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Editors' introduction Sociological Forum (IF 1.867) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Tammy L. Anderson, Ann V. Bell, Asia Friedman
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Internalized political repression: Legacies of authoritarianism in the U.S.‐based Syrian diaspora during the Arab Spring Sociological Forum (IF 1.867) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Nadia Almasalkhi
Authoritarian regimes are known to repress the political activity of their diasporas transnationally by threatening harsh sanctions. But is this their only mode of transnational repression? This article builds on scholarship on social control to explore whether migrants bring internalized forms of political repression from their authoritarian home country to their democratic country of settlement—and
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The “Jewish turn” in contemporary Poland: Philosemitism, civic nationalism, and the construction of a symbolic other Sociological Forum (IF 1.867) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Jonathan Zisook
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Bourdieu in the city: Challenging urban theory By LoïcWacquant, Hoboken, NJ: Polity. 2023. 288 pages. $20 (paper or ebook). ISBN‐13: 978‐1‐5095‐5645‐8 Sociological Forum (IF 1.867) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Gregory Smithsimon
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Immigrant selectivity at school entry Sociological Forum (IF 1.867) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Yader R. Lanuza
Immigrant educational selectivity—immigrant parents' educational attainment relative to their peers who did not migrate—is associated with better schooling outcomes for children at later stages of the educational pipeline in the United States. Less is known, however, about its influence on early education‐related outcomes. Using Early Childhood Longitudinal Study data from three different cohorts and
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Debt-based welfare: Debt-to-asset relationships across Black and White households in the United States Sociological Forum (IF 1.867) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Raphaël Charron-Chénier
Under neoliberal social provision, debt has become a primary tool for US households to pursue economic mobility and manage risk. Borrowing supports financial and non-financial investments that, in theory, should lead to lifetime income and asset gains from which debt can be repaid. Many scholars argue, however, that reliance on credit as a welfare tool significantly increases inequality, particularly
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“We're gonna get you through it”: The role of bonding social capital in the development of bridging social capital Sociological Forum (IF 1.867) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Megan Holland Iantosca, Shelley M. Kimelberg, Danielle V. Lewis, Ryan J. Taughrin
Many programs that place low-income students of color in high-achieving college preparatory high schools seek to nurture bridging social capital, connections across class lines that provide leverage in the process of “getting ahead.” Bonding social capital, which focuses more on emotional support and “getting by,” is frequently characterized as less useful for social mobility. Drawing upon in-depth
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Meeting empowerment: How styles of discursive frames vary across participatory settings Sociological Forum (IF 1.867) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Meaghan Stiman
Over the past few decades, there has been a resurgence of public participation in participatory settings. Such participatory processes are often long and arduous, and sometimes involve seemingly endless meetings of deliberation between various stakeholders and citizens before a policy decision or plan of action is made. While there is much known about the social forces that constrain how people deliberate
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Dashed dreams: Climate change comes for the middle class Sociological Forum (IF 1.867) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Colin Jerolmack
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Understanding the shackles of opportunity: Dependent visas and the people tied to them Sociological Forum (IF 1.867) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Ashwin Kumar
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Abortion as a sociological case Sociological Forum (IF 1.867) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Katrina Kimport, Tracy A. Weitz
For over a century, abortion has been politically and socially contested, affecting people's lives through personal experience and/or public discourse. In the United States (US), abortion is sometimes exceptional—treated differently from other procedures, professions, and political issues—and sometimes an exemplar—an accessible example of a commonly occurring social, political, or personal phenomenon
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Correction to Last Words Sociological Forum (IF 1.867) Pub Date : 2024-01-11
