Browsing FAS Scholarly Articles by Keyword "boundaries"
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African Americans respond to stigmatization: the meanings and salience of confronting, deflecting conflict, educating the ignorant and ‘managing the self’
(Routledge, 2012)Drawing on interviews with 150 randomly sampled African Americans, we analyse how members of a stigmatized group understand their experience of stigmatization and assess appropriate responses when asked about the best ... -
How Has Bourdieu Been Good to Think With? The Case of the United States
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2012)The essay discusses the impact of Bourdieu on modern U.S. sociology. Specifically, I offer five observations about the reception and adoption of Bourdieu by U.S. sociologists from the perspective of someone who was involved ... -
What is Disease? In Memory of Owsei Temkin
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003)This essay outlines a contextual approach to disease (and thus medicine) in society. The work of Owsei Temkin is retrospectively evaluated and shown to rest on an assumed (if often implicit) contextualism. The key components ...