<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>Civic Studies &#187; social norms</title>
	<atom:link href="http://civicstudies.org/category/social-norms/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://civicstudies.org</link>
	<description>An intellectual community of researchers and practitioners dedicated to building the emerging field of civic studies</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:35:39 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<language>en-US</language>
		<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
		<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
	<generator>https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41</generator>
	<item>
		<title>Gender and Language</title>
		<link>http://sarahshugars.com/2017/09/gender-and-language/</link>
		<comments>http://sarahshugars.com/2017/09/gender-and-language/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Sep 2017 17:54:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Shugars]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Computer Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social norms]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sarahshugars.com/?p=2261</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Both gender and language are social constructs, and sociological research indicates a link between the two. In Lakoff&#8217;s classic 1973 paper, Language and woman&#8217;s place, she argues that &#8220;the marginality and powerlessness of women is reflected in both the ways women are expected to speak, and the ways in which women are spoken of.&#8221; This [&#8230;] <a href="http://sarahshugars.com/2017/09/gender-and-language/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://civicstudies.org/2017/09/21/gender-and-language/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
<enclosure url="" length="0" type="" />
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>The ego of public life, part II</title>
		<link>http://sarahshugars.com/2017/07/the-ego-of-public-life-part-ii/</link>
		<comments>http://sarahshugars.com/2017/07/the-ego-of-public-life-part-ii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jul 2017 14:51:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Shugars]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Citizens & Civil Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social norms]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sarahshugars.com/?p=2195</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Almost exactly four years ago I began writing publicly every day. In recent months, I&#8217;ve allowed myself a great deal of leniency in the&#160;&#8220;every day&#8221; portion of that commitment. But, in the broadest possible sense, I have developed and maintained public writing as a habit. It has never been easy. People often ask me what [&#8230;] <a href="http://sarahshugars.com/2017/07/the-ego-of-public-life-part-ii/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://civicstudies.org/2017/07/10/the-ego-of-public-life-part-ii/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
<enclosure url="" length="0" type="" />
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Networking and Community Building</title>
		<link>http://sarahshugars.com/2017/06/networking-and-community-building/</link>
		<comments>http://sarahshugars.com/2017/06/networking-and-community-building/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jun 2017 20:35:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Shugars]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[social norms]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sarahshugars.com/?p=2192</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a strong distaste for networking. And yes, yes, feel free to insert a joke here about &#8220;networking&#8221; and &#8220;network science.&#8221; It&#8217;s all very clever. Nevertheless,&#160;having attended five conferences in the last six weeks, this is a topic fresh on my mind:&#160;I have a strong distaste for networking. The word itself conjures utilitarian interest [&#8230;] <a href="http://sarahshugars.com/2017/06/networking-and-community-building/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://civicstudies.org/2017/06/27/networking-and-community-building/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
<enclosure url="" length="0" type="" />
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Gendered Creative Teams: Confidence and Collaboration</title>
		<link>http://sarahshugars.com/2017/06/gendered-creative-teams-confidence-and-collaboration/</link>
		<comments>http://sarahshugars.com/2017/06/gendered-creative-teams-confidence-and-collaboration/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jun 2017 18:25:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Shugars]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Citizens & Civil Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social norms]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sarahshugars.com/?p=2183</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently participated in an&#160;excellent workshop on&#160;Gendered Creative Teams, hosted by CEU in Budapest. It was an amazing conference, and I am so glad to have had the opportunity to participate. I&#8217;ve included the text of my talk&#160;Confidence and Collaboration: A Gender-Based Look at Working Together in the Public Sphere below: ___ I wanted to [&#8230;] <a href="http://sarahshugars.com/2017/06/gendered-creative-teams-confidence-and-collaboration/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://civicstudies.org/2017/06/12/gendered-creative-teams-confidence-and-collaboration/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
<enclosure url="" length="0" type="" />
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Gendered Creative Teams: The Challenge of Quantification</title>
		<link>http://sarahshugars.com/2017/06/gendered-creative-teams-the-challenge-of-quantification/</link>
		<comments>http://sarahshugars.com/2017/06/gendered-creative-teams-the-challenge-of-quantification/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jun 2017 20:59:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Shugars]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Network Analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social norms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unpopular Opinions]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sarahshugars.com/?p=2179</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently had the privilege of being an invited speaker at the Gendered Creative Teams workshop hosted by Central European University and organized by Ancsa Hann&#225;k, Roberta Sinatra, and Bal&#225;zs Vedres. It was a truly remarkable gathering of scholars, researchers, and activists, featuring two full days of&#160;provocations and rich discussion. Perhaps one of the most [&#8230;] <a href="http://sarahshugars.com/2017/06/gendered-creative-teams-the-challenge-of-quantification/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://civicstudies.org/2017/06/06/gendered-creative-teams-the-challenge-of-quantification/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
