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Class, gender and the work of working-class women amid turbulent times. The British Journal of Sociology (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Tracey Warren,Luis Torres,Clare Lyonette,Ruth Tarlo
The article focuses on the work of working-class women (WCW) amid turbulent times. Its timespan is just prior to and during the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK. The women's work, and the key skills involved, are fundamental to everyday lives, but both have been under-valued and under-rewarded. The pandemic shone a fresh light on the societal importance of this work and highlighted how its under-valuation
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What is social science if not critical? The British Journal of Sociology (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Jana Bacevic
This short article represents a contribution to the debate on the motion "Social science is explanation, or it is nothing." While in the format of parliamentary debating the contribution would fall on the side of the opposition, I will not be arguing against explanation as such. The work of explaining is in no way oppositional to or mutually exclusive with critique. Instead, my contribution will revolve
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The gender gap in fair earnings increases with age due to higher age premium for men. The British Journal of Sociology (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Jule Adriaans,Carsten Sauer,Katharina Wrohlich
This study explores how gender and age interact in shaping beliefs about fair pay through a factorial survey experiment conducted with German employees. Respondents evaluated hypothetical worker descriptions varying in age, gender, and earnings. While no gender gap in fair earnings was found for the youngest hypothetical workers, a significant gap favoring men emerged with increasing age. This suggests
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Blackstone vs BlackRock The British Journal of Sociology (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-09-17 Olivier Godechot
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The concept that went viral: Using machine learning to discover charisma in the wild The British Journal of Sociology (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-09-14 Paul Joosse, Yulin Lu
The term “charisma” is recognized as sociology's most successful export to common speech. While sociologists habitually dismiss popular uses of the word, we address its vernacularity head on as a worthy object of study and as a potential resource for conceptual development. Using machine learning, we locate “charisma” within the wider discursive field out of which it arises (and continues to arise)
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Cruel optimism, affective governmentality and frontline poverty governance: ‘You can promise the world’ The British Journal of Sociology (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-09-07 Edith England
Cruel Optimism’ (Berlant, 2011) sustains neoliberalism by promising freedom and autonomy through adherence to and performance of competitive behaviours. As Brown (2003) observes, neoliberalism is a discourse which operates, not through repression or restriction, but through promising self‐fulfilment and happiness. The role of emotion‐management in poverty governance has been widely acknowledged. However
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Marriage in displacement: Gendered (self)resettlement strategies of Syrian women in Egypt The British Journal of Sociology (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-09-05 Dina M. Taha
Drawing on fieldwork data among Syrian refugee women marrying Egyptian men amid forced migration, I explore how displacement reshapes the meaning and purpose of marriage. Many such unions, often customary or polygamous, provoke comparisons to forced marriage and gender‐based violence. Bypassing the reductive exploitation and static narratives, I ask: How does displacement alter refugee women's perceptions
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Issue Information The British Journal of Sociology (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-09-03
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The coloniality of age: Navigating the chronopolitics of Black childhood The British Journal of Sociology (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-08-23 Callum Stewart
For Black, Indigenous, and other colonised peoples, decolonisation and racial justice are urgent imperatives, but their demands are often dismissed as utopian, impossible, or otherwise out‐of‐time. This article therefore introduces the coloniality of age as a theoretical framework that aims to open up possibilities for otherwise worlds. Departing from established accounts of the coloniality of time
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Conspiratorial narratives as cultural repertoires and methodological tools The British Journal of Sociology (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-08-23 Ebru Soytemel, Erol Saglam
This article builds on data and field work notes from two ethnographic studies conducted in two cities: Istanbul and Trabzon, Turkey. It examines the socio‐political dynamics behind the prevalence and impact of conspiratorial narratives. We explore the emergence, circulation, and effects of these narratives and how they shape political orientations and mobilisation. We raise methodological questions
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Asian Americans in an anti‐Black world. By Claire JeanKim, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2023. pp. 1–412. ISBN: 9781009222280 The British Journal of Sociology (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-30 Sunmin Kim
