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Purpose Johnson's typology of intimate partner violence, first published in 1995, intended to resolve the gender symmetry debate and alter the way scholars studied intimate partner violence. This scoping review explores the empirical reach of Johnson's typology over 25 years. Methods Articles were identified through searches of four databases and were included if they were an empirical journal article with Johnson's typology central to the analysis (n = 82) and published between 1996 and 2020. Results Empirical work reached its highest points in 2014 and 2016, with 10 articles published each year, but has since declined. The mean number of articles published per year is less than four (M = 3.28). Authorship appears to have diffused well, as there were 56 different lead authors of the 82 articles, and no one author contributed to more than 10% of the empirical work. Articles appeared in 37 journals and were heavily concentrated in journals on interpersonal violence and in the disciplines of Family Studies and Psychology. Conclusions Empirical engagement with Johnson's typology is modest yet extends across a large number of independent authors and appears in journals across multiple disciplines. It is not clear why there has not been more empirical engagement given the widespread and increasing citation of Johnson's work, but perhaps this is part of the reason why the typology has not ended the gender symmetry debate. Moving forward requires better understanding of why intimate partner violence researchers often choose not to empirically test Johnson's typology., Author(s): Alison Cares [sup.1] [sup.3] , Bertha A. Ben Khallouq [sup.1] , Karina Mukazhanova-Powell [sup.2] Author Affiliations: (1) https://ror.org/036nfer12, grid.170430.1, 0000 0001 2159 2859, Department of Sociology, University of Central [...]

Purpose Johnson's (2008 (See CR44)) typology revolutionized how intimate partner violence (IPV) was conceptualized. Broadly, it distinguished different ways that IPV manifested and motivations for perpetrating IPV. Contemporary queer theorists and researchers have critiqued the typology as being too cis-heteronormative, or assuming cisgender identity and heterosexuality as default identities and experiences. Our purpose then is to make visible the unintended cis-heteronormativity in Johnson's typology of IPV and articulate ways to enhance its use with queer populations. Method We used queer theory to reconceptualize cis-heteronormative tenants of Johnson's (2008 (See CR44)) typology and propose a more inclusive understanding of IPV. We also used queer of color critique to consider additional intersectional locations (e.g., race) that can lead to relational power imbalances. Results We developed two queer theoretical extensions to Johnson's (2008 (See CR44)) typology that are reflective of the dynamics of diversity in queer relationships. In them, we engage in Challenging Categorization through Contextualizing Prevalence Estimates of IPV Among Queer US Populations and (Re)Conceptualizing Categorization (Extension 1). We also engage in (Re)Conceptualizing Power and Control (Extension 2). Conclusion Our theoretical extensions can be used to advance the field of IPV research in ways that are inclusive of queer peoples' experiences of IPV., Author(s): Autumn M. Bermea [sup.1] , Brad van Eeden-Moorefield [sup.2] Author Affiliations: (1) https://ror.org/00rs6vg23, grid.261331.4, 0000 0001 2285 7943, Ohio State University, , Campbell Hall 151D, 1787 Neil Ave, 43210, [...]

Purpose: Scholarship on the social and structural determinants of intimate partner violence (IPV) rarely differentiates between Johnson's types in examining pathways to violent outcomes. This study applies Bronfenbrenner's model to consider the etiology of Johnson's types at multiple social-ecological levels. Method: To test the hypothesis that pathways from local social and structural conditions to IPV differ by type of IPV, I reanalyzed longitudinal data from a recent study that explored the role of factors at multiple social-ecological levels on physical IPV in a highly vulnerable sample: 1,112 different-sex couples in which the male partner had recently returned from prison. Results: In fitted structural equation models, local social and structural conditions predict both situational couple violence (SCV) and coercive controlling violence (CCV). However, the influence of local conditions on each type of IPV occurs via different proximal factors. Local conditions predict SCV via hopelessness and predict CCV via post-traumatic stress and dysfunctional conflict. Conclusions: These exploratory findings indicate that local social and structural conditions could promote both SCV and CCV, but via different proximal processes. They suggest that IPV research has much to gain from integrating the distinct theoretical and methodological contributions of scholarship on Johnson's typology and ongoing inquiry into the broader social ecology of IPV., Author(s): Tasseli McKay [sup.1] Author Affiliations: (1) https://ror.org/00py81415, grid.26009.3d, 0000 0004 1936 7961, Department of Sociology, Duke University, , Durham, United States Introduction Among the culminating insights of 20th-century intimate [...]

