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  • CORRIGENDUM to ‘Social Space as a Theory of Society: Scientific
           Arguments Regarding the Figuration of the Social in Bourdieu’s
           Distinction’

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      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2023-06-02T09:26:40Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385231166536
       
  • Making Way for Men: The Gendered Processes of Graduate Hiring in Elite
           Professional Service Firms in China

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      Authors: Ran Ren
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      Extensive research has been conducted on the reproduction of gender inequalities in professional hiring, despite the claim of meritocracy and commitment to equality in professional sectors. While the existing literature highlights the significance of understanding gender inequalities in the context of globalisation of professional firms and their practices, it has predominantly focused on the Anglo-Saxon context. There remains a gap in the literature regarding how gender inequalities are produced in professional hiring in the context of China. Drawing on qualitative material, this study explores the gendered processes of graduate hiring in elite professional firms in China. By applying the perspective of gender practices, this article elucidates how Chinese recruiters construct male favouritism and rig the selection process. The analysis sheds light on the processes that produce gender inequalities and hinder the progress of women in the context of growing competition and lack of support for women’s participation in professional work.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2023-05-30T09:23:15Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385231174789
       
  • The Hidden Strains of ‘Cool’ Jobs

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      Authors: Aaron Delgaty, Eli R Wilson
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      A growing number of workers today are drawn to jobs that offer symbolic and cultural rewards but not necessarily stable employment or livable wages. Existing literature posits the exploitative nature of this labor arrangement, where workers must weigh the ‘cool’ aspects of their jobs against other less desirable aspects. Yet what happens when both these dimensions of work are deeply intertwined and subject to changing perspectives' Drawing on ethnographic data and in-depth interviews with US craft beer workers, we show how ‘cool’ aspects of brewery jobs are experienced as significant sources of material, social, and work identity strain that cause some workers to grow estranged from their jobs over time. We suggest a broader framework for understanding the hidden strains of jobs that appeal to workers for symbolic reasons, and advocate for shifting jobs in the new economy away from cool-yet-precarious employment bargains and toward more sustainable forms of employment.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2023-05-25T09:55:21Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385231172129
       
  • Minority Ethnic Staff in Universities: Organisational Commitments,
           Reputation and the (Re)structuring of the Staff Body

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      Authors: Roxana D Baltaru
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      This article problematises whether organisational commitments impact the representation of ethnic minorities in the university workforce. In doing so, it considers the institutional context and the broader restructuring of universities’ personnel. The analysis is based on a longitudinal dataset of 120 universities, including university-level indicators of organisational commitments, institutional characteristics and ethnic minority staff numbers. The findings reveal that while on average, universities that are members of the Race Equality Charter exhibit higher shares of minority ethnic staff in higher-level contracts compared with those universities that are not members, joining the charter does not make a university more inclusive. Importantly, the share of minority ethnic staff is substantially lower in elite universities compared with all other universities, which indicates tensions between inclusion and university reputation. The results are discussed in terms of their relevance to sociological institutionalist and organisational theories, and to higher education policy.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2023-05-18T05:43:26Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385231163107
       
  • No Substitute for In-Person Interaction: Changing Modes of Social Contact
           during the Coronavirus Pandemic and Effects on the Mental Health of Adults
           in the UK

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      Authors: Patrick Rouxel, Tarani Chandola
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      Life-course theories on how social relationships affect mental health are limited in causal claims. The restrictions in social contact during the coronavirus pandemic provided a natural experiment that modified the frequency of in-person contact and allowed us to estimate the effect of changes in in-person social contact frequency on mental health in four large nationally representative age-cohorts of adults living in the UK. There was consistent evidence of a small but statistically significant effect of less frequent social contact on anxiety-depression. Online modes of social contact did not compensate for the restrictions in in-person social contact during the pandemic. Young adults who increased their online social media frequency during the pandemic experienced a deterioration in mental health. Life-course theories cannot ignore the importance of the mode of social contact for social relationships, especially during young adulthood.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2023-05-15T12:57:02Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385231172123
       
  • A Sociological Conversation with ChatGPT about AI Ethics, Affect and
           Reflexivity

