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

open access: yesSociological Forum, EarlyView.
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

Unpacking the Multispecies Family: Predicting Pets as Family Members Using the General Social Survey

open access: yesSociological Forum, EarlyView.
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

Encountering (im)probable wit: Religious puns in an Indonesian post‐conflict setting

open access: yesThe Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper analyses religion‐related humour in the post‐conflict setting of the Moluccas, Indonesia, which were haunted by interreligious violence in the late 1990s and early 2000s. It is concerned with religious puns told among Hadhramis, Indonesians of Arab descent, whose ancestors migrated in pre‐colonial and colonial times from the ...
Martin Slama
wiley   +1 more source

Saint Paul, the Apostle, and the Gastaut-Geschwind syndrome. [PDF]

open access: yesDement Neuropsychol
de Souza LC   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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