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Misgendering, Cisgenderism and the Reproduction of the Gender Order in Social Interaction Sociology (IF 3.371) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Marco Pino, David Matthew Edmonds
This article investigates moments in social interaction where tacit processes of gender attribution become visible because they are temporarily disrupted and exposed through misgendering. Our data consist of publicly available audio and video-recorded cases of misgendering, mostly from UK and US contexts. Practices of misgendering embody assumptions that map people’s current gender onto their self-presentations
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Racial Capitalism and Entrepreneurship: An Intersectional Feminist Labour Market Perspective on UK Self-Employment Sociology (IF 3.371) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Angela Martinez Dy, Dilani Jayawarna, Susan Marlow
This article explains entrepreneurial activity patterns in the United Kingdom labour market using theories of racial capitalism and intersectional feminism. Using UK Office for National Statistics Labour Force Survey data 2018–2019 and employing probit modelling techniques on employment modes, self-employment types and work arrangements among differing groups, we investigate inequality in self-employment
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‘I was just left to get on with the job’: Understanding grief and work through a relational lens Sociology (IF 3.371) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Kate Reed
Although grief can have a profound effect on the workplace, the long-term lived experience of working after bereavement remains under researched. But how is grief experienced at work? And to what extent does this experience vary according to type of loss and form of work? Drawing on data collected through a qualitative online survey (n = 220), this article provides a sociological exploration of experiences
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Exploring the Role UK Grandfathers Play in Parenting Culture: Intermittent Intensive Grandfathering Sociology (IF 3.371) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Ben Kerrane, Katy Kerrane, Shona Bettany
Grandparents play an increasingly active caregiving role in contemporary family life. However, specific exploration of grandfatherhood and its practice is rare. This article explores how intensive parenting norms inform men’s performance of grandfathering in the United Kingdom, with ageing offering men a ‘second chance’ to (grand)parent in ways qualitatively different from fathering. In-depth interviews
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The English Workday Lunch: The Organisation, Understandings and Meaning of the Meal Sociology (IF 3.371) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Jennifer Whillans
The English workday lunch receives heavy criticism. Given this, why do people eat the way that they do? Using in-depth interview data, findings represent an ‘instruction manual’ to the meal detailing (1) variation in the organisation of the workday lunch and standards for competent performance; (2) shared understandings of the meal; and (3) the guiding principle or meaning of the practice. The workday
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Europeans Seek Exciting Experiences More Than Status: Exploring the Development of Two Fundamental Life Orientations Sociology (IF 3.371) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Christian Schneickert, Stephanie Hess, Jan Delhey
This article relates the lively debate about inequality-induced status concerns in affluent societies to the broader theoretical perspective on changing existential dispositions in modern society, which we reconstruct from the sociological theories of David Riesman, Gerhard Schulze and Ronald Inglehart. We conceptualise experience seeking – aspiring to an enjoyable life – alongside status seeking –
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‘If It’s All an Act, Then What’s the Point?’: Men’s and Women’s Views on Authenticity in Pornographic Videos Sociology (IF 3.371) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Eran Shor
Sociological research has demonstrated a keen interest in authenticity by different audiences in a wide variety of social domains. The current study joins recent efforts by both sociologists and pornography scholars to empirically investigate the meaning and importance of authenticity for pornography viewers. It relies on in-depth interviews with 302 regular pornography viewers from a wide range of
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Household Sustainability Labour and the Gendering of Responsibility for Low Waste Living Sociology (IF 3.371) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Jo Lindsay, David O Reynolds, Dharma Arunachalam, Rob Raven, Ruth Lane
This article explores the nature of domestic labour involved in sustainability transitions at the household level, with waste reduction as an exemplar. We draw on national survey data (N = 2717) from Australia, and qualitative data from a participatory action project working with 34 householders on experiments in low waste living. We found low waste living was challenging work mentally, physically
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Flourishing on the Stage: Embodied Reflexivity and the Effacing of Work Boundaries in Contemporary Performing Arts Sociology (IF 3.371) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Emanuela Naclerio
This article contributes to the debate on individualised and reflexive processes taking place in contemporary cultural work by considering Italian theatre actors’ experiences. Drawing on in-depth qualitative interviews, the analysis focuses on work as the affective and reflexive site where subjectivities are formed. Performing artists display an embodied reflexive stance in which disciplinary practices
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What Is the Nexus between Migration and Mobility? A Framework to Understand the Interplay between Different Ideal Types of Human Movement Sociology (IF 3.371) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Lorenzo Piccoli, Matteo Gianni, Didier Ruedin, Christin Achermann, Janine Dahinden, Paula Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik, Mihaela Nedelcu, Tania Zittoun
