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Fear, helplessness, pain, anger: The narrated emotions of intimate femicide perpetrators in Latin America International Sociology (IF 2.535) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Martín Hernán Di Marco, Sveinung Sandberg
While studies of femicide perpetrators have focused on background factors, such as criminal history and mental health conditions, little attention has been paid to their individual experiences. Perpetrators emotions and sense-making have often been overlooked and even dismissed. With a micro-sociological approach to violence, we identify the narrated emotions involved in the perpetration of intimate
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Heba Gowayed, Refuge: How the State Shapes Human Potential International Sociology (IF 2.535) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Shahd Alasaly
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Huan Jianli, 带病生存: 沙村慢性病人患病经历研究 [Living With Illness: The Experience of Chronic Patients in a Chinese Village] International Sociology (IF 2.535) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Xiao Mei
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Beverly J Yuen Thompson, Digital Nomads Living on the Margins: Remote Laptop Entrepreneurs in the Gig Economy International Sociology (IF 2.535) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Azad Heydarov
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Koray Caliskan, Data Money: Inside Cryptocurrencies, Their Communities, Markets, and Blockchains International Sociology (IF 2.535) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Abhiram AH
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Andreas Reckwitz and Hartmut Rosa, trans. by Valentine A. Pakis, Late Modernity in Crisis. Why We Need a Theory of Society International Sociology (IF 2.535) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Carlo Bordoni
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Sreedeep Bhattacharya, Consumerist Encounters: Flirting With Things and Images International Sociology (IF 2.535) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Amrita Datta
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Barry Rodrigue, Leonid Grinin and Andrey Korotayev, From Big Bang to Galactic Civilizations: A Big History Anthology (3 Volumes) International Sociology (IF 2.535) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Thomas Burr
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Burhan Ghalioun, The Question of Fate: Two Centuries of Arab Struggle for Sovereignty and Freedom International Sociology (IF 2.535) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Hashem Alrefai
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Li Qiang and Wang Tuohan, 新清河实验 [The New Qinghe Experiment] International Sociology (IF 2.535) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Jing Luo
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Marco Santoro, Mafia Politics International Sociology (IF 2.535) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Tomasz Zarycki
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Alizée Delpierre, Servir les riches: Les domestiques chez les grandes fortunes [Serving the Rich] International Sociology (IF 2.535) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Ana Julieta Teodoro Cleaver
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Loïc Wacquant, The Invention of the ‘Underclass’: A Study in the Politics of Knowledge International Sociology (IF 2.535) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Matthias Fringant
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Sarhan Dhouib (ed.), Philosophieren in der Diktatur: Eine aktuelle Debatte in der arabischsprachigen Philosophie [Philosophizing in the Dictatorship: A Current Debate in Arabic-Speaking Philosophy] International Sociology (IF 2.535) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Amany Abdelrazek-Alsiefy
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Patrick L Schmidt, Harvard’s Quixotic Pursuit of a New Science: The Rise and Fall of the Department of Social Relations International Sociology (IF 2.535) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Lawrence T Nichols
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Lorenza B Fontana, Recognition Politics: Indigenous Rights and Ethnic Conflict in the Andes International Sociology (IF 2.535) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Ronaldo Munck
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Richard C Koo, Pursued Economy: Understanding and Overcoming the Challenging New Realities for Advanced Economies International Sociology (IF 2.535) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Ang Liu
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Philipp Korom, Star Sociologists: Anatomy of a Disciplinary Elite International Sociology (IF 2.535) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Pierre Benz
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Sexual and non-sexual femicide in South Africa: Comparing two studies 2009 and 2017 International Sociology (IF 2.535) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Naeemah Abrahams, Shibe Mhlongo, Esnat Chirwa, Bianca Dekel, Asiphe Ketelo, Shanaaz Mathews, Rachel Jewkes
Sexual femicide, an abhorrent crime, is not well described and reported. The aim of the study was to describe sexual and non-sexual femicide in South Africa and compare the 2009 with the 2017 study presenting sociodemographic characteristics of victims, perpetrators, crime and forensic findings. The same retrospective study design using proportionate random sample of medico-legal laboratories were
