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Tensions in digital welfare states: Three perspectives on care and control Journal of Sociology (IF 2.643) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Irina Zakharova, Juliane Jarke, Anne Kaun
Proponents of digital transformation in welfare provision argue that digital technologies can take over tedious tasks and free resources to provide better care for those in need. Digital technologies, however, are often developed in line with a logic of control and dispositions around surveillance and efficiency which challenge careful engagements. In this conceptual article, we explore emerging tensions
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Book Review: Social Work and Human Services Responsibilities in a Time of Climate Change by Amanda Howard, Margot Rawsthorne, Pam Joseph, Mareese Terare, Dara Sampson and Meaghan Katrak Harris Journal of Sociology (IF 2.643) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Andi Ainun Juniarsi Nur, Ni Made Ray Rika Azzhara, Celvin Yhosep Sinaga
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Intermediaries as infrastructure: Interrogating the phatic labor of state-building Journal of Sociology (IF 2.643) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Ranjit Singh
Investments in the digital welfare state are often driven by the promise of removing intermediaries between the state and citizens, yet they continue to play a key role in the last mile delivery of state services. By intermediaries, I mean people who interface between bureaucrats and citizens. Their work, often as proxies for citizens, is not only to simplify bureaucratic procedures for them, but also
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Educators’ hands are tied: The impact of heteronormative and cisnormative discourses on students in faith-based schools in Australia Journal of Sociology (IF 2.643) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Bronwyn Fielder, Douglas Ezzy, Angela Dwyer
Australian religious conservatives continue to argue that religiously affiliated schools should be able to discriminate based on the sexuality and/or gender identity of students. We argue that this discussion fails to adequately consider the serious harms that discrimination against LGBTQ+ educators has on LGBTQ+ and questioning students. The article uses data from an Australian qualitative study examining
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Digitalisation and the welfare state – how First Nations people experienced digitalised social security under the Cashless Debit Card Journal of Sociology (IF 2.643) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Shelley Bielefeld
Digitalisation of the welfare state has intensified in recent years, with burdens unevenly distributed between technology advocates and those receiving government income support. Putting in place processes where people needing social security must meet mandatory requirements of digital literacy and divert a significant amount of their small incomes to pay for expensive technologies such as computers
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Parallel lives or active citizens? Examining the interplay between multicultural service provision and civic engagement in Australia Journal of Sociology (IF 2.643) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Fethi Mansouri, Matteo Vergani, Enqi Weng
Over recent decades, there have been increased public debates about rising level of ethnic and religious diversity and their implications for social cohesion and intercultural relations. These contestations are often situated within a diversity governance continuum with two opposing and often extreme poles both in the policy arena as well as the academic literature. The first pole sees diversity as
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Working against the clock: digital surveillance in US Medicaid homecare services Journal of Sociology (IF 2.643) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Alexandra Mateescu
This article explores the implementation of a digital verification system known as Electronic Visit Verification (EVV) across homecare services for older and disabled adults within the US Medicaid program. EVV systems are used to conduct daily check-ins through GPS tracking and biometric identity verification. While touted as a means to identify and deter “fraud, waste, and abuse,” the digital monitoring
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Come together? The unusual combination of precariat materialist and educated post-materialist support for an Australian Universal Basic Income Journal of Sociology (IF 2.643) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Roger Patulny, Ben Spies-Butcher
International studies using the European Social Survey (ESS) reveal higher support for Universal Basic Income (UBI) in poorer countries with less generous welfare systems, and among individuals wit...
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Risk-taking and social inequality Journal of Sociology (IF 2.643) Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Jens O Zinn
Even though risk-taking is a common and widespread social experience sociological theorizing on the concept is scarce. This contribution aims to systematize and advance understanding of risk-taking...
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The destabilising effect of feminist, queer-inclusion and therapeutic counter-discourse: A feminist poststructuralist account of change in men's friendships Journal of Sociology (IF 2.643) Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Brittany Ralph
Critically engaging with prevailing theories of change in masculinities, this article offers a feminist poststructuralist account of Australian men's increasingly intimate same-gender friendships. ...
