I checked 9 sociology journals on Thursday, October 08, 2026 using the Crossref API. For the period October 01 to October 07, I found 25 new paper(s) in 4 journal(s).

American Sociological Review

The Production of Inequality in High-Risk Pregnancy
Anna Claire Church
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How do socioeconomically advantaged individuals maintain their health advantage? Prior work shows how high socioeconomic status (SES) individuals secure advantages in areas such as housing or the labor market and provides longstanding evidence of health inequalities across SES. However, we have a more limited understanding of the mechanisms behind how high-SES individuals leverage structural advantage to improve their own health. This article draws on in-depth interviews with people diagnosed with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), a high-risk pregnancy condition that requires an intensive treatment regimen over a short timeframe, to reveal how socioeconomic advantage translates into health advantage. Socioeconomic advantage creates inequalities in health through multiple pathways, including excess financial resources that can be used to acquire health-relevant resources and access to flexible time to dedicate toward strict GDM management. Socioeconomically advantaged participants can thus respond to a diagnosis with GDM more quickly and efficiently than can disadvantaged participants. The divergent approaches to managing GDM that I uncover support advantaged individuals’ hyper-compliance with treatment guidelines, what I call going “above and beyond,” that translate into qualitatively different interactions with healthcare professionals than those of low-SES individuals, compounding structural (dis)advantage. Explicating the mechanisms through which high-SES individuals maintain health advantage identifies new directions for studying the production of inequality.

Social Forces

Populism as a problem of social segregation: socioeconomic composition of personal networks and populist voting
Bernardo Mackenna, Ricardo González, Adolfo Fuentes, Esteban Muñoz
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Responding to recent calls to understand populism as a problem of social integration, this article proposes a network segregation perspective for the study of populism. Specifically, it theorizes that populist voting is shaped by the socioeconomic composition of individuals’ personal networks. Combining cross-national survey data from approximately 18,000 respondents in 19 countries with expert surveys on parties’ populism, empirical analyses suggest that the socioeconomic status of personal network contacts is strongly and robustly associated with populist voting. Across multiple estimators, model specifications, and definitions of populism, we show that while the socioeconomic diversity of personal networks appears unrelated to populist voting, those with ties to higher-status individuals are consistently less likely to vote for populist candidates. Additional analysis shows that the latter association is stronger among higher-status individuals, consistent with an interpretation in which individual and network status are mutually reinforcing. These findings highlight how personal networks can help specify the mechanisms linking socioeconomic processes with populist politics.
Review of “Privileged Brotherhoods: Becoming Men at Elite All-Boys Schools”
Tristan Bridges
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Review of “Walmart: Made in China”
Chris Tilly
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Neighborhood change and Black-White segregation: 2000–2020
John R Logan, Liangdi Xu
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This study examines the relationship between neighborhood racial change and metropolitan segregation in 2000–2020. The most surprising finding is that the principal source of declining Black-White segregation has not been Black growth in White neighborhoods. Instead, it is a phenomenon that has not been noticed up to now—a substantial Black exodus from Black neighborhoods. The same kinds of neighborhoods where Black newcomers were increasingly concentrated in older, poorer sections of central cities in the 1920–1970 decades are now hollowing out, as residents find new opportunities elsewhere. We show that White exit from predominantly White neighborhoods is also an important source of segregation decline. At the same time, however, many predominantly Black neighborhoods have growing Black populations, pushing segregation upwards. This pattern was described as “succession” in early studies of central cities, but it is now likely to be found in suburban neighborhoods with newer housing, a smaller Black population share, and higher socioeconomic status compared to other Black neighborhoods. These and other findings shed new light on why segregation is declining and also why it is so persistent.

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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Social networks, language, and material culture on New Guinea
Mark Golitko, James Zimmer-Dauphinee, John Edward Terrell, Esther M. Schechter
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Wiretap surveillance of criminal networks does not resemble other types of collaborative networks
Mitch Macdonald
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Gender differences in workplace friendship development: Insights from network dynamics
Inga Carboni, Andrew Parker, Alessandro Lomi
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Introducing VINA: An engaging and ethically responsible interface to collect social network data including cognitive social structures on smartphones
Tom Nijs, Tobias H. Stark, ZsĂłfia Boda
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Not all bonds are created equal: Dyadic latent class models for relational event data
Rumana Lakdawala, Roger Leenders, Joris Mulder
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Co-evolution of cooperation and conflict among organized crime groups: Evidence from the United Kingdom
Quang Nguyen, Paolo Campana, Nynke M.D. Niezink
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Bayesian modeling for aggregated relational data: A unified perspective
Owen G. Ward, Anna L. Smith, Tian Zheng
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Stability of egocentric social networks in children: Personal and functional dynamics across microsystems
Karl Titze, Christian Elting, Roswitha Sommer-Himmel
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When do acquaintance networks grow? Life events, civic participation, and social dynamics
Benjamín Muñoz, Alejandro Plaza, Vicente Espinoza
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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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Who you know, what you believe, what you share: Personal networks and health misinformation susceptibility
Eun Cheol Choi, Lindsay E. Young
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Neighborhood shocks and network dynamics: An instrumental variable approach to measuring triadic closure in daily mobility networks
Karl Vachuska, Clayton Adamson
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Dynamic programming for calculating the triad census
Ryan A. Cook
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Social network elements in loneliness interventions for older migrants: Insights from intervention documents and trainers
Mirjam Kingma, Tineke Fokkema, Bianca Suanet, BaĹźak Bilecen
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Birds of a feather at first sight: Decomposing homophily into tie formation and persistence
Thomas U. Grund
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Predicting member churn in dynamic groups: A multi-dimensional analysis
Maha Marhag, Raji Ghawi, JĂĽrgen Pfeffer
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Unequal relational gains in a sport intervention for asylum seekers: How sociodemographics and athletic skills shape network outcomes
Alejandro Ciordia, Cornelius Holler, Annabell SchĂĽĂźler, Miranda J. Lubbers, Cristiano Vezzoni
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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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Relationships between node degrees and hyperedge sizes in empirical hypergraphs
Bogumił Kamiński, Paweł Prałat, Aleksander Wojnarowicz, Mateusz Zawisza
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Social Science Research

Crossing disciplinary boundaries: Interdisciplinary doctorates, field-of-study mismatch, and job satisfaction
Dong Joon Park
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