I checked 9 sociology journals on Wednesday, April 08, 2026 using the Crossref API. For the period April 01 to April 07, I found 8 new paper(s) in 6 journal(s).

American Journal of Sociology

Two Primitive Accumulations Behind Party Articulation: Bolivia's MNR (1952–1964)
Edwin F. Ackerman
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Social Forces

Dreams, dollars, and donors: organizational actorhood and the rising development orientation of global higher education
Seungah Sarah Lee, Nadine Ann Skinner, Francisco O Ramirez
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American universities operate as organizational actors with goals and elaborate structures to achieve them, often in interaction with multiple “stakeholders.” Fundraising has increasingly become central in these universities. University development offices with fundraising objectives emerged, expanded, and professionalized, becoming core features of American universities. Yet, it is not clear to what extent fundraising has diffused through higher education outside of the United States. Utilizing an original cross-national sample of 437 non-US universities, this paper seeks to ascertain whether university development orientations are more likely to be found in universities that look more like organizational actors and in more marketized societies. We find strong support for the neo-institutional hypothesis that universities with greater organizational elaboration and links to transnational professional associations are more likely to adopt a development or fundraising orientation. We find that universities in the Anglosphere are also more likely to adopt this orientation. However, other indicators of more marketized societies are not associated with university development structures. These findings contribute to scholarship on organizational actorhood and the globalization of higher education by highlighting the importance of university organization in accounting for their embrace of an American-influenced development-oriented university model.

Social Networks

Estimating peer influence in multilayer networks
Weihua An, Pablo Estrada, Juan Estrada, David Jacho-Chavez
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Making the peers’ subjective well-being visible impairs cooperator-centered experimental social networks
Akihiro Nishi, Hiroyasu Ando, Meaghan Woody, Kamal Nayan Reddy Challa
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Social Science Research

Crisis vulnerability and social stratification: Educational inequalities in political trust dynamics during the COVID-19 pandemic
Gundula Zoch, Steffen Wamsler
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Liberal and radical inequality of opportunity in Sweden
Michael Grätz, Kieron J. Barclay
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Sociological Science

Making Progress in the Chicago Police Department, 1862–2024
Tony Cheng, Johann Koehler
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Socius

“He Got More Felonies Than I Do!” Formerly Incarcerated Americans on President Trump
Janani Umamaheswar
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President Trump has long espoused “tough-on-crime” rhetoric, and many of his current policy initiatives risk exacerbating challenges faced by the nation’s most vulnerable citizens, including formerly incarcerated people. Against this backdrop, I ask: How do formerly incarcerated Americans perceive President Trump and his actions? Using 44 in-depth interviews with formerly incarcerated people in Florida and Virginia, I find that participants’ mixed evaluations of President Trump are tied to what he and his second presidency symbolize in participants’ own lives and for the nation more broadly. Specifically, I argue that formerly incarcerated Americans see President Trump, more so than previous presidents, as symbolic of what it means to be American. Furthermore, as the first president with felony convictions, President Trump symbolizes many formerly incarcerated Americans’ own quest for redemption and their hopes for what is possible in their own lives. These findings reveal that formerly incarcerated people are neither politically apathetic nor immune to nationalistic ideologies about America.