Passing Stigma: Negotiations of Welfare Categories as Street Level Governmentality

An Origin of Welfare Stigma

The Great Depression affected millions of families throughout the United States in the 1930s. The federal government finally stepped up in 1935 to create a comprehensive program to address the staggering need of the impoverished in the country. That year, President Franklin D. Roosevelt formally signed into law the Social Security Act, a landmark bill that not only created the Social Security P...

"I don't like passing as a straight woman": queer negotiations of identity and social group membership.

For decades, sociological theory has documented how our lives are simultaneously produced through and against normative structures of sex, gender, and sexuality. These normative structures are often believed to operate along presumably "natural," biological, and essentialized binaries of male/female, man/woman, and heterosexual/ homosexual. However, as the lives and experiences of transgender p...

The Power of Stigma: Encounters with ‘Street Children’ and ‘Restavecs’

Towards Algebraic High-Level Systems as Weak Adhesive HLR Categories

Adhesive high-level replacement (HLR) systems have been recently established as a suitable categorical framework for double pushout transformations based on weak adhesive HLR categories. Among different types of graphs and graph-like structures, various kinds of Petri nets and algebraic high-level (AHL) nets are interesting instantiations of adhesive HLR systems. AHL nets combine algebraic spec...

Towards Algebraic High-Level Systems as Weak Adhesive HLR Categories

Adhesive high-level replacement (HLR) systems have been recently established as a suitable categorical framework for double pushout transformations based on weak adhesive HLR categories. Among different types of graphs and graph-like structures, various kinds of Petri nets and algebraic high-level (AHL) nets are interesting instantiations of adhesive HLR systems. AHL nets combine algebraic spec...