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Authors:Greta R. KrippnerThe University of Michigan; USA Pages: 249 - 255 Abstract: Critical Sociology, Volume 51, Issue 2, Page 249-255, March 2025.
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Authors:Rafael VerbuystUniversiteit Gent; Belgium; University of Johannesburg, South Africa Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. The role of history in perpetuating settler colonialism is well documented. However, the manner in which Indigenous people draw on the past to resist this oppressive structure remains undertheorized. An anthropological approach is needed to appraise how ... Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2025-04-04T05:58:15Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205251332308
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Authors:Zachary LevensonFlorida International University; USA; University of Johannesburg, South Africa Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print.
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Authors:Zachary Levenson; Marcel Paret Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. If South Africa appeared to be on the verge of socialist revolution in the mid-1980s, a decade later the country’s ruling party was presiding over a regime of privatization and the removal of capital controls. At the center of this process was the ... Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2025-03-31T07:27:49Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205251330900
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Authors:Oscar J. MayorgaEquity Research Cooperative; USA Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. This study explores the interplay between colorblindness and free-market beliefs and their role in justifying inequality. Despite extensive research on racial attitudes, the material impacts of colorblindness remain underexplored. By employing the concept ... Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2025-03-25T07:10:33Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205251325947
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Authors:Carlos Gabriel Torrealba MéndezUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de México; México Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print.
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Authors:William Charles; Ryan GundersonMiami University, USA Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. This study analyzes public discourse on the East Palestine, Ohio train derailment through online interactions in a community Facebook group. Using a critical discourse analysis framework, we explore how residents framed the disaster, engaged with ... Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2025-03-21T06:44:45Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205251328335
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Authors:Jeffery R. WebberYork University; Canada Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print.
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Authors:Alyssa LyonsThe City University of New York; USA Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. Drawing on 26 semi-structured interviews with white mothers and mothers of color in New York City, this paper examines how racialized neoliberalism codifies the structure and operationalization of parent organizations like the parent association (PA) and ... Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2025-03-20T03:58:30Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205251327123
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Authors:P. Khalil Saucier Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print.
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Authors:Tina WildhagenSmith College; USA Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. In US higher education, the category ‘first-generation college student’ has become ubiquitous. Students without parents who graduated from college are categorized as such, programs are designed for them, and researchers study them. Used as a proxy for ... Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2025-03-04T11:31:17Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241309904
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Authors:Tom BrassFormerly of SPS; Cambridge University, UK Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. Examined here is a recent and interesting contribution to the decline thesis, based on a comparative study of the Roman Empire and the modern West. Its argument is that in each instance, the periphery has come to dominate the core, the former supplanting ... Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2025-02-26T02:39:44Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205251316171
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Authors:Sevil SuleymaniGeorge Mason University; USA Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. Focusing on the agency and empowerment of Turk women in the Azerbaijani region of Iran, this study critiques the liberal framing of Muslim women’s resistance and advocates for a more nuanced, intersectional approach. The study reveals how Turk women ... Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2025-02-18T02:18:39Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205251319216
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Authors:Andrea BorghiniUniversity of Pisa; Italy Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. This contribution highlights the methodological and theoretical aspects at the basis of Bourdieu’s workThe Weight of the World, regarded as an exceptionally significant text, rich in intellectual, political, and methodological insights and provocations. ... Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2025-02-14T06:58:35Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205251318696
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Authors:Veda Hyunjin KimOhio Wesleyan University; USA Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. The subimperial formation of ‘South’ Korea, articulated within US imperialism, first emerged in Jeju amid the genocidal violence against Jeju natives since March 1947. While the South Korean state recognized the mass-murdered as citizens following the ... Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2025-02-14T06:54:35Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205251317638
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Authors:Katharina Winkler; Anna WyssUniversity of Bern, Switzerland Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. This article shows that different manifestations of precarity often interact and mutually reinforce each other. Drawing on a research project on precarious housing in two cities in Germany and Switzerland and focusing on migratised individuals, we show ... Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2025-02-14T06:52:17Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205251316143
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Authors:Paul S. Ciccantell; Spencer Louis Potiker, David A. Smith, Elizabeth A. Sowers, Luc McKenzie Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. What can world-systems analysis of the role of Africa in the creation of the capitalist world-economy tell us about Amazon’s model of control of global supply chains in the 21st century' How did patterns established by European imperialism and enslavement ... Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2025-02-07T03:06:03Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205251319004
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Authors:Alpkan BirelmaÖzyeğin University; Turkey Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. In Turkey, legal strikes have been on the decline since the mid-1990s. This is a trend that has accelerated since the mid-2010s under the rulingAdalet ve Kalkınma Partisias the government increasingly resorted to banning legal strikes against a backdrop ... Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2025-02-07T03:04:28Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241310854
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Authors:Henar Baldán; Nayla Fuster, Joaquín Susino Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. Residential compounds have become a widespread and popular way of life. Today, we find a great structural and social diversity of compounds. While evidence suggests that living in the most closed settings, such as gated communities, is often linked to the ... Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2025-02-05T02:30:01Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205251315433
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Authors:Debra TalbotThe University of Sydney; Australia Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. International studies mark a shift in the language of teachers from professional autonomy to safety induced by compliance measures. What is not well-documented is how teachers resist the pervasive, negative effects of accountability regimes. This paper ... Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2025-02-01T12:34:09Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241308049
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Authors:Lauren LangmanLoyola University Chicago; USA Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. Right-wing populist movements have gained support and power in several countries. Why have so many supported reactionary movements' Plato, Aristotle, and Machiavelli pointed out problems with democracy, but to understand what’s happening Marx offers a ... Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2025-01-31T02:13:20Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241312908
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Authors:Mikel Barba; Amaia Garcia-Azpuru, Sheida BesozziUniversity of the Basque Country, Spain Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. This article explores the various forms of physical and digital intermediation in the provision of home care services in the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country and their impacts on the segregation and labor autonomy of migrant and native women ... Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2025-01-31T01:58:14Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241308781
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Authors:Nick StevensonUniversity of Nottingham; UK Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. The current crisis of liberal democracy has led to a reconsideration of the idea of socialism. This article seeks to critically compare three different approaches to socialism, all of which draw on specifically moral criteria. The first is a form of ... Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2025-01-29T04:44:11Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241311503
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Authors:Michael J ThompsonWilliam Paterson University; USA Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. I argue in this paper that capitalism has taken on a new social formation characterized by an absorption of the self into the matrix of social patterning and control that has led to the diminution of the cultural and psychic foundations for democratic ... Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2025-01-27T02:12:46Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205251314849
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Authors:Maizi HuaUniversity of Oslo; Norway Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. The expansion of the platform economy has captured considerable media attention, yet the representation of platform workers in the media, particularly migrant workers, remains under-researched. This article investigates the media representation of migrant ... Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2025-01-23T09:46:10Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241312105
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Authors:Steven Bittle; Jon FrauleyUniversity of Ottawa, Canada Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. While there is considerable literature on the causes of corruption and its harmful effects, along with an extensive body of work focused on anti-corruptionism, there is a paucity of research that examines the anti-corruption dynamic. Few studies ... Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2025-01-23T09:43:09Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241310197
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Authors:Janne Martha Lentz; Christiane Meyer-Habighorst, Mê-Linh Riemann, Anke Strüver, Sarah Baumgartner, Sarah Staubli, Nicola Techel, Sybille Bauriedl, Karin Schwiter Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. When platform companies first entered the scene, they claimed that their novel business models did not fit with existing regulations. This narrative of ‘platform exceptionalism’ has increasingly been discredited. This paper focuses on platform companies ... Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2025-01-23T09:28:18Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241306300
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Authors:Crystal N. EddinsUniversity of Pittsburgh; USA Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print.
