elective affinity

elective affinity (plural elective affinities)

2000, Milton Fisk, Toward a Healthy Society: The Morality and Politics of American Health Care Reform, Lawrence, KA: University Press of Kansas, Chapter 8, pp. 196-197,
Weber spoke of an elective affinity between a form of religious belief (Protestantism) and a practical ethics (the work ethic of capitalism). His idea can be extended to explain how different groups come to have a basis for entering a single party.

(sociology) A process by which two cultural forms (e.g. religious, intellectual, political or economic) having certain similarities or kinships enter into a relationship of reciprocal attraction and influence, and mutual reinforcement.


snowball sampling

(sociology, statistics) A nonprobability sampling technique where existing study subjects recruit future subjects from among their acquaintances.


heteroglossic

(sociology, linguistics) Of, relating to, or characterized by heteroglossia.


ethnolysis

Taking as a model the theory of “genetic centers” of N. I. Vavilov as adapted by Blanc (as a theory of “cosmolysis” or “ethnolysis”), Laplace constructed a theory of basal polymorphism, according to which Upper Palaeolithic industry was initially unspecialized (a “synthetotype,” innate in the designation borrowed from the paleontologists) and afterwards divided up into specialized complexes.

1977 March, Leo S. Klejn, “A Panorama of Theoretical Archaeology”, in Current Anthropology, volume 18, number 1, →DOI, page 6:

As regards the tourism function rate, experts generally adopt the principle that if the rate exceeds 100, visitors are dominant and impose their habits and culture on their hosts. In this case we observe the phenomenon of ethnolysis, which is well-known to sociologists.

1996, Louis Dupont, “Planning in Practice in the French West Indies”, in Development Planning: The Test of Facts, Lanham, MD: University Press of America, →ISBN, page 179:

(sociology, anthropology) The dissolution or loss of certain characteristics of an ethnic group.


neoevolutionism

The so-called neoevolutionism or cultural materialism of Childe, however, had been preserved (in the works of R. McC. Adams, Braidwood, and others), as had the environmental school of Crawford, Fox, and Clark. […] Influences from cultural anthropology—neoevolutionism and functionalism—were pulling in the same direction.

1977 March, Leo S. Klejn, “A Panorama of Theoretical Archaeology”, in Current Anthropology, volume 18, number 1, →DOI, page 4:

(sociology, anthropology) A school of anthropology, developed in the mid-20th century, concerned with long-term, evolutionary social change and with the regular patterns of development that may be seen in unrelated, widely separated cultures.


neoevolutionist

The neoevolutionists were related to the evolutionists of the past century by their search for laws, their interest in general and universal models, their confidence in progress, and their optimistic attitude toward historical reconstruction.

(sociology, anthropology) A proponent of neoevolutionism.


societalization

(sociology) The theory attributed to sociologist Q112383134 (Q112383134) that modernisation makes social life increasingly fragmented with a loss of close-knit communities, which process is seen to undermine religion.

yhteiskunnallistuminen

fragmentation of society due to modernisation


hyperlogic

en-noun

hyperlogic (countable and uncountable, plural hyperlogics)

(sociology) According to Jean Baudrillard, the excessive and formalized practice of an established system, used as a liberating strategy to disrupt the system.


upward mobility

“The whole notion of the American dream,” said Frank Levy, an M.I.T. economist, “described a mass upward mobility that is just a lot harder to achieve right now.”

2012 October 24, David Leonhardt, quoting Frank Levy, “Standard of Living Is in the Shadows as Election Issue”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(sociology) Ability to advance to better-paid or better-regarded social strata.


metasociology

(sociology) The study of sociology itself


factish

Blend of fact + fetish, coined by Bruno Latour.

Factishes fit well the emergent and networked vision of the world, because they stress the historical quality with which every acting entity is endowed with.

2005, Monika A. Szumilak, Reconfiguring Spanish Subjects, page 93:

If what we have are not fetishes to be critiqued, but factishes that are hybrids that have complex effects, then we must exercise caution and care both in relation to critiquing and creating factishes.

2012, Mike Michael, Reconnecting Culture, Technology and Nature, page 35:

The factish obliterates the binary between fact and fetish and, more importantly, between Africa and Europe.

2013, Lucia Thesen, Linda Cooper, Risk in Academic Writing, page 249:

(sociology) A scientific "fact" whose power is believed in, but which is ultimately a construction, just as fetishes are constructions believed to hold spiritual powers.


class consciousness

class consciousness (plural class consciousnesses)

(Marxism, social sciences) An individual's awareness of their relative place within the class system of society.


assemblage theory

(sociology) An ontological framework developed by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari for the analysis of social complexity by emphasizing fluidity, exchangeability, and multiple functionalities.


pattern variable

pattern variable (plural pattern variables)

Coined by Talcott Parsons (1902–1979), American sociologist.

(sociology) Any of a set of contrasting pairs of characteristics said to be associated with various kinds of social interaction: affectivity – affective neutrality; self-orientation – collectivity-orientation; universalism – particularism; ascription – achievement; and specificity – diffusity.


cistem

It is this toilet cistem that served to cement the spatially constructed division between man and woman that is still present today.

2017, Nigel Patel, “Violent cistems: Trans experiences of bathroom space”, in Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity, volume 31, number 1, page 52:

I can think of no better role model for a transgender individual, particularly one looking to tackle the "cistem" of health care.

2019, Kyan Lynch, “The Trans Man and the Warrior Women”, in Transgender Health, volume 4, number 1, page 278:

Capital High’s school culture is seemingly accepting to the LGBTQIA+ population, yet it is also one saturated by a white heteropatriarchal cistem, and continued education and activism are required to combat this.

2022, Kenan Omercajic, “'Basement Boys' in the All-Gender Bathroom: Investigating Student-Inspired Trans-Activism and White Cisgenderist Barriers to Supporting Trans Students in School”, in Teacher College Record, volume 124, number 8, page 229:

(LGBTQ, social sciences, neologism) A system or societal structure that privileges cisgender people and marginalizes transgender people.


participant observation

(social sciences) A research methodology used in some social sciences to gain familiarity with a group of individuals and their practices through an intensive involvement, usually over an extended period of time.


participant observer

participant observer (plural participant observers)

participant observers (plural)
participant-observer (alternative)

Between 1988 and 1992, I acted as a participant observer at over two hundred discos, clubs and raves and attended at least thirty live gigs for comparative purposes.