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One day of eating: Tracing misinformation in ‘What I Eat In A Day’ videos Journal of Sociology (IF 2.643) Pub Date : 2023-03-06 Justine Topham, Naomi Smith
This article traces how misinformation occurs and is negotiated in What I Eat In A Day (WIEIAD) videos. Data were collected from 84 WIEIAD videos across 59 YouTube accounts. Our discourse analysis ...
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How to navigate a pandemic: Competing discourses in The Australian Women's Weekly magazine Journal of Sociology (IF 2.643) Pub Date : 2023-02-19 Sara James, Anne-Maree Sawyer
As the Covid-19 pandemic caused schools, workplaces, and childcare centres to close, pressures in the home increased. Much of the additional unpaid work required under these conditions was done by ...
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Making friends with the family: A fresh look at coming out Journal of Sociology (IF 2.643) Pub Date : 2023-01-08 Shiva Chandra, Jennifer Wilkinson
There is limited in-depth theorisation of positive coming-out experiences within families of origin. This is especially true for diasporic South Asian communities living in majority Anglophone cont...
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The metamorphoses of cultural capital in a neoliberal and multicultural era: Towards a comparative approach Journal of Sociology (IF 2.643) Pub Date : 2023-01-03 Gisèle Sapiro
This review essay of Fields, Capitals, Habitus first discusses how this in-depth inquiry into the lifestyles and cultural practices in Australia contributes to the rich discussions sparked by the p...
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Introduction: Surveying the survey Journal of Sociology (IF 2.643) Pub Date : 2022-12-25 David Rowe, Tony Bennett
This article reviews the terms in which the Australian Cultural Fields project engaged with the concepts of fields, capitals, and habitus. It also places these concepts in the context of their long...
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Shades of green: Change, continuity and conservation among Tasmanian forestry workers Journal of Sociology (IF 2.643) Pub Date : 2022-12-25 Megan Langridge, Rob White
The Tasmanian forestry industry has undergone major transition due to industry readjustments and critique from environmental movements. This article focuses on how Tasmanian forestry workers think ...
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Linking with migrants: The potential of digitally mediated connections to build social capital during crisis Journal of Sociology (IF 2.643) Pub Date : 2022-12-25 Charishma Ratnam, Chloe Keel, Rebecca Wickes
Migrants rely on social capital when (re)settling in host communities. Connections with organisations are fundamental to developing local ties and accessing services. While scholarship is replete w...
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Coda: The last cultural capital survey? Journal of Sociology (IF 2.643) Pub Date : 2022-12-18 Tony Bennett, David Rowe
In asking whether the survey conducted for the Australian Cultural Fields project might be the last of its kind, this article reflects on the issues raised by the participants in this review sympos...
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What comes after fields, capitals, habitus? Suggestions for future cultural consumption research in Australia Journal of Sociology (IF 2.643) Pub Date : 2022-12-18 Steven Threadgold
This article critically engages with the Australian Cultural Fields project and the book Fields, Capitals, Habitus to make suggestions as to what future research on consumption practices needs to c...
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Bourdieu's habitus clivé in voicing, feeling, being Aboriginal Journal of Sociology (IF 2.643) Pub Date : 2022-12-13 Julie Andrews, Edgar Burns, Claire James, Adam Rajčan
Bourdieu's concept of habitus clivé is discussed in relation to Aboriginal Australians’ experience within dominant White society. The argument is put forward that the concept can make an important ...
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Legitimate culture, field of power, and domination Journal of Sociology (IF 2.643) Pub Date : 2022-12-08 Naoki Iso
This review critically examines the Fields, Capitals, Habitus (FCH) study and discusses its potential application to a forthcoming study in Japan. It investigates FCH from four perspectives. First,...
