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Do The Marriageable Men want to Protect and Provide? The Expectation of Black Professional Hybrid Masculinity Gender & Society (IF 3.657) Pub Date : 2022-06-14 Marbella Eboni Hill
Gender ideologies are embedded in intersecting race, class, and gender systems. Yet Black masculinity is often defined one-dimensionally, without attention to class variation in gender enactment. Particularly, with regard to heterosexual partnering, representations of Black masculinity most often involve men enacting compensatory displays to account for having too little masculine capital to meet the
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Gender Regimes and Cambodian Labor Unions Gender & Society (IF 3.657) Pub Date : 2022-06-14 Kristy Ward
Globally, labor unions have been criticized for being highly gendered, patriarchal organizations that struggle to engage with, and represent, women. In Cambodia, the disparity between women’s activism and organizational power is particularly acute. Women workers are the face of the labor movement, yet they remain excluded from union leadership despite some movement toward more progressive gender policies
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Heirs Property, Critical Race Theory, and Reparations☆ Rural Sociology (IF 4.078) Pub Date : 2022-06-17 Conner Bailey, Ryan Thomson
We use critical race theory (CRT) to examine the involuntary loss of land and homes among Black residents of the southeastern United States and in particular among the Gullah/Geechee. An Afro-indigenous population, the Gullah/Geechee have deep roots in the federally designated Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor, an area of sea islands and coastal Lowcountry within 25 coastal counties in North
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Working Lives in India: Current Insights and Future Directions Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 5.116) Pub Date : 2022-06-16 Anita Hammer, Janroj Yilmaz Keles, Wendy Olsen
India presents a rich context for research on work and employment, epitomising the paradox of an ‘emerging economy’ but one where 92.4% of the workforce is informal – insecure, unprotected, poor – and women and disadvantaged groups most vulnerable. It displays a wide range of production relations in its formal/informal economy, embedded in diverse social relations, and the related forms of exploitation
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‘They Exist but They Don’t Exist’: Personal Assistants Supporting Physically Disabled People in the Workplace Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 5.116) Pub Date : 2022-06-12 Jane Maddison, Jenni Brooks, Katherine Graham, Yvonne Birks
Employment rates in England for disabled people are persistently lower than for non-disabled people. Support from a Workplace Personal Assistant is one way of narrowing this gap. Personal assistance is an empowerment-driven model in which the disabled person controls their support: who provides it, when, how and where. Previous research has focused on the personal assistant role in the home setting
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Gender-Specific Duration of Parental Leave and Current Earnings Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 5.116) Pub Date : 2022-06-12 Benedikt Gerst, Christian Grund
Although male employees are increasingly making use of parental leave, gender differences in both usage and duration of parental leave are still prevalent. Based on signalling theory and the masculinities concept, the article explores the role of gender in the relationship between the incidence/duration of parental leave and wages/compensation after returning to a job. It is shown that pay gaps associated
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“You're Poor, so you're Not Going to Do Anything:” Socioeconomic Status and Capital Accumulation as a Means to Access Higher Education for Rural Youth☆ Rural Sociology (IF 4.078) Pub Date : 2022-06-10 Phillip D. Grant, J. Kessa Roberts
This qualitative phenomenological study sought to understand rural students' college-going decisions through the lens of socioeconomic status, social capital, and Perna's nested model of college choice. The sample included 18 students who were undergraduates at a selective R1 university in the Southeastern United States. Rural first-generation students reported that they received little practical advice
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Between Frustration and Invigoration: Women Talking about Digital Technology at Work Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 5.116) Pub Date : 2022-06-09 Sarah Mosseri, Ariadne Vromen, Rae Cooper, Elizabeth Hill
This study addresses the dearth of gender analysis within debates about technological innovation and workplace change. Qualitative analysis of 12 focus groups conducted with women in ‘frontline’ and ‘professional’ roles discussing their use and engagement with digital technologies at work reveals contrasting narratives of ‘digital frustration’ and ‘digital invigoration’. To explain these distinct narratives
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Working from Home and Work–Family Conflict Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 5.116) Pub Date : 2022-06-08 Inga Laß, Mark Wooden
