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Women’s lives and temporalities of fertility treatment Current Sociology (IF 2.489) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Nicola Payne, Suzan Lewis, Ann Nilsen
This article explores women’s temporal experiences of using Assisted Reproductive Technology. The demand for such treatment has increased since the first in vitro fertilisation birth. Assisted Reproductive Technology involves invasive procedures in women’s bodies, uncertain outcomes and temporal challenges. A sample of 11 professional women was drawn from a larger sample recruited for interviews from
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Who recounts the Stalinist past? Mnemonic roles, acts of remembering and life-scripts in Russian families Current Sociology (IF 2.489) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Gavin Slade, Zhaniya Turlubekova, Laura Piacentini
This article asks why some memories of the Stalinist Gulag are shared while others are not. Considering remembering as a social act, we argue that who engages in acts of remembering, to whom, when and how helps explain what is remembered. The article draws on family memories shared by participants of 16 focus groups in four research sites in Russia. We find that mnemonic actors – most often grandmothers
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Contestations over risk expertise, definitions and insecurities: The case of European football Current Sociology (IF 2.489) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Jan Andre Lee Ludvigsen
This article advances sociological debates which, since the 1990s, have proliferated over the nature of ‘risk’ and ‘insecurity’ in modern societies. Central here is Ulrich Beck’s work, dealing with questions regarding which expert systems and institutions possess the ability to define what constitutes a risk or not. For Beck, hegemonic relations of definitions are central in the identification and
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Promoting mindfulness in education: Scientisation, psychology and epistemic capital Current Sociology (IF 2.489) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Peter J Hemming, Alp Arat
Mindfulness is increasingly found in many educational settings in the United Kingdom, but existing research has focused primarily on clinical efficacy or implementation issues, rather than sociological interests. This article draws on data from the ‘Mapping Mindfulness in the UK’ study to help explain the successful growth of mindfulness in education, by exploring the discursive strategies through
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Conflicting demands and emotional labour: Balancing and swapping at the front line of the welfare state Current Sociology (IF 2.489) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Mathias Herup Nielsen
This article combines insights from the sociology of emotional labour with works on conflicting demands facing employees to analyse how frontline staff conduct emotional labour in contexts marked by multifaceted demands facing them. It demonstrates the usefulness of this combination through an analysis of group interviews with frontline staff within Danish job centres, who are currently explicitly
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Giving and receiving: Gendered service work in academia Current Sociology (IF 2.489) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Margaretha Järvinen, Nanna Mik-Meyer
Deploying the perspective of ‘relational work’, this article investigates the mechanisms behind the gender-unequal distribution of academic service. The concept of relational work is used to analyse how men and women in academia balance collective against individual interests when agreeing or disagreeing on service tasks. Four types of relational work are identified: compliance, evasiveness, barter
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Dissenting and innovating: Freelancers’ emerging forms of organising in the Netherlands Current Sociology (IF 2.489) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Valeria Piro, Annalisa Murgia
This article investigates precarious workers’ organising by considering the case of freelancers, a category between the self-employed – usually represented by employer organisations – and employees – whose interests are traditionally defended by trade unions. Drawing on a 6-month ethnography conducted in the Netherlands within two freelancer associations, our study shows their capacity to exercise
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‘Class and “Race”. . . the two antinomic poles of a permanent dialectic’: Racialization, racism and resistance in Japan Current Sociology (IF 2.489) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Zaheer Baber
Despite the pervasive social constructivist turn, regardless of some exceptions, discussions of race, racialization and racism continue to focus on the relatively essentialist White/non-White binar...
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Police violence, corrupt cops, and the repudiation of stigma among underclass residents in Mexico City Current Sociology (IF 2.489) Pub Date : 2023-04-21 Roger S Guy, Piotr A Chomczyński
The relationship between police corruption and violence is well established in Latin America. Those with less power in poor communities often adapt their actions to serve their group interests in r...
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Introduction: Reconstructive biographical research Current Sociology (IF 2.489) Pub Date : 2023-04-21 Johannes Becker, Maria Pohn-Lauggas, Hermílio Santos
Reconstructive biographical research is a diverse and differentiated sociological field. In this introduction, we trace its interdisciplinary and transnational historical development, consider the ...
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Replace, absorb, serve: Data scientists talk about their aspired jurisdiction Current Sociology (IF 2.489) Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Netta Avnoon
How do data scientists frame their relations with domain experts? This study focuses on data scientists’ aspired professional jurisdiction and their multiple narratives regarding data science’s rel...