1995, Sarah Thornton, Club Cultures: Music, Media and Subcultural Capital, Wiley, →ISBN, page 106:

participant observation
participant observation

(social sciences) One doing participant observation.


sociobiodiversity

sociobiodiversity (countable and uncountable, plural sociobiodiversities)

(sociology, biology) sociobiological diversity


third place

Coined by American urban sociologist Ray Oldenburg in 1989.

coin

The “third place” is a public, social place where you spend time that is neither home nor work. Whether it is publicly run, like a library, or a commercial venture, it is, above all, shared – a site of community-building and interaction with others.

2018 September 4, Elle Hunt, “Tell us about your 'third place' – where you connect with your community”, in The Guardian:

The rise of mobile and drive-through along with lives lived online raises questions about the role of coffee houses as a “third place” where people find community.

2025 June 14, Gregory Meyer, “Starbucks hopes to achieve much needed caffeine boost by hiring more baristas”, in FT Weekend, Companies & Markets, page 11:

(urban studies, sociology) A social space separate from the two usual social environments of home (“first place”) and the workplace (“second place”), such as a bar or public library.


virtual class

The virtual class has driven to global power along the digital superhighway. Representing perfectly the expansionary interests of the recombinant commodity-form, the virtual class has seized the imagination of contemporary culture by conceiving a techno-utopian high-speed cybernetic grid for travelling across the electronic frontier.

1994, Arthur Kroker, Michael A. Weinstein, Data Trash, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, pages 6–7:

Lacking the free time of the hippies, work itself has become the main route to self-fulfilment for much of the ‘virtual class’.

1995 September, Richard Barbrook, Andy Cameron, “The Californian Ideology”, in Mute, volume 1, number 3, →ISSN:

But I also notice that many members of the virtual class have deep feelings of anxiety and ambivalence about projects they're involved in. Unlike Marx's bourgeoisie, the virtual class experiences huge contradictions. Just between the coders and the businessmen, there are conflicts.

1996 February, Jean-Hugues Roy, quoting Arthur Kroker, “Way New Leftists”, in Wired, →ISSN:

(sociology, uncommon) A hypothesized new social and economic class exploiting and advocating digital technology; a digital elite.


youthitude

(sociology) A fetishized, objectified cultural ideal of youth.


feminitude

(sociology) A fetishized, objectified cultural ideal of femininity.


Facebook generation

en-noun

Facebook generation (plural Facebook generations)

Facebook generations (plural)
Generation Facebook (alternative)

(sociology) A demographic group that has matured using social media as their primary networking tool.


mutual aid

From mutual + aid. Popularised by the anarcho-communist philosopher, Peter Kropotkin.

[I]n all these scenes of animal life which passed before my eyes, I saw mutual aid and mutual support carried on to an extent which made me suspect in it a feature of the greatest importance for the maintenance of life, the preservation of each species, and its further evolution.

1902, Peter Kropotkin, “Introduction”, in Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution:

(biology, sociology) The state of cooperation, as opposed to competition, as a factor in evolution and social development.

interhelpo

evolutionary or socioeconomic cooperation


socioindexical

(sociology) Relating to, or described by a sociological index


lying flat

from Chinese, 躺平, tǎng píng ("to lie flat")

(sociology) A lifestyle choice and social protest movement in China by some young people who reject societal pressures.


celibacy syndrome

From Japanese, セックスしない症候群, sekkusu shinai shōkōgun (literally "no-sex syndrome").

(sociology) A media hypothesis proposing that a growing number of Japanese adults have lost interest in intimate activity and as a result have lost interest in romantic love, dating and marriage.


positive statement

positive statement (plural positive statements)

(philosophy, social sciences) A statement concerning what is, was, or will be, based on empirical evidence.


Mexican divorce

Mexican divorce (plural Mexican divorces)

(law, historical, sociology) An easier, quicker, and less expensive form of divorce than a divorce in most US states, sought by some Americans.


contrabureaucratic

Coined by Joyce Rothschild-Whitt in 1979, from contra- + bureaucratic.

coin

The emergence of these contrabureaucratic organizations calls for a new model of organization that can encompass their alternative practices and aspirations.

1979, Joyce Rothschild-Whitt, “The Collectivist Organization: An Alternative to Rational-Bureaucratic Models”, in American Sociological Review, volume 44, number 4, page 509:

First are contrabureaucratic structures that resist organization that promotes 'the employer viewpoint,' such as universalism.

2006, Patricia S. Parker, “Toward an Inclusive Framework for Envisioning Race, Gender, and Leadership”, in Margaret Foegen Karsten, editor, Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in the Workplace: Issues and Challenges for Today's Organizations, Volume 1: Management, Gender, and Ethnicity in the United States, Praeger, page 42:

While not using the term prefiguration, Rothschild-Whitt’s study of collectivist organisations was one of the first to theorise the organisational dynamics and structural commonalities of what she called ‘contrabureaucratic’ organisations, highlighting their ‘alternative practices and aspirations’...

2019, Armine Ishkanian, Anita Peña Saavedra, “The politics and practices of intersectional prefiguration in social movements: The case of Sisters Uncut”, in The Sociological Review, volume 67, number 5, pages 987–8:

(sociology, organisational theory) Self-consciously rejecting bureaucracy and pursuing alternative modes of organisation.


Seattle Freeze

(US, sociology) The supposed difficulty of forming new friendships in the city of Seattle.


glass cliff

Proposed in 2005, extending the glass ceiling metaphor.

Since her appointment, she [Linda Yaccarino] has been linked with the “glass cliff” theory, put forward in 2005 by researchers at the University of Exeter. The theory posits that women are more likely to be promoted or brought into top jobs at times of a crisis and thus set up for failure.

2023 September 30, Hannah Murphy, “The wildest job in Silicon Valley”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 18:

(sociology) A phenomenon where women in leadership roles are likelier than men to achieve such roles during periods of crisis or downturn, when the risk of failure is highest.


social station

en-noun

social station (countable and uncountable, plural social stations)

(sociology) Synonym of social status: one's position with a social hierarchy, one's value relative to society.


humanitarian crisis

humanitarian crisis (plural humanitarian crises)

(sociology) A singular event or a series of events that are threatening in terms of health, safety or well-being of a community or large group of people.


metastereotype

Beyond stereotypes, research is beginning to add another layer by examining metastereotypes, which are what one person believes other groups think about their group (Vorauer et al., 1998).

