Cognitive and linguistic models from recent works on discourse analyses are introduced as relevant and important contributions to sociological methodology. By the use of such models, the integration ...

“It’s structure vs. agency,” my professor said to me, as if that cleared everything up. It didn’t. It was my first week of graduate school in sociology, and I had no idea what he was talking about.

Most sociological theories consider murder an outcome of the differential distribution of individual, neighborhood, or social characteristics. And while such studies explain variation in aggregate ...