This category examines how power operates within social systems, how inequalities are produced and maintained, and how social order is justified, resisted, or transformed. Articles here analyze structures such as class, race, gender, institutions, and ideology to illuminate how social arrangements shape lived experience.
Interpretive FrameThis essay examines the experiences of fat persons in the United States through the lens of humiliation rather than shame, arguing that weight stigma is best understood as a relational and systemic violation of dignity rather than an internal moral failure. Drawing on interpretative phenomenological research, integral theory, and social constructionism, it reframes fatness […]
Interpretive FrameThis essay examines how public rituals of leadership—especially presidential speech and responses to dissent—function as mechanisms through which social order is symbolically produced and maintained. By comparing the leadership of Barack Obama and Donald Trump, it explores how “law and order” operates as a racialized organizing principle, how White supremacy persists through institutional signaling
