Iddo Tavory
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 188667 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Iddo Tavory |
| NOMBRES | Iddo |
| APELLIDO | Tavory |
| FIRMA | TAVORY I |
| AFILIACIONES | New York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4603-8958 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 56 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 2384 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 56 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2009 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 15 |
Abductive Analysis and Analytical Induction
What is the purpose of social science research? We argue that different data analytical approaches lead to fundamentally different endpoints. We examine the convergence and similarities between abductive analysis and Florian Znaniecki’s sociological method of analytical induction. Both approaches originated in a similar intellectual and historical climate and share similar methodological precepts such as recognizing the transformative analytical …
AI and Qualitative Data Analysis
Between Two Rituals
Many of the social outcomes and patterns located at the very center of sociological inquiry are grounded in interaction ritual dynamics. Yet, while broadly used across subdisciplinary divides, such rituals are depicted in radically different ways. Drawing from a Durkheimian tradition, and following Erving Goffman and Randall Collins, we distinguish between what we term “rituals of face” and “rituals of effervescence”—rituals aimed at defending th…
The Adventures of Structure
None of the authors have a conflict of interest to disclose. Data sharing not applicable to this article as no datasets were generated or analysed during the current study
Time and Climate Change
Questions of temporality are at the heart of climate change discourse: Does one think of climate change primarily as an event happening in the present, or as something that will take place in the future? By when must we take action to prevent its worst consequences? This article presents the first large-scale assessment of the structure and evolution of temporalities expressed in U.S. media discussions on climate change (2000 to 2021). To do so, …
The “situation” in the sociology of justifications and engagements
This article focuses on a key concept in the sociologies of justification and engagement: “the situation.” We argue that despite the centrality of “the disposition of the situation” in such theorizations, the situation remains under-defined and that sociologists working along these lines would benefit from grappling more with interactional-pragmatist theoretical traditions that focused on the structuring of the situation. Using empirical examples…
Order and Potentiality in Interaction Ritual Theory
Interaction ritual theory is one of the most important contributions of micro-sociological theory, tying together the production of local order and actors' ongoing projects. Although Goffman replaced the 'social' order of classical anthropology with an endogenous 'interaction' order, such theory conceives ritual as reflecting and enacting an existing structure. Drawing on recent interactionist work and developments in ritual theory, we complement…
Pragmatism and medical sociology
Goffman's Frame Analysis
American Racism
Iddo Tavory on The Making of White American Identity and On Critical Race Theory
Patterns of Fantasy
Deceptively Approachable
A theory of intersubjectivity
Data Analysis in Qualitative Research
Climate change as an event
What kind of event is climate change? Theories of events inevitably begin with rupture. An event depends on the experience that the ground has dramatically shifted. Yet the ambiguity of rupture in climate change-which cannot be experienced in any one instance-makes climate change more difficult to emplot. Moreover, it is an event defined as much by how actors see the future unfolding as by its present or past. Tying the theory of events with that…
Entanglements of experience
Vers une sociologie de la convocation
La communauté juive orthodoxe du quartier de Beverly-La Brea s’épanouit à quelques pâtés de maisons de la vie nocturne de West Hollywood (Los Angeles, Californie, États-Unis), à côté des images, des sons et des odeurs « impurs » qu’elle rencontre chaque jour. Mais le maintien de cette forme de vie ne repose pas seulement sur les décisions morales des acteurs sociaux : être orthodoxe, c’est se voir constamment convoqué à un type d’existence. Cette…
Interviews and Inference
Racist Encounters
Complementing discourse-analytic approaches, we develop C. S. Peirce's semiotic theory to analyze how racism is enacted and countered in everyday interactions. We examine how the semiotic structure of racist encounters depends on acts of signification that can be deflected and that take shape in the ways actors negotiate interactions in situ. After outlining the semiotic apparatus Peirce pioneered, we trace the dynamic processes of generalization…
Disruption and the theory of the interaction order
Measuring Culture
Written collectively by a team of leading qualitative and quantitative sociologists of culture, Measuring Culture provides both the definitive introduction to the sociological literature on culture as well as a critical set of case studies for methods courses across the social sciences.