2020, Joel T. Nadler, Elora C. Voyles, Stereotypes: The Incidence and Impacts of Bias, page 306:

(sociology) A person's stereotypical impression of how others (outgroup members) regard the person's own group.


Oprahization

(neologism, sociology) Synonym of Oprahfication.


female gaze

(sociology) A term representing the gaze of the female spectator, character or director of an artistic work; an issue of representing women as subjects having agency.


homonormalization

One of the most compelling examples of the author's depoliticizing project of homonormalization in the series can be found where Quant explains the role that his friend and mentor, Anthony Gatt, and Anthony's partner, Jared, play in the dominant culture of Saskatoon: […]

2014, Jeannette Sloniowski, Marilyn Rose, Detecting Canada, page 188:

But in more recent queer theory, the positivist projects committed to restoring the gay subject to history and redeeming the gay self from its pathologization have been recognized as part of a process of homonormalization.

2014, Mikko Tuhkanen, Leo Bersani: Queer Theory and Beyond, page 70:

The inclusion of transgender voices further disrupts the homonormalization of sex and identity evident in popular LGBTQ cinema.

2016, Sonia Tascon, Tyson Wils, Activist Film Festivals: Towards a Political Subject:

(sociology) The normalization of homosexuality by absorbing it into the heteronormative culture.


super-token

super-tokens (plural)
supertoken (alternative)
super token (alternative)

Another useful technique is to incorporate ‘super-tokens’ directly into the top of the token file so that they are readily found when needed; for example, writing an abstract or reporting preliminary results.

2006, Sali A. Tagliamonte, Analysing Sociolinguistic Variation, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 168:

In this corpus, the best example of a super token can be seen in the following excerpt (1), where an educated female speaker in her mid-twenties, who is recounting a recent trip to Sweden, switches between a palatal lateral and a palatal fricative in the middle of a noun phrase

2010, Panayiotis A. Pappas, “A new sociolinguistic variable in Cypriot Greek”, in Angela Ralli, Brian D. Joseph, Mark Janse, Athanasios Karasimos, editors, Research on Greek Dialects: Institutions and Projects, →ISSN:

The following super token was extracted from one of the informants who participated in the sociolinguistic interview for this research.

2017, Luis Alberto Mendez, “The variant [ʃ] in the Spanish of Ciudad Juárez”, in Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, volume 6, number 1, →DOI, page 244:

Example (48) presents a supertoken where a Solonese signer uses SUDAH:4 and SUDAH:1 in consecutive clauses; these clauses have the same meaning, and hence are semantically equivalent (there are other examples where a variant form occurs in both pre-predicate and post-predicate slots without apparent difference in meaning, although more research is needed on this).

2019, Nick Palfreyman, Variation in Indonesian Sign Language: A Typological and Sociolinguistic Analysis, Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, →ISBN, page 143:

sociolinguistic variable
sociolinguistic variable

(sociolinguistics) An instance of the same speaker/signer using two or more variants of a sociolinguistic variable in the same section of discourse.


sociolinguistic variable

sociolinguistic variable (plural sociolinguistic variables)

(sociolinguistics) A feature, either lexical or phonetical, that is correlated with extralingual factors such as the setting, speaker, addressee etc.


social cue

(sociology, anthropology) A verbal or non-verbal signal expressed through the face, body, voice, motion, and used to guide conversations as well as other social interactions by influencing impressions of and responses to others.


power dynamics

(sociology, politics) Methods used by different groups of people to influence or control each other.


power gap

(sociology, business) The difference between two people that causes one person to treat the other person badly, because the other person is seen as lower than the first.


mesoanalysis

mesoanalysis (countable and uncountable, plural mesoanalyses)

(social sciences) the analysis of institutions, organisations, and governmental social activity e.g. NGOs.

(sociology) the analysis of institutions, organisations, and governmental social activity e.g. NGOs.


abstracted empiricism

(sociology) a term created by C. Wright Mills to describe sociological work that has a high focus on empirical methodology, particularly work that fixated with survey methods and their quantifiability.


social action

(sociology) Is an act which takes into account the actions and reactions of individuals or "agents". Associated with Max Weber.


actionalism

(sociology) Describes the theory of sociologist Alain Touraine that aims to replace sociology's focus from society to actors. Here, they emphasise the importance of individuals as agents of social systems, rather than passive observers.


action theory

rational choice theory
rational choice theory

(political science, sociology) Any theory that centres its gaze, analysis, and interpretation around human action. E.g. rational choice theory, phenomenology, etc.


rational choice theory

(social sciences, economics, political science, sociology) A theory that argues individual decisions are based on that individual's understanding of the costs and benefits of a given action, shaped throughout the assumptions of self-interest and rational actors.


hearably

en-adv

hearably (comparative more hearably, superlative most hearably)

more hearably (comparative)
most hearably (superlative)

On high sat the President imploring order, with his long hands put together as in prayer, and his lips visibly but not hearably speaking. At intervals he grasped his bell and swung it up and down with vigor, adding its keen clamor to the storm weltering there below.

1898 March 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “Stirring Times in Austria”, in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, volume XCVI, number DLXXIV, New York: Harper and Brothers, page 534:

By contrast, in (50), a hearably complete answer to a question that could have been referring to a similar information gap is continuation-receipted.

1984, John Heritage, “A change-of-state token and aspects of its sequential placement”, in J. Maxwell Atkinson, John Heritage, editors, Structures of Social Action, New York: Cambridge University Press:

Case studies of three problematic NNS/NS calls from a collection of emergency service calls were conducted using a conversation analytic approach. These calls were selected from publicly available recordings which were made by callers who were hearably NNS of English.

2022 April 18, Angela Cora Garcia, “Interactional challenges for non-native speakers of English in emergency telephone calls”, in Journal of Pragmatics, volume 193, Elsevier, →DOI, pages 222–234:

(formal, especially sociology or sociolinguistics) Audibly, auditorily; discernable through hearing.


status group

Introduced by German sociologist Max Weber as Stand.

Mainstream society functions as a macro status group, with the core status beliefs centered on the varieties of capital outlined in the previous section. Alternative status groups believe in criteria outside of traditional capital.

