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The Emotions of Protest: Affective and Reactive Emotions in and around Social Movements by Jasper, James M.

“…The recent explosion of cultural work on social movements has been highly cognitive in its orientation, as though researchers were still reluctant to admit…”
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Caught in a Winding, Snarling Vine: The Structural Bias of Political Process Theory by Goodwin, Jeff, Jasper, James M., Khattra, Jaswinder

“…The study of social movements has recently been energized by an explosion of work that emphasizes "political opportunities"--a concept meant to come to grips…”
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Beyond Correlational Analysis: Recent Innovations in Theory and Method by Mahoney, James

“…A review essay on books by (1) Peter Hedstrom & Richard Swedberg, (Eds), Social Mechanisms: An Analytical Approach to Social Theory (Cambridge: Cambridge U…”
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Segregation and Mortality: The Deadly Effects of Racism? by Collins, Chiquita A., Williams, David R.

“…Elevated rates of mortality for African Americans compared to whites, coupled with the persistence of high levels of racial residential segregation, have…”
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Toward a Critical Sociology of Risk by Tierney, Kathleen J.

“…Sociologists are growing increasingly skeptical toward research on risk conducted in other fields, and new perspectives on risk are emerging. Topics that merit…”
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Lumping and Splitting: Notes on Social Classification by Zerubavel, Eviatar

“…This paper examines the mental process of grouping "similar" things together in distinct clusters and separating "different" clusters from one another. The…”
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Problematic White Identities and a Search for Racial Justice by Eichstedt, Jennifer L.

“…Blauner (1995, Racism and Antiracism in World Perspective. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage), Winant (1998, Ethnic and Racial Studies 24(4): 755-766) and Bonnett (1997,…”
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Act Your Age by Laz, Cheryl

“…With the aim of contributing to a sociology of age, this essay develops a framework for understanding age as accomplished, i.e., as something that is both a…”
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Civil Society, Economic Distress, and Social Tolerance by Persell, Caroline Hodges, Green, Adam, Gurevich, Liena

“…The idea that civil society is declining has been much discussed recently, for example, by Fukuyama (Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity…”
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Calendars and Keys: The Classification of "Home" and "Work" by Nippert-Eng, Christena

“…This article presents a discussion of the relationship between classification systems and individuals' everyday activities. The concept of "boundary work" is…”
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Social Networks and Individual Perceptions: Explaining Differential Participation in Social Movements by Passy, Florence, Giugni, Marco

“…This paper seeks to explain differential participation in social movements. It does so by attempting to bridge structural-level and individual-level…”
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Collective Violence as Social Control by de la Roche, Roberta Senechal

“…Collective violence is often social control: self-help by a group. It typically defines and responds to conduct as deviant. When unilateral and…”
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Group Images and Possible Selves among Adolescents: Linking Stereotypes to Expectations by Race and Ethnicity by Kao, Grace

“…The study is motivated by the differential alignment of educational achievement and aspirations along race and ethnic lines. Specifically, black and Hispanic…”
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Beyond Nation-State Paradigms: Globalization, Sociology, and the Challenge of Transnational Studies by Robinson, William I.

“…Globalization has made it increasingly necessary to break with nation-state centered analysis in macrosociologies. Social structure is becoming…”
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A Test of the Emergent Norm Theory of Collective Behavior by Aguirre, B. E., Wenger, Dennis, Vigo, Gabriela

“…Objective: The paper uses the timing of evacuation behavior of occupants of the World Trade Center at the time of the explosion of February 26, 1993, to test…”
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How to Become a Forgotten Intellectual: Intellectual Movements and the Rise and Fall of Erich Fromm by McLaughlin, Neil

“…The ideas and reputational history of German psychoanalyst and sociologist Erich Fromm are examined as a case study in the sociology of knowledge that explores…”
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Racial Segregation, the Concentration of Disadvantage, and Black and White Homicide Victimization by Peterson, Ruth D., Krivo, Lauren J.

“…Discriminatory housing market practices have created and reinforced patterns of racial residential segregation throughout the United States. Such segregation…”
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Political. Opportunity. Structure. Some Splitting to Balance the Lumping by Koopmans, Ruud

“…A response to Jeff Goodwin & James M. Jasper's "Caught in a Winding, Snarling Vine: The Structural Bias of Political Process Theory" (1999) argues that,…”
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Demography of Illicit Emigration from China: A Sending Country's Perspective by Liang, Zai

“…This paper examines the demographic trends of international migration from China, particularly from Fujian Province in the 1980s and 1990s, comparing the…”
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Neofunctionalism and Neoinstitutionalism: Human Agency and Interest in Institutional Change by Colomy, Paul

“…Neofunctionalism and neoinstitutionalism suffer from a macro bias that impairs recognition of human agency and interest in institutional change. A preliminary…”
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