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What Is Rural Well‐Being and How Is It Measured? An Attempt to Order Chaos* Rural Sociology (IF 4.078) Pub Date : 2024-05-10 Vanda Veréb, Carla Marques, Livia Madureira, Carlos Marques, Tigran Keryan, Rui Silva
While a substantial body of literature has been built on rural well‐being, due to the great heterogeneity of rural territories, the literature is highly fragmented, even contradictory. Moreover, no systematic review of the entire domain exists to guide rural decision‐makers. Debated conceptualization, contradicting results, and pressing policy requirements make it timely to deliver a systematized state‐of‐the‐art
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Policy Brief Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 5.179) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Xiaowen Han, Tom VanHeuvelen, Jeylan T. Mortimer, Zachary Parolin
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Working like Machines: Technological Upgrading and Labour in the Dutch Agri-food Chain Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 4.249) Pub Date : 2024-05-07 Karin Astrid Siegmann, Petar Ivošević, Oane Visser
This article engages with the role of technological upgrading for work in agriculture, a sector commonly disregarded in debates about the future of work. Foregrounding migrant work in Dutch horticulture, it explores how technological innovation is connected to the scope and security of employment. Besides, it proposes a heuristic that connects workers’ experience to sectoral dynamics and the wider
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Book Review: Fatherhood and Masculinities: The Intersection of Care, Body, and Race, By Catherine Gallais Gender & Society (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2024-05-03 Jiangyi Hong
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Book Review: Conceiving Christian America: Embryo Adoption and Reproductive Politics, By Rita Cromer Gender & Society (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2024-05-03 Elizabeth McElroy
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The Effects of Social Mobility Sociological Science (IF 6.222) Pub Date : 2024-04-29
Richard Breen, John Ermisch Sociological Science April 29, 2024 10.15195/v11.a17 Abstract The question of how social mobility affects outcomes, such as political preferences, wellbeing, and fertility, has long been of interest to sociologists. But finding answers to this question has been plagued by, on the one hand, the non-identifiability of “mobility effects” as they are usually conceived in this
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Opportunity Hoarding and Elite Reproduction: School Segregation in Post-Apartheid South Africa Social Forces (IF 5.866) Pub Date : 2024-04-30 Rob J Gruijters, Benjamin Elbers, Vijay Reddy
School integration is an important indicator of equality of opportunity and racial reconciliation in contemporary South Africa. Despite its prominence in public and political discourse, however, there is no systemic evidence on the levels and patterns of school segregation. Drawing on the literature on the post-apartheid political settlement and sociological theories of opportunity hoarding, we explain
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Extreme Lockdowns and the Gendered Informalization of Employment: Evidence from the Philippines Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 4.249) Pub Date : 2024-04-30 Vincent Jerald Ramos
The adverse effects of COVID-19 on labour market outcomes are amplified by and partly attributable to the imposition of extreme mobility restrictions. While gendered disparities in job losses and reduction in working hours are demonstrated in the literature, is an informalization of employment observed, and is this phenomenon likewise gendered? This article analyses the Philippines, a country that
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Mothering While Sick: Poor Maternal Health and the Educational Attainment of Young Adults Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 5.179) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Shannon Cavanagh, Athena Owirodu, Lindsay Bing
At a time when educational attainment in young adulthood forecasts long-term trajectories of economic mobility, better health, and stable partnership, there is more pressure on mothers to provide labor and support to advance their children’s interests in the K–12 system. As a result, poor health among mothers when children are growing up may interfere with how far they progress educationally. Applying
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Anxious Activists? Examining Immigration Policy Threat, Political Engagement, and Anxiety among College Students with Different Self/Parental Immigration Statuses Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 5.179) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Erin Manalo-Pedro, Laura E. Enriquez, Jennifer R. Nájera, Annie Ro
Restrictive immigration policies harm the mental health of undocumented immigrants and their U.S. citizen family members. As a sociopolitical stressor, threat to family due to immigration policy can heighten anxiety, yet it is unclear whether political engagement helps immigrant-origin students to cope. We used a cross-sectional survey of college students from immigrant families (N = 2,511) to investigate
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Health Disadvantage: Can Education Disrupt It? Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 5.179) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Emily Smith-Greenaway, Yingyi Lin, Abigail Weitzman
