Don Weenink
Biographic Data
| ID | 101047 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Don Weenink |
| GIVEN NAMES | Don |
| FAMILY NAME | Weenink |
| SIGNATURE | WEENINK D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7681-1403 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 213 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Revisiting the demeanour effect: A video-observational analysis of encounters between law enforcement officers and citizens in Amsterdam
We investigate the ‘demeanour hypothesis’, stating that police officers are more likely to arrest and use force against citizens who display a ‘bad attitude’. We observed 78 encounters captured on surveillance cameras in the city of Amsterdam. Video material allowed us to code specific behaviours (‘citizen pointed at officer’) instead of the more ambiguous interpretation of behaviour (‘citizen was disrespectful’) used in prior studies. We employ …
Engineering Vengeful Effervescence: Lynching Rituals and Religious–Political Power in Pakistan
Based on case studies of seven (attempted) lynchings in Pakistan, we argue that they can be considered lynching rituals, which are instrumental in a context of political strife. ‘Shrpsnd anasr’ (agitators) play an important role as ritual engineers; they assemble crowds by spreading rumours and vocalizing accusations, use rhythmic chanting and slogan repetition to generate a shared vengeful mood and focus the crowd’s attention on the (fabricated)…
How Citizens Stop Riots: Analyzing the Case of the 2021 Dutch Curfew Riots
The causes of riots have been extensively researched. Comparatively, little is known about how they are prevented from occurring. We address this gap with a qualitative study of the role of formal and informal guardians in Amsterdam in January 2021, when public disorder was widespread across the Netherlands after the government had announced a curfew to curb the spread of the Covid−19 virus. We used CCTV footage of two gatherings that had element…
Tensions in a Book on Breakdowns
Circles of Peace. A Video Analysis of Situational Group Formation and Collective Third-Party Intervention in Violent Incidents
We seek to understand collective third-party intervention in violent incidents. Based on analyses of 131 video clips captured on mobile phones, we argue that bodily alignment between bystanders creates situational groups that encourage collective de-escalatory action. Qualitative analysis reveals that third parties generate situational groups when they create circular formations, providing greater opportunities to notice each other’s monitoring o…
How to Start a Fight: A Qualitative Video Analysis of the Trajectories Toward Violence Based on Phone-Camera Recorded Fights
We aim to contribute to recent situational approaches to the study of interpersonal violence by elaborating the concept of trajectories. Trajectories are communicative processes in which antagonists act upon each other's bodily and verbal actions to project a direction for the interaction to take, which is then (con) tested in the exchanges that follow. We use the notion of trajectories to gain insight in how participants turn an antagonistic sit…
Taking social ontology seriously: An interview with Jack Katz
This interview with Jack Katz offers an inspiring statement about how to study social life. It starts with a discussion of Katz's three-dimensional social ontology; social life is constituted in embodied interactions in which people adjust to others and create transcendent meanings. Contrasting the ontology with anthropology's ontological turn, we note that social ontology is about generating empirically accurate descriptions capturing the flow o…
Sociologizing with R. Collins: An Interview about Emotions, Violence, Attention Space and Sociology
This article is a translation of the interview of Randall Collins in May 2016. The key topics of the interview were R. Collins' new concepts: (1) interaction rituals in the digital age; the role of emotions in the interaction of people; (2) attention space - a new concept designed to conceptualize the processes of the struggle of ideas and other conflict situations; (3) a new sociology of violence, in which Collins typifies the types of violence.…
Practice Theories
Practice theories perceive social life as practical activity. Social practices can be described as routinized behavior which integrates elements such as bodily know‐how, material objects, technology, understandings, and emotions. Practice theories focus on how such elements are interwoven through human activity. They acknowledge the coconstituting role of material objects and emphasize practical intelligibility, the embodied ways in which people …
Weapons, Body Postures, and the Quest for Dominance in Robberies: A Qualitative Analysis of Video Footage
