A Vassenden
Biographic Data
| ID | 14211 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Vassenden |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Vassenden |
| SIGNATURE | VASSENDEN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Stavanger |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4758-7318 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 155 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Fears of Child Protective Services in a Disadvantaged Migrant Group
Parents from stigmatized and disadvantaged migrant groups often fear losing their children to Child Protective Services (CPS). Based on ethnography with Norwegian Somalis, this paper examines how such fears arise. We work abductively from a specific puzzle, which is that the fear of losing children to CPS is widespread among Norwegian Somali parents despite the fact that their children are not disproportionately removed from their homes. In devel…
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 “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…
Elites and ordinariness in cross-status encounters
Elites and higher-class people often downplay - even conceal - their status when interacting with people of lower class/status than themselves. This finding has been reported from several countries in the Global North. It is also shown in research from disparate academic fields and disciplines: the sociology of class, psychology, cognitive decision-making, and microsociology. This paper reviews and synthesises the literature on elites and high-st…
To confront or not to confront? Seeing minorities’ responses to ethnoracial stigmatisation through Goffman’s ritual interaction order
The last decade has seen a proliferation of sociological research on minorities’ responses to ethnoracial stigmatisation. Compared to social and cultural structures, face-to-face interaction has thus far received insufficient theoretical attention, even though social situations are a prime site for stigmatisation. This has resulted in three shortcomings in the research: (1) a tacit individual–structure dualism; (2) neglect of situational variatio…
Social Encounters and the Worlds Beyond
In Goffman's terms, qualitative interviews are social encounters with their own realities. Hence, the 'situational critique' holds that interviews cannot produce knowledge about the world beyond these encounters, and that other methods, ethnography in particular, render lived life more accurately. The situational critique cannot be dismissed; yet interviewing remains an indispensable sociological tool. This paper demonstrates the value that situa…
Transmission of child removal stories Among Norwegian Somalis
Ethnic minority parents who are fearful of child welfare services (CWS) is an acknowledged social problem, but the existing academic understanding is limited. Interpretations in previous research have tended to highlight people's 'dispositions', typically cultural backgrounds, and lack of knowledge, or 'structures' like welfare and penal systems. More neglected is how CWS fears can be generated from interactional processes within groups. Building…
Live and let live? Morality in symbolic boundaries across different cultural areas
This article examines morality in taste judgements. In response to Bourdieu's analysis of France in the 1960s, sociologists note that repertoires of moral evaluation vary across contexts. They typically highlight national variations, like Nordic egalitarianism weakens cultural boundaries, and temporal variations, with transformed values having made cultural hierarchies less defensible. The article investigates a neglected type of moral variation:…
Photo Elicitation and the Sociology of Taste
The recent flourishing of visual methods is not mirrored in studies of taste. This paper engages with photo elicitation (PE), which Bourdieu applied in Distinction, but never elaborated on. We conducted systematic photo-interviewing in arts, fiction and architecture. After reviewing the relevant literature, we highlight illustrative findings and discuss the potential of PE. In studies of taste, PE helps in bridging “social worlds”, and can unveil…
Et flipperspill i velferdsstaten
Mange innvandrerbrukere «låses» inne i NAV-systemet som varig avhengige av økonomisk sosialhjelp. Slike innlåsingsmekanismer beskrives ofte som resultatet av at brukere blir «kasteballer» mellom tjenester og ikke får den hjelpen de har behov for. I artikkelen utforsker vi slike innlåsingsmekanismer og belyser hvordan veiledernes forståelse og bruk av kategorien «språk» bidrar til å diskvalifisere (innvandrer)brukere fra en rekke aktuelle tjeneste…
I Say I Work at the University
This paper extends the study of passing to a privileged identity. From qualitative interviews, we examine Norwegian professors' everyday self-presentation. When in new encounters, like meeting other parents through their children's leisure activities, our respondents' leave their occupation and especially title undisclosed before cautiously negotiating possible disclosure. The existing literature mostly highlights passing that happens for self-pr…