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Authors:Ege DemirelIndependent Researcher; Türkiye Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. There has been an organic crisis in terms of governing the world-system. The United States and its vassal states (e.g. the European Union countries, the Commonwealth countries, and Japan) have been struggling to maintain the status quo of the capitalist ... Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2025-01-21T02:27:15Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205251314166
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Authors:Isaac Hoff; Catherine HapperUniversity of Glasgow, UK Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. In this article, we draw on Raymond Williams’ notion of ‘keywords’ and Neil Davidson’s conceptualisation of ‘crisis neoliberalism’ to understand how the ‘cost-of-living’ crisis has become a ‘keyphrase’ which sustains, legitimates, reproduces and provides ... Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2025-01-08T02:26:02Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241311560
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Authors:Luisa De Vita; Andrea CiariniSapienza University of Rome, Italy Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. Despite the progressive marketisation of domestic and care work, care in the Italian context is still firmly anchored within a familistic welfare model in which families must rely on their own resources against limited services. The limited development of ... Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2025-01-02T12:22:10Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241306449
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Authors:Cihan TuğalUniversity of California; Berkeley, USA Pages: 221 - 228 Abstract: Critical Sociology, Volume 51, Issue 2, Page 221-228, March 2025.
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Authors:Gretchen PurserSyracuse University; USA Pages: 229 - 234 Abstract: Critical Sociology, Volume 51, Issue 2, Page 229-234, March 2025.
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Authors:Hillary AngeloUniversity of California Santa Cruz; USA Pages: 235 - 240 Abstract: Critical Sociology, Volume 51, Issue 2, Page 235-240, March 2025.
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Authors:Michael A. McCarthyUniversity of California; Santa Cruz, USA Pages: 241 - 248 Abstract: Critical Sociology, Volume 51, Issue 2, Page 241-248, March 2025.
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Authors:Andrey Korotayev; Leonid Grinin, Vadim Ustyuzhanin, Egor Fain Pages: 257 - 282 Abstract: Critical Sociology, Volume 51, Issue 2, Page 257-282, March 2025. There are grounds for claiming that a new (‘fifth’) generation of revolution studies has emerged in the 21st century. It can be noted that the characteristics of this generation are as follows: a tendency toward a macro-level outlook, encompassing both ... Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2024-11-19T12:41:13Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241300596 Issue No:Vol. 51, No. 2 (2024)
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Authors:Tom BrassFormerly of SPS; Cambridge University, UK Pages: 391 - 401 Abstract: Critical Sociology, Volume 51, Issue 2, Page 391-401, March 2025.
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Authors:Zachary R. ThomasBergen Community College; USA Pages: 403 - 409 Abstract: Critical Sociology, Volume 51, Issue 2, Page 403-409, March 2025.
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Authors:Shaun BestUniversity of Winchester; UK Pages: 411 - 416 Abstract: Critical Sociology, Volume 51, Issue 2, Page 411-416, March 2025.
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Authors:David BeerUniversity of York; UK Pages: 417 - 420 Abstract: Critical Sociology, Volume 51, Issue 2, Page 417-420, March 2025.
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Authors:Yiran ZhangCornell University; USA Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. This article presents a comparative case study that traces the reconfiguration of production and social reproduction processes under China’s upgrading reform across the hometown and worksite of a group of internal migrant garment workers. Although an ... Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2024-12-26T09:47:57Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241307938
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Authors:Mariana Walter; Yannick Deniau, Viviana Herrera Vargas Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. We document how the extraction of metals and minerals, deemed critical for green growth and its energy transition, is expanding and being resisted in the Americas. Researchers and socio-environmental organizations co-produced 25 conflicts related to ... Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2024-12-26T09:46:47Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241305963
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Authors:Amirhossein TeimouriTarleton State University—Fort Worth; USA Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. How do gender anxieties shape pro-state and/or state-led contentions (SLCs)' Taking cues from several theoretical and methodological traditions, I develop a gender-driven theory of SLCs. Drawing on anxieties on the hijab among revolutionary pro-state (aka ... Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2024-12-26T09:45:18Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241301083
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Authors:Laura Clemencia Mantilla-León; Isabella Jaimes Rodríguez, Oscar Javier Maldonado Castañeda Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. Domestic work in Colombia has historically been undervalued and unpaid, with informality continuing to rise despite legal efforts to dignify it, such as the ratification of ILO C189. In this context, domestic work gig platforms have emerged as a source of ... Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2024-12-18T02:45:27Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241304790
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Authors:Davide Arcidiacono; Francesco Bonifacio, Ivana Pais Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. The advent of digital care platforms has been observed to give rise to a new regime of visibility, which facilitates the standardization of informal work while maintaining its precarious conditions. While these apparently opposing processes are often ... Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2024-12-18T02:43:44Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241303037
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Authors:Franziska BaumUniversity of Hamburg; Germany; Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. The proliferation of digital labour platforms ranges from ride-hailing and delivery services to care work. Eldercare platforms emerged as a prominent focus of critique regarding platformization, commodification, and the nature of care itself. However, ... Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2024-12-14T06:28:31Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241304281
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Authors:Brandi T. SummersColumbia University; USA Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print.
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Authors:Marco Castillo; Carolina Bank Muñoz Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. This article examines the legacies of racism and settler colonialism in contemporary Chile by examining political discourses in the context of the country’s failed Constitutional reform process. We analyze newspaper articles during the period of the first ... Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2024-12-14T06:24:38Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241304031
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Authors:Yueying Wang; Tingting Hu Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print.
