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The Identity Work of Torture Scars Sociological Research Online (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-10 Petra Mäkelä
Scarring can be understood as a visible bodily entity or a metaphorical internal experience. Each type has liminal qualities, changing in form or intensity over time. The bearer may conceal scarring from others or may share stories that hold varied emotions, from horror or disgust to pride or self-esteem. For people who have survived torture or other forms of violence, and are seeking asylum, scars
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‘Unsponsoring Football’: Sign Value, Symbolic Exchange, and Simulacra in a Gambling-Related Marketing Campaign Sociological Research Online (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-07 Anthony May
This article utilises Baudrillard’s concepts of sign value and symbolic exchange to examine the ‘Unsponsoring Football’ campaign which was designed by the marketing and creative agencies VCCP and Octagon, and carried out in conjunction with the bookmakers Paddy Power. Clubs were ‘unsponsored’ by Paddy Power, which paid for the right to not display its logo on football shirts. The campaign concept involved
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Creative Co-Imagination in Transgenerational Comics Workshops Sociological Research Online (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-06 Inkeri Aula, Masood Masoodian
With the world population aging rapidly, it is crucial to include the imagination of older adults in envisioning a better future, and to promote transgenerational exchanges. To achieve this, novel interdisciplinary methods are needed to assist researchers with studying the process of transgenerational creative co-imagination involving older adults and younger people together. In this article, we present
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Domestic ‘Disposal Work’ and Plastics Recycling – Unwrapping Everyday Entanglements of Practice, Roles, and Responsibilities Sociological Research Online (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-06 Torik Holmes, Helen Holmes
This article is about household plastics recycling in England. Rates of recycling have stagnated across the country over the past decade. Fitting with an individualisation of responsibility across industry and policy, households commonly get the blame. We bring this framing into question through a conceptualisation and exploration of the ‘disposal work’ undertaken by households. This concerns the bundle
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The Inverted Pyramid and Beyond: Perceptions of Distributive Justice Among (Highly) Qualified Workers in Contemporary Cuba Sociological Research Online (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-04 Nina Jany, Monica Budowski
In 2020/2021, wage scale reforms were implemented in Cuba to improve distributive justice. The previously long-prevailing wage system and resulting wage structure, often referred to as an inverted pyramid, is said to have especially affected (highly) qualified workers in Cuba. This research provides emergent and partly speculative data on perceptions of distributive justice that (highly) qualified
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Images of the Present and Possible: Analyzing the Climate Movement Through Its Utopias Sociological Research Online (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-03 Teppo Eskelinen, Keijo Lakkala
The article analyzes utopian thinking within the current climate movement, with a particular focus on the Finnish movement, and develops analysis of contemporary society through utopias. Empirically, it is based on material collected in the context of a protest week called ‘Utopia rebellion’, in Helsinki in 2022. We use material such as statements, blog posts, and social media content produced by climate
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‘It Will Start With Me’: A Documentary Film Exploring the Benefits and Challenges of Participatory Research Sociological Research Online (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-27 Bircan Birol, Virginie Clayton, Gislaine Mbayi, Lydia Gitamvu, Syeda Sadaf, Lill Casas Tortoledo, Weam Al Zaidi, Jennie Coyle, Lily Owens-Crossman, Lisa M Garnham
‘It will start with me’ documents the experiences of six peer researchers (Virginie Clayton, Gislaine Mbayi, Lydia Gitamvu, Syeda Sadaf, Lill Casas Tortoledo, Weam Al Zaidi), one professional researcher (Lisa Garnham), and one post-graduate research student (Lily Owens-Crossman), who came together to design, develop, and deliver an evaluation of a community project (Our Rights, Our Communities) in
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CrossFit, Community, and Identity: A Gemeinschaft in a Liquid Modern World? Sociological Research Online (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-16 Chris Till, Joseph Ibrahim
This article applies Zygmunt Bauman’s notion of liquid modernity to understand the dynamics of temporary communities through the branded strength and conditioning programme of CrossFit (CF). By drawing on 18 semi-structured interviews across 4 different UK CF gyms, we argue that to some participants CF offers a temporary return to a modified version of the strong social bonds associated with older
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Critical Focus: Study of an Arts Centre Sociological Research Online (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-07 Laura Harris
Critical Focus: Study of an Arts Centre is a 15-minute, two-channel film documenting the everyday life of an art gallery during the exhibition installation period. It was made as part of a sociological investigation of skilled but invisible labour in the art gallery, such as that of gallery technicians. In addition to this focus on skilled labour, the film focuses on the atmospheres of the different
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Does the Liberalization of Masculine Space Improve Experiences for Sexual Minorities? Sociological Research Online (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-02 Eric Anderson, Cyd Zeigler, John Batten, Joseph Reed, Keith Parry, Rory Magrath
North American attitudes are liberalizing toward sexual minorities. This is even found within traditionally conservative, masculine institutions, like fraternities, religion, and the military. However, evidence for Liberalization Theory is mostly derived from attitudinal change of sexual and gender majorities alongside policy changes, with less evidence from sexual and gender minority experiences.