This commentary highlights the impact of Michael Johnson's work, and the concept that intimate partner violence (IPV) is not a "one-size fits all" phenomena, on the mental health field. Johnson's, 1995 (See CR10) typology led to a paradigm shift in research and the clinical work of many mental health providers who seek to prevent or treat IPV. Johnson's idea that there is more than one type of violence, i.e., situational couple violence and intimate terrorism, moved many from the idea that it is never appropriate to offer conjoint treatment to couples who have experienced IPV. Instead, it became increasingly clear that clinicians have a responsibility to provide a clear determination of if there has been IPV in the couple we are treating, and if so, to determine the type of IPV to individualize treatment based on the IPV type. In this commentary, we also address the impact of Johnson's work on our own clinical work and on the mental health field. Finally, as we review Johnson's work and the work of other scholars in this special issue, we focus on how this can guide clinical work to improve the lives of clients who have experienced IPV (either as victims, offenders, or both)., Author(s): Sandra M. Stith [sup.1] , Chelsea Spencer [sup.2] [sup.3] Author Affiliations: (1) https://ror.org/05p1j8758, grid.36567.31, 0000 0001 0737 1259, Kansas State University, , 2517 Meadowood Drive, 66502, Manhattan, KS, USA [...]

British sociologist Basil Bernstein's theorisations of pedagogic practice have inspired education research at the micro-level of the classroom; however, there is some limitation so far as understanding educators' pedagogic impact on learners' text production in the early years. Specifically, this limitation concerns how educators can craft a careful mix of explicit and implicit pedagogies to stimulate modes to produce text including spoken, written language or visual images, melded with oral, visual and audio meaning making modes. This paper seeks to describe how a pedagogic mix can occur by advancing the theoretical term crossing the pedagogic midline. This paper draws on findings from design-based research in an exploratory case study of an Australian Preparatory classroom. Using a qualitative orientation, data were generated from video and audio recordings and text production artefacts by five-year-old Kyrie and six-year-old Klay. The paper argues for educators to carefully craft pedagogies to make known the complexity of what it means for learners in the early years to produce text and, ontologically speaking, to [re]position learners as active contributors to, and creators of, their text production experience., Introduction At a time where much of our education debate is currently around phonics, and how to teach phonics and early reading in initial teacher education, we must not lose [...]

The spread of capitalism around the globe combined with Max Weber's continued influence on Theravada scholarship contribute to the notion that Buddhists in Southeast Asia have a transactional relationship with [...]

Lotteries have become the most popular form of gambling worldwide since (re-)legalization and expansion began in the 1960s and 70s. Lottery jackpots have increased significantly in national lotteries in the last twenty years, and large lottery jackpots stimulate greater ticket purchases. The discussion locates contemporary state lotteries in relation to economic structures and ideologies in which the state itself participates, while providing justification for the lottery form. The (re-)distributional and circulatory form of lotteries is theorized as in tension with (neo-)liberal economic ideology and an individualist imaginary. The analysis draws upon the work of Emile Durkheim and other classical sociologists. In particular, lotteries are treated as examples of what Durkheim termed 'institutions' and 'collective representations.' Keywords: lotteries, Durkheim, collective representations, money, late capitalism. Les loteries sont devenues la forme de jeux d'agent la plus populaire depuis le début de leur re-légalisation et de leur expansion dans les années 1960 et 1970. Les cagnottes ont augmenté de manière significative dans les loteries nationales ces dernières vingt années, et les gros lots stimulent de plus importants achats de billets. Cette discussion situe les loteries d'état contemporaines en relation avec les structures économiques et les idéologies auxquelles l'état participe lui-même tout en apportant une justification au système de la loterie. Le système (re-)distributionnel et circulatoire des loteries est théorisée comme étant en tension avec l'idéologie économique (néo-)libérale et avec l'imaginaire individualiste. L'analyse s'appuie sur les travaux d'Emile Durkheim et d'autres sociologues classiques. En particulier, les loteries sont traitées comme des exemples de ce que Durkheim a nommé << institutions >> et << représentations collectives >>. Mots clés : loteries, Durkheim, représentations collectives, argent, capitalisme tardif., INTRODUCTION Lottery participation is the most popular form of gambling worldwide. State lotteries are found in over one hundred countries, with typically one or more large-scale lotteries and often a [...]