Emotional creaming
Achieving equity in welfare provision depends on accurate understandings of the work of street‐level bureaucrats. We explore the role of emotions when caseworkers prioritise cases. While creaming of clients whom street‐level bureaucrats consider ‘likely to succeed’ is acknowledged as a way of rationing scarce resources, research tends to reject emotional involvement as bias, or neglect emotions in creaming‐practices. This may produce inaccurate p…
The art of kindergarten drop off’
This paper departs from an ethnography of Somali parents in Oslo, Norway, which examined perceptions of the Child Welfare Services (CWS). We explore how young second-generation parents portray middle class identities when they interact with school and kindergarten personnel. These are institutions under legal obligation to report to the CWS if they suspect neglect of children. Drawing on Goffman, we analyse how parents conduct and meticulously pr…
Recurrence, eruptions, and a transnational turn
The relations between the Norwegian Child Welfare Services (CWS) and various migrant groups are notably strained. Numerous media accounts and a growing body of research reveal that many migrants to Norway fear the CWS. By combining quantitative and qualitative analyses of media accounts, this paper addresses the historical evolvement of such strained relations in Norway. Previous research has neglected this aspect. Findings show that migration is…
Cultural Capital as a Hidden Asset
In this article, we engage with the theory of cultural capital, which was originally outlined in Pierre Bourdieu's magnum opus Distinction. We start from a study of lifestyles in Stavanger, Norway, and qualitative interviews with 39 people dispersed in the social space. We find that interviewees with less education are largely indifferent to cultural capital, and secure about their own lifestyles. This diverges from Bourdieu's depiction of the wo…
Outsiders? A sociological study of Norwegian artists with minority background
Why are there relatively few successful artists from a migrant background in Norway? Based on a study of artists of known migrant backgrounds, we explore this question from the artists’ points of view. We analyze both their social and cultural background, and the mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion at work in Norway’s art world, and especially the interaction between the two. We have concentrated on the dramatic arts: theater and dance. The art…
Homeownership and Symbolic Boundaries
In this article, I introduce the notion of symbolic boundaries to the study of homeownership. Data for the article are qualitative interviews with ‘housing strugglers’ in two cities in Norway, a ‘homeowner nation’. The social categories in question are refugees, people with drug and/or mental health problems and the ‘déclassé’. The analysis reveals patterns that are familiar from studies of homeowner countries; homeownership is associated with sa…
Telling Others How You Live-Refining Goffman's Stigma Theory Through an Analysis of Housing Strugglers in a Homeowner Nation
This article revisits Goffman's stigma theory from the perspective of housing studies. We elaborate on Goffman's approach by exploring how housing tenure can work as a proxy for moral character. We interviewed twenty-seven people who are excluded from access to homeownership in two cities in Norway, which is a 'homeowner nation.' These individuals are unable to enter the dominant 'homeowner class' for different reasons, including drug-dependency,…
Whiteness, non-whiteness and 'faith information control
This article is based on a qualitative study of religion among young people in the inner-city multicultural Grønland area in Oslo. We use Goffman's stigma analysis to explore the interplay of ethnicity, race and religion in this particular urban space and beyond. An important observation is that whiteness hides information about faith, or even signals 'secular', whereas non-whiteness signifies 'religious' across the racial boundary. We examine ho…
When an image becomes sacred
The last decades' increase in the visual methods in social science has not been reflected in the study of religion. There is a rather perplexing absence of such methods in the study of religion, given the importance of visual symbolism in many religious traditions. This article is about photo-elicitation among young Christians, Muslims and non-religious people in the multicultural Grønland area in inner-city Oslo, Norway. We focus on two images o…
The legacy of Stavanger as Capital of Culture in Europe 2008
When studying the impact of cultural mega events, researchers tend to scrutinise their economic benefits, cultural identity, competitive advantage in attracting the attention of important stakeholders or the effect on regional development and urban regeneration. The impact on the field of cultural production has received less attention. In this article, the authors highlight the latter. Stavanger, Norway, was the 2008 European Capital of Culture.…
