2 Reading List

2.1 Structure, culture, and the (re)production of community

Blau, Peter M. (1977a). “A Macrosociological Theory of Social Structure”. In: American Journal of Sociology 83.1, pp. 26-54.

--- (1977b). Inequality and Heterogeneity: A Primitive Theory of Social Structure. 1st edition. New York: Free Pr. 307 pp.

Blokland, Talja (2017). Community as Urban Practice. Wiley. 200 pp.

Bourdieu, Pierre (1984a). “Conclusion: Classes and Classification”. In: Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste. Harvard University Press, pp. 466-484.

--- (1984b). “Part II: The Economy of Practices”. In: Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste. Harvard University Press, pp. 97-256.

--- (1991a). “Identity and Representation: Elements for a Critical Reflection in the Idea of Region”. In: Language and Symbolic Power. Ed. by John Thompson. Harvard University Press.

--- (1991b). “On Symbolic Power”. In: Language and Symbolic Power. Ed. by John Thompson. Harvard University Press.

Bourdieu, Pierre, Gisele Sapiro and Brian McHale (1991). “First Lecture. Social Space and Symbolic Space: Introduction to a Japanese Reading of Distinction”. In: Poetics Today 12.4, pp. 627-638. DOI: 10.2307/1772705.

Breiger, Ronald L. (1974). “The Duality of Persons and Groups”. In: Social Forces 53.2, pp. 181-190. DOI: 10.2307/2576011.

Brint, Steven (1992). “Hidden Meanings: Cultural Content and Context in Harrison White’s Structural Sociology”. In: Sociological Theory 10.2, pp. 194-208. DOI: 10.2307/201958.

Brubaker, Rogers, Mara Loveman and Peter Stamatov (2004). “Ethnicity as Cognition”. In: Theory and Society 33.1, pp. 31-64. DOI: 10.1023/B:RYSO.0000021405.18890.63.

Centola, Damon (2015). “The Social Origins of Networks and Diffusion”. In: American Journal of Sociology 120.5, pp. 1295-1338. DOI: 10.1086/681275.

Collins, Randall (2003). “A Network–Location Theory of Culture”. In: Sociological Theory 21.1, pp. 69-73. DOI: 10.1111/1467-9558.00176.

Durkheim, Émile (1997). The Division of Labor in Society. In collab. with W. D. Halls. New York: Free Press.

Emirbayer, Mustafa (1997). “Manifesto for a Relational Sociology”. In: American Journal of Sociology 103.2, pp. 281-317. DOI: 10.1086/231209.

Emirbayer, Mustafa and Jeff Goodwin (1994). “Network Analysis, Culture, and the Problem of Agency”. In: American Journal of Sociology 99.6, pp. 1411-1454.

Erikson, Emily (2013). “Formalist and Relationalist Theory in Social Network Analysis”. In: Sociological Theory 31.3, pp. 219-242. DOI: 10.1177/0735275113501998.

Fine, Gary Alan and Sherryl Kleinman (1983). “Network and Meaning: An Interactionist Approach to Structure”. In: Symbolic Interaction 6.1, pp. 97-110. DOI: 10.1525/si.1983.6.1.97.

Foster, Jacob G. (2018). “Culture and Computation: Steps to a Probably Approximately Correct Theory of Culture”. In: Poetics 68, pp. 144-154. DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2018.04.007.

Foucault, Michel (1998). “Friendship as a Way of Life”. In: Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth. Ed. by Paul Rabinow. 1 edition. New York: The New Press, pp. 135-140.

Friedkin, Noah E. (2004). “Social Cohesion”. In: Annual Review of Sociology 30.1, pp. 409-425. DOI: 10.1146/annurev.soc.30.012703.110625.

Fuhse, Jan A. (2009). “The Meaning Structure of Social Networks”. In: Sociological Theory 27.1, pp. 51-73. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9558.2009.00338.x.

Godart, Frédéric C. and Harrison C. White (2010). “Switchings under Uncertainty: The Coming and Becoming of Meanings”. In: Poetics 38.6, pp. 567-586. DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2010.09.003.

Goldberg, Amir (2011). “Mapping Shared Understandings Using Relational Class Analysis: The Case of the Cultural Omnivore Reexamined”. In: American Journal of Sociology 116.5, pp. 1397-1436. DOI: 10.1086/657976.

Goldberg, Amir and Sarah K. Stein (2018). “Beyond Social Contagion: Associative Diffusion and the Emergence of Cultural Variation”. In: American Sociological Review, p. 0003122418797576. DOI: 10.1177/0003122418797576.