Longitudinal evidence on whether, and under what conditions, working from home is good or bad for family life is largely absent. Using 15 waves of data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey, this study investigates the association between working from home and work–family conflict among parents. Fixed-effects structural equation models reveal that more hours worked at home
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The Worth of Their Work: The (In)visible Value of Refugee Volunteers in the Transnational Humanitarian Aid Sector Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 5.116) Pub Date : 2022-06-08 Patricia Ward
Scholarship on invisible work highlights how volunteers’ labour is devalued and obfuscated because it is framed as something ‘noneconomic’. This article shows how volunteers’ labour is invisible and noneconomic when it is reframed as aid. Drawing upon a case of refugee volunteers in Jordan’s humanitarian aid sector highlights how framing work as aid transforms their labour into objects they ‘receive’
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Emotional Pasts in Swedish Rescue Services: Bringing Temporality to the Fore in the Field of Emotional Regimes Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 5.116) Pub Date : 2022-06-08 Clary Krekula, Stefan Karlsson
This article centres on emotions within the Swedish rescue services in terms of the concepts of emotional regime and emotional pasts, partly with a focus on the role of emotional pasts in emotional regimes, partly on how the (re)construction of emotional pasts relates to the organisation of the workplace. The empirical material consists of qualitative interviews with five female and 13 male firefighters
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Gender-Typed Skill Co-Occurrence and Occupational Sex Segregation: The Case of Professional Occupations in the United States, 2011–2015 Gender & Society (IF 3.657) Pub Date : 2022-06-07 Constance Hsiung
Studies of occupational sex segregation rely on the sociocultural model to explain why some occupations are numerically dominated by women and others by men. This model argues that occupational sex segregation is driven by norms about gender-appropriate work, which are frequently conceptualized as gender-typed skills: work-related tasks, abilities, and knowledge domains that society views as either
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Black Mothers and Vaccine Refusal: Gendered Racism, Healthcare, and the State Gender & Society (IF 3.657) Pub Date : 2022-06-07 Courtney Thornton, Jennifer A. Reich
Vaccine refusal has increasingly been the focus of public health concern. Rates of children who are up to date on vaccines have declined in recent years, and vaccine refusal has been implicated in disease outbreaks. Most research on children who are not fully immunized identifies white affluent mothers as most likely to opt out by choice and Black mothers as more likely to face structural barriers
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Compensatory Work Devotion: How a Culture of Overwork Shapes Women’s Parental Leave in South Korea Gender & Society (IF 3.657) Pub Date : 2022-06-07 Eunsil Oh, Eunmi Mun
Despite growing concerns that parental leave policies may reinforce the marginalization of mothers in the labor market and reproduce the gendered division of household labor, few studies examine how women themselves approach and use parental leave. Through 64 in-depth interviews with college-educated Korean mothers, we find that although women’s involvement in family responsibilities increases during
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Black Protests in the United States, 1994 to 2010 Sociological Science (IF 4.237) Pub Date : 2022-05-30 Pamela Oliver, Chaeyoon Lim, Morgan C. Matthews, Alex Hanna
Using novel data, we provide the first panoramic view of U.S. Black movement protest events as reported in U.S. newswires between 1994 and 2010 and put our quantitative data into dialogue with qualitative accounts. Struggles during these years presaged the Black Lives protest waves of 2014 to 2016 and 2020. Protests increased after the 1995 Million Man March into 2001 but dropped abruptly after the
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Why Female Employees Do Not Earn More under a Female Manager: A Mixed-Method Study Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 5.116) Pub Date : 2022-05-26 Margriet van Hek, Tanja van der Lippe
Previous studies found contradictory results on whether women benefit in terms of earnings from having a female manager. This mixed-method study draws on survey data from the Netherlands to determine whether female employees have higher wages if they work under a female manager and combines these with data from interviews with Dutch female managers to interpret and contextualize its findings. The survey
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Where Do Cultural Tastes Come From? Genes, Environments, or Experiences Sociological Science (IF 4.237) Pub Date : 2022-05-23 Mads Meier Jæger, Stine Møllegaard
Theories in sociology argue that family background and individual experiences shape cultural tastes and participation. Yet, we do not know the relative importance of each explanation or the extent to which family background operates via shared genes or shared environments. In this article, we use new data on same-sex monozygotic and dizygotic twins from Denmark to estimate the total impact of family
