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  • Maternal Occupation-Specific Skills and Children’s Cognitive
           Development

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      Authors: Katherin Barg, Markus Klein
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      This article hypothesizes that maternal occupation-specific skills are associated with children’s cognitive development over and above parents’ other human, financial and social capital. Data from the UK Millennium Cohort Study on 13,543 children were complemented with occupation-level data (n = 79) from the British Skills Surveys on aggregate measures of mothers’ occupation-specific skills (literacy, numeracy, problem-solving, verbal and physical). We did not find any association between maternal occupation-specific skills and children’s non-verbal ability (inductive reasoning, spatial awareness) at age five when conditioning on covariates. However, mothers’ verbal skills (e.g. presentation skills) were positively associated with children’s verbal ability (Naming Vocabulary) over and above other parental resources. By contrast, mothers’ physical skills (e.g. use of physical strength) were negatively associated with children’s verbal abilities. Albeit effect sizes are small, maternal occupation-specific skills contribute to social stratification in children’s verbal development net of human, financial and social capital.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2023-03-23T12:26:39Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385231159005
       
  • Gendered Consequencesof Social Mobility: Second-Generation Immigrants’
           Work–Care Considerations in High-Status Occupations in Norway

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      Authors: Marjan Nadim, Arnfinn H Midtbøen
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      Across Europe, children of low-educated migrants are entering high-status occupations. While the research literature has accounted for the determinants of this social mobility, few studies have explored how social mobility affects the lives of second-generation immigrant men and women in different ways. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 62 descendants of migrants in high-status occupations in Norway, this article asks how second-generation women and men experience their gendered opportunities and constraints after achieving upward social mobility. The analyses show how social mobility brings the second generation into social milieus where their majority Norwegian colleagues become their most relevant references for how to do work and family. Both the second-generation women and men share a strong dedication to work, however, while this requires the women to challenge gender-complementary expectations, the men largely rely on gender-complementary arrangements. The analyses thus suggest that social mobility changes the lives of women more than those of men.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2023-03-23T12:17:54Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385221139682
       
  • Changing Temporal Opportunity Structures' Two Cohorts of Young
           Women’s Thoughts about Future Work, Family and Education

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      Authors: Ann Nilsen
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      This article seeks to explore if and how period specific conditions affect young women’s thoughts about their future lives. A contextualist analysis is done of a small sample of biographical interviews with Norwegian women in two cohorts born 1970–1975 and 1990–1995 interviewed 20 years apart when they were in their early 20s. The focus is on their thoughts about future education, work and family. Theoretically the article relates itself to concepts of time and temporalities in life course theory. Inspired by Ken Roberts’ concept of opportunity structures, the notion termed ‘temporal opportunity structures’ emerged from the analysis. The analyses demonstrate how wider period specific circumstances and standards of timeliness form a landscape that young women navigate when they envisage future options and opportunities. Findings indicate differences between the two cohorts in biographical timing in that standards of timeliness and temporal opportunity structures appear to have narrowed.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2023-03-06T05:45:20Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385231157593
       
  • Money, Debt and Finance: Reclaiming the Conditions of Possibility in
           Consumption Research

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      Authors: David M Evans, Nicky Gregson
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      This article provides an argument for why the sociology of consumption should be reorientated towards a money and finance sensibility. Proceeding from the observation that the rise of financialised capitalism has gone largely ignored in in the field, we suggest that the conditions of contemporary consumption – shaped by austerity, inflation and an energy crisis – render this neglect untenable. In omitting money, the field not only elides its conditions of possibility but also abandons understanding of credit and consumer society to other fields that do not adequately acknowledge the dynamics of consumption. The article offers: (1) an account of why money has been absent from the sociology of consumption; (2) an auto-archaeology of data from our previous studies of household consumption in the UK, but reinterpreted and read through the lens of money and finance and (3) an indication of future research priorities and pathways for a reorientated sociology of consumption.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2023-03-06T05:43:40Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385231156339
       
  • Beyond ‘Imagined Meritocracy’: Distinguishing the Relative Power of
           Education and Skills in Intergenerational Inequality

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      Authors: Satoshi Araki
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      Scholars argue the dominant discourse of meritocracy legitimises intergenerational inequality and the winner–loser divide. However, is our society really meritocratic' If yes, the relative power of educational qualifications per se should be smaller than that of skills/abilities in the labour market. Using the standardised data in the United States, structural equation modelling shows (1) the contribution of family background to educational attainment is as large as that to skills acquisition; but (2) the economic return to education is substantially larger than that to skills; and consequently (3) the role of education outweighs that of skills in forming social stratification. This suggests that contemporary USA is a typical credential society, where credentialism prevails over skills-based meritocracy. Nonetheless, people may misbelieve the society is meritocratic – imagined meritocracy – by conflating the levels/influences of education and skills. It is essential to distinguish these two traits and understand the credential/meritocratic nature of our society.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2023-03-06T05:41:52Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385231156093
       
  • Young Low-Income Mothers’ Identity Work around Infant Feeding in the
           UK

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      Authors: Emma Banister, Margaret K Hogg, Mandy Dixon
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      This article focuses on young low-income mothers’ engagement with, and management of, potentially conflicting discourses within the context of maternal foodwork. Findings from qualitative, longitudinal interviews with 13 UK women illustrate the performance of identity and family work, in relation to infant feeding and wider maternal practices. Each participant was interviewed twice, once prior to, and then following, the birth of their first baby. We identify three rhetorical strategies. Adopting and resisting allow for the acceptance or rejection of prominent infant feeding discourses. Under reframing, young women transform the encouragement to breastfeed, subverting or reversing official discourses. Reframing thus provides an alternative means to appropriate and deploy versions of good motherhood, drawing on women’s lived realities and local maternal cultures, alongside wider experiences of building and managing family relationships.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2023-02-25T11:56:59Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385221140701
       
  • Racial Bias in Fans and Officials: Evidence from the Italian Serie A

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      Authors: Beatrice Magistro, Morgan Wack
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      Recent scholarship studying the impact of race-based prejudice has emphasized its rampant persistence throughout all aspects of modern society, including the world of sports. Prior research from American leagues has shown that even referees, trained officials intended to enact neutral judgements, are subject to bias against Black and dark-skinned players. To extend these studies and inform policies aimed at combating racial bias in public spaces more broadly, we report results from a unique dataset of over 6500 player-year observations from the Italian Serie A to examine whether these biases persist in European football. Our results show that darker-skinned players receive more foul calls and more cards than lighter-skinned players, controlling for a range of potential confounders and productivity-relevant mediators. By exploiting an absence of fans induced by the COVID-19 pandemic, we also present preliminary evidence that fans may play a key role in inducing poor calls against darker-skinned players.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2023-02-18T12:27:22Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385221138332
       
  • Inter-Risk Framing Contests: The Politics of Issue Attention among
           Scandinavian Climate NGOs during the Coronavirus Pandemic

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      Authors: Thyge Ryom Enggaard, Annika Solveig Hedegaard Isfeldt, Anna Helene Kvist Møller, Hjalmar Bang Carlsen, Kristoffer Albris, Anders Blok
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      In this article, we study the framing activities of Scandinavian climate-active non-governmental organizations (NGOs) during the early phases of the 2020 coronavirus pandemic. Building on theories of focusing events, crisis exploitation and Ulrich Beck’s global risks, we develop and apply the concept of inter-risk framing contests to the case. Empirically, we analyse all climate- and corona-related tweeting activity of a broad selection of green NGOs in Denmark (17 NGOs, 874 tweets), Norway (22 NGOs, 2575 tweets) and Sweden (15 NGOs, 920 tweets), respectively. Methodologically, we employ quantitative text analysis to map socio-symbolic constellations of NGO-term relations using principal component analysis, while complementing this via online ethnographic observation to increase interpretative validity. Overall, the analysis demonstrates similarities and differences in how green NGOs have variously responded to the ambiguous challenges and symbolic opportunities of the coronavirus event, in ways resonant with path-dependent dynamics of the three national green civil societies.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2023-02-06T12:12:03Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385221150379
       
  • Measuring Public Attitudes Towards Immigration: A Critical Discourse
           Analysis of Social Survey Questions

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      Authors: Josephine Biglin, Kingsley Purdam
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      Public attitudes towards immigration and immigrants, captured through social surveys, are widely reported in the media and used to inform political decision making. However, it is important to consider whether public attitudes are being accurately measured. This article uses critical discourse analysis and critical race and post-colonial theories to examine questions in leading social surveys. The article also draws upon interviews with survey managers and methodologists. In many high-quality surveys a ‘white’ identity is often framed as the norm alongside negative narratives of identity and difference. For example, in one survey question attitudes towards immigrants are asked about alongside attitudes towards alcohol and drug use. The objectivity of the framing and language of many survey questions needs to be reviewed. In the context of evidence of increased levels of racial discrimination, a new discourse is required to more objectively measure and understand public attitudes towards immigration and immigrants.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2023-02-06T12:10:07Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385221147146
       
