As authentic semblances, interpretations in
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Halalization: Religious Product Certification in Secular Markets Sociological Theory (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2020-11-26 Ryan Calder
In Islam, the extension of religious regulation and certification to new product types and economic sectors—“halalization”—has become widespread. There are now Islamic mortgages, halal ports, halal refrigerators, halal blockchain, and shariah-compliant cryptocurrencies. Yet classical secularization theory says religious authority cannot regulate modern economic activity. So what explains halalization
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What’s Hegemonic about Hegemonic Masculinity? Legitimation and Beyond Sociological Theory (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2020-10-09 Yuchen Yang
Raewyn Connell’s theoretical concept of hegemonic masculinity has been profoundly influential in feminist sociology. Despite the rich literature inspired by her theory, conceptual ambiguities have compromised its full potential. In this article, I critique a pessimistic tendency in the interpretation and application of hegemonic masculinity, which focuses on its regressive role in reproducing/legitimating
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Racist Encounters: A Pragmatist Semiotic Analysis of Interaction Sociological Theory (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2020-10-09 Stefan Timmermans, Iddo Tavory
Complementing discourse-analytic approaches, we develop C. S. Peirce’s semiotic theory to analyze how racism is enacted and countered in everyday interactions. We examine how the semiotic structure of racist encounters depends on acts of signification that can be deflected and that take shape in the ways actors negotiate interactions in situ. After outlining the semiotic apparatus Peirce pioneered
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Four Galore? The Overlap between Mary Douglas’s Grid-Group Typology and Other Highly Cited Social Science Classifications Sociological Theory (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2020-09-09 Marco Verweij, Petya Alexandrova, Henrik Jacobsen, Pauline Béziat, Diana Branduse, Yonca Dege, Jakob Hensing, James Hollway, Lea Kliem, Gabriela Ponce, Inga Reichelt, Mareile Wiegmann
Recently, neuroscientists have argued that elementary ways of organizing, perceiving, and justifying social relations lurk behind the diversity of social life. In developing grid-group typology, anthropologist Mary Douglas proposed such universal forms. If these are universal, then we could expect other widely cited classifications to overlap with grid-group typology. We tested this expectation by
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Sentiments as Status Processes? A Theoretical Reformulation from the Expectation States Tradition Sociological Theory (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2020-09-09 Alison J. Bianchi, Robert K. Shelly
Do the ties that bind also create social inequality? Using an expectation states theoretical framework, we elaborate status characteristics and behavior-status theories to explore how sentiments, network connections based on liking and disliking, may affect processes entailing status, the prestige based on one’s differentially valued social distinctions. Within task groups, we theorize that positive
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From Culture to Claimsmaking Sociological Theory (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2020-08-28 Paul Lichterman, Kushan Dasgupta
Conceptual approaches to claimsmaking often feature the overarching symbolic templates of political culture or else the strategic actor of the social movement framing approach. Both approaches have value, but neither shows adequately how cultural context influences claimsmaking in everyday situations. To better understand cultural context and situated claimsmaking together, we retheorize the concept
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A Sociology of Luck Sociological Theory (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2020-08-19 Michael Sauder
Sociology has been curiously silent about the concept of luck. The present article argues that this omission is, in fact, an oversight: An explicit and systematic engagement with luck provides a more accurate portrayal of the social world, opens potentially rich veins of empirical and theoretical inquiry, and offers a compelling alternative for challenging dominant meritocratic frames about inequality
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Adopting a Cloak of Incompetence: Impression Management Techniques for Feigning Lesser Selves Sociological Theory (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2020-06-04 Arthur McLuhan
The “cloak of competence” concept captures attempts to disguise limitations and exaggerate abilities. The author examines the conceptual converse: the “cloak of incompetence,” or the various ways people deliberately disregard, disguise, downplay, or diminish their personal abilities. Drawing on a comparative analysis of manifold empirical cases, the author identifies three generic competence-concealing
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The New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere Sociological Theory (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2020-06-04 Evan Stewart, Douglas Hartmann
Set against the background of mid-twentieth-century institutional changes analyzed by Jürgen Habermas, we provide an account of new social conditions that compose “the public sphere” in the contemporary United States. First, we review recent developments in theorizing the public sphere, arguing they benefit from renewed attention to institutional changes in how that sphere operates. Second, we identify
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Race, Empire, and Epistemic Exclusion: Or the Structures of Sociological Thought Sociological Theory (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2020-06-04 Julian Go
This essay analyzes racialized exclusions in sociology through a focus on sociology’s deep epistemic structures. These structures dictate what counts as social scientific knowledge and who can produce it. A historical analysis of their emergence and persistence reveals their connections to empire. Due to sociology’s initial emergence within the culture of American imperialism, early sociological thought
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Racial Ideology or Racial Ignorance? An Alternative Theory of Racial Cognition Sociological Theory (IF 4.1) Pub Date : 2020-05-19 Jennifer C. Mueller
Directing attention to racial ignorance as a core dimension of racialized social systems, this article advances a process-focused Theory of Racial Ignorance (TRI), grounded in Critical Race Theory and the philosophical construct white ignorance. TRI embodies five tenets—epistemology of ignorance, ignorance as ends-based technology, corporate white agency, centrality of praxis, and interest convergence