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Migration Behaviors and Educational Attainment of Metro and Non-Metro Youth☆ Rural Sociology (IF 4.078) Pub Date : 2022-05-23 Xiao Li
While research has consistently demonstrated a positive relationship between migration from rural areas and educational attainment, it is unclear whether migration is the driver of educational attainment or merely a mediator. The “rural brain drain” perspective suggests that young people leave rural areas if they have greater academic potential than their peers. A “migration gain” perspective implies
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Environmental Policy Preferences and Economic Interests in the Nature/Agriculture and Climate/Energy Dimension in the Netherlands Rural Sociology (IF 4.078) Pub Date : 2022-05-21 Simon Otjes, André Krouwel
The idea that citizens' support for environmental policies depends on their economic interest and the community that one lives in, has been debated extensively in the environmental attitudes literature. However, this literature has not differentiated between separate policy dimensions that concern measures that affect specific groups in different ways. This paper differentiates between a nature/agriculture
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The spiritual turn and the disenchantment of the world: Max Weber, Peter Berger and the religion–science conflict The Sociological Review (IF 4.258) Pub Date : 2022-05-21 Galen Watts, Dick Houtman
There is little question that organized religion as embodied in the Christian churches has not fared well in recent decades. Yet, precisely the period when the decline of organized religion hit its stride – the 1960s and 1970s – also witnessed the rise of what Ernst Troeltsch referred to as ‘mystic religion’, only now it goes by ‘spirituality’. Indeed, recent empirical studies suggest that, in addition
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A Crash Course in Good and Bad Controls Sociological Methods & Research (IF 6.933) Pub Date : 2022-05-20 Carlos Cinelli, Andrew Forney, Judea Pearl
Many students of statistics and econometrics express frustration with the way a problem known as “bad control” is treated in the traditional literature. The issue arises when the addition of a variable to a regression equation produces an unintended discrepancy between the regression coefficient and the effect that the coefficient is intended to represent. Avoiding such discrepancies presents a challenge
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Adding Insult to Injury: Arrests Reduce Attendance through Institutional Mechanisms Sociol. Educ. (IF 6.088) Pub Date : 2022-05-20 Nicholas D. E. Mark, Amanda Geller, John Engberg
Students across the United States experience high levels of contact with the police. To clarify the causal relationships of this contact with educational outcomes and the mechanisms by which such relationships arise, we estimate the effects of arrest on student engagement with school using daily attendance data. Recently arrested students missed significantly more school than did students who would
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Rural/Urban Differences: Persistence or Decline☆ Rural Sociology (IF 4.078) Pub Date : 2022-05-20 Don E. Albrecht
A long line of sociological research has found that rural residents tend to be more conservative than urban residents in the U.S. on a wide range of attitudes and behaviors. Two primary arguments have been utilized to understand why these differences exist. First, rural/urban differences were thought to be largely a function of rural isolation and differences in types of employment. As rural areas
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“Choose the Plan That’s Right for You”: Choice Devolution as Class-Biased Institutional Change in U.S. Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Sociological Science (IF 4.237) Pub Date : 2022-05-16 Adam Goldstein, James Franklin Wharam
This study examines the distributional consequences of U.S. employers' efforts to devolve responsibility for managing their employees' medical insurance risk. The logic of consumer choice has increasingly come to dominate insurance benefit design, requiring that employees learn to be their own actuaries. We ask, to what extent does the individuation of choice (between insurance plans with disparate
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Improving Estimates Accuracy of Voter Transitions. Two New Algorithms for Ecological Inference Based on Linear Programming Sociological Methods & Research (IF 6.933) Pub Date : 2022-05-16 Jose M. Pavía, Rafael Romero
The estimation of RxC ecological inference contingency tables from aggregate data is one of the most salient and challenging problems in the field of quantitative social sciences, with major solutions proposed from both the ecological regression and the mathematical programming frameworks. In recent decades, there has been a drive to find solutions stemming from the former, with the latter being less
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The future of data ownership: An uncommon research agenda The Sociological Review (IF 4.258) Pub Date : 2022-05-16 Jacqueline Hicks
