Subcultures
In: Studies in Symbolic Interaction Ser. v.54
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In: Studies in Symbolic Interaction Ser. v.54
In: Social forces: SF ; an international journal of social research associated with the Southern Sociological Society
ISSN: 1534-7605
In: Deviant behavior: an interdisciplinary journal, Band 44, Heft 1, S. 126-142
ISSN: 1521-0456
In: International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, Band 9, Heft 2, S. 200-202
ISSN: 2202-8005
In: The sociological quarterly: TSQ, Band 60, Heft 3, S. 397-419
ISSN: 1533-8525
In: Visual studies, Band 28, Heft 3, S. 299-299
ISSN: 1472-5878
In: Visual studies, Band 28, Heft 2, S. 198-199
ISSN: 1472-5878
In: The journal of popular culture: the official publication of the Popular Culture Association, Band 46, Heft 1, S. 221-222
ISSN: 1540-5931
In: Visual studies, Band 26, Heft 3, S. 274-275
ISSN: 1472-5878
In: Visual studies, Band 24, Heft 3, S. 271-272
ISSN: 1472-5878
In: Critical sociology, Band 48, Heft 6, S. 1049-1071
ISSN: 1569-1632
In this study, we examine the social phenomenon known as 'QAnon'. While QAnon is typically thought of as an exclusively online cultural phenomenon, and thus easily dismissed, it has played a significant role in promoting physical acts of violence—including multiple murders and the attack on the United States Capital on 6 January 2021. Utilizing a qualitative analysis of 300 hours of QAnon-related content, we argue that the widespread beliefs held by QAnon supporters were only possible due to the confluence of feelings of distrust in government and other public officials, purveyors of QAnon that profited in the movement's success, and a populist digital media environment in which extremist ideas are housed and promoted. We conclude by asking if this is a phenomenon created by greater connectivity, or if this is a byproduct of late-stage capitalism in which social relations continue to be atomized.
Preprint ; Much of the body of literature on LGBT+ populations within the United States place urban areas and so-called "gayborhoods" as goals and eventualities, paralleling early U.S. studies on immigration. Using a multi-stage, mixed-methods approach, consisting of secondary analysis of the Pew 2013 Study of LGBT Persons (N=1,197) and in-depth interviews (35 gay men, 2 trans-identifying individuals, 1 heterosexual woman, and 2 lesbians), we found that rural LGBT+ residents engaged in both short-term and long-term travel to mitigate feelings of being spatially segregated from the loci of gay social life--what Ghaziani (2019) refers to as cultural archipelagos. However, rural residents also used their geographical location to resist dominant narratives about LGBT+ life. Some of our respondents felt that living in rural areas better situated them to be activists and advocates for LGBT+ rights, while others simply did not feel they could be comfortable within more urban contexts. These findings suggest that rural LGBT+ residents may have delinked their sexual selves with their cultural and political selves, thus illustrating the plurality of rural queer voices that exists. As we also argue, while residence category should be considered as influencing one's experience, care must be used to avoid overly deterministic accounts. Finally, this paper extends earlier work by Brekhus (2003), Mattson (2015), Ghaziani (2019) by presenting the meaningfulness of travel to and from queer cultural strongholds.
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In: Young: Nordic journal of youth research, Band 28, Heft 5, S. 445-464
ISSN: 1741-3222
This article is an attempt to show the dialectical nature of Guy Debord's (1967/1994, The Society of the Spectacle, Aldgate Press) concept of the spectacle, showing how its employment as a resistance technique by electronic dance music (EDM) subculturalists would also help shape it into a corporately organized culture industry (Horkheimer & Adorno, 1944/1969). In doing so, we show the overlap between the French Internationalist approach and that of the Frankfurt School, and how the combination of these two concepts provides for a more nuanced conceptualization in which the agency of social actors ultimately resulted in the shaping of the subculture into a culture industry. In other words, we attempt to address the critique that the approaches endorsed by both schools are overly deterministic in their approach. We attempt to overcome this limitation by showing how promoters' decisions to compromise with law enforcement agencies resulted in changes drastically altering the music subculture.
In: Deviant behavior: an interdisciplinary journal, Band 44, Heft 7, S. 1063-1080
ISSN: 1521-0456
In: Teaching sociology: TS, Band 50, Heft 1, S. 17-27
ISSN: 1939-862X
In this article, we report on the implementation of using the game Werewolf as a student-centered applied-learning activity to teach symbolic interaction theory and concepts. Engaging with symbolic interaction theory can be a powerful experience for students due to its potential to challenge taken-for-granted assumptions and analyze students' everyday life experiences. However, some students may have difficulty grasping the specific details and overall significance underlying the perspective. Moreover, research has shown that undergraduate students often have significant levels of anxiety when confronted with sociological theory in both introductory and upper division theory courses. We aim to address recommendations to incorporate more active learning approaches to social theory by outlining an applied-learning activity based on the role-playing game Werewolf. In the article, we review Werewolf and provide a step-by-step guide on how to implement the activity in the classroom and summarize findings from student assessments and classroom evaluations.