Interpellative Styles

Choreographies of Identity Disruptions and Repairs

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ID2364005
AuthorsT P Winfield (0000-0002-2311-7928, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume40
Issue4
Pages342-365
Publication date2022-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSociological Theory (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0735-2751 • E-ISSN: 1467-9558
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/07352751221117509
OpenAlexW4292486230
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited52

Drawing on ethnographic research with two Orthodox Jewish outreach organizations, this article conceptualizes interpellative styles and offers a framework to analyze how styles are variously situated, mediated, performed, and disruptive. I mobilize a micro-interactional approach to parse out how these four dimensions shape ideological recruitment and their roles in the choreographies of identity disruptions and repairs. The two case studies illuminate why and how groups deploy different interpellative styles and what elements shape whether styles are (in)effective. In these ways, the article contributes to scholarship on how people become persuaded to take on new identities and provides insight into the resistance and failures groups encounter when attempting to interpellate others. I conclude with a discussion of how a theory of interpellative styles can be applied more broadly and used to investigate the overlap between cultural, physiological, and psychological processes in identity formation and alteration

Aesthetics · Epistemology · Ethnography · Identity (music · Ideology · Political science · Resistance (ecology · Scholarship · Situated · Sociology · Anthropology · Computer Science · Law · Psychology · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Power and Status Dynamics · Social Psychology

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