Caroline Plüss
Biographic Data
| ID | 5689140 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Caroline Plüss |
| GIVEN NAMES | Caroline |
| FAMILY NAME | Plüss |
| SIGNATURE | PLÜSS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nanyang Technological University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Transnational Lives in Global Cities: A Multi-Sited Study of Chinese Singaporean Migrants
Chinese migrants in New York: Explaining inequalities with transnational positions and capital conversions in transnational spaces
This article puts forward the concept of ‘transnational positions’ as an important part of a new analytical framework to deconstruct and explain the inequalities that 22 Chinese transnational migrants – who had links to Singapore and who lived in New York – perceived they experienced when attempting to access resources in the transnational spaces they formed by living in several societies. Emphasis is on analyzing their experiences in New York an…
Modeling migrant adaptation: Coping with social strain, assimilation, and non-integration
This article adapts Robert Merton's theory of coping with social strain to revisit the main paradigms in the literature of migrant adaptation. Intersecting this literature with Merton's theory of coping with social strain and the ideas of emergence and resistance, the authors develop five new ideal types of migrant adaptation: (1) migrant conformity through straight-line assimilation; (2) migrant ritualism through multidirectional assimilation; (…
Migrants' social positioning and inequalities: The intersections of capital, locations, and aspirations
This special set of articles promotes new studies and conceptualizations of migrants' social positioning in the contexts that they form by living in new locations, and/or by being simultaneously connected to several locations. In different ways, the contributors explain the migrants' social positioning as consisting of the intersections of the migrants' various forms of capital, the characteristics of the different locations and of the social act…
Living in the Intersections of Cultures, Societies, Emotions, Politics, and Economies: Deterritorializing Culture
Living Intersections: Transnational Migrant Identifications in Asia
Baghdadi Jews in Hong Kong: Converting Cultural, Social and Economic Capital Among Three Transregional Networks
This article is an analysis of the attempts of Baghdadi Jewish traders in Hong Kong in the second half of the nineteenth century to construct and convert cultural, social and economic capital within and between the transregional networks of the Baghdadi diaspora, the Jewish diaspora and the British colonial elite. The analysis of the multiple and multi-directional intersections between the cultural, social and economic characteristics of the thre…
Migration and the Globalization of Religion
Migration and the Globalization of Religion
not available
Reading Pierre Bourdieu in a Dual Context: Essays from India and France
Analysing non-doctrinal socialization: Re-assessing the role of cognition to account for social cohesion in the Religious Society of Friends1
To incorporate newcomers into membership, a group employs socialization strategies to transform the characteristics of the newcomers, so that it can admit them with the confidence that their behaviour will not endanger group unity. Analyses of socialization emphasize that novices' interiorization of an institutional definition of group behaviour is a necessary condition to ensure successful socialization. The contemporary Religious Society of Fri…
Becoming different while becoming the same: Re-territorializing Islamic identities with multi-ethnic practices in Hong Kong
The established consensus in sociology is to explain the transformations of the ethnic identities of migrants through processes by which the migrants combine features they share with co-ethnics with characteristics they adopt from other groups of residents. This conceptualization, however, works on the assumption that it is the differences and contradictions between the elements in the ethnic identities of the migrants, and the characteristics of…
Constructing Globalized Ethnicity: Migrants from India in Hong Kong
This article explores the relationship between the ethnic identities of migrants from India in Hong Kong and their attempts to attain economic and social goals. It argues that Indians did not just adopt the characteristics of the British and Chinese majorities who controlled important access to resources. Rather, Indians sought to negotiate their positions in networks with majorities through constructing ethnic identities as cultural capital comb…
Assimilation versus Idiosyncrasy: Strategic Constructions of Sephardic Identities in Hong Kong
This article analyses how Sephardic traders constructed identities in order to foster their social, political and economic aims in Hong Kong from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth century. It argues that there was no uniform relationship between seeking integration in the colony and assimilating to the characteristics of the British elites who controlled access to important resources. Sephardim formed identities which featured Ang…
Les associations musulmanes de Hong Kong [Création et expression d'une identité collective]: Création et expression d'une identité collective
Chinese participation in the church of Jesus Christ of latter‐day saints (Mormons) in Hong Kong
This paper shows how both intellectual and social factors motivate and sustain Chinese participation in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter‐day Saints (Mormons) in Hong Kong. The data was collected from February 1996 to November 1997. Particular emphasis is placed on understanding how Chinese Mormons experience their church membership. My results show a positive relation between sustained church participation and pre‐Mormon religious involvement…
Contemporary British Quakerism: The relevance of structure and reference to the supernatural for its validity
