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Promoting healthy futures in a rural refugee resettlement location: A community-based participatory research intervention Journal of Sociology (IF 1.298) Pub Date : 2021-04-10 Caitlin Nunn, Raelene Wilding, Katharine McKinnon, Htoo Gay Ku, Gai Porh Soe La Myint, Posao (Nido) Taveesupmai, Megan O’Keefe, Kaye Graves
The resettlement of refugees in rural areas is presenting new challenges for healthcare. This article reports on a community-based participatory research project that explored understandings of health and care across the life course in a refugee-background community in regional south-east Australia. Participants identified key challenges, including lack of access to local services that address their
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Writing national histories of sociology: Methods, approaches and visions Journal of Sociology (IF 1.298) Pub Date : 2021-04-10 Fran M Collyer, Ben Manning
There has been a renewal of interest in the writing of national histories of sociology, with dozens of histories recently published in both the global North and South. Despite this, there has been a dearth of discussion about the methods and methodologies appropriate to such a task. Indeed, few histories of sociology, and fewer still national histories of sociology, explicitly address methodology.
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An agenda for Australian rural sociology: Troubling the white middle-class farming woman Journal of Sociology (IF 1.298) Pub Date : 2021-04-06 Barbara Pini, Laura Rodriguez Castro, Robyn Mayes
In reflecting on the last two decades of publications by Australian rural studies scholars in three major disciplinary journals, this article argues that the field of Australian rural sociology has failed to address racial inequality and class difference. While we note a burgeoning of feminist rural research challenging the historical emphasis on the white male farmer, this too has tended to occlude
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Airbnb and the paradox of the body: The biopolitical management of hosts in four tourist towns in New Zealand Journal of Sociology (IF 1.298) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Stella Pennell
Airbnb is emblematic of a set of business practices commonly known as ‘the sharing economy’. It is a disruptive business model of homestay accommodation that has exploited conditions of growing precarity of work since 2008. Work precarity is particularly evident in regional tourist areas in New Zealand, which historically experience seasonal, part-time work and low wages. Airbnb draws specifically
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The moral and political economy of suicide prevention Journal of Sociology (IF 1.298) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Scott J Fitzpatrick
Suicide prevention occurs within a web of social, moral, and political relations that are acknowledged, yet rarely made explicit. In this work, I analyse these interrelations using concepts of moral and political economy to demonstrate how moral norms and values interconnect with political and economic systems to inform the way suicide prevention is structured, legitimated, and enacted. Suicide prevention
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Special issue introduction: Post-national formations and cosmopolitanism Journal of Sociology (IF 1.298) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Farida Fozdar, Ian Woodward
In the last quarter of the 20th century the study of globalisation was refined in many ways and especially in the direction of conceptualising the connections, entanglements and interdependencies of the global. An array of terms arose to capture these complexities, many containing the suggestion of superseding the nation. The terms ‘post-national’ and ‘cosmopolitan’ are two fields that have come to
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Post-nationalism, sovereignty and the state Journal of Sociology (IF 1.298) Pub Date : 2021-03-31 Gary Wickham
The term ‘post-national formations’ is a product of some of the recent work of Jürgen Habermas. In using this term, Habermas highlights what he regards as a laudatory trend in social and political research. This is the trend away from an intense focus on the role of nation-states – a role he believes to be unconducive to progressive politics – and towards a focus on the role of new configurations –
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Motivators, facilitators, and barriers to blood donation in Australia by people from ethnic minority groups: Perspectives of sub-Saharan African, East/South-East Asian, and Melanesian/Polynesian blood donors Journal of Sociology (IF 1.298) Pub Date : 2021-03-19 Luke Gahan, Barbara Masser, Cecilia Mwangi, Rachel Thorpe, Tanya Davison
With the changing ethnic composition of the Australian population there has been a growing number of patients requiring transfusions of rarer blood types. People from ethnic minority groups are generally less likely to donate blood and this can lead to shortages for some patients from these communities. In this article we report the findings of a qualitative study of ethnic minority blood donors in