2022, W. David Marx, chapter 1, in Status and Culture, Viking, →ISBN:

(social sciences) A group of people within a society who can be differentiated by non-economic qualities such as honor, prestige, ethnicity, race, and religion.


homoglossia

On the one hand, the literary use of Spanish is a mark of resistance to the American notion of a literary homoglossia (to use Bakhtin's term), in particular to the Anglocentrism of the East Coast literary establishment.

1999, Paul Beekman Taylor, “Bronzing the Face of American English: The Double Tongue of Chicano Literature”, in Ton Hoenselaars, Marius Buning, editors, English Literature and the Other Languages, BRILL, page 256:

Discussion of the intertextual relationship in terms of homoglossia emphasizes the lack of stratification and the resultant amplifying effect without obfuscating differences between the content of the texts.

2013, Anna Kathryn Grau, “Hearing Voices: Heteroglossia, Homoglossia, and the Old French Monet”, in Musica Disciplina, volume 58, →JSTOR, page 81:

This is, undoubtedly, the hierarchically superior discourse—the critics soon detected it—in the dense interdiscourse of a kind of images whose apparent realistic homoglossia transmits a rich and varied critical heterology.

2021, Manuel González de Ávila, “On Narrative Hypersign and Feminine Imaginary: Audrey Flack's Photorealism”, in Popular Inquiry, volume 1, page 136:

(sociology, linguistics) The presence of a single linguistic variety, style of discourse, or point of view, as in a literary work.


unilineal evolution

en-noun

unilineal evolution (usually uncountable, plural unilineal evolutions)

Of course, when we speak in broadly evolutionary terms, to do so need not imply the simplistic notion of unilineal evolution, with the suggestion that human developments always follow the same sequential pattern.

2008, Colin Renfrew, Prehistory: The Making of the Human Mind, Modern Library, →ISBN, page 89:

(social sciences, anthropology) The theory, now considered obsolete, that societies evolve in a single direction toward complexity, progress, and civilization.


social power

(sociology) The ability of an actor to change the incentive structures of other actors in order to bring about an outcome.


sexual capital

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Popularized by sociologist Catherine Hakim.

In fact, in the era when Christianity was dominant, women were by default defined by a sort of sexual capital, namely by chastity.

2022, Dana Kaplan, Eva Illouz, What is Sexual Capital?, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:

(sociology) The social power an individual or group accrues as a result of their sexual attractiveness and social charm.


erotic capital

Carla Bruni and David Beckham have it. Jordan has even made a career out of it. So great is the advantage “erotic capital” can bring to the labour market—especially in sport, the arts, media and advertising—that it often outweighs educational qualifications.

2010 April, Prospect: Politics, Essay, Review, →ISSN, page 23:


digital immigrant

digital immigrant (plural digital immigrants)

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(technology, sociology) A person who was born or raised before the widespread use of digital technology.


praxiography

praxiography (countable and uncountable, plural praxiographies)

(sociology) The study of social practices.


bounded rationality

Coined by American political scientist Herbert A. Simon.

coinage

(social sciences) A model of human behaviour which states that individuals often make decisions that are merely adequate rather than optimal.


prosumption

The chapter covers the review of approaches that have been developed by prosumption specialists to improve the integration between the production for use and production for sale.

2013, Małgorzata Pańkowska, Frameworks of IT Prosumption for Business Development, page XX:

In fact they suggest that the rise of prosumption signals a new stage of capitalism in which it no longer makes sense to speak of workers as exploited.

2017, Debra Benita Shaw, Posthuman Urbanism: Mapping Bodies in Contemporary City Space:

Although they did not have the concept until recently, sociologists, social theorists, and other students of society and the media have always focused, albeit unknowingly, on prosumption.

2019, Frederick F. Wherry, Ian Woodward, The Oxford Handbook of Consumption, page 77:

(sociology) The contribution to product development by end users.


equity language

en-noun

equity language (plural equity languages)

(linguistics, sociology) A language style that proscribes the use of all kinds of possibly offensive terms.


occupationalist

(sociology) One of four categories of sociologist propounded by Horowitz: a sociologist who is primarily committed to some sociological questions or issues.


cistemic

en-adj

cistemic (comparative more cistemic, superlative most cistemic)

more cistemic (comparative)
most cistemic (superlative)

In the context of this thesis, I have framed this section around cistemic violence and vulnerability to consider the persistent reduction of gender diversity to genitalia within the Trans Debate and other anti-trans discourses.

2021, Lo Cathryn Lanfear, "Navigating gender diverse worlds assembled upon binary expectations: Investigating the experiences of trans people living in Britain", thesis submitted to University College London, page 122

This study points to the necessity of “coordinated steps to create gender-inclusive classrooms and schools [that] are taken proactively” (Luecke, 2018, p. 281) to ensure that white cistemic barriers are proactively acknowledged and confronted.

2022, Kenan Omercajic, “'Basement Boys' in the All-Gender Bathroom: Investigating Student-Inspired Trans-Activism and White Cisgenderist Barriers to Supporting Trans Students in School”, in Teacher College Record, volume 124, number 8, page 239:

Last but not least, this thesis/project is ultimately dedicated to the incredible countless Queer and Trans students, staff, and faculty of color, (for those who have fought and those who continue) fighting on university campuses today for equitable administrative practices and lasting cistemic change.

2022, Wesley R. Paláu, "The Csu-Know/Cis-Dsu: Systematic Debilitation and Cis-Fragility in Higher Education", thesis submitted to San Diego University, page v

(LGBTQ, social sciences, neologism) Of or relating to systems that privilege cisgender people and marginalize transgender people.


gender cleavage

(psychology, sociology) Social assortment by gender, in particular during middle childhood, when children are most likely to prefer playmates of their own gender.


middle childhood

en-noun

middle childhood (usually uncountable, plural middle childhoods)

(chiefly uncountable, psychiatry, sociology) The life stage between early childhood and adolescence, often defined by sociologists as roughly encompassing the years from age 6 to 12.


biocolonialism

In my opinion, many of the problems with the safety of our food supplies are directly related to biocolonialism. Food produced by anonymous sources in other countries under less than acceptable conditions is no way to ensure our good health.

2000, Ann Cooper, Lisa M. Holmes, Bitter Harvest, page 121:

Its major sponsors consist of some of the largest and most environmentally destructive companies in the world – including Citigroup, Exxon Mobil Foundation, and McDonalds^([sic]) – and it has been accused of being a corporate front designed to greenwash its sponsors' images and act as ‘the friendly face of biocolonialism.’