Cerulo, K.A. (2023), Last Words. Sociol Forum, 38: 1152–1152. https://doi.org/10.1111/socf.12972 Deep, deep regrets for the omission. In mentioning all those who played such a great role in the success of Sociological Forum, I forgot to mention the efforts and frequent help and counsel of Philip Kasinitz, the Book Editor of Sociological Forum. Phil worked tirelessly on collecting provocative discussions
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Racialized Organizations and the Interest Divergence Dilemma1 Sociological Forum (IF 1.867) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Victor Ray
This essay makes three points on the contemporary racial backlashes' impact on racialized organizations. First, Derrick Bell's notion of interest convergence—which argues that diversity policies did not spring from the goodness of white people's hearts but were a face-saving political necessity—helps to explain why the current assault on racially ameliorative policy has been so effective and why the
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Dilemmas and Dimensions of Social Movement Escalation1 Sociological Forum (IF 1.867) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 David S. Meyer
Social movements must find ways to intensify their efforts to maintain political relevance—and potential influence. But escalation comes with risks in the potential reactions from authorities, supporters, potential supporters, and opponents. I argue that recognizing two elements of escalation can help. First, we need to acknowledge that movements are not unitary actors and that a large movement cannot
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Our “Zoological Connections” and Why They Matter Sociological Forum (IF 1.867) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Leslie Irvine
Traditionally overlooked or invisible in sociological analyses, animals have roles in numerous issues of sociological importance. Including them in our research offers a clearer understanding of the social world. Using examples from two topics—the self and the family—this essay shows the value of keeping our “zoological connections” in mind. Research on selfhood among animals challenges dominant views
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Transgender Youth Are Under Attack: The Work of Response Sociological Forum (IF 1.867) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Tey Meadow
This is a terrifying time to be LGBTQ in America. In the first 2023 legislative session alone, Republican lawmakers introduced more than 100 new bills specifically targeting transgender youth. This is part of a coordinated, multi-state attack on transgender Americans about which there is open and very public acknowledgement. If you look, you'll see medical and psychiatric governing boards, major human
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Be More Critical About Critical Sociological Thinking Sociological Forum (IF 1.867) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Vilna Francine Bashi
Sociologists agree that teaching critical thinking is a key pedagogical goal, and we seem to think of ourselves as critical thinkers. But what does that mean? I see no clear disciplinary consensus defining critical thinking, nor what it means specifically for sociology. While I think it is an important part of our writing, speaking, and teaching, my own ideas on critical thinking simply do not seem
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Policy for People with the Fewest Choices: Ontology and Actorhood for Sex Trade Abolition Sociological Forum (IF 1.867) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Selina Gallo-Cruz
Prostitution is historically one of the most violent arenas for women, with exceedingly high rates of physical and sexual abuse reported by prostituted women. In this essay, I examine the debate over how best to provide safety and freedom for women involved in prostitution occurring between advocates for full decriminalization and advocates for the equality model, an abolition initiative led by survivors
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Will Democracy Survive Climate Change? Sociological Forum (IF 1.867) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Steven R. Brechin, Seungyun Lee
In this essay, we explore the relationship between democracy and climate change. Using environmental sociology and related fields as a theoretical lens, we explore two possible and contrasting scenarios of the climate crisis's sociopolitical impact. The first scenario presents that democracy is not well-equipped to deal with climate change. The increasing pervasiveness and intensity of climate change
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Violence and the Gray Zone of Politics: An Outline for a Relational Approach Sociological Forum (IF 1.867) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Javier Auyero
In this essay, I illustrate a relational perspective on gray zone politics, one that shifts the substantive and analytic focus of inquiry from groups and places (this trafficking gang, those neofascists, etc.) to the hidden links between them and established actors within the political field (be they state authorities, elected officials, or members of security forces).
