In a world lousy with crises from the spectacular to the mundane, we often glimpse an immense infrastructure of humanitarian nongovernmental organizations seeking to reli[...]

This article proposes the concept of "nationalness" to account for the persistent circulation of national labels as a tool of distinction. We argue that the concept expan[...]

At the turn of the twentieth century, the National Consumers' League, the Co-operative Wholesale Society, and the Women's Co-operative Guild encouraged people to become e[...]

With the aid of Hannah Arendt's distinction between authentic and inauthentic semblances, this article reconstructs Karl Marx's notion of commodity fetishism as a phenome[...]

This study seeks to explore the beauty community on YouTube and how the audience viewing these videos about beauty products interpret authenticity in the people they watc[...]

This thesis investigates how everyday people responded to the frames deployed by Peruvian elites during the protests against Dina Boluarte’s presidency at the end of 2022[...]

Social scientists often treat the commodity form and commodity fetishism as concepts that reduce meaning to an economic base. The paper claims that this view is misguided[...]

In one of her many efforts to think about the modern, Hannah Arendt turned to a parable of Franz Kafka’s. It begins, “He has two antagonists: the first presses him from b[...]

This study utilizes Abend’s (2014) conceptual framework for the sociological study of morality to investigate historical patterns of vocational reasoning—ways of thinking[...]

The crisis of 2007 and 2008 brought a once-shadowy realm of finance and its component instruments—securities, derivatives, brokerage firms, credit default swaps, collater[...]

Nothing conjures the anxieties of affluence like the politics of consumption. Does consumer politics augur the collapse of democratic engagement and public life? Or does [...]

In this article, we draw on the existential phenomenology of Martin Heidegger to propose an approach to sociology that takes human experiences of finitude and possibility[...]

Using the understudied genre of food reform movements for illustration, we advocate greater attention to recurrent social movements. Analysis of these movements calls for[...]

There is an extensive body of literature detailing the forces behind and experiences of alienation in a modern capitalist world. However, social scientific interest in al[...]

Social scientists have severed social problems from the study of framing work in social movements. This article proposes to rejoin problems and framing work via attention[...]