IN 1959, Philip Rieff published Freud: The Mind of the Moralist. Although Rieff did not cite Coleridge in this context, he found that Freud likewise proposed a mixed regime. It [...]

This study extends Boudon's positional theory to understand how students from different social origins make choices about university and how they interpret risks during the choice-making process in contemporary China. I draw upon empirical evidence from 71 in-depth semi-structured interviews with undergraduates from different social backgrounds and from different types of universities. The interview data confirm the relevance of Boudon's thesis in the Chinese context; that is, individuals' family characteristics manifest in the process of choices and strategies. Furthermore, this study provides new evidence on a pattern of class-bound conformity, which sometimes contradicts the rational course of action from students' narratives on socioeconomic and cultural identity as well as opportunity risks associated with the quota system. When hope and chance clash, students from working-class or agricultural families reduce to internalize their socioeconomic or geographical disadvantages, come to terms with a lack of equal opportunities in a seemingly meritocratic system., Author(s): Ye Liu [sup.1] Author Affiliations: (Aff1) 0000 0001 2322 6764, grid.13097.3c, Department of International Development, King's College London, , Room 416, NE Wing, Bush House, 20 Aldwych, WC2B 4PX, [...]

Abstract This articles uses the work of Pyrooz and Densley as a springboard for a larger discussion of race-based perceptions from gangs to criminals to athletes. It concludes by showcasing [...]

Newly arriving biotechnologies are beginning to force us all--scientists, policy makers, and the public--to confront questions of extraordinary difficulty. We will urgently need scientists to act as 'honest brokers' to [...]

In this issue of The Canadian Journal of Sociology, Rick Helmes-Hayes and Emily Milne have made an important contribution to the sociology and history of Canadian sociology, with an eye [...]

Author(s): Philip Manning[sup.1] , Sarah Jammal[sup.1] , Blake Shimola[sup.1] Author Affiliations: Philip Manning is a Professor of Sociology at Cleveland State University. Sarah Jammal is a student at Cleveland State [...]

Alice Goffman's On the Run has become one of the most controversial books published in sociology in many years. Her moving account of several young Black men and their legal entanglements has raised questions about how whites represent Blacks in their research, what obligations researchers have to avoid illegal activities of their own, and, most importantly, about the character of truth in ethnographic research., Author(s): Robert Zussman[sup.1] Author Affiliations: Robert Zussman is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Amherst-Massachusetts and a former editor of Qualitative Sociology . (1) Department of Sociology, University [...]

The aim of this study is twofold: first, to assess the statistical significance of the data used by Pierre Bourdieu in Distinction; second, to test the hypothesis that the volume of capital (i.e., the global amount of capital) allows for a finer discrimination of dispositional differences than the composition of capital (i.e., the respective weight of the different types of capital in the global amount of capital). To these ends, five data samples were submitted to bilateral between-proportion comparison tests. The findings (1) reveal that about two-thirds of the differences reported by P. Bourdieu are significant and (2) support the view that the volume of capital prevails over its composition. Cette etude poursuit deux objectifs : etablir, d'une part, la significativite statistique des donnees ayant servi de base empirique au modele que Pierre Bourdieu propose dans La distinction ; mettre a l'epreuve, d'autre part, l'hypothese selon laquelle le volume de capital (i.e. la quantite globale de capital) constitue, en matiere de differenciation dispositionnelle, une variable plus determinante que la structure du capital (i.e. le poids respectif des differents types de capital au sein du volume global de capital). A cette double fin, les donnees relatives a cinq echantillons sont soumises a des tests de comparaison bilaterale de proportions independantes. Les resultats obtenus (1) revelent que pres des deux tiers des differences observees par P. Bourdieu sont significatives et (2) soutiennent l'hypothese de la preponderance du volume de capital sur sa structure., DISCUTEE DEPUIS SA PARUTION il y a trente-cinq ans, La distinction (Bourdieu 1979) demeure une reference en sciences sociales. En temoigne le nombre imposant de reactions et de publications que [...]

