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- ‘. . . You are a Muslim, and our village disapproves of this’: The
objections of indigenous minority communities in Israel to women’s
employment in the police on grounds of gender, nationality and crime-
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Authors: Tal Meler, Orly Benjamin
Abstract: Current Sociology, Ahead of Print.
We introduce and discuss the concept of community objection against the backdrop of the dominant scholarly tendency to attribute a shared viewpoint to residential communities. The notion of community objection arises from two dimensions of diversification among members of minority residential communities: vision of their relationship with the majority and vision of appropriate sexual behavior. We offer an analysis of the experience of Arab women who are citizens serving in the Israeli Police, who face community objection from members of their communities who endeavor to exert social control by questioning their loyalty and their sexuality. We asked which patterns of community objection are perceived as threatening by Arab policewomen, and how women explain their community’s objection to their employment. We conducted a qualitative study based on semi-structured interviews with 27 Arab policewomen employed by the Israeli Police. Grounded theory was applied, bringing to light gender-based, nationality-based and crime-based community objection. The analysis furthermore revealed that Arab policewomen could hold on to their jobs by rejecting the viewpoints manifested by those three types of objections. In fact, they thwarted the gender-based one as a conservative attempt to stop their work in the area of violence against women; and the nationality-based objection as an often crime-based one in disguise. Their perceptions allowed us to elaborate on previous discussions, underscoring the significance of inner disagreement on minority-majority relations for conceptualizing ‘community’.
Citation: Current Sociology
PubDate: 2024-07-25T06:31:50Z
DOI: 10.1177/00113921241264564
- Emotional bureaucrats: The paradox of Weberian bureaucracy and emotions in
the Indian Railways-
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Authors: Kyle Chan
Abstract: Current Sociology, Ahead of Print.
State officials in Weber’s rational-bureaucratic ideal type execute the business of the state rationally and dispassionately. Yet, in practice, the professional lives of bureaucrats are often deeply imbued with emotions. Drawing on fieldwork conducted over 2 years in India, this article examines the relationship between emotions and organizational structure in the Indian Railways, one of the world’s largest state bureaucracies. From fear and helplessness to jealousy and pride, I argue that the varied and powerful emotional experiences of Indian Railway officers stem partly from structural factors within the bureaucracy itself, particularly its organizational structure. Feelings of powerless and a sense that ‘bureaucrats are beggars’ can be traced to the fragmented organizational structure of the Indian Railways, which sharply constrains the authority of individual officers. A pervasive ‘fear of being questioned’ is fueled by the frequent ‘weaponization’ of anti-corruption tools and intricate rules to carry out personal vendettas. Ultimately, this article shows how efforts to produce a more Weberian, rationally organized bureaucracy can end up generating the very emotions they aim to limit.
Citation: Current Sociology
PubDate: 2024-07-25T06:30:10Z
DOI: 10.1177/00113921241264563
- The United Kingdom’s ‘free speech crisis’: From the fringes to a
mainstream political project 2010–2023-
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Authors: Taylor A Hughson, Simina Dragoș
Abstract: Current Sociology, Ahead of Print.
This article traces the mainstreaming of the idea that there is a ‘free speech crisis’ in the United Kingdom, from its emergence in the 2010s to the Free Speech Act of 2023. We argue that ‘free speech’ is initially constructed during this period in opposition to an imagined ‘uncivilised’, ‘external’ Muslim other. However, by the end of the 2010s, the threat to ‘free speech’ is imagined as much more widespread, and as coming from ‘inside the West’, where a new enemy is identified alongside the ‘uncivilised Muslim’: the ‘woke’, censorious ‘snowflake’. This new enemy of free speech is cast in populist terms: as part of an illegitimate elite or proto-elite. This discursive shift occurs, on our account, because the rhetoric of a ‘free speech crisis’ paradoxically becomes an increasingly powerful way for right-wing political actors to deny political legitimacy to those opposed to their political positions. By locating those opposed to them as against the incontrovertible Western Enlightenment good of ‘free speech’ itself, these right-wing actors racialise the speech of others as ‘uncivilised’ and therefore outside of politics in a way that silences critique.
