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A Social Constructionist Critique of Genetic Determinism Sociology Compass (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Dániel Ványi
Recently genetic determinist claims have reappeared in the explanation of human psychology and to some extent they even made their way into explanations of social phenomena. In this article, I will provide a critical analysis of the genetic determinist discourse from a social constructionist perspective. First, I will examine the meaning of genetic determinism. Then I will shortly introduce the social
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Critical Challenges to the Sociology of Work: From a Perspective of Russian Labor Studies Sociology Compass (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Andrei Popov, Guzel Baimurzina
Global changes currently roiling the contemporary world of work present a significant challenge for the sociology of work. The lifestyles of many people are becoming more dynamic and uncertain. As work itself starts to lose its familiar outlines, the employment paradigm that formed during the industrial period seems increasingly inapplicable. Such transformations give rise to criticism of existing
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Visual Analysis and the Contentious Politics of the Radical Right Sociology Compass (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Manuela Caiani
Although images are very important for political actors and social movements, including the radical right (RR), empirical studies still rarely integrate visual material as relevant data for understanding radical right politics. This article outlines this new and growing field of research (i.e., visuality and the RR), critically reviewing existing studies from the perspective of both visual studies
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Caring Technologies: Confronting Invisible Work in Digital Capitalism Sociology Compass (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-13 Mariacristina Sciannamblo
In recent years, critical studies on digital platforms have emphasized that contemporary capitalism increasingly exploits the relational and cognitive faculties of human beings as sources of value. At the same time, activist projects are emerging in order to challenge the logics of commodification, individualization and accumulation that govern digital capitalism, being grounded in values that aim
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Unlocking the Potential of the Decolonial Approach in Migration Studies Sociology Compass (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-11 Ionela Vlase
Based on a bibliometric analysis of Scopus‐indexed articles on decolonial research on migration from Social Science disciplines this article outlines the main topics covered by the sampled literature, namely: (1) the academic migration as framed by the internationalization discourse in higher education; (2) migrants' social movements and their transnational dimension; (3) gender and age in decolonial
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Everyday Conversations About Economic Inequality: A Research Agenda Sociology Compass (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-05 David Schieferdecker, Susanne Reinhardt, Jonathan Mijs, Graziella Moraes Silva, Chana Teeger, Flavio Carvalhaes, Jeremy Seekings
High and rising levels of economic inequality come at a tremendous cost to societies, yet the public is often hesitant to confront these inequalities. Prior research has attempted to explain this paradox, pointing to how it is driven by individuals' misperceptions of the extent of inequality, broader narratives that justify inequality, and distrust in government intervention and redistribution. These
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Theorizing Sexuality Politics of Neoliberalism: A Queer Sociological Approach Sociology Compass (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-28 Minwoo Jung
This article provides a critical overview of neoliberalism scholarship from a queer sociological perspective. Despite mainstream neoliberalism scholarship neglecting sexuality as a system of intersecting power relations, sociologists of sexualities have explored how neoliberalism reshapes the state, market, society, and subjectivity concerning sex, intimacy, and sexual politics. Highlighting the intersection
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Issue Information Sociology Compass (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-27
No abstract is available for this article.
