C T Conner
Biographic Data
| ID | 45759 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C T Conner |
| GIVEN NAMES | C T |
| FAMILY NAME | Conner |
| SIGNATURE | CONNER C T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Missouri |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2289-6245 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Jürgen Habermas, Symbolic Interactionism, and the Crisis of Public Life
The data that support the findings of this study are available on request from the corresponding author. The data are not publicly available due to privacy or ethical restrictions
The Joy of Queerness
Christopher T. Conner on the magic of queer kinship
Conspirituality in Sport: How QAnon, White Supremacist Ideology, and Other Nonscientific-Based Ideas Came to Infiltrate the Sports World
This paper examines the infiltration of conspiracy theories—particularly QAnon—into professional sports. Using a netnographic approach, I trace how QAnon gained prominence during the COVID-19 pandemic by exploiting authoritarian and gendered structures embedded in commercialized sports. Building on the historical association of sports with superstition and pseudoscientific beliefs, this study highlights how celebrity athletes have served as key v…
Expressions of Belief in the QAnon Conspiracy Movement
The Gonzo Character of Contemporary American Politics: Media Logics from Donald Trump to Kyrsten Sinema
QAnon, authoritarianism, and conspiracy within American alternative spiritual spaces
This study reminds us that authoritarianism can take root in a variety of spaces, and that within each of us lie potentially fascistic tendencies-even those seeking enlightenment, through alternative practices
Electric Empires: From Countercultural Movement to Corporate Enterprise
This article explores the emergence of the Electronic Dance Music (EDM) subculture, and how it transitioned from being perceived as a deviant subculture into a more legitimate culture industry. Using a historical analysis of documents, interviews with industry professionals, and ethnographic observations at EDM events; we explore the process by which this transition occurred. As we argue, the defining features of the EDM subculture also laid the …
How Sexual Racism and Other Discriminatory Behaviors are Rationalized in Online Dating Apps
Using a multi-sited, multiple methods, and qualitative research design (including participant-observation, in-depth interviews, and analysis of online dating profiles) I examine how users engage in and justify discriminatory actions in the gay dating app "Grindr." This paper also explores how the app allows for new ways that members can engage in these practices by blocking, filtering, and ignoring users. My findings consider the way mobile datin…
Black Interactionist Thought and the Lived-Experience Approach to Symbolic Interactionism
Du Bois is often regarded as an important scholar for his contributions to the development of sociology. However, less is known about his work in developing interactionist thought. This essay is an introduction to this special issue, and a small attempt to acknowledge the work of scholars of color within the interactionist tradition. The Du Bosian approach to sociology has for too long been dismissed out of hand. Scholars pursuing new areas of in…
Queer expectations: An empirical critique of rural LGBT+ narratives
Much of the body of literature on LGBT+ populations within the United States place urban areas and so-called gayborhoods as goals and eventualities, paralleling early US studies on immigration. Using a multistage, mixed-methods approach, consisting of secondary analysis of the Pew 2013 Study of LGBT Persons ( N = 1197) and in-depth interviews (35 gay men, 2 trans-identifying individuals, 1 heterosexual woman, and 2 lesbians), we found that rural …
Are You a Werewolf? Teaching Symbolic Interaction Theory through Game Play
In this article, we report on the implementation of using the game Werewolf as a student-centered applied-learning activity to teach symbolic interaction theory and concepts. Engaging with symbolic interaction theory can be a powerful experience for students due to its potential to challenge taken-for-granted assumptions and analyze students’ everyday life experiences. However, some students may have difficulty grasping the specific details and o…
The Perfect Storm: A Subcultural Analysis of the QAnon Movement
In this study, we examine the social phenomenon known as 'QAnon'. While QAnon is typically thought of as an exclusively online cultural phenomenon, and thus easily dismissed, it has played a significant role in promoting physical acts of violence-including multiple murders and the attack on the United States Capital on 6 January 2021. Utilizing a qualitative analysis of 300 hours of QAnon-related content, we argue that the widespread beliefs held…
Moving Beyond Underdog Sociology and Toward Critical Interactionism
Cultural or Critical Interactionism, Why Not Both: Lessons from Sociology and Criminology
Electronic Dance Music: From Spectacular Subculture to Culture Industry