<enclosure url="" length="0" type="" />
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Make America Bowl Again</title>
		<link>http://sarahshugars.com/2017/03/make-america-bowl-again/</link>
		<comments>http://sarahshugars.com/2017/03/make-america-bowl-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Mar 2017 20:05:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Shugars]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Citizens & Civil Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[civic studies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social norms]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sarahshugars.com/?p=2109</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[American civil society has really gone downhill since the 1950s. People used to belong to unions, fraternal societies, PTAs, bowling leagues. Now, self-absorbed and disconnected, they instead go bowling alone. Robert Putnam argues that these metrics of social capital &#8211; group membership, trust &#8211; even informal sociability &#8211; are deeply important to the civic health [&#8230;] <a href="http://sarahshugars.com/2017/03/make-america-bowl-again/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://civicstudies.org/2017/03/15/make-america-bowl-again/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
<enclosure url="" length="0" type="" />
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Civic Hospitality</title>
		<link>http://sarahshugars.com/2016/11/civic-hospitality/</link>
		<comments>http://sarahshugars.com/2016/11/civic-hospitality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2016 23:19:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Shugars]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Citizens & Civil Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[civic studies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social norms]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sarahshugars.com/?p=2011</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently returned from three days at the annual conference of the National Communication Association. I attended a lot of great panels and enjoyed some enriching, thought-provoking conversations. I was particularly struck by a comment from Debian Marty, who served as respondent for an engaging panel on &#8220;Using Dialogue and Deliberation Practice, Research, and Pedagogy [&#8230;] <a href="http://sarahshugars.com/2016/11/civic-hospitality/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://civicstudies.org/2016/11/15/civic-hospitality/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
<enclosure url="" length="0" type="" />
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Humanistic Data Visualization</title>
		<link>http://sarahshugars.com/2016/11/humanistic-data-visualization/</link>
		<comments>http://sarahshugars.com/2016/11/humanistic-data-visualization/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2016 20:14:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Shugars]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social norms]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sarahshugars.com/?p=2002</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I participated in &#8220;Visualizing Text as Data,&#8221; the inaugural discussion series from Northeastern&#8217;s NULab for Text, Maps, and Networks. We discussed&#160;Data&#160;Visualization in Sociology,&#160;by&#160;Kieran&#160;Healy and&#160;James&#160;Moody and&#160;Humanities&#160;Approaches&#160;to Graphical&#160;Display, by&#160;Johanna&#160;Drucker, though most of the conversation focused on the piece by Drucker. Drucker writes: &#8230;Graphical tools are a kind of intellectual Trojan horse, a vehicle through which assumptions [&#8230;] <a href="http://sarahshugars.com/2016/11/humanistic-data-visualization/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://civicstudies.org/2016/11/04/humanistic-data-visualization/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
<enclosure url="" length="0" type="" />
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Inside and Out</title>
		<link>http://sarahshugars.com/2016/10/inside-and-out/</link>
		<comments>http://sarahshugars.com/2016/10/inside-and-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2016 20:17:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Shugars]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Miscellaneous Musings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social norms]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sarahshugars.com/?p=1995</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I particularly appreciate the tough-guy swagger of the man walking around&#160;in butterfly pajama bottoms, ordering a hot chocolate. <a href="http://sarahshugars.com/2016/10/inside-and-out/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://civicstudies.org/2016/10/27/inside-and-out/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
<enclosure url="" length="0" type="" />
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Civic Humility</title>
		<link>http://sarahshugars.com/2016/09/civic-humility/</link>
		<comments>http://sarahshugars.com/2016/09/civic-humility/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2016 19:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sarah Shugars]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Citizens & Civil Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social norms]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sarahshugars.com/?p=1949</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As I&#8217;ve written before, I am generally annoyed by the concept of the so-called &#8220;confidence gap&#8221; &#8211; or perhaps just annoyed by the common prescription. If you&#8217;re not familiar with the term, the confidence gap refers to a gendered divide in individual confidence levels. Or more precisely, the idea that women are less confident than [&#8230;] <a href="http://sarahshugars.com/2016/09/civic-humility/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://civicstudies.org/2016/09/14/civic-humility/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
<enclosure url="" length="0" type="" />
		</item>
	</channel>
</rss>
