This paper contributes to a critical methodological discussion that has direct ramifications for
policy studies: how computational methods can be concretely incorporated into existing …

Radical-right campaigns commonly employ three discursive elements: anti-elite populism,
exclusionary and declinist nationalism, and authoritarianism. Recent scholarship has …

Sociologists frequently make use of language as data in their research using methodologies
including open-ended surveys, in-depth interviews, and content analyses. Unfortunately, the …

Environmental sociology is a growing field producing a diverse body of literature while also
moving into the mainstream of the larger discipline. The twin goals of this paper are to …

This paper investigates how unsupervised machine learning methods might make
hermeneutic interpretive text analysis more objective in the social sciences. Through a close …

In order to propose a repositioning toolkit, this research addresses the essence of the
daytime tourism milieu of the Hungarian capital Budapest's nightly party zone and …

Culture, in the sense of meanings and their embodiments, is crucial to the emergence of
protest. First, culture is a kind of shared common sense about how institutions do and should …

This article discusses (a) sustained critiques of framing theory and of collective action
frames,(b) the development and implications of a dialogic and relational alternative, and (c) …

The proliferation of cultural objects, such as music, books, film, and websites, has created a
new problem: How do consumers determine the value of cultural objects in an age of …

Conflict between groups plays a powerful role in sha** social interaction within groups.
Within groups, social status—respect, prestige, and deference—organizes, motivates, and …