Marcy Norton
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 192230 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Marcy Norton |
| NOMBRES | Marcy |
| APELLIDO | Norton |
| FIRMA | NORTON M |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Oregon |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5918-0139 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 142 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2006 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
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Late Modernity in Crisis
Towards a history of the hammock
When Europeans arrived in the Western Hemisphere beginning in the fifteenth century, they learned that Indigenous groups across the Caribbean and South America valued few technologies as much as the hammock. Despite this, the technology has been neglected by scholars, revealing the shortcomings of frameworks that focus on ‘commodities,’ ‘resources,’ and even ‘objects,’ and underscoring the importance of centering subaltern technologies in Atlanti…
The Tame and the Wild
Analytical sociology and pragmatism
Pragmatism and analytical sociology have often been treated as alternatives, with much attention devoted to understanding sometimes subtle differences between the programs. This chapter approaches the intersection of pragmatism and analytical sociology from the perspective of doing analytical sociology in a pragmatist mode. To emphasize the complementarity between these approaches the chapter describes pragmatist foci that are possible within the…
Going to the birds
In early modern Europe, people believed, approached, and celebrated the beingness of the hawk, its identity as a noble, collaborative predator. On the other hand, avian husbandry was organized around chickens as things and as producers of things. This chapter develops and builds as a key concept ‘modes of interaction,’ meta-structures that organize how people relate to and think about animals. These modes are composed of entrenched customs, patte…
Cultural sociology meets the cognitive wild
Colonial America Today
The article systematically assesses U.S.-Native relations today and their historical foundations in light of a narrow, empirical definition of colonial empire. Examining three core elements of colonial empire—the formal impairment of sovereignty, the intensive practical impairment of sovereignty through practices of governance and administration, and the continuing otherness of the dominated and dominant groups—we compare contemporary U.S.-Native…
The Relative Autonomy of Jeffrey Alexander
The strong program in cultural sociology is distinctive in contemporary U.S. sociology. At a time when middle-range theory dominates, the strong program in some respects follow an older model of theorizing through the development of a self-consciously programmatic theoretical endeavor. The article traces this quality of the strong program to its relationship to older theoretical traditions that inspire its ambitions (though it differs from these …
Meaning on the move
The Persistence of Pardons and the End of Attainder
Pardons are a well-known form of lawful but extrajudicial power over criminal classifications. They are still in regular use in rule of law regimes around the world. Attainder is the less well-known power to condemn via a legislative rather than a judicial act. Despite their structural similarities, pardon and attainder have exhibited divergent trajectories. One is ubiquitous, the other extinct. Focusing on the divergent trajectories of pardon an…
When voters are voting, what are they doing
Introduction
Derived in maritime language from the noun ‘tangle’ (a species of sea-weed), the English verb ‘to entangle’ has one of its earliest documented uses in Richard Eden’s 1555 Decades of the New World
Subaltern technologies and early modernity in the Atlantic World
Colonial Latin American and Atlantic-world scholarship that does not explicitly concern indigenous, black, and other subaltern individuals and groups continues to marginalize, if not completely ignore, them. This lingering, if often inadvertent, Eurocentrism endures, according to this essay, for several reasons, including a preoccupation with modernization, notions of 'nature' that make it easy to ignore 'culture,' and models of culture that pres…
The Chicken or the Iegue
IN 1543, A TAINO MAN HAD BEEN living in the mountains in the central southern part of Hispaniola for twelve years. Though fluent in Spanish and familiar with Spanish ways, he had fled to escape the oppressive exploitation of the encomienda. The man survived in the wilderness through a special relationship with three formerly feral pigs, two males and a female. The man and his pigs would go hunting for “wild” pigs, in the same way Europeans hunted…
Jennifer L. Anderson. Mahogany
Jennifer L. Anderson's beautifully written and deeply researched history shows how mahogany was a medium that enmeshed the lives of Carib and Miskito Indians, West Indies planters, enslaved woodcutters, merchants, imperial strategists, furniture makers, North American consumers, and Enlightenment naturalists in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Anderson makes the case that mahogany differed from other commodities that fueled early globaliz…
Standards
Mechanisms and Meaning Structures
This article proposes a model of cultural mechanisms based on the premises of structuralist cultural sociology and symbolic interactionism. I argue that the models of cultural mechanisms provided by the developing analytical sociology movement are inadequate, while the dominant theories of culture in action from cultural sociology are limited by their adoption of the individual as the primordial unit of analysis. I instead propose a model of cult…
Classification and Coercion
The article argues that coordinated state action depends not just on organizational forms and institutions but also on "cultural infrastructures," systems of state meaning making. Cultural infrastructures are potentially consequential sites for explaining processes of state formation. The article develops this argument through an analysis of the production of coercive power against piracy in the early modern English empire. It analyzes the cultur…
Narrative Structure and Emotional Mobilization in Humanitarian Representations