Responding to the current data monopoly by Big Tech firms, there is increasing interest in the potential for collective ownership of data in a ‘data commons’. This article aims to introduce the topic to non-specialists, highlight the broader social significance of data ownership, and reframe the data commons as a problem of social interaction rather than regulatory design. It critically engages with
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Enacting the ‘consuming’ brain: An ethnographic study of accountability redistributions in neuromarketing practices The Sociological Review (IF 4.258) Pub Date : 2022-05-16 Tanja Schneider, Jonna Brenninkmeijer, Steve Woolgar
The figure of the brain has continued to rise in prominence for at least 30 years. This development continues to raise important questions: in particular, to what extent and in what ways does the brain supplant the person as the presumed origin of human behaviour? Whereas it has previously been discussed in general terms, here we address this question through an ethnographic study of the experimental
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COVID-19, young people and the futures of work: Rethinking global grammars of enterprise The Sociological Review (IF 4.258) Pub Date : 2022-05-16 Diego Carbajo, Peter Kelly
In this article we revisit our analytical concept of global grammars of enterprise to explore the ways in which this grammar is being reimagined in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and the crises it produces. Drawing on a hermeneutic sociological analysis of a variety of documents (policies, websites, think pieces), our rethinking revisits understandings of the relationships between ‘enterprise’
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Cultural repertoires of school choice: Intersections of class, race and culture in Pretoria and Amsterdam The Sociological Review (IF 4.258) Pub Date : 2022-05-16 Afra Foli, Willem R. Boterman
In school choice literature, class-based strategies for social reproduction of the middle classes are often the central explanatory framework. While race, ethnicity and other social categories are increasingly included in the analysis, they are often treated as secondary to class. Drawing on interviews from a racially and socio-culturally mixed sample of middle-class parents in Pretoria and Amsterdam
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The politics of the urban green: Class, morality and attachments to place The Sociological Review (IF 4.258) Pub Date : 2022-05-14 Troels Krarup
Local urban greenspaces connect issues close to everyday life, such as recreational value, attachment to place and civic engagements, with broader questions of city planning, economy, climate change and social class. Responding to recent warnings against reductionism in critical studies of cities’ new claims to sustainability, the article mobilizes the recent ‘moral turn’ in the Bourdieusian literature
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The Additional Effects of Adaptive Survey Design Beyond Post-Survey Adjustment: An Experimental Evaluation Sociological Methods & Research (IF 6.933) Pub Date : 2022-05-13 Shiyu Zhang, James Wagner
Adaptive survey design refers to using targeted procedures to recruit different sampled cases. This technique strives to reduce bias and variance of survey estimates by trying to recruit a larger and more balanced set of respondents. However, it is not well understood how adaptive design can improve data and survey estimates beyond the well-established post-survey adjustment. This paper reports the
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Who Does What to Whom? Making Text Parsers Work for Sociological Inquiry Sociological Methods & Research (IF 6.933) Pub Date : 2022-05-13 Oscar Stuhler
Over the past decade, sociologists have become increasingly interested in the formal study of semantic relations within text. Most contemporary studies focus either on mapping concept co-occurrences or on measuring semantic associations via word embeddings. Although conducive to many research goals, these approaches share an important limitation: they abstract away what one can call the event structure
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A Language-Based Method for Assessing Symbolic Boundary Maintenance between Social Groups Sociological Methods & Research (IF 6.933) Pub Date : 2022-05-13 Anjali M. Bhatt, Amir Goldberg, Sameer B. Srivastava
When the social boundaries between groups are breached, the tendency for people to erect and maintain symbolic boundaries intensifies. Drawing on extant perspectives on boundary maintenance, we distinguish between two strategies that people pursue in maintaining symbolic boundaries: boundary retention—entrenching themselves in pre-existing symbolic distinctions—and boundary reformation—innovating new
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School Closures and the Gentrification of the Black Metropolis Sociol. Educ. (IF 6.088) Pub Date : 2022-05-13 Francis A. Pearman, II, Danielle Marie Greene
Largely overlooked in the empirical literature on gentrification are the potential effects school closures have in the process. This study begins to fill this gap by integrating longitudinal data on all U.S. metropolitan neighborhoods from the Neighborhood Change Database with data on the universe of school closures from the National Center for Educational Statistics. We found that the effects of school
