I checked 9 sociology journals on Friday, July 24, 2026 using the Crossref API. For the period July 17 to July 23, I found 26 new paper(s) in 6 journal(s).

American Journal of Sociology

Not in My Gayborhood: Gay Neighborhoods and the Rise of the Vicarious Citizen
Shae Miller
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Misery Beneath the Miracle in East Asia
Julia Chuang
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Be Water: Collective Improvisation in Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Protests
Victoria Tin-bor Hui
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Écologie humaine, une science sociale des milieux de vie
William Kornblum
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Conservatorship: Inside California’s System of Coercion and Care for Mental Illness
Mary Ellen Stitt
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The Candidates: Amateurs and Professionals in French Politics
Yongjun Zhang
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Where the Hood At? Fifty Years of Change in Black Neighborhoods
Jacob William Faber
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Walled-In: Arctic Housing and a Sociology of Walls
Nathanael Lauster
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How the Heartland Went Red: Why Local Forces Matter in an Age of Nationalized Politics
Dante J. Scala
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Flexible Authoritarianism: Cultivating Ambition and Loyalty in Russia
Kate Pride Brown
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American Sociological Review

The Gendered Intergenerational Transmission of Managerial Status
Nicholas Martindale, Thomas Lyttelton, Lasse Folke Henriksen
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Prior research on managerial attainment highlights inequalities based on gender and ethnicity, but the role of social origins has been neglected. Moreover, past research on intergenerational social mobility does not focus specifically on how parents’ and children’s occupations may be linked. We develop a theoretical model of intergenerational managerial status transmission that we test using event history analysis that tracks managerial attainment (2000 to 2019) for over half a million Danish workers (born 1965 to 1975). Results reveal that children of managers are substantially more likely to become managers than the children of non-managers, and this inheritance is stronger for sons and for those with senior managerial origins. For children of lower-level managers, this is primarily related to advantages in early life (parental economic capital, educational attainment), but descendants of senior managers additionally benefit from advantages that accumulate later (career trajectories, elite social connections). Gender and seniority effects intersect to produce a particularly striking advantage for the sons of senior-managerial fathers. Much of this advantage remains unexplained after testing a large set of potential mediators, implying a considerable role for male-dominated forms of elite cultural and social capital (e.g., membership in exclusive clubs) and underscoring the limits to formal organizational approaches to equalizing outcomes at the very top of the occupational hierarchy.

Social Forces

Review of "Insecurity Politics: How Unstable Lives Lead to Populist Support"
Veda Hyunjin Kim
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Review of "Governing the Excluded: Rural Livelihoods Beyond Coca in Colombia's Peace Laboratory"
Laura Acosta
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The magic of secularization
Paul Froese, Isaiah King, Ruiqian Li
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Institutional secularization does not necessitate a secular public. In fact, as church memberships decline, more individualized sources of supernatural belief can emerge. Using a nationally representative survey of American adults (n = 1812), we analyze the popularity of “secular rationalism” and how it relates to belief in non-Divine supernatural causation, i.e., magic. Our findings suggest that belief in magic is not simply the inverse of religiosity or secular rationalism. Instead, belief in magic emerges most strongly among those who are both scientifically oriented and residually religious. Secular rationalism does not erase belief in supernatural mechanisms—it affirms the individual’s agency to decide what they are. In short, magic thrives where reason and spirituality meet, suggesting that modernity’s rational turn does not disenchant so much as release faith from institutional restraints.
Review of “Unequal Worlds of Care: The Politics of Global Health in Malawi”
Elizabeth Heger Boyle
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The stalled gender housework revolution in the United States
Patrick Ishizuka
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Prior studies document a declining but persistent gender housework gap since the 1960s, with declines in women’s housework time far exceeding increases in men’s. Yet scholars differ in their assessment of what these trends mean about the pace and extent of gendered change in family life. Using individual-level longitudinal data from the 1976–2023 waves of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, this study addresses this theoretical impasse by asking whether housework has become fundamentally degendered over time. I assess degendering using two novel indicators: the residual gender housework gap relative to the total gap and gender symmetry in associations between key predictors and housework. Results show that although the overall gender housework gap has declined substantially, the share of the total gap accounted for by theoretically relevant observed predictors remains small and has not increased over time. Individual fixed-effects models further show that cohabitation, marriage, and children remain much more strongly associated with increases in women’s housework than men’s across periods. Associations of paid work hours and earnings with housework, in contrast, attenuate over time, with less consistent evidence of gender asymmetry. Overall, these findings indicate limited progress in degendering housework and are more consistent with a stalled gender housework revolution.
Review of “Living Diaper to Diaper: The Hidden Crisis of Poverty and Motherhood”
Jennifer Laird
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Fair and luck egalitarian inequality of opportunity
Michael Grätz, Alicia García-Sierra
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Different conceptions of inequality of opportunity have been developed in political philosophy. We focus on two competing conceptions: fair and luck egalitarian inequality of opportunity. We develop an empirical framework to measure and compare these conceptions. Both fair and luck egalitarian inequality of opportunity consider it unjust if ascribed characteristics such as social origin, gender, race, and ethnicity affect life outcomes. However, they differ in what they regard as just: fair inequality of opportunity considers it just if abilities and individual choices affect life outcomes, while luck egalitarian inequality of opportunity considers it just only if individual choices affect life outcomes. We measure fair and luck egalitarian inequality of opportunity in education, occupation, income, and wealth using survey data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY). Our results show that conclusions about inequality of opportunity depend on the conception of inequality of opportunity employed. From the perspective of fair inequality of opportunity, the United States is a rather just society, while the nation’s degree of luck egalitarian inequality of opportunity is high. The difference between fair and luck egalitarian inequality of opportunity is largest for education, followed by occupation, and finally income and wealth. There is no evidence that changes across cohorts differed between fair and luck egalitarian inequality of opportunity.
University expansion, academic fields, and the match between the degree and the job
Jonathan Horowitz, Sagi Ramaj
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Academic knowledge—such as biology, psychology, and economics—is found both in university majors and specific occupations. When educational attainment expands in the population, does it improve or weaken the academic match between university majors and occupations? Using nationally representative data from Great Britain and Canada, we find heterogeneous effects by field of study that are consistent across countries. Increases in the proportion of individuals with university degrees improves matches for economics, mathematics, and fine arts majors, such that they enter occupations that utilize more of their major-specific academic knowledge. The reverse is true for graduates in philosophy and theology, sociology and anthropology, and several majors in the natural and physical sciences. While some high-status fields see stronger matches between major and occupation as education expands, the natural and physical sciences remain a clear exception. These idiosyncratic results suggest that field-level prestige partly explains the heterogeneous effects of educational expansion on major-occupation matching, but that more research is needed on shifts in academic knowledge usage in the labor market.

