Cultural theory (CT) developed from grid/group analysis, which posits that different patterns
of social relations—hierarchist, individualist, egalitarian, and fatalist—produce compatible …

Co-production is a risky method of social inquiry. It is time-consuming, ethically complex,
emotionally demanding, inherently unstable, vulnerable to external shocks, subject to …

Cultural Theory (CT) is a constructivist theory, developed by M ary D ouglas, A aron W
ildavsky, and others, that seeks to participate in the positivist project of discovering …

This study builds theory on how people construct moral careers. Analyzing interviews with
102 journalists, we show how people build moral careers by seeking jobs that allow them to …

Informed by insights from the sociology of categories (Lamont, 1992; Lamont & Molnar,
2002; Gieryn, 1983) and the anthropology of pollution (Douglas, 1966), the paper focuses …

Public support for and voluntary compliance with protective policy measures are crucial to
mitigating the spread of infectious disease. However, it is unclear why and how people with …

To help explain the role scientists play in policy change, concepts such as coproduction,
boundary‐work, and pollution and purity claims as they are used in science studies should …

In States of Knowledge (2004), Sheila Jasanoff argues that we gain explanatory power by
thinking of natural and social orders as being produced together, but she and her volume …

Expert organizations are often described as facilitators of the interactions between science
and policy. In managing this boundary, they must also manage other boundaries, such as …

This exploratory study aims to understand why, and propose remedies for, the treatment of
political risk and sustainability as siloed risk areas in risk analyses. I employ an …