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The Coloniality of Knowledge and the Autonomous Knowledge Tradition Sociology Compass (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-23 Syed Farid Alatas
An autonomous social science tradition is one in which knowledge creation takes place amidst consciousness of the psychological and structural obstacles that mental captivity and intellectual imperialism present to students, academics, and people in general. The limitations imposed by the structure of intellectual imperialism and the ubiquity of the captive mind allow for various hegemonic orientations
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From the Third World to the Global South: Definitions of Moral Geographies of Inequality in Anti‐Colonial Intellectual Traditions Sociology Compass (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-23 Claudio Pinheiro
For decades, the “Third World” was an expression used to refer to regions seen as lacking prosperity and progress, on the one hand, and as a rallying call for anti‐colonial struggles on the other. The concept evoked the uneven distribution of power and wealth following World War II, replaced the forms of oppression and disparities distinctive of the former colonial world, and fostered liberatory and
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Toward a Sociological Perspective on the Gender and Sexuality of Friendship Sociology Compass (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Emily C. Fox
This article reviews friendship research to offer a conceptual framework that helps us better understand the co‐constructive nature of gender, sexuality, and friendship in the United States. Scholarship across psychology and sociology considers friendship experiences, friendship processes, friendship patterns, friendship schemas, and the social implications of friendship. Psychological research identifies
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What's Wrong With Family Diversity? Five Cultural Assumptions About the Standard North American Family Sociology Compass (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Scott R. Harris
Acceptance of family diversity has increased. However, families that differ from the standard North American family (SNAF) are still confidently portrayed as the cause of numerous social problems, even when evidence may be lacking or mixed. This article describes and critiques five assumptions that inform advocates' claims: the belief that the heterosexual nuclear family is the most (1) real, (2) divine
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Critiquing Indian Middle‐Class Principles of Mobility: Examining Transgender Representation in Post‐Millennial OTT Media in India Sociology Compass (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-20 Prerna Subramanian
This literature review critically examines the need to incorporate critiques of urban, middle‐class, Hindu, upper‐caste mediated regulation of transgender mobility within media analyses of transgender representation in contemporary films and other streaming (OTT) media in India. The essay explores how the real and imagined/narrative mobility of marginalized groups, such as Dalit women, Muslim women
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Why Now? Thoughts on the Du Boisian Revolution Sociology Compass (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-13 Ali Meghji, Michael Burawoy, Fatma Müge Göçek, José Itzigsohn, Aldon Morris
In this editorial collection, five sociologists share their opinions on why there has been a recent proliferation of scholarship on Du Bois, and summarize their own position in relation to this intellectual area. Ranging from reflections on how they “discovered” Du Bois's works, through to assessments of American sociology's reception of Du Bois's scholarship, the idea of this brief piece is to provide
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Medicalization in Global Context: Current Insights, Pressing Questions, and Future Directions Through the Case of ADHD Sociology Compass (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-10 Meredith Bergey
Recent decades have witnessed the increased emergence and global application of medicalized meanings and practices related to mental health, with cases of contestation, adoption, as well as resistance observed. Such globalization raises a number of important sociological questions about the nature and consequences of such practices, as well as what they might mean for the changing nature of medicalization
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The Importance of Qualitative Methods for Understanding Racialized Injustice and Health Sociology Compass (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-07 Karen Lutfey Spencer, Hyeyoung Oh Nelson
US research agendas have often been oriented to demographic inquiries of race and health, treating race as a presumed characteristic of individuals and predictive of a range of health outcomes. Without consideration of racialization as a process, and structural racism as embedded in social structures beyond individuals, these approaches have been limited in their ability to examine context, lived experience
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Beyond Reverse Racism: A Research Note on How White College Students Construct the Myth of Silencing in the Classroom Sociology Compass (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-08-04 Stephanie M. Ortiz, Carley Bennet, Nicholas Rizzo, Breanny Guerrero
The popular rhetoric of “reverse racism” suggests that white students are victimized by racism, but it is unclear what contemporary white college students specifically find negative about their experiences in race classrooms. Analyzing interviews and open‐ended survey data from 54 white undergraduates at a predominantly white university in the Northeast, this research note shows that “reverse racism”
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What Is Anti‐Colonial Global Social Theory? Sociology Compass (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-31 Sujata Patel
Anti‐colonial social theory is a set of ideas, assessments and practices of metatheoretical nature that have originated within anti‐colonial thought. As a methodology it theorises and interrogates the ideological within the empirical, the theoretical, and the ‘scientific unconscious’ of fields/disciplines. While criticising late 19th Euro‐American theories as universal set of propositions, it locates
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Sociocultural perspectives on neurodiversity—An analysis, interpretation and synthesis of the basic terms, discourses and theoretical positions Sociology Compass (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-23 Marek Grummt
The neurodiversity concept can now be found in many places. However, it is often misunderstood and many people are not aware of its complexity. The aim of this paper is to highlight the different facets of the term neurodiversity as well as the discourses around the neurodiversity movement in order to bring together the interconnections around identity politics, diversity and social disadvantage. This
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Introduction: Intellectual decolonization: Contexts, Critiques and Alternatives Sociology Compass (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-23 Syed Farid Alatas, Hon‐Fai Chen, Sujata Patel
The papers of this special issue, “Intellectual Decolonization: Contexts, Critiques and Alternatives”, deal with the broad issue of intellectual decolonization or the decolonization of knowledge in the social sciences. Together, the six articles provide contextual, critical and alternative views of what intellectual decolonization means and entails.