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Identifying femicide using the United Nations statistical framework: Exploring the feasibility of sex/gender-related motives and indicators to inform prevention International Sociology (IF 2.535) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Myrna Dawson, Haleakala Angus, Angelika Zecha
According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 55% of women and girls killed in 2022 died at the hands of intimate partners or family members, contexts indicative of femicide. The proportion of the remaining 45% of women and girls killed which involved sex or gender-related elements remains largely unknown. This is due to the lack of high-quality, gender-sensitive data collection tools
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Propaganda channels and their comparative effectiveness: The case of Russia’s war in Ukraine International Sociology (IF 2.535) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Anton Oleinik, Volodymyr Paniotto
Since Lasswell, propaganda has been considered one of three chief implements of warfare, along with military and economic pressure. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine revives public and scholarly interest in war propaganda. The Russian political leader frames the war as an imperial war. The Ukrainian political leader frames it as a war of national liberation. The discursive battle thus complements the military
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Querying feminicide data in Mexico International Sociology (IF 2.535) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Saide Mobayed Vega, Maria Gargiulo
The full extent of feminicide in Mexico remains unknown. When available, data on the gender-related killing of women and girls are often incomplete, inaccurate, or inexplicable. In this article, a sociologist (Saide) and a statistician (Maria) query feminicide data in Mexico. Drawing on Timnit Gebru et al.’s ‘datasheets for datasets’ and Sarah Holland et al.’s ‘data nutrition label’ frameworks, we
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Affective aspects of parenthood and their intergenerational effects on fertility International Sociology (IF 2.535) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Mayumi Nakamura, Mito Akiyoshi
This study examines how mothers’ affective experience of motherhood impacts daughters’ fertility intentions; the goal is to understand how adult daughters’ fertility intentions are influenced by their perception of how much their mothers enjoyed mothering and loved their children. A survey of 2000 married women in Japan aged 25–35 with either no children or one child provides data to test hypotheses
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Trust and the educational gap in the demand for redistribution: Evidence from the World Values Survey and the European Value Study International Sociology (IF 2.535) Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Naoki Akaeda
Although previous studies have examined the influence of education on support for redistribution, studies on how this social cleavage of support for redistribution due to education varies depending...
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Village-ness, discrimination, and urban modernity: Thinking alongside ‘village people’ in Lebanon International Sociology (IF 2.535) Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Ali Kassem
Based on qualitative phenomenological research alongside village dwellers in Lebanon, this article identifies village-ness – an experience of being labelled as ‘non-urban’ with an upbringing and ha...
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Beyond money, power, and masculinity: Toward an analytical perspective on recruitment to Mexican drug trafficking organizations International Sociology (IF 2.535) Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Piotr A Chomczyński, Roger Guy, Elena Azaola
Mexican drug trafficking organizations have experienced rapid attrition resulting in a continual need for personnel since 2006. However, the process by which these criminal organizations absorb new...
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Mapping redistribution in terms of family: A European comparison International Sociology (IF 2.535) Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Patricia Frericks, Martin Gurín, Julia Höppner
Redistribution is one of the fundamental characteristics of developed societies. While societal redistribution between working and non-working citizens has been studied intensively, redistribution ...
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Influential allies and grassroots movement mobilization: Ukraine’s Maidan, 2013–2014 International Sociology (IF 2.535) Pub Date : 2023-04-14 Olga Zelinska
Political allies, for example, parties, politicians, and civil society organizations, could be influential in grassroots mobilization. Yet, there are few empirical observations of whether and how t...
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Sociology of organizations in the twenty-first century International Sociology (IF 2.535) Pub Date : 2023-03-24 Michael Reed
This review article analyses six texts within the sociology of organizations published in the early decades of the twenty-first century, with a view to exploring what they tell us about the key iss...