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Authors:Konstantinos Floros; Vasilis GalisIT University of Copenhagen, Denmark Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. This article problematises the invocation of the stepping stone hypothesis for platform labour by Danish policymakers, namely the argument that digital labour platforms facilitate transitioning to typical employment, especially for groups of vulnerable ... Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2024-12-07T12:23:32Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241303998
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Authors:Alexis MoraitisLancaster University; UK Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. This article critically engages with the ‘death of neoliberalism’ debate. Its purpose is not to determine whether neoliberalism is dying or not but to highlight the limitations of the question, ‘is neoliberalism dead'’ The question invites answers that ... Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2024-12-06T01:07:42Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241303445
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Authors:Jinqi YanSoutheast University; China Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. This paper explores the concept of ‘techno-feudalism’ in digital capitalism, reframing it through the lens of Marxist crisis theory as a form of ‘primitive accumulation in digital space’ rather than a shift to a new feudal order. Analyzing digital ... Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2024-12-03T06:11:04Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241302838
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Authors:John BrownMaynooth University; Ireland Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. Mass protests in Spain that challenged the long-standing two-party system and austerity policies associated with both major parties (PP and PSOE) were followed by the emergence of challenger party Podemos. In the current conjuncture, however, Podemos ... Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2024-11-30T08:15:26Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241302752
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Authors:Andrey Korotayev; Egor Fain, Vadim Ustyuzhanin, Leonid Grinin Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. This article is the final part of our systematic review of the substantive findings of fifth-generation revolution studies, building on the examination of the emergence and characteristics of this generation contained in the first article in the series. ... Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2024-11-29T07:01:36Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241300597
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Authors:Sofya Aptekar; Shannon Gleeson Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. We present a comparative study of organizational discourses on immigrants in two cornerstone US institutions: labor unions and the US military, both powerful players in setting the terms of immigration debates and policies in the United States. How do ... Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2024-11-29T06:55:41Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241301064
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Authors:Andrey Korotayev; Vadim Ustyuzhanin, Leonid Grinin, Egor Fain Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. The article is the first part of our systematic review of substantive findings of fifth-generation revolution studies, building on the examination of the emergence and characteristics of this generation contained in the first article in the series. Our ... Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2024-11-26T07:38:16Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241300595
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Authors:Luis Arboledas-LéridaIndependent Researcher; Spain Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. This paper investigates the phenomenon of hype in the public communication of science-intensive entrepreneurship. It analyses 70 episodes of the Spanish radio show ‘Los Revolucionarios’, encompassing the two complete seasons of emissions (2022–2024). It ... Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2024-11-16T01:09:23Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241299680
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Authors:Ghassan Moussawi; Victoria Reyes Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. In this paper, we interrogate what are considered feminist issues for feminist sociologists, prodding us to expand our definition of ‘feminist sociology’ considering what we are still learning from global crises. We take our cue from Black, indigenous, ... Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2024-11-15T12:34:45Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241292752
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Authors:Mikael HolmqvistStockholm University; Sweden Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. In this paper, I examine how the formally powerless Swedish King consecrates neoliberalism by promoting the idea of ‘leadership’ in his role as the Honorary Chairman of the World Scout Foundation, a global organization dedicated to educating and fostering ... Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2024-11-14T10:44:23Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241297827
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Authors:Shaimaa MaguedCairo University; Egypt Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. Focusing on Egypt as a case study, this paper juxtaposes Mubarak and al-Sisi’s anti-queer measures in order to delineate their discursive strategy in framing collective victimhood vis-à-vis Western-sponsored gender activism in an attempt to overshadow the ... Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2024-11-13T10:02:33Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241289584
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Authors:Stefan SchmalzUniversity of Erfurt; Germany Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. The rise of China as a global high-tech nation is challenging US hegemony. While US tech companies like Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft have expanded globally and have integrated most world regions into US-led digital capitalism, China has developed its ... Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2024-11-13T09:59:12Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241291645
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Authors:Jun Liu; Chuncheng Liu Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. Governance by quantification has a long history in human society. However, two critical issues remain underexplored in the sociology of quantification. First, while the social conditions and consequences of governance by numbers have been widely addressed,... Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2024-11-13T09:55:34Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241298291
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Authors:Khaoula EttarfiLabor Geography Unit; Geography Institute, University of Zürich, Switzerland Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. Domestic work has always been a quintessential example of invisible labour. In this article, I explore how workers build individual visibility on marketplace platforms. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with workers who use different marketplace ... Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2024-11-11T04:44:14Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241297687
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Authors:Martina Piña; María-José Establés, Mar Guerrero-Pico Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. A vast amount of literature on social media has researched how content creators develop practices to present themselves and play the ‘visibility game’ (Cotter, 2019). Similarly, platformization of work has led to algorithmic control through the logic of ... Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2024-11-11T02:17:37Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241287418
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Authors:Carl-Ulrik Schierup; Aleksandra Ålund, Ilhan Kellecioglu Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. The paper discusses empirical evidence and theoretical perspectives on structurally and spatially ingrained racial capitalism, dispossession, and precarisation in what is identified as ‘neo-apartheid’ Sweden. Theoretically, the argument rests on a ... Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2024-11-07T01:42:28Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241284033
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Authors:Raúl Zepeda GilUniversity of Oxford; UK; King’s College London, UK Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. Scholars have long debated what is the role of inequalities in organised violence, but the causal mechanisms remain unclear. I argue that mainstream approaches (e.g. deviance, subcultures, grievances, rational choice and Marxism) fall short because they ... Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2024-11-06T06:25:12Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241296501
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Authors:Sammy Badran; Jeniece Lusk Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. This article aims to better understand the contemporary nature of Black-Palestinian solidarity by directly speaking to activists and explain why US-based Anti-Police Brutality Movements, like Black Lives Matter, share a sense of common solidarity with ... Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2024-11-06T06:23:17Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241292973
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Authors:Iraklis Dimitriadis; Diego Coletto Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. In this exploratory study, we investigate the effects of digital labour platforms (DLPs) on cleaning workers. The prevalence of informality in this sector leads us to suggest analysing workers’ experiences by combining the literature on DLPs with that on ... Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2024-11-05T07:42:01Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241295949
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Authors:Efe Can GürcanThe London School of Economics; Political Science, UK Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. What is the nexus between capitalism, agroecological change, and geopolitical conflicts, and how has it historically affected global migratory movements' In answering this question, the present article employs the method of incorporated comparison and ... Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2024-11-05T07:40:49Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241295915
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Authors:Aaron MajorUniversity at Albany–SUNY; USA Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. Double-consciousness has, for Du Bois, a dual meaning. It is both the experience of always seeing oneself through the eyes of the dominant race as an inferior, subjugated person and the experience of seeing the possibilities of a life free of racial ... Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2024-10-30T10:41:33Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241292831
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Authors:Edwin F. AckermanSyracuse University; USA Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print.
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Authors:Song XinmiaoLingnan University; Hong Kong Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. Can the two Karls – Karl Polanyi and Karl Marx meet' Sociological debates tend to provide a negative answer and prioritize Karl Polanyi in current education and labor studies. This article poses an alternative approach by examining how the commodification ... Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2024-10-28T05:34:34Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241292751
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Authors:Benjamin GoldfrankSeton Hall University; USA Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print.
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Authors:James ParisotUniversity of Texas; USA Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. This paper examines the dynamics of capitalism and the penitentiary system through an analysis of the decline of debt imprisonment in 19th-century United States. It argues that class transformations in the early to mid-1800s created a context for social ... Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2024-10-22T11:53:34Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241291039
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Authors:Alex LoftusKing’s College London; UK Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print.