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Issue Information Sociology Compass (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-23
No abstract is available for this article.
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Social science Eurocentrism in the land of universalism: An introduction to French blindness Sociology Compass (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-20 Stéphane Dufoix
From the late 18th century onwards, France has delivered a universalistic discourse about politics, society, rights and also science. The emergence of social science largely confirmed this trend. Nowadays the growing challenging of Eurocentrism that has become more and more visible since the early 1990s remains most often untranslated, untaught, uninvestigated and undebated. The disciplinary structure
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A discussion on coloniality and global social theory Sociology Compass (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-20 Manuela Boatcă, Ali Meghji
The conversation between Ali Meghji and Manuela Boatcă focuses on how modernity/coloniality may (or may not) be a productive sociological concept in the remit of global social theory and wider political movements. Speaking from within different locations in the imperial core (England and Germany respectively), we discuss how the concept of modernity/coloniality has traveled over to our respective European
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“The loving queer gaze”: The epistemological significance of queer joy Sociology Compass (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-19 JJ Wright, Joshua Falek
This article contends with queer joy as an epistemology to highlight an affective experience that grounds a basis for revising dominant approaches to sexual ethics. Drawing on findings from a mixed‐methods study with 100 2SLGBTQ+ young adults from Canada and the US, we argue that queer and trans people mobilize queer sexual joy as an epistemology of script breaking that led participants to explore
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Organization and organizationality of corruption Sociology Compass (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-17 David Jancsics
Corrupt actors operate in an environment with numerous mechanisms designed to expose and punish their illegal behavior. Therefore, they organize their activity to reduce risk and uncertainty surrounding the situation, which takes place within and beyond a formal hierarchy. This article approaches the subject from a multidisciplinary perspective, applying theories of organization and organizationality—such
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Principles of an economic sociology of innovation Sociology Compass (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-11 Filippo Reale
Although innovation is a core element of capitalist dynamics, it turns out that, to date, there is no coherent Economic Sociology of innovation, leaving the discipline oblivious to explaining fundamental economic dynamics. Nor has the enormous importance of novelty and innovation in current societal transitions evoked a corresponding research program in Economic Sociology, meaning that Economic Sociology
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Shelter from the storm: The growing threats from climate change to housing in the United States Sociology Compass (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-09 Mary J. Fischer
Climate change and its related impacts are fast becoming the dominant force in the housing market. The fundamental role that housing plays in people's lives makes these effects particularly pernicious, often impacting employment, school attendance, undermining physical and mental health, disrupting social networks, and contributing to food insecurity. The complexity of addressing these issues is compounded
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The immigrant linguistic maturation of Asian American and Latinx language brokers Sociology Compass (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-09 Kimberly Higuera
Immigrant children in the U.S. often learn English before their caretakers, leading them to take on the role of day‐to‐day translators (“language brokers”). This study explores the familial socialization of immigrant, linguistic‐minority families in the U.S. by drawing on deductive‐inductive thematic analysis of 14 semi‐structured interviews with Asian American and Latinx young adult language brokers
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Theorizing a denial reaction to coming out: Revising Goffman's stigma through a sexual identity process model Sociology Compass (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-04 Sonali Patel
Erving Goffman's seminal theorization of stigma is at the heart of social scientific conceptualizations of identity management. Using data from qualitative interviews with queer South Asian women in Canada, this article proposes revisions of Goffman's Stigma theory. Intervening his supposition of acceptance and hostility as the two possible reactions to stigma revelation, I establish denial as an additional
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Gender dynamics and marital bargaining in the Global South Sociology Compass (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-29 Jia Yu
