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Socioeconomic-Status-Based Disrespect, Discrimination, Exclusion, and Shaming: A Potential Source of Health Inequalities? Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 5.179) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Bruce G. Link, San Juanita García, Rengin Firat, Shayna La Scalla, Jo C. Phelan
Observing an association between socioeconomic status (SES) and health reliably leads to the question, “What are the pathways involved?” Despite enormous investment in research on the characteristics, behaviors, and traits of people disadvantaged with respect to health inequalities, the issue remains unresolved. We turn our attention to actions of more advantaged groups by asking people to self-report
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Book Review: Queer Judaism: LGBT Activism and the Remaking of Jewish Orthodoxy in Israel, By Orit Avishai Gender & Society (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Tanya Zion-Waldoks
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Book Review: The Prism of Human Rights: Seeking Justice amid Gender Violence in Rural Ecuador, By Karin Friederic Gender & Society (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Ingrid Bachmann
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Book Review: Sexualizing Cancer: HPV and the Politics of Cancer Prevention, By Laura Mamo Gender & Society (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Adina Nack
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Validating the White Flight Hypothesis: Neighborhood Racial Composition and Out-Migration in Two Longitudinal Surveys Sociological Science (IF 6.222) Pub Date : 2024-03-14
Peter Mateyka, Matthew Hall Sociological Science March 14, 2024 10.15195/v11.a7 Abstract Empirical research assessing the link between neighborhood racial composition and out-migration has largely relied on a single sample from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). In this article, we validate these models by comparing estimates from the PSID to estimates from identical models based on internal
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Differences in Academic Preparedness Do Not Fully Explain Black–White Enrollment Disparities in Advanced High School Coursework Sociological Science (IF 6.222) Pub Date : 2024-03-11
João M. Souto-Maior, Ravi Shroff Sociological Science March 11, 2024 10.15195/v11.a6 Abstract Whether racial disparities in enrollment in advanced high school coursework can be attributed to differences in prior academic preparation is a central question in sociological research and education policy. However, previous investigations face methodological limitations, for they compare race-specific enrollment
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Are High-Immigrant Neighborhoods Disadvantaged in Seeking Local Government Services? Evidence from Baltimore City, Maryland Social Forces (IF 5.866) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Min Xie, David McDowall, Sean Houlihan
To modernize public service delivery, U.S. communities increasingly rely on 311 systems for residents to request government services. Research on 311 systems is relatively new, and there is mixed evidence on whether 311 can help bridge the gap between disadvantaged communities and governments. This study draws from research on immigration, race/ethnicity, and differential engagement to explore the
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How Political Dynasties Concentrate Advantage within Cities: Evidence from Crime and City Services in Chicago Social Forces (IF 5.866) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Stephanie Ternullo, Ángela Zorro-Medina, Robert Vargas
Classic models of urban inequality acknowledge the importance of politics for resource distribution and service provision. Yet, contemporary studies of spatial inequality rarely measure politics directly. In this paper, we introduce political dynasties as a way of integrating political economy approaches with ecological theory to better understand the political construction of urban spatial inequality
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A Systematic Analysis of Statewide Reports on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples in the U.S.: What We Know and Where to Go from Here☆ Rural Sociology (IF 4.078) Pub Date : 2024-03-09 Kathleen A. Fox, Kayleigh A. Stanek, Leonard Mukosi, Christopher Sharp, Valaura Imus‐Nahsonhoya
For generations, Indigenous communities have been calling attention to a widespread form of victimization known as Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples (MMIP). In response to grassroots efforts across rural communities, there has been a marked increase in legislation at the federal and state levels to address MMIP from 2018 to the present. Federal legislation has provided the most comprehensive
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Classed Burdens: Habitus and Administrative Burden during the COVID-19 Pandemic Sociological Science (IF 6.222) Pub Date : 2024-03-07
Taylor Laemmli Sociological Science March 7, 2024 10.15195/v11.a5 Abstract This paper shows how class shaped service workers’ experiences of administrative burdens during the COVID-19 pandemic. I use the pandemic and pandemic-related shutdowns as a pseudo natural experiment in which job loss was applied to a set of workers from different class backgrounds and with different class locations, workers