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Authors:Lorena Poblete; Francisca Pereyra, Ania Tizziani Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. Recent studies offer ambivalent conclusions on the effect of digital intermediaries in domestic and care work; while some suggest that the digital platforms exacerbate and perpetuate the precariousness of the sector as well as its underlying social ... Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2024-10-21T03:56:39Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241289952
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Authors:Terri Friedline; Jones Adu-Mensah, Xanthippe Wedel Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. Scholarship on the geography of US retail financial services consistently finds racialized patterns in the locations of traditional (e.g. banks, credit unions) and higher-cost or alternative (e.g. payday lenders, check cashers) financial services. While ... Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2024-10-16T04:37:37Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241287127
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Authors:Holly White; Nancy Evans, Kim RossUniversity of Chester, UK Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. The current portrayal of the cost-of-living crisis as an isolated, unexpected issue neglects the ongoing struggles of those in chronic poverty. This article utilises agnotology and zemiology to explore these overlooked experiences. Through the use of ... Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2024-10-09T12:19:16Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241267302
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Authors:Mohammed NijimCarleton University; Canada Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. This article addresses the ongoing genocide in Gaza and argues that it must be understood in a larger historical context of settler colonialism. While Israel has always sought the completion of its settler-colonial project, I argue that the current ... Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2024-10-08T02:00:02Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241286530
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Authors:Luca Mavelli; Antonio Cerella Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. Critical scholarship often argues that neoliberalism has caused the ‘crisis’ or ‘destruction’ of society. Drawing on Foucault’s concept of power as ‘productive’ and focusing on digital societies, we argue that neoliberalism seeks not to dismantle society ... Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2024-10-07T02:44:42Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241287067
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Authors:Hadi KhoshnevissRhodes College; USA Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. In this paper, I explore the history of the Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) campaign, which aims to extract Southwest Asian and North Africa populations from the white legal category on the US Census. I use Bourdieu’s classification struggles and ... Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2024-10-06T05:26:58Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241286509
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Authors:Matthew SharpeAustralian Catholic University; Australia Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. This paper argues that Jordan Peterson’s enthusiastic reception, including on the neofascist Right, reflects how his discourse functions as a form of indirect capitalist apologetics, which no longer obviates how the sociopolitical system produces massive ... Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2024-09-30T01:29:40Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241284282
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Authors:George GonosState University of New York at Potsdam; USA Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. The spread of non-standard employment (NSE) is widely considered to have contributed to the deterioration of labor standards. Yet, in the United States, there is no definitive roster of non-standard work arrangements and no reliable estimate of the size ... Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2024-09-25T03:20:34Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241283938
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Authors:Cody R. Melcher; Spencer C. Lindsay Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. A growing body of evidence suggests an increase in ideological and partisan polarization among Americans. At the same time, public opinion polls have found increasing support for socialism and anti-capitalist attitudes. The polarization literature, ... Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2024-09-21T03:17:13Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241281752
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Authors:Anke SchaffartzikCentral European University; Austria Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. From the climate crisis to biodiversity loss, interrelated crises of society–nature relations are linked to global growth in resource use, extractive expansion, and unequal distribution. Next to critical research on the socioeconomic issues of (de)... Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2024-09-21T03:15:13Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241281677
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Authors:Barbara Orth; Franziska Baum Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. This article presents a methodological reflection on the challenges of researching domestic and care work mediated by digital labour platforms. While knowledge production on gig work in the logistics sector has soared, research on care platforms is slow ... Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2024-09-21T03:13:54Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241280360
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Authors:Abdi M. Kusow; Dan KrierIowa State University, USA Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. We conceptualize racialized and geopolitical contexts of reception as a comprehensive framework for understanding the incorporation of recent immigrants in new destinations. Racialization is the fluid assignment of racial meanings to physical ... Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2024-09-18T05:45:59Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241280399
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Authors:Pamela Hopwood; Ellen MacEachen, Ivy Bourgeault, Carrie McAiney, Basak Yanar, Abbey Davis Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. With worker shortages and the need for care workers projected to grow, personal care work through digital labour platforms (DLPs) is important to understand. This paper considers DLPs used by gig care workers providing personal care in Ontario, Canada. We ... Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2024-09-16T07:43:50Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241279868
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Authors:Sam Scott; Johan Fredrik Rye Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. Low-wage labour migrants moving from lower- to higher-income countries have been celebrated for their strong work ethic over recent decades. The paper draws on qualitative insights from European horticulture to explore why low-wage migrants work as hard ... Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2024-09-09T06:34:12Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241276864
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Authors:Azer KılıçIstanbul Bilgi University; Turkey Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. How do professionals who may be at risk of job loss due to AI-driven automation view a universal basic income (UBI) as a policy response to technological unemployment' This article examines the attitudes of translators from Turkey, a country with the ... Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2024-09-09T06:20:12Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241279262
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Authors:Katarzyna Gruszka; Anna Pillinger, Stefanie Gerold, Hendrik Theine Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. Since the rise of platform labor, food delivery, and ride hailing workers have become a visible part of cityscapes, unlike platform workers in the domestic sector. The invisibilization and economic devaluation of reproductive tasks, especially in the ... Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2024-09-09T06:06:36Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241276803
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Authors:Tiago Soares NogaraShanghai University; China Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. The emergence of Marxist dependency theory (MDT) in Latin America during the 1960s questioned the developmentalist doctrines of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the class alliance strategies of communist parties. MDT ... Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2024-09-09T06:02:33Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241275407
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Authors:Can Mert KökererThe University of Chicago; USA Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. This article discusses Weber’s and Schmitt’s diverging interpretations of the legitimate bases of domination. While Weber regards the belief in legitimacy as the source of legitimate domination, Schmitt employs an existentialist interpretation by deriving ... Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2024-09-06T03:06:53Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241276797
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Authors:Julian GoThe University of Chicago; USA Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print.
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Authors:Jayshree Sarathy; danah boyd Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. Over the last century, the adoption of novel scientific methods for conducting the U.S. census has been met with wide-ranging receptions. Some were quietly embraced, while others sparked decades-long controversies. What accounts for these differences' We ... Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2024-08-22T04:25:02Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241270898
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Authors:Santiago Anria; USA Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print.
