Anders Vassenden

Anders Vassenden

@andersvassenden.bsky.social

Sociologist. University of Stavanger. Class relations, stigmatisation, interactionism, Goffman

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Rob Smith
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A new article on respecifying stigma - and Goffman’s “language of relationships” - using Sacks’ suicide prevention centre corpus. Can (should!) be read alongside @philhutchinson.bsky.social’s article, and others, in the forthcoming special issue. #EMCA onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

onlinelibrary.wiley.comRespecifying Stigma and the Language of Relationships: Attributes and Categories as Contexturally‐Achieved Phenomena in the Search for HelpThis article revisits Goffman's original formulations of stigma. In doing so, the discussion focuses, specifically, upon his emphasis that a “language of relationships, not attributes is needed.” The...
Anders Vassenden
@andersvassenden.bsky.social

Just out! Very happy with this one. Combines Goffman and Collins to push interaction ritual theory forward. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

journals.sagepub.comBetween Two Rituals: Face and Effervescence as Moments of Social Life - Anders Vassenden, Nicholas Hoynes, Taylor Price, Iddo Tavory, 2026Many of the social outcomes and patterns located at the very center of sociological inquiry are grounded in interaction ritual dynamics. Yet, while broadly used...
Anders Vassenden
@andersvassenden.bsky.social

Paper out, on why social situations matter. With Iddo Tavory: The “situation” in the sociology of justifications and engagements: An interactionist rejoinder url: direct.mit.edu/ecps/article...

direct.mit.eduThe “situation” in the sociology of justifications and engagements: An interactionist rejoinderAbstract. This article focuses on a key concept in the sociologies of justification and engagement: “the situation.” We argue that despite the centrality of “the disposition of the situation” in such ...
Anders Vassenden
@andersvassenden.bsky.social

This one on elites and cross-class interaction now in a regular issue in @actasociologica.bsky.social. (Obviously, I think it's pretty good.) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

journals.sagepub.comElites and ordinariness in cross-status encounters: Adding Goffman's ritual interaction order to sociological interpretations - Anders Vassenden, 2025Elites and higher-class people often downplay – even conceal – their status when interacting with people of lower class/status than themselves. This finding has...

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