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Issue Information ‐ List of Books Reviewed The British Journal of Sociology (IF 3.277) Pub Date : 2024-03-08
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Issue Information The British Journal of Sociology (IF 3.277) Pub Date : 2024-03-08
No abstract is available for this article.
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Review of Left Feminisms: Conversations on the personal and political. By JoLittler, London: Lawrence Wishart. 2023. pp. 271. £16. ISBN: 9781913546083 The British Journal of Sociology (IF 3.277) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Laura Clancy
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In defence of sociological description: A ‘world-making’ perspective The British Journal of Sociology (IF 3.277) 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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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 3.277) 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 3.277) 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 3.277) 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 3.277) Pub Date : 2024-01-10
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Is it time sociology started researching incompetence? The British Journal of Sociology (IF 3.277) 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
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Social inequality in completion rates in higher education: Heterogeneity in educational fields The British Journal of Sociology (IF 3.277) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Håvard Helland, Thea B. Strømme
This article examines how social disparities in dropout rates vary by educational field. Previous studies have shown that first-generation students, in general, have lower higher education completion rates than their fellow students. Less is known, however, about how such disparities vary between educational fields. We distinguish between general and field specific cultural capital and find that general
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Time use surveys, social practice theory, and activity connections The British Journal of Sociology (IF 3.277) Pub Date : 2023-12-30 Dale Southerton, Jennifer Whillans
Social practice theory (SPT) represents a growing body of research that takes the ‘doings and sayings’ (social practices) of everyday life as its core unit of enquiry. Time use surveys (TUS) represent a substantial source of micro-data regarding how activities are performed across the 24-h day. Given their apparent complementarities, we ask why TUS have not been utilised more extensively within SPT-inspired
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Gender inequalities in unpaid public work: Retention, stratification and segmentation in the volunteer leadership of charities in England and Wales The British Journal of Sociology (IF 3.277) Pub Date : 2023-12-23 David Clifford
While gender inequalities in employment (paid public work) and domestic and reproductive labour (unpaid private work) are a prominent focus within the sociological literature, gender inequalities in volunteering (unpaid public work) have received much less scholarly attention. We analyse a unique longitudinal dataset of volunteer leaders, that follows through time every individual to have served as
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Examining the recent strike wave in the UK: The problem with official statistics The British Journal of Sociology (IF 3.277) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Andy Hodder, Stephen Mustchin
In the UK, there has been a significant increase in strike activity since the summer of 2022. Due to these increased levels of strike activity, it is logical for academics and policy makers to turn to the official data on labour disputes to help us understand what has been happening. Strikes remain of core sociological interest, yet are under researched in this journal. This research note briefly examines
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Radicalisation studies: An emerging interdisciplinary field The British Journal of Sociology (IF 3.277) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Tahir Abbas
This research note provides an overview of Radicalisation Studies as an emerging interdisciplinary field aimed at developing more holistic understandings of how and why individuals and groups turn to extreme ideologies and political violence. It traces the evolution of radicalisation research across core social science disciplines, including sociology, psychology, anthropology, and political science
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Issue Information The British Journal of Sociology (IF 3.277) Pub Date : 2023-12-08
No abstract is available for this article.
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Issue Information - List Of Books Reviewed The British Journal of Sociology (IF 3.277) Pub Date : 2023-12-08
No abstract is available for this article.