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Structural Disadvantages to the Kin Network from Intergenerational Racial Health Inequities Social Forces (IF 5.866) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Heeju Sohn
This article utilizes the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to demonstrate how disadvantages in healthy life expectancies accumulated across generations create disparate kin structures among African American families in the United States. The analysis quantifies the overlap in parents’ healthy years with their adult children’s healthy life expectancies and examines how much the overlap coincides with
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Racializing Motherhood and Maternity Care in News Representations of Breastfeeding Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 5.179) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Shannon K. Carter, Sanya Bansal
Racial inequalities in breastfeeding have been a U.S. national concern, prompting health science research and public discourse. Social science research reveals structural causes, including racism in labor conditions, maternity care practices, and lactation support. Yet research shows that popular and health science discourses disproportionately focus on individual and community factors, blaming Black
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The Shape of the Sieve: Which Components of the Admissions Application Matter Most in Particular Institutional Contexts? Sociol. Educ. (IF 4.619) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Barrett J. Taylor, Kelly Rosinger, Karly S. Ford
Admission to selective colleges has grown more competitive, yielding student bodies that are unrepresentative of the U.S. population. Admission officers report using sorting (e.g., GPA, standardized tests) and concertedly cultivated (e.g., extracurricular activities) and ascriptive status (e.g., whether an applicant identifies as a member of a racially minoritized group) criteria to make decisions
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How do parents care together? Dyadic parental leave take-up strategies, wages and workplace characteristics Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 4.249) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Marie Valentova
The article explores the association between within-household couples’ parental leave take-up strategies and parents’ earning capacity (hourly wages) and their workplace characteristics. The results, based on the social security register data from Luxembourg, reveal that a couple strategy where both partners take parental leave is more likely when the partners have equal earning capacity, when the
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‘A Good Death’: One Hospice Chaplain’s Approach to End-of-Life Care Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 4.249) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Rachael N Pettigrew, Madison Cawdor
When doctors determine patients’ life expectancy to be six months or less, patients are considered palliative. Hospice offers care for the terminally ill patient’s body, mind and spirit. As part of the hospice team, chaplains support the spiritual needs of the patient and their family – a challenging and rewarding role. Dr Madison Cawdor shares his extensive experience as a United States-based hospice
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Turning Social Capital into Scientific Capital: Men’s Networking in Academia Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 4.249) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Margaretha Järvinen, Nanna Mik-Meyer
Universities have changed in recent decades with the introduction of various performance measurement systems, including journal ranking lists. This Bourdieu-inspired article analyses three types of strategies used by male associate professors in response to journal lists: building social capital at conferences and during stays abroad; marketing of research papers to potential reviewers and journal
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Self‐Employment, the COVID‐19 Pandemic, and the Rural–Urban Divide in the United States☆ Rural Sociology (IF 4.078) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Samuel C. H. Mindes
Self‐employed individuals faced numerous challenges amid the global health and economic crisis that was the COVID‐19 pandemic. Similarly, rural and urban workers faced different challenges during the pandemic. This rural–urban disparity further complicates the impacts of self‐employment and exacerbates inequalities resulting from gender, race, ethnicity, or immigration status. This study examines the
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Navigating Anxiety: International Politics, Identity Narratives, and Everyday Defense Mechanisms International Political Sociology (IF 3.229) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Anne-Marie Houde
How do individuals navigate international politics and mitigate the anxieties it elicits in the everyday? Giddensian literature on ontological security suggests that (collective) internalized routines and narratives provide a sense of certainty and stability that enable individuals to “go on” with their daily lives. This article adopts a Kleinian psychoanalytical approach to show that when faced with