In low-income countries, intergenerational processes can culminate in the replication of extreme forms of health disadvantage between mothers and adult daughters, including experiencing a young child’s death. The preventable nature of most child deaths raises questions of whether social resources can protect women from enduring this adversity like their mothers. This study examined whether education—widely
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Medicalisation of Unemployment: An Analysis of Sick Leave for the Unemployed in Germany Using a Three-Level Model Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 4.249) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Philipp Linden, Nadine Reibling
The study investigates whether sick leave for the unemployed is used to address problems of labour market integration – a process that can theoretically be conceptualised as the medicalisation of unemployment. Estimating a multilevel logistic regression model on a sample of N = 20,196 individuals from the German panel study Labour Market and Social Security (PASS) reveals that, on average, 18% of the
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Marketisation and the Public Good: A Typology of Responses among Museum Professionals Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 4.249) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Jeremy Aroles, Kevin Morrell
Across Western democracies, the public sector has undergone significant changes following successive waves of marketisation. Such changes find material expression in an organisation’s logic and associated vocabulary. While marketisation may be adopted, a growing body of research explains how it is often resisted as public sector professionals reject its logic and vocabulary. We contribute to this debate
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Characteristics or Returns: Understanding Gender Pay Inequality among College Graduates in the USA Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 4.249) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Joanna Dressel, Paul Attewell, Liza Reisel, Kjersti Misje Østbakken
Explanations for the persistent pay disparity between similarly qualified men and women vary between women’s different and devalued work characteristics and specific processes that result in unequal wage returns to the same characteristics. This article investigates how the gender wage gap is affected by gender differences in detailed work activities among full-time, year-round, college-graduate workers
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Parental Exposure to Work Schedule Instability and Child Sleep Quality Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 4.249) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Allison Logan, Daniel Schneider
Recent scholarship has documented the effects of unstable scheduling practices on worker health and well-being, but there has been less research examining the intergenerational consequences of work schedule instability. This study investigates the relationship between parental exposure to unstable and unpredictable work schedules and child sleep quality. We find evidence of significant and large associations
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De-centring the human: Multi-species research as embodied practice The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Nickie Charles, Rebekah Fox, Mara Miele, Harriet Smith
This article focuses on embodiment and the centrality of embodied methods to multi-species research. We argue that taking the body as our methodological starting point is essential to researching human–animal relations but that bodies engage with and are engaged by the research process in a multiplicity of ways. In this we follow Vinciane Despret’s analysis of the partial affinities between animal
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Book Review: When Bad Things Happen to Privileged People: Race, Gender, and What Makes a Crisis in America by Dara Z. Strolovitch Gender & Society (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Celeste Montoya
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Book Review: Banished Men: How Migrants Endure the Violence of Deportation by Abigail Andrews Gender & Society (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Beatriz Aldana Marquez
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Book Review: Nice Is Not Enough: Inequality and the Limits of Kindness at American High by C. J. Pascoe Gender & Society (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Simone Ispa-Landa
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What Happens when Gender Accountability is Reduced? The Experiences of Nonbinary and Genderfluid People During the COVID-19 Pandemic Gender & Society (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Amy L. Stone, Alexandra Gallin-Parisi
How does gender accountability vary? We theorize that reduced perceptions by others of one’s gender, or reduced external assessments of gender accountability, create more space for the cultivation of nonbinary subjectivities. We use the shelter-in-place period of the COVID-19 pandemic as a natural experiment during which major social institutions such as work and school changed and thus shifted gender
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Homing desires: Transnational queer migrants negotiating homes and homelands in Scotland The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Francesca Stella, Jon Binnie
