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The Terms of Inclusion: Transitional School Programs in a Racialized Organizational Field Sociol. Educ. (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2025-02-19
Dominic Terrel WalkerAs organizations committed to providing upward social mobility and leadership development for academically high-achieving working-class youth of color, transitional school programs (TSPs) prepare students to transition from urban public schools to elite, mostly private high schools. However, TSPs’ dependence on wealthy, White institutions to achieve these goals highlights racialized contradictions
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Beyond tradition? How Gender Ideology Impacts Employment and Family Arrangements in Swiss Couples Gender & Society (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2025-02-17
Christina Bornatici, Isabelle ZinnDrawing on gender structure and life course theories, this article examines how heterosexual couples “undo gender” in their work–family arrangements within the conservative context of Switzerland. Focusing on how gendered norms and expectations are challenged, we explore in a longitudinal analysis the influence of both partners’ gender ideologies on paid and unpaid work arrangements across family life
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Re(dis)covering Goffman: Disability, ‘deference’ and ‘demeanour’ in a community café The Sociological Review (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2025-02-15
Gareth M. ThomasErving Goffman’s scholarship has been subject to intense critique in disability studies. Goffman’s account of ‘stigma’, in particular, is viewed as being antithetical to its driving principles, namely: to depart from deficit configurations of disability; to define disability as embedded in rigid and oppressive social structures; and to recognise more positive accounts of disability. In this article
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Motherhood and money: How motherhood shapes everyday financial practices The Sociological Review (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2025-02-15
Anne Angsten Clark, Hayley JamesThis article contributes to the growing everyday financialisation literature by exploring how motherhood shapes financial practices and household financial management. Existing literature on finances in different-sex partnerships has identified gendered practices, echoing the unequal gendered division of labour. We contribute to this literature by demonstrating that it is not simply gender but more
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Moving out of Salafism: Muslim Women and the Development of a Pious Feminist Consciousness Gender & Society (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2025-02-14
Iman DawoodIn this article, I demonstrate how piety and feminism can come together to motivate women’s departures from gender-traditional religious communities. I draw on, and combine, theories of religious defection with those on the development of feminist consciousness to show how some Muslim women, who joined the Salafi community in London between 1980s and 2010, later moved out of the community in different
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Book Review: Webbed Connectivities: The Imperial Sociology of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality By Vrushali Patil Gender & Society (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2025-02-13
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Fields, Frames and Fundamental Rights: The Campaign to Elevate Occupational Safety and Health at the International Labour Organization (ILO) Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2025-02-13
Vicente Silva, Huw ThomasThis article focuses on how unions mobilise collective action in the strategic action field of global labour governance. Few studies show how unions take advantage of global governance institutions. To address this, we analyse the 25-year-long campaign to elevate occupational safety and health to a Fundamental Principle and Right at Work at the International Labour Organization (ILO). Building on social
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Narcofeminist affects: Gender, harm and fun in young women and gender diverse people’s experiences of alcohol and other drug consumption The Sociological Review (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2025-02-13
Adrian Farrugia, Kiran Pienaar, Fay DennisWhile much sociological research suggests that gender dynamics can make alcohol and other drug consumption settings potentially unsafe, these practices can still be highly pleasurable and meaningful for young people. Analysis of influential understandings of young people’s alcohol and other drug consumption highlights how the notion of ‘harm’ is gendered, with men and masculinity rarely addressed,
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Storying the self and self-belonging: (Re)fleshing relational selves beyond limiting individualisms via a feminist fable The Sociological Review (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2025-02-13
Fee Mozeley, Debbi Long, Sara Kian-Judge, Jodie McGregor, Naomi WildStorying – processes of (re)making meaning with and through stories – helps to make sense of experiences of self-belonging. We draw on our experiences as five Indigenous and non-Indigenous self-identifying women who took part in a story-based meaning making project about longing and belonging. The heart of the project is a four-day residential storytelling research retreat that took place on Darkinjung
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Book Review: Fierce, Fabulous, and Fluid: How Trans High School Students Work at Gender Nonconformity, By LJ Slovin Gender & Society (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2025-02-11
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Black Women’s Unthought Position: A Black Feminist Examination of Du Bois’s Writings on Black Women’s Oppression at the Intersections of Gender and Race Gender & Society (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2025-02-11
Venus GreenThe recent revival of Du Boisian sociological scholarship has resituated W.E.B. Du Bois as a foundational innovator of empirically grounded sociology who theoretically and methodologically shaped the development of multiple subfields. At the same time, this emerging body of work leaves unclear how Du Boisian sociology should be understood in relation to theorizing on the intersections of race and gender