Untangling the different components of Norwegianness
National identity is under scrutiny in Europe. A new non-ethnic conception of the nation to replace the traditional ethnic one is needed. National identity is therefore undergoing a public reconstruction. This article is based on narratives of “Norwegianness” that emerged in a qualitative interview study of white majority Norwegians who live in multicultural suburbs in Oslo. I respond to an overlooked need to analytically untangle different compo…
Om å innlemme makronivået i mikrososiologiske studier. En sammenlikning av «grounded theory» og «extended case method»
Snøballen som ikke ruller. Utvalgsproblemer i kvalitativ forskning
Whiteness, non-whiteness and 'faith information control
This article is based on a qualitative study of religion among young people in the inner-city multicultural Grønland area in Oslo. We use Goffman's stigma analysis to explore the interplay of ethnicity, race and religion in this particular urban space and beyond. An important observation is that whiteness hides information about faith, or even signals 'secular', whereas non-whiteness signifies 'religious' across the racial boundary. We examine ho…
Untangling the different components of Norwegianness
National identity is under scrutiny in Europe. A new non-ethnic conception of the nation to replace the traditional ethnic one is needed. National identity is therefore undergoing a public reconstruction. This article is based on narratives of “Norwegianness” that emerged in a qualitative interview study of white majority Norwegians who live in multicultural suburbs in Oslo. I respond to an overlooked need to analytically untangle different compo…
The art of kindergarten drop off’
This paper departs from an ethnography of Somali parents in Oslo, Norway, which examined perceptions of the Child Welfare Services (CWS). We explore how young second-generation parents portray middle class identities when they interact with school and kindergarten personnel. These are institutions under legal obligation to report to the CWS if they suspect neglect of children. Drawing on Goffman, we analyse how parents conduct and meticulously pr…
Cultural Capital as a Hidden Asset
In this article, we engage with the theory of cultural capital, which was originally outlined in Pierre Bourdieu's magnum opus Distinction. We start from a study of lifestyles in Stavanger, Norway, and qualitative interviews with 39 people dispersed in the social space. We find that interviewees with less education are largely indifferent to cultural capital, and secure about their own lifestyles. This diverges from Bourdieu's depiction of the wo…
Telling Others How You Live-Refining Goffman's Stigma Theory Through an Analysis of Housing Strugglers in a Homeowner Nation
This article revisits Goffman's stigma theory from the perspective of housing studies. We elaborate on Goffman's approach by exploring how housing tenure can work as a proxy for moral character. We interviewed twenty-seven people who are excluded from access to homeownership in two cities in Norway, which is a 'homeowner nation.' These individuals are unable to enter the dominant 'homeowner class' for different reasons, including drug-dependency,…
Emotional creaming
Achieving equity in welfare provision depends on accurate understandings of the work of street‐level bureaucrats. We explore the role of emotions when caseworkers prioritise cases. While creaming of clients whom street‐level bureaucrats consider ‘likely to succeed’ is acknowledged as a way of rationing scarce resources, research tends to reject emotional involvement as bias, or neglect emotions in creaming‐practices. This may produce inaccurate p…
Recurrence, eruptions, and a transnational turn
The relations between the Norwegian Child Welfare Services (CWS) and various migrant groups are notably strained. Numerous media accounts and a growing body of research reveal that many migrants to Norway fear the CWS. By combining quantitative and qualitative analyses of media accounts, this paper addresses the historical evolvement of such strained relations in Norway. Previous research has neglected this aspect. Findings show that migration is…
Transmission of child removal stories Among Norwegian Somalis
Ethnic minority parents who are fearful of child welfare services (CWS) is an acknowledged social problem, but the existing academic understanding is limited. Interpretations in previous research have tended to highlight people's 'dispositions', typically cultural backgrounds, and lack of knowledge, or 'structures' like welfare and penal systems. More neglected is how CWS fears can be generated from interactional processes within groups. Building…
Homeownership and Symbolic Boundaries
