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- Critical Focus: Study of an Arts Centre
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Authors: Laura Harris
Abstract: Sociological Research Online, Ahead of Print.
Critical Focus: Study of an Arts Centre is a 15-minute, two-channel film documenting the everyday life of an art gallery during the exhibition installation period. It was made as part of a sociological investigation of skilled but invisible labour in the art gallery, such as that of gallery technicians. In addition to this focus on skilled labour, the film focuses on the atmospheres of the different spaces in and around the gallery, and the ways they are produced by different social actors. The accompanying essay introduces the context in which the film was made, as well as the theories that informed it. These include theories of atmosphere and skill, as well as the styles and practices of artists who make documentary-like work themselves. The essay also details choices that are both ethical and stylistic, such as the close angles, the focus on material and architectural textures, and a focus on hands rather than faces.
Citation: Sociological Research Online
PubDate: 2024-08-07T03:47:16Z
DOI: 10.1177/13607804241239136
- Engaging With Lived Experience: Towards a Sociological Biography of a
Sociological Category-
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Authors: Paul Jones
Abstract: Sociological Research Online, Ahead of Print.
Although addressing the lives, perceptions, and practices of others, sociological research has an ambivalent association with the category of lived experience. Despite its use not always being accompanied by a precise definition, lived experience appears prominently in much academic research and teaching, descriptively standing in for direct firsthand engagement with a wide range of issues. But we know little about how it is implemented in research in contemporary academic sociology. Analysing the content of six years’ worth of British Sociological Association (BSA) journal articles that contain ‘lived experience’ (n36), the aim is to illuminate how sociologists practically deploy the category in their published research. Addressing questions of definition, method, authority of knowledge claims, and coherence of topical inquiry, a central contention is that in the articles reviewed lived experience – despite its often taken-for-granted character – does crucial categorical work with respect to how sociological research is produced and framed.
Citation: Sociological Research Online
PubDate: 2024-08-02T09:14:39Z
DOI: 10.1177/13607804241254285
- Does the Liberalization of Masculine Space Improve Experiences for Sexual
Minorities'-
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Authors: Eric Anderson, Cyd Zeigler, John Batten, Joseph Reed, Keith Parry, Rory Magrath
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North American attitudes are liberalizing toward sexual minorities. This is even found within traditionally conservative, masculine institutions, like fraternities, religion, and the military. However, evidence for Liberalization Theory is mostly derived from attitudinal change of sexual and gender majorities alongside policy changes, with less evidence from sexual and gender minority experiences. Thus, there remain questions as to whether, or to what degree, improved majority attitudes promote sexual minority experiences. To investigate the impact of liberalization of the masculine organizational culture of team sports, we used survey results from 793 openly lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) high school and collegiate athletes, representing 981 coming out experiences. We find that 92.5% of high school and 97.1% of college athletes’ coming out-of-the-closet to teammates experiences were deemed to be from neutral to perfect. We also found no significant differences in overall experience in being out to teammates in highly masculinized teams sports compared to other sports at either the high school or collegiate level. These results suggest that liberalizing North American sexual majority attitudes do translate into improved LGBT experiences within the socially conservative institution of educationally based team sports.
Citation: Sociological Research Online
PubDate: 2024-08-02T07:27:17Z
DOI: 10.1177/13607804241252525
- Rethinking Empowerment: Young African Migrants’ Understandings of Power
and Empowerment in Ghana-
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Authors: Grace Spencer, Stephen Owusu Kwankye, Jill Thompson, Ernestina Dankyi
Abstract: Sociological Research Online, Ahead of Print.
Concepts of empowerment pervade popular discourses on youth and the term is often applied uncritically as a means to leverage young people’s perspectives on matters that affect their lives. Despite such focus, little critical work exists that unpacks young people’s own meanings of the term, or indeed considers the possible unintended consequences that may emerge from these framings. Drawing on interviews and focus groups with 59 young African migrants aged 15–24 years in Ghana, we examine young people’s understandings of empowerment and consider the concept’s usefulness for supporting young lives. Findings were analysed thematically and highlighted how socioeconomic conditions shaped young people’s agency and (limited) the opportunities to effect change. Our analysis raises critical questions about the relevance of empowerment to the lives of marginalised youth who live and work in contexts of vulnerability. The paper advances the conceptual elaboration of empowerment as it relates (or not) to the lives of young African migrants and considers how best to harness these perspectives in actions that support positive youth futures.
Citation: Sociological Research Online
PubDate: 2024-07-30T06:51:37Z
DOI: 10.1177/13607804241253053
- Non-Heteronormative Reproductive Tactics in Poland
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Authors: Joanna Mizielińska, Agata Stasińska
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In the backdrop of increasing discussions about reproductive normativity for non-heterosexual individuals in the West, this article addresses the distinct challenges faced by same-sex couples in Poland. The country’s pronatalist state policies limit their access to assisted reproductive techniques, fostering heteronormative and exclusive practices. Consequently, non-heterosexual individuals in Poland grapple with the non-recognition of their family bonds. This article explores the inventive tactics employed by LGBTIQ individuals to become parents in a restrictive environment. It analyses the legal loopholes they navigate and the various factors influencing their choices. The study’s results, drawn from a multi and mixed-method research project, contribute to broader sociological debates on family, identity, and reproductive rights, highlighting how non-heterosexual individuals in Poland persevere in forging their paths to parenthood.