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Stratification in Countries with Flatter (Institutional) Hierarchies? Insights from Administrative Data in Canada Sociol. Educ. (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2025-02-10
David Zarifa, Yujiro Sano, Roger Pizarro MilianResearchers have repeatedly found that within modern higher education systems, students from wealthier backgrounds tend to be concentrated in the most advantageous sectors. Dubbed “effectively maintained inequality,” this process allows these groups to maintain a competitive advantage in the labor market by virtue of acquiring more elite credentials. But what happens in nations with flatter university
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The ‘good story’ and kindness Twitter: Tales of hope and fears of dupery during Covid-19 The Sociological Review (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2025-02-10
Julie Brownlie, Youssef Al Hariri, Simon AndersonThere is a long history of investment in solidaristic stories in the face of social upheaval, threat or conflict, and this was especially evident in relation to Covid-19. This article examines the way that one such narrative – the idea of kindness – was drawn on by Twitter users during the pandemic. Setting it in the context of a wider cultural preoccupation with kindness that both predates and continues
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Book Review: Failing Moms: Social Condemnation and Criminalization of Mothers By Caitlin Killian Gender & Society (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2025-02-08
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Book Review: Natural: Black Beauty and the Politics of Hair By Chelsea Mary Elise Johnson Gender & Society (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2025-02-08
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Inequality and Total Effect Summary Measures for Nominal and Ordinal Variables Sociological Science (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2025-02-05
Trenton D. Mize, Bing HanMany of the topics most central to the social sciences involve nominal groupings or ordinal rankings. There are many cases in which a summary of a nominal or ordinal independent variable's effect, or the effect on a nominal or ordinal outcome, is needed and useful for interpretation. For example, for nominal or ordinal independent variables, a single summary measure is useful to compare the effect
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Valuable actions and actionable values: Tinkering with principles and practices in AI ethics The Sociological Review (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2025-02-06
David Moats, Sonja TrifuljeskoWhat does it mean to ‘put principles into practice’? As machine learning algorithms and Artificial Intelligence are given increasing control over our lives (delivering credit scores and welfare risk assessments and monitoring borders with facial recognition), public, private and civil society organisations have proliferated numerous guidelines foregrounding different ethical principles (e.g. – fairness
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The ordinariness of life-making in displacement: Young Ukrainian workers’ care and work in Warsaw after 2022 The Sociological Review (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2025-02-06
Daria KrivonosDrawing on ethnographic fieldwork among young Ukrainian nationals in Warsaw from 2020 to 2023, the article examines how the labour of social reproduction is placed on Ukrainian migrant workers, who are confronted with the responsibility of ensuring care for their families and communities in the context of forced displacement. The analysis puts the concept of ‘crisis ordinariness’ in dialogue with social
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“Can I Speak to the Bossman?” Sources of Stress, Behavioral Adaptations, and Role Incongruency in Female Farmers☆ Rural Sociology (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2025-02-05
Christina Proctor, Noah Hopkins, Chase Reece, Lauren Ledbetter GriffethTraditional gender expectations and societal norms, along with unique occupational and organizational policies, may make it difficult for women to work in the agricultural industry. The purpose of this study is to apply Role Congruity Theory to female farmers' experience of occupational stress, and to explore behavioral adaptations used to cope with working in a male‐dominated occupation in areas where
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When to Use Counterfactuals in Causal Historiography: Methods for Semantics and Inference Sociological Methods & Research (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2025-02-03
Tay JeongAccording to the interventionist framework of actual causality, causal claims in history are ultimately claims about special types of functional dependencies between variables, which consist not only of actual events but also of corresponding counterfactual states of affairs. Instead of advocating the methodological use of counterfactuals tout court, we propose specific circumstances in historical
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Family background and life cycle earnings volatility: evidence from brother correlations in Denmark, Germany, and the United States Social Forces (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2025-02-03
Filippo Gioachin, Kristian Bernt KarlsonWhile stratification scholars have extensively examined intergenerational associations in lifetime income, they have mostly disregarded how family background affects exposure to income volatility over the life course. As exposure to volatility represents a non-desirable outcome associated with negative shocks to individuals’ welfare, studying the link between family background and volatility is key
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Generational variations in wellbeing: suicide rates, cohort characteristics, and national socio-political context over seven decades Social Forces (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2025-02-03
Jean StockardOver recent decades, the relative wellbeing of younger birth cohorts declined in many western countries, indicating growing generational inequality. Building on Durkheimian theory, this paper examines explanations for these changes, hypothesizing that differences in cohort wellbeing are related to variations in social integration associated with birth cohorts and national socio-political contexts.