  • Book Review: Robert Leroux, Thierry Martin and Stephen Turner (eds) The
           Future of Sociology: Ideology or Objective Social Science'

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      Authors: Judith Glaesser
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2023-02-06T12:08:08Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385221146883
       
  • Machine Learning and Postcolonial Critique: Homologous Challenges to
           Sociological Notions of Human Agency

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      Authors: Christian Borch
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      This article discusses two seemingly unrelated but homologous challenges to established sociological thinking, namely machine learning technologies and postcolonial critique. Both of these confront conventional human-centric sociological notions. Where the rise of machine learning should prompt sociologists to take the agency of nonhuman systems seriously, postcolonial critique challenges the idea of Eurocentric human agency. I discuss whether this dual agency challenge can be addressed through Latour’s actor-network theory and Luhmann’s sociological systems theory – both of which explicitly aim to transcend classical human-centric approaches. I argue that Latour’s work can align with postcolonial sociology. However, despite broadening the notion of agency, his actor-network concept remains strongly human-centric. It merely expands the range of actors with which humans engage rather than analysing interactions among nonhuman actants, such as machine learning systems. In contrast, such interactions can be understood through Luhmann’s theorisation, which, however, can be subjected to postcolonial critique.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2023-02-03T05:21:37Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385221146877
       
  • The Aftermath of Death in the Continuing Lives of the Living: Extending
           ‘Bereavement’ Paradigms through Family and Relational Perspectives

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      Authors: Jane McCarthy, Kate Woodthorpe, Kathryn Almack
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      While there is a significant interdisciplinary and international literature available on death, dying and bereavement, literature addressing responses to death is dominated by assumptions about individuality, framing ‘bereavement’ and ‘grief’ in terms of the inner psychic life of the individual. Scholarly literature tells us little about how the continuing aftermath of death is experienced in the everyday, relational lives of the living. Inspired by research from Majority Worlds, we consider literature that might enable a more ‘relational’ sociological approach, and explore what that might involve. We set out the potential for family sociology to provide an intrinsically (if variable) relational lens on the aftermath of death, along with examples of radical relational theorising more generally. We argue for a reframing and broadening of the dominant ‘bereavement studies’ of Minority Worlds towards a much-needed paradigm shift in understanding the continuing aftermath of death in the lives of the living.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2023-02-03T05:17:25Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385221142490
       
  • ‘I Hadn’t Realised That Change Is Not a Difficult Thing’: Mobilising
           Football Fans on Climate Change

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      Authors: Jennifer Amann, Mark Doidge
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      The damaging consequences of anthropogenic climate change are well documented. In order to engage the public on the serious question of climate change, there is a need to use different approaches to connect climate change with other concerns. This study is the first to understand how football fans engage with climate change and how a campaign should engage with them. It does this through an analysis of fans’ engagement with a campaign to engage fans (Pledgeball). It is situated within the literature, which argues that climate change communication needs to engage with the culture, values and worldviews of the target audience. It argues that football fans could be a significant form of collective behaviour to engage with climate change; and that aligning with the identity and worldview of fans, as well as the broader culture of football, can promote engagement and possible social change.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2023-02-02T05:37:10Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385221142211
       
  • From 100-Year-Old Women’s Motoring Masks to Contemporary PPE: A
           Socio-Political Study of Persistent Problems and Inventive Possibilities

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      Authors: Kat Jungnickel, Katja May
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, personal protective equipment became central to daily news. Face masks may have been critical, but they were clearly not equally designed or distributed, compelling many health workers to make their own. These issues are neither new nor specific to health-oriented fields. We offer insights from another case of individuals taking personal protective equipment into their own hands. We analyse patents for women’s motoring face masks invented in the USA, Canada, England and France (1900–1925). Our findings suggest that women invented and wore face masks not only to drive safely, but to position themselves as legitimate motorists and as citizens with equal rights to technology, public space and resources at the turn of the last century. We propose that a study of historic motoring face masks might offer insights into persistent problems and inventive possibilities relating to contemporary personal protective equipment.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2023-02-02T05:33:26Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385221143654
       
  • Remembering and Narrativising COVID-19: An Early Sociological Take

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      Authors: Peter Manning, Sarah Moore, Jordan Tchilingirian, Kate Woodthorpe
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      How the COVID-19 pandemic, and the deaths that occurred during the acute phase of the pandemic (2020–2021), will be remembered is yet to be determined. Writing from a UK perspective, this short article reflects on the way in which memory, narratives and death are constructed, contested and (re)produced. Drawing on the authors’ respective sociological sub-fields, it makes a case for an ongoing sociological appraisal of emergent COVID-19 narratives, that can encompass and intertwine understandings of temporality, accountability and loss.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2023-02-01T05:31:08Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385221142503
       
  • Book Review: Nancy Fraser Cannibal Capitalism: How Our System Is Devouring
           Democracy, Care and the Planet – and What We Can Do about It

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      Authors: Katie Morris
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2023-02-01T05:29:31Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385221146880
       
  • Racial Biofutures: COVID-19 and Black Futurity Otherwise

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      Authors: Nadine Ehlers
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      Through a consideration of COVID-19, this article offers a series of provocations in thinking about racial biofutures. First, it suggests that looking backwards through a lens of recursivity only allows us to see the same anti-black futures mapped out again and again, the repeated production of predictable futures – always – already precarious. Second, along with many others, I argue that we know this story of recursivity and that naming these repetitions is analytically reductive and politically deficient: this is a recursive trap. Third, the article argues that sociology must instead address productions or remakings of life that are embedded within (but move out of) these recursive logics: it must prioritise and elevate those practices and voices that labour to actualise living alternative futurity now.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2023-01-19T06:47:54Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385221137551
       
  • Trading Blame: Drawing Boundaries around the Righteous, Deserving and
           Vulnerable in Times of Crisis

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      Authors: Jordan Foster, David Pettinicchio, Michelle Maroto, Andy Holmes, Martin Lukk
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      Symbolic boundaries shape how we see and understand both ourselves and those around us. Amid periods of crisis, these boundaries can appear more salient, sharpening distinctions between ‘us’ and ‘them’ and reinforcing inequalities in the social landscape. Based on 50 in-depth interviews about pandemic experiences among Canadians with disabilities and chronic health conditions, we examine how this community distinguishes between the ‘deserving’ and ‘undeserving’, and how emotions related to blame and resentment inform the boundaries they draw. We find that people with disabilities and chronic health conditions drew boundaries based on unequal health statuses and vulnerabilities and between those who are and are not legitimately entitled to government aid. Underlying these dimensions are a familiar set of moral tropes that respondents use to assert their own superiority and to inveigh their frustrations. Together, they play an important role in solidifying boundaries between groups, complicating public perceptions of policy responses to crisis.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2023-01-19T06:36:10Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385221137181
       
  • Book Review: Neil McLaughlin, Erich Fromm and Global Public Sociology

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      Authors: Kieran Durkin
      First page: 253
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2023-01-19T10:47:45Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385221081396
       
  • Enemies in Iraq, Human Beings in Norway: ‘Multilocal’ Boundaries
           between Radicalised Sunni and Shi‘a Muslims

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      Authors: Uzair Ahmed
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      This article employs symbolic boundary theory to investigate how a sample of radicalised Sunni and Shi‘a Muslims in Norway make meaning of their views, behaviour and interactions with denominational others. It draws on 23 interviews with individuals who legitimise violence or are willing to use violence themselves to achieve political change. Research on boundary construction shows that the relative importance of boundaries varies across geographical contexts for different individuals. This article introduces the concept of ‘multilocal’ boundaries, which vary across contexts for the same individuals. The findings suggest that despite the boundaries being firmly agreed upon, their impact is limited by participants’ avoidance of religion and politics, their need to stand together as a minority and the enforced laws in Norway. At the same time, these boundaries can remain largely undiluted in another context. The war in Syria and Iraq seems to strengthen the influence of boundaries.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2022-12-26T01:09:47Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385221136076
       
  • Hunger Bonds: Boundaries and Bridges in the Charitable Food Provision
           Field

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      Authors: Filippo Oncini
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      Building on a field perspective, this article adopts a relational approach that lets us make sense of food charities’ interconnections, relationships and social positioning. I analyse how food charities working with different models of provision do boundary work and resolve the cognitive dissonance arising from simultaneously competing and collaborating. Making use of several semi-structured interviews, I illustrate how Trussell Trust food banks, independent food banks and pantries’ directors mark symbolic boundaries when illustrating their models of provision vis-a-vis other models (e.g. pantries vs food banks) but build symbolic bridges when discussing the ultimate ends of charitable food provision. This strategy lets them resolve the tension arising from two contradictory stances and is representative of what I call ‘hunger bonds’: relationships of cooperation and mutual help that also permit positional returns to be obtained and strategically advance a specific vision of the field order.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2022-12-26T01:08:16Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385221139024
       