Gondal, Neha and Paul D. McLean (2013). “Linking Tie-Meaning with Network Structure: Variable Connotations of Personal Lending in a Multiple-Network Ecology”. In: Poetics 41.2, pp. 122-150. DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2012.12.002.

Granovetter, Mark (1973). “The Strength of Weak Ties”. In: American Journal of Sociology 78.6, pp. 1360-1380.

--- (1985). “Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness”. In: American Journal of Sociology 91.3, pp. 481-510.

Healy, Kieran (2015). “The Performativity of Networks”. In: European Journal of Sociology 56.02, pp. 175-205. DOI: 10.1017/S0003975615000107.

Hwang, Jackelyn (2016). “The Social Construction of a Gentrifying Neighborhood: Reifying and Redefining Identity and Boundaries in Inequality”. In: Urban Affairs Review 52.1, pp. 98-128. DOI: 10.1177/1078087415570643.

Jenkins, Richard (1994). “Rethinking Ethnicity: Identity, Categorization and Power”. In: Ethnic & Racial Studies 17.2, p. 197.

Kovács, Balázs (2010). “A Generalized Model of Relational Similarity”. In: Social Networks 32.3, pp. 197-211. DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2010.02.001.

Lee, Monica and John Levi Martin (2018). “Doorway to the Dharma of Duality”. In: Poetics 68, pp. 18-30. DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2018.01.001.

Lemert, Charles C. (1979). “Language, Structure, and Measurement: Structuralist Semiotics and Sociology”. In: American Journal of Sociology 84.4, pp. 929-957.

Lewis, Kevin and Jason Kaufman (2018). “The Conversion of Cultural Tastes into Social Network Ties”. In: American Journal of Sociology 123.6, pp. 1684-1742. DOI: 10.1086/697525.

Lizardo, Omar (2006). “How Cultural Tastes Shape Personal Networks”. In: American Sociological Review 71.5, pp. 778-807. DOI: 10.1177/000312240607100504.

Martin, John Levi (2000). “What Do Animals Do All Day?: The Division of Labor, Class Bodies, and Totemic Thinking in the Popular Imagination”. In: Poetics 27.2, pp. 195-231. DOI: 10.1016/S0304-422X(99)00025-X.

--- (2009). Social Structures. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

--- (2010). “Life’s a Beach but You’re an Ant, and Other Unwelcome News for the Sociology of Culture”. In: Poetics 38.2, pp. 229-244. DOI: 10.1016/j.poetic.2009.11.004.

--- (2018). “Getting off the Cartesian Clothesline”. In: Sociological Theory 36.2, pp. 194-200. DOI: 10.1177/0735275118776996.

McPherson, Miller, Lynn Smith-Lovin and James M. Cook (2001). “Birds of a Feather: Homophily in Social Networks”. In: Annual Review of Sociology 27, pp. 415-444.

Mische, Ann and Harrison White (1998). “Between Conversation and Situation: Public Switching Dynamics across Network Domains”. In: Social Research 65.3, pp. 695-724.

Mohr, John W. (1998). “Measuring Meaning Structures”. In: Annual Review of Sociology 24.1, pp. 345-370. DOI: 10.1146/annurev.soc.24.1.345.

Moody, James and Jonathan Coleman (2015). “Clustering and Cohesion in Networks: Concepts and Measures”. In: International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (Second Edition). Ed. by James D. Wright. Oxford: Elsevier, pp. 906-912. DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.43112-0.

Mützel, Sophie (2009). “Networks as Culturally Constituted Processes A Comparison of Relational Sociology and Actor-Network Theory”. In: Current Sociology 57.6, pp. 871-887. DOI: 10.1177/0011392109342223.

Orne, Jason (2017). Boystown: Sex and Community in Chicago. Chicago ; London: University of Chicago Press. 288 pp.

Pachucki, Mark A. and Ronald L. Breiger (2010). “Cultural Holes: Beyond Relationality in Social Networks and Culture”. In: Annual Review of Sociology 36.1, pp. 205-224. DOI: 10.1146/annurev.soc.012809.102615.

Padgett, John F. and Christopher K. Ansell (1993). “Robust Action and the Rise of the Medici, 1400-1434”. In: American Journal of Sociology 98.6, pp. 1259-1319.

Rytina, Steve and David L. Morgan (1982). “The Arithmetic of Social Relations: The Interplay of Category and Network”. In: American Journal of Sociology 88.1, pp. 88-113. DOI: 10.1086/227635.