OBJECTIVE: A small-scale exploration of the use of video analysis to study robberies. We analyze the use of weapons as part of the body posturing of robbers as they attempt to attain dominance. METHODS: Qualitative analyses of video footage of 23 shop robberies. We used Observer XT software (version 12) for fine-grained multimodal coding, capturing diverse bodily behavior by various actors simultaneously. We also constructed story lines to unders…
Sociologizing with Randall Collins: An interview about emotions, violence, attention space and sociology
In the interview in this article, Randall Collins discusses various aspects of his oeuvre. First, he considers why interaction rituals (IRs) in religion are special emotional transformers. This is followed by a discussion of IRs in the digital age and the symbolic and economic power that is required to orchestrate IRs in politics and revolutions. Then comes a discussion of social scientific research into violence, in the past and more recently. T…
Remorse in Context(s): A Qualitative Exploration of the Negotiation of Remorse and Its Consequences
The presence or absence of ‘signs of remorse’ is often understood to have consequences for judges’ sentencing decisions. However, these findings raise the questions, first, how ‘remorse’ is communicated and demonstrated by defendants within court settings, and second, whether remorse plays a uniform role across and between various offence and offender types. Drawing on ethnographic data gathered in a Dutch criminal court, we contextualize remorse…
Practice Theory and Research: Exploring the Dynamics of Social Life
Emotional agency navigates a world of practices
The past two decades witnessed a prolific revival of practice theories. Sociologists and social philosophers such as Davide Nicolini (2012), Andreas Reckwitz (2002), Theodore Schatzki (1996, 2002, 2010; Schatzki, Knorr Cetina and Von Savigny, 2001), Robert Schmidt (2012) and Elizabeth Shove and collaborators (2003, 2012) have elaborated, deepened and refined practice theories that were developed in sociology in the 1970s and 1980s by Pierre Bourd…
Sociologiseren met Randall Collins
In mei 2016 bezocht Randall Collins de afdeling Sociologie van de
How health risks prevention shapes collective identities: A micro-sociological approach
Sociological theories of health risks in late modernity emphasise the individualisation and increasing anxiety that results from prevention policies, while bio-sociality theories point to the creation of new, biologically or medically based social identities. In this article, we outline an alternative approach. We use micro-sociological interaction ritual theory to examine how health risk prevention technology shape interactions that generate col…
Contesting Dominance and Performing Badness: A Micro‐Sociological Analysis of the Forms, Situational Asymmetry, and Severity of Street Violence
This article proposes two ideal types of street violence: contesting dominance and performing badness. These ideal types were used as heuristic devices in qualitative analyses of 159 violent interactions among Dutch youth, taken from judicial case files. These analyses revealed that over half of the interactions resembled the contesting dominance type. Here, opponents engage in sequences of challenges and provocations to aggressively establish a …
Taking the Conservative Protestant Thesis Across the Atlantic. A Comparative Analysis of the Relationships Between Violence, Religion and Stimulants Use in Rural Netherlands
Building upon the Southern culture of violence research tradition, this article inquires the association between rural violence and Conservative Protestantism in the Dutch context. Based on data of 8,106 individuals, it was found that young rural Conservative Protestants living in villages were more likely to report that they had committed violence, as compared to their fellow believers living in urbanized areas. Furthermore, it turned out that t…
Frenzied attacks. A micro-sociological analysis of the emotional dynamics of extreme youth violence
Inspired by phenomenological and interactionist studies of youth violence, this article offers an empirical evaluation of Collins's micro-sociological theory of violence. The main question is whether situations of extreme violence have distinct situational dynamics. Based on analyses of 159 interactions taken from judicial case files, situations of extreme youth violence, here called frenzied attacks, were identified on the basis of the state of …
Les stratégies éducatives des classes supérieures néerlandaises: Professions intellectuelles supérieures, managers et entrepreneurs face au choix entre capital culturel « classique » et capital cultur…
Une enquête menée aux Pays-Bas dans l'enseignement secondaire auprès des gymnasium (qui privilégient la culture classique) et des filières internationales (filières sélectives ouvertes sur la langue anglaise et les échanges avec l'étranger) permet d'étudier les stratégies éducatives des classes supérieures néerlandaises. Trois fractions sont distinguées, les professionals , les managers et les entrepreneurs , qui se caractérisent chacune par un c…