Social Networks

Social networks, language, and material culture on New Guinea
Mark Golitko, James Zimmer-Dauphinee, John Edward Terrell, Esther M. Schechter
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Agency within structure: Strategic behavior and network position in explaining premium buyer access in global buyer–seller networks
Quyet-Tien Nguyen
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Social Science Research

Separated in childhood: The long-term impacts of parental migration on educational attainment in China
Lei Lei, Yanhong Jin
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Social origin, the class ceiling in earnings, and job task segregation: Evidence from Germany
Wiebke Schulz, Philipp M. Lersch
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Racial/ethnic and educational disparities in married and cohabiting individuals’ propensity to form interracial unions
Kate H. Choi, Patrick A. Denice
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Socius

Belonging Tests and Felt Belonging: Black Mixed-Race Students at Differing Institutional Contexts
Eliana Gagnon
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Sociological literature emphasizes the significance of studying themes of belonging across racial groups and contexts; yet scholarship rarely distinguishes between sense of racial belonging and peer-validated belonging. Accordingly, little is known about the tangible “tests” of racialized belonging administered by peers. The author conceptualizes belonging tests as assessments of perceived fit into communities through markers such as presentation, language, or cultural tastes and practices. Using this concept, the author analyzes 50 interviews with Black mixed-race students, 25 each from a predominantly White institution (PWI) and a historically Black college or university (HBCU). The author highlights significant yet understudied belonging tests on hair, fashion and beautification, “N-word” usage, code-switching, and artistic cultural capital. Most HBCU Black-mixed students describe a strong sense of belonging with the Black community but report more belonging tests from their peers than do the PWI students. The majority of the PWI Black-mixed students do not cite a strong sense of belonging with a single racial community while also reporting fewer peer-induced belonging tests. Conceptually, “belonging tests” illuminate how symbolic boundaries are drawn by Black peers at both institutions and, secondarily, by White peers at the PWI. These findings advance understandings of more complex racial belonging negotiations by comparing subjective feelings with experiences of peer evaluation.
The Regional Coloring of Imagination: How Social Categories Shape Marital Partner Selection
Acton Jiashi Feng
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Despite its omnipresence in daily interaction, the role of regional background in the development of social relations remains marginal in sociological research. This article examines how regional background shapes marital partner selection in urban China through a mental imagery model that draws on the sociology of imagined futures and culture and cognition. This new theoretical model helps integrate insights from direct selection and by-product models of marital homogamy. Drawing on 37 in-depth interviews and map color-coding exercises with never-married college graduates in Shanghai, I find that people construct strategies of action based on emotionally charged mental imageries of future life with potential partners in the early stages of partner selection. These imageries are constituted by cultural concepts developed from past regional engagements and structured by dominant institutional scripts of marriage, encompassing not only the candidate but also parents on both sides. That people picture their parents’ reactions to potential partners despite their own preferences reveals an indirect model of parental influence over adult children’s marital choice. The article concludes with a discussion of the theoretical potential of the mental imagery model beyond marital choice.