In an infiuential study of moral development, Carol Gilligan (1982) asked 11-year-old
children to consider what course of action would be most appropriate for a husband unable …

We examine the choices, dilemmas, and opportunities confronting ethnography at a moment
in which face-to-face interaction is deemed dangerous and prohibited by many university …

In Social Networks of Meaning and Communication, Jan A. Fuhse offers a coherent theory of
social structures as networks of relations interwoven with meaning. Drawing upon and …

How do civic groups judge what issues are appropriate for public discourse? And how do
they know what kinds of arguments to use where? Cultural sociologists identify varying …

Sociologists tend to see GH Mead's conceptualization of self as fundamentally correct. In this
paper, we develop a critique of Mead's notion of the self as constituted through social …

The internet is changing the way that knowledge is made and shared. Knowledge-making in
face-to-face settings is being replaced by information gathering from remote sources, whose …

Sociological analysis is replete with debates about “micro” and “macro,” individual and
society, but all too often these miss the point: interacting groups are the hinge that connects …

Against the bleak backdrop of pressing issues in today's world, civil societies remain vibrant,
animated by people's belief that they should and can solve such issues and build a better …

How do groups reckon with differences in members' identities and beliefs? A tension exists
between groups, whose identities are singular and stably positioned, and their members …

Friendship depends on equality, yet friends are seldom fully equal. In this article, we
investigate failed and difficult friendships through attention to the relationship between (in) …