  • Displaying Difference, Displaying Sameness: Mixed Couples’ Reflexivity
           and the Narrative-Making of the Family

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      Authors: Francesco Cerchiaro
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      Drawing on qualitative research involving Christian-Muslim couples in Italy, France and Belgium, the article explores the concept of mixedness by employing Finch’s concept of ‘displaying family’ to reach two goals: how the concept of mixedness bears multiple meanings and how the narrative tool of display works in the life story approach. The analysis distinguishes three main dimensions partners deploy to articulate the concept of mixedness. These are: (1) mixedness as a stigma to reject; (2) mixedness as difference that emerges in a couple’s daily life; and (3) mixedness as a resource to be valued by society. The analysis reveals how partners contest and redefine the concept of mixedness and how narratives work as a tool of family display through which partners: deny a socially ascribed negative definition of their family, narratively articulate the activity of ‘doing family’ on a daily basis and (re)signify a contested definition of family.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2022-12-26T01:04:06Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385221133218
       
  • Knowing What You’ve Got Once It’s Gone: Identifying Familial Norms and
           Values through the Lens of (Sibling) Bereavement

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      Authors: Laura Towers
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      Following the death of a sibling, life as it was known and expected to be lived is permanently and irrevocably set on a different trajectory. Surviving siblings are left to consider all that they have lost beyond the individual who died. Using data from a qualitative study exploring experiences of sibling bereavement over the life course, this article presents a set of assumptions that people had regarding their imagined but unliveable futures. In doing so, it outlines how these ideas contribute to a currently under-developed understanding of normative expectations of the adult sibling relationship, as well as wider familial norms and values. As such, this article will demonstrate that death can actually reveal much about living relationships. It will conclude that bereavement research has much to offer the sociologies of family, relationships and personal life, as an alternative lens through which to learn more about familial norms and values.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2022-12-26T01:02:34Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385221133214
       
  • Urban Rebels' A Gendered Approach to Domicile and Protest
           Participation in Nine European Countries

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      Authors: Anna Lavizzari, Martín Portos
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      Engaging with research on protest participation and gender inequalities, we examine how gender dynamics play a crucial role in shaping patterns of protest participation across the rural/urban divide. We argue that moving from a rural toward an urban setting leads to an increase in protest participation for women, but not for men. Using an original two-wave panel survey dataset collected for the same individuals between 2018 and 2019 and covering nine European countries, we are able to go beyond traditional correlation analyses and measure our key variables over time, thus developing a dynamic approach that links differences in gender, socio-geographical positioning and protest participation. Our findings demonstrate that the rural/urban divide as a driver of protest participation affects women and men differently, because it might be shaped by different experiences of political socialization, socio-economic status and structures of domination and discrimination, leading to different opportunities and incentives for mobilization.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2022-12-26T01:01:17Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385221129945
       
  • Futures in Action: Expectations, Imaginaries and Narratives of the Future

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      Authors: Giacomo Bazzani
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      The study of the future is a growing field of research transcending almost all research topics. Despite this rising interest, this field often seems fragmented into different approaches, as though the common object of study were vague or inconsistent. This article proposes a framework analytically distinguishing the three key dimensions of the future embedded in the course of action: expectations, imaginaries and narratives of the future. For each, a definition and a short introduction to their use in the social sciences are provided, together with a description of their capacity to shape the course of action and examples. Then, the scope condition of this influencing capacity is discussed, in particular considering its situational origin and the intergenerational links of the future, with climate change as a case in point. The conclusion highlights research perspectives and methods that can be employed.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2022-12-21T07:06:29Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385221138010
       
  • Family Influences on Migration Intentions: The Role of Past Experience of
           Involuntary Immobility

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      Authors: Zuzanna Brunarska, Artjoms Ivlevs
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      The article examines the relationship between past experience of involuntary immobility in a family and the current migration intentions of its members. While family migration experience has been shown to be positively related to migration intentions, the role of past unrealised migration intentions in a family is understudied. Using the case of the former communist bloc, we focus on the migration intentions of people whose family members’ mobility aspirations were stifled by the restrictive political regime. Drawing on data from the Life in Transition III Survey, we show that close relatives of people who had been prohibited from going abroad under communist rule are more likely to report migration intentions compared with people without such family experience. We explain these findings with the intergenerational transmission of mobility aspirations.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2022-12-16T04:41:50Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385221136060
       
  • The Sociology of Futurelessness

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      Authors: Richard Tutton
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      This article contributes to ‘sociologies of the future’ by discussing the concept of ‘futurelessness’. I provide a conceptual elaboration of what is meant by ‘futurelessness’, beginning with its use in the psychological literature of the 1980s concerned with the effect of a constant threat of nuclear war. I argue that this concept is of value to ongoing sociological debates about the relationship between imagined futures, power and social change. I further discuss the extent to which ‘futurelessness’ is a particular mode of relating to and feeling about the future that is characteristic of contemporary European societies. I discuss how this ‘futurelessness’ must be understood in relation to political and cultural developments of the past 50 years and consider its significance for sociological debates about contemporary futurity.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2022-12-16T04:39:10Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385221122420
       
  • Neighbourliness and Situational Factors: Explaining Neighbour Behaviour in
           Attacks and Rescues of Sikhs in Delhi in 1984 and Muslims in Ahmedabad in
           2002

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      Authors: Raheel Dhattiwala
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      Studies find a direct association of collective violence with relational distance: lower the relational distance, lower the violence. Where people live as neighbours, spatial proximity provides more opportunity for contact. However, perpetrators of mass violence are often neighbours who had previously coexisted with their victims in apparent harmony. Neighbour-on-neighbour violence is a social violation: it shakes our confidence in the collective values of ‘neighbourliness’ and the strength of prior relations. In two state-orchestrated pogroms in India – against Sikhs in 1984 and Muslims in 2002 – the nature of prior neighbour relationships is delineated to identify why some neighbours participated in attacks, others in rescues. A qualitative analysis of 50 survivor affidavits and 41 in-depth interviews enabled reconstructing the texture of these relationships. Neighbourliness and situational factors (timing of attacks; built environment) provided a more nuanced understanding of behaviour. For democratic polities that authorise pogroms, findings challenge existing knowledge on contact and violence.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2022-12-10T09:26:11Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385221130860
       
  • Me' A Hero' Gendered Work and Attributions of Heroism among
           Volunteers during the COVID-19 Pandemic

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      Authors: Braden Leap, Kimberly Kelly, Marybeth C Stalp
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      The gendered features of adults’ attributions of heroism to themselves and others has received substantially less scholarly attention than the gendered dynamics of media representations of (super)heroes. Utilizing 78 interviews and 569 self-administered questionnaires completed by adults in the United States who were voluntarily making personal protective equipment during the COVID-19 pandemic, we show how respondents effectively deployed popularized assessments of the relative value of gendered labour in the private and public spheres to shift attributions of heroism from themselves to others. Though media portrayals at the outset of the pandemic depicted these volunteers working in their homes as heroes, respondents insisted that the real heroes were those working in the public sphere. Even if media representations increasingly frame women as heroes, these results suggest that the long-standing associations between men and heroism will likely remain in place if feminized labour associated with the private sphere of households remains devalued.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2022-11-26T05:13:38Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385221136035
       
  • The Greta Thunberg Effect: A Study of Norwegian Youth’s Reflexivity
           on Climate Change

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      Authors: Jan Frode Haugseth, Eli Smeplass
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      This study reports on an unique opportunity to compare four quantitative/qualitative datasets from 2017 to 2021, before and after the activist Greta Thunberg became known to the general public. Through a mixed-methods approach, we develop a model to distinguish between three forms of climate reflexivity: (1) reflexivity as ranking; (2) reflexivity as recognising; and (3) reflexivity as qualifying. Our findings imply that in 2019 and the following years, Greta Thunberg became a unifying inspiration for young people already concerned with the climate crisis in Norway. Even though two indicators suggest that the COVID-19 pandemic did divert young people’s reflexivity from climate issues, we also find that a subset of the participants expresses rich reflexivity, addressing nature and the need for transition and solidarity. Finally, we argue these forms of reflexivity shape commonalities that may have relevance across social classes, identities and nation-states.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2022-11-18T05:24:37Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385221122416
       
  • Social Mobility and ‘Openness’ in Creative Occupations since
           the 1970s

