I checked 9 sociology journals on Tuesday, May 19, 2026 using the Crossref API. For the period May 12 to May 18, I found 13 new paper(s) in 6 journal(s).

Annual Review of Sociology

Dual-Process and Framing Models in Sociology: European Contributions and Cross-Disciplinary Bridges
Clemens Kroneberg, Andreas Tutić
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Human behavior can vary markedly across situations, yet it at times exhibits striking persistence. To account for these characteristics, cognitive sociologists have focused on two aspects: how situational cues—including the presence and behavior of others—activate mental structures and predispositions, such as schemas, frames, or repertoires, and how behavior is governed by dual processes, whether through autonomous, associative activation or controlled, effortful deliberation. Building on research in cognitive and social psychology, these insights became central to the literature on culture and cognition in North American sociology. Even earlier, ideas about framing and dual processes had been adopted in European sociology. We introduce this largely separate body of scholarship, discuss its relationship to its North American counterpart, and highlight related developments in axiomatic decision theory and mathematical psychology. We also demonstrate how sociologists can employ dual-process and framing models to generate new hypotheses across diverse areas of research.

Social Forces

Breaking the mold: the changing modularity of protest forms during cycles of contention
Alejandro Ciordia, MartĂ­n Portos
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One crucial decision that every group of protesters needs to make concerns the forms of action through which they want to convey their claims. While repertoires of contention can vary greatly across different sociopolitical contexts, we know little about why some protest forms may acquire or lose prominence within the same polity over relatively short periods. By applying a novel multimodal network analysis framework to an original protest event dataset covering political contention in Spain between 2007 and 2014 during the Great Recession, this research explores how the modularity of protest forms—that is, their transferability to different circumstances of contention—evolves in the short term. Our analyses demonstrate that the repertoire of contention becomes more flexible as the cycle unfolds, while political opportunities present weak and asymmetric effects on the transferability of different tactics, refining expectations from classic theories of contentious politics in several important ways.
Conservative politics is more strongly associated with skepticism about science than is conservative religion - and both restrain enthusiasm more than they encourage negativity
Karyn Vilbig, Paul DiMaggio
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Research on Americans’ attitudes toward science shows that both theologically conservative religious views and political conservatism are associated with negative views of science and scientists. In their efforts to understand the relationship between conservatism and science attitudes, however, authors have often prioritized one type of conservatism—either religious or political—rather than exploring the unique role of each. This paper examines the relative weight of religious versus political conservatism as they relate to a variety of attitudes toward science. Using an original nationally representative survey and data from the Pew American Trends Panel, we show that outright hostility toward science is relatively rare, though it is associated with both theological conservatism and political conservatism. Political conservatism is more strongly associated with science attitudes than religious conservatism, a finding that holds across several measures of attitudes toward science, scientists, and science policies and is robust to the inclusion of measures of Christian nationalism. Moreover, these relationships are not limited to contentious scientific fields such as evolution and epidemics, but are also observable in areas of science that have not been seen as widely controversial. Finally, political and religious conservatism are more strongly associated with blunted enthusiasm for—rather than an outright rejection of—science and scientists
Review of “Legalized Inequalities: Immigration and Race in the Low-Wage Workplace”
Irene Vega
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Qualified lotteries can neutralize conflicts of interest in the appointment of individuals to positions of power
Malte Doehne, Katja Rost
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The preferential treatment of relatives, friends, and peers is, and has always been, a problem in the appointment of individuals to positions of power, such as executive managerial positions, judgeships, professorships, or leadership roles in public administration and regulatory agencies. Are there viable institutional alternatives to today’s reliance on recusals and consensus-based selection? In this paper, we examine a historical regime in 18th-century Basel, Switzerland, that combined meritocratic preselection with randomized choice through a qualified lottery to reduce favoritism in political appointments. In Basel, variants of qualified lotteries were implemented for over 100 years with the intent of combating nepotism and corruption. Using data on 22,017 male citizens and the families they married into, we analyze how three forms of social dependency relations—being born into, marrying into, or being embedded among the “right” families—shaped appointments to entry-level political office. We find that as the citizenry expanded, social dependencies became increasingly predictive of appointment outcomes. Yet under the qualified lottery regime, these dependencies lost their salience. Thus, our findings indicate that qualified lotteries can neutralize conflicts of interest not only in theory but also in practice. Qualified lotteries offer compelling alternatives to consensus-driven candidate selection because they can be designed to enhance fairness, reduce search costs, and mitigate conflicts of interest. Our study contributes to the broader discourse on institutional governance and on practices that mitigate conflicts of interest in the appointment of individuals to positions of power.