2007, Gavin Fridell, Fair Trade Coffee: The Prospects and Pitfalls of Market-Drive Social Justice, pages 257–258:

The HGDP [Human Genome Diversity Project] met an ignominious and unexpected end when tribal leaders accused the scientists of biocolonialism, for exploiting native genetic information in the same way that European colonizers had exploited their ancestors’ natural resources.

2011, Dorothy E. Roberts, Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-Create Race in the Twenty-First Century, page 65:

(social sciences) Exploitation or misappropriation of the biological resources (particularly plants and fungi) of indigenous peoples.


biocolonialist

en-adj

biocolonialist (comparative more biocolonialist, superlative most biocolonialist)

more biocolonialist (comparative)
most biocolonialist (superlative)

Hence, Indigenism is concerned both with challenging this biocolonialist agenda that has dire portents for a ‘new age eugenics’, and also with ecological alternatives that seek to live in reciprocity with the land.

2000, M. A. Jaimes Guerrero, “Native Womanism: Exemplars of indigenism in sacred traditions of kinship”, in Graham Harvey, editor, Indigenous Religion: A Companion, page 50:

But perhaps the most noteworthy distinction is not between population genomics projects, but between recent projects that emphasize finding specific-population genomes and the earlier “biocolonialist” projects such as the HGDP.

2005, Eugene Thacker, The Global Genome: Biotechnology, Politics, and Culture, page 139:

Although the term ‘biocolonialism’ has only recently been broadly adopted, biocolonialist practices have had a long history.

2013, Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, Helen Tiffin, Postcolonial Studies: The Key Concepts, page 28:

(social sciences) Engaging in, characteristic of, or related to biocolonialism.


metacrap

From meta- + crap. The "metadata" sense was coined by Canadian-British-American blogger, journalist, and science fiction author Cory Doctorow in 2001.

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In art, as in language, “cutting out the metacrap” means to get at the “core” meaning beneath the “superficial form” of a work; what it seems to be is different from what it means.

1998, John Haiman, Talk Is Cheap: Sarcasm, Alienation, and the Evolution of Language, page 118:

Clearly the layers of pretense and self-awareness and metacrap are thick.

2011, Joyce Cho and Višnja Rogošic, "Burning the Rules, PAJ: Journal of Performance and Art, Volume 33, Number 2, May 2011

In this vein, amusing to hear (the first time) was Lieberman’s recounting how, at an international conference on language, Jacques Lacan, the French psychoanalyst and philosopher, gave a presentation on “the linguistic nature of psychological symptomatology” (“the kind of highfalutin metacrap you like, Kunzman,” Lieberman later commented).

2013, Larry Lefkowitz, The Critic, The Assistant Critic, and Victoria, page 157:

(social sciences, derogatory) Metatheory, metanalysis, and other meta disciplines.


downward drift

(psychology, social sciences) The phenomenon of people with mental illness moving ever downward along the social and economic scale after they reach adulthood and live independently.


Neo-Europe

From neo- + Europe. Coined by Alfred W. Crosby.

(sociology) A place colonized and conquered by Europeans.


unstylized fact

en-noun

unstylized fact (plural unstylized facts)

The unstylized facts will hardly justify anything more than an agnostic conclusion.

1970, Robert M. Solow, Growth Theory: An Exposition, Oxford University Press, page 6:

(social sciences, especially economics) An fact that is empirically observed rather than a stylized fact.


agelicism

(sociology) The belief, associated with Émile Durkheim, that the behavior and traits of an individual are determined by his or her social group.


dysconsciousness

From dys- + consciousness or dysconscious + -ness. Coined by academic Joyce Elaine King in 1991 (see quotation).

coinage

Dysconsciousness is an uncritical habit of mind (including perceptions, attitudes, assumptions, and beliefs) that justifies inequity and exploitation by accepting the existing order of things as given. If, as Heaney (1984) suggests, critical consciousness "involves an ethical judgement [sic]" about the social order, dysconsciousness accepts it uncritically.

1991 Spring, Joyce E[laine] King, “Dysconscious Racism: Ideology, Identity, and the Miseducation of Teachers”, in Journal of Negro Education, volume 60, number 2, Washington, D.C.: Howard University, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 135:

Subscribing to lifelong learning policies does not mean that we also have to subscribe to the language of racism that flows beneath its surface. If there are possibilities for rupturing the fault lines of "dysconsciousness," there are also possibilities for reinscribing racialized discourses and practices.

2005, Michael W. Apple, Jane Kenway, Michael Singh, editors, Globalizing Education: Policies, Pedagogies, & Politics, New York, N.Y.: Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 75:

I have shared liberatory practices that have helped to move students preparing for leadership positions in education towards disrupting their own dysconsciousness about issues of race.

2021, Shannon R. Waite, “Disrupting Dysconsciousness: Confronting Anti-Blackness in Educational Leadership Preparation Programs”, in Journal of School Leadership, volume 31, numbers 1–2, Thousands Oaks, C.A. […]: SAGE Publishing, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 78–79:

(chiefly sociology) A state of impaired or distorted consciousness or awareness, especially in regards to social issues.


dysconscious

en-adj

dysconscious (comparative more dysconscious, superlative most dysconscious)

more dysconscious (comparative)
most dysconscious (superlative)

From dys- + conscious. Coined by academic Joyce Elaine King in 1991 (see quotation).

The findings presented herein will show what these beliefs and responses have to do with what I call "dysconscious racism" to denote the limited and distorted understandings my students have about inequity and cultural diversity—understandings that make it difficult for them them to act in favor of truly equitable edutcation. This article presents a qualitative analysis of dysconscious racism as reflected in the responses of my teacher education students to an open-ended question I posed at the beginning of one of my classes during the fall 1986 academic quarter to assess student knowledge and understanding of social inequity.

1991 Spring, Joyce E[laine] King, “Dysconscious Racism: Ideology, Identity, and the Miseducation of Teachers”, in Journal of Negro Education, volume 60, number 2, Washington, D.C.: Howard University, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 133–134:

Directly impacting Deaf consciousness, dysconscious audism is a form of audism by means of an implicit acceptance of the dominant hearing norms and privileges. Dysconscious audism hampers to varying degrees the Deaf individual's consciousness of Deaf identity. The effect of dysconscious audism on Deaf identity is the weakening, if not complete lack, of a Deaf consciousness.