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Nation-builders and market architects: How social origins mold the careers of law graduates over 200 years in Norway The British Journal of Sociology (IF 3.277) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Maren Toft
This paper examines the types of work that jurists have historically undertaken and maps how opportunities for legal practice have been shaped by social origins across three centuries: after constitutional independence in the mid-1800s, during industrial capitalism in the mid-1900s, and at present-day advanced capitalism. I analyze historical archive data on law graduates from the 19th and 20th centuries
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Stressful life events and depressive symptoms during COVID-19: A gender comparison The British Journal of Sociology (IF 3.277) Pub Date : 2023-11-17 Yue Qian, Wen Fan
The COVID-19 pandemic precipitated a wide range of public health, economic, social, and political shocks, setting in motion life events that reverberated to affect individuals' mental health. Moving beyond a checklist approach, this study drew on individuals' own words to identify both conventional and novel sources of stress during COVID-19 and examine the role of stressful life events in producing
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Early-life impairments, chronic health conditions, and income mobility The British Journal of Sociology (IF 3.277) Pub Date : 2023-11-13 Alexi Gugushvili, Therese Dokken, Jan Grue, Jon Erik Finnvold
Individuals who have congenital conditions or become disabled early in life tend to have poorer educational and occupational outcomes than non-disabled individuals. Disability is known to be a complex entity with multiple causations, involving, inter alia, physiological, social, economic, and cultural factors. It is established that social factors can influence educational and occupational attainment
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Generations, events, and social movement legacies: Unpacking social change in English football (1980–2023) The British Journal of Sociology (IF 3.277) Pub Date : 2023-11-10 Mark Turner, Jan Andre Lee Ludvigsen
This article critically employs the case of association football in England, from 1980 to 2023, as a social movement timescape, to examine the political consciousness and long-term mobilisations of a generation of football supporter activists, and their capacity to influence politics, and respond to new, emerging, critical junctures, through networks of trust and shared memories of historical events
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Review of race brokers The British Journal of Sociology (IF 3.277) Pub Date : 2023-10-23 John Nelson Robinson
More than four decades ago, sociologist Thomas Pettigrew famously called residential segregation in the US the “linchpin” of racial inequality. Those words deeply influenced the discipline and have stuck with it through the years. Researchers have since widely documented the causes of segregation (things like unequal resource access, discrimination and residential preferences), as well as its effects
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Deepening the divide: Does globalization increase the polarization between winners and losers of globalization? The British Journal of Sociology (IF 3.277) Pub Date : 2023-10-22 Rasmus Ollroge
Does globalization increase polarization in attitudes toward international trade, immigration, and international organizations? Research from a variety of fields and disciplines assumes this relationship, but empirical studies are few. In this study, I examine whether globalization increases the attitudinal divide between education groups, with education being one of the main characteristics of social
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Perceived research productivity of women in higher education: An investigation of the impact of COVID-19 The British Journal of Sociology (IF 3.277) Pub Date : 2023-10-21 Aslı Ermiş-Mert
This study focuses on the predictors of women academics' perceived research productivity during the pandemic in Türkiye, by taking the changes in paid and unpaid workload alongside the felt pressure concerning productivity into consideration. Predicting the odds to report an above the mean level of decrease in perceived research productivity, unlike expected, increased housework time and administrative
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Hedged out. Inequality and insecurity on Wall Street. By Megan Tobias Neely, University of California Press. 2022. pp. 336. £22.69 (hbk) The British Journal of Sociology (IF 3.277) Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Céline Bessière
Whether in the City of London, Paris, Switzerland, Chicago or Wall Street, the social sciences have been exploring financial capitalism through studying the everyday work and professional careers of its actors for more than two decades (Boussard, 2017 Finance at Work, 2017). This scholarship has examined traders (Zaloom, 2006 Out of the Pits: Traders and Technology from Chicago to London; Godechot
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Life funds, urban development, and the experimental practices of financial sociology The British Journal of Sociology (IF 3.277) Pub Date : 2023-10-09 Liz McFall
How did the Norwich Union, a life and general insurance company, come to see itself as a ‘local developer with people always at the centre of our planning’? This article explores how a small number of insurance companies, capitalising on their long history of property investment, used their investment funds, or ‘life funds’, to transform the built environment of UK in the twentieth century. In the
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Unveiling power, or why social science's task is explanation The British Journal of Sociology (IF 3.277) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Julian Go
This short essay contends that sociology should devote attention to causal explanation in order to expose lies. It argues that lies about causes are common in society and social science is in a unique privileged position to offer social knowledge that can dispel such lies. Offering causal explanations is a vital task of this project.
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The neoliberal multicultural state and the urban Indigenous associative model in Santiago de Chile The British Journal of Sociology (IF 3.277) Pub Date : 2023-10-02 Dana Brablec
This article argues that since the recovery of democracy in Chile in the early 1990s, the state has been reshaping the Indigenous socio-political landscape by adopting neoliberal multiculturalism as a governance model. By not posing significant challenges to the state's neoliberal political and economic priorities, Indigenous cultural activity has been carefully channelled to meet state expectations
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Exploring the utility of eye tracking for sociological research on race The British Journal of Sociology (IF 3.277) Pub Date : 2023-09-20 Jennifer Patrice Sims, Alex Haynes, Candice Lanius
One part of the social construction of race is the symbolic association of given physical features with different races. This research note explores the utility of eye tracking for sociological research on racial perception, that is, for determining what race someone ‘looks like.’ Results reveal that participants gave greatest attention to targets' hair. This was especially so when targets of all races
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Two Islamophobias? Racism and religion as distinct but mutually supportive dimensions of anti-Muslim prejudice The British Journal of Sociology (IF 3.277) Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Stephen H. Jones, Amy Unsworth
Debates about Islamophobia have been blighted by the question of whether the prejudice can be defined as a form of racism or as hostility to religion (or a combination of the two). This paper sheds light on this debate by presenting the findings of a new nationally representative survey, focused on the UK, that contrasts perceptions of Muslims not only with perceptions of other ethnic and religious
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The Scylla State. A gendered understanding of the experiences of marginalised women in the United Kingdom The British Journal of Sociology (IF 3.277) Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Rebecca Hamer
Since the formation of the 2012 Coalition government, the UK has been subject to 12 years of neoliberal policy enacted with ferocity and vigour. This has comprised austerity measures including the retrenchment of welfare via the reshaping of the welfare state and public services according to business practices, ideals of individual responsibilisation and overwhelmingly, the notion of reducing the state's
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Issue Information The British Journal of Sociology (IF 3.277) Pub Date : 2023-09-01
No abstract is available for this article.