Citation: Current Sociology
PubDate: 2024-07-25T06:28:06Z
DOI: 10.1177/00113921241264559
- Home care for profit: Intermediary agencies and digital platforms
brokering migrant women’s labour in Spain-
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Authors: Raquel Martínez-Buján, Paloma Moré
Abstract: Current Sociology, Ahead of Print.
This article explores the recent proliferation of intermediary agencies and digital platforms that provide senior home care in Spain. Based on qualitative fieldwork consisting of semi-structured interviews (n = 20) and participatory workshops (n = 3), the aim is twofold: on one hand, it identifies the underlying causes of the proliferation of these brokers, such as changes to legislation regulating domestic work and increased collaboration between the welfare regime and private enterprise in the provision of home care, particularly since the 2020 health emergency, and on the other hand, it analyses how brokering has affected the nature of the sector and the migrant women’s working conditions. The results indicate that the rise in the number of intermediary agencies marks a new phase in the commodification of care in Spain. Our analysis highlights the contradictions between the business model of these agencies and platforms, which define themselves as organisations able to guarantee the ‘professionalisation’ and ‘formalisation’ of home care work, and the harsh reality of the dire working conditions encountered by workers, mostly migrant women from Latin America.
Citation: Current Sociology
PubDate: 2024-07-25T06:26:34Z
DOI: 10.1177/00113921241264556
- Remitting amid autocracy: Venezuelan migrant remittances to relatives
enduring widespread structural violence-
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Authors: Deisy Del Real, Blanca A. Ramirez
Abstract: Current Sociology, Ahead of Print.
Homeland conditions shape how migrants and refugees perceive the purpose and impact of their remittances (i.e. financial support). Countries of origin with low violence and stable conditions allow migrants to remit with hopes of improving their non-migrant relatives’ long-term material circumstances, while homelands with armed conflict limit remittance objectives to securing recipients’ immediate safety and basic survival. However, scholarship has under-theorized how homelands with widespread structural violence–economic devastation resulting in deprivation for most of the population–impact migrants’ remittance practices and perceptions. Drawing on in-depth interviews with forced Venezuelan migrants in Chile and Argentina–whose homeland has an emerging autocrat and economic sanctions that have resulted in widespread structural violence–we find that interviewees are highly concerned about relatives’ survival in Venezuela. They remit with resignation to secure relatives’ bare subsistence while grappling with their inability to counter the economic deterioration, infrastructural decay, and essential goods shortages that are decreasing their relatives’ lifespan. Broadly, findings indicate that widespread structural violence reshapes migrants’ transnational care; as deprivation spreads in the homeland, migrants are increasingly aware that the impact of their remittances is diminishing and seek to fulfill their relatives’ immediate basic needs.
Citation: Current Sociology
PubDate: 2024-07-23T08:01:09Z
DOI: 10.1177/00113921241260430
- The dilemma of constitutional mobilization: The housing and the
environmental social movements at the Chilean Constitutional Convention-
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Authors: Juan Pablo Rodríguez, Bruno Rojas Soto, Emilia Cuadros
Abstract: Current Sociology, Ahead of Print.
During the last decade, processes of constitutional change in different parts of the world have taken place in response to massive mobilizations, in contexts of social and political crises. What do social movements do when they participate in a body created to formulate a new constitution' The constitutional change process of 2021–2022 in Chile provides a unique opportunity to analyze how social movements act when they actively intervene in the constitutional arena. For the first time, activists from independent social movements participated as representatives in a constitutional body and significantly influenced the content of the new proposal. The movements analyzed in this article succeeded in incorporating most demands that have been collectively developed over the past 10 years in the context of a new cycle of mobilizations in Chile into the final proposal. Yet, the proposed constitutional draft was rejected. How did they attempt to influence the constitutional debate within the convention' What were the consequences of these strategies' Based on qualitative research, which included interviews, observations during the constitutional debate in the Constitutional Convention, and document analysis, this article examines the strategies and consequences of the constitutional mobilization carried out by these movements. We argue that some of the conditions for the success of these social movements within the Convention partially explain the failure of the process.
