Category Social Psych
Sullivan, T. 2012. — The Role of Performance and Performativity in the Construction of Ethnicity.
Sullivan, Thomas. 2012. “’All I Want to Be All I Can Irish’: The Role of Performance and Performativity in the Construction of Ethnicity.” Social & Cultural Geography 13(5): 429 – 443. Ethnicity’s evolution from “a group-oriented protectorate to a more individualized form of identity” (429). Why, despite assimilation, connection to and construction of ethnic identities […]
Freitas, Anthony, Susan Kaiser, Joan Chandler, Carol Hall, Jung-Won Kim, and Tania Hammidi. 1997. “Appearance Management as Border Construction: Least Favorite Clothing, Group Distancing, and Identity… Not!”. Sociological Inquiry 67(3): 323-335. Even though appearance and identity have been usually discussed as negotiators of who we are, this paper looks at how appearance can construct who […]
Moloney, M. and G. Hunt. 2012. “Consumption, Drugs and Style: Constructing Intra-Ethnic Boundaries in Asian American Youth Cultures”.
Moloney, Molly and Geoffrey P. Hunt. 2012. “Consumption, Drugs and Style: Constructing Intra-Ethnic Boundaries in Asian American Youth Cultures.” Drugs 19(6) December: 462-473. How consumption, style, and taste cultures intersect with ethnic identities, gender, and “acculturation” — how consumption markers (fashion, cars, music, drugs) create/negotiate symbolic boundaries within Asian American dance/club scenes. Demonstrates lack of […]
Tope, D. et al. 2014. “Othering Obama: Racial Attitudes and Dubious Beliefs about the Nation’s First Black President.”
Tope, Daniel, Justin T. Pickett, Ryon J. Cobb, and Jonathan Dirlam. 2014. “Othering Obama: Racial Attitudes and Dubious Beliefs about the Nation’s First Black President.” Sociological Perspectives VOL(X): 1-20. Measuring white racial attitudes and likelihood of othering B. Obama as Muslim/non-citizen. Symbolic racial resentment, traditional racial attitudes à Othering. Demonstrates role of both symbolic […]
Webster, M. and J.E. Driskell. 1983. “Beauty as Status.”
Webster, Murray, Jr. and James E. Driskell, Jr. 1983. “Beauty as Status.” American Journal of Sociology 89(1): 140-165. Beauty impacts what we think about individuals, and how we interact with them. Beauty serves as a link to other forms of status generalization (like race or sex). Beauty impacts general/specific predictive expectations, is modified through its […]
Hughes, E.C. 1945. “Dilemmas and Contradictions of Status.”
Hughes, Everett Cherrington. 1945. “Dilemmas and Contradictions of Status.” American Journal of Sociology 50(5): 353-359. Status, in addition to traits, are associated with other, additional characteristics that we expect those of such a status to reflect. These are frequently unfulfilled, creating contradictions/dilemmas. Defines status as “a defined social position for whose incumbents there are defined […]
Snow, D.A. and L. Anderson. 1987. “Identity Work Among the Homeless: The Verbal Construction and Avowal of Personal Identities.”
Snow, David A. and Leon Anderson. 1987. “Identity Work Among the Homeless: The Verbal Construction and Avowal of Personal Identities.” The American Journal of Sociology 92(6): 1336-1371. How do people at the “bottom” of status systems create identities that imbue dignity/self-worth? (Impacts areas of role, identity, self-concept.) Backstory: Too often we focus on how low-status […]
Granberg, E. 2006. “Possible Selves, Self-Change, and Weight Loss.”
Granberg, Ellen. 2006. “’Is That All There Is?’ Possible Selves, Self-Change, and Weight Loss.” Social Psychology Quarterly 69(2): 109-126. Possible selves: “resources that facilitate identity development and that motivate and sustain self-change” (109). Gap between potential and actual selves must be negotiated before transformation (here, weight loss) is considered complete and/or successful. Gap is bridged […]
Meltzer, Petras, and Reynolds. 1975. “Varieties of Symbolic Interactionism.”
Meltzer, Bernard N., John W. Petras, and Larry T. Reynolds. 1975. “Varieties of Symbolic Interactionism.” Pp. in Symbolic Interactionism: Genesis, Varieties, and Criticism (eds same). Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul. Multiple schools of SI thought – debate on how to distinguish schools (between 2-10), mostly based on methodology – Chicago and Iowa schools, versus three […]
Goffman, E. 1951. “Symbols of Class Status.”
Goffman, Erving. 1951. “Symbols of Class Status.” The British Journal of Sociology 2(4): 294-304. Status, position, and role have been used interchangeably “to refer to the set of rights and obligations which governs the behaviour of persons acting in a given social capacity” (294), but these rights and obligations tend to be fixed, impacted by […]
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