Sewell, William H. (1992). “A Theory of Structure: Duality, Agency, and Transformation”. In: American Journal of Sociology 98.1, pp. 1-29.

Silver, Allan (1990). “Friendship in Commercial Society: Eighteenth-Century Social Theory and Modern Sociology”. In: American Journal of Sociology 95.6, pp. 1474-1504.

Somers, Margaret R. (1994). “The Narrative Constitution of Identity: A Relational and Network Approach”. In: Theory and Society 23.5, pp. 605-649.

Tönnies, Ferdinand (2001). Community and Civil Society. Ed. by Jose Harris. Trans. by Margaret Hollis. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press. 320 pp.

Vaisey, Stephen (2007). “Structure, Culture, and Community: The Search for Belonging in 50 Urban Communes”. In: American Sociological Review 72.6, pp. 851-873.

Vaisey, Stephen and Omar Lizardo (2010). “Can Cultural Worldviews Influence Network Composition?” In: Social Forces 88.4, pp. 1595-1618. DOI: 10.1353/sof.2010.0009.

Vilhena, Daril, Jacob Foster, Martin Rosvall, et al. (2014). “Finding Cultural Holes: How Structure and Culture Diverge in Networks of Scholarly Communication”. In: Sociological Science 1, pp. 221-238. DOI: 10.15195/v1.a15.

Weber, Max (1946). “Class, Status, Party”. In: From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology. Ed. by Hans Heinrich Gerth and C. Wright Mills. New York: Oxford University Press.

Wellman, Barry (1979). “The Community Question: The Intimate Networks of East Yorkers”. In: American Journal of Sociology 84.5, pp. 1201-1231.

Wellman, Barry and Scot Wortley (1990). “Different Strokes from Different Folks: Community Ties and Social Support”. In: American Journal of Sociology 96.3, pp. 558-588.

White, Harrison C. (2008). “Notes on the Constituents of Social Structure. Soc. Rel. 10 - Spring ’65”. In: Sociologica, pp. 0-0. DOI: 10.2383/26576.

--- (2012). Identity and Control: How Social Formations Emerge. 2nd. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Zerubavel, Eviatar (2002). “The Fine Line: Making Distinctions in Everyday Life”. In: Cultural Sociology. Ed. by Lyn Spillman. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 223-232.

2.2 Practices of inclusion and exclusion

Armstrong, Elizabeth (2002). Forging Gay Identities: Organizing Sexuality in San Francisco, 1950-1994. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo (2019). “Feeling Race: Theorizing the Racial Economy of Emotions”. In: American Sociological Review 84.1, pp. 1-25.

Borer, Michael Ian (2006). “The Location of Culture: The Urban Culturalist Perspective”. In: City & Community 5.2, pp. 173-197. DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6040.2006.00168.x.

Brown-Saracino, Japonica (2011). “From the Lesbian Ghetto to Ambient Community: The Perceived Costs and Benefits of Integration for Community”. In: Social Problems 58.3, pp. 361-388. DOI: 10.1525/sp.2011.58.3.361.

--- (2017). How Places Make Us: Novel LBQ Identities in Four Small Cities. 1st ed. Chicago ; London: University of Chicago Press. 352 pp.

Butler, Judith (2004a). “Bodies and Power Revisited”. In: Feminism and the Final Foucault. Ed. by D. Taylor and K. Vintges. University of Illinois Press, pp. 183-196.

--- (2004b). Undoing Gender. New York ; London: Routledge.

Certeau, Michel de (2011). The Practice of Everyday Life. Trans. by Steven Rendall. Third edition. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press. 256 pp.

Collins, Randall (2004). Interaction Ritual Chains. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Douglas, Mary (1966). Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo. Routledge & K. Paul. 212 pp.

Du Bois, W. E. B. (1995). “Of Our Spiritual Strivings”. In: W.E.B. Du Bois: A Reader. Ed. by David L. Lewis. 1st ed.. New York: HHolt and Co.

Durkheim, Émile (2001). The Elementary Forms of Religious Life. In collab. with Mark Sydney Cladis. Trans. by Carol Cosman. Oxford University Press. 420 pp.

Eliasoph, Nina (1998). Avoiding Politics: How Americans Produce Apathy in Everyday Life. Cambridge University Press. 350 pp.

Eliasoph, Nina and Paul Lichterman (2003). “Culture in Interaction”. In: American Journal of Sociology 108.4, pp. 735-794. DOI: 10.1086/367920.