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Engaged and Reflexive Sociology for Environmental Health1 Sociological Forum (IF 1.867) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Phil Brown
The article examines my environmental health work for nearly four decades with many environmental activists and organizations, as well as scientists and government officials. I discuss how I have merged research and advocacy, while mentoring many students and colleagues on how to do that. I discuss my efforts to conduct transdisciplinary work that crosses social sciences, environmental health science
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“I'm Saving Fuel to Buy More Guns”: The Electric Vehicle as Cultural Object and Climate Policy Solution1 Sociological Forum (IF 1.867) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Terence E. McDonnell, Anna Gabur, Rachel Keynton
This article examines electric vehicles (EVs) as cultural objects and assesses how they are mobilized as a solution to the climate crisis. Taking a material approach to cultural objects reveals how hybrids and EVs are sites of contested meaning-making at the intersection of material affordances and conventional symbolic associations. This approach illuminates (1) how the material qualities of EVs destabilize
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What Should Sociologists Do? Sociological Forum (IF 1.867) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Karen A. Cerulo
This essay underscores the importance of public sociology and the critical and policy outcomes it encourages. The work also notes the importance of translating sophisticated theory and high quality, intricate methods for public consumption. The essay concludes by reviewing the growth of public sociology in the field at large and the special focus Sociological Forum has built in this area since 2015
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Why No One Can “Have It All” and Why That Matters for Everyone1 Sociological Forum (IF 1.867) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Kathleen Gerson
New trends in the organization of economic and private life have added a major wrinkle to the still unfolding gender revolution. The decline of the standard employment relationship has eroded the ability of salaried and wage-earning men to support a family household, while the decline of permanent, heterosexual marriage has undermined the traditional gender bargain that encouraged most women to provide
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America's Parenting Economy: How the Ideal of Parental Investment Scaffolds Family-Hostile Policy Sociological Forum (IF 1.867) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Nina Bandelj
The American parenting economy is built around the notion that raising children is a matter of private parental investment. This essay outlines briefly the features of what is best characterized as, not family-friendly, but rather family-hostile policy in the United States, before it proposes two reasons for why the ideal of parental investment holds its grip. The first is the historical political
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Gender, Authoritarian Populisms, and the Attack on Democracy Sociological Forum (IF 1.867) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Arlene Stein
The rhetoric of “saving children” has long been central to the religious right playbook in the United States, especially in campaigns against abortion rights, gay/lesbian rights, and against comprehensive sex education. Today the guardians of the traditional family, increasingly globalized, have shifted their focus to protecting women and girls from so-called “gender ideology.” These campaigns emerge
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Religion Matters (And Doesn't Go Away When Sociologists Ignore It) Sociological Forum (IF 1.867) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Samuel L. Perry
Religion remains among the most powerful and pervasive forms of social behavior around the world, including the United States. Yet academic sociology has long ignored its relevance and is consequently neglecting a responsibility to provide accurate and comprehensive explanations of social life to the world. I consider several reasons for this neglect, including the uncomfortable topic of anti-religious
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Hidden in Plain Sight: “Neutral” Enclosures for High-Skilled Immigrants During COVID-191 Sociological Forum (IF 1.867) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Bandana Purkayastha, Rianka Roy
Politicians and mainstream media in the EU, UK, and US regularly emphasize the need for highly skilled migrants, but, over the last few decades, the terms and conditions for these highly skilled migrants have changed drastically. As part of the neoliberal migrant control regime, highly skilled migrants are brought to countries under very restrictive conditions. They work and contribute taxes but have
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Why Fight? The Combatant Careers of the Anti-Kyiv Fighters in the Donbas War1 Sociological Forum (IF 1.867) Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Natalia Savelyeva, Svetlana Erpyleva
Based on original qualitative data on the mobilization of anti-Kyiv combatants during the war in eastern Ukraine (started in 2014), this article suggests an approach for understanding the spontaneous mobilization of nonstate armed groups during contemporary military conflicts. This approach is based on the notion of career as a collective path of mobilization unfolding over time. It explains how different
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Gender and Family Financial Support in the Transition to Adulthood1 Sociological Forum (IF 1.867) Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson, Sadie Ridgeway
This study examines gender differences in the financial support young adults receive from their families and in the associations between adult role occupancy and financial assistance. Drawing on data from the Transition to Adulthood Supplement of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics between 2005 and 2015, this study analyzes patterns of receiving any family financial support among 17–27 year olds and
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Who Benefits from Migrant and Female Labor? Connecting Wages to Demographic Changes in French Workplaces1 Sociological Forum (IF 1.867) Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Matthew Soener, Olivier Godechot, Mirna Safi
We ask how an increasing share of women or migrants in the workplace affects wages for different groups depending on market-based or relational outcomes. Using data on nearly every French employee and workplace, we propose four theoretically informed outcomes. We do not find an increase in the share of women or migrants provokes a wage backlash but that these groups instead have some “power in numbers
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The Formation and Consequences of Political Generations in Social Movements: Cases of Feminist Activism in Ecuador and Peru1,2 Sociological Forum (IF 1.867) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Anna-Britt Coe
Anchored in Mannheim's theory, the concept of political generations captures how new movement recruits respond to shifting political contexts and become agents of change within a social movement. A key challenge when using this concept in generational analyses is to link context with agency. In this article, I make this link by focusing on the interactions between political contexts and movement agency
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Collegiate Sports Participation, Academic Achievement, and Bachelor's Degree Completion1 Sociological Forum (IF 1.867) Pub Date : 2023-10-12 James Tompsett, Oded Mcdossi, Vincent J. Roscigno
Popular attention to the multi-million-dollar enterprise of collegiate sports often centers on the extent to which student athletes are academically engaged. In this article, we draw on a national sample of approximately 5,000 college-goers, employ key comparisons (i.e., high-visibility student athletes, nonrevenue student athletes, and nonathletes), and consider background disadvantages and collegiate
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Identity Politics, Political Ideology, and Well-being: Is Identity Politics Good for Our Well-being? Sociological Forum (IF 1.867) Pub Date : 2023-10-12 George Yancey
Research indicates that political progressives have lower levels of mental well-being than political conservatives. However, while attention has been paid to why conservatives have higher levels of well-being relatively little attention has been used to examine why progressives may have comparatively low levels of well-being. Recent events connected to a “Great Awokening” suggest that identity politics
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The Algorithm Will See You Now Sociological Forum (IF 1.867) Pub Date : 2023-10-03 Carol A. Heimer
For decades, eliminating preventable error has been presented as an audacious, responsible, even noble goal for healthcare organizations. Bosk proposed to show the folly of this aspiration. This essay moves Bosk's work forward by placing ideas about reducing error in the context of other attempts to routinize work, on the one hand, and casting doubt of the viability of such programs, on the other.