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      Authors: Orian Brook, Andrew Miles, Dave O’Brien, Mark Taylor
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      Social mobility in the cultural sector is currently an important issue in government policy and public discussion, associated with perceptions of a collapse in numbers of working-class origin individuals becoming artists, actors, musicians and authors. The question of who works in creative occupations has also attracted significant sociological attention. To date, however, there have been no empirically grounded studies into the changing social composition of such occupations. This article uses the Office for National Statistics Longitudinal Study to show that, while those from more privileged social backgrounds have long dominated, there has been no change in the relative class mobility chances of gaining access to creative work. Instead, we must turn to the pattern of absolute mobility into this sector in order to understand claims that it is experiencing a ‘mobility crisis’.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2022-11-18T05:21:44Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385221129953
       
  • The Politic of Everyday Counter-Terrorism: Online Performances and
           Responsibilities of the Prevent Duty in UK Higher Education Institutions

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      Authors: Keith Spiller, Andrew Whiting, Imran Awan, Ben Campbell
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      The Prevent Duty mandates that public authorities must work to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism. In this article we review how 158 UK Higher Education Institutions have responded to this new duty by examining their public-facing webpages and Prevent policy documentation. In doing this we draw upon de Certeau’s notions of the everyday to highlight how such initiatives are presented publicly to viewing audiences, and how messages seep into and deepen security measures within UK Higher Education. In reviewing the performative element of Prevent, specifically how information is displayed, we find that the majority of UK Higher Education Institutions have approached their new roles through the prism of ‘compliance’ and/or ‘safeguarding’. The article argues presentations of safeguarding, reassurance and reluctance offer a telling insight into how the Duty has been adopted in Higher Education Institutions’ everyday practice.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2022-11-18T05:17:04Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385221129950
       
  • Social Quarantining in the Construction and Maintenance of White Australia

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      Authors: Zoe Staines
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      While medical quarantining has (again) received widespread attention during the COVID-19 pandemic, comparatively little consideration has been given to how medical quarantining is entangled with socio-political life. Further, there are no known studies that consider how quarantine might also be employed as a socio-political practice. This article explores the concept of social quarantine by tracing the creation of white Australia via the social construction, excise and discipline of Indigenous peoples as a potentially contagious Other. It shows how social quarantine integrates largely disparate sociological concepts/literatures (e.g. bordering, (im)mobility, confinement, enclave society, discipline, eugenics, assimilation), demonstrating how they unite under settler colonialism as a powerful assemblage of disciplinary technologies. Social quarantine also makes visible how the threat of contamination has been central to constructing and protecting Australia’s (white) imagined nationhood from the perceived disease of Otherness.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2022-11-18T05:03:57Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385221129046
       
  • ‘You are Still a Guest in This Country!’: Understanding Racism through
           the Concepts of Hospitality and Hostility in Healthcare Encounters in
           Sweden

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      Authors: Hannah Bradby, Suruchi Thapar-Björkert, Sarah Hamed, Beth Maina Ahlberg
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      While regularly applied to globalized migration, conceptualizations of hospitality have rarely been used to understand healthcare settings. Drawing on interviews with healthcare staff in Sweden, our article contributes to the current conceptualization of hospitality accounting for: the internal contradictions of hospitality that racialized staff experience in their everyday interactions with patients and other staff; the shifting boundaries between host and guest in everyday healthcare practices, especially when examined through the lens of racialization and finally; the subtle though troubled coexistence of hostility and un(conditional) hospitality that weakens resistance against racism. The analysis maps the complex contingencies of professional, ethnic and national relations between staff and patients, in light of their racialized and gendered nature, to suggest that the ambivalences theorized as part of the concept of hospitality show how the hurts of racism are so hard to pinpoint.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2022-11-18T04:53:24Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385221124827
       
  • Disability, Social Class and Stigma: An Intersectional Analysis of
           Disabled Young People’s School Experiences

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      Authors: Stella Chatzitheochari, Angharad Butler-Rees
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      Recent decades have witnessed a renewed interest in stigma and its effects on life-course trajectories of disabled people. However, sociological narratives largely adopt monolithic understandings of disability, neglecting contextual meanings of different impairments and conditions and their intersections with other ascriptive inequalities, which may be consequential for exposure to stigma. Our article provides an intersectional analysis of disabled young people’s lived experiences of stigma in mainstream school settings. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with 35 autistic, dyslexic and/or physically disabled students, we show that stigmatisation is contingent on social class background, which affects students’ location within the school. We also find substantial variation in experiences of stigma between and within sub-categories of conditions/impairments, as a consequence of the perceived distance from normative ideals of skills and behaviour attached to individuals in school settings. Our findings highlight the importance of intersectional analyses of stigma, challenging universalised views about stigmatised disabled people.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2022-11-14T05:20:18Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385221133710
       
  • A Bourdieusian Latent Class Analysis of Cultural, Arts, Heritage and
           Sports Activities in the UK Representative Understanding Society Dataset

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      Authors: Emma S Walker, Daisy Fancourt, Feifei Bu, Anne McMunn
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      To Bourdieu, interaction with culture has symbolic power and drives the manifestation of social stratification. Many have adapted his theory and methodology, developing new models of cultural engagement. Here, to further integrate these theoretical and methodological approaches, Bourdieu’s tools were used to operationalise and interpret a Latent Class Analysis of cultural engagement in the Understanding Society dataset. Six classes of increasing engagement were established, and were increasingly correlated with youth, capital and social advantage. However, some qualitative differences in engagement were also seen. The classes also varied by which characteristics correlated with membership. For example, economic capital was associated with sports engagement, while advantaged social position was associated with broad-scale engagement. Overall, this analysis combined Bourdieusian theory with contemporary methodology in the largest representative UK dataset and highlights the broader relevance of cultural engagement patterns in indicating (and possibly generating) status, identity, capital and social position.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2022-11-14T05:07:21Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385221130163
       
  • Book Review: Stefan Lorenz Sorgner, We Have Always Been Cyborgs: Digital
           Data, Gene Technologies, and an Ethics of Transhumanism

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      Authors: Nashwa Elyamany
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2022-11-09T09:32:13Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385221135569
       
  • From the Home to the (Hand)bag: Negotiating Privacy in Personal Life when
           Living with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)

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      Authors: Lauren White
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      Securing, and negotiating, privacy with intimate bodily needs is an ordinary but often hidden feature of our personal lives. Drawing upon a UK-based qualitative study that utilised diaries and follow-up interviews to explore everyday life with the health condition irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), this article explores the navigations of privacy when anticipating or experiencing symptoms. Building upon sociological understandings of privacy and personal life, this article maps the intimate and mobile ways in which privacy is sought out – disrupted or achieved – in domestic, material and public realms. It does so by following the paths to privacy and the personal belongings carried as they move through personal life. The article demonstrates how privacy is embodied and spatially, temporally, relationally and materially shaped. In doing so, the article argues that privacy comes to shift through everyday contexts and social relations with intimate materialities in mind.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2022-11-07T10:23:12Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385221122460
       
  • Carrying Europe’s ‘White Burden’, Sustaining Racial Capitalism:
           Young Post-Soviet Migrant Workers in Helsinki and Warsaw

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      Authors: Daria Krivonos
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      The opening up of sociology to postcolonial and critical race thinking has been predominantly animated by the relations between western metropoles and their (post)colonies. ‘Eastern Europe’ seems to be an uneasy fit in this discussion, being excluded from the idea of ‘Europe’; at the same time, it is not grouped together with non-European Others in terms of colonial histories. Drawing on fieldwork among young Russian and Ukrainian migrant workers in Helsinki (2014–2016) and Warsaw (2020), the article examines global connections that tie the North/West, South and East in these migrants’ imaginaries and material lives after migration. I demonstrate that Eastern European subjects are not outsiders to global racial capitalist orders but participate in sustaining a colonial project of Europe, whiteness and labour. The article argues for the importance of articulating postcoloniality of Eastern Europe vis-a-vis the West together with race to show the complicity of semi-peripheries with the global structures of racial capitalism.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2022-11-07T10:18:44Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385221122413
       
  • The Unhomely of Homeschooling

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      Authors: Martin Myers
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      Despite increasing global popularity perceptions of homeschooling remain problematic. It resists trends towards mass compulsory education and the promotion of children’s rights; it challenges the state’s authority to educate citizens; and raises concerns about child protection issues and educational outcomes. Contemporaneously many homeschoolers identify their fears of risks and failings in mainstream schooling as the reason they homeschool. This article explores how discomfort and fear is ingrained within meanings associated with homeschooling often related to its domestic practice. It develops Freud’s account of unheimlich (the unhomely) as a useful addition to the sociological analysis of the multiple renditions of meaning attached to homeschooling. These include the conflation of homely and unhomely accounts; the significance of anecdotal accounts as a means of restating class biases and racisms; and the ambiguous relationship between family and state. It argues both policymakers and homeschoolers need to acknowledge these ambiguities.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2022-11-07T02:08:54Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385221129943
       