A vast literature on the home across sociology, human geography and cognate disciplines has mapped out home as a messy conceptual terrain. Critical perspectives have theorised home as simultaneously imaginative and material, and argued for the importance to pay attention to both dimensions. Following in this tradition, empirical research has explored how ‘home’ is understood, imagined and experienced
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Work Experience and Mental Health from Adolescence to Mid-Life Social Forces (IF 5.866) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Jeremy Staff, Jeylan T Mortimer
The etiology of psychological differences among those who pursue distinct lines of work have long been of scholarly interest. A prevalent early and continuing assumption is that experiences on the job influence psychological development; contemporary analysts focus on dimensions indicative of mental health. Still, such work-related psychological differences may instead be attributable to selection
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Intermediate Educational Transitions, Alignment, and Inequality in U.S. Higher Education Sociol. Educ. (IF 4.619) Pub Date : 2024-04-20 Christina Ciocca Eller, Katharine Khanna, Greer Mellon
Substantial social stratification research conceptualizes education as a series of standard transitions from one stage to the next, such as from high school to college. Yet less research examines mandatory transitions within each educational stage, which we call “intermediate educational transitions.” In this article, we examine a crucial intermediate transition in U.S. higher education, shifting from
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Racialised terminologies and the BAME problematic: A perspective from football’s British South Asian senior leaders and executives The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2024-04-20 Stefan Lawrence, Thomas Fletcher, Daniel Kilvington
This article problematises the usage of the term ‘BAME’ (Black Asian and Minority Ethnic) and considers its limitations as a diversity intervention. It draws on sociolinguistics, critical race theories and poststructuralism and is based on interviews with 21 British South Asian people working at senior and executive levels of the professional football industry in England and Scotland. Our analysis
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Following a Child’s Lead and Setting Kids Up for Success: Convergence and Divergence in Parenting Ideologies on the Political Right and Left Social Forces (IF 5.866) Pub Date : 2024-04-19 Mallory E Rees, Abigail C Saguy
Public discourse has become more polarized, especially when it comes to moral issues. Moral issues related to gender and sexuality—particularly concerning children—are politically fraught. To assess the extent to which ideologies about gender and parenting are polarized, we interviewed eighty-five gender activists from diverse political orientations. Surprisingly, we found some convergence in how activists
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When Do Haters Act? Peer Evaluation, Negative Relationships, and Brokerage Sociological Science (IF 6.222) Pub Date : 2024-04-17
Jason Greenberg, Christopher C. Liu, Leanne ten Brinke Sociological Science April 17, 2024 10.15195/v11.a16 Abstract In many organizational settings, individuals make evaluations in the context of affect-based negative relationships, in which an evaluator personally dislikes the evaluated individual. However, these dislikes are often held in check by norms of professionalism that preclude the use of
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A Social Movement Model for Judicial Behavior: Evidence from Brazil’s Anti-Corruption Movements Social Forces (IF 5.866) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Luiz Vilaça
While studies show that public opinion and educational workshops promoted by nonprofits affect judicial behavior, it remains unclear whether and how social movements affect judges’ decision-making through disruptive actions. I develop a framework to explain the conditions under which and the mechanisms through which social movement mobilization affects the decision-making of judges, drawing on a mixed-methods
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Precarious Transitions: How Precarious Employment Shapes Parental Coresidence among Young Adults Social Forces (IF 5.866) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Lei Lei, Quan D Mai
The rise of precarious work generates important questions about how this mode of employment might affect young workers’ transition to adulthood, particularly their decision to live independently. Existing demographic literature has considered the impact of unemployment on parental coresidence but overlooked the potential influence of precarious employment. Yet, features of precarious employment might
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“The Ties that Bind are those that Punish: Network Polarization and Federal Crime Policy Gridlock, 1979–2005” Social Forces (IF 5.866) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Scott W Duxbury
Largely overlooked in research on criminal legal expansion is the rise of political polarization and its attendant consequences for crime policy. Drawing on theories of intergroup collaboration and policymaking research, I argue that network polarization—low frequencies of collaborative relations between lawmakers belonging to distinct political groups—negatively affects crime legislation passage by
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Sameness across Difference: A Postcolonial Feminist Analysis of Gender-Affirming Health Care in Thailand and the United States Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 5.179) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Alyssa Lynne-Joseph