Categorising certain forms of human movement as ‘migration’ and others as ‘mobility’ has far-reaching consequences. We introduce the migration–mobility nexus as a framework for other researchers to interrogate the relationship between these two categories of human movement and explain how they shape different social representations. Our framework articulates four ideal-typical interplays between categories
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The Arab ‘Uncertain Body’ and Sojourner Passing in Israel Sociology (IF 3.371) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Liora Sion
This article analyses the image of the Arab ‘uncertain body’ by introducing two theoretical tools: first, the practice of sojourner passing: that is, an abrupt and temporary event limited in space and time in order to gain access to sexual, financial or militarised goals; second, the uncertainty of the Muslim male body. In the Israeli context, the fear of the Arab ‘uncertain body’ manifests itself
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Passing or Dropping the Baton? Local Area Deprivation, Volunteer Leadership Succession and the Survival of Charitable Organisations Sociology (IF 3.371) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 David Clifford
Institutional theories of ‘local area effects’ hypothesise that local area differences in organisational resources are an important feature of inequality in individuals’ residential environments. However, while the organisational dimension of local areas has been identified as an important research priority within urban sociology, empirical work remains limited, with charitable organisations particularly
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Childcare Facility Closure and Exacerbated Gender Inequality in Parenting Time during the COVID-19 Pandemic Sociology (IF 3.371) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Ran Liu, Siyun Gan
The unprecedented large-scale childcare facility closure during the COVID-19 pandemic led to a dramatic increase in the childcare burden at home, which is shouldered disproportionately by women more than men. Leveraging anonymized mobile tracking data and nationally representative time-use survey data from the USA, this study adopts a quasi-experimental approach to examine the impact of childcare facility
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Enacting Migrant Community: Struggles and Unbelonging in the Field of Russian-Speaking Cultural Production Sociology (IF 3.371) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Raisa Akifeva, Loretta Baldassar, Farida Fozdar
In this article, based on ethnographic research conducted in Perth, Western Australia and Madrid, Spain, we consider how community is understood and enacted for Russian-speaking migrants and its role in cultural (re)production. Studies often overlook the important role of struggle, contestation and power relations in everyday practices of community making. Drawing on Bourdieu’s field theory, we describe
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No Substitute for In-Person Interaction: Changing Modes of Social Contact during the Coronavirus Pandemic and Effects on the Mental Health of Adults in the UK Sociology (IF 3.371) Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Patrick Rouxel, Tarani Chandola
Life-course theories on how social relationships affect mental health are limited in causal claims. The restrictions in social contact during the coronavirus pandemic provided a natural experiment ...
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A Sociological Conversation with ChatGPT about AI Ethics, Affect and Reflexivity Sociology (IF 3.371) Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Andrew Balmer
This research note is a conversation between ChatGPT and a sociologist about the use of ChatGPT in knowledge production. ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence language model, programmed to analyse ...
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Sociological Futures and the Importance of the Past Sociology (IF 3.371) Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Tim Strangleman
This article argues that in order to engage sociologically with the future the discipline needs to rediscover its historical imagination. It makes three main points. First is the idea that sociolog...
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Real Utopia as a Method? Utopian-Sociological Paths from Jameson’s Universal Army to a Postcapitalist Post Office Sociology (IF 3.371) Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Martin Greenwood
This article uses Frederic Jameson’s An American Utopia: Dual Power and the Universal Army as the inspiration for a utopian-sociological method that brings together aspects of Erik Olin Wright’s ‘R...
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Slower Sociologies for the Sociology of the Future Sociology (IF 3.371) Pub Date : 2023-04-25 John Goodwin
In this article the use of old photograph techniques is considered as a way of ‘slowing sociology down’ in order to have more thoughtful and immersive engagement within the field. This is contraste...
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Asset-Based Futures: A Sociology for the 21st Century Sociology (IF 3.371) Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Lisa Adkins, Gareth Bryant, Martijn Konings
This article engages with the question of whether the COVID-19 pandemic can be understood as an event that is moving us towards a new era. Highlighting the paradox that this question has emerged in...
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Sociological Imaginations for Anti-Racist Futures: An Interview with Dr Prudence Carter Sociology (IF 3.371) Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Johanne Jean-Pierre, Prudence Carter
In this interview, Dr Prudence Carter, 2021–2022 President-Elect of the American Sociological Association, discusses how sociology can contribute to anti-racist futures across national contexts. He...
