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Introduction: Theorizing Remittances — Social Positioning and the Making of Migrant Subjectivity
Remittances connect migrants to their homelands, manifest cross-border relations, and shape the transnational social field. By doing so, they have a...
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Reframing the Community: How and Why Member Participation Shifts in the Face of Change
How and why do people reframe their understanding of the communities and organizations to which they belong? I draw on the case of a collegiate...
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A Rapidly Changing Ecology of Aid: Accepting Help and Stigma in the Aftermath of Disaster
Drawing on the human ecology framework, which describes social structure as dynamic and social action as environmentally contingent, this article...
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Theorizing interactions of migrant transnationalism and integration through a multiscalar approach
The aim of this article is to theorize interactions between migrant transnationalism and integration using a multiscalar approach. For migrant...
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Judicial Social Theorizing and Its Relation to Sociology
The scope and structure of social theory are often analyzed as part of or preamble to theorizing proper. This paper takes an indirect approach to the...
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Self-negation
This paper presents a new approach to theorizing and empirically investigating a phenomenon variously described by sociologists as internalized...
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Conceptualizing and investigating post-truth politics: the geographic imagination and knowledge of the Flat Earth Movement
In this article, I argue that post-truth politics is best understood and investigated as a distinct style of epistemological politics which embraces...
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Theorizing on the Social Construction of Inequalities and How the Rising Glocalization of Local Societies Is Affecting Them
The local interclass dynamics of societies have been key factors from which to understand the social construction of inequalities. However, the...
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The Silver Lining in the Clouds: A Commentary on Stephen Turner’s “Mad Hazard, a Life in Social Theory”
While it is true that to do social theory is to become an observer of life and its development from an outside perspective, it is also true that, in...
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Black Sites of Speculation: A Case for Theorizing Black Childhood as a Subject in Black Adult Narratives
Scholars studying black girls’ histories in the US have identified two particular challenges: the dearth of sources, and black girls’ exclusion from...
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Forgetting the Founders? The Uses of Classical Theory Today
It is commonly held that the most laudable research is constructed around a healthy interplay among theories, methods, and data. Despite this...
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Reading as Theorizing. A Conjecture Based on the Savage Detectives’ Mode of Inquiry
In this essay, readings from three different areas are made to intersect in order to produce a conjecture. The first area is social-scientific...
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Centrality and Dimensionality of 14 Indicators of Mental Well-Being in Four Countries: Develo** an Integrative Framework to Guide Theorizing and Measurement
The primary objective of this research is to develop an integrative framework for distinguishing and classifying well-being variables. Towards this...
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Post-neoliberal Populism in Latin America and Eastern Europe: Recognizing Family Resemblance
This article offers a novel conceptualization and dataset of post-neoliberal populism in contemporary Latin America and Eastern Europe. By drawing...
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After Neoliberalism: Social Theory and Sociology in the Interregnum
Charles Thorpe argues sociology lacks a “language of society as a whole.” He holds that positivist sociologists de-legitimated holistic theories or...
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Theorizing Migration and Identities
This chapter examines the main theoretical perspectives on identities with reference to Caribbean including analyses of the strengths and limitations...
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The Past, Present, and Future States of Political Theory
Beginning with a historical perspective on the long and short past of political theory, I argue for three priorities for the field’s future: (1)...
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Parallel trajectories and theorizations of religion and family in modernity: Toward an institutional logics perspective
Scholars theorize the effect of modernization on religious and familial institutions in a parallel way. Some argue that both are irreversibly in...
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The History and Future of the Sociology of Therapy: a Review and a Research Agenda
Though sociology has explored many facets of mental illness, discussions of psychotherapy have been largely underdeveloped. By examining published...
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Does Phenomenology (Still) Matter? Three Phenomenological Traditions and Sociological Theory
Phenomenology has played an important role in the development of sociological theory. While modern phenomenology’s origins lie in the seminal work of...