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Emerging Pronoun Practices After the Procedural Turn: Disclosure, Discovery, and Repair Sociological Science (IF 6.222) Pub Date : 2024-03-01
Julieta Goldenberg, Rogers Brubaker Sociological Science March 1, 2024 10.15195/v11.a4 Abstract We examine emerging practices of pronoun disclosure, discovery, and repair after the procedural turn in pronoun politics, which shifted attention from the substantive question of which pronouns should be used to the procedural question of how preferred pronouns, whatever they might be, could be effectively
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Is adoption an environmental threat? Domestication fantasies in Swedish adoption narratives The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Richey Wyver, Steve Matthewman
In 2017 Ghassan Hage published Is Racism an Environmental Threat? The book’s question misleads. For Hage does not seek to show that the former leads to the latter, rather, he elucidates the logics of domination that are common to both. Hage states that ‘generalised domestication’ is the clearest optic through which to see both racism reproducing and revitalising itself and violence towards the environment
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The Class Ceiling in the United States: Class-Origin Pay Penalties in Higher Professional and Managerial Occupations Social Forces (IF 5.866) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Daniel Laurison, Sam Friedman
Gender and racial pay penalties are well-known: women (of all races) and people of color (of all genders) earn less, on average, even when they gain access to occupations historically reserved for White men. Studies of social mobility show that people from working-class backgrounds in the US have also been excluded from top professional and managerial occupations. But do working-class-origin people
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A Tool Kit for Relation Induction in Text Analysis Sociological Methods & Research (IF 4.677) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Dustin S. Stoltz, Marshall A. Taylor, Jennifer S. K. Dudley
Distances derived from word embeddings can measure a range of gradational relations—similarity, hierarchy, entailment, and stereotype—and can be used at the document- and author-level in ways that overcome some of the limitations of weighted dictionary methods. We provide a comprehensive introduction to using word embeddings for relation induction, and demonstrate how such techniques can complement
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The secret and The Circle: Georg Simmel’s social theory and Dave Eggers’ dystopian fiction The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Daniel Davison-Vecchione
This article considers Dave Eggers’ 2013 dystopian novel The Circle, which critically explores digital surveillance, alongside Georg Simmel’s social-theoretical writings on the secret, social distance and proximity, and the intersection of social circles. The article shows how Simmel’s social theory illuminates important aspects of secrecy and surveillance in The Circle, including the secret’s constitutive
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Outline of a critical sociology of free speech in everyday life: Beyond liberal approaches The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 John Michael Roberts
Critical sociologists have been conspicuous by their absence in theoretical debates about free speech in everyday life. The aim of this article is to address this missing gap in critical sociology by making some tentative suggestions about how such a theory might advance. Drawing mainly from the ideas of Pierre Bourdieu and Judith Butler, the article suggests that free speech occurs when coalitions
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Young people, place-based stigma and resistance: A case study of Glasgow’s East End The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Maureen McBride
This article analyses working-class young people’s perceptions of and resistance to place-based stigma, through a case study of a youth-led theatre project in the East End of Glasgow, UK. The impact of stigma on working-class communities is well-established; through the effects of poverty and inequality people and places are stigmatised. Although existing literature emphasises that we must recognise
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Book Review: Teaching Fear: How We Learn to Fear Crime and Why It Matters by Nicole E. Rader Gender & Society (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Anna Gjika
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Gender Equality for Whom? The Changing College Education Gradients of the Division of Paid Work and Housework Among US Couples, 1968–2019 Social Forces (IF 5.866) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Léa Pessin
In response to women’s changing roles in labor markets, couples have adopted varied strategies to reconcile career and family needs. Yet, most studies on the gendered division of labor focus almost exclusively on changes either in work or family domain. Doing so neglects the process through which couples negotiate and contest traditional work and family responsibilities. Studies that do examine these
