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Is adoption an environmental threat? Domestication fantasies in Swedish adoption narratives The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Richey Wyver, Steve Matthewman
In 2017 Ghassan Hage published Is Racism an Environmental Threat? The book’s question misleads. For Hage does not seek to show that the former leads to the latter, rather, he elucidates the logics of domination that are common to both. Hage states that ‘generalised domestication’ is the clearest optic through which to see both racism reproducing and revitalising itself and violence towards the environment
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The secret and The Circle: Georg Simmel’s social theory and Dave Eggers’ dystopian fiction The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Daniel Davison-Vecchione
This article considers Dave Eggers’ 2013 dystopian novel The Circle, which critically explores digital surveillance, alongside Georg Simmel’s social-theoretical writings on the secret, social distance and proximity, and the intersection of social circles. The article shows how Simmel’s social theory illuminates important aspects of secrecy and surveillance in The Circle, including the secret’s constitutive
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Outline of a critical sociology of free speech in everyday life: Beyond liberal approaches The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 John Michael Roberts
Critical sociologists have been conspicuous by their absence in theoretical debates about free speech in everyday life. The aim of this article is to address this missing gap in critical sociology by making some tentative suggestions about how such a theory might advance. Drawing mainly from the ideas of Pierre Bourdieu and Judith Butler, the article suggests that free speech occurs when coalitions
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Young people, place-based stigma and resistance: A case study of Glasgow’s East End The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Maureen McBride
This article analyses working-class young people’s perceptions of and resistance to place-based stigma, through a case study of a youth-led theatre project in the East End of Glasgow, UK. The impact of stigma on working-class communities is well-established; through the effects of poverty and inequality people and places are stigmatised. Although existing literature emphasises that we must recognise
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Troubling grief: Spectrality, temporality, refusal, catharsis The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Alex Broom, Michelle Peterie
In the cultural imaginary of death and dying, the felt contours of grief are still often taken for granted. Grief is predominantly understood as sadness at loss; as melancholia at the finitude of relationships. Grief is conceived as a temporally-bound affective period in which one processes the pain of loss – that is, gets used to absence and works toward ‘moving on’. In this article, we centre the
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Troubling ‘the norm’? Or, how to become a recognisable, visible gay parent through surrogacy: A comparative analysis of Israeli and German gay couples The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Julia Teschlade
Over the past two decades, recognition of same-sex relationships and non-normative families has increased alongside greater access to reproductive technologies. Despite this progress, surrogacy, a potential path to parenthood for gay couples, remains banned in many countries. Research indicates that gay couples, facing legal restrictions, often seek reproductive services abroad, navigating complex
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Citizenship and discomfort: Wearing (clothing) as an embodied act of citizenship The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Katalin Halász
This article contributes to research on citizenship and belonging in the post-Brexit white East European migration to the UK. It explores wearing a garment as an act of citizenship and an embodied methodology. It is formed of two interrelated parts: the first presents the argument that wearing a particular garment at a specific spatio-temporal juncture can be considered an act of citizenship. The second
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Entanglements of race and migration in the (open) city: Analytical and normative tensions of the sociological imagination The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Michael Keith, Susannah Cramer-Greenbaum, Karim Murji, Steve Pile, John Solomos, Eda Yazici, Ying Wang
This article considers the interface of taxonomies of race and migration crystallised through the materialities of the contemporary city in the shadow of the 7th anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire. It draws on multi-method empirical research that interrogates the notion of the open city. The article proposes that ‘entanglement’ and ‘contaminations’ of material and cultural formations confound some
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An ‘unfathomable hatred of Islam’: Ethno/graphing the trial for the Québec City mosque massacre The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Fabrice Fernandez, Sophie Marois, Stéphanie Gariépy, Sarah Arnal
On the night of January 29, 2017, six Muslim worshippers were killed, and many others severely injured when a white man opened fire at a mosque in Québec City (QC, Canada). This article is based on a collective ethno/graphy of the assailant’s trial, from its beginning in March 2018 until the verdict in February 2019. During this period, our research group – formed of three sociologists and a visual