  • Platforms Disrupting Reputation: Precarity and Recognition Struggles in
           the Remote Gig Economy

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      Authors: Alex J Wood, Vili Lehdonvirta
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      Digitalisation and the use of algorithms have raised concerns over the future of work, the gig economy being identified by some as particularly concerning. In this article, we draw on 70 interviews in addition to participant observations to highlight the role of gig economy platforms in producing a novel form of reputational insecurity. This insecurity is generated by platforms disrupting the traditional operation of industry reputation in freelance markets. We highlight three areas of transformation (recognition, power relations and transparency) in which platforms disrupt the social regulation of reputation and thus algorithmically amplify uncertainty. We also detail how workers individually and collectively attempt to re-embed reputation within interpersonal relations to reduce this novel insecurity.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2022-11-02T12:01:05Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385221126804
       
  • Variations of Gender Gaps in the Labour Market Outcomes of Graduates
           across Fields of Study: A (Combined) Test of Two Theories

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      Authors: Diana Roxana Galos, Nevena Kulic
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      Unequal gender outcomes in occupational success unravel through different channels in higher education. Using the AlmaLaurea dataset comprised of 80% of Italian graduates and 98 fields of study, this article investigates whether men and women receive similar returns on employment and earnings when choosing the same field of study. Two complementary perspectives are applied – Kanter’s theory of relative numbers and the status theory of gender – to examine the quantitative and qualitative differences between fields. The results show that the most gender ‘balanced’ fields of study are the most gender unequal in terms of earnings and employment. Separate analyses demonstrate that the status of a field interacts with its gender composition, and gender gaps in female-intensive nurturing fields shrink faster with an increasing proportion of women, albeit at higher absolute levels compared with non-nurturing fields. Therefore, nurturing fields of study should not necessarily be considered as levelling gender inequality in the labour market.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2022-11-02T10:46:48Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385221122400
       
  • Inequalities in Home Learning and Schools’ Remote Teaching Provision
           during the COVID-19 School Closure in the UK

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      Authors: Sait Bayrakdar, Ayse Guveli
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      Millions were affected by COVID-19 school closures, with parents and schools caught unprepared. Education is expected to play a role in creating equal opportunities, so transferring schooling responsibilities to families may have increased learning inequalities generated by family backgrounds. We examined the time students spent on home learning and explored the role of the schools’ distance teaching provision in explaining differences traditionally attributed to parental education, eligibility for free school meals, ethnic background and single parenthood. Using the Understanding Society COVID-19 dataset, we found children who received free school meals, single-parent families and children with parents with lower formal education qualifications and Pakistani or Bangladeshi backgrounds spent significantly less time on schoolwork. However, schools’ provision of offline and online distance teaching and homework checking significantly increased the time spent on learning and reduced some inequalities, demonstrating the policy relevance of digital preparedness to limit learning loss in school closures.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2022-10-29T04:47:45Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385221122444
       
  • No Pass Laws Here! Internal Border Controls and the Global ‘Hostile
           Environment’

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      Authors: Kathryn Medien
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      This article explores internal border controls in 1980s Britain, examining how they were conceptualised and resisted by a group of activists, the No Pass Laws Here! Group. Drawing on archival research conducted at the Hull History Centre and the Institute of Race Relations and focusing analysis on the Group’s public-facing information leaflets and bulletins, this article explores how internal border controls created differentiated access to employment and the welfare state, targeting migrant and racialised residents and citizens. The No Pass Laws Here! Group’s framing and analysis, in particular their use of pass laws as a frame through which to apprehend the spread of internal border controls, this article argues, allows us to draw out the continuities between policies developed to maintain colonial rule and those present in the metropole.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2022-10-25T04:51:28Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385221122518
       
  • The Visibility of Digital Money: A Video Study of Mobile Payments Using
           WeChat Pay

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      Authors: Christian Greiffenhagen, Rongyu Li, Nick Llewellyn
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      This article analyses situated uses of digital payment platforms, contributing to the sociology of money, and digital sociology. Our data are video recordings of 256 small-scale transactions, gathered from across four Chinese cities, at grocery stores, supermarkets, street markets, restaurants, and cafes. Our focus is the visibility of money in particular circumstances associated with some WeChat payments. In these cases, payment is made visible via a confirmation screen only seen by the customer. We argue that payment applications provide a good empirical site for understanding how digital media reconfigure ‘the social’ by shaping how monetary information is seen and heard. Rather than eliminating trust, reducing transactions to impersonal semi-automated affairs, we show how mobile payments generate new and complex patterns of economic action. A nuanced language game is described that requires sellers to trust customers are acting in good faith. We show how ‘the social’ is imprinted on this contemporary monetary medium.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2022-10-20T09:14:15Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385221104007
       
  • Ethical Practices of the Family Child

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      Authors: Sofie Henze-Pedersen
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      Following the introduction of the influential ‘doing’ family perspective, an active understanding of parents has taken centre stage in sociological thinking on how families are constructed. However, this has not extended to children, and their roles as co-constructors of families have not received the same amount of attention. This article examines the practices children use to construct themselves as child of someone in relation to a parent. By locating children’s practices within the ‘doing’ family perspective, the article identifies three levels of childhood in families – being child, doing child and reflecting child. The article shows how the three levels must be understood in relation to discourses on what it means to be a ‘good’ child of someone, as these moral questions influence what children come to do. The article draws on interviews with 39 children (aged 5–17 years) from two studies that explored children’s family relationships in challenging family circumstances.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2022-10-08T06:17:41Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385221112246
       
  • Deindividualising Imposter Syndrome: Imposter Work among Marginalised
           STEMM Undergraduates in the UK

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      Authors: Órla Meadhbh Murray, Yuan-Li Tiffany Chiu, Billy Wong, Jo Horsburgh
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      Imposter syndrome is the experience of persistently feeling like a fraud despite one’s achievements. This article explores student experiences of imposter syndrome, based on 27 interviews with marginalised STEMM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Medicine) undergraduates at two pre-1992 elite UK universities. We argue that imposter feelings are a form of unevenly distributed emotional work, which we call imposter work. Drawing on Sara Ahmed’s ‘diversity work’ concept we explore how marginalised students’ imposter feelings are often in response to, and reinforced by, the exclusionary atmosphere of university, resulting in more imposter work to survive and thrive at university. Three key themes are explored – the situated and relational nature of imposter feelings; the uneven distribution of imposter work; and the myth of individual overcoming – before concluding with suggestions for collective responses to addressing imposter feelings.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2022-10-08T06:11:25Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385221117380
       
  • The Sociology of Utopia, Modern Temporality and Black Visions of
           Liberation

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      Authors: Joe PL Davidson
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      This article focuses on the relationship between the sociology of utopia and Black visions of liberation. Influential figures from Karl Mannheim to Ruth Levitas have effectively demonstrated the value of a utopian perspective for sociology. However, the African American tradition of utopianism has been largely overlooked in this literature. I argue that the Black standpoint forces a rethinking of the sociological understanding of utopia. More specifically, while most sociologists of utopia straightforwardly associate the desire for a better world with the future, the Black tradition proposes a more expansive understanding of utopia’s temporality. Building on visions of new worlds advanced by WEB Du Bois and the movement for reparations for slavery, I suggest that Black utopia involves a glance backwards to the past, such that the image of a better future is accompanied by the memory of the catastrophe of slavery.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2022-10-08T06:05:39Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385221117360
       
  • Migrant Black African Youths’ Experiences of Racial Microaggressions
           in the Workplace

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      Authors: Joshua Kalemba
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      This article offers an exploration of migrant Black African youths’ (MBAYs’) experiences of racial microaggressions in Australian, predominantly White, workplaces. Data for this article are drawn from qualitative interviews conducted with 20 MBAYs working in Newcastle, a traditionally White working-class city. Drawing on a theoretical framework that approaches racial microaggressions through a Critical Race Theory lens, the article centres MBAYs’ experiences of racial microaggressions in the workplace as a site of legitimate experiential knowledge. The findings of this article underscore how MBAYs perceive questions like ‘Where are you from'’ posed by their White colleagues and clients as a racial microaggression. They showcase how MBAY experience racial microaggressions in the workplace as an invisible, insidious and infantilizing process. Finally, the findings highlight how some MBAYs respond to racial microaggressions by accepting or contesting them in the workplace. The article concludes by reflecting on how these microlevel, subtle forms of racism contribute towards institutionalizing and sustaining White supremacy.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2022-10-08T06:00:59Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385221117351
       
  • Dialectical Family Imaginaries: Navigating Relational Selfhood and
           Becoming a Parent through Assisted Reproduction in China