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Science under Covid-19’s magnifying glass: Lessons from the first months of the chloroquine debate in the French press Journal of Sociology (IF 1.298) Pub Date : 2021-03-10 Émilien Schultz, Jeremy K. Ward
Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, all hopes are turned towards science. In this article, we put forward a qualitative analysis of how the French national press covered the issue of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine during the first months, with a focus on the descriptions of the scientific world. We show that during epidemic outbreaks the various tensions existing within the scientific
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Australians’ divergent opinions about Islam and Muslims Journal of Sociology (IF 1.298) Pub Date : 2021-03-09 Jacqui Ewart, Kate O’Donnell, Shannon Walding
Using data from a random stratified sample of people over 18 years of age residing in Australia, this article examines participants’ opinions of the Islamic faith independently of their opinions of Muslim people. Earlier studies have not made the nuanced distinction between opinions about Islam as a religion and opinions about Muslims as people. Theoretical approaches suggest that there is a difference
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Young, unauthorised and Black: African unaccompanied minors and becoming an adult in Italy Journal of Sociology (IF 1.298) Pub Date : 2021-03-02 Sarah Walker, Yasmin Gunaratnam
This article is based on ethnographic fieldwork in an Italian reception centre for male ‘unaccompanied minors’. Drawing on the concepts of ‘hostipitality’ (Derrida), the Black Mediterranean, and ‘intimate citizenship’ (Plummer), we examine the political ambivalence of hospitality for young African men as they transition to adulthood and how this is experienced through the intersections of age, gender
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‘It’s like having one more family member’: Private hospitality, affective responsibility and intimate boundaries within refugee hosting networks Journal of Sociology (IF 1.298) Pub Date : 2021-02-27 Pierre Monforte, Gaja Maestri, Estelle d’Halluin
Since 2015, the notion of hospitality has been a guiding principle and a key demand for individuals and organisations that provide direct support to refugees in Europe. Through a set of interviews conducted with volunteers active in the Refugees Welcome movement in Britain, France and Italy, this article explores the motivations and experiences of individuals who practise (private) hospitality by hosting
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‘Wir schaffen das’: Hope and hospitality beyond the humanitarian border Journal of Sociology (IF 1.298) Pub Date : 2021-02-25 Billy Holzberg
This article examines how hope for a different culture of hospitality has been articulated during the long summer of migration of 2015 in Germany by juxtaposing Angela Merkel’s ‘Wir schaffen das’ speeches with the cross-border migrant March of Hope. The article suggests that while Merkel’s rhetoric opens the horizon to a more hospitable Europe, her policies of humanitarian securitisation ultimately
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Women who ‘talk the tools’ and ‘walk the work’: Using capital to do gender differently and re-gender the skilled trades Journal of Sociology (IF 1.298) Pub Date : 2021-02-24 Elizabeth Wulff, Donna Bridges, Larissa Bamberry, Branka Krivokapic-Skoko
Social and cultural capital are valuable assets that assist individuals to succeed in work. This article reports on gender segregation in the skilled trades. We use Bourdieu’s theory of capital to illuminate how women are successfully recruited and retained in the skilled trades. Our findings indicate that women with pre-existing forms of capital are advantaged. Notably tradeswomen utilise masculine
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Measuring happiness in the social sciences: An overview Journal of Sociology (IF 1.298) Pub Date : 2021-02-20 Gabriela Delsignore, Alejandra Aguilar-Latorre, Bárbara Oliván-Blázquez
Social needs are universal and their fulfilment is considered to be a prerequisite for happiness and well-being. Currently, the assertion that income or revenue alone are insufficient to explain inequality of well-being and happiness in the evaluation of social policies is becoming ever more widespread in the social sciences. Therefore, numerous quantitative metrics mostly based on univariable scales
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One globalisation or many? Risk society in the age of the Anthropocene Journal of Sociology (IF 1.298) Pub Date : 2021-02-20 Daniel Chernilo
My goal in this article is to reconsider current ideas of globalisation, and of the relations between nature and society, by looking at two theoretical programmes of the past four decades. I start by reconsidering Ulrich Beck’s theory of risk society and highlight some of its core strengths and weaknesses. I then revisit more recent debates on the Anthropocene and unpack some key dimensions. There
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Surviving the survival narrative, part 2: Conceptualising Whiteness-as-utility and internalised racism Journal of Sociology (IF 1.298) Pub Date : 2021-02-18 Adam Z Seet, Yin Paradies