2003, Eugenie Nicole Gertz, Dysconscious audism and critical deaf studies: Deaf Crit's analysis of unconscious internalization of hegemony within the deaf community (thesis), Los Angeles, C.A.: University of California, Los Angeles:

Once the seizure activity spreads to involve areas of the brain that alter consciousness, the patient becomes unaware of their behaviors and does not encode the activity they are involved in. They are thus amnestic for this period, unable to recall what happened to them. This alteration of consciousness, usually termed loss of awareness or a dysconscious state, is different from unconsciousness.

2011, Ivan Osorio, Hitten P. Zaveri, Mark G. Frei, Susan Arthurs, editors, Epilepsy: The Intersection of Neurosciences, Biology, Mathematics, Engineering and Physics, Boca Raton, F.L., London, New York, N.Y.: CRC Press, →ISBN, page 16:

(chiefly sociology) Relating to or involving dysconsciousness ("a state of impaired or distorted consciousness or awareness, especially in regards to social issues").


unperform

en-verb

unperform (third-person singular simple present unperforms, present participle unperforming, simple past and past participle unperformed)

unperforms (present singular third-person)
unperforming (participle present)
unperformed (participle past)
unperformed (past)

Set against the ongoing legacy of minstrelsy, Banks argues against race as a meaningful category and brings to our attention strategies to unperform and dismantle it.

2006, Jan Cohen-Cruz, Mady Schutzman, A Boal Companion: Dialogues on Theatre and Cultural Politics (page 7)

(sociology, transitive) To cease to perform; to undo or dismantle (a social or cultural practice) by refusing to take part.


placial

The Philosophy and Geography Conferences have been designed to promote interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary conversations on the basis of the spatial/placial component that pervades all landscapes.

2003, Gary Backhaus, John Murungi, Tensional Landscapes: The Dynamics of Boundaries and Placements, page IX:

In other words, there is a potential for places and placial beings to express the limitless space.

2021, Timothy Tambassi, Marcello Tanca, The Philosophy of Geography, page 111:

(sociology, geography) Relating to places, or to conceptions of place.


paidia

Borrowed from Ancient Greek παιδιά (paidiá, “childish play, amusement”), from παῖς (paîs, “child”).

bor

(sociology) Free play, such as make-believe, that lacks the structured rules of formal games.


paideic

en-adj

paideic (comparative more paideic, superlative most paideic)

more paideic (comparative)
most paideic (superlative)

(sociology) Lacking the structured rules of formal games.


enregisterment

en-noun

enregisterment (countable and uncountable, plural enregisterments)

The enregisterment of culture among Latino, Black, and Asian students resembles that of multicultural programs insofar as the noun culture denotes a valuable possession of the racially marked and a contribution to the larger community.

2009 June, Bonnie Urciuoli, “Talking/Not Talking about Race: The Enregisterments of Culture in Higher Education Discourses”, in Linguistic Anthropology, volume 19, number 1, Wiley, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 29:

(linguistics, sociology) The process of enregistering or becoming a register ("a style of a language used in a particular context").


somatophobia

From somato- + -phobia. Coined by feminist philosopher Elizabeth Spelman.

The nature/culture binary that informs Western culture’s deeply embedded erotophobia and somatophobia

2022, Marisol Cortez, “Ambivalent Anality: Revisiting the Queer Ecology of "the Jackass Moment"”, in Media+Environment:

(sociology) Fear of the body, as opposed to mind or spirit.


statusful

en-adj

statusful (comparative more statusful, superlative most statusful)

more statusful (comparative)
most statusful (superlative)

In these stories, being a parent conferred a higher or more "in-group" status than being married; thus the marital status of parents was not particularly relevant. However, being partnered was more statusful than being single.

2007, Gabriella Gahlia Modan, Turf Wars: Discourse, Diversity, and the Politics of Place, Malden, M.A. […]: Blackwell Publishing, →ISBN, page 214:

(chiefly sociology, linguistics) Carrying a high or privileged status.


schizoglossia

From schizo- + -glossia. Coined by U.S. linguistics professor Einar Haugen in 1962.

coinage

(sociolinguistics) Insecurity about the applicability of a language variety.


schizoglossic

en-adj

schizoglossic (comparative more schizoglossic, superlative most schizoglossic)

more schizoglossic (comparative)
most schizoglossic (superlative)


empty signifier

en-noun

empty signifier (plural empty signifiers)

First attested in the 1970s, apparently originally a calque of French signifiant vide as used by Jacques Derrida among others (though not by Lacan as sometimes supposed; compare the Lacanian term master signifier). Subsequently popularised in the work of Ernesto Laclau in the 1990s.

In many ways, the goal of “Clear” seems to have functioned as a kind of empty signifier, an amorphous but supremely attractive goal that could represent almost anything to anyone: higher IQ for some, better personal relationships for others, career success for some, domestic bliss for others.

2011, Hugh B. Urban, The Church of Scientology: A History of a New Religion, →ISBN, page 48:

(sociology, philosophy) A signifier—that is, a linguistic sign, a label or slogan—with no fixed and delimited meaning, which can therefore be interpreted in many ways and represent a range of different beliefs and aspirations.

Ernesto Laclau
Jacques Derrida
Jacques Lacan


master signifier

master signifier (plural master signifiers)

master signifiers (plural)
Master-Signifier (alternative)
master-signifier (alternative)

Calque of French signifiant-maître as used by French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan.

The same reversal that gives rise to a new Master-Signifier is at work in ideology: in anti-Semitism, all fears (of economic crisis, of moral degradation …) are exchanged for fear of the Jew […] And is not the same logic also discernible in a horror film like Spielberg’s Jaws? I fear the shark, my friend, and have no other fears. …

2006, Slavoj Žižek, The Parallax View, →ISBN, page 37:

It is the broader umbrella concept of cultural re-birth that acts as a master signifier suturing the vast spectrum of Islamism, from its peaceful articulations to its more violent manifestations.

2021, Tahir Abbas, Countering Violent Extremism: The International Deradicalization Agenda, →ISBN:

(sociology, philosophy) A signifier, i.e. a linguistic sign, with no determinate content beyond itself, serving as a nodal point dominating and grounding the content of a chain of other signifiers.


floating signifier

floating signifier (plural floating signifiers)

Calque of French signifiant flottant as used by French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss.