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      Authors: Iris Po Yee Lo
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      This article examines underexplored aspects of family imaginaries by examining lesbians’ ways of thinking and feeling about having children. Drawing on in-depth interviews with lesbians in Beijing, China, I illustrate their agency and difficulties in pursuing parenthood through assisted reproductive technology or other unconventional means and redrawing the boundaries of the family. Building on the concept of family imaginaries and insights into relational selfhood, I identify three types of ‘dialectical family imaginaries’ in lesbians’ accounts of reproductive decision making: imaginaries of bridging, bonding and self-fashioning. These imaginaries are dialectical in the sense that they reproduce cultural ideals of what it means to be related and simultaneously generate new ways of pursuing parenthood while lesbians juggle filial affection and personal, pragmatic goals. This article highlights the sociological utility of ‘dialectical family imaginaries’ for exploring different forms and meanings of relatedness negotiated between the self, family and intergenerational relations, and wider society.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2022-10-08T05:56:44Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385221113480
       
  • Moving on up' How Social Origins Shape Geographic Mobility within
           Britain’s Higher Managerial and Professional Occupations

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      Authors: Katharina Hecht, Daniel McArthur
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      This article presents the first longitudinal analysis of social and geographic mobility into Britain’s higher managerial and professional occupations. Using linked census records from the Office for National Statistics Longitudinal Study, we find that those from advantaged social origins are substantially more likely to make long-distance residential moves, implying that geographic mobility is a correlate of advantaged social origins rather than a determinant of an advantaged adult class position. Among higher managers and professionals, those with advantaged backgrounds lived in more affluent areas as children than those from disadvantaged backgrounds. This ‘area gap’ persists during adulthood: when the upwardly mobile move, they are unable to close the gap to their peers with privileged backgrounds in terms of the affluence of the areas they live in: they face a moving target. Geographic advantage, and disadvantage, thus lingers with individuals, even if they move.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2022-10-03T03:25:26Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385221113669
       
  • How Intellectuals Perform: Meaning Making and Community in the
           Czechoslovak Philosophical Underground

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      Authors: Dominik Zelinsky
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      This article moves beyond the conventional strictures of the sociology of intellectuals, which is preoccupied with intellectuals’ texts, power struggles and institutional trajectories. Instead, I propose to focus on intellectuals’ situated performances as a way into analysis of the dynamics of their relations and mutual influences. Drawing on theoretical resources from the Strong Program in cultural sociology, I argue that their performances have both social and cultural impact through disseminating ideas, facilitating the emergence of social ties and the production of new social selves in intellectuals’ audiences. I demonstrate the importance of situated intellectual performances in the case of unofficial philosophy in socialist Czechoslovakia.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2022-09-03T04:18:41Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385221112233
       
  • What Lies Beneath: Organisational Responses to Powerful Stakeholders

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      Authors: Fabiola Alvarez, Dimitrinka Stoyanova Russell, Barbara Townley
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      This article takes recourse to a particular branch of French Pragmatic Sociology, namely, Boltanski and Thévenot’s ‘orders of worth’ paradigm, as a lens through which to both explore the misalignment between espoused values and retrospective discourses and illustrate the underlying motivations behind decision making in an organisation within the creative industries sector. By virtue of its contributions at the organisational, social and sectorial levels, our study contributes to extant debates pertaining to individual agency versus structural constraints as well as demonstrating the heterogeneity of modes of formal compliance to wider institutionalised legitimacy. In so doing, it builds upon recent work that seeks to broaden the notion of value in the creative industries, while, simultaneously, calling for greater heterogeneity in policy making in the sector through an ongoing process of ‘creative conflict’.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2022-08-12T04:36:19Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385221103955
       
  • Becoming an Activist: Individualisation and a Democratic Contentious Ethos
           in ‘How to’ Books

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      Authors: Johan Gøtzsche-Astrup
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      The article explores a new aspect of the interplay of individualisation and democracy. I ask how individualisation affects a contentious ethos, a set of ethical relations that contentious actors cultivate towards themselves and others in articulating their idea of the good. I analyse the ethea in the public through ‘how to become an activist’ books. The books instruct individuals in how they should turn inwards and work on themselves to become activists. I delineate three ethea: individuals can work on themselves to discover their passion, connect to an impersonal truth or situate themselves in a structural context. These may undermine collective political projects but can also facilitate deep democratic engagement.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2022-08-08T06:31:55Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385221107495
       
  • Anticipatory Regimes in Pregnancy: Cross-Fertilising Reproduction and
           Parenting Culture Studies

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      Authors: Edmée Ballif
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      Despite attempts at highlighting continuities across the reproductive process from conception to childcare, reproduction and parenting still tend to be studied as a collection of separate objects. This article contributes to the cross-fertilisation of reproductive and parenting culture studies by first introducing anticipation as a transversal analytical lens. A conceptual framework for the analysis of anticipatory regimes in reproduction is introduced with a focus on subjectification effects and future images. Second, the importance of pregnancy as a connector between reproduction and parenting is highlighted. These propositions are fleshed out with reference to an ethnography of pregnancy care in Switzerland. The results demonstrate that pregnant women are expected to act as anticipating agents and that foetuses are treated as future children. Future images reveal how prenatal care reproduces gender norms. Analysing anticipatory regimes contributes to discussions of power relations in prenatal care, the stratification of reproduction and challenges to reproductive justice.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2022-08-08T06:29:50Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385221107492
       
  • Powerful or Disempowering Knowledge' The Teaching of Sociology in
           English Schools and Colleges

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      Authors: Sarah Cant, Anwesa Chatterjee
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      While studying sociology can be empowering and transformative, fostering criticality and reflexivity, this capacity is not being sufficiently harnessed in school/college-based delivery in England. A large survey of sociology teachers revealed that they are required to teach outdated and sometimes discredited studies, which can reinforce rather than challenge stereotypes held by the privileged and which can be disempowering for those students who cannot recognise their own experiences. This article provides a unique insight into the ways that school/college curricula reinforce inequality and contributes to important debates within the sociology of education. Specifically, the article argues that the work being undertaken to decolonise the curriculum in universities, through challenging structural and discursive operations of power, should also inform the revision of school/college specifications. The lessons from this study can be usefully applied to the teaching of sociology beyond England and indeed to other subject disciplines.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2022-08-05T04:56:03Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385221107299
       
  • Cultural Models of Contention: How Do the Public Interpret the Repertoire
           of Contention'

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      Authors: Johan Gøtzsche-Astrup, Oluf Gøtzsche-Astrup
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      The literature on contention tends to conflate contentious actions and audience’s interpretation of those actions. This is problematic because interpretation is central to how contention unfolds and brings about social change. We theorise that interpretation is patterned by one or more cultural models of contention. These provide background assumptions about what actions count as political and what actions are legitimate. We show the fruitfulness of our approach in two survey studies of 1429 US citizens. It allows us to explore patterns in how the US public interpret contention. Furthermore, we investigate how interpretation varies across political and apolitical contexts, finding little variation between these. Finally, we study heterogeneity in how the public interpret contention, finding variation between individuals but also shared patterns. The article contributes to the literature on contention by providing a theoretical framework to study the public’s interpretation of contention and a fine-grained empirical analysis of this interpretation.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2022-07-27T05:28:41Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385221109698
       
  • Coloniality of Gender and Knowledge: Rethinking Russian Masculinities in
           Light of Postcolonial and Decolonial Critiques

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      Authors: Marina Yusupova
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      This article explores how the legacy of European colonialism and its role in transforming gender relations globally, shapes post-Soviet Russian masculinities. It points to historical connections between European and Russian/Soviet colonial projects, both of which relied on the notion of ‘progress’ in gender relations. Drawing on analysis of biographical interviews with a diverse sample of Russian men interviewed in Russia and the UK, this work identifies how the research participants use the core modern/colonial narratives to establish their individual masculinities. Shifting from a common conceptualisation of Russian masculinities as ‘traditional’, ‘conservative’ and ‘macho’, I show that they are instead, closely bound up with the European project of modernity/coloniality. The study advances the analysis of postcolonial masculinities and posits an agenda for decolonisation of sociological research on global masculinities.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2022-07-14T12:59:54Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385221110724
       
  • Trajectories towards Political Engagement on Facebook around Brexit:
           Beyond Affordances for Understanding Racist and Right-Wing Populist
           Mobilisations Online

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      Authors: Natalie-Anne Hall
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      Social media are frequently implicated in the racist and right-wing populist mobilisations that found voice in support for Brexit. However, research tends to focus on platform affordances and fails to provide a sociological account of individuals’ actual experiences with these media, and how they interact with broader social and political experiences to impact attitudes. Based on interviews with newly passionately engaged pro-Brexit Facebook users, this article examines the trajectories by which individuals came to be so engaged. The findings demonstrate that the technological opportunities provided by social media were only significant in the context of offline experiences and socio-political factors. These include racist discourses that predate social media, a loss of trust in traditional media and government, and the opportunity provided by Brexit to articulate and activate pre-held attitudes.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2022-07-14T12:57:07Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385221104012
       
