I checked 9 sociology journals on Thursday, September 17, 2026 using the Crossref API. For the period September 10 to September 16, I found 10 new paper(s) in 5 journal(s).

American Sociological Review

Strategic Inversion: How Refugees Reconfigure Everyday Resistance under Benevolent Oppression
Rekha Krishnan, Aloysius Marcus Kahindi, Rajiv Krishnan Kozhikode
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What does everyday resistance look like among dominated populations experiencing paternalistic care rather than extraction? Research on everyday resistance emerged from contexts where power extracts surplus from the oppressed. In this scholarship, the backstage is a space where the dominated cultivate hidden transcripts to cope with oppression, while the frontstage, where performances are enacted to those in power, is primary. Inversions of this order, when they occur, are momentary. Using ethnographic fieldwork in two Tanzanian refugee camps, we show that under benevolent oppression—control justified by paternalistic care rather than extraction—dominated populations respond through “strategic inversion”: a reordering of dramaturgical space where the backstage is primary and the frontstage remains tactical. Refugees moved the center of social life backstage, into a thriving underground economy, and kept up frontstage displays of helplessness to shield it. Within this alternative social order, competition and cooperation operated as two routes to heshima (dignity/deference). Competition resisted the uniformity of the refugee label, and cooperation rejected the helplessness it presumed. Refugees sustained this inversion through compliance flooding , rule-following performances so dense that officials could not tell forbidden from permitted activity; embedded enforcement , as guards became accomplices in maintaining the clandestine economy they policed; and collective coordination , where communities maintained alert systems and consistent performances to shield backstage activities. Our analysis extends research on everyday resistance by demonstrating that under benevolent oppression, subordinates actively build and experience empowerment, rather than merely imagining alternative moral orders or experiencing them briefly in bounded rituals.

Social Forces

Curricular-credential decoupling: how schools respond to college and career readiness policy
Matt S Giani, Madison E Andrews, Tasneem Sultana, Fortunato N Medrano
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This study examines schools’ college and career readiness (CCR) policy responses through the lens of decoupling. We investigate how high schools have jointly implemented career and technical education (CTE) and industry-based certifications (IBCs), and whether there is evidence of curricular-credential decoupling via misalignment between the subject areas of students’ CTE coursework and IBC completion. Descriptive analyses of Texas’s statewide longitudinal dataset (n = 2,119,750) demonstrate the rapid rise in certification rates combined with minimal change in CTE course-taking patterns and a concomitant decline in the rate of CTE-IBC alignment, suggesting schools may be using IBCs as a superficial way to meet CCR requirements. Regression analyses show modest relationships between student characteristics and IBC receipt and CTE-IBC misalignment, while schools explain a substantial proportion of variation. We develop a typology based on these school-level rates, which may be a useful tool for understanding schools’ strategies for CCR implementation across state policy contexts. By comparing school characteristics across typology categories, we highlight factors that may contribute to misalignment and inform policy.
School preferences across countries and social groups: a factorial survey experiment in the United States, Germany and Italy
Guido Salza, Moris Triventi
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This paper examines whether evaluations of primary-school characteristics vary across national and social contexts. Using a factorial survey experiment with more than 2500 respondents in the United States, Germany, and Italy, participants evaluated hypothetical schools differing in six attributes. By holding information, cost, and proximity constant, the design isolates stated preferences from several constraints that shape observed school choices. Multilevel models estimate the effects of school attributes on enrolment intention, perceived academic effectiveness, and expected social integration. Two findings stand out. First, respondents with and without university education evaluate school characteristics in remarkably similar ways, providing limited evidence that school preferences are strongly stratified by educational background. Second, although the general pattern of evaluations is broadly similar across countries, the relative effects of particular attributes vary: U.S. respondents are more responsive to school performance levels, Italian respondents to academic growth, and extracurricular activities and parental involvement also differ in salience across contexts. Respondents react significantly to all six school attributes across the three evaluative dimensions, indicating that school preferences are shaped by multiple academic, social, and organizational considerations. Overall, our findings suggest that cross-national and social inequalities in school attendance are unlikely to be explained by preference differences alone.
Occupational hazard and political segregation in the US labor market
Ray Tsai Fang
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The tendency for liberals and conservatives to cluster in different occupations significantly impacts society, yet the factors that contribute to this type of segregation remain incompletely understood. Bridging research from cultural and cognitive psychology, I develop a theory describing how occupational environments can shape people’s political ideologies, thereby contributing to political segregation in the labor market. Specifically, I argue that the more hazardous an occupation is, the more likely it is to have a higher concentration of conservative workers because dangerous work environments can socialize people to prefer order and stability. Using data from the Occupation Information Network, General Social Survey, and Bureau of Labor Statistics, I find that hazardous occupations tend to have higher concentrations of conservative workers, even after controlling for several alternative explanations. Further, using longitudinal data from the Youth-Parent Socialization Panel Study, I find that individuals employed in hazardous occupations tended to become more conservative over time relative to their peers in safer occupations. These findings suggest that liberals and conservatives may not only be sorting into different occupations; rather, certain occupational environments may contribute to political segregation in the labor market by shaping workers’ political views.
Review of “The Story of a Generation: Life Course Pathways of the Class of ‘73”
Richard Settersten
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Review of “Life After Epidemics: Ebola Survivors and the Social Dimensions of Recovery”
Alexandre White
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Social Networks

Returning network findings: An art gallery as a report-back in a rural community
Marian-Gabriel HĂąncean, Marius Geantă, JosĂ© Luis Molina, Bianca-Elena Mihăilă, Bogdan-Adrian VidraƟcu, Cosmina Cioroboiu, JĂŒrgen Lerner
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Social Science Research

Kinship structure in contemporary China: Analysis based on covariation in perceived trustworthiness across kinship roles
Anning Hu, Weihua An, Jiaqing Yu
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Patterns of racial identification among children of intermarried Asian Indians: Evidence from longitudinally and intergenerationally linked Census data
Luna Chandna
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Sociological Science

Developing Countries Face Falling Circulation Rates and Rising Migration Losses in Science
Andrew Herman, Jens Andersen, Mathias Nielsen
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