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Recalibrating Everyday Futures during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Futures Fissured, on Standby and Reset in Mass Observation Responses Sociology (IF 3.371) Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Rebecca Coleman, Dawn Lyon
This article contributes to sociologies of futures by arguing that quotidian imaginations, makings and experiences of futures are crucial to social life. We develop Sharma’s concept of recalibratio...
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What Future for the Sociology of Futures? Visions, Concepts and Methods Sociology (IF 3.371) Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Susan Halford, Dale Southerton
Questions about the future, and futurelessness, have attracted wide-ranging attention in recent years. Our article explores what Sociology offers. We reflect on the apparent contradiction that the ...
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Future-Making in an Uncertain World: The Presence of an Open Future in Danish Young Women’s Lives Sociology (IF 3.371) Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Justine Grønbæk Pors, Sharon Kishik
Reporting from a three-year longitudinal study following 16 young women through their upper secondary schooling, this article explores the lived experiences of future-making. By unpacking the strik...
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Futures Imperfect: A Reflection on Challenges Sociology (IF 3.371) Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Barbara Adam
Social lives are lived prospectively with intent and visions of what will, could and should be. Importantly, this social futurity is not merely hoped for, expected or anticipated but it is also ena...
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Can Work Time Fragmentation Influence Workers’ Subjective Time Pressure? The Roles of Gender and Parenthood Sociology (IF 3.371) Pub Date : 2023-04-23 Zhuofei Lu
This article investigates how the fragmentation of work time influences subjective time pressure, and how this relationship varies across gender and parenthood status. This is an important question...
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Is Anti-Immigrant Sentiment Owned by the Political Right? Sociology (IF 3.371) Pub Date : 2023-04-19 Inna Leykin, Anastasia Gorodzeisky
In political and social scientific discourses, the link between right-wing political orientation and anti-immigrant sentiment is often presented as a universal social fact. Based on a systematic ex...
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Exclusionary Logics: Constructing Disability and Disadvantaging Disabled Academics in the Neoliberal University Sociology (IF 3.371) Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Jennifer Remnant, Katherine Sang, Tom Calvard, James Richards, Olugbenga (Abraham) Babajide
Contemporary academia features managerialism and neoliberal thinking, consequent of an increasingly dominant market logic. This article draws on interviews with disabled academics, line managers, h...
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Are Right-Wing Attitudes and Voting Associated with Having Attended Private School? An Investigation Using the 1970 British Cohort Study Sociology (IF 3.371) Pub Date : 2023-04-07 Richard D Wiggins, Samantha Parsons, Francis Green, George B Ploubidis, Alice Sullivan
This article addresses the question of whether attending a private school affects voting behaviour and political attitudes in adulthood in Britain. The analysis is based upon the British Cohort Stu...
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Knowledge Hierarchies and Gender Disparities in Social Science Funding Sociology (IF 3.371) Pub Date : 2023-04-03 Julien Larregue, Mathias Wullum Nielsen
This article examines the relationship between knowledge hierarchies and gender stratification in research funding. Through a mixed-methods study combining data on 5460 funded and unfunded social s...
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Reproduction and the Expanding Border: Pregnant Migrants as a ‘Problem’ in the 2014 Immigration Act Sociology (IF 3.371) Pub Date : 2023-04-03 Gwyneth Lonergan
This article explores the construction of the UK National Health Service as a ‘bordering scape’, and the depiction of pregnant migrants as an especial problem, in policy documents and Parliamentary...
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How and Why People Use Mobile Phones Near Bedtime and in Bed: Israelis’ Narratives of Digitally Enabled Sleepful Sociality Sociology (IF 3.371) Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Dana Zarhin
Although prior studies have examined the impact of smartphone use on sleep and there is a growing interest in the interface between mobile phones and society, researchers know little about how and ...
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Give My Child a Label: Strategies of Epistemic Corroboration in Case-Building within Child Mental Health Assessments Sociology (IF 3.371) Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Michelle O’Reilly, Nikki Kiyimba, Victoria Lee, Ian Hutchby
Child mental health services are in rising demand, but increasingly overstretched and difficult for families to access. This article examines rhetorical techniques used by parents seeking a mental ...
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Cleansing Frames: How Digital ‘Consumer Reports’ of Cannabis and Psychedelics Normalise Drug-Taking and Neutralise its Counter-Cultural Potential Sociology (IF 3.371) Pub Date : 2023-03-24 Isak Ladegaard
Electronic drug markets enable calculative, impersonal trade between faceless strangers, but also intimate interaction between pseudonymous users. In this space, do people treat banned drugs as ord...