Delinquent Behavior of Dutch Rural Adolescents
This article compares Dutch rural and non-rural adolescents' delinquent behavior and examines two social correlates of rural delinquency: communal social control and traditional rural culture. The analyses are based on cross-sectional data, containing 3,797 participants aged 13-18 (48.7% females). The analyses show that rural adolescents are only slightly less likely to engage in delinquent behavior. Furthermore, while rural adolescents are expos…
Creating a niche in the education market: The rise of internationalised secondary education in the Netherlands
The past decades saw a rise in internationalised education in Europe. Based on case studies at Dutch schools, I argue that the introduction of this type of education can be understood by the increased need for schools to adapt to the social reproduction strategies of privileged social classes. School managers regard internationalised streams as a way to counter a decline of pupils or as a strategy to improve an already secure position. In both ca…
Explaining Ethnic Inequality in the Juvenile Justice System: An Analysis of the Outcomes of Dutch Prosecutorial Decision Making
Most studies of the treatment of minorities in criminal justice systems show that ethnic minorities are punished more harshly. This paper aims to explain ethnic inequality in prosecutorial decision making in the Dutch juvenile justice system. Based on statistical analyses of 409 case files, it emerged that ethnic minorities are more often summoned to juvenile court. The prevailing source of the ethnic unequal treatment lies in the reporting of tr…
Cosmopolitanism as a Form of Capital: Parents Preparing their Children for a Globalizing World
This article evaluates cosmopolitan theory by exploring how parents perceive cosmopolitanism. Interviews with parents whose children attend an internationalized form of education revealed that parents viewed cosmopolitanism as a form of cultural and social capital, rather than feelings of global connectedness or curiosity in the Other. Dedicated cosmopolitan parents were distinguished from pragmatic cosmopolitans.The former taught their children …
Cosmopolitan and Established Resources of Power in the Education Arena
The main question in this article is whether new cosmopolitan forms of power, on the one hand, and established forms of power, on the other hand, may lead households to make different educational choices for their children. Two types of Dutch secondary education are compared: internationalized education in which English and Dutch are the languages of instruction versus traditional elite schools, the classical gymnasiums. It is claimed that the co…
Cosmopolitanism as a Form of Capital: Parents Preparing their Children for a Globalizing World
This article evaluates cosmopolitan theory by exploring how parents perceive cosmopolitanism. Interviews with parents whose children attend an internationalized form of education revealed that parents viewed cosmopolitanism as a form of cultural and social capital, rather than feelings of global connectedness or curiosity in the Other. Dedicated cosmopolitan parents were distinguished from pragmatic cosmopolitans.The former taught their children …
Cosmopolitan and Established Resources of Power in the Education Arena
The main question in this article is whether new cosmopolitan forms of power, on the one hand, and established forms of power, on the other hand, may lead households to make different educational choices for their children. Two types of Dutch secondary education are compared: internationalized education in which English and Dutch are the languages of instruction versus traditional elite schools, the classical gymnasiums. It is claimed that the co…
Frenzied attacks. A micro-sociological analysis of the emotional dynamics of extreme youth violence
Inspired by phenomenological and interactionist studies of youth violence, this article offers an empirical evaluation of Collins's micro-sociological theory of violence. The main question is whether situations of extreme violence have distinct situational dynamics. Based on analyses of 159 interactions taken from judicial case files, situations of extreme youth violence, here called frenzied attacks, were identified on the basis of the state of …
Creating a niche in the education market: The rise of internationalised secondary education in the Netherlands
The past decades saw a rise in internationalised education in Europe. Based on case studies at Dutch schools, I argue that the introduction of this type of education can be understood by the increased need for schools to adapt to the social reproduction strategies of privileged social classes. School managers regard internationalised streams as a way to counter a decline of pupils or as a strategy to improve an already secure position. In both ca…
Sociologizing with Randall Collins: An interview about emotions, violence, attention space and sociology