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Occupying Shops to Defend Spaces of Livelihoods: From Tenant Shopkeepers’ Fragmentation to Collective Consciousness in Urban Korea Social Forces (IF 5.866) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Yewon Andrea Lee
When commercial real estate becomes a highly coveted investment commodity, tensions intensify between those whose interest lies in extracting maximum profits from their properties and those who utilize the very same spaces for making a livelihood. Through ethnographic research with a tenant shopkeepers’ social movement organization (SMO) in Korea, I analyze the new collective consciousness forming
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Cumulative Disadvantage or Strained Advantage? Remote Schooling, Paid Work Status, and Parental Mental Health during the COVID-19 Pandemic Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 5.179) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Mieke Beth Thomeer, Mia Brantley, Rin Reczek
During the COVID-19 pandemic, parents experienced difficulties around employment and children’s schooling, likely with detrimental mental health implications. We analyze National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 data (N = 2,829) to estimate depressive symptom changes from 2019 to 2021 by paid work status and children’s schooling modality, considering partnership status, gender, and race-ethnicity
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Breaking Barriers or Persisting Traditions? Fertility Histories, Occupational Achievements, and Intergenerational Mobility of Italian Women Sociological Science (IF 6.222) Pub Date : 2024-02-25
Filippo Gioachin, Anna Zamberlan Sociological Science February 25, 2024 10.15195/v11.a3 Abstract Women and men share comparable levels of intergenerational social mobility in all Western economies, except for Southern European countries, where women’s life chances appear less determined by their family background. This is puzzling given Southern European’s persistent familialism, lack of institutional
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Extending Driver’s Licenses to Undocumented Immigrants: Comparing Perinatal Outcomes Following This Policy Shift Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 5.179) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Margot Moinester, Kaitlyn K. Stanhope
Research shows that restrictive immigration policies and practices are associated with poor health, but far less is known about the relationship between inclusive immigration policies and health. Using data from the United States natality files, we estimate associations between state laws granting undocumented immigrants access to driver’s licenses and perinatal outcomes among 4,047,067 singleton births
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Book Review: Gender Replay: On Kids, Schools, and Feminism by Freeden Blume Oeur and C. J. Pascoe Gender & Society (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2024-02-24 Stephanie D. Mccall
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Changes to Rural Migration in the COVID‐19 Pandemic☆ Rural Sociology (IF 4.078) Pub Date : 2024-02-24 Julia K. Petersen, Richelle L. Winkler, Miranda H. Mockrin
Media stories highlighted accounts of migration away from city centers towards more rural destinations during the COVID‐19 pandemic, but systematic research about how the pandemic changed migration in more rural destinations is only starting to emerge. This paper relies on U.S. Postal Service change‐of‐address data to describe whether and how established domestic migration systems changed during the
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Month of Birth and Cognitive Effort: A Laboratory Study of the Relative Age Effect among Fifth Graders Social Forces (IF 5.866) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Jonas Radl, Manuel T Valdés
All around the world, school-entry cohorts are organized on an annual calendar so that the age of students in the same cohort differs by up to one year. It is a well-established finding that this age gap entails a consequential (dis)advantage for academic performance referred to as the relative age effect (RAE). This study contributes to a recent strand of research that has turned to investigate the
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Unions, technology and social class inequalities in the US, 1984–2019 Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 4.249) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Saverio Minardi
Earnings inequality in the US has risen in recent decades, with social class inequalities being a central component of this trend. While technological change and de-unionisation are considered key contributors to increased earnings dispersion, their specific influence on inequalities between employees’ social classes has received limited attention. This study theoretically and empirically investigates
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Social Inequalities in Study Trajectories: A Comparison of the United States and Germany Sociol. Educ. (IF 4.619) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Christina Haas, Andreas Hadjar