Fine, Gary Alan (2012). “Group Culture and the Interaction Order: Local Sociology on the Meso-Level”. In: Annual Review of Sociology 38.1, pp. 159-179. DOI: 10.1146/annurev-soc-071811-145518.

Foucault, Michel (1990). The History of Sexuality: An Introduction. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. 116 pp.

Goffman, Erving (1963). Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall.

Guenther, Katya M. and Kerry Mulligan (2013). “From the Outside In: Crossing Boundaries to Build Collective Identity in the New Atheist Movement”. In: Social Problems 60.4, pp. 457-475. DOI: 10.1525/sp.2013.60.4.457.

Held, Nina (2017). “‘They Look at You like an Insect That Wants to Be Squashed’: An Ethnographic Account of the Racialized Sexual Spaces of Manchester’s Gay Village”. In: Sexualities 20.5-6, pp. 535-557. DOI: 10.1177/1363460716676988.

Horowitz, Adam and Charles J. Gomez (2018). “Identity Override: How Sexual Orientation Reduces the Rigidity of Racial Boundaries”. In: Sociological Science 5, pp. 669-693. DOI: 10.15195/v5.a28.

Kumar, Srijan, William L. Hamilton, Jure Leskovec, et al. (2018). “Community Interaction and Conflict on the Web”. In: Proceedings of the 2018 World Wide Web Conference on World Wide Web - WWW ’18. The 2018 World Wide Web Conference. Ed. by International World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee. Lyon, France: ACM Press, pp. 933-943. DOI: 10.1145/3178876.3186141.

Legewie, Joscha and Merlin Schaeffer (2016). “Contested Boundaries: Explaining Where Ethnoracial Diversity Provokes Neighborhood Conflict”. In: American Journal of Sociology 122.1, pp. 125-161. DOI: 10.1086/686942.

Mahmood, Saba (2001). “Feminist Theory, Embodiment, and the Docile Agent: Some Reflections on the Egyptian Islamic Revival”. In: Cultural Anthropology 16.2, pp. 202-236. DOI: 10.1525/can.2001.16.2.202.

Marx, Karl (1972). “On the Jewish Question”. In: The Marx-Engels Reader. Ed. by Robert C. Tucker. New York, Norton.

Moon, Dawne (2012). “Who Am I and Who Are We? Conflicting Narratives of Collective Selfhood in Stigmatized Groups”. In: American Journal of Sociology 117.5, pp. 1336-1379. DOI: 10.1086/663327.

Nash, Jennifer (2011). “Practicing Love: Black Feminism, Love-Politics, and Post-Intersectionality”. In: Meridians 11.2, p. 1. DOI: 10.2979/meridians.11.2.1.

Nash, Jennifer C. (2008). “Re-Thinking Intersectionality”. In: Feminist Review, pp. 1-15.

Pfeffer, Carla A. (2014). ““I Don’t Like Passing as a Straight Woman”: Queer Negotiations of Identity and Social Group Membership". In: American Journal of Sociology 120.1, pp. 1-44. DOI: 10.1086/677197.

Puar, Jasbir K. (2012). "“I Would Rather Be a Cyborg than a Goddess”: Becoming-Intersectional in Assemblage Theory". In: PhiloSOPHIA 2.1, pp. 49-66.

Simmel, Georg (1971). “The Stranger”. In: Georg Simmel on Individuality and Social Forms. Ed. by Donald Levine. Chicago, University of Chicago Press.

Star, Susan Leigh and James R. Griesemer (1989). “Institutional Ecology, ‘Translations’ and Boundary Objects: Amateurs and Professionals in Berkeley’s Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 1907-39”. In: Social Studies of Science 19.3, pp. 387-420.

Swidler, Ann (1986). “Culture in Action: Symbols and Strategies”. In: American Sociological Review 51.2, p. 273. DOI: 10.2307/2095521.

Tavory, Iddo (2016). Summoned: Identification and Religious Life in a Jewish Neighborhood. University of Chicago Press. 224 pp.

Winchester, Daniel (2016). “A Hunger for God: Embodied Metaphor as Cultural Cognition in Action”. In: Social Forces 95.2, pp. 585-606. DOI: 10.1093/sf/sow065.

Wirth, Louis (1928). The Ghetto. Transaction. 306 pp.

Wynter, Sylvia (2003). “Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom: Towards the Human, after Man, Its Overrepresentation–An Argument”. In: CR: The new centennial review 3.3, pp. 257-337.

