Wayne H Brekhus
Biographic Data
| ID | 200644 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wayne H Brekhus |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wayne H |
| FAMILY NAME | Brekhus |
| SIGNATURE | BREKHUS W H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Missouri |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3794-5721 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 318 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Una sociología de lo no marcado: Redirigir nuestro enfoque
Wayne Brekhus, sociólogo y profesor en la Universidad de Missouri, señala en el artículo que presentamos a continuación que la sociología estadounidense ha desarrollado una "tradición de lo marcado", es decir, una tendencia a centrar su atención en las características "políticamente sobresalientes" y "ontológicamente inusuales" de la vida social. Consideramos que esta afirmación, con sus matices, puede aplicarse a la disciplina en otros contextos…
On Doing Concept-Driven Sociology
In this article, we elaborate on both bread-and-butter and epistemological features of concept-driven sociology (CDS). First, we highlight the specific link between this framework and Zerubavel's approach by outlining how CDS is especially suited to deepen the understanding of unmarked dimensions and intersubjective phenomena, reflexively re-employing the insights of cognitive sociology while crossing thematic (as well as disciplinary) boundaries…
Markedness and Unmarkedness in Identities and Social Interaction
This chapter explores how the semiotic processes of cultural markedness and unmarkedness influence perception, drive social attention, and shape identities and interactional constructions of meaning. Markedness and unmarkedness are advanced as central sensitizing concepts for an expansive symbolic interactionism focused on power and complex inequalities. Symbolic interactionism (SI), like many longstanding theoretical traditions, developed in a h…
The Oxford Handbook of Symbolic Interactionism
The Oxford Handbook of Symbolic Interactionism features a diverse array of cutting-edge scholarship. Contributors present original research in various established and emerging areas of symbolic interactionism (SI) while outlining key theoretical and methodological foundations of this multifaceted and broadly relevant perspective in the field of sociology. The scholars featured in this volume present new and evolving outlooks on foundational SI th…
The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Sociology
This book explores cognitive sociology as an area of inquiry focused on culture, cognition, and the social dimensions of human thought. Highlighting differing traditions, from cultural sociological perspectives focused on emphasizing group differences in categorical knowledge to neuropsychology-influenced integrative perspectives analyzing the mechanisms by which cultural processes enter into individual minds, this volume brings together prominen…
Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Sociology
Narrating the Awakened Self: The Temporal Migration of Self‐Identity
Out in the Country: Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility in Rural America
On the Contributions of Cognitive Sociology to the Sociological Study of Race
In this article, we argue for cognitive sociology as a framework for studying the sociology of race. Cognitive sociology concerns itself with classification, identity construction, meaning and collective memory and is thus centrally concerned with generic issues that apply well to racial category construction and maintenance. We, first, outline the cognitive sociology framework. We then elaborate on traditions in the sociology of race and racism …
Trends in the Qualitative Study of Social Identities
This article reviews recent developments and trends in the qualitative study of social identities. Recent scholarship emphasizes multidimensionality and challenges notions of identity singularity and coherence. These challenges include critiques of the implicit identity monism of approaches that give master status primacy to a single marked identity attribute along race, class, gender, or sexuality axes or that portray static notions of a coheren…
The Rutgers School: A Zerubavelian Culturalist Cognitive Sociology
In this article, the Zerubavelian culturalist cognitive paradigm which comprises an emerging Rutgers School of Sociology is presented. This perspective employs a comparative cognitive pluralist approach to the study of cognition and takes as its central premise that the mind is social. The key roots of the perspective in Simmelian classical sociology and in the twentieth-century sociology of knowledge approaches of Fleck, Mannheim, Berger and Luc…
Laud Humphreys: Prophet of Homosexuality and Sociology
Une sociologie de l'« invisibilité: Réorienter Notre Regard