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Reflections on racialisation’s impact on research: Insights from a study of Muslim radicalisation in Norway Current Sociology (IF 2.489) Pub Date : 2023-04-01 Uzair Ahmed
Sociologists have studied the causes and consequences of collectively blaming and negatively portraying Muslims, but less attention has been paid to how collective blaming and negative descriptions...
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Making military conscription count? Converting competencies between the civilian and military spheres in a neoliberal Estonia Current Sociology (IF 2.489) Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Eleri Lillemäe, Kairi Kasearu, Eyal Ben-Ari
While past decades Western societies have been shifting from mandatory military service toward all-volunteer forces, a number of them have retained conscription. A growing emphasis on individualiza...
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Pandemic racism and sexism in Australia: Responses and reflections among Asian women Current Sociology (IF 2.489) Pub Date : 2023-03-10 Sylvia Ang, Jay Song, Qiuping Pan
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, studies have emerged to address either racism or women’s issues. Studies that address the intersection of pandemic racism and sexism are lacking and the experiences of ...
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Brokering immigrant transnationalism: Remittances, family reunification, and private refugee sponsorship in neoliberal Canada Current Sociology (IF 2.489) Pub Date : 2023-02-22 Emine Fidan Elcioglu, Tahseen Shams
Using the case study of Canada’s private refugee sponsorship program, we show how neoliberalization heightens the power of non-immigrant civilians to broker immigrants’ transnationalism. Private sp...
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Exploring biographical case reconstructions of women with housing instability experience in South Brazil Current Sociology (IF 2.489) Pub Date : 2023-02-22 Priscila Susin, Naida Menezes
How do women who have faced housing instability interpret and set up strategies to access housing? This article reflects on biographical narrative interviews conducted with women who have experienc...
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Self-optimisation: Conceptual, discursive and historical perspectives Current Sociology (IF 2.489) Pub Date : 2023-01-12 Daniel Nehring, Anja Röcke
Self-optimisation has arguably become a central socio-cultural trend in contemporary Western societies. The imperative to optimise our ways of thinking, feeling and interacting with others features...
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A Black feminist approach to antiracist qualitative research methods: Commemorating the legacy of bell hooks Current Sociology (IF 2.489) Pub Date : 2022-12-29 Anson Au
This article commemorates the legacy of bell hooks by bringing core themes in her oeuvre to bear on several debates on the conceptualization and use of qualitative research methods in sociology. De...
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Planned meetings: Multiplicity, boxed-in dialogues, and deliberative bureaucracy as social form Current Sociology (IF 2.489) Pub Date : 2022-12-04 Alexander Paulsson
In what ways are meetings a social form? How are meetings organized and how do organizations structure meetings to produce consensus around visions of the future? In this article, planning meetings...
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The diverging gender inequality across households: The case of Palestinian-Arab families in Israel Current Sociology (IF 2.489) Pub Date : 2022-12-04 Maha Sabbah-Karkabi
This article focuses on how the family’s position in the stratification system affects the division of housework and childcare in Palestinian-Arab society in Israel; a highly gendered society exper...
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Anti-consumerism as a class practice: Parental investment in a private kindergarten in Israel Current Sociology (IF 2.489) Pub Date : 2022-12-04 Amit Rottman, Amalia Sa’ar
This article documents a cultural script of ‘non-materialistic parental investment’ in a private kindergarten in Israel, and the paradoxes that accompany it. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, the ...
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Reconstructing biographical knowledge: Biographical policy evaluation toward a structural understanding of transnational migration Current Sociology (IF 2.489) Pub Date : 2022-11-23 Ursula Apitzsch, Lena Inowlocki
In our article, we address how migrants in transnational spaces are affected by policies of citizenship, language policies, labor market, and education and training policies, among others. The anal...
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Social-constructivist and figurational biographical research Current Sociology (IF 2.489) Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Artur Bogner, Gabriele Rosenthal
In this article, we consider how biographical research can avoid common pitfalls such as viewing social phenomena as ahistorical, focusing on single individuals (as if they exist in isolation), neg...
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Together or apart? Doing biographical research and oral history in an interdisciplinary context Current Sociology (IF 2.489) Pub Date : 2022-11-14 Jakub Gałęźiowski, Kaja Kaźmierska
This article compares research and analytical approaches with biographical materials in the fields of biographical research in sociology and oral history practised by a historian. The reflection is...
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On the emergence and changing positions of old-established groupings in migration contexts: A process perspective on group formation in Jordan Current Sociology (IF 2.489) Pub Date : 2022-11-04 Johannes Becker, Hendrik Hinrichsen, Arne Worm
While being ‘old-established’ is usually seen as a product of the social negotiation of migration, there is little empirical research on how this category evolves and changes over time. To unravel ...