In his call for more public sociology, Michael Burawoy presents a generic framework to describe disciplinary structures in the social sciences. This model is based on a fourfold typology of knowledge which has been criticized by many. However, alternatives have fallen short of providing a convincing articulation of the social organisation and meaning of the intellectual practices the original typology was trying to describe. The debate on public sociology did not bridge differences in analytical beliefs about knowledge production and thus could not be expected to build a consensual disciplinary orientation. The current paper builds on field theory, organizational sociology, and interview data to frame the practices identified by Burawoy as social manoeuvers (i.e. ways of utilizing and legitimating knowledge) within specific social fields. In so doing, the paper provides a framework that is more flexible, more empirically adequate, and congruent with the sociology of science and the sociology of intellectuals and experts. Keywords: Disciplinary practices, public sociology, knowledge production, intellectuals, experts Dans son plaidoyer pour la sociologie publique, Michael Burawoy presente un cadre generique pour decrire les structures disciplinaires en sciences sociales. Plusieurs commentateurs ont critique la quadripartition typologique du savoir que propose son modele. Cependant, les tentatives de le remplacer n'ont pas fourni une articulation convaincante du sens et de l'organisation sociale des pratiques intellectuelles abordees par la theorie originale. Le debat sur la sociologie publique n'a pas su concilier les diverses conceptions relatives a la production de connaissance. Par consequent, il ne put construire une orientation disciplinaire consensuelle. Le present article s'appuie sur la theorie des champs, la sociologie des organisations ainsi que des entretiens pour avancer une conception des pratiques decrites par Burawoy comme des coups (c.-a-d. des facons de mobiliser et de legitimer la connaissance) dans des champs sociaux specifiques. A ce titre, cet article foumit un cadre qui est plus flexible, plus empiriquement adequat et compatible avec la sociologie des sciences et la sociologie des experts et des intellectuels. Mots cles: Sciences sociales, sociologie, sociologie publique, recherche, intellectuels, experts, Introduction During his presidential address at the annual congress of the American Sociological Association in 2004, Michael Burawoy presented a framework that provoked an extensive debate on the division of [...]

A dialectical reading of Goffman and Freud connects the Interaction Order to the psychoanalytic conception of the self and thereby open up new possibilities of interpretation and transformation. Goffman's concept of the Interaction Order enables us to understand more clearly the Freudian concepts of superego, ego-ideal, and the introjected Father. Next, we draw out the dramaturgical approach of both Goffman and Freud in terms of performing self and performing illness and discuss how the psychoanalytic reading of Goffman's work sheds light on the formation of neuroses and the neurotic symptoms which Freud characterized as a type of performance. Here we link Freud's 'symptoms' to Goffman's modes of disordered or flawed modes of interaction, specifically hysteria connected to havoc and obsessive compulsive disorder connected to hyperritualization. This dialectical reading allows us to rethink notions of sociality and thereby opens new possibilities for constituting the relation between the self and the social. Keywords: Ego-Ideal, Freud, Goffman, Havoc, Hyper-Ritualization, Interaction Order, Neurosis, Psychoanalysis, Self, Super Ego. Cette lecture dialectique de Goffman et de Freud met en rapport 'Interaction Order' et la conception psychanalytique du soi, ouvrant ainsi la voie a de nouvelles possibilites d'interpretation et de transformation. Le concept d' 'Interaction Order' de Goffman nous permet de comprendre plus clairement les concepts freudiens de surmoi, d'ego-ideal, et de pere introjecte (ou incorpore). Dans un deuxieme temps, nous examinons l'approche dramaturgique de Goffman et de Freud quant a la question de la performance du soi et a celle de la maladie, nous demontrons qu'une lecture psychanalytique de l'oeuvre de Goffman permet de faire la lumiere sur la formation des neuroses et les symptomes neurotiques caracterises par Freud comme un type de performance. A ce point de notre analyse, nous comparons les symptomes freudiens aux modes d'interaction desordonnee et mal formee, et tout particulierement l'hysterie telle qu'elle est reliee au desordre obsessionnel et compulsif, lui-meme relie a l'hyperritualization. Cette lecture dialectique nous permet de repenser les notions de sociabilite et ouvre donc la voie a de nouvelles possibilites pour construire les rapports entre le soi et le social. Mots cles: Ego-Ideal, Freud, Goffman, hyper-ritualisation, 'interaction order', Neurose, Psychanalyse, Surmoi, Introduction Often misread as a straightforward critic of psychiatry, as his work Asylums has too often been misinterpreted, or as a sociologist of emotions, Erving Goffman demonstrated genuine and profound [...]