Bargaining between husband and wife is reflective of the power dynamics in marriage. Women's access to resources and power through bargaining is integral to their empowerment, particularly in the Global South, where more traditional patriarchal family cultures prevail. This review summarizes the key theories concerning marital bargaining and evaluates the recent developments in research on marital
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A taxonomy of business models of digital care platforms in Spain Sociology Compass (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-27 Paula Rodríguez‐Modroño
In the last few years, the proliferation of digital labour platforms has led to the transformation of business models and labour relations in an increasing number of economic activities, including highly feminized and informal traditional sectors, such as care and domestic work. Drawing on an analysis of 37 digital care platforms in Spain, this research compares the distinctive features and structural
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Scientists, censorship, and suppression: A combined comparative‐processual analysis of U.S. cases involving chemical and climate change expertise Sociology Compass (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-25 David J. Hess
Although scientific research is often crucial for efforts to achieve improved environmental regulation for industrial products and processes, scientists who document or publicize research on possible risks can face suppression or censorship by industry, government, and other actors. This study contributes to the sociology of science by examining the challenges and responses of environmental scientists
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“That's funny but…!”: University students, humor, and critical consciousness about anti‐black racism Sociology Compass (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-25 L. Janelle Dance, Anna Poudel, Sutton Marvin
Using an exploratory sample of focus groups and surveys, we captured university students' experiences of comedic/satirical videos. We mined students' feedback to determine if those videos could enhance critical perspectives/consciousness about racial inequities, especially inequities impacting Black Americans. The literature on humor overflows with psychological explanations; we are more interested
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Mixedness in conflict: The impact of Yugoslav wars on intermarriages in the Western Balkans Sociology Compass (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-22 Karolina Lendák‐Kabók
This paper examines the phenomenon of intermarriages in the Western Balkans, shedding light on their intricate relationship with the region's tumultuous history, ethnic diversity, and socio‐political dynamics. Through a comprehensive exploration of interethnic unions across different areas, the study delves into how these marriages have historically served as symbols of coexistence and integration
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Value, logistics and violence: Contemporizing imperialism for a critical Southern criminology Sociology Compass (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-21 Pablo Ciocchini, Joe Greener
This article develops both a critique of the Southern criminology project but also argues that a continued focus on the global organization of the economy should sit central in anti‐imperialist social science. Southern criminology, reflective of other trends in ‘decolonization’, has not placed a sustained critique of domination and exploitation central, viewing decolonization as possible without a
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What does racial ascription have to do with perception of Swedishness? Sociology Compass (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-21 Sayaka Osanami Törngren, Marcus Nyström
How do Swedes, who are not exposed to administrative routines of reporting race and ethnicity, perceive, and categorize faces with different phenotypical features? This study examines identity contestation that can occur and address how race affects the way you are perceived as Swedish. A sample of Swedish participants were asked to assign racial categories to images of faces with different phenotypes
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A scoping review of policing and coercive control in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer plus intimate relationships Sociology Compass (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-21 Emma Jennings‐Fitz‐Gerald, Chris M. Smith, N. Zoe Hilton, Dana L. Radatz, Jimin Lee, Elke Ham, Natalie Snow
Coercive control is a form of intimate partner violence (IPV) that encompasses non‐physical behaviors used to constrain and entrap a partner. Coercive control is especially relevant to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer plus (LGBTQ+) relationships when abusers target the gender and sexual identity of their partners. Victim‐survivors, community members, and service providers often struggle
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Issue Information Sociology Compass (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-21
No abstract is available for this article.
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Issue Information Sociology Compass (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-31
No abstract is available for this article.
