Matthew Norton
Biographic Data
| ID | 3685845 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew Norton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew |
| FAMILY NAME | Norton |
| SIGNATURE | NORTON M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oregon |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Author Meets Critics: Modernity’s Corruption: Empire and Morality in the Making of British India, by Nicholas Hoover Wilson
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Late Modernity in Crisis: Why We Need a Theory of Society
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…
Colonial America Today: U.S. Empire and the Political Status of Native American Nations
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 Persistence of Pardons and the End of Attainder: Moral Explanations, Relational Facts, and Institutional Forms
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…
Standards: Recipes for Reality
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 Destruction of Piracy in the English Maritime System
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…
Interpreting Clifford Geertz
Theorist Clifford Geertz's influence extends far beyond Anthropology. This volume reflects the breadth of his influence, looking at Geertz as a theorist rather than as an anthropologist. To date there
A structural hermeneutics of The O'Reilly Factor
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 Destruction of Piracy in the English Maritime System
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…
Standards: Recipes for Reality
A structural hermeneutics of The O'Reilly Factor
Colonial America Today: U.S. Empire and the Political Status of Native American Nations
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…
Interpreting Clifford Geertz
Theorist Clifford Geertz's influence extends far beyond Anthropology. This volume reflects the breadth of his influence, looking at Geertz as a theorist rather than as an anthropologist. To date there
A structural hermeneutics of The O'Reilly Factor
Standards: Recipes for Reality
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 Destruction of Piracy in the English Maritime System
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 Persistence of Pardons and the End of Attainder: Moral Explanations, Relational Facts, and Institutional Forms
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…
Colonial America Today: U.S. Empire and the Political Status of Native American Nations
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…
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…
Author Meets Critics: Modernity’s Corruption: Empire and Morality in the Making of British India, by Nicholas Hoover Wilson
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: Why We Need a Theory of Society
Sociology (7 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Empire (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice (2 works)