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Exploring biographies in a rapidly changing labor world Current Sociology (IF 2.489) Pub Date : 2022-11-03 Giorgos Tsiolis, Irini Siouti
The field of work and employment is among the most rapidly changing fields in current societies. The sociology of work attempts to map these changes, developing concepts that seek to grasp the tran...
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Social media as a means of visual biographical performance and biographical work Current Sociology (IF 2.489) Pub Date : 2022-11-03 Roswitha Breckner, Elisabeth Mayer
With the rise of social media, forms of communication emerge that are increasingly defined by the use of images. From the perspective of biographical research and visual sociology, the article addr...
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Invisible privilege in Asia: Introduction to special section Current Sociology (IF 2.489) Pub Date : 2022-11-01 Laavanya Kathiravelu, Saroja Dorairajoo
This introduction to the special section ‘Invisible Privilege in Asia’ suggests a framework within which studies of privilege in Asia can be situated. Animated by a global politics of Blackness and...
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Millennial femininity and the harmonious state of mind Current Sociology (IF 2.489) Pub Date : 2022-10-27 Amalia Sa’ar, Dalit Simchai
The article depicts feminine subjectivity among women of the millennial generation. Content analysis of an open question relating to the answers of 623 Israeli participants reveals perceptions of f...
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Locating invisible privilege in Asia: Conceptual travel and contextual significance Current Sociology (IF 2.489) Pub Date : 2022-10-25 Laavanya Kathiravelu, Saroja Dorairajoo
This article that forms part of a Special Section on ‘Invisible Privilege in Asia’ is committed to expanding the theoretical debates in race and ethnic studies, which has been previously critiqued ...
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‘Put me on to a male agent’: Emotional labor and performing gender in call centers Current Sociology (IF 2.489) Pub Date : 2022-10-15 Ayşegül Akdemir
This article aims to shed light on the gender dynamics in the context of performing emotional labor in Turkish call centers. Based on qualitative interviews, this study aimed to illuminate how gend...
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The network society in the ‘new normal times’: Crisis digitalization and adaption of cultural organizations in the COVID-19 Current Sociology (IF 2.489) Pub Date : 2022-10-15 Konstantin Galkin, Oksana Parfenova
For the recent 3 years, there has been a growing research interest in adaptation to the new normality and crisis digitalization during pandemic. However, there are a little empirical researches in ...
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‘I do not trust any of them anymore’: Institutional distrust and corrective practices in pro-asylum activism in Finland Current Sociology (IF 2.489) Pub Date : 2022-10-14 Päivi Pirkkalainen, Lena Näre, Eveliina Lyytinen
Although there is extensive research on how institutional trust and distrust play out in the forms political participation takes, the existing research lacks thorough analysis on what trust and dis...
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Environmental anomie and the disruption of physical norms during disaster Current Sociology (IF 2.489) Pub Date : 2022-10-10 Adrienne R Brown
Large-scale disasters cause a wide variety of disruptions across impacted communities. Existing research has broadly addressed the ways in which both social norms and physical features constrain an...
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Complicating ideas of the political: Examining subaltern performativity as gendered resistance Current Sociology (IF 2.489) Pub Date : 2022-10-10 Umer Jan, Sheeba Malik
This article attempts to wrest away the notion of popular political resistance and performativity from the realm of visibility in the ‘public’ sphere/space and place them within the unperformed act...
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‘Very unsure of what’s to come’: Salon worker experiences of COVID-19 in Australia during 2020 Current Sociology (IF 2.489) Pub Date : 2022-10-08 Hannah McCann
During Australia’s first nationwide lockdown due to COVID-19 in 2020, hairdressers and barbers were allowed to remain operating while beauty salons and similar businesses were ordered to shut. This...
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Controlling precarious work through documents: The carteira de trabalho on the sugarcane plantations of Northeast Brazil Current Sociology (IF 2.489) Pub Date : 2022-08-19 Allan Souza Queiroz
This article explores the Brazilian carteira de trabalho (work card) and its usage on the sugarcane plantations of Alagoas, Northeast Brazil. It draws on photography and interviews with rural worke...
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Sentencing social psychology: Scientific deviance and the diffusion of statistical rules Current Sociology (IF 2.489) Pub Date : 2022-08-13 Julien Larregue
This article investigates the inquiries and sanctions that followed accusations of fraud directed toward Dutch social psychologist Diederik Stapel in the early 2010s. Relying on the public reports ...