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Approaching or avoiding? Gender asymmetry in reactions to prior job search outcomes by gig workers in female- versus male-typed job domains Social Forces (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2025-02-02
Tiantian Yang, Jiayi Bao, Ming D LeungDespite recent increases in females entering male-typed job domains, women are more likely to exit these jobs than men, leading to a “leaky-pipeline” phenomenon and contributing to continued occupational gender segregation. Extant work has demonstrated that women are less likely to reapply to employers who previously rejected them for jobs in male-typed job domains. However, these studies leave unexamined
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Children’s Health Lifestyles And The Perpetuation Of Inequalities Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2025-01-31
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Internalized Sexism and Well-Being in the United States Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2025-01-31
Matthew A. Andersson, Anastasia N. McSwainAlthough structural sexism in state-level institutions is harmful to women’s and men’s health, less is known about how micro-level structural sexism relates to well-being. Using the 2017 and 2021 Gallup Values and Beliefs of the American Public surveys (N = 1,501 in 2017; N = 1,248 in 2021), we investigate diverse approaches to internalized sexism. Although we find no significant associations with
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Living with(out) Citizenship: The Impact of Naturalization on Mortality Risk among U.S. Immigrants Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2025-01-31
Thoa V. Khuu, Jennifer Van Hook, Kendal L. LowreyIn recent decades, naturalization rates among U.S. immigrants have surged as many seek citizenship to regain lost rights and protections. However, the impact of naturalization on immigrants’ life outcomes, such as health, remains underexplored in academic research. Challenges arising from selection processes complicate the interpretation of any observed health disparities between naturalized citizens
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Cultural Authority and (Non)Compliance with Public Health Directives: The Effect of Legitimacy and Values on Behavior during the COVID-19 Pandemic Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2025-01-29
Kate HawksDuring the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, the success of public health authorities’ strategies to curb the spread of the virus hinged on individuals’ voluntary compliance with their directives. This study considers how two components of the cultural authority of public health influenced compliance with health guidelines during the pandemic: (1) individuals’ views of public health officials
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Book Review: Marnie Holborow, Homes in Crisis Capitalism: Gender, Work and Revolution Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2025-01-29
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Exploring generational othering through Internet memes The Sociological Review (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2025-01-29
Giulia GiorgiThis article investigates the modalities through which Internet memes are involved in the process of generational othering. Existing research has emphasised that taking the distance from other cohorts is central to the reinforcement of generational cohesion. Nonetheless, studies empirically observing how generational categorisation occurs remain scarce. Internet memes, i.e. images or videos created
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Invalidating Factorial Survey Experiments Using Invalid Comparisons Is Bad Practice: Learning from Forster and Neugebauer (2024) Sociological Science (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2025-01-27
Justin T. PickettForster and Neugebauer's (2024) invalidation study is invalid. Their conclusion that factorial survey (FS) experiments 'are not suited for studying hiring behavior' (P. 901) is unjustified, because their claim that they conducted a field experiment (FE) and FS with 'nearly identical' designs is false (P. 891). The two experiments included: (1) different factor levels (for three factors), (2) different
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Validating Factorial Survey Experiments: Response to Comment Sociological Science (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2025-01-27
Andrea G. Forster, Martin NeugebauerIn Forster and Neugebauer (2024), we examine to what extent a factorial survey (FS) on invitations of fictitious applicants can replicate the findings of a nearly identical field experiment conducted with the same employers. In addition to exploring the conditions under which FSs provide valid behavioral predictions, we varied the topic sensitivity and tested whether behavioral predictions were more
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Racial prisms: experimental evidence on families’ race-based evaluations of school safety Social Forces (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2025-01-26
Chantal A HaileyRacial segregation is an enduring social reality in the United States. Since safety is central to residential and educational decisions, one explanation is, when choosing neighborhoods and schools, individuals use racial composition to signal safety. However, few studies have focused on race-based perceptions of school safety. To examine racialized school safety beliefs, I leverage an original survey