Citation: Current Sociology
PubDate: 2024-05-14T08:55:18Z
DOI: 10.1177/00113921241250042
- The effect of proximity on risk perception: A systematic literature review
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Authors: Aistė Balžekienė, José M. Echavarren, Audronė Telešienė
Abstract: Current Sociology, Ahead of Print.
The use of geospatial analytical tools has recently advanced risk perception research, with growing interest in spatial dimension. Available reviews of risk perception studies usually focus on specific types of risk or look at various socio-psychological, cognitive and cultural factors, and there are no systematic reviews of empirical research analysing the effect of proximity on risk perception. This article synthesizes the evidence from 81 empirical studies that investigate the significance of proximity on subjective risk perception. The systematic review focused on summaries of research methods, samples, geographic coverage, measurements and direction of influence of proximity variables on risk perception and types and sources of risk. The majority of the studies analysed implemented quantitative research. The most popular data collection methods were face-to-face interviews and postal surveys, but only half had representative samples. Studies looking into the effect of proximity on risk perception most often analysed environmental and technological risks. Two-thirds of the empirical studies found a significant impact of proximity on risk perception; the majority of these showed a positive correlation, with respondents living closer to hazards having higher risk perceptions. Negative correlations of risk perception with proximity are more characteristic of nuclear risks. Co-occurrence analysis of sources-of-risk and objects-at-risk has identified three most frequent clusters: impact of floods on economic properties; impact of other natural hazards on economic properties and impact of industrial facilities on health and lives.
Citation: Current Sociology
PubDate: 2024-05-04T04:30:24Z
DOI: 10.1177/00113921241250047
- Public perceptions of climate change during the COVID-19 crisis: Evidence
from social media data in China-
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Authors: Yan Wang, Caiyang Peng
Abstract: Current Sociology, Ahead of Print.
An emerging body of literature highlights the impact of crises and disasters in shaping climate change attitudes, yet the findings have been equivocal. The outbreak and spread of COVID-19 have posed great threats worldwide, but it also provides opportunities to explore the impact of crises in natural settings. Based on social media data in the early stage of the emergence of the pandemic in China, this study addresses the controversy and examines the extent to which the outburst of COVID-19 influences climate change attitudes. Frequency and popularity analyses of the posts suggest that public attention shifted toward the devastating impacts of the epidemic, whereas sentiment analyses indicate that the posts contain a more positive sentiment as people are more proactive in taking action to address climate change after the coronavirus outbreak. This study provides us with a more nuanced understanding of the underlying influencing factors of climate change attitudes and evaluates the implications of the pandemic and other uncertain events on environmental concerns.
Citation: Current Sociology
PubDate: 2024-04-29T10:39:51Z
DOI: 10.1177/00113921241248448
- Cultural wars and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) rights in
Southeast Asia: ‘Asian values’, human rights, and the ‘homosexual
turn’-
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Authors: George B Radics
Abstract: Current Sociology, Ahead of Print.
Some have argued that we are seeing a ‘homosexual turn’ in Southeast Asia. Decriminalization of sodomy, legal recognition of same-sex marriage, and discussions regarding trans rights have all taken place in the last decade. However, a backlash has emerged as well. Governmental censure of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender issues has escalated, with politicians espousing anti-lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender rhetoric and warning against importing ‘cultural wars’ from the West into Asia. The lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender rights debate is becoming the new cultural battleground in Asia, with ‘Asian’ and ‘family’ centered values being pitted against ‘Western hegemony’ and ‘moral corruption’. As lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender activists advocate for more recognition, the ‘traditional’ heteronormative family is further institutionalized and valorized. This article aims to interrogate the ‘cultural wars’ in Asia as reflected in the tension between burgeoning lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender activism and the enduring privilege of heteronormative families. It will explore this cultural clash through the following three dimensions: (1) rights framing, (2) competition over resources, and (3) political backlash. Ultimately, though, the article argues that as opposed to seeing this tension as a ‘cultural war’, instead we should see this conflict as developmental growing pains, as the region continues to evolve, and nation-states begin to grapple with the burgeoning rights and an irrepressible recognition of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender identities that had been buried under layers of ideologies, from political to moral.