Joining a growing body of research calling for the integration of social analysis and postcolonial theory, recent work in medical sociology has analyzed health, illness, and medicine from a postcolonial lens. In this article, I argue for a postcolonial feminist approach to medical sociology that builds on this extant work while challenging methodological nationalism and cultural essentialism. Based
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Othering, peaking, populism and moral panics: The reactionary strategies of organised transphobia The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Fran Amery, Aurelien Mondon
This article shows that organised transphobia is promoted using similar strategies and politics as the wider reactionary movement which has become increasingly mainstream. In particular, we outline the transphobic process of ‘othering’ based on moral panics, which seeks to construct, homogenise and exaggerate a threat and to naturalise it in the bodies and existence of the ‘Other’. Reactionary politics
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Rendering, waste disposal and the production of value The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Daniel P. G. Robins
This article unpacks the concept of rendering to explain how disposal produces value out of waste materials. Rendering draws attention to the management of meaning attached to waste materials, showing how cultures of environmental sustainability and market capitalism shape their valorisation during disposal. To illustrate this, I draw on ethnographic data from research on the operation of corpse disposal
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Capital Flight: Examining Teachers’ Socioeconomic Status and Early Career Retention Sociol. Educ. (IF 4.619) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Andrew Brantlinger, Ashley Anne Grant
This article investigates the understudied relationship between teacher socioeconomic status (SES) and retention. Drawing on Bourdieu’s theory of social reproduction and longitudinal data from 378 mathematics teachers, we use logistic regression to examine whether teacher SES, conceptualized and measured in terms of their economic, social, and cultural capital, is associated with their school, district
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The commodification of unaccompanied child migration: A double move of enclosure The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Rachel Rosen
In England, unaccompanied child migrants who seek asylum are the responsibility of the local state, who acts as their ‘corporate parent’. While these young people are ostensibly supported by children’s services in keeping with responsibilities under the Children’s Act 1989, in comparison to ‘local’ children unaccompanied children are disproportionately placed in unregulated, outsourced accommodation
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From Metallica to Mozart: Mapping the Cultural Hierarchy of Lifestyle Activities Sociological Science (IF 6.222) Pub Date : 2024-04-12
Mads Meier Jæger, Mikkel Haderup Larsen Sociological Science April 12, 2024 10.15195/v11.a15 Abstract Theories of cultural stratification argue that a widely shared cultural hierarchy legitimizes status differences and inequality. Yet, we know little about this hierarchy empirically. To address this limitation, we collected survey data in Denmark and asked respondents to rate the implied social rank
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Implicit Terror: A Natural Experiment on How Terror Attacks Affect Implicit Bias Sociological Science (IF 6.222) Pub Date : 2024-04-09
Filip Olsson Sociological Science April 9, 2024 10.15195/v11.a14 Abstract Sociology has recently seen a surge of interest in implicit culture, which refers to knowledge, habits, and feelings that are largely automatic and habitual. In this article, I argue that certain expressions of implicit culture may be more contextual and malleable than previously thought. The argument is illustrated by showing
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Match Pathways and College Graduation: A Longitudinal and Multidimensional Framework for Academic Mismatch Sociol. Educ. (IF 4.619) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Dafna Gelbgiser, Sigal Alon
Academic mismatch, the incompatibility between applicants’/students’ aptitude and their desired/current academic program, is considered a key predictor of degree attainment. Evaluations of this link tend to be cross-sectional, however, focusing on specific stages of the college pipeline and ignoring mismatch at prior or later stages and their potential outcomes. We developed and tested a longitudinal
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Every Forest Has Its Shadow: The Demographics of Concealment in the United States Sociological Science (IF 6.222) Pub Date : 2024-04-05
Maria S. Grigoryeva, Blaine G. Robbins Sociological Science April 5, 2024 10.15195/v11.a13 Abstract This article examines what people conceal, who conceals from whom, and whether there are demographic differences in how much and what people conceal. We map concealment using a two-wave probability survey and behavioral experiment of U.S. adults (N = 1,281). Our survey measures self-reports of 37 different
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Identity from Symbolic Networks: The Rise of New Hollywood Sociological Science (IF 6.222) Pub Date : 2024-04-02