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Parental union dissolution and children’s emotional and behavioral problems: addressing selection and considering the role of post-dissolution living arrangements Social Forces (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2025-01-25
Mikkeline Munk Nielsen, Peter Fallesen, Michael GählerIncreasingly children whose parents no longer live together are living in two households, alternating between family contexts. A growing literature documents strong, descriptive heterogeneities in children’s wellbeing across living arrangements. We combine longitudinal survey and administrative population data on 6000 Danish children born in 1995 to study how children’s emotional and behavioral problems
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The Integration of Bayesian Regression Analysis and Bayesian Process Tracing in Mixed-Methods Research Sociological Methods & Research (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2025-01-23
Lion Behrens, Ingo RohlfingIn this article, we develop a mixed-methods design that combines Bayesian regression with Bayesian process tracing. A fully Bayesian multimethod design allows one to include empirical knowledge at each stage of the analysis and to coherently transfer information from the quantitative to the qualitative analysis, and vice versa. We present a complete mixed-methods workflow explaining how this is accomplished
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Book Review: Denys Gorbach, The Making and Unmaking of the Ukrainian Working Class: Everyday Politics and Moral Economy in a Post-Soviet City Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2025-01-22
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The Genetics of Partnership Dissolution Sociological Science (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2025-01-20
Ruth Eva Jørgensen, Rosa Cheesman, Ole A. Andreassen, Torkild Hovde LyngstadThere is a genetic component to divorce risk, but little is known about which and how genetically influenced traits are involved. This study makes three major contributions to address these gaps. First, we link genetic data from the Norwegian Mother, Father, and Child Cohort Study (MoBa) to population register data and estimate the total influence of common genetic variants on partnership dissolution
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Improving Cross-Cultural Comparability of Measures on Gender and Age Stereotypes by Means of Piloting Methods Sociological Methods & Research (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2025-01-21
Natalja Menold, Patricia Hadler, Cornelia NeuertThe study addresses the effects of piloting methods on the cross-cultural comparability and reliability of the measurement of gender and age stereotypes. We conducted a summative evaluation of expert reviews, cognitive pretests and web probing. We first piloted a gender role, an ageism, and a children stereotypes instrument in German and American English. We then randomly assigned the original and
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You’ll never walk alone: Theorizing engaged walking with Doreen Massey The Sociological Review (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2025-01-21
Emma Jackson, Agata LisiakAn avid supporter of Liverpool Football Club, geographer Doreen Massey was known to sing the club’s anthem, ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’, on her hikes in the Lake District. In this article, we propose to take the song title quite literally – as a definitive statement rather than a promise – because, for us, walking is never a solitary activity, it always happens together with others. We revisit Massey’s
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Exploring the generational ordering of kinship through decisions about DNA testing and gamete donor conception: What’s the right age to know your donor relatives? The Sociological Review (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2025-01-17
Leah Gilman, Petra Nordqvist, Nicky Hudson, Lucy FrithThe development of direct-to-consumer genetic testing (DTCGT), in conjunction with social media, has had profound consequences for the management of information about donor conception. One outcome is that it is now possible to circumvent formal age-restrictions on accessing information about people related through donor conception. Consequently, many donor conceived people and their parents face questions
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Straight Jacket: The Implications of Multidimensional Sexuality for Relationship Quality and Stability Sociological Science (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2025-01-15
Yue Qian, Yang HuThe quality and stability of couple relationships have far-reaching consequences for the well-being of individual partners and patterns of family change. Although much research has compared the quality and stability of same-sex and different-sex relationships, the multidimensional nature of sexuality has received insufficient attention in this scholarship. Individuals in same-sex (different-sex) partnerships
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The Rise in Occupational Coding Mismatches and Occupational Mobility, 1991–2020 Sociological Methods & Research (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2025-01-16
Andrew Taeho Kim, ChangHwan KimOccupation is a construct prone to classification mismatches by coders and description inconsistency by respondents. We explore whether mismatches in occupational coding have recently increased, what factors are associated with the rise in mismatches, and how the rise affects estimates of intragenerational occupational mobility. Utilizing the 1991–2020 Annual Social and Economic Supplement of the Current