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Issue Information - List Of Books Reviewed The British Journal of Sociology (IF 3.277) Pub Date : 2023-09-01
No abstract is available for this article.
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The paradoxical role of social class background in the educational and labour market outcomes of the children of immigrants in the UK The British Journal of Sociology (IF 3.277) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Carolina V. Zuccotti, Lucinda Platt
Despite predominantly lower social class origins, the second generation of established immigrant groups in the UK are now attaining high levels of education. However, they continue to experience poorer labour market outcomes than the majority population. These worse outcomes are often attributed in part to their disadvantaged origins, which do not, by contrast, appear to constrain their educational
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Race, risk, and American religious groups' views of Nazi Germany in 1935 The British Journal of Sociology (IF 3.277) Pub Date : 2023-07-12 Meghan Garrity, Melissa Wilde
What explains American religious groups' views of Nazi Germany before the U.S. entered the Second World War? Using a comparative-historical approach, we employ a novel set of data on 25 of America's most prominent religious denominations to answer this question. We find that two factors were crucial in explaining religious elite discourse about Hitler in the U.S. in 1935: whether leaders believed in white
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Family socioeconomic status and sibling correlations in upper secondary education. An empirical analysis of educational inequalities in Italy The British Journal of Sociology (IF 3.277) Pub Date : 2023-07-08 Antonina Zhelenkova, Nazareno Panichella
The study examines the educational inequalities in upper secondary education in Italy, with a focus on the vertical dimension of school enrolment and the horizontal dimension of track and curriculum choice. To measure the importance of family background, we use the estimation of sibling correlations, which has seldom been used in the analysis of track choice in upper secondary education. Using data
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Gender balance in the workforce and abortion attitudes: A cross-national time-series analysis The British Journal of Sociology (IF 3.277) Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Juan J. Fernández, Celia Valiente, Antonio M. Jaime-Castillo
This article explores the relationship between gender balance in the workforce and attitudes towards abortion worldwide. Studies on macro-level conditions related to abortion attitudes overlook the role of gender balance in the workforce—specifically the degree of female representation in a country's workforce. There are strong reasons why this factor could shape abortion attitudes. We argue that such
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Continuing complexity: The university careers of a scientific elite in relation to their class origins and schooling The British Journal of Sociology (IF 3.277) Pub Date : 2023-07-04 Erzsébet Bukodi, John H. Goldthorpe, Inga Steinberg
We report on continuing research on the UK scientific elite, intended to illustrate a proposed new approach to elite studies and based on a prosopography of Fellows of the Royal Society born from 1900. We extend analyses previously reported of Fellows' social origins and secondary schooling to take in their university careers as under- and postgraduates. The composite term ‘Oxbridge’, as often applied
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Unpolitical solutionism: Wealth elite sentiments against democracy and politics The British Journal of Sociology (IF 3.277) Pub Date : 2023-06-27 Hanna Kuusela, Anu Kantola
The last few decades have been marked by discourses that challenge many basic presumptions supporting liberal democracy. Populist parties in particular have raised criticism against democratic systems, and authoritarian programmes have made electoral gains. This article offers the elite's perspective on this phenomenon, which is often discussed in the context of lower income groups. Drawing from qualitative
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Does belief in meritocracy increase with inequality? A reconsideration for European countries The British Journal of Sociology (IF 3.277) Pub Date : 2023-06-23 David Bartram
Recent research finds that higher inequality reinforces a tendency to see inequality as legitimate, via beliefs about meritocracy. That pattern appears in a cross-sectional analysis—but it is seemingly evident also in a longitudinal analysis: an increase in inequality apparently leads to a stronger perception of a meritocratic process. I reconsider that finding here via an analysis that uses (1) a
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Classified out of society? How educational classification induces political alienation through feelings of misrecognition The British Journal of Sociology (IF 3.277) Pub Date : 2023-06-12 Jochem van Noord, Bram Spruyt, Toon Kuppens, Russell Spears
Less educated citizens are both descriptively and substantively outnumbered by higher educated citizens in political and societal institutions. While social science has devoted much time to explain why such education effects exist, it has largely neglected the role of feelings of misrecognition in inducing political alienation among less educated citizens. We argue that education has become so central
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Issue Information The British Journal of Sociology (IF 3.277) Pub Date : 2023-06-05
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Issue Information - List Of Books Reviewed The British Journal of Sociology (IF 3.277) Pub Date : 2023-06-05
No abstract is available for this article.
