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Emotions in Meaning‐Making: Toward a Sociological Theory of Cathexis

Sociological Forum, Volume 41, Issue 2, Page 308-319, June 2026.
ABSTRACT The role of emotion in meaning‐making remains undertheorized in cultural sociology. This article argues that emotions and affect are intrinsic to meaning‐making and proposes cathexis—the attachment of emotions generated in social interaction to objects, symbols, and ideas—as the fundamental mechanism by which emotions co‐constitute cultural ...
Dmitry Kurakin
wiley   +1 more source

Is White Evangelical Antistructural Theology Related to Poor Health Outcomes? [PDF]

Milbank Q
Kindig DA, Ariffin YM, Olson-Williams H.
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Unpacking the Multispecies Family: Predicting Pets as Family Members Using the General Social Survey

Sociological Forum, Volume 41, Issue 2, Page 320-333, June 2026.
ABSTRACT The multispecies family has grown rapidly over the past 30 years in the United States. Scholarly understanding of pets as legitimate family members is increasing, but most work has been qualitative in nature. Statistical modeling of these dynamics has been bound by a lack of access to large‐scale, nationally representative datasets paywalled ...
Andrea Laurent‐Simpson
wiley   +1 more source

Religious Traditions Exhibit Heterogeneous Effects on Vaccination Uptake: A U.S. County-Level Regression Analysis Supporting Tailored Health Outreach. [PDF]

Am J Prev Med
Anderson CA, Zhou S, Chi G.
europepmc   +1 more source

What are 'biohackers' hacking? Identifying motivations and meaning-making frameworks. [PDF]

Med Humanit
Lorrimar V.
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Hildegard of Bingen's Embryology: Enabling Women's Reproductive Power without Seed. [PDF]

Uisahak
Lee M.
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Overcoming medical scholasticism in New Spain: experience and indigenous knowledge in Arias de Benavides' treatment of syphilis. [PDF]

Hist Philos Life Sci
Méndez Alonzo M, Villanueva LA.
europepmc   +1 more source

Gender differences in attitudes towards abortion: a cross-sectional study from Türkiye. [PDF]

BMC Med Ethics
Cakar A, Senkoylu K, Erenler E, Ozer S, Kocu C, Sakarya S.   +5 more
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Anticipation and prevention of real risks of virtual environments in psychiatry. [PDF]

NPJ Digit Med
Marloth M, Deane-Drummond C, Kellmeyer P, Latoschik ME, Chandler JA, Meynen G, Vogeley K.   +6 more
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