In this article, I introduce the notion of symbolic boundaries to the study of homeownership. Data for the article are qualitative interviews with ‘housing strugglers’ in two cities in Norway, a ‘homeowner nation’. The social categories in question are refugees, people with drug and/or mental health problems and the ‘déclassé’. The analysis reveals patterns that are familiar from studies of homeowner countries; homeownership is associated with sa…
To confront or not to confront? Seeing minorities’ responses to ethnoracial stigmatisation through Goffman’s ritual interaction order
The last decade has seen a proliferation of sociological research on minorities’ responses to ethnoracial stigmatisation. Compared to social and cultural structures, face-to-face interaction has thus far received insufficient theoretical attention, even though social situations are a prime site for stigmatisation. This has resulted in three shortcomings in the research: (1) a tacit individual–structure dualism; (2) neglect of situational variatio…
Outsiders? A sociological study of Norwegian artists with minority background
Why are there relatively few successful artists from a migrant background in Norway? Based on a study of artists of known migrant backgrounds, we explore this question from the artists’ points of view. We analyze both their social and cultural background, and the mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion at work in Norway’s art world, and especially the interaction between the two. We have concentrated on the dramatic arts: theater and dance. The art…
I Say I Work at the University
This paper extends the study of passing to a privileged identity. From qualitative interviews, we examine Norwegian professors' everyday self-presentation. When in new encounters, like meeting other parents through their children's leisure activities, our respondents' leave their occupation and especially title undisclosed before cautiously negotiating possible disclosure. The existing literature mostly highlights passing that happens for self-pr…
The legacy of Stavanger as Capital of Culture in Europe 2008
When studying the impact of cultural mega events, researchers tend to scrutinise their economic benefits, cultural identity, competitive advantage in attracting the attention of important stakeholders or the effect on regional development and urban regeneration. The impact on the field of cultural production has received less attention. In this article, the authors highlight the latter. Stavanger, Norway, was the 2008 European Capital of Culture.…
Live and let live? Morality in symbolic boundaries across different cultural areas
This article examines morality in taste judgements. In response to Bourdieu's analysis of France in the 1960s, sociologists note that repertoires of moral evaluation vary across contexts. They typically highlight national variations, like Nordic egalitarianism weakens cultural boundaries, and temporal variations, with transformed values having made cultural hierarchies less defensible. The article investigates a neglected type of moral variation:…
Elites and ordinariness in cross-status encounters
Elites and higher-class people often downplay - even conceal - their status when interacting with people of lower class/status than themselves. This finding has been reported from several countries in the Global North. It is also shown in research from disparate academic fields and disciplines: the sociology of class, psychology, cognitive decision-making, and microsociology. This paper reviews and synthesises the literature on elites and high-st…
Social Encounters and the Worlds Beyond
In Goffman's terms, qualitative interviews are social encounters with their own realities. Hence, the 'situational critique' holds that interviews cannot produce knowledge about the world beyond these encounters, and that other methods, ethnography in particular, render lived life more accurately. The situational critique cannot be dismissed; yet interviewing remains an indispensable sociological tool. This paper demonstrates the value that situa…
Et flipperspill i velferdsstaten
Mange innvandrerbrukere «låses» inne i NAV-systemet som varig avhengige av økonomisk sosialhjelp. Slike innlåsingsmekanismer beskrives ofte som resultatet av at brukere blir «kasteballer» mellom tjenester og ikke får den hjelpen de har behov for. I artikkelen utforsker vi slike innlåsingsmekanismer og belyser hvordan veiledernes forståelse og bruk av kategorien «språk» bidrar til å diskvalifisere (innvandrer)brukere fra en rekke aktuelle tjeneste…
Snøballen som ikke ruller. Utvalgsproblemer i kvalitativ forskning
Om å innlemme makronivået i mikrososiologiske studier. En sammenlikning av «grounded theory» og «extended case method»
When an image becomes sacred
The last decades' increase in the visual methods in social science has not been reflected in the study of religion. There is a rather perplexing absence of such methods in the study of religion, given the importance of visual symbolism in many religious traditions. This article is about photo-elicitation among young Christians, Muslims and non-religious people in the multicultural Grønland area in inner-city Oslo, Norway. We focus on two images o…