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      Authors: Andrew Balmer
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      This research note is a conversation between ChatGPT and a sociologist about the use of ChatGPT in knowledge production. ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence language model, programmed to analyse vast amounts of data, recognise patterns and generate human-like conversational responses based on that analysis. The research note takes an experimental form, following the shape of a dialogue, and was generated in real time, between the author and ChatGPT. The conversation reflects on, and is a reflexive contribution to, the study of artificial intelligence from a sociology of science perspective. It draws on the notion of reflexivity and adopts an ironic, parodic form to critically respond to the emergence of artificial intelligence language models, their affective and technical qualities, and thereby comments on their potential ethical, social and political significance within the humanities.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2023-05-03T12:24:06Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385231169676
       
  • Can Work Time Fragmentation Influence Workers’ Subjective Time Pressure'
           The Roles of Gender and Parenthood

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      Authors: Zhuofei Lu
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      This article investigates how the fragmentation of work time influences subjective time pressure, and how this relationship varies across gender and parenthood status. This is an important question that has been neglected by previous studies. Using the latest UK time-use data (N = 620) from 2020 to 2021 and Ordinary Least Squares regressions, the study finds that work time fragmentation generally predicts more subjective time pressure. Specifically, work time fragmentation is found to increase subjective time pressure more among women without children than mothers. However, this effect is inverted among men, as the fragmentation of work time predicts more subjective time pressure among fathers but not among men without children. These findings provide a nuanced understanding of the adverse consequences of ‘role switching’ and ‘work schedule instability’ and their interaction with gender and parenthood. Accordingly, future research should consider work time fragmentation as a vital indicator of job and life quality.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2023-04-24T05:52:50Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385231166893
       
  • Is Anti-Immigrant Sentiment Owned by the Political Right'

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      Authors: Inna Leykin, Anastasia Gorodzeisky
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      In political and social scientific discourses, the link between right-wing political orientation and anti-immigrant sentiment is often presented as a universal social fact. Based on a systematic examination of the association between left–right political orientation and attitudes towards migrants, the article demonstrates a clear inconsistency in the strength and direction of this presumed association in postsocialist European countries. We provide two analytical explanations for this inconsistency. The first challenges the western-centric idea that people leaning towards the political right tend to hold conservative views that shape their tendency to express anti-immigrant sentiment. The second explanation pertains to the limited relevance of the left–right political orientation scale for postsocialist subjects, making it difficult to attribute anti-immigrant sentiment to specific political orientations. In conclusion, we discuss specific social identities of the holders of hostile attitudes towards outsiders in postsocialist Central and Eastern Europe, which western-centric analytical models do not capture.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2023-04-19T11:12:23Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385231161206
       
  • Exclusionary Logics: Constructing Disability and Disadvantaging Disabled
           Academics in the Neoliberal University

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      Authors: Jennifer Remnant, Katherine Sang, Tom Calvard, James Richards, Olugbenga (Abraham) Babajide
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      Contemporary academia features managerialism and neoliberal thinking, consequent of an increasingly dominant market logic. This article draws on interviews with disabled academics, line managers, human resources professionals, estates staff, health and safety staff, and trade union representatives, alongside university policy documents, to discuss the impact of this logic on the experiences of disabled academics. Understandings of disability across professional groups were divorced from institutional rhetoric of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, aligning more clearly with market logic, manifest in performance management and idealised notions of academic work. Unlike students, disabled academics are required to navigate hostile policies and procedures. Their diagnoses are used in points of dispute relating to performance, or as an obstruction to dismissal tolerated out of legal obligation. This article illustrates the need for a change in university institutional logics to undo the damaging limitations of following market models of education.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2023-04-18T08:54:39Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385231162570
       
  • Are Right-Wing Attitudes and Voting Associated with Having Attended
           Private School' An Investigation Using the 1970 British Cohort Study