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Bureaucracy and patrimonialism on Wall Street: How organizational forms contribute to elite reproduction The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Fabien Foureault, Lena Ajdacic, Felix Bühlmann
Echoing the recent revival of elite studies, we ask how financialization shapes the composition of contemporary elites and how organizational mechanisms transform its characteristics in terms of class, gender and race. We ask whether the bureaucratization of finance contributed to a ‘purge’ of particularisms. Or to the contrary, whether class, race and gender have become more salient criteria of elite
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Nonsuicidal self-injury and intersubjective recognition: ‘You can’t argue with wounds’ The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Peter Steggals, Ruth Graham, Steph Lawler
This article explores the relevance of intersubjective recognition and the ‘recognition theoretical turn’ to our understanding of nonsuicidal self-injury. While previous research has demonstrated that self-injury possesses an important social dimension alongside its intrapsychic characteristics, a major challenge for any social approach to self-injury has been to find a way to describe and analyse
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Stable destabilising? Rethinking images of temporality The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Tim Newton, Natalia Slutskaya, Jessica Horne
This article explores our sense of stability and instability. For example, is contemporary life governed by uncertainty, fluidity and sociotechnical acceleration, or do relative stability or inertia still represent the predominant experience in many domains? In particular, can stabilities and instabilities represent symbiotic processes, the one interwoven with the other? Furthermore, are theories conventionally
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Revisiting young masculinities through a sound art installation: What really counts? The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Rachel Thomson, Alex Peverett, Janet Holland
What Really Counts? was a sound art installation created in 2019 through a collaboration between a sociologist and a multidisciplinary artist, working with in-depth interviews with young men recorded as part of a British feminist social research project in 1990, exploring sexualities and the threat of HIV/AIDS. In this article, we describe the evolution and staging of the sound art installation project
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The body as a canvas: Memory, tattoos and the Holocaust The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Alice Bloch
This article explores the decision amongst the children and grandchildren of Auschwitz survivors to replicate the concentration camp number of their survivor family member on their own body. The article sheds new light on the complex intergenerational legacy of the Holocaust and on memorial practices. By focusing on the tattoo as a form of memorial practice, the article captures the intersections between
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Advocating for athletes or appropriating their voices? A frame and field analysis of power struggles in sport The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Fabien Ohl, Lucie Schoch, Filippo Bozzini, Marjolaine Viret
Although advocacy is central to cultural transformations, claims makers are social actors who struggle for meaning and power. This article focuses on Global Athlete (GA) to analyse the stakes behind advocacy. This sports advocate has engaged a frame keying, even fabrication, to gain recognition in the global sport landscape. GA’s activity is examined on two levels. First, the article analyses how,
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Emotions and emotional reflexivity in undocumented migrant youth activism The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2023-05-12 Ala Sirriyeh
Emotions play a role in drawing people into activism and are a key dimension of activist experiences. However, although researchers have examined the political significance and ethical imperative o...
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Lived religion beyond words: A denotative analysis of participant-produced photos of meaningful objects The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Gaëlle Bargain-Darrigues, Gustavo Morello SJ
Can visual data provide insights that words do not reveal? Meanings of objects in visual studies are usually captured through elicitation meetings. In this article, we propose to explore them from ...
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Amnesia and the erasure of structural racism in criminal justice professionals’ accounts of the 2011 English disturbances The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Chloe Peacock
Though the 2011 ‘riots’ attracted a huge amount of political, media and academic attention, the state’s punitive reaction to the unrest received far less analysis, despite being characterised by ex...
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The price of the ticket revised: Family members’ experiences of upward social mobility The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Anthony Miro Born
In recent years, there has been a revived sociological interest in assessing the lived experience of upward social mobility. Several qualitative accounts have highlighted the negative emotional imp...