Zerubavel, Eviatar (2018). Taken for Granted: The Remarkable Power of the Unremarkable. Princeton ; Oxford: Princeton University Press. 160 pp.

2.3 Changes and consequences

Anderson, Benedict (2016). Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. Verso. 240 pp.

Baldassarri, Delia and Mario Diani (2007). “The Integrative Power of Civic Networks”. In: American Journal of Sociology 113.3, pp. 735-780. DOI: 10.1086/521839.

Collins, Patricia Hill (2010). “The New Politics of Community”. In: American Sociological Review 75.1, pp. 7-30. DOI: 10.1177/0003122410363293.

D’Emilio, John (1992). “Capitalism and Gay Identity”. In: John D’Emilio. Making Trouble: Essays on Gay History, Politics, and the University. New York: Routledge.

Driskell, Robyn Bateman and Larry Lyon (2002). “Are Virtual Communities True Communities? Examining the Environments and Elements of Community”. In: City & Community 1.4, pp. 373-390. DOI: 10.1111/1540-6040.00031.

Fischer, Claude S. (1975). “Toward a Subcultural Theory of Urbanism”. In: American Journal of Sociology 80.6, pp. 1319-1341.

--- (1992). America Calling: A Social History of the Telephone to 1940. University of California Press. 448 pp.

Greene, Theodore (2014). “Gay Neighborhoods and the Rights of the Vicarious Citizen”. In: City & Community 13.2, pp. 99-118. DOI: 10.1111/cico.12059.

Hampton, Keith and Barry Wellman (2003). “Neighboring in Netville: How the Internet Supports Community and Social Capital in a Wired Suburb”. In: City & Community 2.4, pp. 277-311. DOI: 10.1046/j.1535-6841.2003.00057.x.

Jacobs, Jane (1961). The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Random House. 480 pp.

Joseph, Miranda (2002). Against the Romance of Community. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Kusenbach, Margarethe (2008). “A Hierarchy of Urban Communities: Observations on the Nested Character of Place”. In: City & Community 7.3, pp. 225-249. DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6040.2008.00259.x.

Lichterman, Paul (1996). The Search for Political Community: American Activists Reinventing Commitment. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press. 292 pp.

--- (1999). “Talking Identity in the Public Sphere: Broad Visions and Small Spaces in Sexual Identity Politics”. In: Theory and Society 28.1, pp. 101-141.

Logan, John R. (2012). “Making a Place for Space: Spatial Thinking in Social Science”. In: Annual Review of Sociology 38.1, pp. 507-524. DOI: 10.1146/annurev-soc-071811-145531.

Mok, Diana and Barry Wellman (2007). “Did Distance Matter before the Internet?: Interpersonal Contact and Support in the 1970s”. In: Social Networks 29.3, pp. 430-461. DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2007.01.009.

Parigi, Paolo, Bogdan State, Diana Dakhlallah, et al. (2013). “A Community of Strangers: The Dis-Embedding of Social Ties”. In: PLoS ONE 8.7. Ed. by Tobias Preis, p. e67388. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0067388.

Putnam, Robert D. (2001). Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community. Simon and Schuster. 550 pp.

Putnam, Robert D, Robert Leonardi and Raffaella Y. Nanetti (1994). Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy. 1 edition. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 258 pp.

Rheingold, Howard (2000). The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier. 2 edition. The MIT Press. 447 pp.

Simmel, Georg (1971). “The Metropolis and Mental Life”. In: Georg Simmel on Individuality and Social Forms. Ed. by Donald Levine. Chicago, University of Chicago Press.

Spiro, Emma S, Zack W. Almquist and Carter T. Butts (2016). “The Persistence of Division: Geography, Institutions, and Online Friendship Ties”. In: Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World 2, p. 2378023116634340. DOI: 10.1177/2378023116634340.

Tufekci, Zeynep (2017). Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest. OCLC: ocn961312425. New Haven ; London: Yale University Press. 326 pp.

Walton, Emily (2018). “The Meaning of Community in Diverse Neighborhoods: Stratification of Influence and Mental Health”. In: Health & Place 50, pp. 6-15. DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2018.01.001.

Wellman, Barry (2001). “Physical Place and Cyberplace: The Rise of Personalized Networking”. In: International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 25.2, pp. 227-252. DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.00309.

Wirth, Louis (1938). “Urbanism as a Way of Life”. In: American Journal of Sociology 44.1, pp. 1-24.