Sociology of Sexuality: It’s

This article locates six themes in the overlap between the sociology of culture and the sociology of sexuality, high-lighting both institutionalized and discursive forms of power. These themes include (1) works that develop or problematize economic metaphors in the study of sexu-ality; (2) studies of commercial sex that problematize cul-tural assumptions about sex, money, and morality; (3) explorations of “nonsexual”-seeming institutions, which can reproduce or challenge hierarchies of race and gender as they transmit sexual norms; (4) considera-tions of the sexual underpinnings of citizenship and personhood; (5) analyses of mass-mediated discourses of sexual personhood; and (6) critiques of sociology itself, as reproducing discursive power by neglecting to problematize certain assumptions about sexuality. The article ends by considering sociology’s relationship to humanities-based queer theory, arguing that sociologists should bring analyses of emotions and feelings rules into our considerations of how people develop a sense of self through social interactions