Nuria Targarona Rifa, Louise Ryan, Alejandro Ciordia
{"title":"Social Categories and Boundary-Making: Exploring the Potential of Interactive Visual Tools to Study Boundary Work within Personal Networks.","authors":"Nuria Targarona Rifa, Louise Ryan, Alejandro Ciordia","doi":"10.1177/13607804251347267","DOIUrl":"10.1177/13607804251347267","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Research on categorisation and boundary work has often focused on how institutional actors draw boundaries between groups of individuals, overlooking how individuals informally contest or reinforce these boundaries and categories. In this article, we make the case for new interactive qualitative data collection strategies to inductively explore social categorisation and boundary-making processes within personal networks, bringing together the potential of visualisation and personal network research. We introduce an innovative methodological procedure for in-depth interviewing that consists of asking participants to report on specific network members while using two novel interactive visual tools displayed on electronic devices. By discussing examples from our research, we illustrate the method's potential in the data collection and analysis stages and highlight the technical, methodological, and conceptual contributions it can make to the study of social boundaries.</p>","PeriodicalId":47694,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Research Online","volume":"31 3","pages":"524-543"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13546733/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148901332","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Connecting to Cognition: A Methodological Journey With Urban Dementia.","authors":"James Rupert Fletcher","doi":"10.1177/13607804241287683","DOIUrl":"10.1177/13607804241287683","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Contemporary sociological developments spanning the ontological turn, post-cognitivism, biosocial transdisciplinarity, post-qualitative inquiry, and new empiricism are opening up novel sites of methodological contention regarding the nature of cognition as a research object. While these developments are conceptually stimulating, their (potential) overlapping methodological implications are under-explicated. Outlining a moving ethnography of urban transport use by passengers with dementia, in this article I delve into the more pragmatic methodological contingencies of attempts to engage with cognition as a fundamentally ecological phenomenon. Blurring the boundaries between the management and analysis of data, I develop a laborious and meditative 'journeying analysis' as a means of dealing with an unruly dataset. In line with post-qualitative commitments, I pursue a somewhat haphazard approach to anti-representation, while nonetheless embracing the researcher-centrism of doing research. I advocate creative digital strategies - for example, map-making, soundscaping - for cultivating data forms that offer multiple possibilities for audiences to forge new connections with the study phenomena.</p>","PeriodicalId":47694,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Research Online","volume":"31 1","pages":"171-196"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13044434/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147624428","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Julio D' Angelo Davies, Julia O'Connell Davidson, Ana Paula da Silva
{"title":"Making Progress: 'Sex Trafficking', Sex Work, Temporality, and Im/mobility.","authors":"Julio D' Angelo Davies, Julia O'Connell Davidson, Ana Paula da Silva","doi":"10.1177/13607804241275268","DOIUrl":"10.1177/13607804241275268","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Anti-trafficking discourse is built upon and reproduces a series of either/or conceptual binaries (voluntary/forced, consensual/coerced, agent/victim) which obscure the unseen, structural factors that shape the fates of men, women, and children under the economic, social, and political relations of global capitalism, as well as their experience as workers in given countries, sectors, and workplaces. Some sex worker rights activists and scholars have contested its application to prostitution by emphasising that 'not all sex workers are trafficked'. However, this position also privileges the question of whether an individual voluntarily chose or was coerced by a third party into a given form of work. Drawing on biographical interview data with women in sex work in Brazil that shows how past, present, and hopes for the future are woven together in their sex-work trajectories, this article adds to the literature that critiques anti-trafficking discourse through a focus on temporality. It argues that by following the trajectories of sex working women's lives over time, it is possible to better grasp both the protean nature of sex work, and the impossibility of fixing people's participation in it as either forced or free.</p>","PeriodicalId":47694,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Research Online","volume":"30 4","pages":"885-900"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13044450/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147624381","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Claire Cunnington, Scarlett de Courcier, Chris Godwin, Jodie Hannis, Julie Lloyd, Susan Macklam, Zillah Turner