Citation: Sociological Research Online
PubDate: 2024-07-27T10:09:18Z
DOI: 10.1177/13607804241237339
- Collectivist Relationality and Individualistic Relationality: Pacific
Mothers and Fathers Negotiating Agency and Identity in Post–Separation
Care Arrangements for Children-
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Authors: Moeata Keil
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The degree to which agency and identity are experienced as individualised or relational constructs have been widely debated in the sociological literature. Yet, at the centre of these debates are Western notions and understandings of individualisation and relationality, including in family research. They have relied on individualised and nuclearised understandings and approaches to being a family that more closely approximate the lives of white Western middle-class nuclear families. Drawing on semi-structured talanoa (akin to interviews) with separated heterosexual Pacific parents, specifically ten mothers and five fathers, living in New Zealand, I contribute to individualisation and relationality debates by examining how agency and identity are enacted following separation. In particular, I examine the way that Pacific mothers and fathers grapple with tenets of individualisation and relationality in terms of how and with whom they organise and negotiate care arrangements for children. My research demonstrates how Pacific gendered norms and values operated in ways that differentially shaped the kinds of decisions that mothers and fathers made about children’s care arrangements. I conclude with a discussion that highlights the significance of integrating cultural relationality into research on family life.
Citation: Sociological Research Online
PubDate: 2024-07-23T08:54:30Z
DOI: 10.1177/13607804241250292
- Using Community Power to Tackle Gender-Based Violence: An Intersectional
Theorisation-
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Authors: Gabriella Mwedzi, Alison Phipps
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What is the role of the community in tackling gender-based violence (GBV)' Could communities succeed in ways that states have failed' What approaches could make this possible' This article presents a theoretical discussion of Community Power, a recently codified and influential paradigm in Britain that focuses on ‘handing power’ to communities to deal with local issues. We are particularly interested in its potential to tackle GBV, a persistent issue with many social determinants relevant to Community Power. Our refractive analysis works on two levels: (1) we explore the possibilities of Community Power in relation to GBV; and (2) we use GBV as a lens on Community Power to illuminate its broader strengths and weaknesses. In doing this, we call for a deeper engagement with the terms ‘community’ and ‘power’, which are under-theorised and flattened in the paradigm of Community Power. Applying intersectional theory to this task, we find that Community Power initiatives risk exacerbating the dynamics that underpin GBV. We make suggestions for creating a more GBV-sensitive approach to Community Power, which might also help to enhance this mode of practice in the round.
Citation: Sociological Research Online
PubDate: 2024-06-24T07:38:27Z
DOI: 10.1177/13607804241252271
- Beyond the Rhetoric of Revanchism Towards the Metropolitan Core: An
Analysis of Symbolic Representations of Milan From Its Peripheries-
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Authors: Niccolò Morelli
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Socio-political research has shown that in metropolitan peripheries, populist parties have gained significant support. This is because these parties capitalise on a widespread feeling of exclusion, leading to a revanchist social representation of affluent metropolitan centres. This article contributes to the debate on metropolitan dynamics by exploring the social representations of the centre–periphery relationship, showing how symbolic representations play a role in shaping codes of action and revanchism alone is insufficient to understand the core–periphery relationship. Four suburbs with similar socioeconomic characteristics in the functional urban area of Milan were selected. Milan is the most important Italian metropolis, and it has a relevant socio-political fracture. Semi-structured interviews were carried out to analyse the cultural meanings of living on the periphery among local leaders. The metropolitan centre is perceived as necessary, evoking ‘efficient’ representations; however, these peripheral contexts are meaningful places of belonging. This article shows that an analysis of the dynamics at work at the metropolitan level should consider peripheral contexts.
Citation: Sociological Research Online
PubDate: 2024-06-24T07:34:03Z
DOI: 10.1177/13607804241249554
- Rethinking Veganism in the Digital Age. Innovating Methodology and
Typology to Explore a Decade of Facebook Discourses-
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Authors: Nicola Righetti, Niccolò Bertuzzi
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In this article, we examine the expressions of veganism on Facebook, a main social media platform worldwide, through a combination of classic qualitative social science and computational methods. Building on a foundational typology proposed by Jessica Greenebaum, we adopt Weber’s ‘ideal types’ to analyze a broad range of online vegan expressions, using Max Reinert’s algorithm to identify distinct ‘lexical worlds’ of vegan discourses in 200,000 vegan-related messages published over a decade (2010–2020). Our analysis leads to a nuanced typology based on individual versus collective focus and inward versus outward orientation, uncovering four primary functions of social media in veganism: self-documentation and resource sharing, advocacy and education, identity and community formation, and support and mobilization. The research also advances methodological approaches in social media analysis by integrating traditional qualitative insights with computational Big Data techniques.