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Promise Into Practice: Application of Computer Vision in Empirical Research on Social Distancing Sociological Methods & Research (IF 6.933) Pub Date : 2022-05-09 Wim Bernasco, Evelien M. Hoeben, Dennis Koelma, Lasse Suonperä Liebst, Josephine Thomas, Joska Appelman, Cees G. M. Snoek, Marie Rosenkrantz Lindegaard
Social scientists increasingly use video data, but large-scale analysis of its content is often constrained by scarce manual coding resources. Upscaling may be possible with the application of automated coding procedures, which are being developed in the field of computer vision. Here, we introduce computer vision to social scientists, review the state-of-the-art in relevant subfields, and provide
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Gender in the Flesh: Allostatic Load as the Embodiment of Stressful, Gendered Work in Canadian Police Communicators Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 5.116) Pub Date : 2022-05-12 Arija Birze, Elise Paradis, Cheryl Regehr, Vicki LeBlanc, Gillian Einstein
Gender and work are important social determinants of health, yet studies of health inequities related to the gendered and emotional intricacies of work are rare. Occupations high in emotional labour – a known job stressor – are associated with ill-health and typically dominated by women. Little is known about the mechanisms linking health with these emotional components of work. Using physiological
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Developing or Degrading Young Workers? How Business Strategy and the Labour Process Shape Job Quality across Different Industrial Sectors in England Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 5.116) Pub Date : 2022-05-09 Edward Yates
This article explores variations in job quality for young workers by analysing six employers across three industrial sectors of Greater Manchester, an English city-region. Four aspects of job quality are examined because of their centrality in shaping how youth labour-power is deployed in the labour process: technological utilisation, work-rate, autonomy and discretion, and opportunities for training
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The Association between Family Care and Paid Work among Women in Germany: Does the Household Economic Context Matter? Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 5.116) Pub Date : 2022-05-12 Ulrike Ehrlich
Owing to the rapid ageing of societies, studying the labour market consequences of caring for ill, disabled or frail old-age partners, parents and/or other family members (hereafter: ‘family care’) is of urgent concern. Previous research has mainly concentrated on examining the impact of differing family care situations on women’s employment. Building on household decision-making approaches, this study
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Restructuring, Redeployment and Job Churning within Internal Labour Markets Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 5.116) Pub Date : 2022-05-12 Robert MacKenzie, Christopher J McLachlan
This article explores the phenomenon of recurrent internal redeployment, through a case study of restructuring at a UK based steel firm. While redeployment reflected one of the key functions of the traditional internal labour market at SteelCo, frequent restructuring events meant some workers experienced redeployment on a recurrent basis. For these workers the experience of repeated redeployment was
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Gurkha Warriors as Entrepreneurs in Britain: A Social Anchoring Lens on Martial Heritage and Migrant Enterprises Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 5.116) Pub Date : 2022-05-12 Pawan Adhikari, Shovita Dhakal Adhikari, Shoba Arun, Thankom Arun
Using the social anchoring approach, this article investigates the entrepreneur experience of one of the newest migrant groups in Britain, the Nepali Gurkhas. The findings derived from the semi-structured interviews show how these migrant entrepreneurs employ multiple ‘anchors’ to engage in family-based enterprises and to navigate structural constraints. Their military heritage, which has provided
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Learning the post-Fordist feeling rules: Young women’s work orientations and negotiations of the work ethic The Sociological Review (IF 4.258) Pub Date : 2022-05-12 Emma Lamberg
Even though flexibility, insecurity and precarity characterise much of today’s work, the promise of self-realisation through work remains as powerful as ever. Following Weeks’ work on the post-Fordist work ethic and Hochschild’s research on feeling rules, this article analyses how young women negotiate the post-Fordist work ethic and its emotional obligations. Drawing on interviews with 39 young women
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Therapeutic politics and the institutionalisation of dignity: ‘Treated like the Queen’ The Sociological Review (IF 4.258) Pub Date : 2022-05-12 Rebecca Moran, Michael Salter
This article draws on theories of therapeutic politics to explore the role of institutionalised dignity as a medium for the social and political participation of traumatised people. Using the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse as a case study, the article offers a psychosocial account of shame and humiliation as key characteristics of the phenomenology of