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Authors:Julia Bates; USA Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. Sociologists commonly trace the concept of racial capitalism to Cedric Robinson. However, this lineage is problematic because it strips the theoretical framing of its radical origins. Recent scholarship argues the term racial capitalism originates earlier in the Marxist tradition in South Africa. Furthermore, the broader problematic of racism as integral to the maintenance and promotion of capitalism, originates even earlier than the term itself. I argue, the problematic of racial capitalism, in which ideologies of human differentiation are used to maintain and promote dispossession and coerced labor within capitalism, is integral to W.E.B. Du Bois’ scholarship on US imperialism during the Cold War. Furthermore, Du Bois articulated a critique of racial capitalism that also functioned as a critique of the American sociology of race. However, the Phelps Stokes Fund promoted American sociology’s ‘race relations’ paradigm to marginalize this critique. Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2024-08-03T05:11:33Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241263930
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Authors:Saide Mobayed Vega; UK Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. In this paper, I unravel the socio-materiality of the Mexican State’s data infrastructures measuring feminicide. Based on 14 semi-structured in-depth interviews with experts and dozens of content analyses of secondary sources, I argue that feminicide data are better understood as iteratively multiple rather than singularly factual. That is, the seeming singularity of a woman’s dead body shifts into many as her case is classified differently along the choreographed interactions between people, tools, protocols and techniques enacting feminicide as data. I propose the concept of ‘permeability device’ to showcase how power unevenly accrues through the different methods and mediums by which information is documented and transferred across data infrastructures. By opening feminicide data in their everyday multiplicity, I demonstrate how the unequal distribution of power becomes evident in the lack of gender perspective in crime investigations aggravated by public patriarchy, the challenges of processing information incited by the scarcity of resources resulting in data debris and the affective resonance experienced by public servants exposed to gruesome content. In the discussion, I point to precarity as a condition that cuts through the State’s infrastructures enacting feminicide as data. Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2024-08-02T12:29:04Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241262416
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Authors:Eren Duzgun; Republic of Cyprus Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print.
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Authors:Hubert Knoblauch, Martina Löw; Martina LöwTechnische Universität Berlin, Germany Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. In order to avoid the juxtaposition of globalization and de-globalization, we suggest that the current global changes are driven by a spatial dynamics, which we designate as ‘refiguration’. It is based on different spatial figures and different institutionalized figurations, so as to avoid reducing the dynamics to binary concepts of territorial and global forces or geopolitical spatial container thinking. In this paper, we first sketch the strengths and weaknesses of sociological models of globalization. We then point out some recent developments contradicting these models. Instead of interpreting them negatively (e.g. ‘de-globalization’) or reductively (e.g. ‘geopolitization’), we propose the concept of refiguration in order to capture and explain these current changes by stressing the logics of spatial figures, their interactions and conflicts. After clarifying the concept, we turn to the Internet infrastructure as an important case for understanding the current disjunctures and conflicts around globalization in terms of refiguration. Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2024-07-26T02:27:25Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241262304
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Authors:Walden Bello; USA Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. The global order is undergoing a crisis of hegemonic decline that has two dimensions that are distinct but deeply related. One is a crisis of the American empire that could best be characterized as one of ‘overextension’. This is principally a military and political crisis, which has mainly unfolded in the Middle East. The other ongoing crisis is that of US economic decline brought about by the dynamics of global capitalism, the main aspects of which are globalization, the rapid rise of China, deindustrialization, and financialization of the US economy. These trends have had domestic political and ideological ramifications for US hegemony. Considering the question of hegemonic transition in light of these developments, the article comes to the conclusion that what might be emerging could be not a hegemonic transition, but a condition of hegemonic stalemate between China and the United States because the United States has been countering China’s economic dynamism and global influence with its absolute military superiority. Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2024-07-25T06:21:30Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241266982
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Authors:Tariq Tell; Lebanon Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print.
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Authors:Michael Murray; Republic of Ireland Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. This article examines how working-class activists challenged and overcame political fear narratives during the anti-water charges campaign in Ireland (2014–2016), with specific focus on the ‘sinister’ narrative, an attempt by the government and its supporters to frame working-class protestors as violent, irrational and extremist. Rather than subscribing to the position that political fear is ubiquitous or the reflection of a general societal malaise, this paper follows Jeffries’ argument that political fear is mediated, contested and contradicted. While political fear operates most effectively when targeting expectations for normal living, it is these same expectations that offer fertile ground for opposing fear threats. Drawing on interviews from activists, this paper shows how the ‘normal living’ becomes a key context in which ‘deviance framing’ around class and gender can be reappropriated/reframed by activists, particularly through the deployment of counter spectacles and through the reframing of what constitutes legitimate emotional responses to government-initiated fear threats. Finally, while political fear can have an individualising effect, this paper demonstrates how subjective and individual acts of transgression are mediated through a collective and community lens as the crucial element in overcoming political fear. Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2024-06-20T04:32:46Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241262926
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Authors:Italo Colantone, Gianmarco Ottaviano, Piero Stanig; Gianmarco Ottaviano, Piero StanigBocconi University, Italy Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. Is there a popular backlash against globalization' When did it start and in which forms' What do we know about its causes' We address these questions in the context of advanced democracies. We see the ‘globalization backlash’ as the political shift of voters and parties in a protectionist and isolationist direction, with substantive implications on governments’ leaning and enacted policies. We discuss the empirical evidence on the backlash. We develop a theoretical discussion within the framework of the crisis of embedded liberalism. We nest within this framework theoretical results from international economics showing how the backlash may arise within standard trade models when considering the ‘social footprint’ of globalization. These theoretical insights are consistent with available empirical evidence pointing to the role of globalization as a driver of the backlash. Yet, globalization is only one of the drivers of the backlash. There are other economic factors playing a similar role, such as technological change, fiscal austerity, and immigration. Moreover, cultural concerns such as status threat, authoritarianism, and nativism do play a relevant role, with a significant interplay with economic drivers. This calls for a broad and comprehensive approach to the backlash, both from an academic and from a policy making perspective. Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2024-06-18T04:34:42Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241261331
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Authors:Timothy Black; USA Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. In January 2024, Florida’s Board of Education eliminated the sociology course, ‘Principles of Sociology’ as one of its core requirements for obtaining a general social science education in its college and university system. Florida’s Commissioner of Education, Manny Diaz, led the charge, claiming that sociology has been ‘hijacked by left wing activists’ and is a purveyor of ‘woke ideology’. Some within the profession would agree with Diaz, and certainly, many university administrators would as well. Of course, there are varying representations of sociology, and what Diaz and others are targeting is critical sociology and its commitment to the interrogation of power. However, these political dynamics are not new. The history of critical sociology has reflected a similar pattern that it is being played out currently. The ebbs and flows of critical sociology’s place within the discipline, the state and profession’s suppression of it, its resurgence linked to external social and political forces, and its precarious existence within the university have been true of critical sociology since its origins. This paper offers a historical context for better understanding the current attack on the field of sociology and raises the question, what should critical sociologists do about it' Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2024-06-18T04:32:07Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241259358
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Authors:Ana Garcia, Lisa Thompson, Cleiton Brito; Lisa Thompson, Cleiton Brito Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. The formation of BRICS marks a significant aspect of 21st-century globalization. This has spurred optimism in the Global South about offering an alternative to Western dominance. China has aimed to expand its global presence and influence, framing its relations as ‘South-South Cooperation’. Brazil and South Africa are crucial partners within BRICS, receiving significant Chinese investment, loans, and assistance. In this article, we critically examine South-South investments through a comparative analysis of Chinese investments in South Africa and Brazil, focusing on the case studies of the Manaus Industrial Park and the Musina-Makhado Special Economic Zone. Our research employs ethnographic fieldwork and secondary sources to analyze Chinese investments and their socio-environmental impact. We begin with a discussion of globalization and current trends of deglobalization by proposing three dimensions to analyze the role of BRICS. While Chinese investment could offer an alternative to Western financing, a more balanced South-South agenda is needed. Both Brazilian and South African state and non-state actors must advocate for better conditions to avoid repeating patterns of resource exploitation and subordination. This shifts the debate beyond traditional dichotomies. Ultimately, embracing South-South FDI and Cooperation must be accompanied by critical analysis to ensure a truly transformative agenda for the Global South. Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2024-06-18T04:28:08Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241252445