However, the elite as a target for populist resentments remains quite fuzzy and rather serves as a floating signifier oscillating between the ‘political establishment’, the ‘economic elite’, the ‘cultural elite’ and the ‘media elite’: in short, one homogenous corrupt group that works against the ‘general will’.

2020, Ina Kudde, Miranda Loli, “Corruption and populism: the linkage”, in Alina Mungiu-Pippidi, Paul M. Heywood, editors, A Research Agenda for Studies of Corruption, →ISBN, page 122:

(sociology, philosophy) A signifier—that is, a linguistic sign, a label or slogan—with a vague and variable meaning.


racization

(sociology) The way in which race becomes defined.


antimemetic

en-adj

antimemetic (comparative more antimemetic, superlative most antimemetic)

more antimemetic (comparative)
most antimemetic (superlative)

From antimeme + -etic or anti- + memetic.

(neurology, sociology, chiefly science fiction) Of, being, containing, or pertaining to antimemes.


we-group

(sociology) An ingroup, from the perspective of its members.


context collapse

(sociology) The flattening of multiple audiences into a single context, so that information intended for one audience finds its way to another, as with television and the Internet.


speechway

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(sociology) The speech customs and dialects of a group of people.


structural-functional

structural functionalism
structural functionalism

(sociology) Of or relating to structural functionalism.


nonrunaway

(sociology) A person who has not run away from home.


conversation analysis

(sociology, linguistics) An approach to the study of social interaction and language.


manufacture of consent

Coined by American journalist and political commentator Walter Lippmann in 1922.

coin

(politics, sociology) The process of managing public opinion, especially via mass media in a democratic society.


time famine

(psychology, sociology) The sensation of having an excess amount of tasks or demands, and not having enough time to handle or tackle them.


time bind

(sociology) A concept relevant to family and labor, focusing on the blurring continuum between work and home.


triple oppression

(sociology) The intersectional combination of classism, racism, and sexism.


Apparatgeist

Pseudo-Germanism, derived from Apparat (“apparatus, device, machine”) + Geist (“spirit”). Perhaps influenced by zeitgeist. Coined by American communications academic James E. Katz.

coinage

A few years ago such questions provoked academic controversy. Not everybody agrees with Ms Ito's argument that technology is always socially constructed. James Katz, a professor of communication at Rutgers University in New Jersey, argues that there is an Apparatgeist (German for "spirit of the machine"). For personal communication technologies, he argues, people react in pretty much the same way, a few national variations notwithstanding. "Regardless of culture," he suggests, "when people interact with personal communication technologies, they tend to standardise infrastructure and gravitate towards consistent tastes and universal features."

2009 December 30, James E. Katz, quotee, “The Apparatgeist calls”, in The Economist, London: The Economist Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-03-26:

In constructing such a multiscalar approach, I want to draw upon the same insight that informed the theory of Apparatgeist, which James E. Katz and Mark Aakhus proposed to define as referring to 'the common set of strategies or principles of reasoning about technology evident in the identifiable, consistent, and generalized patterns of technological advancement throughout history' (Katz & Aakhus 2002: 307).

2012, Imar O. de Vries, Tantalisingly Close: An Archaeology of Communication Desires in Discourses of Mobile Wireless Media, Amsterdam University Press, →ISBN, page 95:

(technology, sociology) The inherent properties of a device which affect the way it is used by individuals across cultures.


time discipline

(anthropology, sociology) A concept applied to social and economic rules, conventions, customs, and expectations governing the measurement of time, the social currency and awareness of time measurements, and people's expectations concerning the observance of these customs by others.


cohort effect

(statistics, social sciences) The phenomenon in which research outcomes may depend on the characteristics and experiences shared within each particular cohort.


middle child syndrome

en-noun

middle child syndrome (usually uncountable, plural middle child syndromes)

middle child syndromes (plural)
middle-child syndrome (alternative)

(psychology, sociology) The belief or idea that the middle child of a family, who is born in between siblings, is treated or seen differently by their parents from the rest of their siblings.


Judeopessimism

From Judeo- + pessimism, by analogy with Afro-pessimism.

This brief analysis of Berlin’s The Remnant of Israel, confronting the new term “antisemitism” and its meaning, points to some examples of what I am calling Judeopessimism, which makes claims about antisemitism that are akin to the political ontology of anti-Blackness that we find in some Afropessimists.

2024 May 15, Shaul Magid, “Judeopessimism: Antisemitism, History, and Critical Race Theory*”, in Harvard Theological Review, volume 117, number 2, Cambridge University Press, →DOI, page 387:

(neologism, sociology) The tendency to view antisemitism as constitutive of human civilization; summarizing Jews as eternally doomed to live in substandard conditions, such as always being surrounded by a hostile population.


unlaughter

(sociology) the act of not laughing when laughter is expected, for instance after the telling of a joke, leading to social uncomfortability.


hegemonic masculinity

(sociology) The practice that legitimizes men's dominant position of men in society and justifies the subordination of the common male population and women, and other marginalized ways of being a man.


emerging adult

Near-synonym: young adult

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(psychology, sociology, medicine, often attributive) In some conceptions of human life phases, a member of the subset of adults who, although postadolescent (having passed the age of majority), retain some aspects of mental or emotional immaturity.


human behavior

human behavior (usually uncountable, plural human behaviors)

(sociology) The potential and expressed capacity of human individuals or groups to respond to internal and external stimuli throughout their life.


conscientious objection

conscientious objection (countable and uncountable, plural conscientious objections)

(military, sociology) An objection for reasons of conscience in performing military service because of religious or moral principles.


New Russian

(sociology) A Russian person of a newly rich business class who acquired their wealth in the 1990s in post-Soviet Russia.


sex trafficking

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(law, crime, sociology) Human trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation.


political capital

(sociology) The ability of a person to influence political decisions.


subcultural capital

(sociology) The cultural knowledge and commodities acquired by members of a subculture, raising their status and helping to differentiate themselves from members of other groups.


care-experienced

en-adj

care-experienced (comparative more care-experienced, superlative most care-experienced)

more care-experienced (comparative)
most care-experienced (superlative)

(sociology, education) Having been in care. (taken away from natural parents and looked after by the state, etc.)


identicide

(anthropology, sociology) The deliberate, systematic and targeted demoralization and destruction of the cultural elements representing the identity of a people, with the intent to erase the cultural narrative and memory of that people.


conflict resolution

en-noun

conflict resolution (countable and uncountable, plural conflict resolutions)

(psychology, sociology) The method and process involved in facilitating the peaceful ending of conflict and retribution.