The legacy of Stavanger as Capital of Culture in Europe 2008
When studying the impact of cultural mega events, researchers tend to scrutinise their economic benefits, cultural identity, competitive advantage in attracting the attention of important stakeholders or the effect on regional development and urban regeneration. The impact on the field of cultural production has received less attention. In this article, the authors highlight the latter. Stavanger, Norway, was the 2008 European Capital of Culture.…
Untangling the different components of Norwegianness
National identity is under scrutiny in Europe. A new non-ethnic conception of the nation to replace the traditional ethnic one is needed. National identity is therefore undergoing a public reconstruction. This article is based on narratives of “Norwegianness” that emerged in a qualitative interview study of white majority Norwegians who live in multicultural suburbs in Oslo. I respond to an overlooked need to analytically untangle different compo…
Whiteness, non-whiteness and 'faith information control
This article is based on a qualitative study of religion among young people in the inner-city multicultural Grønland area in Oslo. We use Goffman's stigma analysis to explore the interplay of ethnicity, race and religion in this particular urban space and beyond. An important observation is that whiteness hides information about faith, or even signals 'secular', whereas non-whiteness signifies 'religious' across the racial boundary. We examine ho…
Telling Others How You Live-Refining Goffman's Stigma Theory Through an Analysis of Housing Strugglers in a Homeowner Nation
This article revisits Goffman's stigma theory from the perspective of housing studies. We elaborate on Goffman's approach by exploring how housing tenure can work as a proxy for moral character. We interviewed twenty-seven people who are excluded from access to homeownership in two cities in Norway, which is a 'homeowner nation.' These individuals are unable to enter the dominant 'homeowner class' for different reasons, including drug-dependency,…
Outsiders? A sociological study of Norwegian artists with minority background
Why are there relatively few successful artists from a migrant background in Norway? Based on a study of artists of known migrant backgrounds, we explore this question from the artists’ points of view. We analyze both their social and cultural background, and the mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion at work in Norway’s art world, and especially the interaction between the two. We have concentrated on the dramatic arts: theater and dance. The art…
Homeownership and Symbolic Boundaries
In this article, I introduce the notion of symbolic boundaries to the study of homeownership. Data for the article are qualitative interviews with ‘housing strugglers’ in two cities in Norway, a ‘homeowner nation’. The social categories in question are refugees, people with drug and/or mental health problems and the ‘déclassé’. The analysis reveals patterns that are familiar from studies of homeowner countries; homeownership is associated with sa…
Recurrence, eruptions, and a transnational turn
The relations between the Norwegian Child Welfare Services (CWS) and various migrant groups are notably strained. Numerous media accounts and a growing body of research reveal that many migrants to Norway fear the CWS. By combining quantitative and qualitative analyses of media accounts, this paper addresses the historical evolvement of such strained relations in Norway. Previous research has neglected this aspect. Findings show that migration is…
Cultural Capital as a Hidden Asset
In this article, we engage with the theory of cultural capital, which was originally outlined in Pierre Bourdieu's magnum opus Distinction. We start from a study of lifestyles in Stavanger, Norway, and qualitative interviews with 39 people dispersed in the social space. We find that interviewees with less education are largely indifferent to cultural capital, and secure about their own lifestyles. This diverges from Bourdieu's depiction of the wo…
The art of kindergarten drop off’
This paper departs from an ethnography of Somali parents in Oslo, Norway, which examined perceptions of the Child Welfare Services (CWS). We explore how young second-generation parents portray middle class identities when they interact with school and kindergarten personnel. These are institutions under legal obligation to report to the CWS if they suspect neglect of children. Drawing on Goffman, we analyse how parents conduct and meticulously pr…
Emotional creaming