The environment is increasingly seen as a meta-injustice or master frame of the politics of the new century. If this is indeed the case, environmental concerns should transcend national and organizational boundaries and should have a discursive claims-making space of their own. Research on environmental advocacy, however, shows that many claims for environmental justice are rooted in specific locales and advocacy is often mediated through, and at times overshadowed by, other dimensions of power. Using Nancy Fraser's conception of dimensions of justice, and a Bourdieusian inspired field approach, this paper maps Greenpeace and Sierra Club's press advocacy between 2006 and 2010. In doing so, the paper identifies environmental advocacy spaces and argues that non-parametric approaches to analysing ENGO media advocacy are needed to explain the complexity of multi-scaled political contexts. Keywords: Environment, Field Theory, Injustice, Bourdieu, Greenpeace, Sierra Club, Social Movement De plus en plus, l'environnement est percu comme un cas de metainjustice et comme le cadre principal des politiques du nouveau siecle. Si cette perception est juste, les questions environnementales transcendent les limites nationales ou organisationnelles. A ce titre, l'environnement a le droit d'avoir son propre discours pour reclamer son propre espace. Toutefois, les recherches sur la defense de l'environnement montrent que nombre de plaidoyers prennent leur source dans des preoccupations locales. De plus, nous disent les etudes, il arrive que ces memes plaidoyers passent pas d'autres dimensions du pouvoir et sont memes obliteres par elles. En nous appuyant sur la conception des dimensions de la justice de Nancy Fraser et en nous inspirant de la theorie des champs de Bourdieu, nous faisons ici la cartographie des communiques de presse de Greenpeace et du Sierra Club publies entre 2006 et 2010. C'est ainsi que notre article identifie des lieux de defense de l'environnement et met en avant qu'il faut des approches non parametriques des interventions des ONGE (organismes non gouvemementaux a caractere environnemental) pour expliquer la complexite des contextes politiques multi niveaux. Mots cles: l 'environment, theorie des champs, l'injustice, Bourdieu, Greenpeace, Sierra Club, movement social, INTRODUCTION During the course of the last decade environmental issues have gained prominence in most industrialized societies. (1) Much of the attention has been the result of advocacy by Environmental [...]

After reviewing some previous contributions to the discussion of continuity and change in the Christian tradition, the article suggests another way of thinking about the problem by using Pierre Bourdieu's analytic notion of habitus. Keywords Bourdieu, church reform, church tradition, Yves Congar, John Henry Newman, semper reformando, Vincent of Lerins, With the election of Pope Francis, expectations were raised that he would lead the Catholic Church through reforms in many areas of church life, not only in matters of style [...]

This piece presents an overview of Stuart Hall's contribution from both a personal and an intellectual standpoint. It surveys the development of his work and influence in the areas of cultural studies and social studies, providing a critical overview of his political arguments. Keywords Stuart Hall, Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, CCCS, hegemony, New Times, Introduction Smart Hall's engagement with contemporary culture and politics was so wide-ranging, sustained and rich and that commentators have difficult choices to make about where to begin. In this paper, [...]

It has been two decades since the publication of Paul Gilroy's path-breaking book, The Black Atlantic, which identified a hybrid counterculture to modernity in the real and metaphorical journeys of [...]

Whatever one may think about the book, the publication of Paul Gilroy's the Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (1993) was a seminal event in the social history of the [...]