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Dual nationality, anti‐citizenship, and xeno‐racism: Online tropes on migrant (in)gratitude, and (in)adequate Britishness of Nazanin Zaghari‐Ratcliffe The British Journal of Sociology (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-30 Ladan Rahbari, Julian D. Karch
Nazanin Zaghari‐Ratcliffe, an Iranian‐British dual citizen, was detained by the Iranian state from April 2016 to March 2022 and charged with spying and propaganda activities against the Iranian state without due process. After her release and return to the UK, Zaghari‐Ratcliffe criticized the UK government in a press conference, which triggered a Twitter campaign using the hashtags “sendherback” and
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Emotion in and through crisis The British Journal of Sociology (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-23 Xiaoying Qi
To the extent that emotions are noticed in consideration of crisis they are typically thought to be negative, linked to the disruptive consequences of crisis. Based on semi‐structured in‐depth interviews the article shows that crisis precipitates not only negative but also positive emotions and that the complex of emotional experiences that emerge in the COVID pandemic crisis play a significant role
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Hospitality workers and gentrification processes: Elective belonging and reflexive complicity The British Journal of Sociology (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-20 Steven Threadgold, Lena Molnar, Megan Sharp, Julia Coffey, David Farrugia
This paper contributes new understandings of the dynamics and processes of gentrification that contribute to wider transformations of class relations. We argue that the hospitality sector, specifically the tastes, dispositions and practices of young hospitality workers, are central in how gentrification processes currently function. We extend concepts of elective and selective belonging, and reflexive
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Russia's invasion of Ukraine and perceived intergenerational mobility in Europe The British Journal of Sociology (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-18 Alexi Gugushvili, Patrick Präg
In this study, we shed light on the social consequences the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has had in other European countries. We argue that positive perceptions of one's intergenerational mobility are linked with political and economic stability and that the war can thus be expected to impact intergenerational mobility perceptions. We test our pre‐registered hypothesis with representative survey
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Renewal without replication: Expanding Durkheim's theory of disruptions via queer nightlife The British Journal of Sociology (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-18 Amin Ghaziani, Seth Abrutyn
Gay bars are closing in large numbers around the world, but institutional loss provides only a partial narrative for evaluating the larger field of nightlife. Drawing on 112 interviews, we argue that bar closures disrupted the field and consequently encouraged the visibility of alternate nightlife forms, called club nights. Unlike the fixed and emplaced model of bars, club nights are episodic and event‐based
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The economics of ethnic marriages: Endogamy and the social status of minority groups The British Journal of Sociology (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-14 Naim Bro, Liran Morav
This study examines the relationship between ethnic endogamy and socioeconomic status (SES) within the socioeconomically divergent Jewish and Native‐Chilean Mapuche communities of Santiago, Chile. By leveraging the Hispanic naming convention to analyze dual ethnic surnames, we trace endogamy patterns across comprehensive datasets that go back to 1884 up to the present. Our quantile regression analysis
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Income change and sympathy for right‐wing populist parties in the Netherlands: The role of gender and income inequality within households The British Journal of Sociology (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-10 Yoav Roll, Nan Dirk De Graaf
The global rise of right‐wing populist [RWP] parties presents a major political concern. RWP parties' voters tend to be citizens who have either experienced or fear economic deprivation. Income change constitutes a viable measure of this deprivation. However, previous contributions examining effects of income change on support for RWP parties have yielded diverging conclusions. This paper challenges
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The revolution next door The British Journal of Sociology (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-09 David Calnitsky, Kaitlin Pauline Wannamaker
This paper explores the cascading influence of revolutionary moments on democracy and inequality, not at home, but across borders. We use data on revolutions and other social upheavals over the past 120 years and examine their cross‐national impact on a range of variables in neighboring countries. Engaging with debates on whether substantial democracy and equality increases require extraordinary circumstances
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Children picturing their own worlds: Using photovoice to amplify children’s voice in sociological research The British Journal of Sociology (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-07 A. C. Ferraro, Erin J. Maher
This research note highlights an emerging transdisciplinary research method—photovoice—and why it is particularly suited for sociological studies of children and youth. Traditional social science data collection methods can be limited in their ability to capture both the depth and breadth of childhood experiences and children's perceptions of their experiences. We describe an emerging method, photovoice