In the interview in this article, Randall Collins discusses various aspects of his oeuvre. First, he considers why interaction rituals (IRs) in religion are special emotional transformers. This is followed by a discussion of IRs in the digital age and the symbolic and economic power that is required to orchestrate IRs in politics and revolutions. Then comes a discussion of social scientific research into violence, in the past and more recently. T…
Contesting Dominance and Performing Badness: A Micro‐Sociological Analysis of the Forms, Situational Asymmetry, and Severity of Street Violence
This article proposes two ideal types of street violence: contesting dominance and performing badness. These ideal types were used as heuristic devices in qualitative analyses of 159 violent interactions among Dutch youth, taken from judicial case files. These analyses revealed that over half of the interactions resembled the contesting dominance type. Here, opponents engage in sequences of challenges and provocations to aggressively establish a …
Explaining Ethnic Inequality in the Juvenile Justice System: An Analysis of the Outcomes of Dutch Prosecutorial Decision Making
Most studies of the treatment of minorities in criminal justice systems show that ethnic minorities are punished more harshly. This paper aims to explain ethnic inequality in prosecutorial decision making in the Dutch juvenile justice system. Based on statistical analyses of 409 case files, it emerged that ethnic minorities are more often summoned to juvenile court. The prevailing source of the ethnic unequal treatment lies in the reporting of tr…
How to Start a Fight: A Qualitative Video Analysis of the Trajectories Toward Violence Based on Phone-Camera Recorded Fights
We aim to contribute to recent situational approaches to the study of interpersonal violence by elaborating the concept of trajectories. Trajectories are communicative processes in which antagonists act upon each other's bodily and verbal actions to project a direction for the interaction to take, which is then (con) tested in the exchanges that follow. We use the notion of trajectories to gain insight in how participants turn an antagonistic sit…
Taking social ontology seriously: An interview with Jack Katz
This interview with Jack Katz offers an inspiring statement about how to study social life. It starts with a discussion of Katz's three-dimensional social ontology; social life is constituted in embodied interactions in which people adjust to others and create transcendent meanings. Contrasting the ontology with anthropology's ontological turn, we note that social ontology is about generating empirically accurate descriptions capturing the flow o…
Remorse in Context(s): A Qualitative Exploration of the Negotiation of Remorse and Its Consequences
The presence or absence of ‘signs of remorse’ is often understood to have consequences for judges’ sentencing decisions. However, these findings raise the questions, first, how ‘remorse’ is communicated and demonstrated by defendants within court settings, and second, whether remorse plays a uniform role across and between various offence and offender types. Drawing on ethnographic data gathered in a Dutch criminal court, we contextualize remorse…
Circles of Peace. A Video Analysis of Situational Group Formation and Collective Third-Party Intervention in Violent Incidents
We seek to understand collective third-party intervention in violent incidents. Based on analyses of 131 video clips captured on mobile phones, we argue that bodily alignment between bystanders creates situational groups that encourage collective de-escalatory action. Qualitative analysis reveals that third parties generate situational groups when they create circular formations, providing greater opportunities to notice each other’s monitoring o…
Les stratégies éducatives des classes supérieures néerlandaises: Professions intellectuelles supérieures, managers et entrepreneurs face au choix entre capital culturel « classique » et capital cultur…
Une enquête menée aux Pays-Bas dans l'enseignement secondaire auprès des gymnasium (qui privilégient la culture classique) et des filières internationales (filières sélectives ouvertes sur la langue anglaise et les échanges avec l'étranger) permet d'étudier les stratégies éducatives des classes supérieures néerlandaises. Trois fractions sont distinguées, les professionals , les managers et les entrepreneurs , qui se caractérisent chacune par un c…
Delinquent Behavior of Dutch Rural Adolescents
This article compares Dutch rural and non-rural adolescents' delinquent behavior and examines two social correlates of rural delinquency: communal social control and traditional rural culture. The analyses are based on cross-sectional data, containing 3,797 participants aged 13-18 (48.7% females). The analyses show that rural adolescents are only slightly less likely to engage in delinquent behavior. Furthermore, while rural adolescents are expos…
When negotiation fails: Private education as a disciplinary strategy