Citation: Current Sociology
PubDate: 2024-04-09T05:11:38Z
DOI: 10.1177/00113921241241808
- Becoming a young radical right activist: Biographical pathways of the
members of radical right organisations in Poland and Germany-
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Authors: Janina Myrczik, Justyna Kajta, Arthur Buckenleib, Mateusz Karolak, Marius Liedtke, Adam Mrozowicki, Vera Trappmann
Abstract: Current Sociology, Ahead of Print.
With the increasing popularity of the radical right, much research has tried to explain the motives of voters. Less attention has been paid to the motives of people to become radical right activists – specifically young people, a group with a high tendency to join right-wing parties. Within the context of the internationalisation of the radical right, this article draws on 28 narrative interviews conducted between 2019 and 2021 with young radical right activists in Poland and Germany, two countries with considerably different political and discursive opportunity structures. We propose to recognise a new motive for becoming involved in political activism: career-oriented individual self-realisation in Germany, as opposed to fulfilling a duty to the nation in Poland. While we identify two different types of radical activism within the different contexts – the (nationalist) anti-establishment populist career type in Germany and the (nationalist) anti-political intellectualism/elitism type in Poland – they both point to the normalisation of the radical right in the two countries.
Citation: Current Sociology
PubDate: 2024-03-29T05:05:59Z
DOI: 10.1177/00113921241239644
- Counter-professionalisation in collective childcare: The case of
communities of care in Barcelona-
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Authors: Lara Maestripieri, Raquel Gallego
Abstract: Current Sociology, Ahead of Print.
Post-industrial transformations have significantly reshaped how young children are cared for outside the family home. Among other factors, the labour market participation of young mothers and a concomitant wish for intensive mothering have led to more diversified childcare solutions for the under-threes. Collective childcare projects (CCPs) promote approaches that are based on a home-like care environment and are run by educators and parents who have usually not trained in formal institutions but who become professionals in informal communities. Applying a discursive approach, this article asks: what characterises professionalism in CCPs' What type of professionalisation is being pursued' We analyse the case of Barcelona, using 45 interviews with association representatives, policymakers, campaigners, educators and parents. Our findings show the important role played by communities of care in defining professionalism and in consolidating a counter-professionalisation ethos, while evidencing their reluctance to pursue formal professionalisation.
Citation: Current Sociology
PubDate: 2024-03-26T11:16:28Z
DOI: 10.1177/00113921241239642
- The stealth rise of control: Forgotten trust in contemporary
professionalism-
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Authors: Sanjeev Bhupla, Adam Barnard, Richard Howarth
Abstract: Current Sociology, Ahead of Print.
Professionalism has long been a term understood to distinguish social strata, commonly highlighting those trusted to employ expert knowledge for the benefit of society. Professionalism however is evolving; this position article contributes to the subject in drawing together different threads of literature beyond empirical studies to extend the discussion on professionalism, shedding a light on an area of interest. Specifically, it is argued that professionalism is threatened by the shift of the loci of control from the traditional, occupational professional positions to what is now contemporary professionalism. To facilitate such a transition, trust, a long-time fundamental component of traditional professionalism, is being readily and overtly substituted by control, wielded in and by modern organisations for the primary benefit of that organisation. The first part of the article explicates an understanding of professionalism and trust. The following section then introduces the relationship between both traditional and contemporary professionalism with trust. The third part moves to discuss the rise of differing types of control, arguing that trust has been forced to take a minor role in contemporary notions of professionalism in organisational practice, leading to the term being utilised to induce the required behaviours within those organisations. The article concludes with direction on both potential implications and applications of the theoretical points raised through the discussion.
Citation: Current Sociology
PubDate: 2024-03-18T04:54:39Z
DOI: 10.1177/00113921241239643
- Women’s lives and temporalities of fertility treatment
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Authors: Nicola Payne, Suzan Lewis, Ann Nilsen
Abstract: Current Sociology, Ahead of Print.