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Migrant NHS nurses as ‘tolerated’ citizens in post-Brexit Britain The Sociological Review (IF 4.258) Pub Date : 2022-05-12 Georgia Spiliopoulos, Stephen Timmons
With this article we present European Union (EU) and non-EU nurses’ lived experiences of feeling ‘unwelcomed’ and ‘unsettled’ in a heightened xenophobic environment, in the workplace and elsewhere, following the 2016 EU Referendum. Brexit has exposed long-standing structural inequalities which oppress and disempower the NHS migrant labour force. Migrant nurses, a highly mobile and skilled workforce
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Demographic Change and Group Boundaries in Germany: The Effect of Projected Demographic Decline on Perceptions of Who Has a Migration Background Sociological Science (IF 4.237) Pub Date : 2022-05-09 Johanna Gereke, Joshua Hellyer, Jan Behnert, Saskia Exner, Alexander Herbel, Felix Jäger, Dean Lajic, Štepán Mezenský, Vu Ngoc Anh, Tymoteusz Oglaza, Jule Schabinger, Anna Sokolova, Daria Szafran, Noah Tirolf, Susanne Veit, Nan Zhang
In many Western societies, the current 'native' majority will become a numerical minority sometime within the next century. How does prospective demographic change affect existing group boundaries? An influential recent article by Abascal (2020) showed that white Americans under demographic threat reacted with boundary contraction—that is, they were less likely to classify ambiguously white people
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Work in the Gig-Economy: The Role of the State and Non-State Actors Ceding and Seizing Regulatory Space Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 5.116) Pub Date : 2022-05-07 Cristina Inversi, Tony Dundon, Lucy-Ann Buckley
Using the concept of regulatory space, this article asks how both the state and non-state actors influence employment regulations particular to the gig-economy. To address this question a mixed method approach is used, including interviews with strategically placed informants involved in policy formation at national and international levels, content analysis of legal cases, parliamentary inquiry transcripts
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Disabled People Working in the Disability Sector: Occupational Segregation or Personal Fulfilment? Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 5.116) Pub Date : 2022-05-07 Anne Revillard
Disabled people face many forms of exclusion on the labour market. To what extent is work in the disability sector a manifestation of this exclusion or a solution to it? Defined here as working for a disability organisation or specialising in disability in one’s occupation, work in the disability sector represents an under-documented aspect of the employment experiences of disabled people. This article
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Mobility Power, State and the ‘Sponsored Labour Regime’ in Saudi Capitalism Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 5.116) Pub Date : 2022-05-06 Anita Hammer, Ayman Adham
This article draws on the ‘double indeterminacy of labour power’, a key conceptual development in labour process theory, to examine mobility power in Saudi Arabia. State control over the mobility of migrant workers is crucial to the labour process and the wider political-economy of Saudi Arabia. However, little is known about mobility–effort bargaining and the specific forms of mobility power in the
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Cohort Succession Explains Most Change in Literary Culture Sociological Science (IF 4.237) Pub Date : 2022-05-02 Ted Underwood, Kevin Kiley, Wenyi Shang, Stephen Vaisey
Many aspects of behavior are guided by dispositions that are relatively durable once formed. Political opinions and phonology, for instance, change largely through cohort succession. But evidence for cohort effects has been scarce in artistic and intellectual history; researchers in those fields more commonly explain change as an immediate response to recent innovations and events. We test these conflicting
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Review of Managing Medical Authority: How Doctors Compete for Status and Create Knowledge Social Forces (IF 3.575) Pub Date : 2022-04-28 Lauren D Olsen
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Marriage, Kids, and the Picket Fence? Household Type and Wealth among U.S. Households, 1989 to 2019 Sociological Science (IF 4.237) Pub Date : 2022-04-25 Christine Percheski, Christina Gibson-Davis
Evidence on how parenthood affects household wealth in the United States has been inconclusive, partially because previous studies have decontextualized parenthood from gender, marital, and relationship status. Yet, insights from economic sociology suggest that wealth-related behaviors are shaped by the intersection of identities, not by a binary classification of parental status. We examine net worth
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Review of: How the Other Half Eats: The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America Social Forces (IF 3.575) Pub Date : 2022-04-26 Joslyn Brenton
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Creating Sacred Spaces: Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish, and Muslim Student Groups at U.S. Colleges and Universities Sociol. Educ. (IF 6.088) Pub Date : 2022-04-25 Jonathan S. Coley, Dhruba Das, Gary J. Adler, Jr.