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      Authors: Richard D Wiggins, Samantha Parsons, Francis Green, George B Ploubidis, Alice Sullivan
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      This article addresses the question of whether attending a private school affects voting behaviour and political attitudes in adulthood in Britain. The analysis is based upon the British Cohort Study, a nationally representative cohort of children born in one week in April 1970. The ‘effect’ of attending a private school on the tendency to vote Conservative in four consecutive General Elections, and on the expression of conservative attitudes in mid-life is assessed using path analysis. The model includes multiple indicators for a range of antecedents: social origins at birth, cultural and material capital, academic achievements and early social class destination. Once these antecedents are included in the model, for both men and women a direct positive relationship remains between attending private school and voting Conservative and holding right-leaning attitudes. The main significance of these findings follows from the high proportion of private school alumni in influential positions in public life.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2023-04-07T07:01:10Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385221141386
       
  • Knowledge Hierarchies and Gender Disparities in Social Science Funding

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      Authors: Julien Larregue, Mathias Wullum Nielsen
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      This article examines the relationship between knowledge hierarchies and gender stratification in research funding. Through a mixed-methods study combining data on 5460 funded and unfunded social science applications submitted to a research council in Western Europe, and nine interviews with current and former council members, we explore how applicants’ disciplinary, thematic and methodological orientations intersect with gender to shape funding opportunities. Descriptive analysis indicates that women’s proposals are underfunded, with a relative gender difference of around 20%. Using computational text analysis and mediation analysis, we approximate that around one-third of this disparity may be attributed to gender differences in disciplinary focus, thematic specialisations and methodologies. The interviews with council members allow us to make sense of these disparities and expose the disciplinary hierarchies and power struggles at play in the council, sometimes resulting in a devaluation of qualitative methods and, more broadly, interpretive, descriptive and exploratory approaches in proposal assessments.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2023-04-03T12:34:15Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385231163071
       
  • Reproduction and the Expanding Border: Pregnant Migrants as a
           ‘Problem’ in the 2014 Immigration Act

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      Authors: Gwyneth Lonergan
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      This article explores the construction of the UK National Health Service as a ‘bordering scape’, and the depiction of pregnant migrants as an especial problem, in policy documents and Parliamentary debates around the 2014 Immigration Act. Migrant women’s reproductive practices have long been an object of state anxiety, and a target of state intervention. However, this has been largely overlooked in recent scholarship on the proliferation and multiplication of internal bordering processes. This article addresses this gap and contributes to conceptualisations of bordering processes as situated and intersectional, arguing that discourses and anxieties around the reproduction of the nation-state play an important role in informing the construction of the proliferating internal border. These discourses and anxieties, which are heavily gendered and racialised, interact with the specificities of individual bordering sites in shaping both bordering processes, and the production of different individuals and groups within these processes.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2023-04-03T12:32:15Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385231157987
       
  • Book Review: Heidi A Campbell and Ruth Tsuria (eds), Digital Religion:
           Understanding Religious Practice in Digital Media

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      Authors: Mahmud Yunus Mustofa, Mamnunah, Marina Rospitasari
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2023-03-27T12:55:25Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385231161228
       
  • Virtues or Talent among Brotherless Daughters: A Study of How Patriarchal
           Gender Ideals Affect Gender Role Attitudes among Women from the One-Child
           Generation in China

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      Authors: Ye Liu
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      Are women from the one-child generation in China gender egalitarians' Despite extensive studies on gender role attitudes from structural and cultural perspectives, limited research has explored the significance of gender role attitudes in Global South contexts, like China, which have unique demographic and cultural characteristics. This study focuses on the talent-and-virtue gender ideal – a classic set of patriarchal gender norms in which men are judged by their talent but women by virtues. Using 82 individual interviews with siblingless women, this study argues that women’s accumulation of socio-economic, geographical and financial (dis)advantages through the life course, particularly in relation to their husbands, drives their divergent gender role attitudes. Findings reveal the limitations of structural and cultural perspectives in explaining divergence and conversions of gender attitudes. A life-course accumulation and relational positionality lens offers an opportunity for scholars to assess the complexity of gender attitudes in Global South contexts and to analyse persistent gender inequalities in patriarchal cultures.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2023-03-27T12:54:34Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385231160033
       
  • Better Than the Markets: Mutual Fund Managers’ Perceptions of the
           Rich