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Maternal Occupation-Specific Skills and Children’s Cognitive Development Sociology (IF 3.371) Pub Date : 2023-03-23 Katherin Barg, Markus Klein
This article hypothesizes that maternal occupation-specific skills are associated with children’s cognitive development over and above parents’ other human, financial and social capital. Data from ...
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Better Than the Markets: Mutual Fund Managers’ Perceptions of the Rich Sociology (IF 3.371) Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Hanna Kuusela
This article investigates the cultural perceptions and the common sense held by Finnish mutual fund managers on the very wealthy and the rich in times of growing inequalities and increased wealth a...
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Gendered Consequencesof Social Mobility: Second-Generation Immigrants’ Work–Care Considerations in High-Status Occupations in Norway Sociology (IF 3.371) Pub Date : 2023-03-23 Marjan Nadim, Arnfinn H Midtbøen
Across Europe, children of low-educated migrants are entering high-status occupations. While the research literature has accounted for the determinants of this social mobility, few studies have exp...
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Changing Temporal Opportunity Structures? Two Cohorts of Young Women’s Thoughts about Future Work, Family and Education Sociology (IF 3.371) Pub Date : 2023-03-05 Ann Nilsen
This article seeks to explore if and how period specific conditions affect young women’s thoughts about their future lives. A contextualist analysis is done of a small sample of biographical interv...
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Money, Debt and Finance: Reclaiming the Conditions of Possibility in Consumption Research Sociology (IF 3.371) Pub Date : 2023-03-05 David M Evans, Nicky Gregson
This article provides an argument for why the sociology of consumption should be reorientated towards a money and finance sensibility. Proceeding from the observation that the rise of financialised...
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Beyond ‘Imagined Meritocracy’: Distinguishing the Relative Power of Education and Skills in Intergenerational Inequality Sociology (IF 3.371) Pub Date : 2023-03-05 Satoshi Araki
Scholars argue the dominant discourse of meritocracy legitimises intergenerational inequality and the winner–loser divide. However, is our society really meritocratic? If yes, the relative power of...
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Young Low-Income Mothers’ Identity Work around Infant Feeding in the UK Sociology (IF 3.371) Pub Date : 2023-02-25 Emma Banister, Margaret K Hogg, Mandy Dixon
This article focuses on young low-income mothers’ engagement with, and management of, potentially conflicting discourses within the context of maternal foodwork. Findings from qualitative, longitud...
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Racial Bias in Fans and Officials: Evidence from the Italian Serie A Sociology (IF 3.371) Pub Date : 2023-02-18 Beatrice Magistro, Morgan Wack
Recent scholarship studying the impact of race-based prejudice has emphasized its rampant persistence throughout all aspects of modern society, including the world of sports. Prior research from Am...
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Inter-Risk Framing Contests: The Politics of Issue Attention among Scandinavian Climate NGOs during the Coronavirus Pandemic Sociology (IF 3.371) Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Thyge Ryom Enggaard, Annika Solveig Hedegaard Isfeldt, Anna Helene Kvist Møller, Hjalmar Bang Carlsen, Kristoffer Albris, Anders Blok
In this article, we study the framing activities of Scandinavian climate-active non-governmental organizations (NGOs) during the early phases of the 2020 coronavirus pandemic. Building on theories ...
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Measuring Public Attitudes Towards Immigration: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Social Survey Questions Sociology (IF 3.371) Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Josephine Biglin, Kingsley Purdam
Public attitudes towards immigration and immigrants, captured through social surveys, are widely reported in the media and used to inform political decision making. However, it is important to cons...
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Machine Learning and Postcolonial Critique: Homologous Challenges to Sociological Notions of Human Agency Sociology (IF 3.371) Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Christian Borch
This article discusses two seemingly unrelated but homologous challenges to established sociological thinking, namely machine learning technologies and postcolonial critique. Both of these confront...
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The Aftermath of Death in the Continuing Lives of the Living: Extending ‘Bereavement’ Paradigms through Family and Relational Perspectives Sociology (IF 3.371) Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Jane McCarthy, Kate Woodthorpe, Kathryn Almack
While there is a significant interdisciplinary and international literature available on death, dying and bereavement, literature addressing responses to death is dominated by assumptions about ind...
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‘I Hadn’t Realised That Change Is Not a Difficult Thing’: Mobilising Football Fans on Climate Change Sociology (IF 3.371) Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Jennifer Amann, Mark Doidge
The damaging consequences of anthropogenic climate change are well documented. In order to engage the public on the serious question of climate change, there is a need to use different approaches t...