Critical reflexivity is a relatively recent strand in journalism studies. It has its advocates, but there are few models. This article offers one possible model, of one moment of practice: an interview with the mother-in-law of an Australian Indigenous woman who died an avoidable death in prison. The critically reflexive approach taken in this research accommodates the individual, social, objective and subjective elements in a practice, and uses the tools provided by Pierre Bourdieu's theory of practice and Donald Schon's work on reflective practice and the reflective practitioner. Together, these approaches provide different but complementary conceptual, analytical, practice-based and narrative tools for making journalism practice, and journalists in the practice, an object of study. Critical reflexivity, by adding an inside perspective, is a valid method by which to add to the range of journalism studies that examine journalism from the outside. Such research allows for an inter-weaving of context, self, others, relationships, theory, history, facts, values and experiences, expanding and enriching our understanding of journalism practice and its place in society. Keywords: critical reflexivity, deaths in custody, Donald Schon, investigative journalism, Pierre Bourdieu, theory of practice, reflective practice., THIS ARTICLE explores and seeks to explain an instance of journalism practice through one possible model for applying critical reflexivity to practice-led journalism research. The journalism practice concerned is that [...]

Quebecois playwright Normand Chaurette's Fragments d'une lettre d'adieu lus par des geologues is, like much of Chaurette's theatre, preoccupied with the mystery of death. Five geologists are called before a commission to account for the failure of their expedition in Cambodia and the unexpected death of their leader Toni van Saikin. The causes of Van Saikin's death (a suicide?) will ultimately remain beyond the limits of knowledge, since the incessant rain that plagued the mission destroyed all but a few enigmatic fragments of his writing and reduced his corpse to mere bones. In this article I seek to supplement existing analyses of Chaurette's play by drawing on Slavoj Zizek's surprising reconfiguration of the 'death drive.' I argue that Zizek's conception, a reworking of Freud through the lens of Jacques Lacan's later writings, can bring to light what most distinguishes Chaurette's engagement with human finitude, enabling us to reconceive the very relationship between symbolization and death in Fragments. Ultimately, this approach will locate a radical dimension of Chaurette's theatre in its capacity to stage the undead supplements of a contemporary reality increasingly deprived (like the Geologists' mission) of solid ground and stable structures. La plupart des pieces du dramaturge quebecois Normand Chaurette s'interessent au mystere de la mort. C'est le cas de Fragments d'une lettre d'adieu lus par des geologues, piece dans laquelle cinq geologues sont appeles a se prononcer devant une commission sur l'echec de leur expedition au Cambodge et le deces inattendu de leur chef Toni van Saikin. La cause du deces de Van Saikin (un suicide?) restera un mystere, puisque la pluie incessante qui tourmente la mission a tout detruit sauf quelques fragments enigmatiques de ses ecrits et n'a laisse de son cadavre qu'un simple amas d'os. Dans cet article, Wolfe cherche a completer des analyses anterieures de la piece en se servant du concept de '!pulsion de mort!' tel qu'il a ete repense par Slavoj Zizek. Wolfe fait valoir que le concept de 'i#ek, une relecture etonnante de Freud sous l'angle des ecrits de Jacques Lacan, met en lumiere le rapport de Chaurette a la finitude de l'etre humain et nous permet de voir autrement le rapport meme entre la symbolisation et la mort dans Fragments. En bout de ligne, cette approche fait voir une dimension plus radicale du theatre de Chaurette, capable de mettre en scene les aspects morts vivants d'une realite contemporaine qui est de plus en plus privee (comme la mission des geologues) d'un sol ferme et de structures stables., Quand vous lirez ces lignes, dans cet endroitperdu du monde ... Quand vous lirez ces lignes, sur ce rivage loin de tous les reperes ... Quand vous aurez parcouru ces [...]

Francesca Aran Murphy shows that Robert Bellah puts creative freedom at the heart of human nature. At the beginning of the eighteenth century, Immanuel Kant contended that struggle is the [...]

Thomas Joseph White argues that Robert Bellah's book renews the liberal Protestant project. Just when you thought liberal Protestantism was dead, Robert Bellah writes what is arguably the greatest work [...]

E. Franklin Frazier's sociological approach to the question of race and class in America has been the subject of much study. (1) This paper provides a background on how his [...]

IN HIS 1932 BOOK, HUMAN GEOGRAPHY OF THE SOUTH: A STUDY IN Regional Resources and Human Adequacy, sociologist Rupert B. Vance declared, 'There are two great economic complexes that may [...]