The concept of empathy has played an important role in theorizing how humanitarian representations influence people. This article suggests that this focus on empathy in human rights theory is too limited and proposes “emotional mobilization” as a more flexible and satisfactory alternative to the empathy thesis. An analysis of the Congo reform movement in Britain at the beginning of the twentieth century showcases the utility of this more inclusiv…
A structural hermeneutics of The O'Reilly Factor
Chocolate para el imperio
Este artículo ofrece una nueva interpretación de cómo y por qué los europeos desarrollaron el gusto por el chocolate. Mientrasestudios previos sugieren que los europeos transformaron el chocolate en términos materiales e ideológicos para que encajara ensu propio conjunto de gustos y prejuicios, aquí se demuestra que los europeos aprendieron a que les gustara el chocolate en lostérminos de los indígenas como resultado de su estatus como minoría cu…
Kinds and Quality of Social Work Research
This paper, drawing on a study of social work research in UK universities, asks—and suggests provisional answers to—two questions. First, is it possible to identify ways to categorize the kinds of research in social work in a form that recognizes and respects the aims and values of social work? Second, assuming we ought to do so, in what ways should the quality of social work research be assessed? In response to examination of output from the 200…
Mechanisms and Meaning Structures
This article proposes a model of cultural mechanisms based on the premises of structuralist cultural sociology and symbolic interactionism. I argue that the models of cultural mechanisms provided by the developing analytical sociology movement are inadequate, while the dominant theories of culture in action from cultural sociology are limited by their adoption of the individual as the primordial unit of analysis. I instead propose a model of cult…
Classification and Coercion
The article argues that coordinated state action depends not just on organizational forms and institutions but also on "cultural infrastructures," systems of state meaning making. Cultural infrastructures are potentially consequential sites for explaining processes of state formation. The article develops this argument through an analysis of the production of coercive power against piracy in the early modern English empire. It analyzes the cultur…
Subaltern technologies and early modernity in the Atlantic World
Colonial Latin American and Atlantic-world scholarship that does not explicitly concern indigenous, black, and other subaltern individuals and groups continues to marginalize, if not completely ignore, them. This lingering, if often inadvertent, Eurocentrism endures, according to this essay, for several reasons, including a preoccupation with modernization, notions of 'nature' that make it easy to ignore 'culture,' and models of culture that pres…
Introduction
Derived in maritime language from the noun ‘tangle’ (a species of sea-weed), the English verb ‘to entangle’ has one of its earliest documented uses in Richard Eden’s 1555 Decades of the New World
The Tame and the Wild
Meaning on the move
Cultural sociology meets the cognitive wild
Standards
A structural hermeneutics of The O'Reilly Factor
When voters are voting, what are they doing
Kinds and Quality of Social Work Research
This paper, drawing on a study of social work research in UK universities, asks—and suggests provisional answers to—two questions. First, is it possible to identify ways to categorize the kinds of research in social work in a form that recognizes and respects the aims and values of social work? Second, assuming we ought to do so, in what ways should the quality of social work research be assessed? In response to examination of output from the 200…
Colonial America Today
The article systematically assesses U.S.-Native relations today and their historical foundations in light of a narrow, empirical definition of colonial empire. Examining three core elements of colonial empire—the formal impairment of sovereignty, the intensive practical impairment of sovereignty through practices of governance and administration, and the continuing otherness of the dominated and dominant groups—we compare contemporary U.S.-Native…
The Relative Autonomy of Jeffrey Alexander
The strong program in cultural sociology is distinctive in contemporary U.S. sociology. At a time when middle-range theory dominates, the strong program in some respects follow an older model of theorizing through the development of a self-consciously programmatic theoretical endeavor. The article traces this quality of the strong program to its relationship to older theoretical traditions that inspire its ambitions (though it differs from these …
Narrative Structure and Emotional Mobilization in Humanitarian Representations
The concept of empathy has played an important role in theorizing how humanitarian representations influence people. This article suggests that this focus on empathy in human rights theory is too limited and proposes “emotional mobilization” as a more flexible and satisfactory alternative to the empathy thesis. An analysis of the Congo reform movement in Britain at the beginning of the twentieth century showcases the utility of this more inclusiv…
Kinds and Quality of Social Work Research
This paper, drawing on a study of social work research in UK universities, asks—and suggests provisional answers to—two questions. First, is it possible to identify ways to categorize the kinds of research in social work in a form that recognizes and respects the aims and values of social work? Second, assuming we ought to do so, in what ways should the quality of social work research be assessed? In response to examination of output from the 200…
Chocolate para el imperio
Este artículo ofrece una nueva interpretación de cómo y por qué los europeos desarrollaron el gusto por el chocolate. Mientrasestudios previos sugieren que los europeos transformaron el chocolate en términos materiales e ideológicos para que encajara ensu propio conjunto de gustos y prejuicios, aquí se demuestra que los europeos aprendieron a que les gustara el chocolate en lostérminos de los indígenas como resultado de su estatus como minoría cu…
Narrative Structure and Emotional Mobilization in Humanitarian Representations