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A matter of time? Institutional timescapes and gendered inequalities in the transition from education to employment in Australia Journal of Sociology (IF 2.643) Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Lyn Craig, Signe Ravn, Brendan Churchill, Maria Rebecca Valenzuela
This article explores why women miss out in the transition from the educational system to the labour market. Using nationally representative longitudinal data (2001–18) from the Household Income an...
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Can a basic income help address homelessness? A Titmussian perspective Journal of Sociology (IF 2.643) Pub Date : 2022-11-15 Andrew Clarke
Homelessness is a worsening problem across the developed world and existing policy responses are failing to have an impact. This article considers whether a basic income (BI) can play a role in rad...
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Changing masculinities? Using caring masculinity to analyse social media responses to the decline of men in Australian primary school teaching Journal of Sociology (IF 2.643) Pub Date : 2022-11-14 Nicholas Samuel Hookway, Vaughan Cruickshank
Commentators have predicted that Australian male primary school teachers will be extinct within 50 years. Drawing upon sociological ideas about the emergence of ‘caring masculinities’, this article...
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Information, influence, ritual, participation: Defining digital sexual health Journal of Sociology (IF 2.643) Pub Date : 2022-11-13 Kath Albury, Natalie Hendry
This article draws on Epstein's theorisations of the ‘ideal’ of sexual health and wellbeing to argue that young people's access to digital sexual health content should not be understood primarily a...
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Teaching gender in and through uncertainty Journal of Sociology (IF 2.643) Pub Date : 2022-11-07 Frances Egan
Where higher education classrooms can be sites of both cultural contestation and epistemic violence, this article examines the critical and ethical value of building uncertainty into our teaching o...
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OBGYNs of TikTok and the role of misinformation in diffractive knowledge production Journal of Sociology (IF 2.643) Pub Date : 2022-11-07 Clare Southerton, Marianne Clark
Health misinformation on social media has largely been examined from a harms-focused perspective, with scholars seeking to identify what impacts misinformation has on public health and a popular fo...
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Re-politicising the future of work: Automation anxieties, universal basic income, and the end of techno-optimism Journal of Sociology (IF 2.643) Pub Date : 2022-10-09 Lauren Kelly
‘Rise of the Robots’, the ‘Second Machine Age’ and ‘This Time it's Different’ are some of the sweeping headlines that frame contemporary popular narratives of the future of work. It is often claime...
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Gender, doctorate holders, career path, and work–life balance within and outside of academia Journal of Sociology (IF 2.643) Pub Date : 2022-10-03 Andrea Hjálmsdóttir, Guðbjörg Linda Rafnsdóttir
Research on satisfaction with work–life balance among doctorate holders is scarce when considering those working outside academia. In this article, we present research on work–life balance among fe...
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Public health pedagogy and digital misinformation: Health professional influencers and the politics of expertise Journal of Sociology (IF 2.643) Pub Date : 2022-09-28 Jay Daniel Thompson
This article asks: ‘To what extent can health professional influencers function as health pedagogues, educating their audiences and protecting public health in an era of digital misinformation?’ Th...
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Workplace wellbeing among LGBTQ+ Australians: Exploring diversity within diversity Journal of Sociology (IF 2.643) Pub Date : 2022-08-05 Madeline Donaghy, Francisco Perales
A wealth of research documents disparities in workplace outcomes between cisgender heterosexual employees and LGBTQ+ employees. However, few studies have examined how workplace wellbeing may differ...
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Work and wellbeing in remote Australia: Moving beyond punitive ‘workfare’ Journal of Sociology (IF 2.643) Pub Date : 2022-07-25 Zoe Staines
Australia's remote-focused ‘workfare’ program (Community Development Program, CDP) has produced overwhelmingly negative impacts, most of which have been borne by its ∼80% Aboriginal and Torres Stra...