This article is an attempt to show the dialectical nature of Guy Debord’s (1967/1994, The Society of the Spectacle, Aldgate Press) concept of the spectacle, showing how its employment as a resistance technique by electronic dance music (EDM) subculturalists would also help shape it into a corporately organized culture industry (Horkheimer & Adorno, 1944/1969). In doing so, we show the overlap between the French Internationalist approach and that …
Please Mind the Gap, Between Halal and Haram
The Gay Gayze: Expressions of Inequality on Grindr
Social media programs such as Grindr, a geolocation-based phone dating app allowing gay men to connect with others in their proximity, have redefined how gay men interact. My purpose here is to demonstrate how new technologies, ironically, have reinforced existing cultural practices, and I show how body typing, ageism, racism, and HIV stigma are reproduced within gay men’s self-performance on the app. In doing so, this study adds to the broader s…
(Gay) Sex, Lies, and Videotape: This Ain't Your Standard Ethnography
The Queer Code of the Street
Beyond the Eighth Moment: Alternative Modes of Evaluating Postmodern Ethnographic Work
God Save the Ethnographic Method! (From Co-Optation)
The Social Construction of Race in Brazil: A Postcolonial Ethnographic Account of Race in Afro-Brazilian Families
The Astructural Bias and 'Sociological Amnesia' in Contemporary Interactionism: An Invitation to a Debate
Social Stigma & Sexual Epidemics: Dangerous Dynamics
Social Problems: The Limits and Strengths of the Social Constructionist Perspective
How Sexual Racism and Other Discriminatory Behaviors are Rationalized in Online Dating Apps
Using a multi-sited, multiple methods, and qualitative research design (including participant-observation, in-depth interviews, and analysis of online dating profiles) I examine how users engage in and justify discriminatory actions in the gay dating app "Grindr." This paper also explores how the app allows for new ways that members can engage in these practices by blocking, filtering, and ignoring users. My findings consider the way mobile datin…
The Gay Gayze: Expressions of Inequality on Grindr
Social media programs such as Grindr, a geolocation-based phone dating app allowing gay men to connect with others in their proximity, have redefined how gay men interact. My purpose here is to demonstrate how new technologies, ironically, have reinforced existing cultural practices, and I show how body typing, ageism, racism, and HIV stigma are reproduced within gay men’s self-performance on the app. In doing so, this study adds to the broader s…
The handbook of visual culture
QAnon, authoritarianism, and conspiracy within American alternative spiritual spaces
This study reminds us that authoritarianism can take root in a variety of spaces, and that within each of us lie potentially fascistic tendencies-even those seeking enlightenment, through alternative practices
Are You a Werewolf? Teaching Symbolic Interaction Theory through Game Play
In this article, we report on the implementation of using the game Werewolf as a student-centered applied-learning activity to teach symbolic interaction theory and concepts. Engaging with symbolic interaction theory can be a powerful experience for students due to its potential to challenge taken-for-granted assumptions and analyze students’ everyday life experiences. However, some students may have difficulty grasping the specific details and o…
Projective techniques for social science and business research
The Perfect Storm: A Subcultural Analysis of the QAnon Movement
In this study, we examine the social phenomenon known as 'QAnon'. While QAnon is typically thought of as an exclusively online cultural phenomenon, and thus easily dismissed, it has played a significant role in promoting physical acts of violence-including multiple murders and the attack on the United States Capital on 6 January 2021. Utilizing a qualitative analysis of 300 hours of QAnon-related content, we argue that the widespread beliefs held…
Electronic Dance Music: From Spectacular Subculture to Culture Industry
This article is an attempt to show the dialectical nature of Guy Debord’s (1967/1994, The Society of the Spectacle, Aldgate Press) concept of the spectacle, showing how its employment as a resistance technique by electronic dance music (EDM) subculturalists would also help shape it into a corporately organized culture industry (Horkheimer & Adorno, 1944/1969). In doing so, we show the overlap between the French Internationalist approach and that …
Expressions of Belief in the QAnon Conspiracy Movement
Black Interactionist Thought and the Lived-Experience Approach to Symbolic Interactionism
Du Bois is often regarded as an important scholar for his contributions to the development of sociology. However, less is known about his work in developing interactionist thought. This essay is an introduction to this special issue, and a small attempt to acknowledge the work of scholars of color within the interactionist tradition. The Du Bosian approach to sociology has for too long been dismissed out of hand. Scholars pursuing new areas of in…
Social Problems: The Limits and Strengths of the Social Constructionist Perspective
Projective techniques for social science and business research