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From a national elite to the global elite: Possibilities and problems in scaling up The British Journal of Sociology (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-27 Claire Maxwell, Karen Lillie
This research note highlights emerging findings that speak to the challenges of joining the transnational elite, particularly for those coming from the Global South. For a longitudinal study of wealth inheritors becoming more transnational via their educational paths, we spoke with 16 young people who were all in their early 20s and primarily from economic elite families in the Global South. Some participants
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How kindness took a hold: A sociology of emotions, attachment and everyday enchantment The British Journal of Sociology (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-22 Julie Brownlie
How are we to understand the contemporary preoccupation—at least in many English‐speaking societies—with ‘random acts of kindness’ and the idea of kindness more generally? Should this be seen as a challenge to the logic of capitalism or reinforcing of it, an example of commodification of emotion within our everyday lives? By introducing and mapping the contours of an emergent ‘kindness industry’, placing
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Does educational attainment matter for attitudes toward immigrants in Chile? Assessing the causality and generalizability of higher education's so‐called “liberalizing effect” on economic and cultural threat The British Journal of Sociology (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-21 Paolo Velásquez
Despite a large literature consistently showing a relationship between higher levels of education and lower levels of ethnic prejudice, some points of contention remain. First, it remains unclear whether education has a causal effect on attitudes, mainly due to a lack of longitudinal studies. Second, due to the majority of studies on prejudice being conducted in Europe and North America, we do not
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Positioning precarity: The contingent nature of precarious work in structure and practice The British Journal of Sociology (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-20 Krzysztof Z. Jankowski
Conceptualising precarity has come to rest on the multi‐dimensional and differentiated insecurities of job and worker, this however belies the relationship between structure and experience where precarity originates. To bridge that relationship, I employ the landscape concept to position workers relative to the structural contingency of precarious work. To study this landscape, I conducted an ethnography
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Saving one's face while saving one's soul? The refraction of tactical approaches to penance as a disciplinary device in Counter-Reformation Italy. The British Journal of Sociology (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-18 Giovanni Zampieri
Sociohistorical research suggests that religious discourses and practices have been powerful in producing disciplined lines of conduct. Typically, however, this work has only considered the long-term consequences of discursive shifts or the one-sided outcomes of disciplinary practices. In contrast, this paper shows how the creative appropriation of disciplinary devices can instigate their transfiguration
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Infant mortality and social causality: Lessons from the history of Britain's public health movement, c. 1834-1914. The British Journal of Sociology (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-15 Elias Nosrati,Michael P Kelly,Simon Szreter
What are the historical conditions under which a sociologically informed understanding of health inequality can emerge in the public sphere? We seek to address this question through the lens of a strategically chosen historical puzzle-the stubborn persistence of and salient variation in high infant mortality rates across British industrial towns at the dawn of the previous century-as analysed by Arthur
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Furthering racial liberalism in UK higher education: The populist construction of the 'free speech crisis'. The British Journal of Sociology (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-08 Simina Dragoș,Taylor A Hughson
In this article we analyse the constructed 'free speech crisis' associated with higher education (HE) in the United Kingdom (UK). We examine the media discourses from 2012 to 2022 which led to the establishment of a sense of crisis around speech in universities and, ultimately, to the Freedom of Speech Act in May 2023. We undertake a critical discourse analysis focused on the constructions of universities
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The socioeconomic dimensions of racial inequality in South Africa: A social space perspective. The British Journal of Sociology (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-08 Nicola Branson,Johs Hjellbrekke,Murray Leibbrandt,Vimal Ranchhod,Mike Savage,Emma Whitelaw
It is well evidenced that South Africa is characterised by extreme socioeconomic inequality, which is strongly racialised. We offer an original sociological perspective, which departs from established perspectives considering the dynamics of vulnerability and poverty to focus on the structuring of classed and racialised privilege. We map how stocks of economic, cultural, and social capital intersect
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Issue Information The British Journal of Sociology (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-01
No abstract is available for this article.