Cet article suggère que la sociologie américaine a de facto développé une tradition de recherche du « marqué », qui consacre une plus grande attention épistémologique aux dispositifs « politiquement saillants » de la vie sociale. Bien que le « non-marqué » corresponde à la partie la plus importante de la vie sociale, le marqué gouverne de manière disproportionnée l'attention de la sociologie. Et puisque le marqué est aussi ce qui attire d'emblée …
The Sexual Organization of the City
The Need for Thin Description
Qualitative researchers tout the distinctive character of their work as thickly descriptive of the subject matter. They evaluate published results in the same terms, giving high marks to the richness of the best research. This article unpacks this universal standard and discusses the influence of preinvestigative empirical purview, analytic aims, and available data in addressing the question of why there is a need for thin as well as thick descri…
Laud Humphreys: Prophet of Homosexuality and Sociology
Commuting to homosexuality: Laud Humphreys’ unheralded theoretical contribution to the sociology of identity
Adumbrates that Laud Humphrey’s studies have shaped the debate on sociological methods, they have also distracted from emphasizing his potential contributions to sociological theory. Identifies four themes in Humphrey’s work, which are important to the sociological study of identity. Concludes that Humphreys demonstrates that sexual identity may not be as permanent and fixed as may first appear
The Stranger Next Door: The Story of a Small Community's Battle over Sex, Faith, and Civil Rights
Social Problems inSocial Problems: The Theory and Method of Justice
Journal Article Social Problems in Social Problems: The Theory and Method of Justice Get access Wayne H. Brekhus, Wayne H. Brekhus University of Missouri-Columbia Direct correspondence to: Wayne Brekhus, Department of Sociology, 215 Sociology Building, Missouri University, Columbia, MO 65211. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Keith L. Brekhus, Keith L. Brekhus University …
A Sociology of the Unmarked: Redirecting Our Focus
This article suggests that American sociology has developed a de facto tradition in the sociology of the marked that devotes greater epistemological attention to 'politically salient' and 'ontologically uncommon' features of social life. Although the 'unmarked' comprises the vast majority of social life, the 'marked' commands a disproportionate share of attention from sociologists. Since the marked already draws more attention within the general …
Social marking and the mental coloring of identity: Sexual identity construction and maintenance in the United States
A Sociology of the Unmarked: Redirecting Our Focus
This article suggests that American sociology has developed a de facto tradition in the sociology of the marked that devotes greater epistemological attention to 'politically salient' and 'ontologically uncommon' features of social life. Although the 'unmarked' comprises the vast majority of social life, the 'marked' commands a disproportionate share of attention from sociologists. Since the marked already draws more attention within the general …
Social marking and the mental coloring of identity: Sexual identity construction and maintenance in the United States
The Rutgers School: A Zerubavelian Culturalist Cognitive Sociology
In this article, the Zerubavelian culturalist cognitive paradigm which comprises an emerging Rutgers School of Sociology is presented. This perspective employs a comparative cognitive pluralist approach to the study of cognition and takes as its central premise that the mind is social. The key roots of the perspective in Simmelian classical sociology and in the twentieth-century sociology of knowledge approaches of Fleck, Mannheim, Berger and Luc…
On the Contributions of Cognitive Sociology to the Sociological Study of Race
In this article, we argue for cognitive sociology as a framework for studying the sociology of race. Cognitive sociology concerns itself with classification, identity construction, meaning and collective memory and is thus centrally concerned with generic issues that apply well to racial category construction and maintenance. We, first, outline the cognitive sociology framework. We then elaborate on traditions in the sociology of race and racism …
The Need for Thin Description
Qualitative researchers tout the distinctive character of their work as thickly descriptive of the subject matter. They evaluate published results in the same terms, giving high marks to the richness of the best research. This article unpacks this universal standard and discusses the influence of preinvestigative empirical purview, analytic aims, and available data in addressing the question of why there is a need for thin as well as thick descri…