{"title":"'Flow': A Film About the Disclosure of Childhood Sexual Abuse.","authors":"Claire Cunnington, Scarlett de Courcier, Chris Godwin, Jodie Hannis, Julie Lloyd, Susan Macklam, Zillah Turner","doi":"10.1177/13607804241248347","DOIUrl":"10.1177/13607804241248347","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Trauma-informed care is growing in importance in health and social care, with disclosure as a vital first step. Yet evidence suggests that individual interactions with professionals may not facilitate trauma disclosure. 'Flow' aimed to address this. The film represents a high-quality, behaviour change resource that can be utilised in a wide range of circumstances. It was co-produced by representatives from the University of Sheffield, NHS England, the Department of Health and people with lived experience of childhood sexual abuse. The film follows the story of Amy, who is preparing for her art exhibition when a comment reignites traumatic childhood memories. She wants to approach her General Practitioner for help but is hindered both by family loyalty and barriers to disclosure within the NHS. 'Flow' has been used both in statutory services and non-governmental organisations, as well as being selected for inclusion in two film festivals. It represents an innovative way to communicate research results and foster change.</p>","PeriodicalId":47694,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Research Online","volume":"30 3","pages":"787-792"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13038152/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147595592","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The <i>Inverted Pyramid</i> and Beyond: Perceptions of Distributive Justice Among (Highly) Qualified Workers in Contemporary Cuba.","authors":"Nina Jany, Monica Budowski","doi":"10.1177/13607804241259279","DOIUrl":"10.1177/13607804241259279","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In 2020/2021, wage scale reforms were implemented in Cuba to improve distributive justice. The previously long-prevailing wage system and resulting wage structure, often referred to as an <i>inverted pyramid</i>, is said to have especially affected (highly) qualified workers in Cuba. This research provides emergent and partly speculative data on perceptions of distributive justice that (highly) qualified workers in Havana held during the time of change. The results of the exploratory study reinforce and illustrate the common claim in the literature that wage differentiation based on equity principles receives broad support. At the same time, we show how principles of need and equality also have their place in the interviewees' reasonings. Finally, we outline two different patterns that interviewees invoke to explain why they perceive equity violations as unjust.</p>","PeriodicalId":47694,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Research Online","volume":"30 3","pages":"839-848"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13044476/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147624425","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transnational Affect and the Making of a Moral Public: The War on Drugs in the Philippines","authors":"Paul-François Tremlett","doi":"10.1177/13607804231208852","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13607804231208852","url":null,"abstract":"In 2019, IBON International and the Campaign for Human Rights in the Philippines UK (CHRP-UK) made preparations for some relatives of some of the victims of former Philippine President Duterte’s war on drugs to travel to meet members of the European Parliament as well as diasporic and other publics in Europe and the UK. At the same time, the play Tao Po! – ‘Is Anybody There?’ – a dramatic monologue exploring different perspectives of those involved in Duterte’s drug war including those of victims and perpetrators, was touring Europe. These affectively saturated actions and performances were accompanied by social media posts on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, among other platforms, using hashtags such as #Stopthekillingsph and #Warondrugsph. I juxtapose two very different interpretations of these actions and performances. On the one hand, I frame them as elements of a political strategy performed to solicit particular affective responses as a means of assembling a transnational public that could bring international political pressure to bear on the Duterte regime. On the other hand, I suggest that these actions were performed to cultivate a sense of belonging to a moral public. I conclude by arguing that the enactment of affects such as grief and loss – affects which are constitutive of the war on drugs – suggests a model of social and political change that works from the bottom-up, with affective experience as the primary catalyst.","PeriodicalId":47694,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Research Online","volume":"17 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139162478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Félix Rojo-Mendoza, Denisse Sepúlveda Sánchez, Fernando Baeza Rivas
{"title":"The Persistence of the University Dream: Class and Social Mobility as Projected by Students at a Chilean University","authors":"Félix Rojo-Mendoza, Denisse Sepúlveda Sánchez, Fernando Baeza Rivas","doi":"10.1177/13607804231212315","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13607804231212315","url":null,"abstract":"Higher education is considered an important dimension for building more egalitarian societies. However, despite the social value assigned to it, international evidence indicates that the social status of students’ families continues to prevent significant mobility in the social structure. In Chile, despite policies to increase access to higher education, the university system continues to reproduce inequalities of origin through selection, separating elite students from low-income students. In this context, little is known about the perception that university students have of the role that these institutions play in social mobility, especially for those of more disadvantaged social origins. This article explores and describes the persistence of the university dream among Chilean’s