Katharina Burgdorf, Henning Hillmann Sociological Science April 2, 2024 10.15195/v11.a12 Abstract To what extent may individual autonomy persist under the constraints of group identity? This dualism is particularly salient in new movements that value individual creativity above all, and yet have to muster community cohesion to establish a new style. Using the case of New Hollywood in the 1960s and
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Book Review: Imperfect Victims: Criminalized Survivors and the Promise of Abolition Feminism, By Leigh Goodmark Gender & Society (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2024-03-30 Kayla M. Martensen
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The Effect of Workplace Raids on Academic Performance: Evidence from Texas Sociological Science (IF 6.222) Pub Date : 2024-03-28
Sofia Avila Sociological Science March 28, 2024 10.15195/v11.a11 Abstract Workplace raids are visible and disruptive immigration enforcement operations that can result in the detention of hundreds of immigrants at one time. Despite concerns about the impact of raids on children’s well-being, there is limited research on how these tactics affect their academic performance. Using school-level testing
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Book Review: Care Activism: Migrant Domestic Workers, Movement-Building, and Communities of Care by Ethel Tungohan and Solidarity & Care: Domestic Worker Activism in New York City by Alana Lee Glaser Gender & Society (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2024-03-29 Jane Schuchert Walsh
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Race and Place Matter: Inequity in Prenatal Care for Reservation-Dwelling American Indian People Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 5.179) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Maggie L. Thorsen, Janelle F. Palacios
Early initiation and consistent use of prenatal care is linked with improved health outcomes. American Indian birthing people have higher rates of inadequate prenatal care (IPNC), but limited research has examined IPNC among people living on American Indian reservations. The current study uses birth certificate data from the state of Montana (n = 57,006) to examine predictors of IPNC. Data on the community
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Memory Fusion, Diplomatic Agency, and Armenian Genocide Recognition in the Czech Republic International Political Sociology (IF 3.229) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Daniel Fittante
Scholars often emphasize how right-wing political actors in Europe use memory laws to undermine democratic traditions and revise historical accounts. But a broad range of political actors (with diverse motivations) support memory laws. Synthesizing research in international political sociology and memory politics, this analysis examines the relational and social practices of diplomats from small states
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Can't Catch a Break: Intersectional Inequalities at Work Sociological Science (IF 6.222) Pub Date : 2024-03-25
Kristen Harknett, Charlotte O’Herron, Evelyn Bellew Sociological Science March 25, 2024 10.15195/v11.a10 Abstract The labor market is the site of longstanding and persistent inequalities across race and gender groups in hiring, compensation, and advancement. In this paper, we draw on data from 13,574 hourly service-sector workers to extend the study of intersectional labor market inequalities to workers’
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Book Review: Mammography Wars: Analyzing Attention in Cultural and Medical Disputes, By Asia Friedman Gender & Society (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Gayle Sulik
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Book Review: The Gender of Capital: How Families Perpetuate Wealth Inequality, By Céline Bessière and Sibylle Gollac Gender & Society (IF 4.314) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Lauren Clingan
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Left Partisanship, Corporatism, and the Reorientation of the Knowledge Economy in Advanced Capitalist Societies Social Forces (IF 5.866) Pub Date : 2024-03-23 Jingjing Huo
While the progress of the knowledge economy is inexorable, this paper argues that partisan politics and labor market institutions can affect the direction in which the knowledge economy progresses. In particular, a combination of corporatist industrial relations systems and left partisanship tends to foster greater wage restraint, and such a wage outcome tends to encourage the greater adoption of communications
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Markets on the Margins: Mineworkers, Job Creation and Enterprise Development, by K.Philip, James Currey, Suffolk: Woodbridge, 2018. Rural Sociology (IF 4.078) Pub Date : 2024-03-23 Jennifer Rachels
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Bridging the Digital Divide Narrows the Participation Gap: Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment Sociological Science (IF 6.222) Pub Date : 2024-03-21
Vincenz Frey, Delia S. Baldassarri, Francesco C. Billari Sociological Science March 21, 2024 10.15195/v11.a9 Abstract Socio-economic inequality in access to the internet has decreased in affluent societies. We investigate how gaining access to the internet affected the civic and political participation of relatively disadvantaged late adopters by studying a quasi-natural experiment related to the American
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How Valid Are Trust Survey Measures? New Insights From Open-Ended Probing Data and Supervised Machine Learning Sociological Methods & Research (IF 4.677) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Camille Landesvatter, Paul C. Bauer