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Doubly disadvantaged: Unemployment, young age, and electoral participation in the United Kingdom The British Journal of Sociology (IF 3.277) Pub Date : 2023-06-06 Leo Azzollini
Previous studies examine how unemployment affects socio-political behaviour, but this literature has scarcely focused on the role of the life-course. Integrating the frameworks of unemployment scarring and political socialisation, we posit that unemployment experiences, or scars, undermine electoral participation, and that this is exacerbated at younger ages. We test these hypotheses relying on the
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Parental unemployment and children's educational attainment: How big is the role of aspirations? The British Journal of Sociology (IF 3.277) Pub Date : 2023-06-05 Gabriele Mari
Children exposed to parental unemployment have been found to lag behind in school, but research has struggled to pin down the underlying explanation. One hypothesis is that parental unemployment may dampen children's aspirations to do well and go far in school. Yet, few studies on parental unemployment have relied on actual measures of children's aspirations or devised a formal analysis of this mechanism
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The use of cultural repertoires of everyday nationhood and citizenship in national identity boundary-drawing: The case of Syrian refugees in Turkey The British Journal of Sociology (IF 3.277) Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Selin Siviş
Elaborating on salient contextual factors, such as historical conditions, national history, militarised masculinity, and language, this study looks at how repertoires of everyday nationhood are deployed in relation to boundary-drawing in the context of the recent refugee influx in Turkey. Drawing on ethnographic observations, semi-structured interviews and focus groups with ordinary Turkish citizens
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Anticolonial thought, the sociological imagination, and social science: A reply to critics The British Journal of Sociology (IF 3.277) Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Julian Go
This essay responds to commentaries (this issue) on Go's “Thinking Against Empire: Anticolonial Thought as Social Theory” (this issue). The essay addressed shared concerns and underlying themes of the commentaries, most of which pivot around the problem of the anticolonial and the status of disciplinary sociology as a knowledge project. Is there a need for sociology to incorporate anticolonial thought
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Civic involvement in deprived communities: A longitudinal study of England The British Journal of Sociology (IF 3.277) Pub Date : 2023-05-14 Franco Bonomi Bezzo, Anne-Marie Jeannet
This study aims to understand how community material deprivation is related to associational membership amongst neighbourhood residents. We posit that aside from personal characteristics and willingness to engage, experiences of neighbourhood deprivation are strongly correlated with how much people devote themselves to associational membership. We identify three mechanisms through which community deprivation
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Consecration and meritocracy in elite business schools: The case of a Swedish student union The British Journal of Sociology (IF 3.277) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Mikael Holmqvist
Sociologists are paying increasing attention to the business and financial elites that control today's global economy; indeed, there's a great need to understand who these elites are, what they do, and what makes them tick, as individuals, and as a class. But we also need to understand how the economic elites aremade in the current social and economic system, and one significant way of doing this,
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The same everywhere? Exploring structural homologies of national social fields using the case of journalism The British Journal of Sociology (IF 3.277) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Jan Fredrik Hovden
Pierre Bourdieu argued for the existence of general properties and even laws of social fields. In contrast to spaces of class relations and patterns of cultural lifestyles, however, almost no systematic comparative research exists on the homologies of national social fields of a more specialised nature. Also, the large majority of research is done on Western countries, raising concerns about the relevance
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Rethinking the nation and international relations: The space of nation states The British Journal of Sociology (IF 3.277) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Andreas Schmitz, Will Atkinson, Frédéric Lebaron
Efforts to move sociology beyond the nation state and international relations theory have both been plagued by several limitations and dualisms. Recent research has begun to find ways beyond the problems by turning to Pierre Bourdieu's relational conception of social structure and practice. Yet one specific relational structure forming a key part of the puzzle has been neglected or merely implicitly
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Welfare brokers and European Union migrants' access to social protection The British Journal of Sociology (IF 3.277) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Alexandra Voivozeanu, Jean-Michel Lafleur