Social origin affects not only access to higher education but also how students proceed through higher education. Based on the argument that an advantageous family background facilitates linear study trajectories through parents’ provision of cultural and economic resources, this article investigates study trajectories in Germany and the United States, assessing the institutional structures as an intermediating
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Eviction and the Rental Housing Crisis in Rural America☆ Rural Sociology (IF 4.078) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Carl Gershenson, Matthew Desmond
Evictions are commonplace in the United States, and their negative consequences are broad and severe. However, research on evictions to date has focused primarily on urban areas, and thus has not addressed the impact evictions have on rural renters. This paper offers the first comprehensive analysis of evictions in rural communities, where the number of renters has been increasing in recent decades
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Exposure of Neighborhood Racial and Socio-Economic Composition in Activity Space: A New Approach Adjusting for Residential Conditions Social Forces (IF 5.866) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Liang Cai, Christopher R Browning, Kathleen A Cagney
A longstanding urban sociological literature emphasizes the geographic isolation of city dwellers in residence and everyday routines, expecting exposures to neighborhood racial and socio-economic structure driven principally by city-wide segregation and the role of proximity and homophily in mobility. The compelled mobility approach emphasizes the uneven distribution of organizational and institutional
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The Stress of Injustice: Public Defenders and the Frontline of American Inequality Social Forces (IF 5.866) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Valerio Baćak, Sarah Esther Lageson, Kathleen Powell
Fairness in the criminal legal system is unattainable without effective legal representation of indigent defendants, yet we know little about the experience of attorneys who do this critical work. Using semi-structured interviews, our study investigated occupational stress in a sample of 78 attorneys representing indigent clients across the United States. We show how the chronic stressors experienced
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The Clandestine Hands of the State: Dissecting Police Collusion in the Drug Trade Social Forces (IF 5.866) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Mary Ellen Stitt, Katherine Sobering, Javier Auyero
Police collusion with drug market organizations is widespread around the world, but the nature of this collaboration remains poorly understood. This article draws on a unique data source to dissect the inner workings of police collusion: transcripts of wiretapped conversations, embedded in thousands of pages of court cases in which state agents have been prosecuted for collaborating with drug market
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THE MYTH OF MUTUALITY: Decision-Making, Marital Power, and the Persistence of Gender Inequality Gender & Society (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Jaclyn S. Wong, Allison Daminger
Invisible power—the ability to resist changing one’s behavior because of an unspoken consensus that the status quo is natural or inevitable—upholds gender inequality in different-gender marriages. Yet the “consensus” that Aafke Komter documented more than 30 years ago—one in which both men and women endorsed male primacy and believed it natural for women to enjoy housework and men to pursue professional
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Troubling grief: Spectrality, temporality, refusal, catharsis The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Alex Broom, Michelle Peterie
In the cultural imaginary of death and dying, the felt contours of grief are still often taken for granted. Grief is predominantly understood as sadness at loss; as melancholia at the finitude of relationships. Grief is conceived as a temporally-bound affective period in which one processes the pain of loss – that is, gets used to absence and works toward ‘moving on’. In this article, we centre the
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Troubling ‘the norm’? Or, how to become a recognisable, visible gay parent through surrogacy: A comparative analysis of Israeli and German gay couples The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Julia Teschlade
Over the past two decades, recognition of same-sex relationships and non-normative families has increased alongside greater access to reproductive technologies. Despite this progress, surrogacy, a potential path to parenthood for gay couples, remains banned in many countries. Research indicates that gay couples, facing legal restrictions, often seek reproductive services abroad, navigating complex
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Citizenship and discomfort: Wearing (clothing) as an embodied act of citizenship The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Katalin Halász
This article contributes to research on citizenship and belonging in the post-Brexit white East European migration to the UK. It explores wearing a garment as an act of citizenship and an embodied methodology. It is formed of two interrelated parts: the first presents the argument that wearing a particular garment at a specific spatio-temporal juncture can be considered an act of citizenship. The second