Citation: Sociological Research Online
PubDate: 2024-06-13T09:46:14Z
DOI: 10.1177/13607804241248350
- Beyond Local Domains: Connective Ontology in (Post-)Cognitive Sociology
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Authors: James Rupert Fletcher
Abstract: Sociological Research Online, Ahead of Print.
Ontology in cognitive science has long been dominated by cognitivism, developing computer science metaphors to position cognition as intrinsic mind-brain information-processing. Contemporary cognitivism hypothesises localised domain-specificity, disaggregating cognition into discrete subtypes, each of which exists in a dedicated brain region. Latterly, peripheral cognitive science scholarships have contested these ideas, cultivating post-cognitivist dispositions with radical ontologies, relocating cognition in active socio-material ecologies. Nonetheless, much cognitive sociology retains cognitivist ontology, treating sociological phenomena as extrinsic constraints that influence the mind-brain’s foundational cognition. I argue that cognitive sociology could fruitfully engage with post-cognitivist science. As an example, I use connective ontology, from the sociology of personal life, to conceptualise cognition as dynamically emergent and vitally animated ecological connective energies. Doing so, I show that post-cognitivism offers routes towards genuine social ontologies of cognition as a sociological matter, moving beyond cognitivism.
Citation: Sociological Research Online
PubDate: 2024-06-10T09:14:16Z
DOI: 10.1177/13607804241237768
- The Self in Self-Help: A Re-Appraisal of Therapeutic Culture in a Time of
Crisis-
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Authors: Daniel Nehring
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In this article, I analyse constructions of the self in bestselling self-help books in the United Kingdom. In doing so, I offer a re-appraisal of contemporary therapeutic culture. Therapeutic culture has long been associated with neoliberal governance, and scholars have argued that popular therapeutic narratives promote neoliberal accounts of an autonomous, masterful ‘entrepreneurial self’, able to thrive in the world on its own. However, beginning with the international financial crisis of 2008, neoliberalism has entered a period of serious and accelerating crisis and contestation. The question therefore arises to what extent popular therapeutic narratives might have changed during this period. In response, I analyse narratives of the self and self-improvement in UK self-help bestsellers between 2008 and 2022. Given their high sales and consumption, self-help books are prominent in the constitution of popular therapeutic discourse. I focus on the UK as an emblematic case, given its history of neoliberal politics, the latter’s recent crisis, and the salience of therapeutic culture in the country. Across the analysed period, my findings point to the emergence of alternative, survivalist and spiritual, therapeutic discourses that move beyond the model of the entrepreneurial self, while ultimately retaining its core assumptions about rational, autonomous behavioural modification.
Citation: Sociological Research Online
PubDate: 2024-06-03T08:04:39Z
DOI: 10.1177/13607804241242345
- Walking the (Infrastructural) Line: Mobile and Embodied Explorations of
Infrastructures and Their Impact on the Urban Landscape-
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Authors: Louise Rondel, Laura Henneke
Abstract: Sociological Research Online, Ahead of Print.
Drawing on a series of Infrastructural Exploration ‘walkshops’ hosted at the Centre for Urban and Community Research (Goldsmiths), this article reflects on the possibilities offered by walking infrastructural lines to critically engage with urban infrastructure. In these walkshops, we invite participants – academic researchers, students, activists, members of the public – to join in moving through the city and to consider their embodied and emotional contact with the infrastructure we encounter. Traversing different spaces and opening our sociological imaginations to the city, we place an emphasis on collective experiences, happenstance conversations and different forms of knowing. We aim to foster a corporeal, mobile and multisensory attention to infrastructure and its impacts on the urban landscape. In this article, we propose that these embodied and affective encounters with infrastructure can attune us to questions of infrastructure’s social life, the politics of its siting, urban power dynamics, distributional (in)justice and forms of (infra)structural violence. Inspired by Shannon Mattern’s work, the article ends by offering a provocation. We ask readers, as we ask walkshop participants: then what' What are the socio-political potentials in these collective, peripatetic and visceral engagements with infrastructure'
Citation: Sociological Research Online
PubDate: 2024-06-03T04:46:49Z
DOI: 10.1177/13607804241247713
- Journeys Through Genomics: Co-Producing Visual Resources to Communicate
Patient Experiences-
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Authors: Kate Lyle, Susie Weller, Anneke Lucassen
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Journeys through Genomics is a series of illustrations co-produced with patients and families to communicate their experiences of seeking genomic explanations for a health condition and the wider impact on their lives. The resources are embedded within qualitative longitudinal research exploring patient’s experiences of genomic medicine. This research takes place as genomic medicine becomes an integral part of mainstream care within the UK healthcare system. The depiction of genomic medicine often focuses on its technological components and the speed by which genetic code can be analysed, but here, we present a dynamic and situated understanding of the challenges genomic testing presents for patients and families. We describe the process of working with research participants and an artist to co-produce visual resources that illustrate the complexity of participant’s journeys, situating genomic testing within the broader context of their lives. These resources are designed to help future patients, families, and healthcare professionals understand the process, opportunities, and challenges they may face.