This article explores women’s temporal experiences of using Assisted Reproductive Technology. The demand for such treatment has increased since the first in vitro fertilisation birth. Assisted Reproductive Technology involves invasive procedures in women’s bodies, uncertain outcomes and temporal challenges. A sample of 11 professional women was drawn from a larger sample recruited for interviews from online infertility forums. Analysis was carried out using a biographical life course approach to draw out the temporal elements of experiences. Four themes were identified: biographical timing and temporalities of fertility treatment; biographical timing and a/synchronicity with friends; temporalities of everyday life when using Assisted Reproductive Technology; and ‘public issue’ or ‘private trouble’ in relation to silences around Assisted Reproductive Technology. Undergoing Assisted Reproductive Technology treatment sets these women apart from friends who conceive without treatment, and they faced challenges for the rhythms of everyday life during this period. Using Assisted Reproductive Technology highlighted public taboos about women’s bodies. Thus for many, this critical phase had to be kept secret. Understanding women’s temporal experiences of using Assisted Reproductive Technology and the challenges involved are important for developing context sensitive theories and concepts that can contribute to deeper insight into the intersecting temporalities of reproductive processes in general and using Assisted Reproductive Technology in particular.
Citation: Current Sociology
PubDate: 2024-03-16T06:42:29Z
DOI: 10.1177/00113921241238433
- Who recounts the Stalinist past' Mnemonic roles, acts of remembering and
life-scripts in Russian families-
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Authors: Gavin Slade, Zhaniya Turlubekova, Laura Piacentini
Abstract: Current Sociology, Ahead of Print.
This article asks why some memories of the Stalinist Gulag are shared while others are not. Considering remembering as a social act, we argue that who engages in acts of remembering, to whom, when and how helps explain what is remembered. The article draws on family memories shared by participants of 16 focus groups in four research sites in Russia. We find that mnemonic actors – most often grandmothers – remember victimhood in veiled ways, structured by life-scripts that focus on the positive: they couch the bad in the good of the Soviet past, particularly focusing on evasive action and near misses which highlight the stoicism and cunning of family members who narrowly avoided repression. We suppose these narratives emerge in families and are shared within the focus groups due to perceived social appropriateness. The study adds to the literature on entangled memory and argues for the use of focus groups as a method for exploring the social patterning of remembering.
Citation: Current Sociology
PubDate: 2024-03-15T04:59:35Z
DOI: 10.1177/00113921241238431
- Navigating intimacy and queer entrepreneurship: Relational work in
Taiwanese lesbian couples’ business endeavors-
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Authors: Hong-zen Wang
Abstract: Current Sociology, Ahead of Print.
This study addresses the significant gap in the entrepreneurship literature concerning the experiences of sexual minority groups, particularly Taiwanese lesbian entrepreneurs. The prevailing focus on heterosexual men has overshadowed the distinct motivations and dynamics in queer entrepreneurship. Drawing on Zelizer’s concept of relational work and incorporating feminist perspectives, this investigation explores how Taiwanese lesbian couples engage in entrepreneurial pursuits in unique local gender culture. Taiwan’s gender cultural context, mainly shaped by Confucianism and Taoism, contributes to the relative acceptance of lesbian relationships and marriages, reducing social criticism. By skillfully utilizing the cultural repertoire of filial piety, lesbian entrepreneurs strengthen their bonds with parents, facilitating both their business endeavors and intimate relationships. In addition, lesbian entrepreneurship is often overlooked and subsumed under gay entrepreneurship, leading to the assumption of ‘gay ordinariness’. The study highlights a significant difference between Taiwanese lesbian entrepreneurs and gay counterparts; the former perform intimate relational work and prioritize emotional ties in entrepreneurial pursuits, while the latter emphasize rational economic outlook. The findings underscore that entrepreneurial motivations are multifaceted, encompassing liberation, empowerment, family bonding, and self-identity construction. Taiwanese lesbian entrepreneurs exemplify the importance of intimate relational work, challenging the dominant masculine economic orientation in entrepreneurship. This research contributes to a more comprehensive understanding of queer entrepreneurship and calls for greater recognition of diverse motivations and dynamics in entrepreneurial pursuits.
