Social Conventions and Boundary Work in an Online Q&a
The Example of Vegetarianism and Veganism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2392093 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nicklas Neuman (0000-0001-7970-4753, Uppsala University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 609-625 |
| Publication date | 2020-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Research Online (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1360-7804 • E-ISSN: 1360-7804 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1360780419898201 |
| OpenAlex | W3003963874 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 30 |
The aim of this article is to explore the regulation of social conventions (more or less arbitrary norms of how one ought to act that are based on joint commitments) in online interaction. As the empirical case, the article scrutinises discussions about what it means to exercise vegetarianism or veganism. Drawing on 'naturally occurring' data from the question-and-answer platform Yahoo! Answers, conventions of vegetarianism and veganism are argued to be protected and upheld through symbolic boundaries, primarily in three forms: incompatibility, inauthenticity and noncommitment. Moreover, by utilising the platform's system of thumbs-up and thumbs-down, it is argued that we are provided evidence of social approvals and sanctions in real time. The findings are suggested to have implications for continued theorising on conventions, studies of boundaries in the social sciences and analyses of social media as an arena for re-orientations of established sociological problems
Boundary-work · Epistemology · Political science · Sanctions · Social science · Sociology · Digital Marketing and Social Media · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Social and Intergroup Psychology
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Model of the Process of Adopting Vegetarian Diets
Experimental evidence for tipping points in social convention
Economy and Society
Joint Commitment
Social Science Research Methods in Internet Time
Collective Action on the Web
Veganism, Identity and the Quest for Authenticity
Digital social research, social media and the sociological imagination
Consuming conventions
Convention theory in the Anglophone agro-food literature
The unified model of vegetarian identity
Vegetarianism. A blossoming field of study
The psychology of vegetarianism
Notes on the Concept of a Social Convention
Using thematic analysis in psychology
The Division of Labour in Society
The arbitrariness and normativity of social conventions
Seeking Self-Verification
Using asynchronous written online communications for qualitative inquiries
Materially Constituting a Sustainable Food Transition
The Study of Boundaries in the Social Sciences
Market coordination and the making of conventions
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,6 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |