W Charles
Biographic Data
| ID | 6245 |
|---|---|
| NAME | W Charles |
| GIVEN NAMES | W |
| FAMILY NAME | Charles |
| SIGNATURE | CHARLES W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Miami University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3274-7240 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1963 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Identity in the Gig Economy: Aspiration, Deidentification, and Collective Solidarity Among Platform Couriers
This article examines how platform couriers construct occupational identity and why shared platform conditions do not reliably generate community or collective action. Drawing on 26 in‐depth interviews conducted in 2014–2015, alongside observations of two worker onboarding sessions and non‐participant observation in two private courier Facebook groups, I analyze identity as a set of cultural strategies shaped by economic dependence and classed re…
Distinction at Work: Status Practices in A Community Production Environment
While it is well established that bureaucratic organizations channel status competitions into formal hierarchies, status competitions in nonhierarchical organizational contexts are less well understood. Using a Bourdieusian analysis of practices of status distinction, we analyze the case of an organization that is structurally flat, in order to investigate how status hierarchies and ascribed inequalities are produced and reproduced in a context w…
Global Capital and Amphibian Extinctions: Ecologically Unequal Exchange with Colonial and Neocolonial Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka has the highest number of recorded amphibian extinctions and most of the island’s remaining amphibian species are threatened with extinction. From a critical political-economic perspective that integrates previously disconnected lines of analysis in herpetological conservation, development, land use change, and colonial and neocolonial histories, we argue that these extinctions and extinction risks should not be understood as a localize…
Making the collectivist organization: Creativity, conformity, and social closure
Derailed and Denaturalized: The Case of East Palestine, Ohio
This study analyzes public discourse on the East Palestine, Ohio train derailment through online interactions in a community Facebook group. Using a critical discourse analysis framework, we explore how residents framed the disaster, engaged with competing narratives, and navigated scientific and political information. Our findings challenge the assumptions of moral panic and risk society perspectives, which often depict the public as irrational …
Post‐Legitimate Society
We explore the role of moral, cognitive, and pragmatic legitimacy in reproducing the organization of two on‐demand labor platforms for couriers. Labor platforms are ideal cases to explore questions of legitimacy and institutional reproduction because they aspire towards automaticity. Since the 1970s, with the emergence of new production technologies and organizational forms, labor and work scholars have predicted a shift from the use of direct, c…
The technicization of knowledge: Georges Gurvitch’s warnings applied to the case of nudge
For over a century, social theorists have analyzed how technical thinking and knowledge have colonized forms of thinking and knowledge for which they are unfit, and become valued for their own sake, rather than being treated as a means to an end. Georges Gurvitch made important contributions to this line of thought. This paper explicates Gurvitch's sociology of knowledge, focusing on his argument that managerial-capitalist societies have a struct…
A sociology of “climatage”: The appeal and counterproductivity of property destruction as a climate change strategy
Calls for the use of property destruction as a climate change strategy are understandable given social conditions that make such ‘climatage’ appealing, including the chronic failure of institutions to address climate change and the widespread sense that these institutions are illegitimate and will continue to fail to act (post-legitimacy); the inability of atomized individuals to successfully transform the forces driving climate change (real help…
Law, Language and Communication
News of the Association
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Consumer Credit Protection Legislation in Nova Scotia
Detention of the Mentally Disordered
Mental Health Legislation in the Maritime Provinces
Post‐Legitimate Society
We explore the role of moral, cognitive, and pragmatic legitimacy in reproducing the organization of two on‐demand labor platforms for couriers. Labor platforms are ideal cases to explore questions of legitimacy and institutional reproduction because they aspire towards automaticity. Since the 1970s, with the emergence of new production technologies and organizational forms, labor and work scholars have predicted a shift from the use of direct, c…
A sociology of “climatage”: The appeal and counterproductivity of property destruction as a climate change strategy
Calls for the use of property destruction as a climate change strategy are understandable given social conditions that make such ‘climatage’ appealing, including the chronic failure of institutions to address climate change and the widespread sense that these institutions are illegitimate and will continue to fail to act (post-legitimacy); the inability of atomized individuals to successfully transform the forces driving climate change (real help…
Mental Health Legislation in the Maritime Provinces
Detention of the Mentally Disordered
Consumer Credit Protection Legislation in Nova Scotia
News of the Association
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Law, Language and Communication
A sociology of “climatage”: The appeal and counterproductivity of property destruction as a climate change strategy
Calls for the use of property destruction as a climate change strategy are understandable given social conditions that make such ‘climatage’ appealing, including the chronic failure of institutions to address climate change and the widespread sense that these institutions are illegitimate and will continue to fail to act (post-legitimacy); the inability of atomized individuals to successfully transform the forces driving climate change (real help…
Post‐Legitimate Society
We explore the role of moral, cognitive, and pragmatic legitimacy in reproducing the organization of two on‐demand labor platforms for couriers. Labor platforms are ideal cases to explore questions of legitimacy and institutional reproduction because they aspire towards automaticity. Since the 1970s, with the emergence of new production technologies and organizational forms, labor and work scholars have predicted a shift from the use of direct, c…
The technicization of knowledge: Georges Gurvitch’s warnings applied to the case of nudge
For over a century, social theorists have analyzed how technical thinking and knowledge have colonized forms of thinking and knowledge for which they are unfit, and become valued for their own sake, rather than being treated as a means to an end. Georges Gurvitch made important contributions to this line of thought. This paper explicates Gurvitch's sociology of knowledge, focusing on his argument that managerial-capitalist societies have a struct…
Distinction at Work: Status Practices in A Community Production Environment
While it is well established that bureaucratic organizations channel status competitions into formal hierarchies, status competitions in nonhierarchical organizational contexts are less well understood. Using a Bourdieusian analysis of practices of status distinction, we analyze the case of an organization that is structurally flat, in order to investigate how status hierarchies and ascribed inequalities are produced and reproduced in a context w…
Global Capital and Amphibian Extinctions: Ecologically Unequal Exchange with Colonial and Neocolonial Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka has the highest number of recorded amphibian extinctions and most of the island’s remaining amphibian species are threatened with extinction. From a critical political-economic perspective that integrates previously disconnected lines of analysis in herpetological conservation, development, land use change, and colonial and neocolonial histories, we argue that these extinctions and extinction risks should not be understood as a localize…
Making the collectivist organization: Creativity, conformity, and social closure
Derailed and Denaturalized: The Case of East Palestine, Ohio
This study analyzes public discourse on the East Palestine, Ohio train derailment through online interactions in a community Facebook group. Using a critical discourse analysis framework, we explore how residents framed the disaster, engaged with competing narratives, and navigated scientific and political information. Our findings challenge the assumptions of moral panic and risk society perspectives, which often depict the public as irrational …
Identity in the Gig Economy: Aspiration, Deidentification, and Collective Solidarity Among Platform Couriers
This article examines how platform couriers construct occupational identity and why shared platform conditions do not reliably generate community or collective action. Drawing on 26 in‐depth interviews conducted in 2014–2015, alongside observations of two worker onboarding sessions and non‐participant observation in two private courier Facebook groups, I analyze identity as a set of cultural strategies shaped by economic dependence and classed re…
Political science (8 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Management and Organizational Studies (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (2 works) · Digital Economy and Work Transformation (2 works) · Engineering (2 works)