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Negotiating Australian academia as a historically white settler colonial institution: A comparison between Muslim and non-Muslim students Journal of Sociology (IF 2.643) Pub Date : 2022-07-05 Randa Abdel-Fattah
In Australia, there is a dearth of research applying the theoretical lens of critical race theory to explore Muslim university students’ experiences in higher degree education institutions. The pre...
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Affective design and memetic qualities: Generating affect and political engagement through bushfire TikToks Journal of Sociology (IF 2.643) Pub Date : 2022-07-03 Yanni Brown, Barbara Pini, Adele Pavlidis
This article explores the affective dimensions of social media platform TikTok, and its potential as a novel form of political participation among young people. It draws on data from a sample of 24...
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Understanding Covid-19 emergency social security measures as a from of basic income: Lessons from Australia Journal of Sociology (IF 2.643) Pub Date : 2022-06-27 Elise Klein, Kay Cook, Susan Maury, Kelly Bowey
This article examines the changes in social security measures introduced by the Australian government during the first wave of Covid-19 lockdowns in 2020. These measures were basic income-like in t...
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Characterising Australians who have high levels of anger towards Islam and Muslims Journal of Sociology (IF 2.643) Pub Date : 2022-05-25 Shannon Walding, Jacqui Ewart
This article reveals the characteristics and demographics of non-Muslim Australians who express levels of anger towards Muslims and Islam. Using data from a 2018 national social survey of a random,...
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Pox populi: Anti-vaxx, anti-politics Journal of Sociology (IF 2.643) Pub Date : 2022-05-20 Francis Russell
This article explores the political meaning of the interconnected anti-vaccine and anti-lockdown protest movements that have emerged in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. A range of academics and c...
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‘Hey lovely! Don’t miss this opportunity!’ Digital temporalities of wellness culture, email marketing, and the promise of abundance Journal of Sociology (IF 2.643) Pub Date : 2022-05-17 Natalie Ann Hendry
For the wellness industry, email communication, albeit mundane, remains an essential practice even as wellness entrepreneurs embrace newer digital technologies. Drawing on ongoing insights from a l...
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Engineering masculinity: A multimodal critical discourse analysis of trans masculine embodiment in magazines for trans men Journal of Sociology (IF 2.643) Pub Date : 2022-05-09 Randos Jackalas Korobacz, Peta S Cook
Masculinity studies has been slow to explore trans men's lives including how trans masculine embodiments are represented in the media. In this article, we examine how the masculinities of trans men...
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Pride, belonging and community: What does this mean if you are Aboriginal and LGBT+ and living in Western Australia? Journal of Sociology (IF 2.643) Pub Date : 2022-04-27 Braden Hill, Jennifer Dodd, Bep Uink, Dameyon Bonson, Sian Bennett
The lived experience of being LGBT+ and an Aboriginal person was a major focus of the mixed methods Breaking the Silence research project led by Aboriginal LGBT+ researchers. Aboriginal LGBT+ participants were invited to respond to a survey that canvassed how they were included and accepted within their own families, on social media, dating apps and the wider community. The analysis and discussion
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Exploring alcohol cultures and homosocial relationships in women's amateur AFL teams Journal of Sociology (IF 2.643) Pub Date : 2022-04-14 Lily Curtis, Steven Roberts
Young women's risky drinking cultures are pertinent to the world of amateur Australian Football League, yet they have received limited research attention. Drawing on surveys, focus groups, and semi-structured ‘scroll-back’ interviews, this study provides an in-depth investigation of negotiations of gender and risky drinking in such cultures. A range of intersecting socio-cultural themes were identified
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Book Review: Owning the street: The everyday life of property by Amelia Thorpe Journal of Sociology (IF 2.643) Pub Date : 2022-04-11 Natalie Osborne
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VOIP technology in grassroots politics: Transforming political culture and practice? Journal of Sociology (IF 2.643) Pub Date : 2022-04-11 Rosemary Hancock
