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Formation of Distance‐Based Orientation: Political Identity through Relational Positioning in Israel

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Distance‐based orientation describes how pejorative labels may serve as anchor points for political identity. Existing research on political labeling has largely emphasized stigmatization, overlooking how labels may acquire durability and orienting capacity without losing pejorative force. Drawing on publicly circulating discourse, we trace positioning
Tammar Friedman, Asaf Saadon
wiley   +1 more source

Investigating the causal effects of religiosity on childbearing among U.S. adolescents using a three-wave longitudinal design. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Chvaja R, Shaver JH, Bulbulia JA.
europepmc   +1 more source

An Outline of a Theory of Play

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Play is often dismissed as trivial, yet it is a fundamental and adaptive aspect of human and mammalian life. This paper develops a sociological theory of play, treating it as a total social fact that spans biological, psychological, and social dimensions.
Seth Abrutyn
wiley   +1 more source

Selective divergence between Grokipedia and Wikipedia articles. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Mohammadi S, Yasseri T.
europepmc   +1 more source

Exploring the Association of Religion and Religiosity on Mammography Screening Among White and Black Women: Results from the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Aging (Elsi-Brazil). [PDF]

J Relig Health
Dias CS, Verona AP, Leocádio V.
europepmc   +1 more source

Identity Impermanence as a Generic Social Process: The Malleability of Gender in Transgender and Nonbinary People's Lives

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Drawing on 40 in‐depth interviews with transgender and nonbinary people, we found that respondents' gender identities or displays shifted day‐by‐day and audience‐by‐audience. The first describes respondents shifting their identities and displays based on feeling their way through gender while the latter describes feeling out an audience.
Stef M. Shuster, Andrew Kirks‐Cler
wiley   +1 more source

Sociodemographic predictors of public attitudes toward deceased organ donation and organ trade in Kazakhstan. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Kassymova A, Omarova A.
europepmc   +1 more source

Goffman's Tempting the Devil in Stigma: A Close Rereading of Goffman's “Subversive” Construct of “the Normals” Versus “the Stigmatized”

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
This article engages in a close rereading of Stigma, relating it to Goffman's biography as a person who faced stigma. Exploring his biography helps us to recognize the ways Goffman applies stigma strategies in how he represents himself as the author in Stigma.
Thaddeus Müller
wiley   +1 more source

Better Person, Better Society: A Different Perspective on the Association Between Instrumental Religiosity, Interpersonal Empathy and Social Justice Values. [PDF]

Behav Sci (Basel)
Tudoran MA, Neagoe A, Goian C, Lazăr TA, Țîru LG.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Couch: Belonging, Memory, and the Making of the Self—A Heartfelt Autoethnography

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
This heartfelt retrospective autoethnography explores a personal episode of adolescence through the lens of ritual, memory, and symbolic interaction. At the age of 14, after returning to Italy following years abroad, I found myself on the margins of a gang of boys whose shared language, stories, and music represented the codes of belonging I yearned to
Alessandro Porrovecchio
wiley   +1 more source