Citation: Sociological Research Online
PubDate: 2024-06-03T04:34:29Z
DOI: 10.1177/13607804241252528
- Re-Thinking Therapeutic Cultures: Tracing Change and Continuity in a Time
of Crisis and Change-
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Authors: Daniel Nehring, Mariano Plotkin, Piroska Csúri, Nicolás Viotti
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Citation: Sociological Research Online
PubDate: 2024-05-25T09:42:55Z
DOI: 10.1177/13607804241249284
- Living in a Regime of Energy Shortages: Spotlights From Lviv During the
War-
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Authors: Mateusz Błaszczyk, Khrystyna Ilyk, Yuriy Pachkovskyy
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This article delves into societal functioning amid continuous deficits in access to electricity and heat. As a consequence of the Russian–Ukrainian conflict, Ukraine’s energy infrastructure has been sustaining damage, leading to planned and unplanned disruptions in electricity and heat supply. This scenario has created unique circumstances, akin to a natural laboratory, for analysing social action building resilience to sustain social order under energy constraints. The data presented in this article come from systematic observations conducted in Lviv from November 2022 to January 2023. The findings shed light on the social repercussions of energy constraints and modes of adaptation. Despite the preliminary nature of the analyses carried out, discussion with the results allows us to grasp the specific context of war in the processes of creating social resilience to the threat of electricity shortages.
Citation: Sociological Research Online
PubDate: 2024-05-18T09:28:23Z
DOI: 10.1177/13607804241240810
- Networks on Paint! Conducting Sociograms Via Graphic Raster Editors as
Embedded in Online Interviews-
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Authors: Mücahit Aydemir
Abstract: Sociological Research Online, Ahead of Print.
This article presents a novel method for creating sociograms in online qualitative interviews. Sociograms, also known as ego-centric network maps, refer to a data visualization tool commonly used for personal network analysis. While paper-based sociogram maps have gained attention in face-to-face qualitative research, little research has been done on how to conduct them in online interviews. This article introduces a new method for conducting sociograms as embedded in online qualitative interviews. It proposes using graphic raster editor programmes, like Microsoft Paint, for carrying out sociogram maps as a part of the online interview process. The article first provides a detailed explanation of how these programmes can be used to conduct sociogram diagrams online. After that, taking a reflexive approach, it discusses the advantages and disadvantages of conducting online sociograms through graphic raster editor programmes in a larger research project on the transnational family relationships of migrant academics in Britain (Aydemir, 2022).
Citation: Sociological Research Online
PubDate: 2024-05-14T09:43:42Z
DOI: 10.1177/13607804241237773
- Living Together Apart: Size and Significance of Co-Residency Following
Relationship Breakdown in Contemporary Britain-
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Authors: Simon Duncan, Jenny van Hooff, Julia Carter
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In this article, we seek to establish the importance of living together apart (LTA), where ex-partners continue to co-reside following relationship breakdown. Although LTA is commonplace, it has been almost completely overlooked by family sociology and social policy. Because LTA is conceptually unrecognised, there is little empirical information and because there is so little information, it remains conceptually unrecognised. In this article, we attempt to break out from this loop. First, we place LTA within the context of partnership change. Second, we estimate the quantitative magnitude and qualitative significance of LTA in Britain. We use a survey concerned with owner-occupier LTA to indicate population characteristics and aggregate behaviour. This is accompanied by qualitative analysis of Mumsnet forums on LTA, to develop insight into understandings and relationships. Drawing on these findings, we argue that LTA is both a significant household form and important relationship type.
Citation: Sociological Research Online
PubDate: 2024-05-09T07:41:29Z
DOI: 10.1177/13607804241246411
- Male Sex Workers as Situational Entrepreneurs: Exploring the Demographics,
Motivations, and Practices of Male Sex Workers in the Tourism Industry in
Botswana-
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Authors: Lesedi Mashumba
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While sex tourism has been well studied in international contexts, to date, only a few studies have focused on African countries. For Botswana and other African countries, the lack of studies in sex work is surprising, given its prevalence in such societies. In the African context, sex work and tourism are very complex, controversial, and entangled with politics and religious disapproval. Moreover, the few existing studies have mostly focused on female sex workers, hence creating a gap in the literature when it comes to understanding male sex work. Using a qualitative approach, the researcher used in-depth face-to-face and semi-structured interviews with 20 male sex workers in Botswana to explore the motivations, dynamics of entry, and sex work practices in Botswana. This article argues that male sex workers in Botswana could be viewed as situational entrepreneurs seeking economic opportunities beyond legitimised ways. A study that explores the dynamics of male sex work is critical in Botswana, first to determine similarities with other contexts and second, to inform policy on the needs of male sex workers in Botswana.