Modernity and the Jews in Western Social Thought
Shadowing
This article makes the case for shadowing as ethnographic methodology: focusing attention on what occurs as interlocutors move among settings and situations. Whereas ethnographers often zoom in on one principal set of situations or site, we argue that intersituational variation broadens and deepens the researcher’s ethnographic account as well as affording important correctives to some common inferential pitfalls. We provide four warrants for sha…
Summoned
Believing in South Central
Theory Construction in Qualitative Research
A critical pathway for conceptual innovation in the social is the construction of theoretical ideas based on empirical data. Grounded theory has become a leading approach promising the construction of novel theories. Yet grounded theory-based theoretical innovation has been scarce in part because of its commitment to let theories emerge inductively rather than imposing analytic frameworks a priori. We note, along with a long philosophical traditi…
Coordinating Futures
This article presents a theoretical approach for studying the coordination of futures. Building off theories of temporality and action, the authors map three different modes of future making—protentions, trajectories, and temporal landscapes—that actors need to coordinate in order to make sense of action together. Using a wide range of empirical evidence, they then show that these modes of future-coordination are autonomous from each other, so th…
A Theory of Resonance
The metaphor of resonance often describes the fit between a message and an audience's worldviews. Yet scholars have largely ignored the cognitive processes audiences use to interpret messages and interactions that determine why certain messages and other cultural objects appeal to some but not others. Drawing on pragmatism, we argue that resonance occurs as cultural objects help people puzzle through practical challenges they face or construct. W…
Condom Semiotics
This article examines the widespread resistance to condom use in sub-Saharan Africa by describing the major semiotic axes that organize how people talk about condoms and condom use. These axes include the "sweetness" of sex, trust and love between sexual partners, and assessments of risk and danger. Using data from rural Malawi, we show that framing the meaning of condoms as a simple choice between risky behavior and rational attempts to protect …
Two cases of ethnography
A B S T R A C T ■ Sociological ethnography largely draws upon two epistemologically competing perspectives - grounded theory and the extended case method - with a different conceptualization of sociological case-construction and theory. We argue that the sociological case in the extended case method is foremost a form of theoretical framing: relying on theoretical narratives to delineate the boundaries of an empirical field. Grounded theory follo…
Between Situations
This article pushes interactionist sociology forward. It does so by drawing out the implications of a simple idea, that to understand the situation-the mise en scene of interactionist theory-we must understand it in relation not only to past-induced habits of thought and action but to future situations anticipated in interaction. Focusing especially on the rhythmic nature of situations, the paper then argues that such a recalibration both unsettl…
Interviews and Inference
A Pragmatist Approach to Causality in Ethnography
Drawing on early pragmatist theorizing, the authors propose three interrelated methodological activities for the construction of robust causal claims in ethnographic research. First, Charles S. Peirce’s semiotic approach offers ethnographers a useful foundation for a mechanism-based approach to causality by tracing iterations of meaning-making-in-action. Second, taking advantage of the structure of Peirce’s semiotics ethnographers can examine thr…
The Question of Moral Action
This article develops a research position that allows cultural sociologists to compare morality across sociohistorical cases. In order to do so, the article suggests focusing analytic attention on actions that fulfill the following criteria: (a) actions that define the actor as a certain kind of socially recognized person, both within and across fields; (b) actions that actors experience-or that they expect others to perceive-as defining the acto…
Of yarmulkes and categories
Based on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews, this article delineates a process through which members of an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood in Los Angeles unintentionally delegate boundary work and membership-identification to anonymous others in everyday life. Living in the midst of a non-Jewish world, orthodox men are often approached by others, both Jews and non-Jews, who categorize them as “religious Jews” based on external marks such as the y…
Disruption and the theory of the interaction order
Molds and Totems
The role of nonhumans in social life has recently generated significant scholarly interest. The two main paradigms for explaining the sociological significance of nonhumans are constructivism and actor-network theory. We propose a pragmatist synthesis inspired by George Herbert Mead, demonstrating how interactions with nonhumans help constitute the social self-that is, the identity one constructs by imaginatively looking upon oneself as others wo…
Experiential careers
Climate change as an event
What kind of event is climate change? Theories of events inevitably begin with rupture. An event depends on the experience that the ground has dramatically shifted. Yet the ambiguity of rupture in climate change-which cannot be experienced in any one instance-makes climate change more difficult to emplot. Moreover, it is an event defined as much by how actors see the future unfolding as by its present or past. Tying the theory of events with that…
Interactionism in the Twenty-First Century
Half a century after its crystallization, interactionism faces new challenges. While elements of this theoretical tradition have percolated into the broader field of sociology, some of its most radical promises have been ignored. This essay provides a blueprint for how to approach interactionism today: not as a historical remnant, but as a living tradition with much to offer contemporary scholarship. Yet to do so, we argue, interactionism must de…
The situations of culture
A Collective of Individuals
Journal Article "A Collective of Individuals": Between Self and Solidarity in a Rainbow Gathering Get access Iddo Tavory, Iddo Tavory University of California, Los Angeles E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Yehuda C. Goodman Yehuda C. Goodman The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 70,…
Racist Encounters
Complementing discourse-analytic approaches, we develop C. S. Peirce's semiotic theory to analyze how racism is enacted and countered in everyday interactions. We examine how the semiotic structure of racist encounters depends on acts of signification that can be deflected and that take shape in the ways actors negotiate interactions in situ. After outlining the semiotic apparatus Peirce pioneered, we trace the dynamic processes of generalization…
Politics as a vacation
The pragmatist wave of theory construction
The Private Life of Public Ritual
