A Sense of Belonging and Exclusion: ‘Touchability’ and ‘Untouchability’ in Tamil Nadu

Alex, Gabriele

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“…It also includes features of the material environment: how the material qualities of objects shape the meanings people attribute to situations (e.g., Griswold, Mangione, and McDonnell 2013; Klett 2014 4 ; Martin 2011; McDonnell 2010; Mukerji 1994; Zubrzycki 2013). Interactional features of situations matter, too, including both verbal and nonverbal communication: language, voice, accents, intonation, grammar, touch, bodily signals, and gestures, to name a few (Alex 2008; Ignatow 2007; Lembo forthcoming; Martin 2010). Finally, features of the social environment that shape judgment and action include observations of the behaviors of others (Paluck and Shepherd 2012; Shepherd and Paluck 2015), which depend on the network characteristics of one’s relationships (Shepherd 2017), as well as on the social characteristics of the actors involved, a crucial feature of any situation that includes human beings, real or imagined, and to which I return below.…”

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Theorizing Moral Cognition: Culture in Action, Situations, and Relationships

Luft

2020

Socius

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Dual-process theories of morality are approaches to moral cognition that stress the varying significance of emotion and deliberation in shaping judgments of action. Sociological research that builds on these ideas considers how cross-cultural variation alters judgments, with important consequences for what is and is not considered moral behavior. Yet lacking from these approaches is the notion that, depending on the situation and relationship, the same behavior by the same person can be considered more or less moral. The author reviews recent trends in sociological theorizing about morality and calls attention to the neglect of situational variations and social perceptions as mediating influences on judgment. She then analyzes the moral machine experiment to demonstrate how situations and relationships inform moral cognition. Finally, the author suggests that we can extend contemporary trends in the sociology of morality by connecting culture in thinking about action to culture in thinking about people.

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Section: Moral Judgment I: Culture In Thinking About Actionmentioning

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Theorizing Moral Cognition: Culture in Action, Situations, and Relationships

Luft

2020

Socius

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“…These include environmental aspects like setting (Shepherd, 2011), sensorial aspects including smells (Cerulo, 2018) and sounds (Schwartz, 2015), interactional features like gestures, intonation, grammar, touch, etc. (Alex, 2008; Ignatow, 2007), and relationship characteristics of interaction participants (Shepherd, 2017). Luft (2020: 6) highlights the particular importance of interpersonal relationships in shaping the production of meaning, suggesting that “… the same person in the same situation can feel differently about the exact same behavior depending on the subject(s) involved in the interaction”.…”

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Masking and meaning during the COVID‐19 pandemic

Rieger

2024

Sociological Forum

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This article contributes to the developing sociology of COVID‐19 literature by examining situational variation in mask‐wearing behavior during the early pandemic. Using interview data collected from residents of Brooklyn, New York during 2020, I analyze how people talk about encounters with masking in various social contexts. I find that the act of wearing a mask during the early pandemic acquired multiple, contradictory meanings that compelled opposite stances toward masking. On one hand, public health campaigns helped encourage mask‐wearing by infusing masking with notions of solidarity and collective responsibility. But on the other hand, masks also obtained meanings related to distrust and emotional distance that became highly relevant in intimate social situations: masking around friends and other close social network members could be understood as symbolically destructive to the relationship. By illustrating how people collectively negotiated these countervailing meanings during interaction, the findings contribute to knowledge about how relational characteristics and interaction dynamics shaped the ways that people understood and enacted masking during the early COVID‐19 pandemic.

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Caste, Desire, and Dalit Queer Resistance in “Geeli Puchhi”

Chatterjee

2021

Women's Studies

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A Sense of Belonging and Exclusion: ‘Touchability’ and ‘Untouchability’ in Tamil Nadu

Cited by 8 publications

References 19 publications

Theorizing Moral Cognition: Culture in Action, Situations, and Relationships

Theorizing Moral Cognition: Culture in Action, Situations, and Relationships

Masking and meaning during the COVID‐19 pandemic

Caste, Desire, and Dalit Queer Resistance in “Geeli Puchhi”

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