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Engaging With Lived Experience: Towards a Sociological Biography of a Sociological Category Sociological Research Online (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-02 Paul Jones
Although addressing the lives, perceptions, and practices of others, sociological research has an ambivalent association with the category of lived experience. Despite its use not always being accompanied by a precise definition, lived experience appears prominently in much academic research and teaching, descriptively standing in for direct firsthand engagement with a wide range of issues. But we
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Rethinking Empowerment: Young African Migrants’ Understandings of Power and Empowerment in Ghana Sociological Research Online (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-30 Grace Spencer, Stephen Owusu Kwankye, Jill Thompson, Ernestina Dankyi
Concepts of empowerment pervade popular discourses on youth and the term is often applied uncritically as a means to leverage young people’s perspectives on matters that affect their lives. Despite such focus, little critical work exists that unpacks young people’s own meanings of the term, or indeed considers the possible unintended consequences that may emerge from these framings. Drawing on interviews
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Non-Heteronormative Reproductive Tactics in Poland Sociological Research Online (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-27 Joanna Mizielińska, Agata Stasińska
In the backdrop of increasing discussions about reproductive normativity for non-heterosexual individuals in the West, this article addresses the distinct challenges faced by same-sex couples in Poland. The country’s pronatalist state policies limit their access to assisted reproductive techniques, fostering heteronormative and exclusive practices. Consequently, non-heterosexual individuals in Poland
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Collectivist Relationality and Individualistic Relationality: Pacific Mothers and Fathers Negotiating Agency and Identity in Post–Separation Care Arrangements for Children Sociological Research Online (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-23 Moeata Keil
The degree to which agency and identity are experienced as individualised or relational constructs have been widely debated in the sociological literature. Yet, at the centre of these debates are Western notions and understandings of individualisation and relationality, including in family research. They have relied on individualised and nuclearised understandings and approaches to being a family that
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Using Community Power to Tackle Gender-Based Violence: An Intersectional Theorisation Sociological Research Online (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-24 Gabriella Mwedzi, Alison Phipps
What is the role of the community in tackling gender-based violence (GBV)? Could communities succeed in ways that states have failed? What approaches could make this possible? This article presents a theoretical discussion of Community Power, a recently codified and influential paradigm in Britain that focuses on ‘handing power’ to communities to deal with local issues. We are particularly interested
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Beyond the Rhetoric of Revanchism Towards the Metropolitan Core: An Analysis of Symbolic Representations of Milan From Its Peripheries Sociological Research Online (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-24 Niccolò Morelli
Socio-political research has shown that in metropolitan peripheries, populist parties have gained significant support. This is because these parties capitalise on a widespread feeling of exclusion, leading to a revanchist social representation of affluent metropolitan centres. This article contributes to the debate on metropolitan dynamics by exploring the social representations of the centre–periphery
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Re-Thinking Therapeutic Cultures: Tracing Change and Continuity in a Time of Crisis and Change Sociological Research Online (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-25 Daniel Nehring, Mariano Plotkin, Piroska Csúri, Nicolás Viotti
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Living in a Regime of Energy Shortages: Spotlights From Lviv During the War Sociological Research Online (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-18 Mateusz Błaszczyk, Khrystyna Ilyk, Yuriy Pachkovskyy
This article delves into societal functioning amid continuous deficits in access to electricity and heat. As a consequence of the Russian–Ukrainian conflict, Ukraine’s energy infrastructure has been sustaining damage, leading to planned and unplanned disruptions in electricity and heat supply. This scenario has created unique circumstances, akin to a natural laboratory, for analysing social action