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Mundanity, fascination and threat: Interrogating responses to publicly engaged research in toilet, trans and disability studies amid a ‘culture war’ The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Jen Slater
Toilets are political spaces: inadequate toilet access means limited access to wider space and community. Between 2015 and 2018 I led a series of interdisciplinary research projects collectively kn...
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Scripting the nation: Crisis celebrity, national treasures and welfare imaginaries in the pandemic The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2023-04-23 Jessica Martin, Kim Allen
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, celebrities occupied a highly contested space within the popular and political imaginary. Whilst the mass suffering unleashed by the pandemic led some to herald th...
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Black, Brown and Asian cultural workers, creativity and activism: The ambivalence of digital self-branding practices The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2023-04-23 Francesca Sobande, David Hesmondhalgh, Anamik Saha
How do cultural and creative workers respond to racism and the politics of representation and respectability in the digital age? In what ways do they engage in forms of community-building and solid...
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Intercorporeality in visually impaired running-together: Auditory attunement and somatic empathy The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2023-03-24 Jacquelyn Allen-Collinson, Dona L. Hall, Patricia C. Jackman
Given their salience in many sports and physical cultures, it is surprising that the practices, processes and production of intercorporeality and ‘doing together’ remain under-explored from a socio...
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Rethinking elites in British sociology: Great Britain as a house-society The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2023-03-24 Daniel R. Smith
This article outlines a novel conceptual framework to examine English society’s ruling institutions. Usually called ‘The Establishment’, the term has been a thorn in the side of analyses of class, ...
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Facemasks, material and metaphors: An analysis of socio-material dynamics of the COVID-19 pandemic The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2023-03-24 Annerose Böhrer, Marie-Kristin Döbler, Heta Tarkkala
In 2020, not only did the Sars-Cov-2 virus become a global pandemic, but public life also changed in the wake of various infection control measures. Increased use of masks was one of the first clea...
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Fear and loathing in north London: Experiencing estate regeneration as psychosocial degeneration The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2023-03-20 Paul Watt
This article analyses residents’ emotional responses to the regeneration – involving demolition and rebuilding – of West Hendon council housing estate in north London. Based on ethnographic researc...
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In search of unbordered homelands: Exploring the role of music in building affective internationalist politics of solidarity1 The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2023-03-20 Moushumi Bhowmik, Ben Rogaly
As racial nationalist regimes across the globe consolidate their power through their interconnections, so their efforts to divide people along lines of ‘race’, ethnicity, faith, nationality, immigr...
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Class, affect, margins The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2023-03-20 Jay Emery, Ryan Powell, Lee Crookes
While academic attention to class has fluctuated in tandem with wider social struggles, it invariably returns from relative quiet periods with a renewed vigour, reasserting its usefulness in unders...
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Spectral labour in the Fens of Eastern England The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2023-03-20 Rowan Jaines
This article performs a site-specific and critical reading of agricultural labour in the Fen landscape in the East of England to explore lived experiences of class in this landscape. The analysis i...
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Love, laughter and solidarity on the docks in Liverpool, c.1950s–1990s The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2023-03-20 Emma Copestake
By focusing on love and humour, this article examines the role of positive emotions in the making and remaking of solidarity on the docks in Liverpool to demonstrate that solidarity was, and still ...
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‘People just dae wit they can tae get by’: Exploring the half-life of deindustrialisation in a Scottish community The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2023-03-20 Andy Clark
This article practically applies Sherry-Lee Linkon’s ‘half-life of deindustrialisation’ thesis in examining a deindustrialising Scottish community. Linkon contends that, while the most visibly toxi...
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Framing stigma as an avoidable social harm that widens inequality The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2023-03-20 Michelle Addison
This article discusses the social harms arising out of stigma experienced by people who use drugs (PWUD), and how stigmatisation compromises ‘human flourishing’ and constrains ‘life choices’. Drawi...
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Breaking climate justice ‘silence’ in everyday life: The environmentalist killjoy, negotiation and relationship risk The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Lisa Howard
The moral and justice dimensions of climate change are uncomfortable and commonly avoided in the conversations of day-to-day UK life. This ‘silence’ impedes the genesis of a public discourse to dri...
