Just out! Very happy with this one. Combines Goffman and Collins to push interaction ritual theory forward. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Between Two Rituals: Face and Effervescence as Moments of Social Life - Anders Vassenden, Nicholas Hoynes, Taylor Price, Iddo Tavory, 2026

Many of the social outcomes and patterns located at the very center of sociological inquiry are grounded in interaction ritual dynamics. Yet, while broadly used...

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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

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 ...

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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...

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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

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....

“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