Social Networks

Micro–macro analysis of network change
Peng Huang
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Causal inference for intervention spillover in a stepped wedge cluster-randomized trial: Lessons from a physician network
A. James O’Malley, Carly A. Bobak, Amber E. Barnato
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Social Science Research

A Schumpeter hotel? Surname status inequality and persistence in Sweden, 1880–2015
Elien Dalman, Martin Dribe, Björn Eriksson
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Variation and change in high school STEM opportunity to learn in the US: Is the organization of the STEM curriculum functional or conflict driven?
Shangmou Xu, Sean Kelly
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Sociological Methods & Research

Rationale and Methodologies for Surveying Vulnerable Neighborhoods: Lessons From Three Nordic Countries
Peter Esaiasson, Kim Mannemar Sønderskov, Henning Finseraas, Niels Nyholt, Oskar Rönnberg, Jacob Sohlberg, Mari Vaattovaara
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The paper argues for the value of conducting surveys in vulnerable neighborhoods and provides a detailed account of a cost-effective strategy for surveying a recognized hard-to-survey population. The approach is illustrated through insights from the Vulnerable Neighborhoods Survey, conducted in three Nordic countries. The strategy focuses on a small number of specific neighborhoods and implements a range of measures to lower participation barriers. A key component involves combining random and non-random sampling techniques to facilitate the recruitment of a broad segment of residents. According to comparisons with registry data, the strategy produces samples that resemble the population on multiple demographic factors.
Eliciting Legal Status Through Social Media Surveys Among Immigrants—Evidence from a List Experiment, Direct Question and Stepwise Exclusion
Jasper Tjaden, Alejandra Rodríguez-Sánchez, Jennifer Van Hook, Hannah Persaud
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Estimating the size of the undocumented migrant population remains a critical challenge for researchers and policymakers. This study assesses the viability of using social media platforms, specifically Facebook and Instagram, to recruit a survey sample of migrants and elicit their status. The research focuses on Mexican and Venezuelan immigrants in Texas, Florida, Illinois, and California. Three methods for eliciting legal status are tested: direct questions, indirect sequential questions (stepwise exclusion), and a list experiment. The study ( N = 2,027) finds that while social media recruitment is cost-effective and rapid, it faces challenges such as selection bias, misclassification, and platform-imposed restrictions. The list experiment suggests the presence of response bias in traditional surveys to sensitive legal status questions. Estimates of the share of undocumented migrants deviate considerably from available reference estimates. We argue that social media surveys are best applied in preparation for traditional surveys rather than in their place.

Socius

Infrastructure-Led Development: The Reciprocal Asymmetry of the Urban Growth Machine
Matthew Thomas Clement
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Road construction is a catalyst of land-use change. In this analysis, drawing on the growth machine framework, the investigators assess whether there is any reciprocal feedback in this process, specifically asking if there is a bidirectional association between road construction and land development. To answer that question, the investigators use recently released satellite imagery from the National Land Cover Database’s Impervious Descriptor dataset. The analysis covers the years 2010 to 2024, during a period of sustained growth for the 3,203 census tracts in the four major metropolitan areas of the “Texas Triangle.” The investigators compare results from two types of longitudinal models using first differences: cross-lagged structural equation models and spatial regression models. Results from these models reveal that the impact of road construction on land development is proportionately greater than the reciprocal impact of land development on road construction, providing an example of an asymmetric reciprocal socioecological association. From the growth machine perspective, the investigators argue that road construction and land development do not function as equal, twin engines of growth but rather as primary and subordinate catalysts of urban expansion, implying an infrastructure-led strategy of the growth coalition elite.
Real-Time Revisionism: How Racialized Narratives Legitimize White Christian Dominance in the United States
Tryce Prince
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Conspiracy theorists, self-identified Christian nationalists, or conservative activists are often depicted as the faces of pro-Christian social movements in the United States. Often overlooked is the role of local churches that till the ideological ground for the seeds of once fringe social movements to grow into the “mainstream.” Drawing on ethnographic data, the author shows how a White church deploys what the author refers to as “real-time revisionism”: the process of interpreting current events in ways that align with a narrative of White Christian purity, normativity, dominance, or victimization. In this case, real-time revisionism purifies and legitimizes racialized interpretive frames. The author considers real-time revisionism an organizational mechanism, extending W.E.B. Du Bois’s previous work on revisionism in the White church. Through an analysis of the role of revisionism, the author examines how organizational leaders and church members interpret their place in what they perceive to be an increasingly secular, non-Christian, and non-White society. In this article, the author shows the value of ethnography in rendering local knowledge more visible, and encourage future scholarship to consider churches’ roles in macro-level trends that reinforce White and Christian dominance in the United States.