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Neuroqueer frontiers: Neurodiversity, gender, and the (a)social self Sociology Compass (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-31 Jessica Penwell Barnett
This paper critically synthesizes leading edge scholarship on neurodiversity, arguing that sociology could expand its account for the relationship between self and society through attention to the (a)social practices of those constructed as neurologically disabled. Autistic scholar‐activism birthed the neurodiversity paradigm, which claims respect for neurological diversity and its social manifestations
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The rise in cross‐national marriages and the emergent inequalities in East and Southeast Asia Sociology Compass (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Shuya Lu, Wei‐Jun Jean Yeung
This paper reviews the trends and driving forces for the relatively recent growth in cross‐national marriages in East and Southeast Asia with a specific focus on the experiences of female marriage migrants from Southeast Asia. It explicates the various forms of inequality faced by the low‐income marriage migrant women including gender power dynamics within the household, socioeconomic inequalities
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Critique and expansion of conceptions of control Sociology Compass (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Liansheng Wang, Maofu Wang, Jingyi Wu
Neil Fligstein's Conceptions of control have multiple theoretical origins in the institutional, political, and cultural perspectives of the new economic sociology. However, conceptions of control as a key concept of market structure have not systematically been formulated in Fligstein's works, remaining insightfully but relatively fragmentally. This paper summarizes the normative, power, and cognitive
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Coalitions across divides: The interactional maintenance paradigm Sociology Compass (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-10 Federica Stagni
Over the years, scholars have investigated how alliances begin and end, paying particular attention to factors that facilitate the emergence of movement and campaign coalitions. However, the issue of maintaining co‐resistance among distinct activist groups that lasts over time is still understudied. This contribution aims to fill this gap. Through an in‐depth empirical study of the long‐lasting cooperation
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The child welfare system as a social determinant of health Sociology Compass (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Katherine Maldonado Fabela
Research documents the ways that policing, incarceration, and deportation influence the health of racialized, poor families in the U.S. However, we lack empirical analysis of the ways that family policing through the child welfare system affects health. In this paper, I review the literature on intersectional harms in carceral institutions to argue that the child welfare system is a social determinant
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Negotiating class, religion, and residential segregation: Aspirations of Muslim middle‐class women in Delhi Sociology Compass (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Aashti Salman
This paper delves into the employment aspirations and struggles for upward social mobility of middle‐class Muslim female youth in Delhi, located in segregated and non‐segregated areas. The paper contends that women respondents navigate constraints such that their class, gender and religious background have an ambivalent role in the production of aspirations but a more definitive one in their realisation
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Labour market trajectories and unemployment of older workers in Europe after the Great Recession Sociology Compass (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Marco Trentini
Many European countries want to overcome the early exit from labour market which was widespread since the 1970s through pension reform and labour policies. The extension of working life is hindered by factors that the literature overlooks. This article focuses on the discontinuity of the late‐career caused by unemployment. The aim is to investigate whether older workers are at risk of unemployment
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Three major challenges in the shift to electric vehicles: Industrial organization, industrial policy, and a just transition Sociology Compass (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Jun Ho Jeong, Chulsik Kim, Hyung Je Jo
This article aims to comprehensively review current research on the transformation within the automotive industry, with a specific focus on electrification, which has driven structural shifts. The exploration of three key dimensions forms the crux of this review: the technical aspects of the transition to electric vehicles (EVs) and the diverse perspectives on EVs as an innovative icon; the array of
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Pentecostalism and the (de)construction of ‘Otherness’: Experiences of black African students at a South African University Sociology Compass (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-07 Simbarashe Gukurume
Drawing on fieldwork conducted at a South African University, this qualitative study examines the lived experiences of black foreign students studying and living in South Africa. The study sought to understand the role that Pentecostalism plays in mediating the everyday experiences of black foreign students within and beyond the university campus spaces. A total of 30 student patrons from two Pentecostal
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The strength of a weak tie in the innovative performance of firms: A case of Korean high‐tech manufacturing small and medium‐sized enterprises Sociology Compass (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-06 Jinki Hong, Raehyung Lee, Jay Y. Ohm, Duk Hee Lee
This study explores whether the ‘strength of weak ties’ theory, derived from social network theory, can equally apply to business activities. To address this question, we conduct an empirical analysis, utilising 3‐year panel data encompassing 3881 samples of Korean small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) in the high‐tech manufacturing sector. The primary objective is to examine the effects of inter‐corporate