Citation: Sociological Research Online
PubDate: 2024-04-24T10:09:02Z
DOI: 10.1177/13607804241235806
- ‘They Should have been Looking after People for a Long Time’: Human
Giving and Generosity During COVID-19, in Austerity Britain-
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Authors: Liz McDonnell, Amy Clarke, Alison Phipps
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The COVID-19 pandemic mobilised a multitude of acts of giving and generosity. This article provides a snapshot of giving and generosity among a small sample of individuals in the UK, in a context following years of ungenerous austerity politics. Giving and generous actions played a crucial role in mitigating the negative effects of COVID and we report on data collected using in-depth interviews to understand experiences of giving and generosity. We conceptualise giving and generosity as pro-social or other-focused actions that involve sharing of resources, underpinned by a crossing of the hyphen between self and other. This article explores the ways in which participants were mobilised by perceived social and political injustices and thus we offer a different understanding of giving and generosity as micro-activism that is done with a critical eye turned towards the macro context.
Citation: Sociological Research Online
PubDate: 2024-04-20T03:03:01Z
DOI: 10.1177/13607804241235715
- Who Do the Socially Mobile Vote For' A Longitudinal Analysis of
Intergenerational Mobility and Political Preferences-
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Authors: John Jerrim, Neil Kaye
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Social mobility has become a key public policy issue across the Western world. But who do the upwardly and downwardly mobile vote for' Does their voting behaviour remain the same as their peers in their social origin class, or does it quickly assimilate to mimic the behaviour of others at their social destination' This article presents new, longitudinal evidence on this issue, documenting how the link between social origin, destination and political voting behaviour varies during adult life. We find individuals who move up the social ladder are more likely to vote Conservative than individuals who remain in the same social class as their parents. Overall, an individual’s social origin and social destination seem to be equally important for how they vote. Yet we find no evidence that social mobility is associated with political voting preferences per se; rather upwardly mobile individuals’ greater propensity to vote for the Conservatives is driven by the joint impact of their social origin and destination.
Citation: Sociological Research Online
PubDate: 2024-04-10T09:23:11Z
DOI: 10.1177/13607804241229009
- ‘In This Prison We Have Our Main Meal at 11:30 AM’. The Significance
of ‘Time’ For Food Among People Serving Custodial Sentences in England
and Wales-
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Authors: Julie M Parsons
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In this article, I am thinking through the social life of time for food in prison from a practice theory perspective. I draw upon empirical data from in-depth qualitative interviews with people serving custodial sentences or recently released from prison in England and Wales who have been on placement at a prisoner resettlement charity (RC). These support findings from Her Majesty’s Inspectorate for Prisons report on Life Inside: Food from 2016, and I consider two aspects from the report, (i) an exploration of the standards and conditions in which food is consumed and (ii) the timings of mealtimes. For people in prison, disruptions to the usual rhythms of everyday life, or chrono-normative expectations, serve as stark reminders of a lack of agency and worth. People in prison are forced to adapt and work within temporal spaces that are subject to flux due to the systemic demands of an under-resourced prison system. These constitute a contravention of social and cultural norms and reinforce the notion of the prison as a place of punishment, and degradation. These temporal shifts contribute to the transformation of civilian to prisoner and form part of a process of de-synchronising with life outside.
Citation: Sociological Research Online
PubDate: 2024-03-30T03:52:37Z
DOI: 10.1177/13607804241233033
- Leaping the Abyss: The Problematic Translation of Social Research Results
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Authors: Seweryn Rudnicki, Katarzyna Wojnicka
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This article argues that translating social research findings into policy recommendations may pose a significant methodological and practical challenge. Due to the current emphasis on the ‘third mission’ of universities and the ‘relevance’ of scientific knowledge, it has become more common for sociologists to engage in projects that include the development of social-research-based recommendations. This article analyses empirically an example of such a project – an extensive, European Commission–funded study about the role of men in gender equality in Europe – and shows that developing recommendations may receive lower priority than producing findings, be unguided by any specific method or approach, and operate within an ‘aura of evidence’ rather than a ‘hierarchy of evidence’. Discouraging an all-too-easy criticism, this article argues for more reflection, frameworks, and methods that could support sociologists in the development of research-based guidelines for policies.