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Youth and the consumption of credit Current Sociology (IF 2.489) Pub Date : 2022-08-05 David Farrugia, Julia Cook, Kate Senior, Steven Threadgold, Julia Coffey, Kate Davies, Adriana Haro, Barrie Shannon
This article explores young people’s consumption of credit and the role of credit and debt in the distinction between youth and adulthood. The article engages with recent shifts in the nature of cr...
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Weaponized volunteering: Where and whither Current Sociology (IF 2.489) Pub Date : 2022-08-04 Jon Van Til
Writing on weaponized volunteering in these perilous times, one risks the perils Auden described of ‘lecturing on navigation as the ship goes down’. Aging and unarmed, this scholar proceeds to resp...
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Publisher’s Note Current Sociology (IF 2.489) Pub Date : 2022-07-23
The Editors of Current Sociology wish to alert readers that this article appears to be published at another venue with credit to another author. The Publisher contacted the author and publisher to inform them they were in breach of copyright regulations but did not receive a response.
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Afro-Belgian activist resistances to research procedures: Reflections on epistemic extractivism and decolonial interventions in sociological research Current Sociology (IF 2.489) Pub Date : 2022-07-21 Sarah Demart
This article examines Afro-Belgian resistance to sociological research procedures and in particular, the way in which demands for compensation and citation policies have recently emerged as a sine ...
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Digital home-lessness: Exploring the links between public Internet access, technological capital, and social inequality Current Sociology (IF 2.489) Pub Date : 2022-07-19 Matt Comi, Sarah Smith, Walter A Goettlich, Perry Alexander, Drew Davidson, William G Staples
Millions of individuals in the United States without a computer or broadband at their residence must rely on public libraries for their Internet access. Drawing on a rich data set of interviews and...
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Cosmopolitan social infrastructure and immigrant cross-ethnic friendship Current Sociology (IF 2.489) Pub Date : 2022-06-29 Sean Lauer
How do newcomers make cross-ethnic connections and friendships? This article investigates the role of associations as a location for making cross-ethnic friendships. Cosmopolitan social infrastruct...
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The surviving power of Brahmin privilege Current Sociology (IF 2.489) Pub Date : 2022-06-29 Amritorupa Sen
The caste system in India traditionally confers immense prestige to upper caste Brahmins and severely curtails the backward castes. In spite of institutional efforts to diminish caste-based discrim...
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Re-imagining what counts as femicide Current Sociology (IF 2.489) Pub Date : 2022-06-29 Elizabeth A. Cook, Sandra Walklate, Kate Fitz-Gibbon
This Special Subsection on Re-imagining what counts as femicide brings together five original articles which, from different perspectives, seek to push, challenge, and redefine what counts as femic...
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Settler colonialism and the archives of apprehension Current Sociology (IF 2.489) Pub Date : 2022-06-22 Areej Sabbagh-Khoury
The ‘archival turn’ has prompted historical scholarship to reevaluate the positivist sourcing of knowledge, especially in contentious contexts. The archive’s configuration, and attendant mechanisms of classification, apprehension, and attribution indicate colonial governance just as much as inscribed histories and discourses. Scholarship on the Zionist movement in early-20th century Palestine has been
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The German social space and its homologies: National variation on a basic structure Current Sociology (IF 2.489) Pub Date : 2022-06-08 Will Atkinson, Andreas Schmitz
This article constructs a comprehensive new model of the contemporary class structure of Germany. More specifically, inspired by Pierre Bourdieu’s geometric conception of class relations and drawing on original survey data, it adopts multiple correspondence analysis paired with cluster analysis to chart the German ‘social space’, that is, the relational configuration of key forms of capital. It then
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Importation for comparison as apparatus: Israeli prime ministers and their political strategies of memorialization Current Sociology (IF 2.489) Pub Date : 2022-06-08 Tracy Adams
Politically grappling with history is a constructive act, one that relies on context, structure, and agency, and is also directed at the forging of cultural coherence. In light of the growing transnationalization of commemoration practices, political actors not only rely on national past but also appeal to historical foreign events in political domestic speech. This research focuses on Israel as a
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What is just and unjust in education? Role of inter-ethnic tensions in defining justice in education through the prism of media debates Current Sociology (IF 2.489) Pub Date : 2022-06-04 Dorota Lepianka
By exploring carefully selected education-related debates that have taken place in and through news media in five European countries, the current study investigates the role of inter-ethnic tensions in organizing public imaging of justice in educational matters. It focuses in particular on analysing in what ways and on what levels of moral reasoning justice-related tensions in the realm of education
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Who counts? The invisibility of mothers as victims of femicide Current Sociology (IF 2.489) Pub Date : 2022-06-04 Rachel Condry, Caroline Miles