This article interrogates how the concept of critical consciousness applies to racialised subjects’ lived experiences when attempting to resist racialisation and racism within Australian society. We first demonstrate the incongruence between the theoretical conceptualisation of critical consciousness-raising and its practical application for racialised subjects, examined through the concept of the
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Conceptualising organisational cultural lag: Marriage equality and Australian sport Journal of Sociology (IF 1.298) Pub Date : 2021-02-17 Keith D Parry, Ryan Storr, Emma J Kavanagh, Eric Anderson
This article develops a theoretical framework to understand how sexuality can be institutionalised through debates about marriage equality. We first examine 13 Australian sporting organisations concerning their support for marriage equality and sexual minority inclusion before showing they drew cultural capital from supporting episodes of equality exogenous to their organisation, while failing to promote
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Beyond victims, criminals and survivors: Performing political agency after the world’s strongest storm Journal of Sociology (IF 1.298) Pub Date : 2021-02-17 Nicole Curato, Dakila Kim Yee
Victims, criminals, and survivors – these are dominant ways in which the media portrays communities affected by disasters. These portrayals are not benign. They present a deficient form of citizenship that reduces communities to disempowered subjects whose agency can only be realised with humanitarian responses or disciplinary action by the state. In this article, we make a case for portraying disaster-affected
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State of normality: Transnational migrants’ shifting views of state institutions and their obligations Journal of Sociology (IF 1.298) Pub Date : 2021-02-15 Magdalena Nowicka
The power of nationalism is evident in how people perceive the world around them as ‘normal’. A national normality is constituted through education and media but also in everyday encounters with the state or state-regulated institutions in the fields of education, welfare provisions, medical care, finance and others. When people migrate between countries, their sense of ‘normality’ can become disturbed
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The thing-power of the Facebook assemblage: Why do users stay on the platform? Journal of Sociology (IF 1.298) Pub Date : 2021-01-26 Deborah Lupton, Clare Southerton
Facebook is the most used social media platform globally, despite frequent and highly publicised criticism of some of its practices. In this article, we bring together perspectives from vital materialism scholarship – and particularly Jane Bennett’s concept of ‘thing-power’ – with our empirical research on Australian Facebook users to identify what they find important and valuable about the platform
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Textures of diversity: Socio-material arrangements, atmosphere, and social inclusion in a multi-ethnic neighbourhood Journal of Sociology (IF 1.298) Pub Date : 2021-01-11 Alev Pinar Kuruoğlu, Ian Woodward
Research within literatures on multiculturalism and cosmopolitanism has moved beyond studying the institutional basis and discursive negotiations of differences towards an understanding of the embodied and practical dimensions of everyday social interactions. An emergent literature has also started to consider the role of vibrant material agents, atmosphere, and their environmental contexts in understanding
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Post-national belongings, cosmopolitan becomings and mediating mobilities Journal of Sociology (IF 1.298) Pub Date : 2021-01-11 Noel B Salazar
In this commentary piece, I combine insights gained from the various contributions to this special issue with my own research and understanding to trace the (dis)connections between, on the one hand, (post-)nationalism and its underlying concept of belonging and, on the other hand, cosmopolitanism and its underlying concept of becoming. I pay special attention to the human (im)mobilities mediating
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New mothers and social support: A mixed-method study of young mothers in Australia Journal of Sociology (IF 1.298) Pub Date : 2020-12-25 Heidi Hoffmann, Rebecca E Olson, Francisco Perales, Janeen Baxter
Motherhood can bring joy and enrichment but may also be associated with stress leading to poor health outcomes and low life satisfaction. Young mothers are a group particularly at risk of adverse outcomes, including increased social, economic, and health disadvantage following early entry to motherhood. This article reports results from a mixed-method study examining variations in levels of social
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Learning about bodies and the lived consequences Journal of Sociology (IF 1.298) Pub Date : 2020-12-24 Richard Hornsey, Laura Gubby
From the perspective of a final year physical education and sport and exercise science undergraduate student, this article explores the relationship between learned and lived experiences related to the body. The research uses an autoethnographic approach that focuses on the educational and social issues that the first author faced as his physical identity changed. The author reflects on the ways in
