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ASA Theory Section @asatheory.bsky.social · Aug 21
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Dr Yuchen Yang @dr-yang.bsky.social · 27d
After 3 years, 14 drafts, and 3 paper awards, I finally published this paper on the semiotics of (un)doing gender in my favorite journal—Sociological Theory! @sociologicaltheory.bsky.social
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Sociological Theory - Original Article Gender Uptake: Theorizing the Semiotics of (Un)Doing Gender Yuchen Yang Abstract “Doing Gender” is often read as a theory of how people signify femininity/masculinity via expressive “performances.” This prevailing interpretation falls short of what the theory calls for—an ethnomethodologically informed analysis of gender’s emergent “naturalness.” To further this agenda, I theorize the audience’s “gender uptake” as a central component of doing gender by elaborating ethnomethodology’s attention to interpretive acts. Integrating Dorothy Smith’s intellectual legacy for feminist interpretive sociology, ethnomethodology’s neglected insight on categorization, and cultural sociology’s recent rediscovery of Peircean semiotics, I argue the facticity of gender’s “naturalness” remains underdetermined until the audience makes a series of ideological moves that cannot be predetermined by the performer. With case studies of how feminist parents account for their children’s gender-stereotypical interests, I illustrate how this audience-centered approach helps us unpack the interactional production/naturalization of categorical differences processually as open-ended negotiation of sign relations, where meaning emerges from selective attention. Keywords accounts, categorization, childhood, doing gender, ethnomethodology, pragmatist semiotics
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Cihan Tugal @cihantugal.bsky.social · 4d
My sociological explanation of the recent surge of violence against Palestinians, Alawites, and the Druze ... coming up as a part of this panel:
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ASA Theory Section @asatheory.bsky.social · Aug 21
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ASA Theory Section @asatheory.bsky.social · Aug 21
And a special shoutout to our honorable mentions: @yuvalfeinstein.bsky.social, Amanda R. Cheong, @motorres.bsky.social, and @carlosariego.bsky.social
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ASA Theory Section @asatheory.bsky.social · Aug 21
Congratulations to this year’s awardees: Barbara Kiviat, @mintytem.bsky.social, @dr-yang.bsky.social, Jacob W. Richardson, and @tylerleeds.bsky.social!
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ASA Theory Section @asatheory.bsky.social · Aug 21
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ASA Theory Section @asatheory.bsky.social · Jan 14
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ASA Theory Section @asatheory.bsky.social · Dec 15
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ASA Theory Section @asatheory.bsky.social · Dec 15
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ASA Theory Section @asatheory.bsky.social · Dec 13
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · Dec 12
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ASA Theory Section @asatheory.bsky.social · Dec 11
It’s that time of year again — the call for papers for the Junior Theorists Symposium is live! Submit your précis here: bit.ly/jts2025
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