Chicago school

(sociology, criminology) A school of thought originating at the University of Chicago whose work was influential in the early 20th century.


gender-binary

(biology, sociology) Synonym of binary (“having or pertaining to a gender identity represented by the gender binary; either male or female”).


self-defeating prophecy

self-defeating prophecy (plural self-defeating prophecies)

(philosophy, sociology) A situation in which the occurrence of a predicted event becomes less likely by predicting the event.


ladder of opportunity

(Australia, sociology) The process of social advancement or the elevation to a higher social class of a citizen.


indicator card

(sociology) A card listing the indicators of human trafficking.


Spock generation

the Spock generation (canonical)
Spock Generation (alternative)

(anthropology, sociology) The generation of people who were influenced by the ideas of Dr. Benjamin Spock.


necroresistance

(sociology) Suicide as an act of political resistance.


biosovereignty

(sociology) Sovereignty over a person's body.


deother

en-verb

deother (third-person singular simple present deothers, present participle deothering, simple past and past participle deothered)

deothers (present singular third-person)
deothering (participle present)
deothered (participle past)
deothered (past)

(transitive, sociology, rare) To make no longer "other"; to reintegrate into the acceptable mainstream.


etics

(social sciences, anthropology) The use of an etic approach.


emics

(social sciences, anthropology) The use of an emic approach.


exterminism

(sociology) The tendency toward the extermination of society, as by war, environmental damage, etc.


snowball sample

en-noun

snowball sample (plural snowball samples)

(sociology, statistics) A sample obtained through the existing social networks of its participants.


nonstandard dialect

nonstandard dialect (plural nonstandard dialects)

(sociolinguistics) Any spoken variety of a language that deviates from the socially dominant or prestigious dialect.


nonstandard variety

nonstandard variety (plural nonstandard varieties)

Finally, many children speak a nonstandard variety of their native language even though they understand the standard variety, which is the language of wider communication.

1975, United States Commission on Civil Rights, A Better Chance to Learn - Bilingual Bicultural Education, Volume 51, page 112:

Even if there is not a variety of English spoken exclusively by Negroes, the fact is the great majority of culturally disadvantaged Negro pupils speak a nonstandard variety of English.

1977, Glendon F. Drake, The Role of Prescriptivism in American Linguistics 1820–1970, page 80:

That we refer to a certain type of language as “nonstandard” presupposes that there is a standard language against which this nonstandard variety can be judged.

1999, Gunnel Melchers, Irma Taavitsainen, Päivi Pahta, Writing in Nonstandard English, page 123:

Geneva Tisdale speaks a nonstandard variety of English that is spoken by many black people in the South and throughout the United States.

2001, Maurice Cogan Hauck, Kenneth MacDougall, David Isay, Twelve American Voices, An Authentic Listening and Integrated-Skills Textbook, page 106:

It is important to remember that the so-called English speakers came predominantly from areas where nonstandard varieties of English were spoken, either in the British Isles, the Caribbean, or North America.

2015, Daniel Schreier, Edgar W. Schneider, Jeffrey P. Williams, Peter Trudgill (editors), Further Studies in the Lesser-Known Varieties of English, page 201:

(sociolinguistics) Any form or dialect of a language that deviates from the established standard.


vernacular dialect

vernacular dialect (plural vernacular dialects)

nonstandard dialect
nonstandard dialect#English

(sociolinguistics) Synonym of nonstandard dialect.


aquaphilia

From aqua- + -philia, from Latin aqua (“water”) + Ancient Greek φιλία (philía, “love, affection”).
Literally: “love of water”.

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Yet while the western world has thus unlearnt the innate aquaphilia of its ancestors, there are other cultures said to maintain this unity. Observing the natural affinity for water of the Polynesians, Herman Melville wrote: "No wonder that the South Sea Islanders are an amphibious race when they are thus launched into water as soon as they see the light. I am convinced that it is as natural for a human being to swim as it is for a duck, and yet in civilized communities how many able bodied individuals die like so many drowning kittens from the occurrence of the most trivial accidents."

2009, Rupert D. V. Glasgow, The Concept of Water, R. Glasgow Books, →ISBN, page 42:

I performed content analyses, regression analyses, path analyses, and mediation analyses to study the relationships of 1) pictorial aquaphilia (intrinsic attachment to safe and clean water scenes) and waterscape imageability, 2) waterscape imageability and the coherence of city image, 3) egocentric aquaphilia (attachment to water-based spatial anchors) and allocentric aquaphilia (attachment to water centric cities), and 4) the coherence of city image, allocentric aquaphilia, and openness towards water-coherent urbanism.

2015, Hope Hui Rising, “Water urbanism: Building more coherent cities”, in University of Oregon ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, University of Oregon:

In order to explore the improvement strategies of flood control landscape integrating water ecology, water safety, water culture and water landscape, the Luozhou Ancient Town by the Wulong River in Fuzhou City was taken as an example, and the concept of pluralistic symbiosis from the perspective of aquaphilia and livability was proposed through field investigation, data monitoring, site analysis and planning, that is, while retaining the positive attributes of "boundary", its negative limitation of "pluralistic" space is broken, so as to establish a pluralistic and symbiotic environment with aquaphilia and livability.

2022, Huangjie Ding, Chen Yan, Cheng Fang, Shijie Zhang, Yuanhao Lv, “Improvement Strategies of Flood Control Landscape in Suburban Villages and Towns from the Perspective of Aquaphilia and Livability.”, in Journal of Landscape Research, volume 14, number 6, →DOI, page 40:

(biology, sociology) The biological and societal attraction to water.


cleft habitus

Calque of French habitus clivé, coined by French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher Pierre Bourdieu.

coin

Bourdieu's idea of “cleft habitus”—a split between the world you come from and the one you enter—helps explain the resentment we see in Vance, who has written about feeling anxious over not knowing which fork to use at Yale […], and about being silently judged by people who seem to belong in a world he only pretends to understand.

2025 May 24, Nancy Kolff-Rodriguez, “The irony is it takes two Frenchmen to explain Maga”, in FT Weekend, Letters, page 8:

(sociology) A sense of dislocation experienced when one's life conditions change drastically, for example through social mobility.


color barrier

(sociology) An unspoken social code of racial segregation or discrimination, particularly in sports, education, and public service.