Origin Story

Reading Gould (2002), I realized that his strategy of nuancing a dichotomy between status hierarchies as ‘emerging from objective differences’ and ‘enacted by intentional actors’ could be analogously applied to categories

Summary

Some describe categorical boundaries as representing objective differences between candidates. Others view categories as contested, enacted. A third perspective is possible, in which reliance on heuristics on a case-by-case basis (re)produces categorical boundaries.

Next Directions

Examine what Rao and Lounsbury write. Is their distinction followed on in the literature?

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