The pressure on children to stay in education for an extended period of their lives is high. Such protracted school careers require a large amount of self-control and the ability to defer gratification. Students who lack the necessary discipline to do so may become school dropouts. For upper-middle-class parents, class reproduction demands the transmittance of their cultural capital, resulting in a level of schooling at least similar to their own…
Revisiting the demeanour effect: A video-observational analysis of encounters between law enforcement officers and citizens in Amsterdam
We investigate the ‘demeanour hypothesis’, stating that police officers are more likely to arrest and use force against citizens who display a ‘bad attitude’. We observed 78 encounters captured on surveillance cameras in the city of Amsterdam. Video material allowed us to code specific behaviours (‘citizen pointed at officer’) instead of the more ambiguous interpretation of behaviour (‘citizen was disrespectful’) used in prior studies. We employ …
Engineering Vengeful Effervescence: Lynching Rituals and Religious–Political Power in Pakistan
Based on case studies of seven (attempted) lynchings in Pakistan, we argue that they can be considered lynching rituals, which are instrumental in a context of political strife. ‘Shrpsnd anasr’ (agitators) play an important role as ritual engineers; they assemble crowds by spreading rumours and vocalizing accusations, use rhythmic chanting and slogan repetition to generate a shared vengeful mood and focus the crowd’s attention on the (fabricated)…
How Citizens Stop Riots: Analyzing the Case of the 2021 Dutch Curfew Riots
The causes of riots have been extensively researched. Comparatively, little is known about how they are prevented from occurring. We address this gap with a qualitative study of the role of formal and informal guardians in Amsterdam in January 2021, when public disorder was widespread across the Netherlands after the government had announced a curfew to curb the spread of the Covid−19 virus. We used CCTV footage of two gatherings that had element…
When negotiation fails: Private education as a disciplinary strategy
The pressure on children to stay in education for an extended period of their lives is high. Such protracted school careers require a large amount of self-control and the ability to defer gratification. Students who lack the necessary discipline to do so may become school dropouts. For upper-middle-class parents, class reproduction demands the transmittance of their cultural capital, resulting in a level of schooling at least similar to their own…
Cosmopolitan and Established Resources of Power in the Education Arena
The main question in this article is whether new cosmopolitan forms of power, on the one hand, and established forms of power, on the other hand, may lead households to make different educational choices for their children. Two types of Dutch secondary education are compared: internationalized education in which English and Dutch are the languages of instruction versus traditional elite schools, the classical gymnasiums. It is claimed that the co…
Explaining Ethnic Inequality in the Juvenile Justice System: An Analysis of the Outcomes of Dutch Prosecutorial Decision Making
Most studies of the treatment of minorities in criminal justice systems show that ethnic minorities are punished more harshly. This paper aims to explain ethnic inequality in prosecutorial decision making in the Dutch juvenile justice system. Based on statistical analyses of 409 case files, it emerged that ethnic minorities are more often summoned to juvenile court. The prevailing source of the ethnic unequal treatment lies in the reporting of tr…
Cosmopolitanism as a Form of Capital: Parents Preparing their Children for a Globalizing World
This article evaluates cosmopolitan theory by exploring how parents perceive cosmopolitanism. Interviews with parents whose children attend an internationalized form of education revealed that parents viewed cosmopolitanism as a form of cultural and social capital, rather than feelings of global connectedness or curiosity in the Other. Dedicated cosmopolitan parents were distinguished from pragmatic cosmopolitans.The former taught their children …
Creating a niche in the education market: The rise of internationalised secondary education in the Netherlands
The past decades saw a rise in internationalised education in Europe. Based on case studies at Dutch schools, I argue that the introduction of this type of education can be understood by the increased need for schools to adapt to the social reproduction strategies of privileged social classes. School managers regard internationalised streams as a way to counter a decline of pupils or as a strategy to improve an already secure position. In both ca…
Delinquent Behavior of Dutch Rural Adolescents
