What turns a category into a community? In a new essay for our Futures of Difference series, @barrosvitor.bsky.social Barros takes up a question many of us face: how to make sense of the strong identities driving public life today. He offers a conceptual move worth thinking through.
Essay · Vitor Barros on Why Some Categories Become Communities — and What That Means for Identity, Belonging, and Constructivist Sociology