Trends in the Qualitative Study of Social Identities
This article reviews recent developments and trends in the qualitative study of social identities. Recent scholarship emphasizes multidimensionality and challenges notions of identity singularity and coherence. These challenges include critiques of the implicit identity monism of approaches that give master status primacy to a single marked identity attribute along race, class, gender, or sexuality axes or that portray static notions of a coheren…
Une sociologie de l'« invisibilité: Réorienter Notre Regard
Cet article suggère que la sociologie américaine a de facto développé une tradition de recherche du « marqué », qui consacre une plus grande attention épistémologique aux dispositifs « politiquement saillants » de la vie sociale. Bien que le « non-marqué » corresponde à la partie la plus importante de la vie sociale, le marqué gouverne de manière disproportionnée l'attention de la sociologie. Et puisque le marqué est aussi ce qui attire d'emblée …
Out in the Country: Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility in Rural America
Social Problems inSocial Problems: The Theory and Method of Justice
Journal Article Social Problems in Social Problems: The Theory and Method of Justice Get access Wayne H. Brekhus, Wayne H. Brekhus University of Missouri-Columbia Direct correspondence to: Wayne Brekhus, Department of Sociology, 215 Sociology Building, Missouri University, Columbia, MO 65211. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Keith L. Brekhus, Keith L. Brekhus University …
On Doing Concept-Driven Sociology
In this article, we elaborate on both bread-and-butter and epistemological features of concept-driven sociology (CDS). First, we highlight the specific link between this framework and Zerubavel's approach by outlining how CDS is especially suited to deepen the understanding of unmarked dimensions and intersubjective phenomena, reflexively re-employing the insights of cognitive sociology while crossing thematic (as well as disciplinary) boundaries…
Commuting to homosexuality: Laud Humphreys’ unheralded theoretical contribution to the sociology of identity
Adumbrates that Laud Humphrey’s studies have shaped the debate on sociological methods, they have also distracted from emphasizing his potential contributions to sociological theory. Identifies four themes in Humphrey’s work, which are important to the sociological study of identity. Concludes that Humphreys demonstrates that sexual identity may not be as permanent and fixed as may first appear
Social marking and the mental coloring of identity: Sexual identity construction and maintenance in the United States
A Sociology of the Unmarked: Redirecting Our Focus
This article suggests that American sociology has developed a de facto tradition in the sociology of the marked that devotes greater epistemological attention to 'politically salient' and 'ontologically uncommon' features of social life. Although the 'unmarked' comprises the vast majority of social life, the 'marked' commands a disproportionate share of attention from sociologists. Since the marked already draws more attention within the general …
Social Problems inSocial Problems: The Theory and Method of Justice
Journal Article Social Problems in Social Problems: The Theory and Method of Justice Get access Wayne H. Brekhus, Wayne H. Brekhus University of Missouri-Columbia Direct correspondence to: Wayne Brekhus, Department of Sociology, 215 Sociology Building, Missouri University, Columbia, MO 65211. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Keith L. Brekhus, Keith L. Brekhus University …
The Stranger Next Door: The Story of a Small Community's Battle over Sex, Faith, and Civil Rights
Laud Humphreys: Prophet of Homosexuality and Sociology
Commuting to homosexuality: Laud Humphreys’ unheralded theoretical contribution to the sociology of identity
Adumbrates that Laud Humphrey’s studies have shaped the debate on sociological methods, they have also distracted from emphasizing his potential contributions to sociological theory. Identifies four themes in Humphrey’s work, which are important to the sociological study of identity. Concludes that Humphreys demonstrates that sexual identity may not be as permanent and fixed as may first appear
Une sociologie de l'« invisibilité: Réorienter Notre Regard
Cet article suggère que la sociologie américaine a de facto développé une tradition de recherche du « marqué », qui consacre une plus grande attention épistémologique aux dispositifs « politiquement saillants » de la vie sociale. Bien que le « non-marqué » corresponde à la partie la plus importante de la vie sociale, le marqué gouverne de manière disproportionnée l'attention de la sociologie. Et puisque le marqué est aussi ce qui attire d'emblée …
The Sexual Organization of the City
The Need for Thin Description