  • Communities of/for Interest: Revisiting the Role of Migrants’ Online
           Groups

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      Authors: Taulant Guma, Stephen Drinkwater, Rhys Dafydd Jones
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      This article offers a critical examination of the role played by migrants’ online communities. With much of scholarly analysis focusing on the new ways in which online groups enable migrants to connect, interact or socialise together in digital space, little attention has been paid to how these groups are actually formed, by whom and with what motivations. Drawing on qualitative interviews with moderators of online groups created by EU migrants living in Wales, UK, our findings reveal the diverse and sometimes ambivalent roles played by these groups, acting not only as networks of support for migrants (‘communities of interest’) but also driven by commercial motives. To capture the impact of this commercialisation and the complexity in the field, we introduce the notion of ‘communities for interest’. The article thus offers new empirical and conceptual contributions that advance our understanding of migrants’ online communities beyond the much-discussed online/offline and virtual/real dichotomies.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2022-07-14T12:55:46Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385221104008
       
  • Upward Social Mobility in Chile: The Negotiation of Class and Ethnic
           Identities

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      Authors: Denisse Sepúlveda
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      This article examines how upward mobility affects both class and ethnic social positioning of Mapuche indigenous people in Chile. The article builds on cultural class analysis dominated by Bourdieusian approaches, suggesting the incorporation of an intersectional and postcolonial lens, considering the ways in which ethnicity complicates classed trajectories, focusing on class mobility and indigeneity. Drawing on 40 life history interviews of first-generation Mapuche professionals, the analysis reveals complex and varied responses to social mobility. The interviewees display three groups of responses: the ‘mobile-accommodators’, embracing deracinated middle-class identities; the ‘rooted’, asserting connections with working-class and Mapuche origins; and the ‘resignifiers’, embracing a more ambivalent class identity, but articulating a strong sense of Mapuche identity. The experience of upward social mobility represents a challenge to the respondents’ sense of class position, class and ethnic identities, as they have had to manage indigenous identity claims across their social origins and destinations.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2022-07-04T12:02:51Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385221099402
       
  • Grudging Acts

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      Authors: Wendy Bottero
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      This article argues for a greater focus on how, and why, social life is often engaged in through grudging acts. Grudging acts are those activities in which we really would rather not participate but which we perform nonetheless. Such acts play a significant role in how many social practices are routinely sustained, but also reworked or undermined. Yet grudgingness is underexplored in social analysis, and its significance for social arrangements is insufficiently examined. This neglect occurs because foregrounding grudging acts requires a focus on key aspects of social life that often slip from view in analysis, and is an omission associated with a number of significant explanatory difficulties.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2022-07-01T05:07:09Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385221104017
       
  • Affective Intensities of Single Lives: An Alternative Account of Temporal
           Aspects of Couple Normativity

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      Authors: Marjo Kolehmainen, Annukka Lahti, Anu Kinnunen
      First page: 3
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      The number of people living without a partner is growing globally, but this demographic shift has barely disrupted the tenacity of the couple norm. Researchers have identified several concrete mechanisms of singlism – practices that feed the unequal treatment of single people. Nevertheless, there is still a need to develop an understanding of how singlism operates affectively. To provide insights into the affective intensities of single lives, we incorporate the notion of affective inequality into an analysis of singlehood and temporality, bringing together a range of data sets to further develop this idea. We examine the varying affective and psychic experiences that characterise how singles feel about their singlehood, how they experience the current moment and how they view the future. We argue that these experiences are shaped by singlism, and that affective inequalities and affective privileges co-condition the possibilities for different types of relationships.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2022-06-10T07:32:39Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385221090858
       
  • Temporalities of Friendship: Adults’ Friends in Everyday Family Life
           and Beyond

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      Authors: Aino Luotonen
      First page: 20
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      This study examines how adults’ close friendships are lived using different temporalities. The modern ideal of friendship underlining individual choice and affinity is challenged by marriage and family. Using a temporal approach, I aim to grasp the variety of experiences of individuals during the early years of marriage. Drawing from qualitative interviews with 32 individuals forming 16 couples, I distinguished between three temporalities of friendship: (1) friendship here and now; (2) friendship in cyclical time; and (3) friendship based on the past and revived by timeless moments. I argue that, while some friendships entangle everyday family practices, other friendships are lived among two individuals, involving intimacy as outlined by Simmel, and simultaneously challenging the experience of linear time. This study contributes to an understanding of how friendships are lived within and beyond the family, and, furthermore, to a wider sociological discussion on the use of temporality in analysing social life.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2022-06-10T08:08:18Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385221090863
       
  • Truth, Proof, Sleuth: Trust in Direct-to-Consumer DNA Testing and Other
           Sources of Identity Information among Australian Donor-Conceived People

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      Authors: Giselle Newton, Kerryn Drysdale, Michele Zappavigna, Christy E Newman
      First page: 36
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      The digital age is characterised by unprecedented access to technologies to understand our bodies, genetics and family histories. The last decade has seen a growing uptake of direct-to-consumer DNA testing, which is (re)shaping individuals’ identity narratives. Drawing on data from a national online survey with Australian donor-conceived people (N = 91) and semi-structured interviews (N = 28), we conceptualise DNA results as a genetic narrative that coexists with other sources of identity information such as familial narratives, medical records and experiential knowledge from peers. Our analysis derived three themes: truth – how DNA results disrupted ontological security and prompted confrontation; proof – how DNA testing was valued and legitimised, especially compared with medical records; and sleuth – how DNA testing was leveraged in agentive practices. In doing so, we explore how processes of (dis)trust shape the forms of identity information individuals seek out, believe and rely upon to position themselves within relational and socio-technical webs.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2022-06-08T10:14:34Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385221091184
       
  • Movement Texts as Anti-Colonial Theory

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      Authors: Mahvish Ahmad
      First page: 54
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      Despite the decolonial turn among sociologists, we have yet to engage a vast amount of thought produced by anti-colonial movements. The circumvention of much of this thought indexes overly restrictive understandings of what constitutes social theory, and I diagnose three ways in which this plays out. Anti-colonial movement texts provide striking demonstrations of this limitation, and of what is lost as a result. Through a close study of a banned 1970s pamphlet from Pakistan, I show that critically deepening the decolonial project through an engagement with movement texts raises ethical questions about the academy’s relationship to political struggle and demands new methodologies of archival retrieval that recognise the scattered, fragmented condition of texts subject to colonial violence. If addressed, southern movement texts reveal counter-infrastructures of knowledge production replete with counter-political vocabularies that challenge homogenising academic definitions of the Global South and enrich our theories of decolonial praxis.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2022-07-04T12:01:31Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385221098516
       
  • Niche Sociality: Approaching Adversity in Everyday Life

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      Authors: Nick Manning, Rasmus Birk, Nikolas Rose
      First page: 72
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      How should sociologists understand the everyday lives of those living in adversity, coping with the experience of structural violence' In this article, focusing on the urban experience, we suggest a perspective on ‘everyday life’ that can encompass corporeal, mental, relational and social dimensions, which we term ‘niche sociality’. First, we use Gibson’s niches and affordances to enrich the post-representationalist understanding of human beings as embodied/cultural/environmentally embedded organisms. Second, we enrich Gibson’s niches and affordances with theories for ‘small-scale’ sociality drawn from social practice theory and interaction ritual chains. Third, we illustrate the productivity of these ideas throughout the article, by grounding our conceptual work in empirical examples that analyse the everyday lives and mental life of migrant workers in Shanghai. Niche sociality, we argue, is a way of framing the experience of the everyday, a perspective that could – perhaps should – provoke novel ecosocial studies of adversity.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2022-07-04T12:00:14Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385221094770
       
  • Social Space as a Theory of Society: Scientific Arguments Regarding the
           Figuration of the Social in Bourdieu’s Distinction

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      Authors: Hervé Glevarec
      First page: 96
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      At the core of Pierre Bourdieu’s sociological theory lies the notion of ‘social space’, which in Distinction is embodied under the headings ‘the space of social positions’ and ‘the space of life-styles’. Social space is not a product of correspondence analysis, and yet it is deemed to be a true representation of a national society with ‘universal validity’. Contemporary sociology has not tested the scientific foundation of the Bourdieusian social space, or challenged it using contemporary factorial plans for culture practices. The purpose of this article is therefore to examine social space in four steps: (1) review the supposedly factorial character of the ‘social space’ diagram, and basic concepts, such as ‘lifestyle’ and ‘relative structure of the capital’; (2) analyse the representativeness of the ad hoc cultural survey; (3) critique the interpretation of the two ‘variants of tastes’; and (4) rethink the ‘variant of dominant taste’. What we suggest from our findings is that social space should no longer be considered as a well-founded representation of society.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2022-10-14T12:18:16Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385221094771
       