The concept of empathy has played an important role in theorizing how humanitarian representations influence people. This article suggests that this focus on empathy in human rights theory is too limited and proposes “emotional mobilization” as a more flexible and satisfactory alternative to the empathy thesis. An analysis of the Congo reform movement in Britain at the beginning of the twentieth century showcases the utility of this more inclusiv…
A structural hermeneutics of The O'Reilly Factor
Jennifer L. Anderson. Mahogany
Jennifer L. Anderson's beautifully written and deeply researched history shows how mahogany was a medium that enmeshed the lives of Carib and Miskito Indians, West Indies planters, enslaved woodcutters, merchants, imperial strategists, furniture makers, North American consumers, and Enlightenment naturalists in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Anderson makes the case that mahogany differed from other commodities that fueled early globaliz…
Standards
Mechanisms and Meaning Structures
This article proposes a model of cultural mechanisms based on the premises of structuralist cultural sociology and symbolic interactionism. I argue that the models of cultural mechanisms provided by the developing analytical sociology movement are inadequate, while the dominant theories of culture in action from cultural sociology are limited by their adoption of the individual as the primordial unit of analysis. I instead propose a model of cult…
Classification and Coercion
The article argues that coordinated state action depends not just on organizational forms and institutions but also on "cultural infrastructures," systems of state meaning making. Cultural infrastructures are potentially consequential sites for explaining processes of state formation. The article develops this argument through an analysis of the production of coercive power against piracy in the early modern English empire. It analyzes the cultur…
The Chicken or the Iegue
IN 1543, A TAINO MAN HAD BEEN living in the mountains in the central southern part of Hispaniola for twelve years. Though fluent in Spanish and familiar with Spanish ways, he had fled to escape the oppressive exploitation of the encomienda. The man survived in the wilderness through a special relationship with three formerly feral pigs, two males and a female. The man and his pigs would go hunting for “wild” pigs, in the same way Europeans hunted…
When voters are voting, what are they doing
Introduction
Derived in maritime language from the noun ‘tangle’ (a species of sea-weed), the English verb ‘to entangle’ has one of its earliest documented uses in Richard Eden’s 1555 Decades of the New World
Subaltern technologies and early modernity in the Atlantic World
Colonial Latin American and Atlantic-world scholarship that does not explicitly concern indigenous, black, and other subaltern individuals and groups continues to marginalize, if not completely ignore, them. This lingering, if often inadvertent, Eurocentrism endures, according to this essay, for several reasons, including a preoccupation with modernization, notions of 'nature' that make it easy to ignore 'culture,' and models of culture that pres…
Meaning on the move
The Persistence of Pardons and the End of Attainder
Pardons are a well-known form of lawful but extrajudicial power over criminal classifications. They are still in regular use in rule of law regimes around the world. Attainder is the less well-known power to condemn via a legislative rather than a judicial act. Despite their structural similarities, pardon and attainder have exhibited divergent trajectories. One is ubiquitous, the other extinct. Focusing on the divergent trajectories of pardon an…
Cultural sociology meets the cognitive wild
Colonial America Today
The article systematically assesses U.S.-Native relations today and their historical foundations in light of a narrow, empirical definition of colonial empire. Examining three core elements of colonial empire—the formal impairment of sovereignty, the intensive practical impairment of sovereignty through practices of governance and administration, and the continuing otherness of the dominated and dominant groups—we compare contemporary U.S.-Native…
The Relative Autonomy of Jeffrey Alexander
The strong program in cultural sociology is distinctive in contemporary U.S. sociology. At a time when middle-range theory dominates, the strong program in some respects follow an older model of theorizing through the development of a self-consciously programmatic theoretical endeavor. The article traces this quality of the strong program to its relationship to older theoretical traditions that inspire its ambitions (though it differs from these …
Analytical sociology and pragmatism
Pragmatism and analytical sociology have often been treated as alternatives, with much attention devoted to understanding sometimes subtle differences between the programs. This chapter approaches the intersection of pragmatism and analytical sociology from the perspective of doing analytical sociology in a pragmatist mode. To emphasize the complementarity between these approaches the chapter describes pragmatist foci that are possible within the…
Going to the birds
In early modern Europe, people believed, approached, and celebrated the beingness of the hawk, its identity as a noble, collaborative predator. On the other hand, avian husbandry was organized around chickens as things and as producers of things. This chapter develops and builds as a key concept ‘modes of interaction,’ meta-structures that organize how people relate to and think about animals. These modes are composed of entrenched customs, patte…
The Tame and the Wild
Towards a history of the hammock
When Europeans arrived in the Western Hemisphere beginning in the fifteenth century, they learned that Indigenous groups across the Caribbean and South America valued few technologies as much as the hammock. Despite this, the technology has been neglected by scholars, revealing the shortcomings of frameworks that focus on ‘commodities,’ ‘resources,’ and even ‘objects,’ and underscoring the importance of centering subaltern technologies in Atlanti…
Author Meets Critics
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Late Modernity in Crisis
Sociology (14 obras) · Epistemology (9 obras) · Political science (9 obras) · Law (8 obras) · History (7 obras) · Philosophy (7 obras) · Social science (7 obras) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (5 obras) · Computer Science (5 obras) · Geography (5 obras)