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Qualitative Sociology

（《質性社會學》）

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Qualitative Sociology is dedicated to the qualitative interpretation and analysis of social life. The journal does not restrict theoretical or analytical orientation and welcomes manuscripts based on research methods such as interviewing, participant observation, ethnography, historical analysis, archive research, and others which do not rely primarily on numerical data.

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Qualitative Sociology 為季刊，每年發布4期，最新一期（Volume 48, Issue 4 December 2025）共有8篇文章，詳情如下。

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Varieties of Mediation: Ideational Heterogeneity, Cultural Fluency, and Market Intermediaries in Japanese ‘Marriage Hunting'

Anna Wo?ny

How do market intermediaries assist individuals in navigating exchanges? This article theorizes how intermediaries act as cultural guides in the marketplace by arbitrating between heterogeneous ideas and values and acclimating clients to different scripts of exchange. Drawing on an ethnographic study of the Japanese “marriage-hunting” industry, including 127 interviews with market professionals and their clients, participant observation in dating events, and archival research, I identify how specific varieties of mediation shape the interactions and sensemaking of clients unevenly versed in market rules. Intensive mediation substitutes clients’ cultural fluency, or the knowledge of and ability to enact market scripts, moderate mediation enhances it, while weak mediation compels individuals to mobilize their own cultural fluency. Although intensive mediation facilitates more efficient searches, it is less socially valorized; conversely, because weak mediation approximates the dominant ideal of a romantic relationship it is more valued. As these varied modes of cultural guidance dovetail with broader hierarchies of desirability, they produce a tiered structure within the market and encourage prolonged utilization of dating services.

Cultural Discrepancies in Interaction: Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Men Encounter Popular Psychology

Dov Goldberg & Michal Pagis

Drawing on Goffman’s frame analysis, we utilize the encounter between two relatively foreign cultural worlds, the ultra-Orthodox Jewish (haredi) perspective and Western popular psychology, to examine how actors manage cultural discrepancies in situ. Based on an ethnographic study of an NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) training course for haredi men in Israel, we highlight the interactive dimension of framing processes in cultural diffusion, showing how participants actively and collectively reject, negotiate, and adapt new cultural elements. We exemplify this process through three framing strategies: confrontation, negotiation, and make-believe. Confrontation involves rejecting new ideas by positioning participants as cultural gatekeepers. Negotiation enables the creation of hybrid solutions through Yeshiva-style discussions. Make-believe entails accepting the new worldview “as if” and playing along with its logic while stating that it is “not real.” These frames demonstrate that cultural adaptation is not always a neat process of “fitting” into local culture but can involve rejection, partial absorption, and even relegation to an imaginary realm. The study illuminates how groups can maintain cultural boundaries while engaging with new ideas and how cultural adaptation is an ongoing process that is frequently local, partial, and incomplete.

Environments of Disbelief: Serbian Youth, Conspiracy Theory, and Practices of Digital Distrust

Emma E. S. Brandt

Conspiracy theories are often understood as resulting from a lack of proper skepticism or an inability to approach narratives critically. This paper argues that we should instead see conspiracy theories as resulting from an excess of skepticism. Interviews with Serbian youth show how conspiracism coincides with other skeptical media practices, including fact-checking with Google, averaging for objectivity, and a preference for unmediated information. Living in an environment of disbelief, where institutions and official narratives cannot be trusted, young Serbians deploy conspiracy theories and related skeptical media practices as methods of political and social critique. More generally, this case study demonstrates the need for scholars to focus on conspiracy theories as part of a broader repertoire of media consumption practices characteristic of environments, rather than as pathologies of individuals.

The Experts on the Past: Scholar-Experts, Victim-Experts, and Attributions of Expertise in Memory Sites

Paula Mantilla-Blanco

Post-conflict memorialization efforts exacerbate disputes over who is authorized to speak about the past. Through the case of museum and memorial sites in Colombia, this article examines how expertise on the past is enacted and perceived in a post-conflict context. Bringing together qualitative data from observations of school trips and other daily activities to two memory sites, as well as focus groups with students and interviews with teachers, site staff, and key informants working on issues of memory, this study examines how multiple stakeholders embody, perform, and perceive expertise. I extend literature on the question of experience-based expertise to the case of post-conflict memorialization to analyze the tensions that arise when creating exhibits and presenting them to youth audiences. Findings suggest that there is a constant push-and-pull between “scholar-experts” who can claim authority based on educational credentials, professional experience, and research skills, and “victim-experts” whose lay expertise is decidedly grounded on experiential knowledge and emotions. Interactions among distinct experts bring up complex negotiations, becoming materialized in objects and spaces that are then communicated to lay audiences. Young visitors perceive and assess performances of expertise from their place as non-experts, expecting communicative and novel translations that can convey experiential knowledge. Engaging with the production, materialization, and communication of expertise in the context of post-conflict memorialization, this article adds new layers of analysis to binary distinctions between experts and non-experts.