  • Moderating Contentious Care Relations: Meat Consumption among Finnish
           Consumers

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      Authors: Outi Koskinen
      First page: 120
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      In the Global North, meat consumption is both an integral part of everyday diets and under increasing pressure to be reduced, owing to its various harmful effects. There has been much research on the issues that forestall less meat-dominated diets. Based on interview and participant observation data of consumers with a wide variety of meat relations in Finland, this article extends these discussions by framing the issue as navigating contentious relations of care. This enables a two-fold contribution. First, the article brings together previously disconnected research on these themes and makes explicit the benefits of studying meat consumption through care. Second, it demonstrates how this approach contributes an understanding of the persistence of meat on our plates, by showing how contentious care relations within meat consumption are navigated through moderation: varying degrees of engagement with care, defined by distances and realignments as well as disconnections in the processes of caring.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2022-06-09T08:51:59Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385221095007
       
  • Turning the Decolonial Gaze towards Ourselves: Decolonising the Curriculum
           and ‘Decolonial Reflexivity’ in Sociology and Social Theory

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      Authors: Leon Moosavi
      First page: 137
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      This article provides a theoretical evaluation of the author’s attempts at decolonising a sociology and social theory course in Singapore. It also introduces the notion of ‘decolonial reflexivity’ as a strategy for refining academic decolonisation. In doing so, this article seeks to overcome both the insufficient introspection about the potential for coloniality to reside within efforts at academic decolonisation, and the tendency to separate theoretical and applied discussions about academic decolonisation. It is argued that the author’s attempts to decolonise the curriculum were limited because the course may have inadvertently: (a) sustained exclusion while claiming to be inclusive; (b) maintained the status quo while claiming to be radical; and (c) reinscribed Westerncentrism while claiming to decolonise. This article suggests that although academic decolonisation is a commendable aspiration, academics who wish to decolonise must continually consider the theoretical complexities that are generated by our attempts at academic decolonisation.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2022-07-20T02:55:45Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385221096037
       
  • Recognition or Redistribution' How Mainstream Media Frames Charitable
           Responses to People Experiencing Poverty

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      Authors: Ella Kuskoff, Andrew Clarke, Francisco Perales, Cameron Parsell
      First page: 157
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      Charitable responses to people experiencing poverty are often viewed as valuable community-led initiatives that address the support gaps created by a withdrawing welfare state. This perspective provides important insights into the culturally valorised nature of charity. The role of the mainstream media in cultivating and valorising charity, in contrast, remains relatively underexplored. Drawing on a framing analysis of Australian mainstream news reports published between 2014 and 2020, we analyse how the media frames charity as a response to people experiencing poverty. We demonstrate that the media frames people experiencing poverty as having a devalued identity, for which the remedy is the restoration of dignity through charity. Little attention is paid to the material inequalities that underpin people’s experiences of poverty; nor the role of the media as a body that reifies the interests of the powerful, who benefit from poverty and charitable responses to it.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2022-07-06T04:39:16Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385221095025
       
  • Enacting Resistance, Performing Citizenship: Trajectories of Political
           Subjectification in the Post-Democratic Condition

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      Authors: Bojan Baća
      First page: 175
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      Dominated by the ‘weak postsocialist civil society’ thesis, Central and Eastern Europe has generally been uninspiring for social movement scholars. In recent years, a growing body of scholarship has challenged this pessimistic notion, highlighting the emergence of grassroots activism. What remains under-researched, however, is the process of political subjectification of society’s apolitical segments through contentious practices. Informed by pragmatic sociology, this article explores three case studies – of student, civic and environmental movements, respectively – that demonstrate how citizens constituted themselves as collective political subjects by performatively enacting their citizenship through resistance in post-democratic Montenegro (2010–2015). Through analysis of news media sources and interviews with activists, this article postulates three trajectories of political subjectification – political becoming, political bonding and political embodying – by which citizens (re)gain their civic autonomy, allowing them to challenge dominant power relations and to attain political legitimacy to think, speak and act as relevant political actors on the public stage.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2022-08-08T06:35:15Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385221109701
       
  • ‘Without Papers I Can’t Do Anything’: The Neglected Role of
           Citizenship Status and ‘Illegality’ in Intersectional Analysis

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      Authors: Dorina Damsa, Katja Franko
      First page: 194
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      Intersectionality scholarship has yet to systematically recognize the importance of citizenship status for the mutual shaping of inequalities. In this article, we bring attention to the combined structuring force of criminal law and citizenship status (and the related concepts of ‘illegal’ or ‘irregular’ status) in intersecting with other categories of social disadvantage, such as those created by racialization, class, gender and ethnicity. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with women in prisons for ‘foreign nationals’ and health clinics for ‘undocumented’ migrants in Norway and Denmark, this article shows how citizenship status has a central role in the co-constitution of gendered, classed and racialized social disadvantages.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2022-06-01T06:34:03Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385221096043
       
  • When Two Worlds Collide: The Role of Affect in ‘Essential’ Worker
           Responses to Shifting Evaluative Norms

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      Authors: Natalia Slutskaya, Annilee Game, Rachel Morgan, Tim Newton
      First page: 211
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      Concerns about devaluation and misrecognition are central for understanding the experiences of workers in stigmatised occupations. Yet contemporary approaches have been criticised for over-simplifying workers’ responses to mis/recognition. Povinelli’s concepts of ‘trembling of recognition’ and ‘social tense’ offer a useful starting point for extending existing understandings of mis/recognition by highlighting the contextual importance of temporality. To explore these ideas, we report on an ethnographic study of waste management workers in London, UK. The findings suggest that dirty workers’ responses to mis/recognition are a complex mix of discordant cognitive and affective reactions and narrative strategies, shaped by changing normative ideals. The findings suggest that recognition derives not only from workers’ encounters, meanings and feelings attached to the past and present but also from the sense that they have a valued part to play in the future.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2022-07-06T04:40:32Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385221101795
       
  • Back to the Future: The Impact of Perceptions and Experiences of Time on
           the Lives of British Lifestyle Migrants in Spain

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      Authors: Laura Dixon
      First page: 228
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      Increasingly, lifestyle migration research has focused on the ways that social categories like race, gender and sexuality, as well as concepts from post-colonialism to spatialisation, intersect and impact on lifestyle migrants’ everyday experiences, in an attempt to complicate its theoretical foundations. Adding to this body of work, this article explicitly investigates post-migration perceptions of time among lifestyle migrants, which have previously been more implicitly explored. It does so, by showing how British migrants in the Catalan tourist town of Sitges remained orientated towards the future in a way that conflicted with the temporal rhythm of the town itself, which was determined by a calendar of cultural festivals and events that was repeated annually, with minimal variation. As a result, participants soon felt so stuck within a seemingly unchanging present, which they were unable to transition fully into, that it often precipitated (or contributed to) return migration to the UK.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2022-06-10T08:14:49Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385221096267
       
  • Portholes of Ethnography: The Methodological Learning from ‘Being
           There’ at a Distance

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      Authors: Julie Walsh, Asma Khan, Maria Teresa Ferazzoli
      First page: 243
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      Ethnography is, in essence, an approach to social research reliant on ‘being there’ and ethnographic approaches to the social world have been widely taken up in sociological research. In this research note, we share our UK-based experiences of ethnographic fieldwork with professional practitioners during the initial months of the COVID-19 pandemic, when ‘staying at home’ was the antithesis of ‘being there’. In doing so, we highlight opportunities the pandemic presented to re-evaluate familiar qualitative methods, to develop new, remote ethnographic research strategies and to examine the limitations of conducting ethnography from a distance. We consider how far we stretch ‘ethnography’ in a socially distanced context, using what we call ‘portholes of ethnography’, and we outline how our learning informs the ways in which we can adapt research approaches – driven by relationality – in times of crises.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2022-11-03T04:38:59Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385221122458
       
  • Book Review: Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan, Tangled in Terror: Uprooting
           Islamophobia

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      Authors: Izram Chaudry
      First page: 255
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2022-07-01T04:56:32Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385221103367
       
  • Book Review: Rebecca Elliott, Underwater: Loss, Flood Insurance, and the
           Moral Economy of Climate Change in the United States

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      Authors: Joydeb Garai
      First page: 256
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2022-10-08T05:53:20Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385221112862
       
  • Book Review: Jack Palmer and Dariusz Brzeziński (eds), Revisiting
           Modernity and the Holocaust: Heritage, Dilemmas, Extensions

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      Authors: Shaun Best
      First page: 258
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2022-11-30T11:34:14Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385221135562
       
 
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