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Entanglements of race and migration in the (open) city: Analytical and normative tensions of the sociological imagination The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Michael Keith, Susannah Cramer-Greenbaum, Karim Murji, Steve Pile, John Solomos, Eda Yazici, Ying Wang
This article considers the interface of taxonomies of race and migration crystallised through the materialities of the contemporary city in the shadow of the 7th anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire. It draws on multi-method empirical research that interrogates the notion of the open city. The article proposes that ‘entanglement’ and ‘contaminations’ of material and cultural formations confound some
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An ‘unfathomable hatred of Islam’: Ethno/graphing the trial for the Québec City mosque massacre The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Fabrice Fernandez, Sophie Marois, Stéphanie Gariépy, Sarah Arnal
On the night of January 29, 2017, six Muslim worshippers were killed, and many others severely injured when a white man opened fire at a mosque in Québec City (QC, Canada). This article is based on a collective ethno/graphy of the assailant’s trial, from its beginning in March 2018 until the verdict in February 2019. During this period, our research group – formed of three sociologists and a visual
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WOMEN AND FORESTS IN SOLIDARITY: A Multispecies Companionship Case From the Aegean Forests of Turkey Gender & Society (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Nihan Bozok
Building on a feminist multispecies perspective, this article examines the interwoven relationships between forest ecosystems and the lives of rural women living along the Aegean coast of Turkey. Ethnographic fieldwork conducted in the Aegean region’s forest settlements between 2018 and 2022 forms the basis of this study. I focus on three ways women highlight their entanglements with forests into weaving
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“I AM A FEMINIST, BUT . . .” Practicing Quiet Feminism in the Era of Everyday Backlash in South Korea Gender & Society (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Gowoon Jung, Minyoung Moon
In this study, we investigate the practice of feminism among young South Korean women in the era of backlash. Drawing on interviews with 40 female college students in South Korea, we found that most of the participants self-identify as feminists who engage in feminist activities primarily in private offline settings on their college campuses. To understand this phenomenon of quiet feminism, which contradicts
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Analyzing the Impact of Family Structure Changes on Children’s Stress Levels Using a Stress Biomarker Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 5.179) Pub Date : 2024-02-10 Pauline Kleinschlömer, Mine Kühn, Lara Bister, Tobias C. Vogt, Sandra Krapf
Changes in family structure (e.g., parental separation or stepfamily formation) are associated with a deterioration in children’s well-being. Most researchers have focused on the impact of such changes on children’s educational and psychosocial outcomes, whereas the effects on children’s biological processes have been studied less often. We analyze the effects of changes in family structure on children’s
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Looking for Trouble: How Teachers’ Racialized Practices Perpetuate Discipline Inequities in Early Childhood Sociol. Educ. (IF 4.619) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Calvin Rashaud Zimmermann
Racial disproportionality in school discipline is a major U.S. educational problem. Official data show that Black boys are disciplined at the highest rates of any racial and gender subgroup. Scholars suggest the “criminal” Black male image shapes teachers’ views and treatment of their Black male students. Yet few studies examine the everyday mechanisms of racial discipline disparities, particularly
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How Institutional Logics Inform Emotional Labour: An Ethnography of Junior Doctors Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 4.249) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Priyanka Vedi, Marek Korczynski, Simon Bishop
Sociological analysis of emotional labour can be aided by considering how institutional logics inform the performance of emotional labour. We consider the link between institutional logics and emotional labour by conducting an in-depth case study of junior doctors in a large UK hospital. We point to three key institutional logics – bureaucratic, consumerist and professional logics – and show how they
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Exploring the Fetal Origins Hypothesis Using Genetic Data Social Forces (IF 5.866) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Sam Trejo
Birth weight is a robust predictor of valued life course outcomes, emphasizing the importance of prenatal development. But does birth weight act as a proxy for environmental conditions in utero, or do biological processes surrounding birth weight themselves play a role in healthy development? To answer this question, we leverage variation in birth weight that is, within families, orthogonal to prenatal