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Using Google Maps to Generate Organizational Sampling Frames Sociological Methods & Research (IF 6.5) Pub Date : 2025-01-16
Brad R Fulton, David P KingOrganizational researchers use a variety of methods to obtain sampling frames. The utility of these methods, however, is constrained by access restrictions, limited coverage, prohibitive costs, and cumbersome formats. This article presents a new method for generating organizational sampling frames that is cost-effective, uses publicly available data, and can produce sampling frames for many geographic
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A processual framework for understanding the rise of the populist right: the case of Brazil (2013–2018) Social Forces (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2025-01-12
Benjamin H Bradlow, Tomás GoldHow and in what sequence do social structures, contingent events, and agents’ decisions combine over time to bring about a new populist right? To answer this question, we propose a framework to analyze social processes spanning three levels of analysis: global political economy, national political articulation, and subnational political geography. We challenge static theories that focus solely on the
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Getting a Foot in the Door: A Meta-Analysis of U.S. Audit Studies of Gender Bias in Hiring Sociological Science (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2025-01-09
So Yun Park, Eunsil OhFor the past three decades, scholars have conducted field experiments to examine gender-based hiring discrimination in the United States. However, these studies have produced mixed results. To further interpret these findings, we performed a meta-analysis of 37 audit studies conducted between 1990 and 2022. Using an aggregated sample of 243,202 fictitious job applications, the study finds no evidence
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Amenity Migration and Community Wellbeing in Washington's Kittitas County Post‐COVID‐19 Pandemic* Rural Sociology (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2025-01-10
Alexander Theophilus, Jessica Ulrich‐Schad, Courtney Flint, Emma EppersonAmenity migration in the Intermountain West is a rapidly evolving process that has greatly impacted wellbeing in many rural communities over the past several decades. While the impacts of amenity migration have been discussed through both individual community case studies and cross‐community comparative analysis, there is an ongoing need for research that continues to build upon our understanding of
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“It Was So Easy in a Situation That’s So Hard”: Structural Stigma and Telehealth Abortion Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2025-01-08
Andréa Becker, Celina Doria, Leah R. Koenig, Jennifer Ko, Ushma UpadhyayFor decades, sociological research has examined the role of stigma in contributing to health disparities, yet such research seldom grapples with the interplay between individuals and structures. There is a particular paucity of research on abortion that concurrently examines individual experiences with stigma and structural barriers. In this article, we use telehealth abortion as a case, which now
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How Do Single Mothers Evaluate and Cope with Living in Rural Peripheries? Insights into the Interplay of Social and Spatial Disadvantage* Rural Sociology (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2025-01-08
Sylvia Keim‐Klärner, Josef Bernard, Anja DeckerWhen social and spatial disadvantages meet, are they doubled? Empirical studies have convincingly demonstrated that disadvantages tend to accumulate. Our paper advances this scholarship by focusing on the under‐researched issue of social positions, subjective perspectives, and agency among single mothers in rural peripheries characterized by weak labor markets and accessibility issues. Drawing from
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Learning from online hate speech and digital racism: From automated to diffractive methods in social media analysis The Sociological Review (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2025-01-08
Eva Haifa Giraud, Elizabeth Poole, Ed de Quincey, John E. RichardsonThere has been a dramatic surge in uses of big data analytics and automated methods to detect and remove hate speech from social media, with these methods deployed both by platforms themselves and within academic research. At the same time, recent social scientific scholarship has accused social media data analytics of decontextualizing complex sociological issues and reducing them to linguistic problems
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The Risk Creates the Reward: Reputational Returns to Legal and Quality Risks in Online Illegal Drug Trade Sociological Science (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2025-01-06
William Holtkamp, Scott Duxbury, Dana L. HaynieAlthough buyers in unregulated markets depend heavily on reputational information in the absence of state oversight, few studies examine how the riskiness of a good may condition reputational effects on prices. We capitalize on novel data on 10,465 illegal drug exchanges on one online 'darknet' illegal drug market and computational text analysis to evaluate how distinct types of legal and quality risks
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Partisan identity, scientific and religious authority, and lawmaker support for science policy Social Forces (IF 3.3) Pub Date : 2025-01-07