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The role of working women in social mobility in Spain International Sociology (IF 2.535) Pub Date : 2023-02-14 Ildefonso Marqués-Perales, Juan Miguel Gómez-Espino
This article addresses what is still an under-examined issue in social mobility literature: the role played by women in the transmission of social advantages and life chances. We include models tha...
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Self-entrepreneurship in uncertain futures: The case of performing artists in Italy International Sociology (IF 2.535) Pub Date : 2023-01-23 Emanuela Naclerio
This article contributes to contemporary debates on self-entrepreneurship in cultural work by focusing on project-based theatre actors in Italy. Drawing on in-depth interviews, the study considers ...
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How do you know? Seven theses on qualitative sociology as theory and method International Sociology (IF 2.535) Pub Date : 2022-12-29 Claudio E Benzecry
In its seven theses, this article discusses: (a) how different qualitative sociology is from other approaches; (b) the role of ‘casing’ in generating both units of analysis and settings; (c) the th...
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Analysis of longitudinal causal relationships between gender role attitudes and labor market participation of young women International Sociology (IF 2.535) Pub Date : 2022-12-13 Hanryeo Lim, Sungpyo Hong
The purpose of this study was to analyze the longitudinal causal relationship between gender role attitudes and the labor market participation of young women in Korea. This study used the data of 9...
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Fear of crime in the context of gender and ambivalent sexism International Sociology (IF 2.535) Pub Date : 2022-12-13 Burcu Türk, Nurcan Hamzaoglu, Aslı Yayak, Gülçin Şenyuva
In this study, the relationships between gender perceptions and ambivalent sexism were examined based on the fear of crime of the participants over 18. In this context, participants responded to th...
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Contextualising planned behaviours to the vaccination against COVID-19 in the European Union International Sociology (IF 2.535) Pub Date : 2022-12-13 Dumitru Sandu
The article targets the reasons that are behind behaviour orientation in the vaccination process against COVID-19. The data we are using come from the Flash Eurobarometer 494, collected in May 2021...
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Sociology of organizations in the twenty-first century International Sociology (IF 2.535) Pub Date : 2022-12-05 Michael Reed
This review article analyses six texts within the sociology of organizations published in the early decades of the twenty-first century with a view to exploring what they tell us about the key issu...
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Lack of ‘common sense’ in the climate change debate: Media behaviour and climate change awareness International Sociology (IF 2.535) Pub Date : 2022-11-23 Maria Laura Ruiu, Gabriele Ruiu, Massimo Ragnedda
Based on an online survey conducted among a representative sample in the United Kingdom (n = 1013), this article investigates the role of traditional and new media in predicting climate change awar...
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Being and becoming (of/with) Burawoy: An anxious apprehension of public sociology in South Asia International Sociology (IF 2.535) Pub Date : 2022-11-17 Dev Nath Pathak
Reading public sociology with Burawoy amounts to an engagement with the process of being and becoming a sociologist. The blending of text and context offers a hermeneutics in which theory and theor...
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Governing value(s) and organizing through standards International Sociology (IF 2.535) Pub Date : 2022-11-04 Allison Marie Loconto, Nadine Arnold
Standards are strongly intertwined with values in economic contexts, which goes far beyond economic value. Standards’ diversity is expressed in local spaces where standards are made, put into actio...
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Values and the making of standards in ‘sustainable’ coffee networks: The case of 4C and Nestlé in México International Sociology (IF 2.535) Pub Date : 2022-10-08 Marie-Christine Renard
The ‘sustainable’ coffee industry has experienced steady expansion in recent decades, due to the emerging demand and values of consumers. Coffee corporations have invested in this market segment, p...
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Health as an emerging value in the construction of quality of berries in Huelva (Spain) International Sociology (IF 2.535) Pub Date : 2022-10-08 Carmen Mozo, Juana Moreno Nieto, Alicia Reigada
This article examines how health is constructed as an emerging value of quality standards in intensive agriculture in the province of Huelva (Spain) with a specific focus on the health and welfare ...
