I checked 9 sociology journals on Wednesday, July 15, 2026 using the Crossref API. For the period July 08 to July 14, I found 8 new paper(s) in 5 journal(s).

American Sociological Review

Religion Unbundled: Toward a Twenty-First-Century Paradigm for the Sociology of American Religion
Ruth Braunstein, Jaime Kucinskas, Brian Steensland, Daniel Winchester
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Much recent sociological work on religion in the United States is written outside the field’s two established paradigms: secularization theory and the 1990s “religious economy” approach. Drawing together strands of recent theoretical innovation and contemporary religious developments that challenge the existing paradigms, we introduce elements of a twenty-first-century paradigm for the sociology of American religion. We argue that the shape-shifting nature of American religion (and secularity) can be productively conceptualized as an effect of unbundling—that is, a process by which religious goods once offered as a package by institutionalized religious authorities are now offered individually or repackaged into various hybrid and contested forms by a wide array of suppliers. We demonstrate the value of our approach by showing how two major religious traditions, Christianity and Buddhism, have become unbundled. In both cases, our approach positions us to apprehend a range of phenomena beyond traditional organized religion, as well as how organized religion adapts to fit this new de facto unbundled landscape. We offer criteria for delimiting the scope of this broader unbundled religious landscape, and discuss the implications of our approach for scholarship on religion, meaning making, and social change.

Social Forces

Review of “Cultural Mavericks: The Business and Politics of Independent Bookselling in China”
Weirong Guo
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Social Networks

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Corrigendum to “Rigid boundaries, selective salience: How classroom gender composition shapes adolescent friendships” [Soc. Netw. 86 (2026) 401–411]
Eszter Vit, Isabel J. Raabe
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Gender differences in workplace friendship development: Insights from network dynamics
Inga Carboni, Andrew Parker, Alessandro Lomi
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Social Science Research

Impact of subsidized childcare on maternal employment: A comparative study on native and migrant women in Germany
Aslıhan Yurdakul, İbrahim Engin Kılıç
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‘Reading between the lies’: Reading achievement, socioeconomic inequality, and adolescents' resistance to misinformation
Mobarak Hossain, Jason Jabbari
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Sociological Science

Categorical Engagement and the Contingent Nature of Typicality Effects
Alex Tyulyupo, Balázs Kovács
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Bending the Heckman Curve: Competing Declines in Learning Capacity and Skill Relevance Over the Life Course
João Souto-Maior, Mitchell Stevens
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Information Diets Are More Diverse in Attention Than in Engagement
Christopher Barrie, Aybuke Atalay, Alia ElKattan
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