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Elucidating the Social – Developing Social Process Tracing as an Integrative Framework Sociological Methods & Research (IF 4.677) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Jonas Gejl Kaas, Mathilde Cecinni, Derek Beach
The promise of process tracing methods is that they can help us better understand how things work in real-world cases. Despite the many advances in the past two decades, we contend that existing accounts result in either under-socialised accounts in which the moves made by actors are studied while neglecting the social dimension of action, or over-socialised accounts that are so focused on social context
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“Go Back To Where You Came From!”: Moral Economy of Land and the Politics of Belonging in Coastal Tanzania☆ Rural Sociology (IF 4.078) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Youjin B. Chung
This article examines how the threat of eviction by a transnational land deal in coastal Tanzania shaped competing narratives with which longtime residents and migrants defended and legitimated the moral economy of land: a widely shared customary norm that land belonged to those who cleared, occupied, and used it continuously for their daily provisioning, with or without title deeds. To counter the
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Bureaucracy and patrimonialism on Wall Street: How organizational forms contribute to elite reproduction The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Fabien Foureault, Lena Ajdacic, Felix Bühlmann
Echoing the recent revival of elite studies, we ask how financialization shapes the composition of contemporary elites and how organizational mechanisms transform its characteristics in terms of class, gender and race. We ask whether the bureaucratization of finance contributed to a ‘purge’ of particularisms. Or to the contrary, whether class, race and gender have become more salient criteria of elite
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Structural Racism and Health Stratification: Connecting Theory to Measurement Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 5.179) Pub Date : 2024-02-03 Tyson H. Brown, Patricia Homan
Less than 1% of studies on racialized health inequities have empirically examined their root cause: structural racism. Moreover, there has been a disconnect between the conceptualization and measurement of structural racism. This study advances the field by (1) distilling central tenets of theories of structural racism to inform measurement approaches, (2) conceptualizing U.S. states as racializing
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Life-Course-Sensitive Analysis of Group Inequalities: Combining Sequence Analysis With the Kitagawa–Oaxaca–Blinder Decomposition Sociological Methods & Research (IF 4.677) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Carla Rowold, Emanuela Struffolino, Anette Eva Fasang
Processes that unfold over individuals’ life courses are often associated with inequalities later in life. The literature lacks methodological approaches to analyze inequalities in outcomes between groups, for example, between women and men, in a life-course-sensitive manner. We propose a combination of methods—of sequence analysis, which enables us to study the multidimensional complexity of life
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Nonsuicidal self-injury and intersubjective recognition: ‘You can’t argue with wounds’ The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Peter Steggals, Ruth Graham, Steph Lawler
This article explores the relevance of intersubjective recognition and the ‘recognition theoretical turn’ to our understanding of nonsuicidal self-injury. While previous research has demonstrated that self-injury possesses an important social dimension alongside its intrapsychic characteristics, a major challenge for any social approach to self-injury has been to find a way to describe and analyse
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Stable destabilising? Rethinking images of temporality The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Tim Newton, Natalia Slutskaya, Jessica Horne
This article explores our sense of stability and instability. For example, is contemporary life governed by uncertainty, fluidity and sociotechnical acceleration, or do relative stability or inertia still represent the predominant experience in many domains? In particular, can stabilities and instabilities represent symbiotic processes, the one interwoven with the other? Furthermore, are theories conventionally
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Revisiting young masculinities through a sound art installation: What really counts? The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Rachel Thomson, Alex Peverett, Janet Holland
What Really Counts? was a sound art installation created in 2019 through a collaboration between a sociologist and a multidisciplinary artist, working with in-depth interviews with young men recorded as part of a British feminist social research project in 1990, exploring sexualities and the threat of HIV/AIDS. In this article, we describe the evolution and staging of the sound art installation project