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Re-imagining the world: Australians’ engagement with postnationalism, or Why the nation is the problem Journal of Sociology (IF 1.298) Pub Date : 2020-12-24 Farida Fozdar
Academic debate around the need for global cooperation, the anachronism of national borders, and the necessity of nurturing a cosmopolitan ethic of care for all, has strengthened over the last two decades, but it is unclear the extent to which the general population has embraced such ideas. This article explores Australians’ perspectives using data from a series of projects investigating whether Australians
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A woman’s place is in the ‘home’? Gender-specific hiring patterns in academia in gender-equal Norway Journal of Sociology (IF 1.298) Pub Date : 2020-12-16 Sofia Moratti
We investigated women’s hiring patterns in academia, bridging the gap between two streams of literature typically not brought in conversation with one another: (1) access to tenured professorship by gender; (2) academic mobility and the disadvantage it can create for women. We studied all recruitments of new permanent associate and full professors by open call from 2007 to 2017 at one faculty of the
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The isolating side effect of civic participation Journal of Sociology (IF 1.298) Pub Date : 2020-12-07 Tuuli-Marja Kleiner
Does widespread civic participation lead to more social capital? We argue that this is not necessarily the case. As more actors join voluntary associations, the pool of social resources available to non-active individuals is diluted, which can make it difficult for them to accrue social capital. We hypothesize that there is an insider/outsider effect, whereby widespread civic participation increases
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The great white bite: A critique of the Western Australian government’s shark hazard mitigation drum line program Journal of Sociology (IF 1.298) Pub Date : 2020-11-23 Amy Couper, Reece Walters
The fatal shark bite of a scuba diver off the coast of Esperance in Western Australia in January 2020, followed in recent months by a further four fatalities in New South Wales and Queensland, has once again sparked debate about government policies to protect humans from potentially dangerous marine life. This debate is not new; during 2010–13 Western Australia experienced an unusually high level of
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‘Not in my name’: Empathy and intimacy in volunteer refugee hosting Journal of Sociology (IF 1.298) Pub Date : 2020-11-23 Yasmin Gunaratnam
This article draws on narrative interviews with volunteers in an English charity, providing temporary accommodation to destitute migrants and refugees. The aim is to investigate the ethical and emotional complexities and ambivalence of the tensions between hospitality and hostility, and conditional and unconditional hospitality, with a focus on stories of empathy. The article engages Ken Plummer’s
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Displacements of gender: Research on alcohol, violence and the night-time economy Journal of Sociology (IF 1.298) Pub Date : 2020-11-23 David Moore, Duane Duncan, Helen Keane, Mats Ekendahl
‘Alcohol-related violence’, especially among young people participating in the night-time economy (NTE), has been the subject of intense public and policy debate in Australia. Previous sociological work has highlighted the relationship between men, masculinities and violence, but this relationship has received little attention in the research that tends to garner policy attention. In this article,
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Imagining the future: Social struggles, the post-national domain and major contemporary social transformations Journal of Sociology (IF 1.298) Pub Date : 2020-11-12 Gerard Delanty
The question this article seeks to answer is what are the major social transformations going on in contemporary society that will shape the future? The argument is that the analysis of the future requires a clearer perspective on social struggles and major social transformations in societal structures including structures of consciousness. The future is thus both actuality and possibility; it is of
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Paradigmatic upgrading of social innovation studies Journal of Sociology (IF 1.298) Pub Date : 2020-11-05 Nikolai Genov
The guiding idea of this analysis concerns the development of social innovation theory on the paradigmatic basis of the social interaction concept. The aims of the discussion are three-fold. First, the central task is to elaborate on a multidimensional concept of social innovation, defined as organized social change. Second, the development of the social innovation concept is used to evaluate the heuristic
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LGBTIQ+ break-up assemblages: At the end of the rainbow Journal of Sociology (IF 1.298) Pub Date : 2020-10-28 Annukka Lahti, Marjo Kolehmainen
This article explores Finnish LGBTIQ+ people’s break-ups. The long battle for equal rights has placed LGBTIQ+ people’s relationships under pressure to succeed. Previous studies argue that partners in LGBTIQ+ relationships try to appear as ordinary and happy as possible, and remain silent about the challenges they face in their relationships. Consequently, they may miss out on opportunities to receive
