Constructionist Perspectives on the Life Course - Holstein - 2007 - Sociology Compass - Wiley
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Against the background of recent methodological debates pitting ethnography against
interviewing, this paper offers a defense of the latter and argues for methodological …

Declaring that love is" profoundly social and cultural," Ann Swidler opens Talk of Love by
declaring" love is a perfect place to study culture in action"(p. 2). Subordinating what people …

Documents of Life was originally published in 1983 and became a classic text, providing
both a persuasive argument for a particular approach and a manifesto for social research …

What is collective about collective memory? Two different concepts of collective memory
compete—one refers to the aggregation of socially framed individual memories and one …

In the past decade, Jeffrey Olick has established himself as one of the world's pre-eminent
sociologists of memory (and, related to this, both cultural sociology and social theory). His …

Stories told within institutions play a powerful role, helping to define not only the institution
itself, but also its individual members. How do institutions use stories? How do those stories …

Status has long been a core concept motivating sociology as a discipline. As related to the
positioning and valuing of individuals, status often takes the form of reputation. How is an …

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 …

Everyone worries about privacy these days. As corporations and governments devise
increasingly sophisticated data gathering tools and joining Facebook verges on obligatory …