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Networks on Paint! Conducting Sociograms Via Graphic Raster Editors as Embedded in Online Interviews Sociological Research Online (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Mücahit Aydemir
This article presents a novel method for creating sociograms in online qualitative interviews. Sociograms, also known as ego-centric network maps, refer to a data visualization tool commonly used for personal network analysis. While paper-based sociogram maps have gained attention in face-to-face qualitative research, little research has been done on how to conduct them in online interviews. This article
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Living Together Apart: Size and Significance of Co-Residency Following Relationship Breakdown in Contemporary Britain Sociological Research Online (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Simon Duncan, Jenny van Hooff, Julia Carter
In this article, we seek to establish the importance of living together apart (LTA), where ex-partners continue to co-reside following relationship breakdown. Although LTA is commonplace, it has been almost completely overlooked by family sociology and social policy. Because LTA is conceptually unrecognised, there is little empirical information and because there is so little information, it remains
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Male Sex Workers as Situational Entrepreneurs: Exploring the Demographics, Motivations, and Practices of Male Sex Workers in the Tourism Industry in Botswana Sociological Research Online (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Lesedi Mashumba
While sex tourism has been well studied in international contexts, to date, only a few studies have focused on African countries. For Botswana and other African countries, the lack of studies in sex work is surprising, given its prevalence in such societies. In the African context, sex work and tourism are very complex, controversial, and entangled with politics and religious disapproval. Moreover
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‘They Should have been Looking after People for a Long Time’: Human Giving and Generosity During COVID-19, in Austerity Britain Sociological Research Online (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-20 Liz McDonnell, Amy Clarke, Alison Phipps
The COVID-19 pandemic mobilised a multitude of acts of giving and generosity. This article provides a snapshot of giving and generosity among a small sample of individuals in the UK, in a context following years of ungenerous austerity politics. Giving and generous actions played a crucial role in mitigating the negative effects of COVID and we report on data collected using in-depth interviews to
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Who Do the Socially Mobile Vote For? A Longitudinal Analysis of Intergenerational Mobility and Political Preferences Sociological Research Online (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 John Jerrim, Neil Kaye
Social mobility has become a key public policy issue across the Western world. But who do the upwardly and downwardly mobile vote for? Does their voting behaviour remain the same as their peers in their social origin class, or does it quickly assimilate to mimic the behaviour of others at their social destination? This article presents new, longitudinal evidence on this issue, documenting how the link
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‘In This Prison We Have Our Main Meal at 11:30 AM’. The Significance of ‘Time’ For Food Among People Serving Custodial Sentences in England and Wales Sociological Research Online (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-30 Julie M Parsons
In this article, I am thinking through the social life of time for food in prison from a practice theory perspective. I draw upon empirical data from in-depth qualitative interviews with people serving custodial sentences or recently released from prison in England and Wales who have been on placement at a prisoner resettlement charity (RC). These support findings from Her Majesty’s Inspectorate for
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Leaping the Abyss: The Problematic Translation of Social Research Results into Policy Recommendations Sociological Research Online (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Seweryn Rudnicki, Katarzyna Wojnicka
This article argues that translating social research findings into policy recommendations may pose a significant methodological and practical challenge. Due to the current emphasis on the ‘third mission’ of universities and the ‘relevance’ of scientific knowledge, it has become more common for sociologists to engage in projects that include the development of social-research-based recommendations.
