The new phenomenon of clinical ethics is analyzed from a role theoretic perspective that differentiates consulting, teaching, watching, and witnessing. Teaching and consulting are seen as main role alternatives in clinical ethics practice, with watching and witnessing defining transitional states that reveal the complexity of clinical ethics. The problem of the legitimation of clinical ethics i...

Amidst increasingly equality in belief and in practice between the sexes, we ask if height preferences still matter, and if so, why people say they matter. First, we collected data from Yahoo! dating personal advertisements. Second, we used answers to open-ended questions in an online survey. The Yahoo! data document that height is still important in decisions to date but that it is more import...

This paper presents findings from a qualitative descriptive study that explored the professional socialization experiences of Licensed Practical Nurses (LPNs) who attended an online university to earn a Baccalaureate degree in nursing (BN), a prerequisite to writing the Canadian Registered Nurse (RN) qualifying exam. The project was framed from a constructivist worldview and Haas and Shaffir's ...

This paper proposes a unifying framework to integrate two of economic sociology’s theory fragments on categorization: typecasting and entry-driven legitimation. Typecasting is a producer-level argument that considers the consequences for producers of earlier affiliation with one category on the chances of success in another. Entry-driven legitimation considers how the attributes of producers en...

Abstract Research on legitimacy of international organizations (IOs) has often focused discursive self-legitimation by IOs. This article explores the role other (de)legitimizing actors. Distinguishing between elites different political and societal sectors, we use unique data from a survey 860 in Brazil, Germany, Philippines, Russia, South Africa, United States, global elite group, to perform f...

Power, rule, and legitimacy have always been core concerns of political science. In the 1970s, when governability appeared to be problematic, legitimacy was discussed both in the context of policy research and by critics of the capitalist state. More recently interest turned to governance beyond the nation-state. The legitimacy of transnational (i.e., European and international) organizations, ...