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The Price of Perfection: The Cost of Error Sociological Forum (IF 1.867) Pub Date : 2023-10-03 Charles L. Bosk
In this book proposal, Charles L. Bosk synthesizes 50 years of ethnographic research to consider a key question: Why have decades of patient safety initiatives to reduce preventable deaths and adverse safety events failed to make traction on either one? With his incomparable wit and dry humor, Bosk takes us through the changes to the medical system that accompany his own evolution from a doctoral student
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Some Trade-Offs of Publishing Trade Books as a Sociologist1 Sociological Forum (IF 1.867) Pub Date : 2023-10-03 Stefan Timmermans
I offer reflections on the late Charles Bosk's book proposal as a trade book, focusing specifically on different genres in nonfiction trade publishing, and the different approaches to evidence in sociology and journalism.
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Day People, Night People: Being Chuck Bosk Sociological Forum (IF 1.867) Pub Date : 2023-10-03 Mark D. Neuman
Through Forgive and Remember, Charles Bosk made the world of surgical complications and closed-door morbidity and morbidity conferences visible to a wide audience, helping to remake medical errors from a private into a public issue. In so doing, his work helped to motivate a generation to advocate for higher-quality, safer health care. But Bosk's introduction to The Price of Perfection: The Cost of
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Summing Up What Can Never be Summed Up: A Meditation on the Work and Legacy of Charles L. Bosk Sociological Forum (IF 1.867) Pub Date : 2023-10-03 Emily Adlin Bosk, Joanna Kempner, Elizabeth Mitchell Armstrong
This special issue of “The Forum” publishes Charles L. Bosk's final work—a book proposal written for a trade audience titled—The Price of Perfection: The Cost of Error. Five noted scholars Carol Heimer, Carla Keirns, Mark Neuman, Julia Szymczak, and Stefan Timmermans offer commentary. Their essays touch on common themes: Bosk's humanity, his wry sense of humor, and keen ability to highlight the absurdity
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Perfection and Humanity: Memories of Charles L. Bosk Sociological Forum (IF 1.867) Pub Date : 2023-10-03 Carla C. Keirns
Sociologist Charles Bosk studied medical error for more than five decades. His core insight was that medicine is a human enterprise, marked by all of the hope, passion, frailty, and pathos of human nature. This often led him away from the kinds of engineering solutions that have been proposed in patient safety and process engineering, and toward a radical understanding of culture, character, and human
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Deliver Us from Error: The Perils of Algorithmic Salvation in Medicine Sociological Forum (IF 1.867) Pub Date : 2023-10-03 Julia E. Szymczak
This essay responds to and reflects on the arguments made by Charles Bosk in the introduction to The Price of Perfection: The Cost of Error, written from the perspective of a former sociology doctoral student of his who now works in academic medicine. The author highlights two innovative and persuasive threads running through Bosk's work critiquing the patient safety social movement: (1) the consequence
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Decentering Migration Studies: Toward a Southern Attitude Sociological Forum (IF 1.867) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Peggy Levitt
Fundamentally changing how we do research and teach, whether it be about migration or about the social sciences in general, will not happen without changing how knowledge is produced and circulates. The inequality pipeline places barriers to entry for researchers, thinkers, and experiences lived outside traditional centers of power at every step of the way. So does the competition, selfishness, and
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Decolonizing Migration Studies: A Du Boisian/Decolonial Perspective1 Sociological Forum (IF 1.867) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 José Itzigsohn
This essay addresses my current thinking on the question of the decolonization of the sociology of migration. Coloniality in knowledge production means that knowledge systems are founded in the ways of seeing created by colonialism. To decolonize a field means to think beyond these ways of seeing. This essay first identifies the key ways through which coloniality is expressed in the sociology of migration
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What Can We Learn about Migration and Migrants from Southern Scholars? A Brief Discussion Sociological Forum (IF 1.867) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Bandana Purkayastha
Within the United States, there is a dominant focus on international migration and international migrants' assimilation and integration efforts, along with separate conversations on intersecting structures that marginalize non-white migrants and citizens. Trafficking and refugee studies are relatively small and distinct fields that mostly remain outside dominant scholarly conversations on migration
