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Norm Circles and Critical Realism 规范圈与批判现实主义

IF 1.6 3区心理学

Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour Pub Date : 2026-04-03 DOI: 10.1111/jtsb.70038

Dave Elder-Vass, Manuel Heckel

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Norm Circles and Critical Realism 规范圈与批判现实主义

IF 1.6 3区心理学

Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour Pub Date : 2026-04-03 DOI: 10.1111/jtsb.70038

Dave Elder-Vass, Manuel Heckel

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Institutional Logics Versus Norm Circles: Alternative or Complementary Approaches to the Analysis of Institutions? 制度逻辑与规范圈：制度分析的替代或补充方法？

IF 1.6 3区心理学

Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour Pub Date : 2026-03-26 DOI: 10.1111/jtsb.70037

Sven Modell

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Reflecting on Prejudice Research: Considering Participants' Feedback 偏见研究反思：考虑参与者的反馈

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Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour Pub Date : 2026-03-19 DOI: 10.1111/jtsb.70036

Maykel Verkuyten

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Multisituationality and Social Sensibility. Insights From Neophenomenological Sociology 多情境性与社会敏感性。新现象社会学的见解

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Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour Pub Date : 2026-03-04 DOI: 10.1111/jtsb.70035

Michele Granzotto

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Differentiating Regulative and Constitutive Normativity: Talcott Parsons, Harold Garfinkel and the Sticky Problem of Meaning 区分规则规范与构成规范：塔尔科特·帕森斯、哈罗德·加芬克尔与意义的粘性问题

IF 1.6 3区心理学

Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour Pub Date : 2026-02-23 DOI: 10.1111/jtsb.70033

Andrew Chalfoun

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Composition Theory: A Pragmatist Specification of the Mesosocial 构成理论：中社会的实用主义规范

IF 1.6 3区心理学

Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour Pub Date : 2026-02-05 DOI: 10.1111/jtsb.70031

David D. Brown

{"title":"Composition Theory: A Pragmatist Specification of the Mesosocial","authors":"David D. Brown","doi":"10.1111/jtsb.70031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jtsb.70031","url":null,"abstract":"This article develops composition theory as a pragmatist specification of the mesosocial. Existing theories describe situated social life without adequately explaining the mechanisms that produce it. Recent pragmatist scholarship has established important foundations: Gross on mechanisms, Lizardo on habit, and Hallett on inhabited institutionalism. Yet the mechanisms themselves remain underspecified. Composition theory fills this gap through four sets of mechanisms: composition, engagement, sedimentation, and circulation. Together, these explain how problem responsive actors assemble formations, how formations become consequential as affordances meet capacities, how residues accumulate over time and how patterns extend across settings through movement and echoing. The article reinterprets Dewey's concept of situation as the flow of actors' transactions with and within their present place (relational, symbolic and material environment) while remaining cognizant of their direct and indirect experiences with other places. Place is the somewhere somewhen locatable environment that necessarily grounds each situation and social reality as such. The framework reconceptualizes microsocial, mesosocial, and macrosocial as a continuum of compositional complexity anchored in the mesosocial. It expands the range of theory-driven research questions by directing attention to processes within and across places of action rather than to the forces of abstract structural properties.","PeriodicalId":47646,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour","volume":"56 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2026-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jtsb.70031","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146162476","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Symbolic Interaction as a Sociology of Concern: Revisiting the Theory of Reflexivity Methodologically 作为关注社会学的符号互动：反身性理论的方法论回顾

IF 1.6 3区心理学

Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour Pub Date : 2026-02-02 DOI: 10.1111/jtsb.70032

Liudmila Zaichenko

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Functionaries: A Distributional Approach to Institutional Analysis 公务员：制度分析的分配方法

IF 1.6 3区心理学

Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour Pub Date : 2026-01-31 DOI: 10.1111/jtsb.70030

Dustin S. Stoltz, Marshall A. Taylor, Omar Lizardo

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Practice Theory, Leadership-as-Practice, and Social Action 实践理论，领导力作为实践和社会行动

IF 1.6 3区心理学

Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour Pub Date : 2026-01-24 DOI: 10.1111/jtsb.70029

Joseph A. Raelin

{"title":"Practice Theory, Leadership-as-Practice, and Social Action","authors":"Joseph A. Raelin","doi":"10.1111/jtsb.70029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jtsb.70029","url":null,"abstract":"Although practice theory has significantly contributed to our understanding of the mechanisms underlying social change, it does not take a position or advocate for particular meso-macro changes, such as responsible management, because it is a theory wedded to ontological understanding. How people choose to ‘get along’ in life and manage their goods is all part of the practices, which fall under the theorist's microscope. On other hand, the applied field of leadership-as-practice is tied to change as its definitive property; in fact, leadership is defined by turning points occurring in the spaces between people, which, in turn, can lead to changes in the trajectory of the flow of practice. After narrowing the definition of social change in this paper as social action and—institutionally—as responsible management, the paper turns to a comparison between how practice theory contributes to our understanding of the evolution of social action and how leadership-as-practice, relying on the former's erstwhile elucidation, attempts to initiate and facilitate such action. The latter discussion of leadership-as-practice includes an accounting of the impetus for change initiation, its diffusion and prefigured processes, and the post-institutional applications afforded through its link with practice theory. The essay concludes by pointing out the principal contribution of the paper that social change need not rely on exclusive individual direction but on the collective capacity of the agents affiliated with the practice deriving the means to produce more just and sustainable lives.","PeriodicalId":47646,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour","volume":"56 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2026-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jtsb.70029","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146057994","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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