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Issue Information ‐ List of Books Reviewed The British Journal of Sociology (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-01
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Risk factors associated with Rohingya refugee girls' education in Bangladesh: A multilevel analysis of survey data The British Journal of Sociology (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-05-29 Mobarak Hossain
In Bangladesh, the world's largest refugee settlement currently shelters approximately one million Rohingya refugees who fled Myanmar to escape military persecution. Educating a significant number of young Rohingya, roughly half of whom are female, presents a significant challenge. Despite the presence of learning centres (LCs) across refugee camps, Rohingya girls may encounter specific barriers to
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The class differentiation of older age: Capitals and lifestyles The British Journal of Sociology (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-05-25 Will Atkinson
Older people have been overlooked in recent debates over the relationship between age, class and culture despite their prevalence and the conceptual questions they raise. Seeking to bridge mainstream class analysis with debates in social gerontology, especially via a shared turn to Pierre Bourdieu's relational sociology, this paper draws on survey data from the US to examine not only the class position
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Examining factors influencing Turkish Jewish attitudes towards the Armenian genocide The British Journal of Sociology (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-05-25 Türkay Salim Nefes, Özgür Kaymak, Doğan Gürpınar
The most prominent issue influencing Turkish‐Armenian relations is the international recognition of the Armenian genocide. However, there is a notable absence of empirical analyses regarding the perceptions of the genocide among the Turkish population. This study aims to fill this scholarly gap by exploring, for the first time, the perspectives of Turkish Jews. It analyses evidence collected from interviews
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Do you like school? Social class, gender, ethnicity and pupils' educational enjoyment The British Journal of Sociology (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-05-24 Sarah Stopforth, Roxanne Connelly, Vernon Gayle
This study investigates structural inequalities in educational enjoyment in a contemporary cohort of United Kingdom (UK) primary school children. Foundational studies in the sociology of education consistently indicate that the enjoyment of education is stratified by social class, gender, and ethnicity. Analysing data from the UK Millennium Cohort Study, which is a major cohort study that tracks children
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Exploring normative frameworks of fairness through (relational) institutional habitus in Oxford's undergraduate admissions process The British Journal of Sociology (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Ed Penn
In the UK's stratified HE system the question of who is able to access the most selective and prestigious universities is fraught with issues of fairness. This paper explores how decision‐makers in Oxford's undergraduate admissions process construct norms of fairness and how such norms inform their reflexive considerations and actions around admissions decisions. Framing such norms as multiple institutional
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Politicians' high‐status signals make less‐educated citizens more supportive of aggression against government: A video‐vignette survey experiment The British Journal of Sociology (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-05-10 Kjell Noordzij, Willem de Koster, Jeroen van der Waal
Various branches of the literature suggest that exposure to the high‐status appearances and lifestyles of politicians in contemporary “diploma democracies” affects the attitudes and behavior of less‐educated citizens because it confronts them with their lower status in the political domain. Informed by this, we theorize that such exposure inspires docility (a lower subjective social status, weaker
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How are romantic cross‐class relationships sustained? The British Journal of Sociology (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Rose Butler, Eve Vincent
How are romantic relationships across class maintained under broader conditions of class inequality? This article draws on in‐depth interviews with 38 people who have partnered across class in Australia. It examines the emotional and interpersonal labour required to preserve such relationships within a highly differentiated class structure that is widely obscured in public and political life. We find
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Social diversity and social cohesion in Britain The British Journal of Sociology (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-13 Tak Wing Chan, Juta Kawalerowicz
We use data from a large‐scale and nationally representative survey to examine whether there is in Britain a trade‐off between social diversity and social cohesion. Using six separate measures of social cohesion (generalised trust, volunteering, giving to charity, inter‐ethnic friendship, and two neighbourhood cohesion scales) and four measures of social diversity (ethnic fractionalisation, religious
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Regional variation in intergenerational social mobility in Britain The British Journal of Sociology (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Richard Breen, Jung In
We present the first comprehensive set of estimates of variation in intergenerational social mobility across regions of Great Britain using data from the UK Labour Force Survey. Unlike the Social Mobility Index produced by the Social Mobility Commission, we focus directly on variation in measures of intergenerational social class mobility between the regions in which individuals were brought up. We
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Politics, ecologies and professional regulation: The case of British Columbia's Professional Governance Act The British Journal of Sociology (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Tracey L. Adams
A variety of theories have been proposed to explain why states pass legislation to regulate professional groups, and why, more recently, they have acted to curtail professional privileges. While these theories have drawn attention to the importance of power dynamics and public protection, among other factors, the role of political interests has been downplayed. This article builds on ecological theory
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Social origins and educational attainment: The unique contributions of parental education, class, and financial resources over time The British Journal of Sociology (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Thea Bertnes Strømme, Øyvind Nicolay Wiborg