Citation: Sociological Research Online
PubDate: 2024-03-08T12:34:17Z
DOI: 10.1177/13607804241228688
- Book Review: Study Gods: How the New Chinese Elite Prepare for Global
Competition-
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Authors: Yuhao Peng
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Citation: Sociological Research Online
PubDate: 2024-03-04T09:50:18Z
DOI: 10.1177/13607804241231680
- Book Review: Rethinking Locality in Japan
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Authors: Meriç Kırmızı
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Citation: Sociological Research Online
PubDate: 2024-03-04T09:47:47Z
DOI: 10.1177/13607804241231679
- Sugar Rush or Sugar Risk' Experiences with Risks and Risk Management
among Young Sugar Daters-
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Authors: Theresa Dyrvig Henriksen, Josefine Frøslev-Thomsen
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Sugar dating is a complex phenomenon that unfolds on a continuum between traditional dating and sex work. Existing research shows that sugar dating is often portrayed as rife with potential physical and social risks, and from a societal standpoint, it is also often characterized as a risky activity, particularly for young individuals. In this article, we investigate the emergence of these risks and how young sugar daters strategize to minimize them. The findings demonstrate that risk in sugar dating is influenced by complex social and cultural contexts, where especially the stigmatized nature and gendered storyline of sugar dating constitute risks for young sugar daters. These risks are further shaped by the cultural construction of late-modern sexuality, which favours elusive and volatile sexual relations combined with a desire to explore while being young. The young women in this study view sugar dating as a temporary activity that they do not imagine themselves engaging in when they get older. They associate sugar dating with the phase of youth, but unlike other types of youth risk-taking, sugar dating does not occur within the social context of peers. Instead, risk management in the context of sugar dating primarily becomes an individual responsibility, as involving others is perceived as carrying substantial social risks of being labelled as sexually immoral. The study underscores that risk in sugar dating does not exist in a vacuum; rather, it is intertwined with complex social and cultural contexts surrounding sugar dating. By shedding light on these intricate factors, our research contributes to a comprehensive understanding of the lived experiences and dynamics of risk management within the realm of sugar dating.
Citation: Sociological Research Online
PubDate: 2024-03-04T09:44:48Z
DOI: 10.1177/13607804231224567
- Book Review: Habit’s Pathways: Repetition, Power, Conduct
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Authors: Gordana Angelichin-Zhura
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Citation: Sociological Research Online
PubDate: 2024-02-22T09:35:04Z
DOI: 10.1177/13607804241229000
- Digital Therapeutic Cultures and Their New Regime of Psychological Truth
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Authors: Rodrigo De La Fabián
Abstract: Sociological Research Online, Ahead of Print.
The article focuses on contemporary digital therapeutic cultures’ new regime of truth. This entails describing and critically analysing the sociomaterial apparatuses that distinguish truth from false and produce specific modes of subjectivation. The article shows that the digital regime of psychological truth is heir to the behavioural mistrust of subjectivity and the epistemological shift from the causal-comprehensive model towards the probabilistic-predictive one. However, the psychological subject has not been excluded, but her role has changed. The article introduces the distinction between valuable and spurious truths to analyse this shift. Algorithms do not need the psychological subject to produce true outcomes, but they depend on her and psy-knowledges to distinguish significative from irrelevant truths. Following Maurizio Lazzarato, the article concludes that digital therapeutic cultures share one of the main features of contemporary capitalism: to produce value at the intersection of processes of subjectivation and de-subjectivation.
Citation: Sociological Research Online
PubDate: 2024-02-22T06:45:37Z
DOI: 10.1177/13607804241228458
- Mediating Gender Norms Through the ‘Foodies’ Culture as
Romantic Emotions-
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Authors: Wei-Ping Chen
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This study explores how intimacy is shaped through mobile-mediated dating, which is seasoned with culinary preferences and gendered conventions. Drawing on the sociological concept of mediated intimacy and attending to emotionalised culinary experiences and gendered individualism, this study asks three questions. First, how is intimacy represented by dining-dating apps' Second, how do these dining-dating apps approach ‘being single’' Third, what gender relations and what contradictions between romance and consumerism can be identified in dating that is managed by an app and that trades in intimate commodities' By analysing the advertising text, testimonials, and reviews posted online, I demonstrate that individuals are not only invited to manage their intimate life through cultural consumption but are also compelled to adopt accelerated and mediated ways of engaging. I reveal that the limited and regulated access to communicative exchanges and the extended follow-up dinner dates in dining-dating apps is related to concerns about personal and relational investment. Furthermore, I argue that dining-dating apps participate in the mediation of emotions and gender relations by introducing intimate commodities that blur the borders between individualist aspiration and gendered and classed ways of experiencing intimacy. Together, these findings provide a particularly interesting context and open up new avenues for studying intimacy, gender, and cultural consumption in sociology and media studies.
