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Art as a Channel and Embodiment of Symbolic Interaction Between Migrants and Non‐Migrants

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Many non‐migrant politicians, journalists, and scholars in migrant‐ destination societies often represent migrants with self‐interested objectives and in specific instrumental ways based on stereotypes. Yet research on symbolic interaction reveals migrants are not passive victims.
Jacob Thomas
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Normalizing the Shamed Self: Stigma, Neutralization and “Narrative Credibility” in Interviews on White‐Collar Transgression

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
In this article, I analyze my interviews with Mark (pseudonym), a social scientist who committed major academic fraud in over 50 top‐tier journal articles in the first decade of this century. I explain how stigma played a central role in how Mark and I shaped our interaction. I focus on how Mark, a former Professor and Dean with a distinguished career,
Thaddeus Müller
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The Trajectory of an Agreement: Tracing Objectivated Knowledge Across a Series of Mundane Encounters

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
This article adds to the sociological study of time and temporality in everyday life by building on recent longitudinal developments within conversation analysis. It investigates members' methods to bring about change within their shared (life) world. It examines how, as part of an extended project of action, one agreement made early on is continually ...
Sarah Hitzler, Jonas Kramer
wiley   +1 more source

“Are We Watching the Same Video?”: On the Definition of the Situation and Audience Sense‐Making on Social Media about the Sexual Abuse Allegations Against Marilyn Manson

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
How situations are defined is a social process. This paper examines how users on YouTube make sense of the alleged sexual assault perpetrated by shock rocker Marilyn Manson in the 2007 “Heart Shaped‐Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand)” music video.
Stacey Hannem, Christopher J. Schneider
wiley   +1 more source

“I Am an Unashamed Cityphile”: Making Sense of a World of Strangers in Ann Arbor, Amsterdam, and Beyond

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
This article describes the social construction of Lofland's A World of Strangers (1973), which has become a seminal publication on social interactions in urban public places. I focus on her methods, research locations, references, and positionality. I will refer to my meetings with her and analyze two unpublished documents: the methodological appendix ...
Thaddeus Müller
wiley   +1 more source

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