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From 100-Year-Old Women’s Motoring Masks to Contemporary PPE: A Socio-Political Study of Persistent Problems and Inventive Possibilities Sociology (IF 3.371) Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Kat Jungnickel, Katja May
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, personal protective equipment became central to daily news. Face masks may have been critical, but they were clearly not equally designed or distributed, compelling many...
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Remembering and Narrativising COVID-19: An Early Sociological Take Sociology (IF 3.371) Pub Date : 2023-01-31 Peter Manning, Sarah Moore, Jordan Tchilingirian, Kate Woodthorpe
How the COVID-19 pandemic, and the deaths that occurred during the acute phase of the pandemic (2020–2021), will be remembered is yet to be determined. Writing from a UK perspective, this short art...
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Racial Biofutures: COVID-19 and Black Futurity Otherwise Sociology (IF 3.371) Pub Date : 2023-01-18 Nadine Ehlers
Through a consideration of COVID-19, this article offers a series of provocations in thinking about racial biofutures. First, it suggests that looking backwards through a lens of recursivity only a...
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Trading Blame: Drawing Boundaries around the Righteous, Deserving and Vulnerable in Times of Crisis Sociology (IF 3.371) Pub Date : 2023-01-18 Jordan Foster, David Pettinicchio, Michelle Maroto, Andy Holmes, Martin Lukk
Symbolic boundaries shape how we see and understand both ourselves and those around us. Amid periods of crisis, these boundaries can appear more salient, sharpening distinctions between ‘us’ and ‘t...
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Displaying Difference, Displaying Sameness: Mixed Couples’ Reflexivity and the Narrative-Making of the Family Sociology (IF 3.371) Pub Date : 2022-12-26 Francesco Cerchiaro
Drawing on qualitative research involving Christian-Muslim couples in Italy, France and Belgium, the article explores the concept of mixedness by employing Finch’s concept of ‘displaying family’ to...
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Enemies in Iraq, Human Beings in Norway: ‘Multilocal’ Boundaries between Radicalised Sunni and Shi‘a Muslims Sociology (IF 3.371) Pub Date : 2022-12-26 Uzair Ahmed
This article employs symbolic boundary theory to investigate how a sample of radicalised Sunni and Shi‘a Muslims in Norway make meaning of their views, behaviour and interactions with denominationa...
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Hunger Bonds: Boundaries and Bridges in the Charitable Food Provision Field Sociology (IF 3.371) Pub Date : 2022-12-26 Filippo Oncini
Building on a field perspective, this article adopts a relational approach that lets us make sense of food charities’ interconnections, relationships and social positioning. I analyse how food char...
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Knowing What You’ve Got Once It’s Gone: Identifying Familial Norms and Values through the Lens of (Sibling) Bereavement Sociology (IF 3.371) Pub Date : 2022-12-26 Laura Towers
Following the death of a sibling, life as it was known and expected to be lived is permanently and irrevocably set on a different trajectory. Surviving siblings are left to consider all that they h...
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Urban Rebels? A Gendered Approach to Domicile and Protest Participation in Nine European Countries Sociology (IF 3.371) Pub Date : 2022-12-26 Anna Lavizzari, Martín Portos
Engaging with research on protest participation and gender inequalities, we examine how gender dynamics play a crucial role in shaping patterns of protest participation across the rural/urban divid...
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Futures in Action: Expectations, Imaginaries and Narratives of the Future Sociology (IF 3.371) Pub Date : 2022-12-20 Giacomo Bazzani
The study of the future is a growing field of research transcending almost all research topics. Despite this rising interest, this field often seems fragmented into different approaches, as though ...
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The Sociology of Futurelessness Sociology (IF 3.371) Pub Date : 2022-12-15 Richard Tutton
This article contributes to ‘sociologies of the future’ by discussing the concept of ‘futurelessness’. I provide a conceptual elaboration of what is meant by ‘futurelessness’, beginning with its us...
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Family Influences on Migration Intentions: The Role of Past Experience of Involuntary Immobility Sociology (IF 3.371) Pub Date : 2022-12-15 Zuzanna Brunarska, Artjoms Ivlevs
The article examines the relationship between past experience of involuntary immobility in a family and the current migration intentions of its members. While family migration experience has been s...
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Neighbourliness and Situational Factors: Explaining Neighbour Behaviour in Attacks and Rescues of Sikhs in Delhi in 1984 and Muslims in Ahmedabad in 2002 Sociology (IF 3.371) Pub Date : 2022-12-10 Raheel Dhattiwala
Studies find a direct association of collective violence with relational distance: lower the relational distance, lower the violence. Where people live as neighbours, spatial proximity provides mor...