Contemporary British Quakerism illustrates that the absence of the systématisation of its claims accounts for the reasons why Quakers’ reference to the supernatural is effective in protecting the validity of their beliefs. Examples taken from investigations of other beliefs substantiate the suggestion that examination of the structure of a given religious faith is crucial to our understanding of the processes of its validation. This analysis sugg…
Constructing Globalized Ethnicity: Migrants from India in Hong Kong
This article explores the relationship between the ethnic identities of migrants from India in Hong Kong and their attempts to attain economic and social goals. It argues that Indians did not just adopt the characteristics of the British and Chinese majorities who controlled important access to resources. Rather, Indians sought to negotiate their positions in networks with majorities through constructing ethnic identities as cultural capital comb…
Becoming different while becoming the same: Re-territorializing Islamic identities with multi-ethnic practices in Hong Kong
The established consensus in sociology is to explain the transformations of the ethnic identities of migrants through processes by which the migrants combine features they share with co-ethnics with characteristics they adopt from other groups of residents. This conceptualization, however, works on the assumption that it is the differences and contradictions between the elements in the ethnic identities of the migrants, and the characteristics of…
Modeling migrant adaptation: Coping with social strain, assimilation, and non-integration
This article adapts Robert Merton's theory of coping with social strain to revisit the main paradigms in the literature of migrant adaptation. Intersecting this literature with Merton's theory of coping with social strain and the ideas of emergence and resistance, the authors develop five new ideal types of migrant adaptation: (1) migrant conformity through straight-line assimilation; (2) migrant ritualism through multidirectional assimilation; (…
Analysing non-doctrinal socialization: Re-assessing the role of cognition to account for social cohesion in the Religious Society of Friends1
To incorporate newcomers into membership, a group employs socialization strategies to transform the characteristics of the newcomers, so that it can admit them with the confidence that their behaviour will not endanger group unity. Analyses of socialization emphasize that novices' interiorization of an institutional definition of group behaviour is a necessary condition to ensure successful socialization. The contemporary Religious Society of Fri…
Contemporary British Quakerism: The relevance of structure and reference to the supernatural for its validity
Contemporary British Quakerism illustrates that the absence of the systématisation of its claims accounts for the reasons why Quakers’ reference to the supernatural is effective in protecting the validity of their beliefs. Examples taken from investigations of other beliefs substantiate the suggestion that examination of the structure of a given religious faith is crucial to our understanding of the processes of its validation. This analysis sugg…
Migrants' social positioning and inequalities: The intersections of capital, locations, and aspirations
This special set of articles promotes new studies and conceptualizations of migrants' social positioning in the contexts that they form by living in new locations, and/or by being simultaneously connected to several locations. In different ways, the contributors explain the migrants' social positioning as consisting of the intersections of the migrants' various forms of capital, the characteristics of the different locations and of the social act…
Baghdadi Jews in Hong Kong: Converting Cultural, Social and Economic Capital Among Three Transregional Networks
This article is an analysis of the attempts of Baghdadi Jewish traders in Hong Kong in the second half of the nineteenth century to construct and convert cultural, social and economic capital within and between the transregional networks of the Baghdadi diaspora, the Jewish diaspora and the British colonial elite. The analysis of the multiple and multi-directional intersections between the cultural, social and economic characteristics of the thre…
Assimilation versus Idiosyncrasy: Strategic Constructions of Sephardic Identities in Hong Kong
This article analyses how Sephardic traders constructed identities in order to foster their social, political and economic aims in Hong Kong from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth century. It argues that there was no uniform relationship between seeking integration in the colony and assimilating to the characteristics of the British elites who controlled access to important resources. Sephardim formed identities which featured Ang…
Chinese participation in the church of Jesus Christ of latter‐day saints (Mormons) in Hong Kong
This paper shows how both intellectual and social factors motivate and sustain Chinese participation in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter‐day Saints (Mormons) in Hong Kong. The data was collected from February 1996 to November 1997. Particular emphasis is placed on understanding how Chinese Mormons experience their church membership. My results show a positive relation between sustained church participation and pre‐Mormon religious involvement…
Contemporary British Quakerism: The relevance of structure and reference to the supernatural for its validity
Contemporary British Quakerism illustrates that the absence of the systématisation of its claims accounts for the reasons why Quakers’ reference to the supernatural is effective in protecting the validity of their beliefs. Examples taken from investigations of other beliefs substantiate the suggestion that examination of the structure of a given religious faith is crucial to our understanding of the processes of its validation. This analysis sugg…