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Decolonizing Migration Studies: A Brief Introduction Sociological Forum (IF 1.867) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Nazli Kibria
The essays in this special section originate from a 2022 panel discussion on decolonizing migration studies. The authors reflect on the sociology of migration field in the United States and their own intellectual trajectories. They discuss the challenges of shifting the field away from its focus on migrant integration within national borders and propose a variety of decolonizing strategies, from interrogating
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The Practice of Decolonizing Migration Studies Sociological Forum (IF 1.867) Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Vilna Bashi
Decolonizing thought, a useful effort for academics committed to social justice and equity, requires examining the colonial and imperial premises undergirding scholarship and teaching. I explain what I think it takes to develop a decolonial approach to migration studies, offer examples from in my own career, and end with some suggestions for scholars interested in decolonizing migration studies.
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Glitches in the Aspirational Discourse: Between Enterprise and Compromise1 Sociological Forum (IF 1.867) Pub Date : 2023-07-12 Sari R. Alfi-Nissan, Michal Pagis
In recent years, the sociology of culture has turned its gaze to future aspirations. This gaze is in line with contemporary future-oriented culture, which encourages young people to aspire to fulfill their dreams. A leading carrier of future orientation is the aspirational discourse, which has become prominent in the educational field and among youth. Sociological inquiry is conflicted regarding the
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The Promise and Practice of Care in Prisoner Reentry1,2 Sociological Forum (IF 1.867) Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Maria Valdovinos Olson
Although the provision of care is a core project of prisoner reentry, we know little about how care is conceived and practiced in this context. In particular, the period between pre-release, discharge into community corrections, and eventual release into the community is a critical juncture for ensuring important continuity of care linkages that can bolster the potential for reentry success. Nevertheless
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The Stress of Expectation: The Significance of Gender on Concerns About Long-Term Care Among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Older Adults Sociological Forum (IF 1.867) Pub Date : 2023-06-29 B. Savage, M. N. Barringer
Given a history of discrimination in healthcare, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) older adults may expect they could be subject to discrimination when seeking long-term care (LTC). The expectation of mistreatment in LTC, which can contribute to minority stress, might vary, however, according to gender identity. In the current study, we use a nationwide survey to examine the impact of
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Doomed from the Let-Go: Postincarceration Strategies for Managing Monetary Debt Sociological Forum (IF 1.867) Pub Date : 2023-06-26 Timothy Black, Lacey Caporale
Monetary sanctions are an integral and expanding part of the criminal legal system, even though most of the population under community supervision are indigent. Reentering citizens often leave imprisonment with considerable debt that accumulates from court costs and fees, supervision fees, child support arrears, motor vehicle, and other forms of debt. In this article, we examine how an indigent population
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Motherhood, Fatherhood, and the Gender Gap in Occupational Authority1 Sociological Forum (IF 1.867) Pub Date : 2023-06-26 Rebecca Glauber
Does motherhood diminish women's occupational authority and widen the gender gap among contemporary workers in the U.S.? The current study answers this question using data from the Occupational Information Network and 15 waves of panel data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (2002–2019). Fixed effects' regressions show that married and unmarried mothers are less likely than their childless
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Eurowhiteness in Science: Privilege Escalation and Intentional Sludge Sociological Forum (IF 1.867) Pub Date : 2023-06-26 Tamas Dezso Ziegler, Anna Unger
This article connects Böröcz's (2021) Eurowhiteness concept with a critical dissection of Western European academia's stance on ‘outsiders’, including Eastern Europeans and non-Europeans. It explains how an exclusivist Western science is created, where, behind the seemingly open and diverse environment, we find monolithic privileges helping participants inside and blocking participation from the outside
