Anders Vassenden
@andersvassenden.bsky.social
Sociologist. University of Stavanger. Class relations, stigmatisation, interactionism, Goffman
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...
The “situation” in the sociology of justifications and engagements: An interactionist rejoinder url: direct.mit.edu/ecps/article...
The “situation” in the sociology of justifications and engagements: An interactionist rejoinder
Abstract. 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 ...
direct.mit.edu
September 16, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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...
The “situation” in the sociology of justifications and engagements: An interactionist rejoinder url: direct.mit.edu/ecps/article...
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....
Elites and ordinariness in cross-status encounters: Adding Goffman's ritual interaction order to sociological interpretations - Anders Vassenden, 2025
Elites and higher-class people often downplay – even conceal – their status when interacting with people of lower class/status than themselves. This finding has...
journals.sagepub.com
April 30, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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....
Reposted by Anders Vassenden
OUT NOW: The Sociological Review journal’s first issue of 2025 looks at issues including race and migration, Brexit Britain, street harassment in France, Chinese cuisine in Australia during COVID-19, modes of translation, and Goffman’s ritual interaction order.
journals.sagepub.com/toc/sora/73/1
journals.sagepub.com/toc/sora/73/1
December 31, 2024 at 8:52 AM
OUT NOW: The Sociological Review journal’s first issue of 2025 looks at issues including race and migration, Brexit Britain, street harassment in France, Chinese cuisine in Australia during COVID-19, modes of translation, and Goffman’s ritual interaction order.
journals.sagepub.com/toc/sora/73/1
journals.sagepub.com/toc/sora/73/1
New here. Starting with most recent pub. On elites who portray ordariness in cross-status interaction. More widespread transnationally than we tend to assume + endless value in Goffman's work.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
November 27, 2024 at 7:56 PM
New here. Starting with most recent pub. On elites who portray ordariness in cross-status interaction. More widespread transnationally than we tend to assume + endless value in Goffman's work.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Reposted by Anders Vassenden
“The sociology of stigma should caution against throwing the ‘interactionist baby’ out with the bath water.”
Researchers Anders Vassenden, Ayan Handulle and Julia Orupabo look at racial stigma in face-to-face interactions.
Out now, #OnlineFirst in the journal. buff.ly/3KM6rUj
Researchers Anders Vassenden, Ayan Handulle and Julia Orupabo look at racial stigma in face-to-face interactions.
Out now, #OnlineFirst in the journal. buff.ly/3KM6rUj
June 19, 2024 at 8:03 AM
“The sociology of stigma should caution against throwing the ‘interactionist baby’ out with the bath water.”
Researchers Anders Vassenden, Ayan Handulle and Julia Orupabo look at racial stigma in face-to-face interactions.
Out now, #OnlineFirst in the journal. buff.ly/3KM6rUj
Researchers Anders Vassenden, Ayan Handulle and Julia Orupabo look at racial stigma in face-to-face interactions.
Out now, #OnlineFirst in the journal. buff.ly/3KM6rUj