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Authors:Agnieszka Graff, Elżbieta Korolczuk; Elżbieta Korolczuk Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. This paper examines how the term ‘gender’ has been re-signified by the right-wing actors in contemporary struggles around globalization. First, we offer a chronology of debates concerning global diffusion of gender norms, tracing the consolidation of various groups into the anti-gender movement. The next section discusses how gender and globalization intersect in discursive strategies of anti-gender actors. We show that they target international institutions and norms portraying them as a western cosmopolitan force, claiming to speak on behalf of local populations and obfuscating their transnational embeddedness. The aim is to moralize and blur the boundaries between the local and the global—a strategy we call chameleon tactics. The final part examines how chameleon tactics unfolded in the specific context of the 2019 ICPD25 Summit in Nairobi, Kenya, and how an anti-globalist frame was used to blur the global identity of anti-gender organizations present there. Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2024-06-14T04:31:25Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241260001
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Authors:Jörg Kemmerzell, Veith Selk; Veith SelkTechnical University of Darmstadt, Germany Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. The crisis of the liberal order opened up space for ideas that only some years ago had appeared out of time. During globalization’s heyday, parties that called for a rollback of liberal globalism were either stuck in a marginal position or unable to implement fundamental reforms. This has changed as the main political approaches toward liberal globalism are now being publicly and electorally contested. We argue that this has triggered the rise of a phenomenon we refer to as retrogradism. This article applies the concept of retrogradism to the case of the German right-wing party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD). It argues that we may be witnessing the rise of a new type of political party that pursues a retrograde agenda. We suggest that the current debate on the AfD fails to take into account that its defining features may be its politics of time and its retrograde opposition to liberal globalism. Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2024-06-12T06:05:06Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241253966
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Authors:Mahito Hayashi, Kazushi Tamano; Kazushi Tamano Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. Japan has a standard framework for local communities, neighborhood associations, which request all households in the same residential district to belong to one community unit that plays a local management role through closely working with authorities. By framing a concept of ‘societalization’ in Bob Jessop’s state theory using Neil Brenner’s ‘scaled’ political economy project, we decipher Japanese neighborhood associations as a scaled strategy for community-oriented societalization. This strategy formally presents itself as ‘voluntary’ but asks all households to participate, and this ‘compulsory’ community norm was strong until the 1970s and 1980s. The renaissance of neighborhood associations after World War II gave Japanese developmental capitalism – a statist but democratic capitalism – a scaled and sociological platform for generating community-based social cohesion and upscaling this effect from the local to the national. After considering a sociological debate in Japan in the ambit of Gramscian and Lefebvrian regulationism, we argue that neighborhood associations became administratively versatile as they were standardized, functionalized, and nationalized until 1945; this past helped the Japanese developmental state – an integral state project – societalize state space from a micro unit of locality and propel statist development with grassroots consent; and progressive/radical voices advanced the democratization of the associations through local activism. Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2024-06-05T09:55:18Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241256103
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Authors:Pınar Bedirhanoğlu; Turkey Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print.
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Authors:Boris Kagarlitsky; Economic Sciences, Russia Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print.
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Authors:Peter A.G. Van Bergeijk; The Netherlands Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. The paper employs a multimethod approach to investigate shifts from globalization to deglobalization, presenting a novel economic theory grounded in recent data. It identifies two mechanisms driving structural deglobalization: escalating costs and diminishing benefits at the national level, hindering redistribution efforts and the challenge to sustain global public goods due to waning economic hegemony. The analysis integrates perspectives from international economics, history, hegemonic stability theory and world system theory through narrative review, descriptive statistics and econometric analyses. The multimethod examination emphasizes the complexities of deglobalization, involving international relations, history and economics. Democracy and trade composition emerge as significant factors influencing deglobalization, with varying impacts across historical contexts. Despite this, the resilience of world trade to deglobalization appears to have increased over time. The study underscores the necessity of blending methodologies from different disciplines for a comprehensive understanding of deglobalization and proposes avenues for further research in this complex, multidimensional phenomenon. Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2024-05-14T11:27:33Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241246915
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Authors:Klevis Kolasi; Turkey Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print.
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Authors:Ulrich Brand, Markus Wissen; Markus Wissen Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. The neoliberal world order has given way to a geopolitical disorder, shaped by the climate crisis and increasing rivalries between dominant powers. This poses a challenge to the social sciences. Neither theories searching for the problem-solving potentials of ‘global governance’ nor critical notions of imperialism seem to be equipped to fully grasp the rapidly changing circumstances. Instead, we suggest to understand the recent upheavals as eco-imperial tensions. They result from the contradictions of what we have called the imperial mode of living, that is, resource- and emissions-intensive patterns of production and consumption, which produce enormous socioecological costs and externalize them in space and time. With the rise of China and other countries of the Global South, the imperial mode of living is generalized globally and threatened in its precondition, namely the unlimited access to nature and labor power on a world scale. This is intensified by the competition for the raw materials needed for decarbonizing the advanced capitalist economies. Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2024-05-11T11:56:48Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241252774
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Authors:Jason C. Mueller; USA Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. In a world-system built through dispossession and exploitation of African and Indigenous peoples, the case of the San in Botswana is significant. The government of Botswana recently led a protracted campaign of dispossession of the Indigenous San, likely due to there being diamond reserves near and within the Central Kalahari Game Reserve. This article argues that synthesizing critical theories of accumulation, dispossession, and State strategy can help us understand how and when dispossession of the Indigenous San led to commodification and/or proletarianization, while also helping to understand what became of the dispossessed. It expands theorizing on the sociology, geography, and political economy of (under)development, Indigenous rights and sovereignty, and State-Capital relations in Africa. The structural pressures for States in the periphery to cultivate extractive economies while seeking integration within the circuits of global capitalism remain present, decades after achieving colonial independence. This highlights the tensions, limitations, and illusions of successful ‘development’ in the stratified world-economy. Finally, the findings in this article critically challenge the story of Botswana being the ‘miracle’ of post-colonial Africa. Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2024-05-11T10:31:07Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241252619
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Authors:Ninochka McTaggart, Eileen O’Brien; Eileen O’Brien Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. When it comes time to disagree that White male privilege exists, insisting race and gender equity is already achieved, deniers often point to prominent people of color in sports and entertainment industries. Famous figures like Oprah Winfrey, Beyonce Knowles, Jay-Z, and Lebron James may, with cursory glance, give impression that—even if fields like finance, technology, medicine, law, and politics have glass ceilings—the entertainment field provides a seemingly utopian space where the playing field has already been leveled, and the so-called American Dream of race and gender equality has assumedly arrived. Using both quantitative and qualitative data, from primary and secondary sources, we look beyond token big names to overall patterns in music, professional sports, and film arenas to document how racial and gender inequality continue to stratify entertainment industries. Our analysis demonstrates that women and people of color are conditionally accepted, at best, to entertain, provided they stay in their proverbial place—seldom owning, directing, or taking the lead, and penalized when speaking out about oppression. We end with recommendations on how to shatter glass ceilings, like inclusion riders and Rooney Rule, along with other ways to bring more women and people of color into more powerful positions in these industries. Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2024-05-08T12:05:07Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241248834
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Authors:Johnnie Lotesta; USA Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print.