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Divergent Pathways: How Pre-Orientation Programs Can Shape the Transition to College for First-Generation, Low-Income Students1 Sociological Forum (IF 1.867) Pub Date : 2023-06-16 Lauren M. Beard, Kristen Schilt, Patrick Jagoda
First-generation, low-income (FGLI) students attend college at historically high rates in the United States. However, FGLI students continue to struggle in transitioning to college, particularly in elite universities. In this article, we engage with interview and supplemental survey data from 40 FGLI students at an elite university to demonstrate how self-advocacy skills—conceptualized as a form of
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Dating at a Distance: Does It Take a Pandemic to Challenge Campus Sexual Culture?1 Sociological Forum (IF 1.867) Pub Date : 2023-06-06 Linda M. Blum, Kaitlyn Eri Lee, Olivia Binder, Emma Clifford
Researchers agree that the predominant scripts of campus sexual culture, normalizing casual encounters with ambiguous distinctions between hookups and dating, offer contradictory risks and rewards for young adults, particularly young women. The arrival of the novel coronavirus in 2020, however, upended the lives of young adults just as they were shaping sexual and romantic careers. We ask, extending
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The Challenges and Joys of Publicly Engaged Sociology Sociological Forum (IF 1.867) Pub Date : 2023-06-05 Joya Misra
In this essay, I lay out my motivations for doing publicly engaged sociology, emphasizing both the joys and the challenges of this work, and some of the key lessons that I have learned. I explore my attempts to impact policy at the federal level and the local level of my university, as well as efforts to shape changes across academia during the COVID-19 crisis. I have found it meaningful to be working
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Who Controls the Code, Controls the System: Algorithmically Amplified Bullshit, Social Inequality, and the Ubiquitous Surveillance of Everyday Life Sociological Forum (IF 1.867) Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Jessica Dawson
In an era of digital surveillance, data profiteering companies have created a surveillance-based economy that uses algorithms to target messages and content that increase social divisions and inequality. This economic model poses an existential threat to democracy and social stability not only because of the amplification but because these algorithms are embedded in social cultural context. The emergence
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I Know That I Know: Online Health Information Seeking, Self-Care and the Overconfidence Effect1,2 Sociological Forum (IF 1.867) Pub Date : 2023-06-05 Alessia Bertolazzi, Linda Lombi, Alessandro Lovari, Gea Ducci, Lucia D'Ambrosi
The increasing access to online health information and the use of this information for self-medication or self-diagnosis can foster a discounting of the epistemic authority of experts, as well as an over-reliance on laypersons' expertise. However, the emerging cognitive bias—the overconfidence effect—is poorly investigated in the sociological field. This study offers a novel contribution to the role
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The Movement Against Democratic Backsliding in Israel Sociological Forum (IF 1.867) Pub Date : 2023-06-05 Doron Shultziner
The movement against democratic backsliding in Israel was perhaps the most powerful social movement that Israel has seen, spanning over 3 months. It is credited with halting the right-wing coalition's anti-democratic constitutional and judicial reforms. The paper analyzes and highlights key factors in the origins, protest, and outcome stages of the movement. The movement is interesting in how experiences
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Emotions in Action: The Role of Emotions in Refugee Solidarity Activism1,2 Sociological Forum (IF 1.867) Pub Date : 2023-06-05 Chiara Milan
This article investigates the different types of emotions that result from participation in refugee solidarity activism, investigating how they change over time and to what extent they explain why individuals remain involved in action in spite of unfavorable circumstances. By bringing together scholarship on collective action with the literature on emotions, the article delves into the emotional response
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Introduction to the Special Issue: Advancing Publicly Engaged Sociology Sociological Forum (IF 1.867) Pub Date : 2023-05-23 Robert Courtney Smith
Publicly engaged sociology seeks to use our research and work to engage stakeholders within and beyond the university to analyze and fight inequality or injustice, and to address other issues society faces. Sociologists who do such work help universities (and other institutions) keep their social contract to use our work to make society better. This Special Issue continues the Eastern Sociological