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Sociological Theory

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About Sociological Theory

Sociological Theory publishes work in all areas of theory, including new substantive theories, history of theory, metatheory, formal theory construction, and synthetic contributions. Although aimed at a sociological readership, its orientation is pluralistic and it welcomes contributions by scholars in other fields. Peer reviewed and published quarterly, Sociological Theory is renowned for featuring the best international research and scholarship.

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Sociological Theory 为季刊，以展示最优秀的国际研究成果和学术著作而闻名，最新一期（Volume 44 Issue 1, March 2026）共计4篇文章，详情如下。

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Volume 44(1), 2026

Specifying Race: The Colonial Constitution of Race in a Set-Theoretic Framework

Luna Vincent

Sociologists of race tend to prioritize either how race structures people’s lives or the change and variation of racial categories across time and space. This bifurcation constrains sociological race theorizing. Structural materialist sociologists tend to minimize the significance of variations in racial systems across the world, and symbolic boundary race sociologists turn away from theorizing the substance or basis of racial categories. These tendencies either overdetermine racial categories or naturalize racial difference. As a solution, in this article, I synthesize theses of the colonial constitution of racial categories with dualistic theories of race as structure. I specify race as a historically contingent subset of broader structures of descent-based difference whose categories were generated through early-modern Western European colonial expansion. Systems of racial classification vary regionally based on the history of the region and its population’s trade and labor relationships to specific Western European empires from the sixteenth century to the eighteenth century.

Fuzzy Boundaries: A Mechanism for Group Accumulation of Advantage

Heba Alex

This article describes a strategic mechanism, fuzzy boundaries, that groups use to accumulate advantage. In contrast to the dominant view that rigid, well-defined boundaries maximize group rewards, I argue that ambiguity in membership criteria can, under certain conditions, more effectively secure and promote group benefits. Fuzzy boundaries are defined by two features: an intentionally ambiguous criterion for inclusion and the selective, inconsistent application of that criterion to adjust the insider-outsider line as needed. I illustrate the operation of fuzzy boundaries through a historical analysis of occupational boundary drawing in the nineteenth-century United States. Ultimately, the study offers a generalizable framework for understanding how strategic ambiguity in group boundaries can serve actors seeking to preserve privilege across domains, such as education, hiring, and professional accreditation. Unlike well-defined qualifications, the malleability of fuzzy boundaries often insulates them from legal challenge, making them an effective mechanism for maintaining social and institutional advantage.

Steps toward an Ecology of Markets: Markets as Evolving Computational Algorithms

James Rosenberg

Approaches to the study of markets in economic sociology have been converging with an approach to markets found in the field of evolutionary economics. In this view, markets are treated as sets of rules that facilitate the exchange of goods and information. These rule sets can be modeled and formalized as evolving computational algorithms situated in an ecology of human beings. I demonstrate this convergence and show that closer dialogue between these fields could contribute to the development of a framework for classifying diverse market forms, studying their change over time, and accounting for the causal mechanisms by which they produce varied outcomes. This would provide tools with which to grasp empirical phenomena of interest to economic sociologists, political economists, and policy scholars that elude existing sociological approaches. But it would also represent a first step toward a grander project: a “natural history of markets.”

(An)Aesthetic Emotions: A Pragmatist View of Sensibility Change

Giacomo Lampredi

This article presents a pragmatist framework for the sociology of emotions by introducing the concepts of aesthetic and anaesthetic emotions. Aesthetic emotions arise from disruptions of habits, generating emotional qualities that unify experience and reshape sensibility, and thus influence future emotional experiences. Anaesthetic emotions remain routinized, failing to expand sensibility or guide future experiences. I argue that aesthetic emotions are key to understanding the affective grounds of civic and political engagement. By focusing on aesthetics as an affective process, I highlight how sensibility contributes to recognizing public issues and the potential for collective action. I also explore how anaesthetic dynamics—often rooted in uncultivated experiences, structural apathy, or institutionalized habits—limit the transformative potential of emotions. By tracing how sensibility is cultivated or neglected, this framework shows its powerful (an)aesthetic effects on everyday life and the public sphere.

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