Why are some schools home to Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish, and Muslim student organizations but others are not? In this article, we draw on theories of student mobilization, especially recent theoretical insights on educational opportunity structures, to understand the factors associated with the presence and number of minority religious student organizations at U.S. colleges and universities. Analyzing
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Book Review: Suspicion: Vaccines, Hesitancy, and the Affective Politics of Protection in Barbados, By Nicole Charles Gender & Society (IF 3.657) Pub Date : 2022-04-25 Cristina A. Pop
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Adoption of LGBT-Inclusive Policies: Social Construction, Coercion, or Competition? Social Forces (IF 3.575) Pub Date : 2022-04-23 Naomi A Gardberg,William Newburry,Bryant A Hudson,Magdalena Viktora-Jones
Abstract Companies evaluate LGBT policy adoption in an environment with competing and often contradictory societal institutions and ethical frames. This makes the adoption process more difficult to understand when compared to new practice diffusion in less contested settings, providing an opportunity to examine diffusion in an uncertain and varying institutional environment. Herein, we develop a policy
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Global Markets, Risk, and Organized Irresponsibility in Regional Australia: Emergent Cosmopolitan Identities Among Local Food Producers in the Liverpool Plains☆ Rural Sociology (IF 4.078) Pub Date : 2022-04-19 Helen Forbes-Mewett, Kien Nguyen-Trung
This paper reflects on the conditions that emerge as regional Australia becomes increasingly immersed in international markets, global and local political shifts, and changing environmental conditions. In the Liverpool Plains region, farmers are deeply reliant on global export markets. Meanwhile, global demand for Australian minerals continues to produce both economic development and environmental
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A Sociology of Empathy and Shared Understandings: Contextualizing Beliefs and Attitudes on Why People Use Opioids Rural Sociology (IF 4.078) Pub Date : 2022-04-18 Jerel M. Ezell, Brooke Olson, Suzan M. Walters, Samuel R. Friedman, Lawrence Ouellet, Mai T. Pho
There has been a steep rise in overdoses and mortality among people who use opioids or who inject drugs (PWUD), including in North America, the United Kingdom, and parts of Eastern Europe, with some of the sharpest increases amassing in rural communities. Currently, the literature lacks a comparative focus on the views and experiences of rural PWUD and professionals who regularly work and interface
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Review of Foucault’s New Materialism: A Review of Thomas Lemke’s The Government of Things Social Forces (IF 3.575) Pub Date : 2022-04-22 Mark Olssen
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Why Measurement Invariance is Important in Comparative Research. A Response to Welzel et al. (2021) Sociological Methods & Research (IF 6.933) Pub Date : 2022-04-21 Bart Meuleman, Tomasz Żółtak, Artur Pokropek, Eldad Davidov, Bengt Muthén, Daniel L. Oberski, Jaak Billiet, Peter Schmidt
Welzel et al. (2021) claim that non-invariance of instruments is inconclusive and inconsequential in the field for cross-cultural value measurement. In this response, we contend that several key arguments on which Welzel et al. (2021) base their critique of invariance testing are conceptually and statistically incorrect. First, Welzel et al. (2021) claim that value measurement follows a formative rather
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Book Review: Violence in Everyday Life: Power, Gender, and Sexuality, By Aliraza Javaid Gender & Society (IF 3.657) Pub Date : 2022-04-18 Shanna Felix
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Between Women of Color: The New Social Organization of Reproductive Labor Gender & Society (IF 3.657) Pub Date : 2022-04-18 Jennifer Nazareno, Cynthia Cranford, Lolita Lledo, Valerie Damasco, Patricia Roach
In this article, we examine citizenship inequalities in paid reproductive labor. Through an analysis of elder care in Los Angeles, California, based on interviews with Filipina home care agency workers and owners, we delineate citizen divisions made up of two interlocking dimensions. The longstanding U.S. welfare state abdication of responsibility for elder care for its citizens generates a racialized