Chinese participation in the church of Jesus Christ of latter‐day saints (Mormons) in Hong Kong
This paper shows how both intellectual and social factors motivate and sustain Chinese participation in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter‐day Saints (Mormons) in Hong Kong. The data was collected from February 1996 to November 1997. Particular emphasis is placed on understanding how Chinese Mormons experience their church membership. My results show a positive relation between sustained church participation and pre‐Mormon religious involvement…
Les associations musulmanes de Hong Kong [Création et expression d'une identité collective]: Création et expression d'une identité collective
Assimilation versus Idiosyncrasy: Strategic Constructions of Sephardic Identities in Hong Kong
This article analyses how Sephardic traders constructed identities in order to foster their social, political and economic aims in Hong Kong from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth century. It argues that there was no uniform relationship between seeking integration in the colony and assimilating to the characteristics of the British elites who controlled access to important resources. Sephardim formed identities which featured Ang…
Constructing Globalized Ethnicity: Migrants from India in Hong Kong
This article explores the relationship between the ethnic identities of migrants from India in Hong Kong and their attempts to attain economic and social goals. It argues that Indians did not just adopt the characteristics of the British and Chinese majorities who controlled important access to resources. Rather, Indians sought to negotiate their positions in networks with majorities through constructing ethnic identities as cultural capital comb…
Becoming different while becoming the same: Re-territorializing Islamic identities with multi-ethnic practices in Hong Kong
The established consensus in sociology is to explain the transformations of the ethnic identities of migrants through processes by which the migrants combine features they share with co-ethnics with characteristics they adopt from other groups of residents. This conceptualization, however, works on the assumption that it is the differences and contradictions between the elements in the ethnic identities of the migrants, and the characteristics of…
Analysing non-doctrinal socialization: Re-assessing the role of cognition to account for social cohesion in the Religious Society of Friends1
To incorporate newcomers into membership, a group employs socialization strategies to transform the characteristics of the newcomers, so that it can admit them with the confidence that their behaviour will not endanger group unity. Analyses of socialization emphasize that novices' interiorization of an institutional definition of group behaviour is a necessary condition to ensure successful socialization. The contemporary Religious Society of Fri…
Migration and the Globalization of Religion
Migration and the Globalization of Religion
not available
Reading Pierre Bourdieu in a Dual Context: Essays from India and France
Baghdadi Jews in Hong Kong: Converting Cultural, Social and Economic Capital Among Three Transregional Networks
This article is an analysis of the attempts of Baghdadi Jewish traders in Hong Kong in the second half of the nineteenth century to construct and convert cultural, social and economic capital within and between the transregional networks of the Baghdadi diaspora, the Jewish diaspora and the British colonial elite. The analysis of the multiple and multi-directional intersections between the cultural, social and economic characteristics of the thre…
Living in the Intersections of Cultures, Societies, Emotions, Politics, and Economies: Deterritorializing Culture
Living Intersections: Transnational Migrant Identifications in Asia
Chinese migrants in New York: Explaining inequalities with transnational positions and capital conversions in transnational spaces
This article puts forward the concept of ‘transnational positions’ as an important part of a new analytical framework to deconstruct and explain the inequalities that 22 Chinese transnational migrants – who had links to Singapore and who lived in New York – perceived they experienced when attempting to access resources in the transnational spaces they formed by living in several societies. Emphasis is on analyzing their experiences in New York an…
Modeling migrant adaptation: Coping with social strain, assimilation, and non-integration
This article adapts Robert Merton's theory of coping with social strain to revisit the main paradigms in the literature of migrant adaptation. Intersecting this literature with Merton's theory of coping with social strain and the ideas of emergence and resistance, the authors develop five new ideal types of migrant adaptation: (1) migrant conformity through straight-line assimilation; (2) migrant ritualism through multidirectional assimilation; (…
Migrants' social positioning and inequalities: The intersections of capital, locations, and aspirations
This special set of articles promotes new studies and conceptualizations of migrants' social positioning in the contexts that they form by living in new locations, and/or by being simultaneously connected to several locations. In different ways, the contributors explain the migrants' social positioning as consisting of the intersections of the migrants' various forms of capital, the characteristics of the different locations and of the social act…
Transnational Lives in Global Cities: A Multi-Sited Study of Chinese Singaporean Migrants
Sociology (16 works) · Political science (13 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (9 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Geography (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (7 works) · Economic geography (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Globalization (5 works)