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

Sociological 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

Toward a performative epistemology of the archive: archival enactment as Rum futurity. [PDF]

Arch Sci (Dordr)
Banalopoulou C.
europepmc   +1 more source

Exploring the Disciplinary State: The Pace and Pattern of ‘Getting Tough’ in Denmark, Germany and the United Kingdom Since 1990

Social Policy &Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Welfare states in rich democracies have returned to a more ‘disciplinary’ agenda in recent decades. This has occurred roughly simultaneously with the so‐called ‘punitive turn’ in criminal justice. We argue that it makes sense to analyse the two movements together, as manifestations of the novel concept of the ‘disciplinary state’. Empirically,
Peter Starke, Georg Wenzelburger
wiley   +1 more source

Decisions and choices about fertility and family planning: Perspectives from husbands and wives in Sudan. [PDF]

PLoS One
Badri D, Krumeich A, Van de Borne B.
europepmc   +1 more source

What is a Multi‐Ethnic Party and How to Spot a Fake One?

Swiss Political Science Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Multi‐ethnic parties have been variously defined: as those which do not champion the interests of, or mobilize against, any specific ethnic group; as those with a recognisably cross‐communal leadership or membership; and as those which acquire some distribution of support across groups.
Jon Fraenkel
wiley   +1 more source

In the shadow of the state: Lived pluralism in Ramla. [PDF]

Crit Anthropol
Weiss E.
europepmc   +1 more source

When does the story end? Presence, the present and ‘the contemporary world’

The Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract We write and read ethnography in the wake of time passing: a fact that has long thrown up a host of epistemological and ethical issues for the doing of anthropology. In this essay I revisit this classic problem—the problem of the ethnographic present—asking what happens when we rethink the relationship between ‘the present’ and ‘presence’, the
Michael Edwards
wiley   +1 more source

Partnership Preferences in Modern Migration Societies: Religious Homophily Among Young Muslims and Christians in Germany. [PDF]

Eur J Popul
Heyne S, Kuhlemann J, Kogan I.
europepmc   +1 more source

Modal Logic and Modal Metaphysics: An Avicennian Division of Labour

Theoria, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper argues that Avicenna was both a necessitarian and a realist about contingency. The two aspects of his modal metaphysics are reconciled by arguing that Avicenna's modal metaphysics is founded on realism about essences: strictly speaking, an individual has no contingent properties, but a modal distinction can be made between the ...
Jari Kaukua
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring the multifaceted correlates of household decision-making autonomy among married women in Cameroon. [PDF]

BMC Womens Health
Amoak D, Sano Y, Dhillon S, Chidimbah Munthali GN, Antabe R, Luginaah I.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source