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Seasonality as value(s) in organic farming: On the conflict on heating greenhouses in France International Sociology (IF 2.535) Pub Date : 2022-08-16 Romain Blancaneaux
This article deals with the notion of season, and illustrates an existing conflict, within organic agriculture, between symbolic and economic values. It takes the case of a polemic on the use of he...
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The nature of standards: How standards shape the value of nature International Sociology (IF 2.535) Pub Date : 2022-08-08 Miguel Ángel Sánchez-García, Andrés Pedreño Cánovas, Carlos de Castro Pericacho
The article analyzes how the Global G.A.P. standard has contributed to the construction of a link between nature and agriculture and to a form of nature valuation that has strong historical roots i...
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Crowding out local initiative in the protection of heritage agri-food specialties: The growing hegemony of sui generis Geographical Indication in East Asia International Sociology (IF 2.535) Pub Date : 2022-08-01 Hart Nadav Feuer
The comprehensive uptake of geographical indication (GI) worldwide suggests that global trade is at the threshold of mainstreaming protections for heritage agri-food specialties. The European GI mo...
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Private standards for animal welfare in Austrian dairy husbandry: Consequences for farmers in mountain regions International Sociology (IF 2.535) Pub Date : 2022-07-23 Markus Schermer
The current shift of regulations for animal welfare from public to private standards allows dairies and retailers to improve their position on the market. However, for easy communication and contro...
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Challenges to conserve world agricultural heritages in a market economy: Experiences in Nishi-Awa, Japan International Sociology (IF 2.535) Pub Date : 2022-07-23 Kae Sekine
The Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems – established by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in 2002 – is a certification expected to conserve traditional agro-...
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Can certification increase trade fairness and worker empowerment? Lessons from Fairtrade International-certified plantations in Ecuador International Sociology (IF 2.535) Pub Date : 2022-07-21 Laura T Raynolds
This article analyzes the strategic potential and empirical challenges of private governance in promoting decent work in global agriculture by curtailing buyer power and fostering labor agency, dra...
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The time of dialogic sociology International Sociology (IF 2.535) Pub Date : 2022-07-19 Ramon Flecha, Carmen Elboj Saso, Elisabeth Torras-Gómez, Mar Joanpere
There is a wide and rich literature about how neoliberalism is promoting the budgetary cuts to science and universities, especially to the critical sectors, such as the social sciences. There is sc...
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Pandemic patriotism: Official speeches in the face of the global COVID-19 crisis International Sociology (IF 2.535) Pub Date : 2022-07-07 Jorge Atria, Juan Alfaro, Magdalena Tapia, Raimundo Frei
Faced with the COVID-19 pandemic, authorities have had to announce health, economic, financial, and social measures. The way in which these actors communicate is crucial and points to the collectiv...
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Consequences of income concentration for democratic processes in contemporary Western and comparable societies: Evidence for OECD countries, 2017–2019 International Sociology (IF 2.535) Pub Date : 2022-07-07 Milan Zafirovski
The study focuses on the relation of economic inequality and political democracy, specifically exploring the democratic consequences of income concentration. It places income concentration among a ...
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Intergovernmental organizations in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic: Organizational behaviour in crises and under uncertainty International Sociology (IF 2.535) Pub Date : 2022-06-25 Olga Ulybina, Laia Pi Ferrer, Pertti Alasuutari
When Covid-19 broke out, many interpreted it as a crisis that would lead to fundamental changes in different areas of life. The article aims to assess whether this also applies to intergovernmental...