This paper considers Oscar Wilde's 1923 appearances at seances in the home of Hester Dowden, an episode in Wilde's afterlife that informs ongoing debates about the transmission of thought in Wilde's aestheticism. I draw on Gabriel Tarde's sociology, which became known in the interlude between Wilde's death and his 1923 ghosting, in order to claim that, in Wilde's work, imitation structures even seemingly autonomous actions. For Wilde, imitation and its inescapability constitute the creative act, and in The Picture of Dorian Gray and the plays, especially The Importance of Being Earnest, Wilde offers what we might call a playful sociology of imitation. This view of artistic production rejects what Wilde calls literary mimesis in favor of an account of exuberant creativity that nonetheless affirms the inescapable influence--or the social mimesis--of other minds., On 8 June 1923, Oscar Wilde's ghost visited a seance at the London home of Hester Dowden (later Travers Smith), and dictated from the beyond. It was the first of [...]

WHEN THE STORM HIT THE HANSA CARRIER, 21 SHIPPING CONTAINERS fell from its deck into the Pacific Ocean, taking some 80,000 Nike sneakers with them. Seattle-based oceanographer Curtis Ebbsmeyer used [...]

In a much earlier time of life, I recall walking back from lunch with someone I was thinking was about to become an extraordinary kind of friend--perhaps even an extraordinary [...]

The intent of this study is to examine the adaptive responses of Hong Kong transmigrants and their transnational and transcultural practices in terms of their consequent behavioral and emotional patterns. Their transnational practices and relative adaptability can be explained with Robert Merton's (1957) 'strain theory.' More specifically, the study aims to identify, describe, and explain the variety of behavioral patterns and modes of emotional manifestations of adaptation of Hong Kong returnees, and to identify their individual and collective strategies of adaptation to help them solve their adjustment and integration problems in their adopted countries. KEYWORDS: Adaptability, cosmopolitanism, de-alienation, hybridity, innovation and creativity, Merton, return migration, strain, transnationalism. DOI: 10.1080/02604021003680537

Legitimacy claims can only be made and processes of legitimation can only unfold in a specified context. This article uses Pierre Bourdieu's concept of the social field to name this context and to analyze the construction of the bureaucratic or public administrative field in the United States. Field is meant in a triple sense--public administration as a general, institutionalized field in the structure of government; public administration as a professional field; and public administration as an academic field of study. Thus, rather than the bureaucratic field, the relationship of these bureaucratic fields or an 'ensemble of fields' is analyzed to consider how each field both bounds its own legitimation struggles and draws from other fields for symbolic resources--what Bourdieu called symbolic capital--to establish its legitimacy and position. The multifield quality of public administration is used to show how the nature of the general bureaucratic field is distinct from other fields insofar as it purports to represent a universal, general interest. This difference is used to theorize a distinction between 'general' and 'specific' legitimation processes. Keywords: legitimacy; legitimation; public administration; Pierre Bourdieu

This text applies itself to answer the question to know in what the thinker Edgar Morin and her work they are universal so that they can refer to the one and to other one to construct surgical knowledge. The universality of Edgar Morin and his work are in the contents of tries which carry his signature. It succeeded in constructing a monumental work, transdisciplinarity, which offers a 'thought other one' for the Global World and for a 'humanity other one'. Edgar Morin is less a thinker of globalization than a thinker of the 'mondiality' and therefore one of the big thinkers of a 'humanity other one', got rid of the ballast by the ethnocentrist inheritance of the thoughts of Light. Keywords: complexity, humanism, Edgar Morin, mondiality, epistemology, social sciences, sociology, Le present texte (2) s'emploie a repondre a la question de savoir en quoi le penseur Edgar Morin et son oeuvre sont-ils universels ? L'universalite de cette oeuvre s'explique-t-elle par [...]