Citation: Current Sociology
PubDate: 2024-03-14T05:37:16Z
DOI: 10.1177/00113921241238432
- Political polarization and intimate distance: Negotiating family conflicts
during a high-risk protest movement-
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Authors: Ruby YS Lai
Abstract: Current Sociology, Ahead of Print.
Political polarization not only threatens democracy, but also disrupts family lives, causing clashes between family members with discordant political orientations. This article examines how individuals negotiate family conflicts during political divides, by focusing on the Anti-Extradition Bill Movement in Hong Kong. Based on data drawn from interviews conducted with 37 self-identified protest participants, I develop the concept of intimate distance in order to capture the way in which the participants negotiated political disagreements with their immediate family. Individuals make peace with their families during a high-risk movement, not merely by restoring closeness, but also by adjusting the intimate distance with their family members in three interconnected aspects: everyday family life, cognitive and emotional aspects. Individuals employ a repertoire of practices, together with emotion work and boundary work, to alleviate confrontations, rebuild consensus, and contain political risks. This study contributes to a more nuanced conceptualization of intimacy and family conflict resolution, and unravels the impact of family interactions on the intensification or alleviation of ideological and affective polarization in relation to the interpersonal and societal level.
Citation: Current Sociology
PubDate: 2024-02-22T08:34:15Z
DOI: 10.1177/00113921241232409
- Contestations over risk expertise, definitions and insecurities: The case
of European football-
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Authors: Jan Andre Lee Ludvigsen
Abstract: Current Sociology, Ahead of Print.
This article advances sociological debates which, since the 1990s, have proliferated over the nature of ‘risk’ and ‘insecurity’ in modern societies. Central here is Ulrich Beck’s work, dealing with questions regarding which expert systems and institutions possess the ability to define what constitutes a risk or not. For Beck, hegemonic relations of definitions are central in the identification and construction of risk. However, risks are contested by wider publics, sub-political groups and movements. Notwithstanding, existing literature predominantly explores these contestations through techno-scientific contexts. Through a case-study of European men’s football (1985–2023), this article extends Beck’s work into the field of sport, by examining how supporter movements have contested expert claims on risk, insecurity and its management in leisure and sporting cultures. The article argues that reflexive cultures of contestation have matured and enabled a small section of ‘recognized’ supporters to become ‘counter-experts’, thereby blurring the expert/public distinction within Beck’s theories. It thus contributes to sociological debates on risk and citizen-expert contestations in contemporary social contexts.
Citation: Current Sociology
PubDate: 2024-02-19T04:36:56Z
DOI: 10.1177/00113921241232413
- The effects of economic globalization on fertility in developing
countries, 1990–2018-
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Authors: Steven A. Mejia
Abstract: Current Sociology, Ahead of Print.
Social scientists have long queried the socio-structural determinants of fertility rates. Drawing on the insights of dependency theory, this research investigates the impact of trade openness, exports to high-income countries, foreign direct investment, and debt dependence on fertility rates in developing countries. Results from generalized least squares (GLS) random effects (RE) panel regression models suggest that trade openness has a null effect, while exports to high-income countries is positively associated with fertility. Foreign direct investment is inversely associated with fertility, while debt dependence is positively associated with fertility. This study calls attention to the global–economic processes shaping national-level demographic outcomes.
Citation: Current Sociology
PubDate: 2024-01-27T05:44:47Z
DOI: 10.1177/00113921231223184
- Promoting mindfulness in education: Scientisation, psychology and
epistemic capital-
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Authors: Peter J Hemming, Alp Arat
Abstract: Current Sociology, Ahead of Print.