This article compares Dutch rural and non-rural adolescents' delinquent behavior and examines two social correlates of rural delinquency: communal social control and traditional rural culture. The analyses are based on cross-sectional data, containing 3,797 participants aged 13-18 (48.7% females). The analyses show that rural adolescents are only slightly less likely to engage in delinquent behavior. Furthermore, while rural adolescents are expos…
Les stratégies éducatives des classes supérieures néerlandaises: Professions intellectuelles supérieures, managers et entrepreneurs face au choix entre capital culturel « classique » et capital cultur…
Une enquête menée aux Pays-Bas dans l'enseignement secondaire auprès des gymnasium (qui privilégient la culture classique) et des filières internationales (filières sélectives ouvertes sur la langue anglaise et les échanges avec l'étranger) permet d'étudier les stratégies éducatives des classes supérieures néerlandaises. Trois fractions sont distinguées, les professionals , les managers et les entrepreneurs , qui se caractérisent chacune par un c…
Frenzied attacks. A micro-sociological analysis of the emotional dynamics of extreme youth violence
Inspired by phenomenological and interactionist studies of youth violence, this article offers an empirical evaluation of Collins's micro-sociological theory of violence. The main question is whether situations of extreme violence have distinct situational dynamics. Based on analyses of 159 interactions taken from judicial case files, situations of extreme youth violence, here called frenzied attacks, were identified on the basis of the state of …
How health risks prevention shapes collective identities: A micro-sociological approach
Sociological theories of health risks in late modernity emphasise the individualisation and increasing anxiety that results from prevention policies, while bio-sociality theories point to the creation of new, biologically or medically based social identities. In this article, we outline an alternative approach. We use micro-sociological interaction ritual theory to examine how health risk prevention technology shape interactions that generate col…
Contesting Dominance and Performing Badness: A Micro‐Sociological Analysis of the Forms, Situational Asymmetry, and Severity of Street Violence
This article proposes two ideal types of street violence: contesting dominance and performing badness. These ideal types were used as heuristic devices in qualitative analyses of 159 violent interactions among Dutch youth, taken from judicial case files. These analyses revealed that over half of the interactions resembled the contesting dominance type. Here, opponents engage in sequences of challenges and provocations to aggressively establish a …
Taking the Conservative Protestant Thesis Across the Atlantic. A Comparative Analysis of the Relationships Between Violence, Religion and Stimulants Use in Rural Netherlands
Building upon the Southern culture of violence research tradition, this article inquires the association between rural violence and Conservative Protestantism in the Dutch context. Based on data of 8,106 individuals, it was found that young rural Conservative Protestants living in villages were more likely to report that they had committed violence, as compared to their fellow believers living in urbanized areas. Furthermore, it turned out that t…
Practice Theory and Research: Exploring the Dynamics of Social Life
Emotional agency navigates a world of practices
The past two decades witnessed a prolific revival of practice theories. Sociologists and social philosophers such as Davide Nicolini (2012), Andreas Reckwitz (2002), Theodore Schatzki (1996, 2002, 2010; Schatzki, Knorr Cetina and Von Savigny, 2001), Robert Schmidt (2012) and Elizabeth Shove and collaborators (2003, 2012) have elaborated, deepened and refined practice theories that were developed in sociology in the 1970s and 1980s by Pierre Bourd…
Sociologiseren met Randall Collins
In mei 2016 bezocht Randall Collins de afdeling Sociologie van de
Remorse in Context(s): A Qualitative Exploration of the Negotiation of Remorse and Its Consequences
The presence or absence of ‘signs of remorse’ is often understood to have consequences for judges’ sentencing decisions. However, these findings raise the questions, first, how ‘remorse’ is communicated and demonstrated by defendants within court settings, and second, whether remorse plays a uniform role across and between various offence and offender types. Drawing on ethnographic data gathered in a Dutch criminal court, we contextualize remorse…
Weapons, Body Postures, and the Quest for Dominance in Robberies: A Qualitative Analysis of Video Footage
OBJECTIVE: A small-scale exploration of the use of video analysis to study robberies. We analyze the use of weapons as part of the body posturing of robbers as they attempt to attain dominance. METHODS: Qualitative analyses of video footage of 23 shop robberies. We used Observer XT software (version 12) for fine-grained multimodal coding, capturing diverse bodily behavior by various actors simultaneously. We also constructed story lines to unders…