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The digital writing of human rights narratives: Failure, recognition, and the unruly inscriptions of database infrastructures The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2023-03-01 Josh Bowsher
Drawing on empirical research, this article explores the possible sociopolitical effects of database infrastructures on the shaping and construction of human rights narratives. While it has become ...
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Race, rhetorical veneers and the virulence of colonial violence during COVID The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2023-03-01 Tanya Zivkovic
COVID has exposed how health and racial inequities are deeply entangled. This article seeks to examine how race is made present but also erased in words, bodies and institutions. It takes as its po...
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Convertible, multiple and hidden: The inventive lives of women’s sport and activewear 1890–1940 The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2023-03-01 Kat Jungnickel
Who gets to be ‘sporty’ and active in public is an enduring topic of socio-political debate. Disparities in participation continue from limited access, support and funding to ill-fitting equipment ...
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Animating sociology The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2023-02-25 Charlotte Bates, Kate Moles, Lily Mae Kroese
This article outlines the collaborative process of making a watercolour animation drawn from research with women who swim wild in rivers, lakes and seas. Discussing graphic storytelling in sociolog...
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Figuring out fairness: The social construction of inheritance entitlements in close relationships The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2023-02-25 Rhian Powell
This article explores the social significance of writing a will and argues that how will-makers think about inheritance is tied to shifting understandings of kin, closeness and fairness. Will-writi...
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An intimacy field framework: Class, habitus and capital in gay relationships The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2023-02-25 See Pok Loa, Susanne Y. P. Choi
Using Bourdieu’s field theory and extending the sexual field framework, we conceptualise intimacy as fields, that is, configurations of social relations underlying the doing of romantic and sexual ...
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The physicality of mindsports through elite bridge players’ sensorial experiences: Presence, confidence and bodies The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2023-02-25 David S. Scott, Samantha Punch
The classification of mindsports such as the card game of bridge within sport and society continues to be keenly debated. The concept of ‘physicality’ is often cited as being a prerequisite for an ...
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Situating decolonial strategies within methodologies-in/as-practices: A critical appraisal The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2023-02-13 Allison Hui
Whilst work on decolonising methodologies has persisted for more than 20 years, engagement remains uneven. Despite rich discussions of indigenous methodologies and decolonial thinking, the challeng...
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Coloniality of anti-corruption: Whiteness, disasters, and the US anti-corruption policies in Puerto Rico The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2023-02-13 Jose Atiles
This article introduces the concept of ‘coloniality of anti-corruption’ to help situate and describe contemporary US anti-corruption policies aimed at Puerto Rico. The aim of the concept of colonia...
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Performers as emotional artisans: Crafting displays in theatre and workload The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Stribor Kuric, Alba Arenales
In this article, we analyse the process of crafting emotional displays developed by performers in theatre work. The systematic approach to emotion regulation and management displayed in theatre pro...
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The intertwinement of speculative fictions and environmental activism: Towards a sensory sociology of climate fiction The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2023-02-07 Ana Alacovska, Macon Holt
In this article we tentatively plot the coordinates of a sensory sociology approach for empirically investigating how the popular culture genre of climate fiction operates affectively within enviro...
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The lines of descent of the present crisis The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2023-01-30 Satnam Virdee
The neoliberal settlement has been comprehensively destabilised by the 2007 financial crisis, the imposition of austerity, growing social inequalities and the emergence of populism as a social forc...
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Chosen and collective friendship: Negotiating contradictory social ideals and demands at an Israeli elementary school classroom The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2023-01-30 Thalia Thereza Assan
Friendship has been predominantly conceptualised as a highly positive and voluntary relationship. This article contributes to recent sociological challenges to these notions by ethnographically exa...