Triadic Structures in Political Street Art: Insights from Vilnius, Lithuania, at the Dusk of the Cold War

Andreja Siliunas

Political street art is a critical medium through which protestors attempt to mobilize others to their causes. Scholars have argued that they often do so through iconographic, textual, and compositional choices that situate a movement’s adherents and opponents in dyadic, morally charged conflicts. By shifting focus from representations of dyadic to triadic relations, I introduce a distinct set of strategies through which the makers of political street art frame conflicts to align the goals of their social movements with the interests of spectators. I argue that character triads, or representations of three actors in a single work of art, are useful cultural tools for implicating bystanders in bilateral conflicts because of two tropes with broad resonance – those of the “common enemy” and “mutual friend.” Based on a qualitative analysis of triadic networks observed in political street art in newly independent Lithuania, I demonstrate how protestors used these triadic tropes to communicate the global significance of a Soviet crackdown on Vilnius. By embedding third-party spectators directly into narratives of conflict between a “hero” (pro-sovereignty Lithuanians) and “villain” (Soviets, under Gorbachev’s command), they constructed relational motives for these bystanders to build, break, or solidify alliances with Lithuania and the USSR; expanded the scope and scale of their political struggle; amplified the moral imperative of Lithuania’s success; and rendered victory by the underdog a realistic outcome. Similar content being viewed by others

Sociologizing Talent. Resource Conversion Among Runners Aspiring to Sporting Fame

Manuel Schotté

This article offers an account of the socio-genesis of what is generally referred to as “talent” by drawing on an ethnographic study of high-level runners. More specifically, it is based on a quasi-experimental situation that seeks to identify the social dynamics presiding over the very different fates of three athletes who possessed the same level when they began their careers. In this sense, the research follows on from studies that have examined the social determinants of exceptional success. Whereas these studies have tended to focus either on how abilities are socially manufactured or on strategies of (self-)valorization, this text calls instead for attention to be paid to both of these aspects taken together. It shows that, in order to understand success, it is necessary to look at the full range of resources at an individual’s disposal, as well as at their interconnection and mutual conversion.

In the Eye of the Beholder: Exploring Perceived Access in an Urban Resource Desert

Lacee Anne Satcher

Neighborhood resource access is a critical determinant of health and well-being, yet traditional measures often overlook the subjective experiences of residents in under-resourced areas. This study explores the divergence between perceived and objective access to essential resources—grocery stores, pharmacies, and greenspaces—in an urban neighborhood with significant resource scarcity. Using 19 in-depth, semi-structured interviews, this study examines how residents conceptualize and rationalize their access to these resources, emphasizing the multidimensional factors that shape perceptions. Findings reveal significant discrepancies between GIS-based access metrics and residents' lived experiences, influenced by mobility, economic constraints, and social networks. While some residents perceive adequate access despite objective scarcity, others cite barriers such as affordability, safety, and resource quality that render available resources insufficient. Additionally, perceived access varies based on factors such as age, health status, and the availability of other social and material resources. These insights challenge the prevailing ‘desert’ framework, which often reduces access to spatial proximity alone, and highlight the importance of integrating qualitative assessments with quantitative methods. This study underscores the role of structural inequities and systemic disinvestment in shaping access perceptions, reinforcing the necessity of community-driven urban planning and policy interventions. Findings highlight the need for policymakers and researchers to adopt a multidimensional approach to resource access to develop more equitable and effective interventions for improving resource distribution in marginalized communities.

Palliative Emotion Work: Preserving Parent-LGB Child Relationships in an Age Of “Incomplete Acceptance”

Tyler Flockhart & Matthew Ezzell

Despite the gains achieved by the gay rights movement, lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LBG) people still face discrimination. LGB acceptance in this context is incomplete. Although familial rejection upon coming out is less common than it was previously, many LGB individuals experience acceptance that is only partial. Drawing on in-depth interviews, we analyze the emotion work used by parents and their LGB adult children to navigate and maintain familial relationships in the absence of full acceptance. We argue this often requires adaptation to heterosexism achieved through “palliative emotion work”—diminishing or transforming noxious feelings in relationships that are strained. Through three strategies of palliative emotion work (minimizing, accounting, and categorizing and comparing) LGB adults and their parents are able to maintain familial relationships that cause emotional pain; but, not without a cost: bolstering a system of heterosexism that places the feelings of heterosexuals above those of LGB people.

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