Mindfulness is increasingly found in many educational settings in the United Kingdom, but existing research has focused primarily on clinical efficacy or implementation issues, rather than sociological interests. This article draws on data from the ‘Mapping Mindfulness in the UK’ study to help explain the successful growth of mindfulness in education, by exploring the discursive strategies through which practitioners construct, promote and solicit support for the practice among policymakers and educational leaders. The analysis highlights the significance of certain authorities or epistemic capitals, and logics of ‘scientisation’, for positioning mindfulness as a credible and legitimate practice for educational contexts, yet also reveals competing discourses and alternative conceptualisations. In doing so, it extends theories of ‘scientisation’ by explicating the role of ‘harder’ and ‘softer’ forms of psychology within these processes. The research makes original contributions to sociological understandings of mindfulness and education, while offering new insights on broader theories concerning science and society.
Citation: Current Sociology
PubDate: 2024-01-19T11:40:28Z
DOI: 10.1177/00113921231223180
- Conflicting demands and emotional labour: Balancing and swapping at the
front line of the welfare state-
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Authors: Mathias Herup Nielsen
Abstract: Current Sociology, Ahead of Print.
This article combines insights from the sociology of emotional labour with works on conflicting demands facing employees to analyse how frontline staff conduct emotional labour in contexts marked by multifaceted demands facing them. It demonstrates the usefulness of this combination through an analysis of group interviews with frontline staff within Danish job centres, who are currently explicitly instructed to display sincere belief in the job prospects of clients, while also representing a disciplining activation system marked by conditionality. The article contributes to existing literature through an elaboration of two concepts – ‘balancing’ and ‘swapping’ – describing forms of emotional labour conducted by frontline staff in a work setting characterized by conflicting demands. The former is about striking a balance between the wants of the client and the wants of the system while sustaining clients’ feelings of motivation. The latter is about enabling oneself to encounter clients in ways which are personalized and informal, within the contours of a system marked by bureaucratic logics and language.
Citation: Current Sociology
PubDate: 2024-01-17T09:30:18Z
DOI: 10.1177/00113921231224760
- Giving and receiving: Gendered service work in academia
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Authors: Margaretha Järvinen, Nanna Mik-Meyer
Abstract: Current Sociology, Ahead of Print.
Deploying the perspective of ‘relational work’, this article investigates the mechanisms behind the gender-unequal distribution of academic service. The concept of relational work is used to analyse how men and women in academia balance collective against individual interests when agreeing or disagreeing on service tasks. Four types of relational work are identified: compliance, evasiveness, barter and investment, with compliance being more common among women, evasiveness and barter being more common among men and investment being tied to temporality in a gendered pattern. The article shows that men are more successful in pursuing individual interests against service demands and how this depends on their relational work as well as organisational role expectations, reducing women’s prospects of ‘saying no’. The study is based on qualitative interviews with 163 associate and full professors in the social sciences and CV data on their service contributions.
Citation: Current Sociology
PubDate: 2024-01-17T09:28:19Z
DOI: 10.1177/00113921231224754
- Dissenting and innovating: Freelancers’ emerging forms of organising
in the Netherlands-
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Authors: Valeria Piro, Annalisa Murgia
Abstract: Current Sociology, Ahead of Print.
This article investigates precarious workers’ organising by considering the case of freelancers, a category between the self-employed – usually represented by employer organisations – and employees – whose interests are traditionally defended by trade unions. Drawing on a 6-month ethnography conducted in the Netherlands within two freelancer associations, our study shows their capacity to exercise collective forms of ‘critical agency’ – on the one hand, by questioning their established practices and seeking to innovate their repertoire, and on the other, by staging protest actions, despite the long Dutch tradition of consensus-based social dialogue. The aim of the article is twofold. First, it contributes to the debate on precarious workers’ organising by considering freelancers as agentic subjects, whose collective identity and organising practices shape and are shaped not only by the socio-institutional context, but also by the type of relationships they create and in which they are embedded. Second, by focusing on collective everyday practices as fields of production of the new, it illustrates diverse forms of critical agency exercised by freelancers, thus offering an empirical contribution to the understanding of critical agency in its making.
Citation: Current Sociology
PubDate: 2024-01-09T09:18:19Z
DOI: 10.1177/00113921231223176
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