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Authors:Alejandro Lerch; México Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. In the past decades, Mexico has hosted one of the world’s deadliest internal conflicts. There are few global parallels to the scale of killing, disappearances, mass graves, feminicides, kidnappings, extortion, murder of social activists and violence against journalists. Predominant interpretations and governmental narratives cast Mexico’s conflict as owing fundamentally to state weakness and criminal organizations bidding to control drug flows. This article advances a different interpretation. Drawing from structuralist perspectives, the article underscores the extensive criminogenic dynamics set in motion by Mexico’s radical commitment to neoliberal transformation. Similarly, the article underlines the extent to which violence in many cases transpires less from drug conflicts than the creation of new export markets and new commodity chains. Turned invisible by a ‘Drug War’ narrative, Mexico represents a powerful lens into the social violence generated by and paving the way towards our neoliberal futures. Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2024-04-22T12:27:00Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241244517
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Authors:Alp Yücel Kaya; Turkey Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print.
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Authors:Emily H. Ruppel; Berkeley, USA Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. Since the 1980s, despite much United States legislation to promote the employment of people with disabilities and reduce their reliance on government benefits, employment rates among people with disabilities have fallen while rates of disability benefits receipt have risen. I conducted historical research on two sites of contradiction in the state treatment of disability: (1) antidiscrimination legislation and (2) disability benefits. I show that the goals of antidiscrimination legislation were undercut by court interpretations of this legislation, while cyclical expansion and contraction of disability benefits produced haphazard integration of recipients into the labor force and inhibited cessation of benefits. These findings demonstrate that the legislative push for the labor market inclusion of disabled people, undertaken simultaneous to ongoing labor market exclusion with roots in the very same legislative program, led to the incorporation of disabled people into the labor market on contingent terms. Contradictions in disability employment policy have thus constituted people with disabilities as a labor force suited to the precarious positions characteristic of economic restructuring. This argument develops Marxist theories of disability, conceptualizing disabled people as a reserve army of labor malleable to the needs of capital. Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2024-04-16T08:09:57Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241246446
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Authors:Chuncheng Liu, Akos Rona-Tas; Akos Rona-Tas Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. To govern, states collect and evaluate information about citizens. This paper examines a social credit system (SCS) in China, a state initiative aimed at governing trust through the quantification of social behavior. Our analysis opens the ‘black box’ of an SCS metric, investigating how trust is translated into numbers and the implications of this translation. We reveal that the SCS is deeply relational and embedded in specific interests, biases, and logics of governance. The system has the potential to reinforce structural injustices and inequalities as it particularly disadvantages rural residents. Meanwhile, it subjects government employees to stricter surveillance, indicating its multifaceted objectives. Our finding uncovers the nuanced ways the system interacts with social stratification in Chinese society and the administrative structure inside the state. We problematize the individualistic, decontextualized, and behavioral assumptions undergirding the metric, and advocate for a critical reassessment of the sociopolitical dimensions of such quantitative governance infrastructures. Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2024-04-16T04:23:56Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241246528
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Authors:Joanna Riccitelli; USA Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. With the increasing neoliberalization of universities in the United States, current debates question the radical potential of self-care in higher education. Engaging with the work of Audre Lorde and James C. Scott, I argue how discounting self-care as insignificant or co-opted masks the possibilities for everyday forms of resistance through self-care. Broadening beyond a focus on simplistic binaries—individual versus collective, co-opted versus radical—this article offers a different orientation toward self-care—one that I call critical self-care—which recognizes that we can be critical of co-optation by the university, while also understanding self-care as critical to our existence within the university. I develop this conceptualization of self-care in the context of the neoliberal university, by identifying three facets of critical self-care—disruption of the hegemonic academic culture of overwork, building alternative ways of existing within the university, and allowing for the self-care of others—each of which reveals how self-care practices hold the potential for resistance and change to gendered and racialized norms of the institution, even in quiet or informal ways. Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2024-04-09T05:01:48Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241245091
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Authors:Sena Aydin Bergfalk, Atakan Ciftci; Atakan Ciftci Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. Turkey’s neoliberal authoritarian regime poses increasing challenges against unionization processes. While the decline of workers’ rights under this regime created a renewed impetus to unionize, barriers to unionization equally increased and diversified. Taking three recent unionization experiences as case studies, this paper explores the dynamics between class organization and authoritarian statecraft. It proposes that barriers against unionization are not consequences of authoritarian consolidation but part and parcel of its making in the Turkish context. However, they have the contradictory effect of weakening such consolidation at the everyday level by engendering a working-class politicization and desire toward democratization within unionization struggles. This paradoxical relation also reveals how unionization efforts inevitably incorporate political demands in addition to economic ones under the Turkish authoritarian circumstances and become a space of struggle against the authoritarian logic at large, whether that be the anti-democratic practices of the regime or the top-down bureaucratic attitudes of unions. Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2024-03-22T04:56:53Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241240749
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Authors:Florian Butollo, Cornelia Staritz, Felix Maile, Tobias Wuttke; Cornelia Staritz, Felix Maile, Tobias Wuttke Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. This article assesses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine and geopolitics on geographies of production. Criticizing simplified perspectives on globalized versus intraregional production, we stress the multi-scalarity, the role of industrial policies and sector-specific path dependencies in shaping global production. Based on expert interviews and policy and industry documents, our analysis focuses on the automotive, clothing, and electronics industries. Although concerns for resilience increasingly shape lead firms’ strategies, increased regionalization of production through re- or near-shoring is only one of several strategies. Where it does occur, it has been driven by state policies that tackle certain strategically important products, not production networks as a whole. Hence, while recent events exposed the vulnerabilities of global production, we do not observe deglobalization in the sense of a comprehensive retreat from globalized in favor of intraregional production. Nonetheless, state interventions that are geopolitically motivated and affect firms’ investment decisions have intensified particularly in the United States and the European Union. Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2024-03-22T04:54:51Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241239872