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Co-existing structures of feeling: Senses and imaginaries of industrial neighbourhoods The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2023-01-30 Alexandrina Vanke
This article explores how structures of feeling shape everyday life and local atmospheres in two industrial neighbourhoods located in the cities of Moscow and Yekaterinburg. Developing Raymond Will...
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Love in the space–time of inequality: Attachment and detachment across unequal lives The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2023-01-30 Samuel Strong
This article examines the changing experience of love at a time of deepening inequalities. Drawing on the ‘love story’ of one resident of London’s Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea – arguably...
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The industrial past as a tool of possibility: Schooling and social class in a former coalfield community The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2023-01-30 Kat Simpson
This article presents data from ethnographic research carried out at Lillydown Primary, a local authority school in a former coalmining community in South Yorkshire. Complicating Avery Gordon’s con...
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The social connectedness of digital practices in later life: It’s not just about learning, it’s all about relationships The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2023-01-23 Roser Beneito-Montagut, Arantza Begueria, Nizaiá Cassián
In the last 10 years there has been an increase in access to information and communication technologies among older people, stimulated by widespread adoption of mobile devices (smartphones and tabl...
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By, for, with women? On the politics and potentialities of wellness entrepreneurship The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2023-01-23 Rachel O’Neill
Based in original ethnographic research, this article examines the motivations and experiences of those seeking to forge careers in the UK’s burgeoning wellness industry. As a movement-market centr...
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Work, boredom and rhythm in the time of COVID-19 The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2023-01-19 Louise Nash, Dawn Lyon
This article uses Henri Lefebvre’s Rhythmanalysis as a foundational text for researching boredom, and offers a critical analysis of UK-based media commentaries about boredom and homeworking written...
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Algorithmic autobiographies and fictions: A digital method The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2023-01-19 Sophie Bishop, Tanya Kant
In this article, we outline an original, creative method for capturing the multifaceted ways in which digital technologies shape social life. We outline a framework for engaging participants in cre...
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W. E. B. Du Bois’s forgotten sociology of morality: Contesting the foundations and informing the future of the sociology of morality The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2022-12-22 Owen Abbott
Du Bois’s work, especially his early work, was explicitly concerned with morality, including dedicated studies into the moral lives of black Americans and their perceived moral standing in American...
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The nation’s happiness, women’s altruism and the affective politics of self-blame: Generating a ‘mood of commitment’ The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2022-12-22 Demet Gülçiçek
This article contributes to the growing interest in affect and emotions in sociological research, with a specific focus on ‘mood’, developing the concept ‘mood of commitment’. It approaches politic...
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Introducing ‘resonance’: Revisioning the relationship between youth and later life in women born 1939–52 The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2022-12-22 Penny Tinkler, Laura Fenton, Resto Cruz
This article proposes ‘resonance’ as a fruitful way of conceptualising the relationship between youth and later life and reflecting on its significance: resonance is how a person’s ‘youth’ is lived...
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Dirt, decency and the symbolic boundaries of caregiving in residential homes for older people The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2022-12-22 Eleanor K. Johnson
This article draws upon an ethnography of two differently-priced UK residential care homes for older people. Informed by recent scholarship on the materialities of care, together with separate theo...
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Navigating childrearing, fatherhood, and mobilities: A transnational relational analysis The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2022-12-15 Pei-Chia Lan
To overcome the pitfall of methodological nationalism, I propose a transnational relational analysis to examine how people raise children in multi-layered, multi-sited transnational social fields, ...
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COVID labour: Making a ‘livable’ life under lockdown The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2022-11-29 Katherine Twamley, Charlotte Faircloth, Humera Iqbal
Drawing on qualitative longitudinal data from 38 families with children in the UK collected between May 2020 and June 2021, this article discusses the extra everyday labour which individuals experi...
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The (in)visibility of sewage management and problematization as strategy for public awareness The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2022-11-21 Tora Holmberg, Malin Ideland
Sewage management is crucial to the functioning of cities, yet, in the global North, seldom acknowledged in public. Wastewater infrastructures are mainly hidden underground and human excrement is c...