Citation: Sociological Research Online
PubDate: 2024-02-17T02:57:08Z
DOI: 10.1177/13607804241227113
- The Perceptions of Prostitution, Sex Work, and Sex Trafficking among Young
People in Spain-
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Authors: Carmen Meneses-Falcón, Antonio Rúa-Vieites, Olaya García-Vázquez
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This article analyses the viewpoints of Spanish youth regarding prostitution, sex workers, and their opinions on what the law surrounding sex work should be. Spain is currently in the grip of a great debate, tending to adopt the punishment of sex buyers. To investigate this issue, 3126 young participants aged 16–30 were surveyed through an online questionnaire in December 2020, which consisted of 21 questions. A factor analysis revealed three distinct perceptions of prostitution falling into three categories: ‘As a choice’ (22.8%), ‘as coercive’ (27.9%), and ‘as economic necessity’ (49.3%). Correspondingly, the legal positions on prostitution varied depending on the perceptions of paid sex: viewing prostitution ‘as coercive’ was associated with the criminalisation of prostitution, while considering sex work ‘as a choice’ was related to the regulation of prostitution. In conclusion, the young Spaniards surveyed do not consider all those who offer paid sex as victims of trafficking; instead, they differentiate based on the connection between trafficking and the sex industry. These diverse perceptions contribute to policy recommendations aimed at preventing the negative consequences of prostitution, implementing harm reduction measures to safeguard sex workers, and moving beyond dichotomous policies of criminalization and regulation.
Citation: Sociological Research Online
PubDate: 2024-02-17T02:50:39Z
DOI: 10.1177/13607804231212306
- Young People Experiencing Multiple Mobilities: In Search of an Oasis of
Youth Across Europe-
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Authors: Ewa Krzaklewska, Valentina Cuzzocrea
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In this study, we look at those young Europeans who have undertaken more than one Erasmus stay abroad during their higher education to reflect on spaces for youth development. On the basis of 18 qualitative interviews with such Erasmus students, we propose the concept of an ‘oasis of youth’ to highlight the potential for the exploration of the self that occurs through participation in mobilities. We revisit and reassess J.J. Arnett’s concept of emerging adulthood to reflect on spaces for exploration for young people in Europe. As the analysis suggests, this ‘oasis of youth’ may symbolise a niche in which young people live out a youthful lifestyle (being), while getting prepared for the transitions to adulthood (becoming). Beyond this particular case, the concept of an oasis of youth may serve to describe the diverse social spaces that express the social value of youth allowing them to live youth momentum while in education, despite growing uncertainty and harshened structural conditions.
Citation: Sociological Research Online
PubDate: 2024-02-16T10:44:42Z
DOI: 10.1177/13607804231224998
- The Psychologization of Student Subjectivity in the Finnish Academia
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Authors: Antti Saari, Kristiina Brunila, Saara Vainio
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Public debate and media attention concerning mental health problems, stress, psycho-emotional vulnerabilities, and anxiety among university students has reached record level. Informed by media representations, student mental health guides, and our observations, we focus on the ethos of vulnerability as an articulation of psychologized student subjectivity in Finnish academia. We explore the multiple registers in which the ethos of vulnerability tends to operate as an assemblage to depict and govern student subjects.
Citation: Sociological Research Online
PubDate: 2024-02-16T10:32:02Z
DOI: 10.1177/13607804231221949
- Understanding Food Assistance Through Care: Theoretical Insights
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Authors: Fábio Rafael Augusto
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Two theoretical perspectives have been extensively mobilized to understand the social role of food assistance initiatives, namely ‘food security’ and ‘political economy’. The main objective of this article is to develop an alternative theoretical approach that allows for more comprehensive analyses. Building on Thomas’s (1993) conceptual work on care, it is expected to encourage the development of studies that incorporate less-obvious elements that (also) characterize food assistance organizations, such as the various interactions and practices that are not directly related to food donations.
Citation: Sociological Research Online
PubDate: 2024-02-09T03:06:21Z
DOI: 10.1177/13607804241226768
- Book Review: Cultural Representations of Gender Vulnerability and
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Authors: Roshan K. Morve
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Citation: Sociological Research Online
PubDate: 2024-01-18T06:17:37Z
DOI: 10.1177/13607804231215732
- Developing ‘Age-Friendly’ Communities: The Experience of
International Retired Migrants-
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Authors: Marion Repetti, Toni Calasanti, Chris Phillipson
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Over the past two decades, the need to create ‘age-friendly cities and communities’ (AFCC) has emerged as a major theme in policies aimed at improving old people’s physical and social environment. The World Health Organization (WHO) has driven this agenda through the launch in 2010 of the Global Network of Age-friendly Cities and Communities. Support for ageing in place has, at the same time, run alongside an increase in international retirement migration, with people choosing not to age in their existing neighbourhood but rather to relocate to another country. The growth of retirement migration has occurred in the context of specialized housing and leisure-orientated developments in cheaper countries targeting retirees from richer countries. This article draws on the narratives of retirees of the UK, Switzerland, France and the USA who have relocated to Spain, Costa Rica and Mexico on a permanent basis. It highlights the reasons migrants put forward to explain the advantages of living in their new home, and what we can learn about the conditions for an age-friendly living environment. This article begins with a review of the development of age-friendly cities and communities, then outlines the concept of ‘elective belonging’ which is used to provide a framework for understanding the growth of retirement migration. Following an overview of current knowledge on retirement migration and a discussion of the methodology of the study, we present the results from interviews with retired migrants about their experiences within their new communities. Finally, we discuss the implications of our study for developing research and policies which acknowledge how age as a social status may be used as a means of fostering the integration of older people within their communities.