Sex work and the construction of intimacies
Shadowing
This article makes the case for shadowing as ethnographic methodology: focusing attention on what occurs as interlocutors move among settings and situations. Whereas ethnographers often zoom in on one principal set of situations or site, we argue that intersituational variation broadens and deepens the researcher’s ethnographic account as well as affording important correctives to some common inferential pitfalls. We provide four warrants for sha…
Patterns of engagement
The Hollywood shtetl
■ This article analyzes the relation between the development of religious institutions and neighborhood formation in the main Jewish Orthodox neighborhood of Los Angeles. The Melrose-La Brea neighborhood, an ethnically Jewish area since the 1930s, was transformed by religious place entrepreneurs from the East Coast in the 1970s. The emerging Orthodox community, however, was not principally populated by converting secular Jews. Instead, by develop…
Condom Semiotics
This article examines the widespread resistance to condom use in sub-Saharan Africa by describing the major semiotic axes that organize how people talk about condoms and condom use. These axes include the "sweetness" of sex, trust and love between sexual partners, and assessments of risk and danger. Using data from rural Malawi, we show that framing the meaning of condoms as a simple choice between risky behavior and rational attempts to protect …
Two cases of ethnography
A B S T R A C T ■ Sociological ethnography largely draws upon two epistemologically competing perspectives - grounded theory and the extended case method - with a different conceptualization of sociological case-construction and theory. We argue that the sociological case in the extended case method is foremost a form of theoretical framing: relying on theoretical narratives to delineate the boundaries of an empirical field. Grounded theory follo…
A Collective of Individuals
Journal Article "A Collective of Individuals": Between Self and Solidarity in a Rainbow Gathering Get access Iddo Tavory, Iddo Tavory University of California, Los Angeles E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Yehuda C. Goodman Yehuda C. Goodman The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 70,…
The Hollywood shtetl
■ This article analyzes the relation between the development of religious institutions and neighborhood formation in the main Jewish Orthodox neighborhood of Los Angeles. The Melrose-La Brea neighborhood, an ethnically Jewish area since the 1930s, was transformed by religious place entrepreneurs from the East Coast in the 1970s. The emerging Orthodox community, however, was not principally populated by converting secular Jews. Instead, by develop…
Of yarmulkes and categories
Based on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews, this article delineates a process through which members of an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood in Los Angeles unintentionally delegate boundary work and membership-identification to anonymous others in everyday life. Living in the midst of a non-Jewish world, orthodox men are often approached by others, both Jews and non-Jews, who categorize them as “religious Jews” based on external marks such as the y…
The Question of Moral Action
This article develops a research position that allows cultural sociologists to compare morality across sociohistorical cases. In order to do so, the article suggests focusing analytic attention on actions that fulfill the following criteria: (a) actions that define the actor as a certain kind of socially recognized person, both within and across fields; (b) actions that actors experience-or that they expect others to perceive-as defining the acto…
Theory Construction in Qualitative Research
A critical pathway for conceptual innovation in the social is the construction of theoretical ideas based on empirical data. Grounded theory has become a leading approach promising the construction of novel theories. Yet grounded theory-based theoretical innovation has been scarce in part because of its commitment to let theories emerge inductively rather than imposing analytic frameworks a priori. We note, along with a long philosophical traditi…
Experiential careers
Sex work and the construction of intimacies
The Private Life of Public Ritual
A Pragmatist Approach to Causality in Ethnography
Drawing on early pragmatist theorizing, the authors propose three interrelated methodological activities for the construction of robust causal claims in ethnographic research. First, Charles S. Peirce’s semiotic approach offers ethnographers a useful foundation for a mechanism-based approach to causality by tracing iterations of meaning-making-in-action. Second, taking advantage of the structure of Peirce’s semiotics ethnographers can examine thr…
Coordinating Futures
This article presents a theoretical approach for studying the coordination of futures. Building off theories of temporality and action, the authors map three different modes of future making—protentions, trajectories, and temporal landscapes—that actors need to coordinate in order to make sense of action together. Using a wide range of empirical evidence, they then show that these modes of future-coordination are autonomous from each other, so th…
Abductive Analysis
Multiple Constructions - Virág Molnár, Building the State
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Abductive Analysis
Provides a new navigational map for constructing empirically based generalizations in qualitative research. The authors outline an accessible way to think about observations, methods, and theories that nurtures theory-formation without locking it into predefined conceptual boxes
Molds and Totems
The role of nonhumans in social life has recently generated significant scholarly interest. The two main paradigms for explaining the sociological significance of nonhumans are constructivism and actor-network theory. We propose a pragmatist synthesis inspired by George Herbert Mead, demonstrating how interactions with nonhumans help constitute the social self-that is, the identity one constructs by imaginatively looking upon oneself as others wo…
The situations of culture
Causality and the Cognitive
Interactionism
Summoned
"Tavory takes readers to the heart of the exhilarating--at times exhausting--life of the Beverly-La Brea Orthodox community. Just blocks from West Hollywood's nightlife, the Orthodox community thrives next to the impure sights, sounds, and smells. But to sustain this life, as Tavory shows, is not simply a moral decision to be made. People find themselves summoned both into social life and into their identity as Orthodox Jews as they are called up…
The pragmatist wave of theory construction
Politics as a vacation
Watching Closely
A Theory of Resonance
The metaphor of resonance often describes the fit between a message and an audience's worldviews. Yet scholars have largely ignored the cognitive processes audiences use to interpret messages and interactions that determine why certain messages and other cultural objects appeal to some but not others. Drawing on pragmatism, we argue that resonance occurs as cultural objects help people puzzle through practical challenges they face or construct. W…
Masters of Uncertainty
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