This study examines the unique contributions of parental wealth, class background, education, and income to different measures of educational attainment. We build on recent sibling correlation approaches to estimate, using Norwegian register data, the gross and net contribution of each social origin dimension across almost 3 decades of birth cohorts. Our findings suggest that parental education is
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‘Levelling up’ social mobility? Comparing the social and spatial mobility for university graduates across districts of Britain The British Journal of Sociology (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Yang Yu, Sol Gamsu, Håkan Forsberg
Social and spatial mobility have been subject to substantial recent sociological and policy debate. Complementing other recent work, in this paper we explore these patterns in relation to higher education. Making use of high‐quality data from the higher education statistics agency (HESA), we ran a set of multilevel models to test whether the local authority areas where young people grow up influence
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Transport digitalisation: Navigating futures of hypercognitive disablement The British Journal of Sociology (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 James Rupert Fletcher
People living with cognitive impairments face new forms of disablement in the context of transport digitalisation, an issue recently catalysed by controversies regarding rail ticket office closures. Transport can dramatically impact the lives of people diagnosed with dementia, who often find their mobility suddenly and dramatically impaired. Unfortunately, sociological analysis of cognitive disability
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Getting ahead in the social sciences: How parenthood and publishing contribute to gender gaps in academic career advancement The British Journal of Sociology (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-29 Mathias Wullum Nielsen, Jens Vognstoft Pedersen, Julien Larregue
How do parenthood and publishing contribute to gender gaps in academic career advancement? While extensive research examines the causes of gender disparities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) careers, we know much less about the factors that constrain women's advancement in the social sciences. Combining detailed career‐ and administrative register data on 976 Danish social
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Economic returns to reproducing parents' field of study The British Journal of Sociology (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Jesper Fels Birkelund
Research on the influence of family background on college graduates' earnings has not considered the importance of the match between parents' and children's field of study. Using a novel design based on within‐family comparisons, I examine long‐term earnings returns to reproducing parents' field of study in Denmark. I find that individuals whose field of study matches that of a parent have earnings
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Issue Information ‐ List of Books Reviewed The British Journal of Sociology (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-08
No abstract is available for this article.
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Issue Information The British Journal of Sociology (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-08
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In defence of sociological description: A ‘world-making’ perspective The British Journal of Sociology (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Mike Savage
I am pleased to contribute to the long-standing debate about the relationship between descriptive and causal strategies in sociology. This familiar question goes to the heart of understanding the purpose of social science itself and forces us to think through, at a fundamental level, what we are trying to achieve. My aim here is not criticise causal analysis as such, which undoubtedly has a vital role
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Articulation, or the persistent problem with explanation. The British Journal of Sociology (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Noortje Marres
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Symbolic boundary work: Jewish and Arab femicide in Israeli Hebrew newspapers. The British Journal of Sociology (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Eran Shor,Ina Filkobski
We analyze 391 news reports in Israeli newspapers between 2013 and 2015, covering murders of women and their family members by other family members and intimate partners. We compare articles where the perpetrators and victims are Jewish to those where the perpetrators and victims are Palestinian citizens of Israel (henceforth PCI). We found that articles tend to provide much more details about Jewish
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Family background consistently affects economic success across the life cycle: A research note on how brother correlations overlap over the life course The British Journal of Sociology (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-28 Kristian Bernt Karlson
Scholars of social mobility increasingly study the role of family background in shaping attainment throughout the entire life course. However, research has yet to establish whether the family characteristics influencing early career attainment are the same as those influencing late career attainment. In this research note, I apply an extended sibling correlation approach to analyze brothers’ life cycle
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What do stances on immigrants' welfare entitlement mean? Evidence from a correlational class analysis The British Journal of Sociology (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Thijs Lindner, Stijn Daenekindt, Willem de Koster, Jeroen van der Waal
Recent in-depth qualitative research indicates that different people ascribe different meanings to their apparently similar stances on immigrants' entitlement to welfare. We are the first to investigate such variation quantitatively among the public-at-large, applying the novel method Correlational Class Analysis to an original survey fielded among a representative sample in the Netherlands (n = 2138)
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Issue Information The British Journal of Sociology (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-10
No abstract is available for this article.
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Issue Information - List of Books Reviewed The British Journal of Sociology (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-10
No abstract is available for this article.
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Is it time sociology started researching incompetence? The British Journal of Sociology (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Edmund Chattoe-Brown
There appears to be a mismatch between apparent incompetence in the world and the amount of sociological research it attracts. The aim of this article is to outline a sociology of incompetence and justify its value. I begin by defining incompetence as unsatisfactory performance relative to standards. Incompetence is thus intrinsically sociological in being negotiated and socially (re)constituted. The