This panel offers new dimensions of the long tradition of phenomenology and phenomenological research within sociology and social theory. This panel specifically draws on the temporal and historicist aspect of phenomenology and translates temporal sensibilities [...]
Pragmatist sociology refers in the first instance to work associated with the French Groupe de sociologie politique et morale (GSPM), with Luc Boltanski and Laurent Thévenot as its most prominent figures. Research by members of [...]
Memory is a cognitive faculty, an embodied experience, and a collective representation. In today’s memory studies boom, considerable emphasis has been placed on singling memory as either collective or individual in stark opposition to the [...]
Networks, fields, figurations, discursive formations: these and other relational ideas have gained widespread currency in contemporary sociology, and a distinct relational sociology has been on the rise over the past decade and a half. But [...]
The status of “theory” in sociology remains ambiguous. For some, “theory” is basically a toolbox: researchers are free to pick and choose any concepts they like according to their immediate purposes or needs. Theory then [...]