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Given the growing centrality of interdisciplinarity to scientific research, gaining a better understanding of successful interdisciplinary collaborations has become imperative. Drawing on extensive case studies of nine research networks in the social, natural, and computational sciences, we propose a construct that captures the multidimensional character of such collaborations, that of a shared cognitive–emotional–interactional (SCEI) platform. We demonstrate its value as an integrative lens to examine markers of and conditions for successful interdisciplinary collaborations as defined by researchers involved in these groups. We show that (1) markers and conditions embody three different dimensions: cognitive, emotional, and interactional; (2) these dimensions are present in all networks, albeit to different degrees; (3) the dimensions are intertwined and mutually constitutive; and (4) they operate in conjunction with institutional conditions created by funders. We compare the SCEI platforms to available frameworks for successful interdisciplinary work.

Studies suggest that the rise of neoliberalism accompanies a foregrounding of individual responsibility and a weakening of community. The authors provide a theoretical agenda for studying the interactions between the global diffusion of neoliberal policies and ideologies, on the one side, and cultural repertoires and boundary configurations, on the other, in the context of local, national, and regional variation. Exploiting variation in the rate of adoption of neoliberal policies across European societies, the authors show how levels of neoliberal penetration covary with the way citizens draw symbolic boundaries along the lines of ethnoreligious otherness and moral deservingness.

Les membres de groupes stigmatisés s'attendent souvent à ce que l'on scrute leurs moindres faits et gestes, et à être ignorés, rabaissés, incompris et méprisés dans leur vie quotidienne. Cet article porte sur une étude comparative qui a porté sur les points suivants : comment interprètent-ils la réalité qu'ils vivent et réagissent-ils ? De quelles ressources disposent-ils pour ce faire ? En quoi leurs réactions sont-elles façonnées par le néo-libéralisme ? Comment les réactions à la stigmatisation peuvent-elles contribuer à la résilience sociale ?

It is particularly fitting thatDu Bois Reviewwould publish a special feature titled "Varieties of Responses to Stigmatization: Macro, Meso, and Micro Dimensions." In many ways, we can consider the management of stigma to be a quintessentially Du Bois topic. In his classical writings on double consciousness, this pioneering social theorist (2007) captured the complex psychological experience of managing a life where one feels divided within oneself. He focused specifically on African American identity defined by the tension of being two at once (American and Black): "The Negro ever feels his two-ness—an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder" (p. 3).

Resumo: Nosso objetivo é fazer um balanço da literatura emergente sobre a relação cultura-pobreza; é identificar questões que permanecem sem resposta; e defender a posição de que o estudo judicioso da cultura, com fundamento teórico e base empírica, pode e deve ser uma componente permanente da agenda da pesquisa sobre a pobreza. Começamos identificando as razões científicas e políticas pelas quais os estudiosos da pobreza deveriam preocupar-se profundamente com a cultura. Então, abordamos uma pergunta difícil - o que é "cultura"? - e argumentamos que sociólogos e antropólogos culturais, com a finalidade de entenderem o processo de criação de significado, desenvolveram pelo menos sete instrumentos analíticos distintos, mesmo que parcialmente coincidentes, que poderiam ajudar a responder perguntas sobre casamento, educação, vizinhanças, participação em comunidades e outros tópicos centrais ao estudo da pobreza.

Frontmatter -- contents -- List of tables -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Accounting for Differences -- Chapter 2: The United States -- Chapter 3: Brazil -- Chapter 4: Israel -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1: Methodology -- Appendix 2: Tables of Frequency of Experiences with and Responses to Stigmatization and Discrimination by Respondents -- Notes -- References -- Index

Scholars across disciplines on both sides of the Atlantic have recently begun to open up, as never before, the scholarly study of race and racism in France. These original essays bring together in one volume new work in history, sociology, anthropology, political science, and legal studies. Each of the eleven articles presents fresh research on the tension between a republican tradition in France that has long denied the legitimacy of acknowledging racial difference and a lived reality in which racial prejudice shaped popular views about foreigners, Jews, immigrants, and colonial people. Several authors also examine efforts to combat racism since the 1970s