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Professional scaling work: How professional segments claim new jurisdictions in a world of trans-local connections International Sociology (IF 2.535) Pub Date : 2022-06-22 Marie Leth Meilvang, Anders Blok, Maria Duclos Lindstrøm, Inge Kryger Pedersen
The literature on professions, drawing on both sociological and management approaches, has recently turned its focus to the transnational scale. In this article, building on Andrew Abbott’s work on professional jurisdictions, we analyze the way transnational resources come to play a role in local professional claims-making and work practices in the inter-professional struggle over jurisdiction. Comparing
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From the editor International Sociology (IF 2.535) Pub Date : 2022-06-20 Junpeng Li
While COVID-19 and its variants have more or less changed the rhythm of our lives, we have entered the third decade of the twenty-first century, and now seems a good time to take stock. Despite some setbacks, such as the closure of sociology departments in different places of the world, sociology has never been as prolific and influential as now. We sociologists like to view ourselves as one community
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Transnational feminist sociology International Sociology (IF 2.535) Pub Date : 2022-06-20 Joya Misra, Tannuja Devi Rozario, Debadatta Chakraborty
This review essay explores a number of key books published in transnational feminist sociology over the last 20 years, including Kamala Kempadoo’s (2004) Sexing the Caribbean, Pei-Chia Lan’s (2006) Global Cinderellas, Smitha Radhakrishnan’s (2011) Appropriately Indian, Héctor Carrillo’s (2018) Pathways of Desire, Oluwakemi Balogun’s (2020) Beauty Diplomacy, and Rhacel Parreñas’ (2021) Unfree. The review
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‘Theory at the edge of empire’ International Sociology (IF 2.535) Pub Date : 2022-06-03 John Levi Martin
Reed’s intervention in theories of political power is considered, critiqued and continued: we may understand chains of authorization as stretching from sovereign to agent and back again, chains whose links may be called into question and repaired only via Goffmanian performance.
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New York’s New School for Social Research: Renewing a distinguished legacy International Sociology (IF 2.535) Pub Date : 2022-06-02 Gerardo del Cerro Santamaría
This review essay summarizes and critically analyzes three books that deal with the institutional and academic history of the New School for Social Research (NSSR), the prestigious social science institution in Manhattan. The essay focuses on the distinctive approaches in each of the three books, which range from mostly institutional (Friedlander) to mostly academic (Krohn), with the book by Rutkoff
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Developing social entrepreneurship in rural areas: A path mediation framework International Sociology (IF 2.535) Pub Date : 2022-05-24 Apriani Dorkas Rambu Atahau, Cheng-Wen Lee, Deni Danial Kesa, Andrian Dolfriandra Huruta
Local wisdom is increasingly crucial to preserve rural societies’ self-confidence and solidarity spirits in boosting economic growth. Notwithstanding the success of microfinance groups in East Sumba, Indonesia, the problem related to a small capital base exists. In this respect, adhering to local wisdom likely develops social entrepreneurship to strengthen the microfinance group’s capital base. This
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‘You have been punished in prison. And then when you are released, you are punished for life’: Post-incarceration barriers for women in Ukraine International Sociology (IF 2.535) Pub Date : 2022-03-24 Alla Korzh
Formerly incarcerated women face multidimensional barriers post-release, ranging from individual, relational, institutional, to systemic. Drawing on the conceptual framework of interlocking barriers facing formerly incarcerated women, this qualitative case study set in one minimum-security prison in Ukraine with 21 interviewed women, four teachers, and eight staff demonstrates that interlocking systemic
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Therapeutic politics reconsidered: Power, post-colonialism and the psychologisation of society in the Global South International Sociology (IF 2.535) Pub Date : 2022-02-03 Daniel Nehring, Dylan Kerrigan
In this article, we critically interrogate the relationship between the post-political turn and the psychologisation of social life. It has long been argued that psychologisation, in the form the popularisation of psychotherapeutic discourses and practices and their usage across a range of non-specialist institutional domains, contributes to de-politicisation and the current crisis of democratic politics
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Is philanthropy related to life satisfaction? Cross-country evidence International Sociology (IF 2.535) Pub Date : 2022-01-27 Raufhon Salahodjaev, Arletta Isaeva, Diyorjon Abdullayev
The goal of this study is to investigate the relationship between philanthropy and life satisfaction, using data from 142 countries. The results show that philanthropy rates are significantly and positively associated with subjective wellbeing. A one standard deviation increase in philanthropy rates is associated with slightly less than half-standard deviation rises in life satisfaction. This association