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The raced and gendered persistence of human‐exemptionalism Sociology Compass (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-04 Miranda P. Dotson
This paper makes the case for a reconsideration of the human exemptionalist paradigm in sociological research. Reviewing recent research on the racialized and gendered dimensions of environmental use and abuse in North America, this paper argues that the persistent belief that humans dominate over all other biota is a direct result of the white supremacist, patriarchal gender system. Traditional Anglo‐European
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The donation method: A new behavioral measure for white collar crime? Sociology Compass (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-04 Katie Constantin, Bruce Reese, Kirstie Boyett
To comprehensively grasp, predict, and address the complexity of white collar crime, robust measurement tools are imperative. The burgeoning interdisciplinary interest in this domain has spurred the development of diverse assessment tools aimed at capturing offending behavior and its proxies. In the present paper, we provide an overview of the strengths and weaknesses of several commonly employed measures
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Penal state power in Latin America: Cases, concepts and questions for the political sociology of penality Sociology Compass (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-30 Maria‐Fátima Santos
Examining penality across different regions and periods of time allows us to develop both a robust empirical imaginary and conceptual understanding of the commonalities and variation in how penal state power operates. In this article I elaborate key dimensions of penality in contemporary Latin America. Since the late 20th century, Latin American countries have undergone economic and political transformations
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Intersectionality and feminist movements from a global perspective Sociology Compass (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-30 Giada Bonu Rosenkranz
The review article explores the concept of intersectionality within feminist movements from a global perspective. First, it reconstructs the origins of the concept. Second, it summarizes the main critical debates. Third, it gives an overview on the new wave of feminist movements, by exploring the way several movements from the North to the Global South have actively engaged with the concept of intersectionality
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A life course perspective on sexual minorities: Implications for the study of homophobic prejudice and discrimination Sociology Compass (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-27 Lisa R. Miller, Jaclyn A. Tabor
The legal treatment of and attitudes toward sexual minorities has changed considerably over recent decades in the United States, highlighting the role of historical context in the unfolding of human lives. Yet, a full application of the life course perspective to the topic of structural inequalities faced by sexual minorities is missing from the scholarly literature. Through synthesizing and analyzing
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The sociological dimensions of multicultural education Sociology Compass (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 William S. Cook
The United States began as a place of bondage, a European‐privileged, segregated state where profit and exploitation ruled the day. American schools developed within this racially discriminate society. Euro‐American officials excluded African descendants and other people of color from political, economic, and educational opportunities. One theory to emerge for including non‐European descendants into
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Issue Information Sociology Compass (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-20
No abstract is available for this article.
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Confronting the Philippines' war on drugs: A literature review Sociology Compass (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-20 Jayson S. Lamchek, Teresa Jopson
Upon election in 2016, President Rodrigo Duterte launched one of the world's most lethal and aggressive anti‐drug campaigns known as the War on Drugs in the Philippines. The War on Drugs unleashed an unprecedented level of violence while enjoying high public approval in the Philippines throughout Duterte's presidency. Scholars from a variety of disciplines grappled with understanding the significance
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A critical review of sociological research on sexual pleasure Sociology Compass (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-13 Hannah Regan
Sociologists of sexuality often invoke the theme of pleasure, but it is not always clear what scholars believe the implications and importance of pleasure are. To this end, this paper reviews the existing literature on sexual pleasure, specifically within the field of sociology, to demonstrate what questions about sexual pleasure are (and are not) currently being asked. Through a systematic literature
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A milestone in the pursuit of gender equality: Predicting first women presidents in U.S. higher education institutions, 1980–2018 Sociology Compass (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Hannah K. D’Apice, Jieun Song, Christine Min Wotipka
While women’s higher education enrollments and graduation rates have outpaced those of men in the United States and most countries around the world, women are less frequently included in academic leadership roles, including the higher education presidency. This paper asks what predicts whether and when a higher education institution has its first woman president, conceptualizing this event as a milestone
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Reviewing workplace innovation as a plea for a practical approach Sociology Compass (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Peter R. A. Oeij, Steven Dhondt
Workplace innovation (WPI) approaches share the ‘advancement’ of work as a commonality, that is, the notion of good jobs and its relation with good business performance. How WPI approaches contribute to the advancement of work is discussed in this ‘narrative review’ of the WPI literature, which intends to provide direction to future study and implementation of advanced work. A human‐centric theoretical