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Book Review: Rethinking Locality in Japan Sociological Research Online (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Meriç Kırmızı
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Sugar Rush or Sugar Risk? Experiences with Risks and Risk Management among Young Sugar Daters Sociological Research Online (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Theresa Dyrvig Henriksen, Josefine Frøslev-Thomsen
Sugar dating is a complex phenomenon that unfolds on a continuum between traditional dating and sex work. Existing research shows that sugar dating is often portrayed as rife with potential physical and social risks, and from a societal standpoint, it is also often characterized as a risky activity, particularly for young individuals. In this article, we investigate the emergence of these risks and
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Book Review: Habit’s Pathways: Repetition, Power, Conduct Sociological Research Online (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Gordana Angelichin-Zhura
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Digital Therapeutic Cultures and Their New Regime of Psychological Truth Sociological Research Online (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Rodrigo De La Fabián
The article focuses on contemporary digital therapeutic cultures’ new regime of truth. This entails describing and critically analysing the sociomaterial apparatuses that distinguish truth from false and produce specific modes of subjectivation. The article shows that the digital regime of psychological truth is heir to the behavioural mistrust of subjectivity and the epistemological shift from the
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Young People Experiencing Multiple Mobilities: In Search of an Oasis of Youth Across Europe Sociological Research Online (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Ewa Krzaklewska, Valentina Cuzzocrea
In this study, we look at those young Europeans who have undertaken more than one Erasmus stay abroad during their higher education to reflect on spaces for youth development. On the basis of 18 qualitative interviews with such Erasmus students, we propose the concept of an ‘oasis of youth’ to highlight the potential for the exploration of the self that occurs through participation in mobilities. We
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The Psychologization of Student Subjectivity in the Finnish Academia Sociological Research Online (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Antti Saari, Kristiina Brunila, Saara Vainio
Public debate and media attention concerning mental health problems, stress, psycho-emotional vulnerabilities, and anxiety among university students has reached record level. Informed by media representations, student mental health guides, and our observations, we focus on the ethos of vulnerability as an articulation of psychologized student subjectivity in Finnish academia. We explore the multiple
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Understanding Food Assistance Through Care: Theoretical Insights Sociological Research Online (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Fábio Rafael Augusto
Two theoretical perspectives have been extensively mobilized to understand the social role of food assistance initiatives, namely ‘food security’ and ‘political economy’. The main objective of this article is to develop an alternative theoretical approach that allows for more comprehensive analyses. Building on Thomas’s (1993) conceptual work on care, it is expected to encourage the development of
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Misbehaviour on Retreat: Rule-Breaking and the Labours of the Self Sociological Research Online (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 James Hodgson
Current scholarship tends to frame retreat-going, and the practices carried out therein, as emblematic of late-modern forms of self-work, understanding retreats as part of broader personal life projects of self-mastery and self-knowledge. For this article, I draw on empirical data to suggest that, although work on the self is typically the central concern for retreat-goers, they also question or outright
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Developing ‘Age-Friendly’ Communities: The Experience of International Retired Migrants Sociological Research Online (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Marion Repetti, Toni Calasanti, Chris Phillipson
Over the past two decades, the need to create ‘age-friendly cities and communities’ (AFCC) has emerged as a major theme in policies aimed at improving old people’s physical and social environment. The World Health Organization (WHO) has driven this agenda through the launch in 2010 of the Global Network of Age-friendly Cities and Communities. Support for ageing in place has, at the same time, run alongside
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‘It Feels Like a Big Performance’: Space, Performativity and Young Woman Skateboarders Sociological Research Online (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-13 Carrie Paechter, Lyndsey Stoodley, Michael Keenan, Chris Lawton
In this article, we apply philosophical and sociological theory to consider how young women skateboarders interact with and are affected by performative aspects of skateboarding cultures. Drawing on findings from a qualitative study of three skateparks plus other skate spaces in and around two English cities, we argue that these spaces are performative in nature and that this is frequently problematic
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With God We Distrust! The Impact of Values in Conspiracy Theory Beliefs About Migration in Serbia Sociological Research Online (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-13 Türkay Salim Nefes, Jasna Milošević Đorđević, Milica Vdović
Immigrants are a popular target of conspiracy theories. Despite the urgent relevance of the topic all around the world today, the number of studies on conspiracy theories about migrants and immigration is limited. Helping to fill this important gap in the academic literature, the research analyses conspiracy theory beliefs about migrants and immigration in contemporary Serbia through survey data from
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Constructing a Crisis: Mental Health, Higher Education and Policy Entrepreneurs Sociological Research Online (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-13 Ashley Frawley, Chloë Wakeham, Kenneth McLaughlin, Kathryn Ecclestone
In 2018, the UK Conservative government issued a ‘non-negotiable’ instruction for universities to make ‘positive mental health’ a strategic priority. This was responding to growing pressure from a variety of stakeholders including mental health organisations, student groups and higher education (HE) management who claimed a worsening crisis of student mental health in the UK. We conducted a qualitative
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Czech Parents Under Lockdown: Different Positions, Different Temporalities Sociological Research Online (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-05-12 Radka Dudová, Alena Křížková
Using an intersectional approach, we explore how parents in the Czech Republic coped with the increased demands of childcare and how their perceptions of childcare changed throughout the COVID-19 p...
