iGSLR: personalized geo-social location recommendation

This article connects sociological analyses of race to sexuality to rethink the teaching of the sociology of sexualities. Through the use of the image of the sea, I locate whiteness as a root for the challenges in current pedagogical approaches at my institution, knowing that it is merely an example of multiple others facing similar problems at the structural level. Using autoethnography as a method to illustrate personal experiences in the classroom and the institution, I engage in two interrelated topics that structure this article. First, I explore how teaching sexualities studies from a sociological angle requires teaching about power. In the second part, I delve into how a neoliberal engagement with individualism and students’ singular social location influence the potential in students’ learning. The discussion and concluding parts propose thinking through some of the previous teaching on the sociology of sexualities to create it anew.

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Producing deflective online strategies: Lessons from New Zealand women’s management of social media engagement

Information Polity ◽

10.3233/ip-210320 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-16

Author(s):

Sarah Hendrica Bickerton ◽

Karl Löfgren

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

New Zealand ◽

Public Engagement ◽

Analytical Approach ◽

Gender Effect ◽

Social Location ◽

Strategic Approach ◽

Online Strategies ◽

Twitter Users ◽

Different Levels

Public engagement is a gendered experience, whether offline or online, something which is reflected in women’s experiences of social media. In this article, we seek to systematically explore the experiences from politically engaged women twitter users in New Zealand in order to draw some lessons, through a thematic and interpretative analytical approach, at four different strategic levels on how to deflect intimidating and aggressive behaviour. We conclude that understanding strategically how structural social locations like gender effect the ability to contribute to political participation and engagement, if addressed, can produce more inclusive and productive online political and policy spaces. Further, this strategic approach involves connecting together different levels of response to online negativity such as platform tools, space-curation, and monitoring, having these made coherent with each other, as well as with this strategic understanding of how structural social location plays into access and use of online political and policy spaces.

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Class Imagery and Subjective Social Location During Iceland’s Economic Crisis, 2008–2010

Sociological Focus ◽

10.1080/00380237.2017.1341251 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 51 (1) ◽

pp. 14-30 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Guðmundur Oddsson

Keyword(s):

Economic Crisis ◽

Social Location

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Interlocking migrant illegalization with other markers of social location: The experiences of Mexican migrants moving and working in Toronto

Women s Studies International Forum ◽

10.1016/j.wsif.2014.05.004 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 48 ◽

pp. 185-193

Author(s):

Paloma E. Villegas

Keyword(s):

Social Location ◽

Mexican Migrants

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The Social Characterizations of Price: The Fool, the Faithful, the Frivolous, and the Frugal

Sociological Theory ◽

10.1111/j.1467-9558.2008.00334.x ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 26 (4) ◽

pp. 363-379 ◽

Cited By ~ 25

Author(s):

Frederick F. Wherry

Keyword(s):

Reference Point ◽

Systematic Approach ◽

Social Location ◽

Social Meaning ◽

Ideal Types ◽

The Social ◽

Social Meanings ◽

Meaning Systems ◽

Pricing System ◽

Meaning Of Money

This article extends both Viviana Zelizer's discussion of the social meaning of money and Charles Smith's proposal that pricing is a definitional practice to the under-theorized realm of the social meanings generated in the pricing system. Individuals are attributed with calculating or not calculating whether an object or service is “worth” its price, but these attributions differ according to the individual's social location as being near to or far from a societal reference point rather than by the inherent qualities of the object or service purchased. Prices offer seemingly objective (quantitative) proof of the individual's “logic of appropriateness”—in other words, people like that pay prices such as those. This article sketches a preliminary but nonexhaustive typology of the social characterizations of individuals within the pricing system; these ideal types—the fool, the faithful, the frugal, and the frivolous—and their components offer a systematic approach to understanding prices as embedded in and constituents of social meaning systems.

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