Behind the eye: Reflexive methods in culture studies, ethnographic film, and visual media
Chasing the Shadows of the Other
Reconciling Agency and Structure: A Review of Stigma Revisited
Buy it now: Lessons from eBay
The virtual world is increasingly becoming a site of interest among researchers trying to understand contemporary Western culture. Since communications in virtual worlds contain text and images, it
The handbook of visual culture
Social Problems: The Limits and Strengths of the Social Constructionist Perspective
Social Stigma & Sexual Epidemics: Dangerous Dynamics
God Save the Ethnographic Method! (From Co-Optation)
The Social Construction of Race in Brazil: A Postcolonial Ethnographic Account of Race in Afro-Brazilian Families
The Astructural Bias and 'Sociological Amnesia' in Contemporary Interactionism: An Invitation to a Debate
The Queer Code of the Street
Beyond the Eighth Moment: Alternative Modes of Evaluating Postmodern Ethnographic Work
The Gay Gayze: Expressions of Inequality on Grindr
Social media programs such as Grindr, a geolocation-based phone dating app allowing gay men to connect with others in their proximity, have redefined how gay men interact. My purpose here is to demonstrate how new technologies, ironically, have reinforced existing cultural practices, and I show how body typing, ageism, racism, and HIV stigma are reproduced within gay men’s self-performance on the app. In doing so, this study adds to the broader s…
(Gay) Sex, Lies, and Videotape: This Ain't Your Standard Ethnography
Electronic Dance Music: From Spectacular Subculture to Culture Industry
This article is an attempt to show the dialectical nature of Guy Debord’s (1967/1994, The Society of the Spectacle, Aldgate Press) concept of the spectacle, showing how its employment as a resistance technique by electronic dance music (EDM) subculturalists would also help shape it into a corporately organized culture industry (Horkheimer & Adorno, 1944/1969). In doing so, we show the overlap between the French Internationalist approach and that …
Please Mind the Gap, Between Halal and Haram
Cultural or Critical Interactionism, Why Not Both: Lessons from Sociology and Criminology
Queer expectations: An empirical critique of rural LGBT+ narratives
Much of the body of literature on LGBT+ populations within the United States place urban areas and so-called gayborhoods as goals and eventualities, paralleling early US studies on immigration. Using a multistage, mixed-methods approach, consisting of secondary analysis of the Pew 2013 Study of LGBT Persons ( N = 1197) and in-depth interviews (35 gay men, 2 trans-identifying individuals, 1 heterosexual woman, and 2 lesbians), we found that rural …
Are You a Werewolf? Teaching Symbolic Interaction Theory through Game Play
In this article, we report on the implementation of using the game Werewolf as a student-centered applied-learning activity to teach symbolic interaction theory and concepts. Engaging with symbolic interaction theory can be a powerful experience for students due to its potential to challenge taken-for-granted assumptions and analyze students’ everyday life experiences. However, some students may have difficulty grasping the specific details and o…
The Perfect Storm: A Subcultural Analysis of the QAnon Movement
In this study, we examine the social phenomenon known as 'QAnon'. While QAnon is typically thought of as an exclusively online cultural phenomenon, and thus easily dismissed, it has played a significant role in promoting physical acts of violence-including multiple murders and the attack on the United States Capital on 6 January 2021. Utilizing a qualitative analysis of 300 hours of QAnon-related content, we argue that the widespread beliefs held…
Moving Beyond Underdog Sociology and Toward Critical Interactionism
QAnon, authoritarianism, and conspiracy within American alternative spiritual spaces
This study reminds us that authoritarianism can take root in a variety of spaces, and that within each of us lie potentially fascistic tendencies-even those seeking enlightenment, through alternative practices
Electric Empires: From Countercultural Movement to Corporate Enterprise
This article explores the emergence of the Electronic Dance Music (EDM) subculture, and how it transitioned from being perceived as a deviant subculture into a more legitimate culture industry. Using a historical analysis of documents, interviews with industry professionals, and ethnographic observations at EDM events; we explore the process by which this transition occurred. As we argue, the defining features of the EDM subculture also laid the …
How Sexual Racism and Other Discriminatory Behaviors are Rationalized in Online Dating Apps
Using a multi-sited, multiple methods, and qualitative research design (including participant-observation, in-depth interviews, and analysis of online dating profiles) I examine how users engage in and justify discriminatory actions in the gay dating app "Grindr." This paper also explores how the app allows for new ways that members can engage in these practices by blocking, filtering, and ignoring users. My findings consider the way mobile datin…
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