What turns a category into a community? In a new essay for our Futures of Difference series, @barrosvitor.bsky.social Barros takes up a question many of us face: how to make sense of the strong identities driving public life today. He offers a conceptual move worth thinking through.

Community and Category: Two Ways of Communicating Social Difference

Essay · Vitor Barros on Why Some Categories Become Communities — and What That Means for Identity, Belonging, and Constructivist Sociology

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Community studies face a persistent dilemma: weak definitions of community avoid groupism but sacrifice analytical precision, while strong definitions maintain precision through problematic assumption...

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Now available: Elgar Encyclopedia of Global Social Theory, edited by Gert Verschraegen and Raf Vanderstraeten Read a free chapter: doi.org/10.4337/9781... Learn more: www.e-elgar.com/shop/isbn/97... Contributors: @fernschreiber.bsky.social , @cbruunjensen.bsky.social, @isaackamola.bsky.social

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🚨New article 📃👀 In this short paper, @barrosvitor.bsky.social provides a guide to Luhmann's #sociology, style of theory building and guidelines on how to work with him empirically, especially for those interested in social scientific historical investigations. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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