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Marriage equality in Australia: The ‘no’ vote and symbolic violence Journal of Sociology (IF 1.298) Pub Date : 2020-11-24 Ian Flaherty, Jennifer Wilkinson
Until December 2017, there were no legal provisions within the Commonwealth of Australia for same-sex couples to marry in the same sense that their heterosexual friends and family can. Civil unions provide similar legal protections as marriage, but many argue that this is not enough – that same-sex couples occupy a ‘second-class’ citizen status in relation to marriage. Many jurisdictions globally recognise
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Covid-19 and the civilizing process Journal of Sociology (IF 1.298) Pub Date : 2020-12-28 Robert van Krieken
This article outlines the key elements of Norbert Elias’s theory of the civilizing process that can usefully be drawn upon to develop a detached, less present-focused sociological understanding of the Covid-19 pandemic. Three ideas are highlighted: first, this is in fact an old story, in the sense that we’re in the middle of a constellation of long-term processes, and this matters in a number of ways
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‘Let fa’afafine shine like diamonds’: Balancing accommodation, negotiation and resistance in gender-nonconforming Samoans’ counter-hegemony Journal of Sociology (IF 1.298) Pub Date : 2020-10-28 Yoko Kanemasu, Asenati Liki
In the Pacific Island country of Samoa, a gender-nonconforming community known as fa’afafine is said to constitute part of customary tradition and therefore enjoy cultural legitimacy. Yet fa’afafine are also confronted with a binary gender discourse that daily marginalises them within families/communities. This article explores fa’afafine’s gendered positioning in contemporary Samoa and the ways in
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The digital racist fellowship behind the anti-Aboriginal internet memes Journal of Sociology (IF 1.298) Pub Date : 2020-10-26 Ryan Al-Natour
In Australian social media platforms, non-Indigenous social media users commonly utilize digital spaces to communicate anti-Aboriginal racism. This article investigates the phenomenon of anti-Aboriginal internet memes that appear across Australian social media pages and closely examines the prominent racializations evident in these memes. This article discusses 19 internet memes and how they function
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Serial migration, multiple belongings and orientations toward the future: The perspective of middle-class migrants in Singapore Journal of Sociology (IF 1.298) Pub Date : 2020-10-22 Kellynn Wee, Brenda SA Yeoh
The growing phenomenon of serial migrants – people who have moved at least three times and profess belongings to more than two places – challenges the dialogic relationship imagined in studies of transnationalism. This is particularly true in the case of the mobile middle class, which has attracted less attention than the multiple migrations of low-waged labour migrants and the global professional
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Globalisation, postnationalism and Australia Journal of Sociology (IF 1.298) Pub Date : 2020-10-22 Anthony Moran
Postnational institutions and identities are products of globalisation. How far along the ‘postnational’ road the world has travelled is debatable. In the early 2000s Habermas referred to an emerging ‘post national constellation’. While the nation-state is still an important institutional form, postnational identities and experiences challenge the boundaries of nation-states, and also national identities
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Loneliness and housing tenure: Older private renters and social housing tenants in Australia Journal of Sociology (IF 1.298) Pub Date : 2020-10-15 Alan Morris, Andrea Verdasco
Loneliness is recognised as one the most pressing issues of the contemporary period and, if left untreated, can have serious health implications. We argue that a key determinant of loneliness for older people (65 plus) in Australia dependent on the government Age Pension for their income is their housing tenure. Drawing on semi-structured in-depth interviews, we show that older Australians who are
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Brexit barbarization? The UK leaving the EU as de-civilizing trend Journal of Sociology (IF 1.298) Pub Date : 2020-10-06 David Inglis
Social scientists have begun to offer varied diagnoses of why Brexit has happened, and what its consequences have been and will likely be. This article does so by drawing upon Elias-inspired notions of longer-term de-civilizing processes, shorter-term de-civilizing spurts, and short-term de-civilizing offensives. Brexit is conceived of as involving a set of interlocking phenomena and tendencies which
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Experiences of and responses to disempowerment, violence, and injustice within the relational lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people Journal of Sociology (IF 1.298) Pub Date : 2020-10-06 Luke Gahan, Kathryn Almack