students at the Catholic University of Temuco, the Chilean educational institution with the highest percentage of poor students in the country, analyzing it on the understanding that aspirations represent idealist targets of the desired social class, while expectations represent realistic goals regarding the expected social class. Based on a statistical analysis of survey data from 209 students, results show that students’ family origin does not prevent them from projecting themselves as part of a higher class, with the university acting as an agent that dynamizes positions to favor greater homogeneity in the future social structure. In addition, postgraduate degrees are defined as a catalyst for future social mobility. Finally, the future tensions between the still-hegemonic meritocratic discourse and the reality of the social space that these students will occupy are discussed.","PeriodicalId":47694,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Research Online","volume":"43 18","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139161795","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘I’ve Wondered Why Am I Here?’ Expectations of Old Age and the Ageing Body in a Longitudinal Study of a Dance Group","authors":"Anna Goulding","doi":"10.1177/13607804231207257","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13607804231207257","url":null,"abstract":"Mainstream expectations of older age place pressure on individuals––both negative discourses focused upon frailty and isolation and successful ageing narratives that emphasize physical and mental exercise. This article considers whether older people can challenge damaging narratives through participating in the practice of modern dance. Over the course of 4 years, action research and ethnographic-based methods were used as the author worked with a dance company of seven members aged 69 to 89 as they created a modern dance piece. Data included fieldnotes, transcripts of individual interviews and group discussions and a video of the performance. A thematic analysis was applied. Moving away from a health perspective, the literature on ageing and lifestyle is advanced by in examining how the group’s creativity should be understood and valued. Participants went from presenting as active agers to developing a more accepting attitude towards their ageing body. The performance refashioned the space as a site of intergenerational connectivity as the dancers and audience co-produced narratives around the artistry of the older body. An original contribution to the work on embodiment is made by revealing how older men and women use dance differently to negotiate the ageing body. Findings have wider implications for research on inclusion by showing how the embodied practice of dance helps subvert expectations of older age.","PeriodicalId":47694,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Research Online","volume":"147 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139163179","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Vulnerability’ at Work: Instrumental Vulnerabilities Among Software Professionals","authors":"Vanessa Ciccone","doi":"10.1177/13607804231206949","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13607804231206949","url":null,"abstract":"As a self-improvement discourse, ‘vulnerability’ brings a compelling promise for software workplaces around engendering productivity, innovation and creativity among employees. While critical studies have interrogated various self-improvement discourses, less is known about how workers respond to and negotiate these discourses in professional contexts. This article asks how workers of North American software companies construct vulnerability. It finds that constructions instrumentalize vulnerability in the workplace as the exposure of failures, mistakes and knowledge gaps to enact organizational resilience. Drawing from interviews, the article discusses the implications of these constructions.","PeriodicalId":47694,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Research Online","volume":"13 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139161573","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hoof Work: The Feminisation of Donkeys in Ethiopia","authors":"Martha Rose Geiger","doi":"10.1177/13607804231213559","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13607804231213559","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores how gendered divisions of labour manifest across species lines. It applies a feminist, more-than-human intersectional approach, building on previous work on animal labour. The vital labour donkeys do with and for humans and their contributions to multispecies societies have been under-recognised and under-theorised. Drawing on empirical research conducted in central Ethiopia on the human-donkey relationship, findings reveal the multiple ways human gender and class coalesce to shape the kinds of labour performed and social relations among women, men, and donkeys across urban and rural environments. At the nexus of these intersecting forces, equivalence is drawn, by research participants themselves, between women and donkeys. Women and donkeys are aligned and othered, differentiated from men, a dynamic that results in the feminisation of donkeys and mutual marginalisation of women and donkeys and exposes male violence perpetrated on both groups. The article contributes empirical insights into human-donkey relations and interspecies labour and offers theoretical considerations of more-than-human intersectionality.","PeriodicalId":47694,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Research Online","volume":"59 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2023-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138998385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}