This article investigates how the adoption and use of digital technologies shape political culture and practice in grassroots political groups, particularly focusing on how VOIP technologies enable and/or constrain groups to work across physical space and form political relationships among participants. While this article is grounded in a case study of one broad-based coalition in Sydney, Australia
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Younger generations’ expectations regarding artificial intelligence in the job market: Mapping accounts about the future relationship of automation and work Journal of Sociology (IF 2.643) Pub Date : 2022-03-29 Lilla Vicsek, Tamás Bokor, Gyöngyvér Pataki
There is a deficiency of in-depth explorations of young people’s visions of automation and work, and how these relate to popular projections found in the future-of-work debate. This article investigates such expectations, drawing on 62 interviews with Hungarian university students undertaking non-technical majors. Key characteristics of the interviewees’ accounts included their malleable and changing
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‘When you delete Tinder it’s a sign of commitment’: leaving dating apps and the reproduction of romantic, monogamous relationship practices Journal of Sociology (IF 2.643) Pub Date : 2022-03-21 Tiina Vares
In recent years there has been increasing academic attention to forms and practices of disconnection to social networking sites. However, there has been limited attention to non-use/departures, particularly with dating apps. In this article I draw on 27 interviews with previous and current users of dating apps to explore their practices of leaving/deleting their dating apps. For the majority of participants
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International students on the edge: The precarious impacts of financial stress Journal of Sociology (IF 2.643) Pub Date : 2022-03-07 Shaun Wilson, Catherine Hastings, Alan Morris, Gaby Ramia, Emma Mitchell
International students are an important global cohort of ‘noncitizens’ whose experiences are central concerns for urban sociologists and migration scholars. Drawing on survey fieldwork conducted among international students in the private rental sector in Sydney and Melbourne during 2019, this article provides new knowledge about the hardships experienced by international students who report financial
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Book Review: The Private Rental Sector in Australia: Living with Uncertainty by Alan Morris, Kath Hulse and Hal Pawson Journal of Sociology (IF 2.643) Pub Date : 2022-02-21 Charles Crothers
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LGBTQ+ non-discrimination and religious freedom in the context of government-funded faith-based education, social welfare, health care, and aged care Journal of Sociology (IF 2.643) Pub Date : 2022-02-10 Douglas Ezzy, Lori Beaman, Angela Dwyer, Bronwyn Fielder, Angus McLeay, Simon Rice, Louise Richardson-Self
Anti-discrimination laws around the world have explicitly protected LGBTQ+ people from discrimination with various levels of exceptions for religion. Some conservative religious organisations in Australia are advocating to be allowed to discriminate against LGBTQ+ people in certain organisations they manage. The political debate in Australia has focused on religiously affiliated organisations that
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Migrant children in a Chilean school:: Habitus, discourses and otherness Journal of Sociology (IF 2.643) Pub Date : 2022-01-25 Andrea Cortés Saavedra
Drawing on data from ethnographic fieldwork in a diverse school located in the north of Chile, this article explores the ways of narrating and producing otherness, through the analysis of school staff discourses. The article identifies and describes how the discourses on migrant children are produced in a school context, and the sources and references used by teachers. Utilising a focused ethnographic
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Book Review: Regional cultures, economies, and creativity: Innovating through place in Australia and beyond by A. Van Luyn and E. de la Fuente Journal of Sociology (IF 2.643) Pub Date : 2022-01-24 Michelle Duffy
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Modifying my self: A qualitative study exploring agency, structure and identity for women seeking publicly funded plastic surgery in Australia Journal of Sociology (IF 2.643) Pub Date : 2022-01-24 Kristen Foley, Nicola Dean, Connie Musolino, Randall Long, Paul Ward
Our sociological knowledge base about plastic surgery has been predominantly constructed in free market contexts, leaving uncertainties as to how sociological theory around agency, identity, and structure apply in the context of publicly funded plastic surgeries. We draw on narratives of Australian women while waiting for abdominoplasty in the public system and recounting their post-surgical realities
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The role of an equity policy in the reproduction of social inequalities: High School Ranking and university admissions in Chile Journal of Sociology (IF 2.643) Pub Date : 2022-01-24 Ximena Catalán, Maria Veronica Santelices, Catherine Horn