This article introduces a special edition of the Journal of Sociology that aims to interrogate the ongoing entrenchment of hetero- and cis-normative borders, and the consequential manifestations of power, violence and in/justice experienced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) people in their relationships and family lives. The articles in this issue all explore different forms
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Existential advertising in late modernity: Meaningful work in higher education advertisements Journal of Sociology (IF 1.298) Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Fabian Cannizzo, Sara James
The ongoing massification of higher education has entailed a changing relationship between higher education providers and students. While scholars have been quick to identify the political implications of the quasi-market model for the student-customer, there has been significantly less focus on the role that advertising plays in facilitating a student-consumer culture. This article uses an analysis
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Navigating ‘thin’ dating markets: Mid-life repartnering in the era of dating apps and websites Journal of Sociology (IF 1.298) Pub Date : 2020-08-17 Zack Dwyer, Nicholas Hookway, Brady Robards
This article is a qualitative analysis of how people aged in their 30s and 40s use dating apps and websites to repartner following relationship separation or divorce. While ‘mid-life’ is a period o...
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Meaningful work in late modernity: An introduction Journal of Sociology (IF 1.298) Pub Date : 2020-07-30 Fabian Cannizzo, Sara James
In this introduction to a special section of the Journal of Sociology, on Meaningful Work in Late Modernity, we will explore the implications of late modern reflexivity for how work is experienced and conducted. The transformation in intellectual debates about the progress of human history, which has been described as the emergence of ‘late modernity’, is a reflection of the cultural and material circumstances
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The emotional trade-off between meaningful and precarious work in new economies Journal of Sociology (IF 1.298) Pub Date : 2020-07-29 Roger Patulny, Kathy A Mills, Rebecca E Olson, Alberto Bellocchi, Jordan McKenzie
The contradictory work environments of new economies in late modernity are associated with a range of emotional experiences, requiring diverse emotion management strategies. Late modernity offers the capacity to pursue happy, safe, rewarding, and meaningful work for the privileged few; a potential trade-off between stressful meaningful and boring precarious work for a greater number; and the prospect
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COVID-19/Sociology Journal of Sociology (IF 1.298) Pub Date : 2020-07-29 Raewyn Connell
Though the COVID-19 epidemic is a social disaster as much as a medical one, and though some sociological ideas circulate in public discussions, disciplinary sociology has had little influence. Internal discussions have mostly been conventional, and familiar sociological theory and methodology seem inadequate to this situation. Taking the viewpoint of the virus helps to shift perspective on a historical
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Coronavirus, domestic labour and care: Gendered roles locked down Journal of Sociology (IF 1.298) Pub Date : 2020-07-24 Lyn Craig
The Covid-19 pandemic turned daily lives upside down. Lockdowns and physical distancing meant hundreds of thousands of people switched to working from home, significantly blurring the temporal and spatial boundaries between paid work, domestic labour and caring for others. This article explores gender relations, and the division of employment, domestic labour and care, drawing on early results from
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A sociology of the Covid-19 pandemic: A commentary and research agenda for sociologists Journal of Sociology (IF 1.298) Pub Date : 2020-07-20 Paul R Ward
During the early part of 2020, there has been an abundance of critically important research on Covid-19 from medical, epidemiological and virological disciplines. There is now an urgent need for sociologists to engage theoretically and empirically on the social impact of issues related to Covid-19. As we have moved further into 2020, governments around the world have imposed different types of restrictions
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Subjecting pandemic sport to a sociological procedure Journal of Sociology (IF 1.298) Pub Date : 2020-07-17 David Rowe
The Covid-19 global pandemic posed a particularly acute problem for sport. Although there was massive sectoral disruption in areas like higher education, music, and tourism, sport is unusually dependent on commercial media-financed, impossible-to-repeat live events performed before large co-present crowds that form a key part of the spectacle for the many times larger, distant audiences using an expanding
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Permission, obedience, and continuities: A contribution to the sociological theory of genocidal processes Journal of Sociology (IF 1.298) Pub Date : 2020-07-15 Alberto J Ribes
This article presents a theoretical reflection on genocidal processes. In the first place, we will propose the compatibility of the paradigm of permission with the paradigm of obedience, which woul...
