I checked 9 sociology journals on Tuesday, June 09, 2026 using the Crossref API. For the period June 02 to June 08, I found 13 new paper(s) in 6 journal(s).

American Journal of Sociology

Networks at Work: Officer Diversity, Network Segregation, and Police Misconduct
Linda Zhao
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Social Forces

Bad timing: mass-participatory asset bubbles as a mechanism of predatory inclusion
Adam Goldstein, Max Fineman
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This paper considers the relationship between market composition and temporal dynamics of ethno-racial stratification in mass-participatory asset bubbles. Beginning from the insight that bubbles possess the social structure of a Ponzi scheme, we first ask to what extent timing of entry is structured by racial status and associated resource disparities among participants. We then consider to what extent homophilous social cues and segregation amplify disparate rates of late-stage entry. We focus on the 2000–2008 US residential housing market, using neighborhood-level data from the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act and the Federal Housing Finance Authority. Conditional on mortgage lending terms, credit availability, and other tract-level characteristics, trends in housing purchase rates for Blacks and Hispanics diverged from those of Whites as prices neared their peaks. Residential segregation and processes of homophilous diffusion amplify price-bidding and exacerbate racial disparities in rates of late-stage entry by rendering actors less attuned to the emergent risks of buying at elevated prices, and more vulnerable to the overtures of predatory agents. The analysis links the sociology of financial markets to studies of racialized predatory inclusion by considering heterogenous market timing, a mechanism which has become increasingly salient as financialization draws more diverse actors into volatile asset markets.

Social Networks

Wiretap surveillance of criminal networks does not resemble other types of collaborative networks
Mitch Macdonald
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Estimating within-cluster and between-cluster spillover effects in randomized saturation designs
Sizhu Lu, Lei Shi, Peng Ding
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Social Science Research

The good, the bad, and the healthy: A factorial survey analysis of situational morality in consumption and healthcare
Selen Güler
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Gender convergence of cannabis use, dependence, and risk in the U.S.
Mike Vuolo, Brian C. Kelly, Maria M. Orsini, Amanda Roxburgh
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Motherhood and access to top positions: The one percent glass-ceiling under Nordic family policies
Trond Petersen, Andrew Penner, Are Skeie Hermansen
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Sociological Methods & Research

Discovering Preference Structure Using Randomized Paired Comparisons in Surveys: A Topic Modeling Approach
Jeong-han Kang, Eunrang Kwon, Junmo Song
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Randomized paired comparisons (RPC) for social values have various advantages over a matrix format of multiple items; however, their use cannot exhaust all possible pairs if there are too many items to compare one-to-one. This article proposes (1) applying a dimension reduction method, structural topic modeling (STM), to RPC survey data by restructuring answers into ordered pairs to estimate latent answering patterns, (2) visualizing them into directed graphs, and (3) interpreting them as respondents’ preference structures among social values. For empirical validation, we randomly divided 920 respondents into RPC and matrix-format groups and asked about the seriousness of ten social problems. Our STM from the RPC group revealed five preference structures beyond a linear order among the 10 items, which are interpretable and incorporate statistical tests with respondents’ traits as covariates. We also discuss how to improve topic modeling with RPC and contribute to various research streams, such as cultural value networks and gamification, by pairwise wiki survey.

Sociological Science

Changing Opportunity: Rising Local Wealth Inequality and Growing Class Gaps in Income Mobility
Manuel Schechtl, Florencia Torche
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Clickbait Crime News? Metrics and Professional Authority in Local Newsrooms
Jonathan Ben-Menachem
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Beyond Text: Using AI-Generated Visual Conjoints to Study Gender and Housework Attribution
Léa Pessin, Kevin Munger
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Declining Inequality and Persistent Inequality Structures
Soohyun Roh, Nathan Wilmers
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Family Networks and Childcare Choices: A Predictive Machine Learning Approach
Nicolás Soler, Tom Emery, Agnieszka Kanas
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