In spite of the existence of an extensive national and supranational legal framework, European Union (EU) citizens who exercise their right to freedom of movement to work in another Member State face numerous hurdles in accessing social protection. While recent scholarship on street-level bureaucracy and on migration and welfare has shed light on the role of discretion and stereotypes in access to
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Paradoxes of social mobility in London The British Journal of Sociology (IF 3.277) Pub Date : 2023-04-22 Richard Breen, Jung In
We analyse social mobility in London and seek to address two paradoxes. Among people living in London, relative mobility, or social fluidity, appears to be remarkably low when compared with other regions of Great Britain. But social fluidity among people who were brought up in London is similar to that of people brought up elsewhere in Britain. This is our first paradox. Furthermore, it is widely held
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The self in selfies—Conceptualizing the selfie-coordination of marginalized youth with sociology of engagements The British Journal of Sociology (IF 3.277) Pub Date : 2023-03-29 Taina Meriluoto
This article develops a theory of selfies as reflexive practices of self-coordination. Building on pragmatist sociology of engagements, I conceptualize selfies as digital practices of coordinating with the self in formats that are recognizable for others. This framework allows approaching the self as an act of coordination, simultaneously shaped by, and equipped to subvert the cultural conditions of
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At risk: Indian sexual politics and the global AIDS crisis. By Gowri Vijayakumar, Stanford University Press. 2021. pp. 258. $26 (pbk) The British Journal of Sociology (IF 3.277) Pub Date : 2023-03-25 Tara Gonsalves
CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT The author declares no conflicts of interest.
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The hidden majority/minority consensus: Minorities show similar preference patterns of immigrant support as the majority population The British Journal of Sociology (IF 3.277) Pub Date : 2023-03-17 Sabrina J. Mayer, Christoph G. Nguyen, Jörg Dollmann, Susanne Veit
The acceptance of new arrivals has become an important topic regarding the social cohesion of the receiving countries. However, previous studies focused only on the native population's drivers of attitudes towards immigrants, disregarding that immigrant-origin inhabitants now form a considerable part of the population. To test whether the drivers for the willingness to support immigrants are the same
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Armed robbery and the meanings of money The British Journal of Sociology (IF 3.277) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Timothy Dickinson, Volkan Topalli, Richard Wright
In this study, we investigate the meanings active armed robbers give to money before, during, and after their crimes and how these meanings shape their offending. We do so by examining interviews undertaken from 1994 to 1995 with robbers in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. Prior to their robberies, the interviewees' desperation leads them to define money as essential to survival. Immediately following robberies
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What cultural hierarchy? Cultural tastes, status and inequality The British Journal of Sociology (IF 3.277) Pub Date : 2023-03-12 Mads Meier Jæger, Rikke Haudrum Rasmussen, Anders Holm
Research on cultural stratification often draws on Bourdieu's misrecognition model to interpret socioeconomic gradients in cultural tastes and participation. In this model, an assumed cultural hierarchy leads individuals to adopt cultural tastes and behaviours whose status is congruent with that of their socioeconomic position (SEP). Yet, this assumed cultural hierarchy remains opaque. In this paper
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‘We need to start building up what's called herd immunity’: Scientific dissensus and public broadcasting in the Covid-19 pandemic The British Journal of Sociology (IF 3.277) Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Greg Philo, Mike Berry
This article uses content and thematic analyses to examine how UK public service broadcasting (PSB) reported on the Covid-19 pandemic prior to the first lockdown on March 23, 2020. This was a period when the British government's response to the pandemic was being heavily criticised by the World Health Organisation and other parts of the scientific community. This paper finds that in PSB these criticisms
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A counterexample to secularization theory? Assessing the Georgian religious revival The British Journal of Sociology (IF 3.277) Pub Date : 2023-03-06 Jörg Stolz, Alexi Gugushvili, Francesco Molteni, Jean-Philippe Antonietti
Secularization theory allows for transitory religious revivals under certain conditions, such as extreme societal crises or state weakness. The country of Georgia has witnessed the largest religious revival of Orthodox countries and one of the most striking religious resurgences worldwide. This paper gives both a statistical and historical description of this revival and asks whether it is a counterexample
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Issue Information The British Journal of Sociology (IF 3.277) Pub Date : 2023-03-01
No abstract is available for this article.