Publications

June 2014
Mustafa Yavas

Social Science Computer Review, June 2014, vol. 32, no. 3, 354-372

Publisher Link Abstract The purpose of this study is to analyze the impact of homophily on diffusion over social networks. An agent-based simulation model is developed to serve as the experimental ground for this analysis. Diffusion dynamics of a nonsticky innovation is investigated by varying...
May 2014

Media, War & Conflict (Sage Journals)

Publisher Link> Abstract Mediated responses to reports of abuse during the Global War on Terror are puzzling. Few of the many revelations of abuse prompted concerted reactions (e.g. scandals), and those that did were often very similar to reports that were ignored. This article draws from...
March 2014
Joseph Klett

Cultural Sociology March 2014, 8 (1)

Publication Link>>   Abstract: In aesthetic terms, the category of ‘sound’ is often split in two: ‘noise’, which is chaotic, unfamiliar, and offensive; and ‘music’, which is harmonious, resonant, and divine. These opposing concepts are brought together in the phenomenon of Noise Music, but...
February 2014
Elisabeth Becker

Ethnic and Racial Studies

Publication Link>>   Abstract Utilizing the case study of Albanian Kosovars employed in the restaurant business in Little Italy, New York, this paper introduces the concept of assumed ethnicity. This concept describes one ethnic group strategically presenting itself as another ethnic...
February 2014

Political Theory, February 2014, vol. 42 no. 1 3-25

Publisher Link..   Abstract Increasing interest in applying the theory and practice of deliberative democracy to new and varied political contexts leads us to ask whether or not deliberation is a universal political practice. While deliberation does manifest a universal competence, its character...
January 2014
Candas Pinar

Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, Volume 33, Issue 4, 2013, pages 507-520

Publication Link>>   Abstract The rise to power of the socially conservative Justice and Development Party (AKP) in 2002 seemed to mark a shift in religion–state relations in Turkey, away from a Kemalist agenda of laiklik. This paper seeks to analyze to what extent do the socially...
August 2013
Kristin Plys, Vani Kulkarni

Global Review 3(3). (with Vani Kulkarni)

Publisher Link This past December, a physiotherapy student was gang raped in a moving bus in South Delhi and later brutally murdered. This incident stunned India,leading to massive protests in Delhi and other cities, and soon became a global headline. The question on everyone’s mind in coming to...
July 2013
Isabel Jijon

28.4: 373-390

  Publisher Link Abstract Globalization is commonly defined as time–space compression, a view that relies on an idea of ‘empty’ time and space where these dimensions have been stripped of local meanings by abstraction and standardization. This notion is incompatible with the globalization of...
June 2013

Comparative Sociology, Volume 12, Issue 6: 851–862.

Publisher Link >> Abstract In a recent edition of this journal, Scott Brenton (2012) announced a refreshing perspective on the relationship between political scandal and liberal democratic institutions: though scandals are often thought anathema to democratic politics, a cause of public...
May 2012
Kristin Plys

Yale Journal of Sociology, Vol. 9, 130-160, 2012

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January 2012
Jeffrey Alexander

Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

Publisher Link > Description Iconic Power is a collection of original articles that explores social aspects of the phenomenon of icon. Having experienced the benefits and realized the limitations of so called “linguistic turn,” sociology has recently acknowledged a need to further expand its...
June 2011

In: Narrating Trauma: On the Impact of Collective Suffering. Edited by Ron Eyerman, Jeffrey C. Alexander and Elizabeth Breese, 107-132. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers 2011

Publisher link>> Description:  The legendary status of the Holocaust as a sacred evil has inspired international human rights law, new restrictions on national sovereignty, and newly powerful moral strictures against ethnic and racial cleansing. Yet, even as this markedly universalizing...
May 2011
Jeffrey Alexander, Philip Smith

Palgrave Connect

Publisher Link > Theorist Clifford Geertz’s influence extends far beyond anthropology. Indeed the case could be made that he has been abandoned by anthropology and that his legacy has been transferred to a more diffuse community of scholars interested in interpretation. This volume...