Achieving equity in welfare provision depends on accurate understandings of the work of street‐level bureaucrats. We explore the role of emotions when caseworkers prioritise cases. While creaming of clients whom street‐level bureaucrats consider ‘likely to succeed’ is acknowledged as a way of rationing scarce resources, research tends to reject emotional involvement as bias, or neglect emotions in creaming‐practices. This may produce inaccurate p…
Photo Elicitation and the Sociology of Taste
The recent flourishing of visual methods is not mirrored in studies of taste. This paper engages with photo elicitation (PE), which Bourdieu applied in Distinction, but never elaborated on. We conducted systematic photo-interviewing in arts, fiction and architecture. After reviewing the relevant literature, we highlight illustrative findings and discuss the potential of PE. In studies of taste, PE helps in bridging “social worlds”, and can unveil…
Et flipperspill i velferdsstaten
Mange innvandrerbrukere «låses» inne i NAV-systemet som varig avhengige av økonomisk sosialhjelp. Slike innlåsingsmekanismer beskrives ofte som resultatet av at brukere blir «kasteballer» mellom tjenester og ikke får den hjelpen de har behov for. I artikkelen utforsker vi slike innlåsingsmekanismer og belyser hvordan veiledernes forståelse og bruk av kategorien «språk» bidrar til å diskvalifisere (innvandrer)brukere fra en rekke aktuelle tjeneste…
I Say I Work at the University
This paper extends the study of passing to a privileged identity. From qualitative interviews, we examine Norwegian professors' everyday self-presentation. When in new encounters, like meeting other parents through their children's leisure activities, our respondents' leave their occupation and especially title undisclosed before cautiously negotiating possible disclosure. The existing literature mostly highlights passing that happens for self-pr…
Live and let live? Morality in symbolic boundaries across different cultural areas
This article examines morality in taste judgements. In response to Bourdieu's analysis of France in the 1960s, sociologists note that repertoires of moral evaluation vary across contexts. They typically highlight national variations, like Nordic egalitarianism weakens cultural boundaries, and temporal variations, with transformed values having made cultural hierarchies less defensible. The article investigates a neglected type of moral variation:…
To confront or not to confront? Seeing minorities’ responses to ethnoracial stigmatisation through Goffman’s ritual interaction order
The last decade has seen a proliferation of sociological research on minorities’ responses to ethnoracial stigmatisation. Compared to social and cultural structures, face-to-face interaction has thus far received insufficient theoretical attention, even though social situations are a prime site for stigmatisation. This has resulted in three shortcomings in the research: (1) a tacit individual–structure dualism; (2) neglect of situational variatio…
Social Encounters and the Worlds Beyond
In Goffman's terms, qualitative interviews are social encounters with their own realities. Hence, the 'situational critique' holds that interviews cannot produce knowledge about the world beyond these encounters, and that other methods, ethnography in particular, render lived life more accurately. The situational critique cannot be dismissed; yet interviewing remains an indispensable sociological tool. This paper demonstrates the value that situa…
Transmission of child removal stories Among Norwegian Somalis
Ethnic minority parents who are fearful of child welfare services (CWS) is an acknowledged social problem, but the existing academic understanding is limited. Interpretations in previous research have tended to highlight people's 'dispositions', typically cultural backgrounds, and lack of knowledge, or 'structures' like welfare and penal systems. More neglected is how CWS fears can be generated from interactional processes within groups. Building…
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…
Elites and ordinariness in cross-status encounters
Elites and higher-class people often downplay - even conceal - their status when interacting with people of lower class/status than themselves. This finding has been reported from several countries in the Global North. It is also shown in research from disparate academic fields and disciplines: the sociology of class, psychology, cognitive decision-making, and microsociology. This paper reviews and synthesises the literature on elites and high-st…
Fears of Child Protective Services in a Disadvantaged Migrant Group
Parents from stigmatized and disadvantaged migrant groups often fear losing their children to Child Protective Services (CPS). Based on ethnography with Norwegian Somalis, this paper examines how such fears arise. We work abductively from a specific puzzle, which is that the fear of losing children to CPS is widespread among Norwegian Somali parents despite the fact that their children are not disproportionately removed from their homes. In devel…
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…
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