This article focuses on the important and persistent phenomenon of women killed by their sons. We argue that parricide (the killing of parents) is a gendered form of violence, given that women are disproportionately represented as victims compared to other forms of violence (aside from domestic homicide by current or ex partners) and that son-mother killings are a form of femicide that is often hidden
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Disabled youth participation within activism and social movement bases: An empirical investigation of the UK Disabled People’s Movement Current Sociology (IF 2.489) Pub Date : 2022-06-04 Miro Griffiths
Understanding disabled youth activism is key for improving young disabled people’s participation in politics and social change. Young disabled people require opportunities to situate historical and biographical experiences within broader socio-economic contexts. This will lead to a politicised consciousness surrounding disability, emancipation and social justice. This article presents empirical data
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Friends against capitalism: Constructive resistance and friendship compliance in worker cooperatives Current Sociology (IF 2.489) Pub Date : 2022-06-04 Kristin Wiksell, Andreas Henriksson
The article examines how members of worker cooperatives articulated friendship as resistance against capitalist work relations. This elucidates relatively unexplored links between research on workplace friendships and resistance studies. Based on interviews with members from small Swedish worker co-ops, the analysis shows that the co-ops hinged their friendships on authenticity, but also valued friendship
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‘Weaponized volunteering’ and re-considering the volunteering-weaponization divide Current Sociology (IF 2.489) Pub Date : 2022-06-03 Itamar Y Shachar, Nir Gazit, Erella Grassiani
This introductory chapter to the monograph issue Weaponized Volunteering explicates and situates the theoretical and conceptual problems the collection addresses. It defines the concept of ‘weaponized volunteering’ and analyzes its importance for understanding the relations between contemporary trends of moralization and militarization or securitization. It does so by providing a brief genealogy of
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Empathy in research process: Study of women in sex work in India Current Sociology (IF 2.489) Pub Date : 2022-06-03 Mangala Subramaniam
The reflexive approach to explaining the process of data collection entails recognizing the delicate balance between being ethical and having empathy for participants, particularly vulnerable populations, whose life experiences may differ from those of the researcher. Conveying and displaying empathy is emotion work that can be a strain on the researcher because of the tenuous connection between relating
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Family formation trajectories and migration in the United States by the end of the 20th century Current Sociology (IF 2.489) Pub Date : 2022-05-18 Andrés F Castro Torres
Studies often explain differences in family behaviors by migration status by testing four hypotheses: socialization, selection, disruption, and assimilation/adaptation. These hypotheses were initially formulated as competing explanations, but some scholars have argued that they are complementary. Currently, however, this complementary relationship is not well understood. In this article, I draw on
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‘I can do things that others can’t’: Civic policing as weaponized volunteering in eThekwini, South Africa Current Sociology (IF 2.489) Pub Date : 2022-05-14 Tessa Diphoorn, SJ Cooper-Knock
In this article, we analyse civic policing in post-apartheid South Africa as a form of ‘weaponized volunteering’. We use ‘weaponized volunteerism’ as a conceptual lens to refer to practices that rest on the potentiality and/or willingness to use physical violence or to harness the physical violence of others under the guise of ‘volunteer work’. By drawing from ethnographic fieldwork conducted by both
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Supporting oneself: The tensions of navigating a prolonged crisis among Spanish youth Current Sociology (IF 2.489) Pub Date : 2022-05-03 Antonio Álvarez-Benavides, Matthew L Turnbough
Spanish youth’s process of transition to adult life illustrates the complex effects of a prolonged economic crisis that emerged in 2008 and exacerbated an already precarious labour market. In this article, we approach this panorama of social change from the perspective of the young individuals who find themselves immersed in this passage from one crisis to another – from a global economic crisis to
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‘Why give birth to many children when you cannot take care of them?’ Determinants of family size among dual-earner couples in Ghana Current Sociology (IF 2.489) Pub Date : 2022-05-03 Sylvia Esther Gyan, Albert Kpoor
The family size in Ghana is increasingly changing from large to small family sizes due to modernization. As societies become modernized, couples begin to limit their family size despite the high value society places on children in marriage and the family. In this study, we explore the factors influencing reproductive behaviour among Ghanaian dual-earner couples by highlighting the subjective views
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Criminalization of femicide in Latin America: Challenges of legal conceptualization Current Sociology (IF 2.489) Pub Date : 2022-04-25 Wania Pasinato, Thiago Pierobom de Ávila
The concept of femicide was created within the feminist theoretical field of studies influencing Law reform in Latin America. Eighteen countries throughout the region have criminalized femicide based on different legal provisions, in intimate and nonintimate relations. This article aims to provide a comparison of legal definitions of femicide as adopted in Latin American legal frameworks and to analyze