Citation: Sociological Research Online
PubDate: 2024-01-17T04:19:37Z
DOI: 10.1177/13607804231217788
- Misbehaviour on Retreat: Rule-Breaking and the Labours of the Self
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Authors: James Hodgson
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Current scholarship tends to frame retreat-going, and the practices carried out therein, as emblematic of late-modern forms of self-work, understanding retreats as part of broader personal life projects of self-mastery and self-knowledge. For this article, I draw on empirical data to suggest that, although work on the self is typically the central concern for retreat-goers, they also question or outright reject the discipline of the retreat space by breaking its ‘rules’. Borrowing insights developed in the context of organisation studies, I describe two kinds of such ‘misbehaviour’ on retreat. First, I explore how retreat-goers misbehave in regards to the rules around intimacy, since sexual and erotic desire is usually discouraged but nonetheless features in retreat-goers’ experiences. Then, I explore examples of collective misbehaviour and suggest that retreat-goers often work together to ensure the retreat’s success by collaboratively breaking the rules through practices like gossip. This article contributes an understanding of how wellbeing practices might be usefully made sense of as social accomplishments, situated within the greater swathe of everyday life. But I also map out one way in which the concept of ‘misbehaviour’ might be applied to activities outside of the workplace.
Citation: Sociological Research Online
PubDate: 2024-01-17T04:14:54Z
DOI: 10.1177/13607804231215935
- Constructing a Crisis: Mental Health, Higher Education and Policy
Entrepreneurs-
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Authors: Ashley Frawley, Chloë Wakeham, Kenneth McLaughlin, Kathryn Ecclestone
Abstract: Sociological Research Online, Ahead of Print.
In 2018, the UK Conservative government issued a ‘non-negotiable’ instruction for universities to make ‘positive mental health’ a strategic priority. This was responding to growing pressure from a variety of stakeholders including mental health organisations, student groups and higher education (HE) management who claimed a worsening crisis of student mental health in the UK. We conducted a qualitative media analysis (QMA) of public discussions of student mental health as a social problem in a sample of (a) newspapers and (b) policy documents produced in the UK between 2010 and 2019 using a contextual constructionist approach and Kingdon’s policy streams framework. It identifies expansive definitions of mental illness, assumptions that precede evidence-gathering, ‘professional exes’ as policy entrepreneurs, and solutions that spread risk across institutions. We conclude by discussing the shift away from autonomous subjectivity towards more heteronomous constructions. In so doing it provides an important contribution to sociological understandings of contemporary subjectivity and social policy regarding mental health in HE.
Citation: Sociological Research Online
PubDate: 2024-01-13T06:40:41Z
DOI: 10.1177/13607804231215943
- ‘It Feels Like a Big Performance’: Space, Performativity and
Young Woman Skateboarders-
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Authors: Carrie Paechter, Lyndsey Stoodley, Michael Keenan, Chris Lawton
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In this article, we apply philosophical and sociological theory to consider how young women skateboarders interact with and are affected by performative aspects of skateboarding cultures. Drawing on findings from a qualitative study of three skateparks plus other skate spaces in and around two English cities, we argue that these spaces are performative in nature and that this is frequently problematic for young woman skateboarders. We suggest that, due to their comparative rarity in these spaces, young women are put under an immediate spotlight on entry, with an expectation that they perform a competent skateboarder identity while under scrutiny from other users of the space; we examine their experiences of this. We conclude by suggesting ways that skateparks and skatespaces can be designed and used to make them more accessible to woman and girl skaters, and to other groups marginalised in skateboarding cultures.
Citation: Sociological Research Online
PubDate: 2024-01-13T06:32:10Z
DOI: 10.1177/13607804231214100
- With God We Distrust! The Impact of Values in Conspiracy Theory Beliefs
About Migration in Serbia-
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Authors: Türkay Salim Nefes, Jasna Milošević Đorđević, Milica Vdović
Abstract: Sociological Research Online, Ahead of Print.
Immigrants are a popular target of conspiracy theories. Despite the urgent relevance of the topic all around the world today, the number of studies on conspiracy theories about migrants and immigration is limited. Helping to fill this important gap in the academic literature, the research analyses conspiracy theory beliefs about migrants and immigration in contemporary Serbia through survey data from a nationally representative sample (N = 1199). Expanding on the Weberian theory of rationality, the study proposes that people’s values about national sovereignty, social conservatism, and religiosity influence their predispositions to believe in conspiracy theories about migrants and immigration. The findings corroborate the argument by showing a statistically significant link between people’s political, social, and religious values and responses to conspiracy theories. The article concludes that values could play a significant role in people’s adoption of conspiracy theories.
Citation: Sociological Research Online
PubDate: 2024-01-13T06:28:11Z
DOI: 10.1177/13607804231212310
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