Sociologizing with Randall Collins: An interview about emotions, violence, attention space and sociology
In the interview in this article, Randall Collins discusses various aspects of his oeuvre. First, he considers why interaction rituals (IRs) in religion are special emotional transformers. This is followed by a discussion of IRs in the digital age and the symbolic and economic power that is required to orchestrate IRs in politics and revolutions. Then comes a discussion of social scientific research into violence, in the past and more recently. T…
Sociologizing with R. Collins: An Interview about Emotions, Violence, Attention Space and Sociology
This article is a translation of the interview of Randall Collins in May 2016. The key topics of the interview were R. Collins' new concepts: (1) interaction rituals in the digital age; the role of emotions in the interaction of people; (2) attention space - a new concept designed to conceptualize the processes of the struggle of ideas and other conflict situations; (3) a new sociology of violence, in which Collins typifies the types of violence.…
Practice Theories
Practice theories perceive social life as practical activity. Social practices can be described as routinized behavior which integrates elements such as bodily know‐how, material objects, technology, understandings, and emotions. Practice theories focus on how such elements are interwoven through human activity. They acknowledge the coconstituting role of material objects and emphasize practical intelligibility, the embodied ways in which people …
Taking social ontology seriously: An interview with Jack Katz
This interview with Jack Katz offers an inspiring statement about how to study social life. It starts with a discussion of Katz's three-dimensional social ontology; social life is constituted in embodied interactions in which people adjust to others and create transcendent meanings. Contrasting the ontology with anthropology's ontological turn, we note that social ontology is about generating empirically accurate descriptions capturing the flow o…
Circles of Peace. A Video Analysis of Situational Group Formation and Collective Third-Party Intervention in Violent Incidents
We seek to understand collective third-party intervention in violent incidents. Based on analyses of 131 video clips captured on mobile phones, we argue that bodily alignment between bystanders creates situational groups that encourage collective de-escalatory action. Qualitative analysis reveals that third parties generate situational groups when they create circular formations, providing greater opportunities to notice each other’s monitoring o…
How to Start a Fight: A Qualitative Video Analysis of the Trajectories Toward Violence Based on Phone-Camera Recorded Fights
We aim to contribute to recent situational approaches to the study of interpersonal violence by elaborating the concept of trajectories. Trajectories are communicative processes in which antagonists act upon each other's bodily and verbal actions to project a direction for the interaction to take, which is then (con) tested in the exchanges that follow. We use the notion of trajectories to gain insight in how participants turn an antagonistic sit…
Revisiting the demeanour effect: A video-observational analysis of encounters between law enforcement officers and citizens in Amsterdam
We investigate the ‘demeanour hypothesis’, stating that police officers are more likely to arrest and use force against citizens who display a ‘bad attitude’. We observed 78 encounters captured on surveillance cameras in the city of Amsterdam. Video material allowed us to code specific behaviours (‘citizen pointed at officer’) instead of the more ambiguous interpretation of behaviour (‘citizen was disrespectful’) used in prior studies. We employ …
Engineering Vengeful Effervescence: Lynching Rituals and Religious–Political Power in Pakistan
Based on case studies of seven (attempted) lynchings in Pakistan, we argue that they can be considered lynching rituals, which are instrumental in a context of political strife. ‘Shrpsnd anasr’ (agitators) play an important role as ritual engineers; they assemble crowds by spreading rumours and vocalizing accusations, use rhythmic chanting and slogan repetition to generate a shared vengeful mood and focus the crowd’s attention on the (fabricated)…
How Citizens Stop Riots: Analyzing the Case of the 2021 Dutch Curfew Riots
The causes of riots have been extensively researched. Comparatively, little is known about how they are prevented from occurring. We address this gap with a qualitative study of the role of formal and informal guardians in Amsterdam in January 2021, when public disorder was widespread across the Netherlands after the government had announced a curfew to curb the spread of the Covid−19 virus. We used CCTV footage of two gatherings that had element…
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