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Sociology in a crisis: Covid-19 and the colonial politics of knowledge production in Aotearoa New Zealand Journal of Sociology (IF 1.298) Pub Date : 2020-07-15 Simon Barber, (Kāi Tahu), Sereana Naepi, (Natasiri)
Rather than being exceptional for Māori and Pacific Peoples, Covid-19 is the latest iteration of virulent disease that arrived with European colonisation. The various pandemics are connected; they exacerbate and intensify existing conditions of colonial inequality and injustice. The political and economic marginalisation of Māori and Pasifika within Aotearoa New Zealand ensures that Covid-19 will have
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Getting students to ‘do’ introductory sociology: Analysis of a blended and flipped interactive workshop model Journal of Sociology (IF 1.298) Pub Date : 2020-07-08 Sarah Baker, Bob Buttigieg, Zelmarie Cantillon, Adele Pavlidis, Laura Rodriguez Castro, Ash Watson
Blended learning and flipped classroom models are increasingly encouraged in higher education, where notions of flexibility and technological development inform institutional systems and strategies...
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Managing labour market re-entry following maternity leave among women in the Australian higher education sector Journal of Sociology (IF 1.298) Pub Date : 2020-07-06 Sheree K Gregory
Paid maternity leave policy attracts considerable attention in Australia and internationally, not least because taking a maternity break and employment re-entry benefits economies, businesses and w...
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‘Learning her culture and growing up strong’: Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander fathers, children and the sharing of culture Journal of Sociology (IF 1.298) Pub Date : 2020-07-06 Jacob Prehn, Michael Andre Guerzoni, Huw Peacock
Indigenous fathers play a central role in the lives of Indigenous children growing up strong. For Australia’s Indigenous people, growing strong includes the possessing heightened levels of health, ...
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Family relationships and LGB first homelessness in Australia: What do we know and where should we go? Journal of Sociology (IF 1.298) Pub Date : 2020-07-04 Deborah Dempsey, Sharon Parkinson, Cal Andrews, Ruth McNair
Family conflict is a well-documented causal factor in the international literature on youth homelessness. Less is known about how childhood experiences within family of origin contribute to first homelessness among Australian lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) young people. In this article, which draws on an analysis of the Australian Journeys Home survey, we argue that homelessness
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A sociology of Covid-19 Journal of Sociology (IF 1.298) Pub Date : 2020-06-30 Steve Matthewman, Kate Huppatz
The Covid-19 pandemic presents the profoundest public health and economic crisis of our times. The seemingly impossible has happened: borders have closed, nations have locked down, and individuals have socially isolated for the collective good. We find ourselves involved in an unprecedented social experiment. This living laboratory is ripe for sociological analysis. In this introductory article, we
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Claiming ‘anti-white racism’ in Australia: Victimhood, identity, and privilege Journal of Sociology (IF 1.298) Pub Date : 2020-06-30 Rachel Sharples, Kathleen Blair
This article explores the attitudes and beliefs of 38 people who made claims of anti-white racism in a national survey that measured the extent and variation of racism in Australia. Quantitative an...
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‘What do bisexuals look like? I don’t know!’ Visibility, gender, and safety among plurisexuals Journal of Sociology (IF 1.298) Pub Date : 2020-06-22 Rosie Nelson
Plurisexuals are often interpreted as half gay/half straight due to the prevailing belief that multigendered attractions are temporary, or illusory. This interpretation is also strongly connected to the gender binary, gender norms, and cisnormativity. Based on these social forces, this article explores how plurisexuals represent themselves in a culture that does not see their identities as viable,
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