In this paper, we take up the debate about public sociologies by drawing on critical feminist sociology in Canada. While we applaud Burawoy's efforts to contextualize US sociology and to embrace engagement with various publics, we discuss four limitations of his model. First, it does not adequately reflect the practice of feminist research that is interdisciplinary and simultaneously professional, critical, policy, and public sociology. Second, it does not take into account feminist methodology as an integrative form of sociology. Third, it does not sufficiently provincialize US sociology nor address how American 'professional' sociology can operate as a threat rather than a standard-bearer in Canada. Fourth, it requires more concrete examples of public sociology and how it is undertaken in specific situations. We briefly discuss our research to illustrate 'organic' public sociology in the Canadian context. Key words: critical feminist sociology, feminist methodology, Canadian sociology, organic public sociology Dans cet article, nous reprenons le debat sur la sociologie publique en nous inspirant de la sociologie feministe critique au Canada. Alors que nous felicitons l'effort de Burawoy de remettre dans son contexte la sociologie americaine et d'accueillir la mobilisation avec divers publics, nous examinons aussi quatre limites a son modele. Premierement, il ne reflete pas de maniere adequate la pratique de la recherche feministe qui releve de la sociologie interdisciplinaire et, a la fois, professionnelle, critique politique et sociale. Deuxiemement, il ne prend pas en compte la methodologie feministe en tant que forme integrative de sociologie. Troisiemement, il ne regionalise pas assez la sociologie americaine et n'aborde pas de quelle maniere la sociologie << professionnelle >> americaine peut representer une menace plutot qu'un porte-etendard au Canada. Quatriemement, il manque des exemples concrets de sociologie publique et de sa maniere d'etre assumee dans des situations precises. Nous discutons brievement de notre recherche pour illustrer la sociologie publique << organique >> dans le contexte canadien. Mots cles : sociologie feministe critique, methodologie feministe, sociologie canadienne, sociologie publique organique, INTRODUCTION As president of the American Sociological Association in 2004, Michael Burawoy initiated a lively discussion about the sociological terrain in the United States and appealed to his colleagues to [...]

The Bleek and Lloyd collection of /Xam materials continues to elicit growing attention from both the wider public and academics such as historians, linguists, literary critics, folklorists, art historian, and ethnologists. Despite this interest, the actual body of writing that engages in close analysis of the texts themselves is surprisingly limited. This small but influential literature has itself not been subjected to a systematic critique. Many of the assertions contained within it have been reproduced in the wider field of Bushman studies as though they were facts rather than opinions. This paper attempts to begin to redress this situation by engaging in the close examination of the some of the writing that has been produced by Roger Hewitt in relation to the narratives in the /Xam archive. Hewitt's work comprises the most detailed and most widely cited analysis of the texts to date., The Bleek and Lloyd collection is an extraordinarily rich and extensive record of the history, literature, and culture of a people whose language and foraging way of life had effectively [...]

Mediated interaction has become a feature of everyday life, used routinely to communicate and maintain contacts, yet sociological analysis of mediated communication is relatively undeveloped. This article argues that new mediated communication channels merit detailed sociological analysis, and that interactional differences between media have been overlooked. Goffman explicitly restricted his interaction order to face-to-face interaction. The article adapts some of Goffman's interactional concepts for synchronous mediated interaction, but argues that his situational focus is less relevant to asynchronous media. The theoretical approach developed is illustrated and supported by qualitative research on mobile phones, which fortuitously afford both synchronous and asynchronous communication. The study suggests that although the distinction between synchronous and asynchronous interaction is important, it is not technologically determined, but shaped by interactional norms. KEY WORDS Goffman / interaction order/mediated communication / mobile phones / new media / SMS / synchrony

The significance of sport as a social practice remains hidden at the margins of sociology. This article aims to highlight the social significance of sport by providing a sociological interpretation of the transformations of sailing in Czechoslovakia, and later in the Czech Republic, following the Velvet Revolution of 1989. These sport-related changes are understood to be consequences of wider socio-cultural, economic and political transformations. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork of the Czech sailing movement, I argue that during Czechoslovakia's communist period, a time when sailing was labelled pejoratively as a 'bourgeois sport', it actually experienced a 'golden age' of enchantment. Based on Weber's concept of disenchantment and its subsequent developments in contemporary sociology, this article demonstrates how this earlier enchantment was jeopardized by disenchantment threats that occurred after 1989, and how sailing has once again been re-enchanted in the current period. KEY WORDS Czech Republic / disenchantment / enchantment / political transformation / re-enchantment / sailing / sporting culture