Why is the term" openly gay" so widely used but" openly straight" is not? What are the
unspoken assumptions behind terms like" male nurse,"" working mom," and" white trash" …

How does culture shape our thinking? In what ways do our social and cultural worlds enter
into our mental worlds? How do the communities we belong to influence what we notice and …

Based on ethnographic observations in two high schools, this paper analyzes how sex
educators deploy the neoliberal discourse of personal responsibility in their comprehensive …

A unifying theme in the chapters in this volume is that semiotics offers important analytic
tools for understanding the creation and reproduction of contextual meaning in social life …

This chapter integrates two general styles of cognitive sociological theorizing, one focused
on cultural vision (eg Goffman, Zerubavel), and the other focused on practical action (eg …

In August of 1999, not too long before narratives of sex trafficking began to dominate
prostitution policy debates, the residents of a small town in Nevada debated closing the city's …

In the 2000 Argentinian film Waiting for the Messiah, a young man asks his father what they
should do about their family's mounting financial problems. The father answers,“Not tell …

Conventional heterosexual nuclear families comprising two married biological parents and
their children–like that of the wistful father in the bar–are not the statistical family norm in …

Perché mentre l'espressione “dichiaratamente gay” è così usata l'equivalente “apertamente
etero” non lo è? Quali sono gli assunti che stanno alle spalle di locuzioni come “donna in …

Marriage is a site of political conflict. It is a controversial issue in the UK, Australia and the
US where there is a clash of values between neoliberal governments and diverse groups …