The High School (HS) Ranking is an equity policy aimed at increasing the enrolment of students from underprivileged contexts in selective higher education institutions in Chile. However, HS Ranking is considered as an admission criterion for all applicants, regardless of their contextual characteristics. In this study, we delve into how students from different high school settings interpret and deploy
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Introduction to the special issue – Imagining rural futures in times of uncertainty and possibility: Progressing a transformative research agenda for rural sociology Journal of Sociology (IF 2.643) Pub Date : 2022-01-18 Christina Malatzky, Kiah Smith
Historically and now, the rural is frequently relegated to the periphery of broader public and policy debates, and within the discipline of sociology. At this moment in time, where the world needs radical re-imagining for the future, rural perspectives and realities must be visible and addressed. This article introduces a special issue of the Journal of Sociology which seeks to articulate how rural
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Complex data and simple instructions: Social regulation during the Covid-19 pandemic Journal of Sociology (IF 2.643) Pub Date : 2022-01-13 Sharyn Roach Anleu, George Sarantoulias
Responses to the Covid-19 pandemic include the generation of new norms and shifting expectations about everyday, ordinary behaviour, management of the self, and social interaction. Central to the amalgam of new norms is the way information and instructions are communicated, often in the form of simple images and icons in posters and signs that are widespread in public settings. This article combines
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Education's economic return in multicultural Australia: Demographic analysis Journal of Sociology (IF 2.643) Pub Date : 2022-01-05 Yaghoob Foroutan
This article focuses on the impact of education as the most important human capital endowment in the context of migration, religion, gender and ethnic identity from a demographic perspective. It presents research-based evidence to address such key research questions as whether and how significantly women's education provides equal benefit in the labour market for individuals, based on their migration
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Transcultural capital and emergent identities among migrant youth Journal of Sociology (IF 2.643) Pub Date : 2022-01-04 Magdalena Arias Cubas, Taghreed Jamal Al-deen, Fethi Mansouri
The everyday practices and socio-cultural identities of migrant youth have become a focal point of contemporary sociological research in Western countries of immigration. This article engages with the concept of transcultural capital to frame the possibilities and opportunities embodied in young migrants’ multi-layered identities and cross-cultural competencies in the context of an increasingly interconnected
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Book Review: Migrant mothers in the digital age: Emotion and belonging in migrant maternal online communities by Leah Williams Veazey Journal of Sociology (IF 2.643) Pub Date : 2021-12-28 Earvin Cabalquinto
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Book Review: Navigating Fieldwork in the Social Sciences: Stories of Danger, Risk and Reward by Phillip Wadds, Nicholas Apoifis, Susanne Schmeidl and Kim Spurway Journal of Sociology (IF 2.643) Pub Date : 2021-12-22 Jora Broerse
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The role of elite education in social reproduction in France, Belgium and Chile: Towards an analytical model Journal of Sociology (IF 2.643) Pub Date : 2021-12-13 Marie Verhoeven, Hugues Draelants, Tomás Ilabaca Turri
Using a societal analysis perspective that articulates structural, institutional and cognitive dimensions, this article outlines a model examining the contribution made by the schooling system to the social construction of elites. The model is put to the test by a comparative study of elitist educational pathways and their contrasting organisational modes in France, Belgium and Chile. The article shows
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Education and the production of inequalities across the Global South and North Journal of Sociology (IF 2.643) Pub Date : 2021-12-06 Denisse Sepúlveda, Manuela Mendoza Horvitz, Sara Joiko, Francisca Ortiz Ruiz
Education is an essential aspect of any society in the world. As such, it has been a topic studied by many sociologists since the origins of the discipline. Today it is one of the most common subjects in sociology, in part because it has been recognised as a crucial environment for the (re)production of inequalities. This article explores the role of education in the (re)production of social inequalities