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Wayne H. Brekhus
Researcher at University of Missouri
Publications - 14
Citations - 1139
Wayne H. Brekhus is an academic researcher from University of Missouri. The author has contributed to research in topics: Identity (social science) & Social identity theory. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 14 publications receiving 1050 citations. Previous affiliations of Wayne H. Brekhus include Rutgers University.
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A sociology of the unmarked : Redirecting our focus
TL;DR: The authors argues for developing a stronger tradition in a sociology of the unmarked that explicitly foregrounds "politically unnoticed" and taken-for-granted elements of social reality, and three strategies are proposed toward this end: reversing conventional patterns of markedness to foreground what typically remains unnamed and implicit, marking everything by filling in all the shades of social contin...
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Out in the Country: Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility in Rural America
TL;DR: In this paper, Shireen Ally demonstrates how these relations of servitude have resisted change in "the national care chain" in contemporary South Africa, and suggests that domestic workers' lives have not changed much under democracy and many feel that things are worse than before.
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Social marking and the mental coloring of identity: Sexual identity construction and maintenance in the United States
TL;DR: In this paper, the concepts of social marking and mental coloring are proposed as processes in assigning and maintaining other-defined sexual identities in the United States, and two ideal-typical classification conventions for assigning marked identities are introduced: the mental one-drop rule and the mental entire ocean rule.