Timothy L O'Brien, David R JohnsonThis article examines mechanisms related to lawmaker support for public policies based on scientific evidence and supportive of organized science. We propose that Republican lawmakers are more likely than Democrats to oppose these policies because Republicans are less likely than Democrats to base policy decisions on scientific authority and more likely than Democrats to base decisions on religious
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Expanding the ‘Third Space’ between Western and non-Western knowledge: Nakane Chie’s Japanese Society as anti-Eurocentric theory The Sociological Review (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2025-01-06
Rin UshiyamaDecolonial theorists have frequently employed dichotomies such as North–South, East–West, White–Black and Metropole–Periphery to characterise the exclusion of knowledge produced by marginalised populations around the world. This article argues that such dichotomies overlook a body of knowledge that lies in the liminal space between these polarities: the Third Space of ideas. It proposes that a more
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Reframing Feminist Ideas, Challenging State Incorporation: Activism Against Violence and the Feminicídio Law in Brazil Gender & Society (IF 7.2) Pub Date : 2025-01-04
Roberta S. PamplonaFeminist debates on how the state incorporates and reshapes feminist categories of violence reveal unintended consequences, such as the depoliticization of these ideas. Through a case study of the Feminicídio Law in Brazil, I examine feminist writings on feminicídio, following its state incorporation as a criminal category, to address the killing of women based on gendered reasons. Drawing on materialist
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“It's On All the Time in Our House:” Police Scanners and Everyday Rural Life* Rural Sociology (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2025-01-03
Michael BranchPolice radio scanners are a common feature of homes in rural Upstate New York, but little attention has been given to how their use affects local communities. Drawing on in‐depth interviews with residents of a small town in the Adirondack Park, I examine how the scanner becomes a key factor in structuring experiences of daily life. A common feature of rural communities, the scanner positions policing
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Into the Unknown: Anticipatory Stressors in the Stress Process Paradigm Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-12-30
Matthew K. GraceA growing literature examines anticipatory stressors or the worries people have about the future that may or may never occur. Drawing on data collected as part of two national surveys (N = 3,834), this study formalizes a scale of anticipatory stress tapping into future-oriented worries about economic security, traumatic events, and discrimination. Results indicate that both personal and vicarious stress
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The Unequal Loop: Socioeconomic Status and the Dynamic Bidirectional Relationship between Physical and Mental Health Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-12-30
Yajie Xiong, Yaqiang QiThis study draws on longitudinal data from the Health and Retirement Study (2008–2020) to investigate the dynamic bidirectional relationship between physical and mental health, focusing on socioeconomic disparities. Dynamic panel models reveal significant bidirectional associations between measures of physical and mental health for both positive and negative health indicators, but the magnitude varies
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Won’t Get Fooled Again? Theorizing Discursive Constructions of Novelty in the ‘New’ World of Work Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-12-30
Jeremy Aroles, Aurélie Leclercq-Vandelannoitte, John Hassard, William M Foster, Edward GranterThis article outlines how notions of novelty define today’s work practices and debates what the discursive construction of work as ‘new’ means. On the one hand, we highlight a misplaced emphasis on change and novelty that can lead to unnecessary dichotomization in the characterization and discursive construction of work practices and organizational phenomena. On the other, we specify substantive continuities
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Does Increasing Ethnic Diversity Challenge the Rural Idyll? An Analysis of Frames on Ethnic Diversity in Relation to Rurality in the Flemish Written Press (Belgium)* Rural Sociology (IF 2.3) Pub Date : 2024-12-28
Willemien Van Damme, Pascal De Decker, Hans LeinfelderThe social construction of rurality remains a collective fantasy of a safe, green, ethnically homogeneous environment. This fantasy, called “the rural idyll,” still dominates the way in which people give meaning to their lives, the lives of others, and the places where they live. This idyll is based on an interrelated urban/ethnic diverse versus rural/white dichotomy, even as rural areas are in fact
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The boundary-work of volunteering and the value of unwaged work in the dual crisis of care The Sociological Review (IF 2.1) Pub Date : 2024-12-27
Emma DowlingBased on qualitative research into formal volunteering in semi-rural towns in the north-east and south-west of Germany, this article analyses the consequences of a turn to volunteering in the German welfare regime. The article explores the meaning and function of volunteering for volunteers, organisations and the welfare regime, and identifies a series of conflicting goals. While fiscal pressures and