Trust is a foundational concept of contemporary sociological theory. Still, empirical research on trust relies on a relatively small set of measures. These are increasingly debated, potentially undermining large swathes of empirical evidence. Drawing on a combination of open-ended probing data, supervised machine learning, and a U.S. representative quota sample, our study compares the validity of standard
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Inequality Regimes in Coworking Spaces: How New Forms of Organising (Re)produce Inequalities Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 4.249) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Lena Knappert, Boukje Cnossen, Renate Ortlieb
Coworking is a rapidly growing worldwide phenomenon. While the coworking movement emphasises equality and emancipation, there is little known about the extent to which coworking spaces as new forms of organising live up to this ideal. This study examines inequality in coworking spaces in the Netherlands, employing Acker’s framework of inequality regimes. The findings highlight coworking-specific components
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‘It’s One Rule for Them and One for Us’: Occupational Classification, Gender and Worktime Domestic Labour Work. Employ. Soc. (IF 4.249) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Julie Monroe, Steve Vincent, Ana Lopes
In this article, we focus on gender and class to investigate worktime domestic labour. Methodologically, we extend a novel, comparative critical realist method in which occupation-based and gendered positions in productive and reproductive labour are foregrounded. By building theoretical connections between labour process conditions and collective rule-following practices, we illustrate how inequalities
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Beyond Acculturation: Health and Immigrants’ Social Integration in the United States Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 5.179) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Rama M. Hagos, Tod G. Hamilton
Immigrants typically have more favorable health outcomes than their U.S.-born counterparts of the same race-ethnicity. However, little is known about how race-ethnicity and region of birth moderate the health outcomes of different immigrant groups as their tenure of U.S. residence increases. We study the association between time spent in the United States and health outcomes among non-Hispanic Black
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Difference and diversity: Combining multiculturalist and interculturalist approaches to integration The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Thomas Sealy, Pier-Luc Dupont, Tariq Modood
Multiculturalism (MC) and interculturalism (IC) as approaches to governing ethnic diversity have developed an often antagonistic relationship, borne out through scholarly as well as political debates. Yet, increasingly, scholars have begun to note that while IC-consistent policies have gained some prominence, they have done so alongside MC policies. This suggests the possibility of complementarity
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Young adults and investing for the future: Examining futuring practices and wellbeing through digital brokerage platforms The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Benjamin Hanckel, Natalie Ann Hendry
Young adults’ lives are increasingly characterised by uncertainty, which has heightened since the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as an expectation that they transition into adulthood as entrepreneurial, responsible subjects. In this context, greater numbers of young people are participating as retail investors, motivated by the growing accessibility of financial technologies, including digital brokers
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Non-identity accounts: Personal myths, cultural scripts and narrative alignment The Sociological Review (IF 2.743) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Susie Scott, Nina Lockwood
This article explores narrative practices of reverse biographical identity work: how people compose and present accounts of non-identity formation. When asked to reflect upon a lost, unlived experience, participants drew upon shared discursive resources: in particular cultural scripts. They performed aligning actions to position their individual tale in relation to dominant, preferred versions of these
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Educational Tracking and the Polygenic Prediction of Education Sociological Science (IF 6.222) Pub Date : 2024-03-18
Hannu Lahtinen, Pekka Martikainen, Kaarina Korhonen, Tim Morris, Mikko Myrskylä Sociological Science March 18, 2024 10.15195/v11.a8 Abstract Educational systems that separate students into curriculum tracks later may place less emphasis on socioeconomic family background and allow individuals’ personal skills and interests more time to manifest. We tested whether postponing tracking from age 11 to
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Data Imbalances in Coincidence Analysis: A Simulation Study Sociological Methods & Research (IF 4.677) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Martyna Daria Swiatczak, Michael Baumgartner
In this paper, we investigate the conditions under which data imbalances, a common data characteristic that occurs when factor values are unevenly distributed, are problematic for the performance of Coincidence Analysis (CNA). We further examine how such imbalances relate to fragmentation and noise in data. We show that even extreme data imbalances, when not combined with fragmentation or noise, do