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How to Overcome the Secretiveness of a Group: Opportunities of Online Interviews Sociological Research Online (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-05-08 Inês Maia
In a pandemic, qualitative methodologies and in-person interviews, the key to understanding the experiences lived by participants in social phenomena, proved to be ill-suited. As a result of the re...
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Examining Professionalisation as a Strategy for Sex Worker Empowerment and Mobilisation Sociological Research Online (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-05-08 Nadine Gloss
In this article, I examine the concept of professionalisation in sex work as a strategy shaped by political activism that aims to empower and mobilise sex workers to fight for labour rights. Using ...
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Vulnerability to Food Insecurity among Older People: The Role of Social Capital Sociological Research Online (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-05-08 Wendy Wills, Angela Dickinson
Food insecurity is a public health issue in Western countries, including the UK. Being food-insecure means older adults may not access sufficient nutritious, safe, and socially acceptable food, lea...
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What and How are we Measuring When we Research Gendered Divisions of Domestic Labor? Remaking the Household Portrait Method into a Care/Work Portrait Sociological Research Online (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-10 Andrea Doucet, Janna Klostermann
The porous and shifting boundaries within and between care and work concepts, and practices and their related measurement complexities call for innovative conceptual and methodological approaches t...
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Trajectories of Vulnerability and Resistance Among Independent Indoor Sex Workers During Economic Decline Sociological Research Online (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-24 Laura Jarvis-King
Economic decline, such as we have witnessed in recent years, has disproportionately affected women and evidence demonstrates how financial hardship encourages entry to the sex industry. This worsen...
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‘What Can I Plan at This Age?’ Expectations Regarding Future and Planning in Older Age Sociological Research Online (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-24 Jaroslava Hasmanová Marhánková, Eva Soares Moura
Time has become one of the most researched topics in the field of sociological, but especially psychological, research. While broad attention has been paid to the impact of chronological age on pla...
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Explaining Regularities or Individual Outcomes: Chance and the Limits of Social Science Sociological Research Online (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-24 Judith Glaesser
Can we explain individual outcomes by referring to patterns observed in populations? Social scientists generally assume that we can, at least to a certain degree, and they study populations partly ...
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Discounts as a Barrier to Change in Our Food Systems Sociological Research Online (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-24 Lisa Jack
Despite the wealth of discussion and ideas on how food systems might change, and all the plans and schemes created to provide solutions to unsustainable food systems, very few researchers have exam...
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Superficial Allies: The Role of Legal Inclusion and Social Obedience in Stigma Processes Sociological Research Online (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-02-25 Shahin Davoudpour
While the power of legal exclusion in stigmatisation is undeniable, its impact on ally behaviour has never been explored. This gap in stigma, law, and allyship is the focus of the present study. Mo...
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The Social Production of the Dead Human Body in the Practice of Teaching Anatomy Through Cadaveric Dissection Sociological Research Online (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-02-25 Jennifer Burr, Nigel Russell-Sewell
The aim of this study is to explore how the dead human body is socially produced through the practices of those involved in teaching anatomy through cadaveric dissection. The perspectives of anatom...