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      Authors: Hanna Kuusela
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      This article investigates the cultural perceptions and the common sense held by Finnish mutual fund managers on the very wealthy and the rich in times of growing inequalities and increased wealth accumulation at the top. By studying the financial intermediaries on the shop-floor level, who embody the promises of popular finance, the article describes how fund managers working for the small investors make sense of the inequalities caused by financialization. In the research interviews analysed in the article, the mutual fund managers perceive the rich as a necessary and salutary part of the contemporary economy, whose function is to be and behave better than the financialized markets. This common sense concerning the rich helps to legitimize increasing wealth accumulation at the top, so that the fund managers’ perceptions of the rich embody an ideological coalition between the working financiers and the super-rich rentiers, a coalition that contrasts starkly with the promises of popular finance.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2023-03-27T12:52:54Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385231159001
       
  • How and Why People Use Mobile Phones Near Bedtime and in Bed: Israelis’
           Narratives of Digitally Enabled Sleepful Sociality

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      Authors: Dana Zarhin
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      Although prior studies have examined the impact of smartphone use on sleep and there is a growing interest in the interface between mobile phones and society, researchers know little about how and why people use mobile phones before bedtime and in bed. The current research explores this question by drawing on data from sleep diaries and in-depth interviews with 66 Israelis. The results show that the human–mobile phone sleep assemblage generates agentic capacities that allow individuals to engage in a digitally enabled form of what I call sleepful sociality – a sociality marked by sleep. Through the use of mobile phones, individuals create, maintain and/or detach from social relations and fulfil social obligations near bedtime and during sleep, while also trying to facilitate and protect their own and their bed partner’s sleep. These findings enhance the understanding of how technology is enmeshed with sociality and creates new ways of being social.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2023-03-27T12:51:34Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385231157560
       
  • Give My Child a Label: Strategies of Epistemic Corroboration in
           Case-Building within Child Mental Health Assessments

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      Authors: Michelle O’Reilly, Nikki Kiyimba, Victoria Lee, Ian Hutchby
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      Child mental health services are in rising demand, but increasingly overstretched and difficult for families to access. This article examines rhetorical techniques used by parents seeking a mental health diagnosis for their child. Using recordings of consultations from a child mental health clinic (UK) with 28 families, analysis focuses on the use of ‘epistemic corroboration’, a strategy by which third-party candidate diagnoses are reported to support the parents’ case. That is, parents draw upon the expertise of non-present professional persons to strengthen their proposed diagnostic claims. Conversation analysis shows how this epistemic corroboration is reported by parents and received by mental health practitioners. Conclusions illustrate that mental health diagnosis for children is actively pursued by parents as they navigate labelling. This has implications for understanding the dilemmas created for families of possible medicalisation of their child to achieve the levels of support being sought.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2023-03-27T12:49:34Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385221147144
       
  • Cleansing Frames: How Digital ‘Consumer Reports’ of Cannabis and
           Psychedelics Normalise Drug-Taking and Neutralise its Counter-Cultural
           Potential

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      Authors: Isak Ladegaard
      Abstract: Sociology, Ahead of Print.
      Electronic drug markets enable calculative, impersonal trade between faceless strangers, but also intimate interaction between pseudonymous users. In this space, do people treat banned drugs as ordinary consumer products that can be purchased from anyone' Or do drug-takers frame their consumption as a counter-cultural activity' To answer these questions, I use qualitative and computational research methods to analyse 3788 electronically published consumer reports of cannabis and psychedelic drugs from the period 2011–2017. I find that report writers emphasise product quality, customer service and transaction value, and devote less attention to the social and political sides of drug-taking. Discussions about legality, morality and counter-cultural ideas are completely absent from the texts, even in psychedelic reports, which detail profound effects. These findings suggest that drug e-commerce is primarily a normalising force, and that widening access to banned drugs is unlikely to disseminate counter-cultural perspectives.
      Citation: Sociology
      PubDate: 2023-03-25T06:04:21Z
      DOI: 10.1177/00380385231160470
       
  • 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
       
  • 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
       
 
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