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ASA Theory Section @asatheory.bsky.social · 1d

Section Opportunity:

We are looking for volunteers to help organize the Theory Section reception in NYC for ASA 2026! 🎉 If you are interested, please reach out to Rebecca Emigh ([email protected]).

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Theory, Culture & Society @theoryculturesociety.org · 6d

New in Theory, Culture & Society: Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli, 'Inhabiting the Face: From Fake to Deepfake' - traces how new technological developments in face recognition and artificial intelligence affect the way we inhabit our own faces. (Online First) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Inhabiting the Face: From Fake to Deepfake - Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli, 2025

The face has had a privileged status in visual media, enrapturing cinematic audiences with its beauty and intensity of emotion. Yet, the study of the face and i...

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Till Hilmar @tillhilmar.bsky.social · Sep 1

👉 Stories about economic change are never neutral. They make politics. In my new article in Sociological Theory @sociologicaltheory.bsky.social, I show how narratives about economic disruption become a source of legitimacy:
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Dr Yuchen Yang @dr-yang.bsky.social · Sep 11

After 3 years, 14 drafts, and 3 paper awards, I finally published this paper on the semiotics of (un)doing gender in my favorite journal—Sociological Theory! @sociologicaltheory.bsky.social
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Sociological Theory - Original Article
Gender Uptake: Theorizing the Semiotics of (Un)Doing Gender
Yuchen Yang
Abstract
“Doing Gender” is often read as a theory of how people signify femininity/masculinity via expressive “performances.” This prevailing interpretation falls short of what the theory calls for—an ethnomethodologically informed analysis of gender’s emergent “naturalness.” To further this agenda, I theorize the audience’s “gender uptake” as a central component of doing gender by elaborating ethnomethodology’s attention to interpretive acts. Integrating Dorothy Smith’s intellectual legacy for feminist interpretive sociology, ethnomethodology’s neglected insight on categorization, and cultural sociology’s recent rediscovery of Peircean semiotics, I argue the facticity of gender’s “naturalness” remains underdetermined until the audience makes a series of ideological moves that cannot be predetermined by the performer. With case studies of how feminist parents account for their children’s gender-stereotypical interests, I illustrate how this audience-centered approach helps us unpack the interactional production/naturalization of categorical differences processually as open-ended negotiation of sign relations, where meaning emerges from selective attention.
Keywords
accounts, categorization, childhood, doing gender, ethnomethodology, pragmatist semiotics

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Cihan Tugal @cihantugal.bsky.social · 11d

My sociological explanation of the recent surge of violence against Palestinians, Alawites, and the Druze ... coming up as a part of this panel:

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ASA Theory Section @asatheory.bsky.social · Aug 21

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ASA Theory Section @asatheory.bsky.social · Aug 21

And a special shoutout to our honorable mentions: @yuvalfeinstein.bsky.social, Amanda R. Cheong, @motorres.bsky.social, and @carlosariego.bsky.social

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ASA Theory Section @asatheory.bsky.social · Aug 21

Congratulations to this year’s awardees: Barbara Kiviat, @mintytem.bsky.social, @dr-yang.bsky.social, Jacob W. Richardson, and @tylerleeds.bsky.social!

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ASA Theory Section @asatheory.bsky.social · Aug 21

Couldn’t get enough theory at @asanews.bsky.social? Our new newsletter is out now!

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ASA Theory Section @asatheory.bsky.social · Jan 14

New year, new look! Our updated website is live and features a sleek design and growing syllabus repository. Check it out: asatheory.com

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ASA Theory Section @asatheory.bsky.social · Dec 15

Do you teach theory? Help us build a community syllabus database by sharing yours. Find our email in the bio.

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ASA Theory Section @asatheory.bsky.social · Dec 15

Do you teach theory? Help us build a community syllabus database by sharing yours. Find our email in the bio.

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ASA Theory Section @asatheory.bsky.social · Dec 13

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · Dec 12

ASA sections on Bluesky. Hopefully we can get more to set up accounts here.

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ASA Theory Section @asatheory.bsky.social · Dec 11

It’s that time of year again — the call for papers for the Junior Theorists Symposium is live! Submit your précis here: bit.ly/jts2025

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