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Creating Time for LGBT+ Disabled Youth: Co-production Outside Chrononormativity Sociological Research Online (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-02-22 Harvey Humphrey, Edmund Coleman-Fountain
This article explores how ‘chrononormative’ constructions of time shape research and offers an approach to co-production and research involvement that draws on insights from trans, queer, and disab...
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Critical Reflections on the COVID-19 Pandemic from the NHS Frontline Sociological Research Online (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-02-22 Anthony Lloyd, Daniel Briggs, Anthony Ellis, Luke Telford
The COVID-19 pandemic fundamentally changed the way we live, work, and interact with each other. Nowhere was the pandemic more profoundly experienced than on the frontline of healthcare. From overw...
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The Re-enchantment of Food: An Introduction Sociological Research Online (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-02-16 John Coveney
To say that humans have a profound relationship with the food they produce and eat is a mere truism. What is new derives from the recognition that in Western cultures, over time, our deep relations...
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Using a Range of Communication Tools to Interview a Hard-to-Reach Population Sociological Research Online (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Orlanda Harvey, Edwin van Teijlingen, Margarete Parrish
Online communication tools are increasingly being used by qualitative researchers; hence it is timely to reflect on the differences when using a broad range of data collection methods. Using a case...
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Gendered Interaction and Practices of Intimacy Among Emirati Young Spouses: Exploring the Experiences of Wives Sociological Research Online (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Mohammed Abdel Karim Al Hourani
This study aims to explore the practices of intimacy among Emirati spouses in a society where gender discrimination persistently governs the private space of family relationships. Participants incl...
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Religion and Social Capital: Examining Social Networks and Religious Identification in the UK Sociological Research Online (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-12-30 Adam Gemar
Recent research into religion’s intersection with social class, specifically in the UK, represents a conspicuous gap in recent scholarly work. I seek in this article to help fill this gap by focusi...
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‘Amusing and Fun’, ‘Arresting’, or ‘The Wrong Pictures’? Methodological Lessons from Using Photo-Elicitation in a Study of Academic Retirement Sociological Research Online (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-12-15 Graham Crow
This article reports on the use of photo-elicitation in a mixed methods study of academics’ later careers and retirement. Interviewees, who were either in their later career stage or retired from u...
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Stretching the Double Hermeneutic: A Critical Examination of Lay Meanings of ‘Emotional Labour’ Sociological Research Online (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-12-14 Hana Stulikova, Matt Dawson
This article explores how the concept of emotional labour has moved from sociological into lay discourse as a case study of the double hermeneutic and concept creep, demonstrating the effect sociol...
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‘Alcohol Helps to Stimulate and Violate the Air’: Drinking Games and Transgressive Drinking Practices among Nigerian Youth Sociological Research Online (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-12-12 Emeka W Dumbili
In traditional Nigeria, moderate drinking was normative among adult men who occupied drinking spaces. Heavy drinking and intoxication were transgressive behaviours that attracted sanctions. Alcohol...
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The Transformation of Parents’ Values and Aspirations for Their Children: A Retrospective Qualitative Longitudinal Analysis of Changing Cultural Configurations Sociological Research Online (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-12-07 Jane Gray, Ruth Geraghty
This article contributes to new scholarship on family change as bricolage and institutional layering. Focusing on the classic topic of parental values and aspirations for their children, we used a ...
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Going Public: Performing Dying in the Second Decade of the 21st Century Sociological Research Online (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-12-01 Michael Brennan
It is now more than a decade since the death of celebrity television personality Jade Goody – a high water mark in public dying comparable to the watershed moment in public mourning marked by the d...
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The Mode of Reflexive Practice among Young Indonesian Creative Workers in the Time of COVID-19 Sociological Research Online (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2022-11-25 Oki Rahadianto Sutopo, Gregorius Ragil Wibawanto, Ariane Utomo, Annisa R Beta, Novi Kurnia
This article examines reflexive practice among young creative workers in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, during COVID-19. Since March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has unleashed a series of relentless and ove...