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Sociological Theory @sociologicaltheory.bsky.social · 21h

Check out ST's latest online publication, "Fuzzy Boundaries: A Mechanism for Group Accumulation of Advantage" by Heba Alex (University of Chicago).

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American Sociological Association @asanews.bsky.social · 1d

Want to be an ASA journal editor? Journal of Health & Social Behavior @jofhsb.bsky.social & Sociological Theory @sociologicaltheory.bsky.social have openings. Attend Thursday’s virtual session w/ current editors, Pubs Committee Chair, & ASA staff, 10/16 @ 1 PM EST. https://bit.ly/4mTtHAg.

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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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Anne Taylor, PhD @annetaylor.bsky.social · Feb 11

Considering the current chaos, it's worth reflecting on one of the most sacred ideals of a democratic society - truth-telling - and how we relate to it. Check out this great article from @jgotzsche.bsky.social in @sociologicaltheory.bsky.social on the topic

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Sociological Theory @sociologicaltheory.bsky.social · Feb 6

Call for Papers: Special Issue on Sociological Theorizing from the Global South

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American Sociological Association @asanews.bsky.social · Feb 5

ASA mourns the sudden loss of former President Michael Burawoy, who died tragically in Oakland, CA, on February 3. Burawoy received the ASA Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award and W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award. His will be greatly missed.

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