Qualitative researchers tout the distinctive character of their work as thickly descriptive of the subject matter. They evaluate published results in the same terms, giving high marks to the richness of the best research. This article unpacks this universal standard and discusses the influence of preinvestigative empirical purview, analytic aims, and available data in addressing the question of why there is a need for thin as well as thick descri…
Laud Humphreys: Prophet of Homosexuality and Sociology
The Rutgers School: A Zerubavelian Culturalist Cognitive Sociology
In this article, the Zerubavelian culturalist cognitive paradigm which comprises an emerging Rutgers School of Sociology is presented. This perspective employs a comparative cognitive pluralist approach to the study of cognition and takes as its central premise that the mind is social. The key roots of the perspective in Simmelian classical sociology and in the twentieth-century sociology of knowledge approaches of Fleck, Mannheim, Berger and Luc…
Trends in the Qualitative Study of Social Identities
This article reviews recent developments and trends in the qualitative study of social identities. Recent scholarship emphasizes multidimensionality and challenges notions of identity singularity and coherence. These challenges include critiques of the implicit identity monism of approaches that give master status primacy to a single marked identity attribute along race, class, gender, or sexuality axes or that portray static notions of a coheren…
On the Contributions of Cognitive Sociology to the Sociological Study of Race
In this article, we argue for cognitive sociology as a framework for studying the sociology of race. Cognitive sociology concerns itself with classification, identity construction, meaning and collective memory and is thus centrally concerned with generic issues that apply well to racial category construction and maintenance. We, first, outline the cognitive sociology framework. We then elaborate on traditions in the sociology of race and racism …
Out in the Country: Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility in Rural America
Narrating the Awakened Self: The Temporal Migration of Self‐Identity
The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Sociology
This book explores cognitive sociology as an area of inquiry focused on culture, cognition, and the social dimensions of human thought. Highlighting differing traditions, from cultural sociological perspectives focused on emphasizing group differences in categorical knowledge to neuropsychology-influenced integrative perspectives analyzing the mechanisms by which cultural processes enter into individual minds, this volume brings together prominen…
Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Sociology
The Oxford Handbook of Symbolic Interactionism
The Oxford Handbook of Symbolic Interactionism features a diverse array of cutting-edge scholarship. Contributors present original research in various established and emerging areas of symbolic interactionism (SI) while outlining key theoretical and methodological foundations of this multifaceted and broadly relevant perspective in the field of sociology. The scholars featured in this volume present new and evolving outlooks on foundational SI th…
Markedness and Unmarkedness in Identities and Social Interaction
This chapter explores how the semiotic processes of cultural markedness and unmarkedness influence perception, drive social attention, and shape identities and interactional constructions of meaning. Markedness and unmarkedness are advanced as central sensitizing concepts for an expansive symbolic interactionism focused on power and complex inequalities. Symbolic interactionism (SI), like many longstanding theoretical traditions, developed in a h…
On Doing Concept-Driven Sociology
In this article, we elaborate on both bread-and-butter and epistemological features of concept-driven sociology (CDS). First, we highlight the specific link between this framework and Zerubavel's approach by outlining how CDS is especially suited to deepen the understanding of unmarked dimensions and intersubjective phenomena, reflexively re-employing the insights of cognitive sociology while crossing thematic (as well as disciplinary) boundaries…
Una sociología de lo no marcado: Redirigir nuestro enfoque
Wayne Brekhus, sociólogo y profesor en la Universidad de Missouri, señala en el artículo que presentamos a continuación que la sociología estadounidense ha desarrollado una "tradición de lo marcado", es decir, una tendencia a centrar su atención en las características "políticamente sobresalientes" y "ontológicamente inusuales" de la vida social. Consideramos que esta afirmación, con sus matices, puede aplicarse a la disciplina en otros contextos…
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