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Authors:Yeon-Hwa Lee, Jae Kyun Kim; Jae Kyun Kim Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. This paper argues that race must be a central consideration in understanding migration in Korea, where international migrants are rapidly reshaping the national landscape. While migration scholarship on Korea has analyzed various policy trajectories, it has predominantly focused on three aspects—liberal democracy, ethnicity, and gender—largely overlooking the significance of race. First, it assumes that liberal democracy will eventually supersede xenophobia without critically examining its assumptions that are both racialized and teleological in nature. Second, by prioritizing ethnicity, it interprets discrimination against migrants through the notion of uni-ethnicity and a fear of foreignness without delving into Korea’s deeply rooted fixation on race. Third, it overemphasizes gendered migration, regarding Korea’s demographic crisis as a primary reason for accepting migrant women as biological reproducers. This paper contends that all three aspects are intricately connected to race, including Korea’s aspiration for whiteness and abjection of blackness, which significantly shape migration dynamics. Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2024-03-15T04:52:15Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241236867
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Authors:Ezgi Bora, Kürşad Ertuğrul; Kürşad ErtuğrulMiddle East Technical University, Turkey Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. This study explores the possibility of critical agency of queer subjects in Turkey in terms of challenging and subverting normative structural constraints. These constraints are attested through expansive use of the concept of habitus including class, gender, family, ethnicity and religion. Our field study in which in-depth interviews have been conducted detected two types of habitus in the life experiences of queer subjects: critical and conservative. While the former enables critical agency, the latter undermines this possibility. On this ground, it is argued that exhibiting critical habitus appears to be the precondition of performing critical agency. We conclude that having multiple minority identities, education, and involvement in organizations develop a critical habitus enhancing critical queer agency. Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2024-03-06T06:47:48Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241236529
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Authors:Cenk Saraçoğlu; Turkey Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print.
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Authors:Charles Post; USA Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print.
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Authors:Fernando Bizzarro; USA Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print.
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Authors:Dillon Wamsley; UK Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. This article examines the politics of welfare in Britain from 2010 to 2019. Drawing on Gramscian literature, the first section outlines an original framework of the ‘divide-and-rule’ politics of welfare during the 1980s and 1990s in the United Kingdom. The second section examines the return of welfare restructuring in Britain following the 2008 global financial crisis, focusing on Universal Credit. It contends that a significant escalation of coercive social policies within the social security system undermined previous social antagonisms underpinning the political coalitions of neoliberal welfare reform. Alongside deepening economic stagnation and dislocation exacerbated by austerity after 2010, it argues that this coercive turn intensified an unfolding crisis of legitimacy. The third section examines the politics of welfare amid an unfolding social crisis in Britain. It argues that despite burgeoning socio-political discontent and the emergence of the counter-hegemonic project of Corbynism, 2016–2019 was characterised by an interregnum. With the defeat of Corbynism amid protracted Brexit negotiations, this included a period of political impasse in which popular support for welfare reform, austerity and neoliberalism were in decline, but without an attendant shift in the balance of political forces to advance an alternative hegemonic project. As a result, a deepening social crisis continued to unfold. Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2024-02-07T05:53:01Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241229412
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Authors:David Arditi; USA Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. Over the past several decades, video games have gone from single-purpose games to multi-faceted platforms. This article is a case study that develops ‘unending consumption’ to understand the political economy of video game concerts. Unending consumption is the expansion of the means of consumption under a subscription model. By applying unending consumption to the political economy of video games, I show how video game concerts are embedded in the current moment of capitalism. The new political economy of video games blurs the line between video games and music as distinct media—an element of convergence. While video games and music converge through a new form of unending consumption, I argue these changes create more gatekeepers and limit the ability of independent creators to make a living. Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2024-02-05T07:03:37Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241229064
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Authors:Nicolò Miotto, Julian Droogan; Julian Droogan Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. The religious dimensions of the QAnon movement and links with political violence have been noted by researchers. This paper furthers this scholarship by conducting an analysis of 121 religious images taken from QAnon Telegram channels over 18 months. Through adopting semiotic and hermeneutical theory, it is argued that QAnon religious imagery can be categorised into a series of types, all influenced by Christian theological themes. When interpreted in a Christian context, these images reveal a close relationship with US-based Christian evangelicalism and with Christian liberation theology movements. By presenting contemporary politics as an eschatological battle between the oppressed and oppressors, framed as the QAnon community versus the devil, the QAnon movement encourages political activism closely analogous to Christian liberation theology movements. This contributes to an explanatory framework for the connections between QAnon followers and anti-government protest and violence during the Covid-19 pandemic and the 6 January storming of the US Capitol. Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2024-01-31T05:17:50Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205241228744
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Authors:Jongchul Kim; South Korea Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. The concept of trusts, absent from the classical writings of Marx and Weber on capitalism, was introduced by Frederic Maitland and John Locke as an explanatory framework for the central institutions of capitalism. While these two theorists offered compelling arguments, they relied on intuition and utilized the concept primarily to justify the existing social structure. This paper aims to bring analytical rigor to this intuitive theory and proposes that critical theory embraces the idea of trusts as a critical conceptual tool to unravel the nature of capitalist institutions. Examining limited liability corporations, the modern state, and public debt, the incorporation of trusts into critical theory provides key advantages. First, it facilitates analyzing capitalist institutions in terms of rights and responsibilities, unveiling moral dynamics. Second, it highlights the role of personhood in distributing rights and responsibilities. Third, it can help understand why modern society is ensnared by the shackles of debt. Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2024-01-19T12:06:07Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205231220300
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Authors:Roberto J. Ortiz; Long Beach, USA Abstract: Critical Sociology, Ahead of Print. Critical studies of globalization seek to unmask how this stage of capitalist history reshapes patterns of uneven development around the world. While globalization can reproduce long-standing patterns of North–South unequal exchange, in this paper, I focus on how capital mobility and competition contribute to uneven development. Drawing primarily on Neil Smith’s theory of uneven development, I offer a theoretical discussion of how capital’s capacity to seesaw from place to place in its search for higher profits—and the spatial competition between places that this capacity triggers—constitutes a source of unevenness. Regions, nations, and localities adapt to capital’s seesaw by offering, among others, cheaper labor and lower environmental regulation costs. While this can work for a time, advantages are either eroded by the unfolding contradictions of capitalism or competed away by the emergence of new areas. In the last section, I offer a tentative illustration of this argument with a brief examination of pollution havens and Special Economic Zones. Citation: Critical Sociology PubDate: 2024-01-11T09:59:21Z DOI: 10.1177/08969205231224810
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