I checked 9 sociology journals on Saturday, September 05, 2026 using the Crossref API. For the period August 29 to September 04, I found 27 new paper(s) in 6 journal(s).

American Journal of Sociology

Depth Sociology
Mustafa Emirbayer, William R. Earnest
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Social Forces

Context disadvantage and residential mobility from early life into adulthood: impacts on socio-economic outcomes
Sergi Vidal, Maël Lecoursonnais, Riccardo Valente, Maria Brandén
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Individuals’ socio-economic trajectories are shaped by both persistence and change in their residential environments, making it essential to examine how the socio-spatial dynamics of context disadvantage and residential mobility interact over the life course. While prior research has often studied these factors separately and within specific life stages, less is known about their compound effects and their interrelatedness across childhood and adulthood. This study addresses this gap by investigating how exposure to residential contexts and residential mobility from birth influences socio-economic outcomes in early adulthood. Using Swedish longitudinal register data, we analyze residential trajectories and their association with economic and occupational (dis) advantage among individuals born between 1990 and 1993. Our findings show that mobility magnifies the associations between context exposure and socio-economic outcomes. Prolonged exposure to disadvantaged areas is most harmful when it coincides with moving, consistent with a compound penalty of instability and resource-poor environments. Second, moves in childhood are generally detrimental, while adult moves are opportunity-enhancing unless they occur in disadvantaged contexts, where the mobility premium levels off. Third, exiting disadvantaged contexts is associated with higher attainment than remaining persistently exposed, indicating that later socio-spatial trajectories can attenuate earlier disadvantage. These findings underscore the importance of considering both residential context and mobility across the life course for understanding—and interrupting—the reproduction of socio-economic inequality.
One overworking breadwinner or two earners? Family economic standard of living by breadwinner arrangement, 1960 to 2018–2022
Andrew Taeho Kim
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Has the rise of rewards to long and inflexible work schedules altered the household-level economic viability of gendered divisions of paid work within marriage? This paper examines whether household arrangements centered on an overworking single breadwinner have become increasingly competitive, in terms of family economic standard of living, with non-overworking dual-breadwinner households. As prior research documents increasing rewards to overwork, particularly in professional and managerial occupations, overworking single-breadwinner families may have become economically competitive with dual-breadwinner households in which neither partner overworks. Using decennial Census and American Community Survey data from the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series covering 1960 to 2018–2022, we compare breadwinner arrangements across the income distribution and decompose changes in family income into changes in men’s earnings, women’s earnings, and non-labor income. Results show that overworking male- and female-breadwinner families experienced substantial relative gains at the top of the income distribution. Decomposition analyses indicate that these gains were driven primarily by accelerated earnings growth among overworking single breadwinners rather than earnings stagnation among dual earners. Although dual-breadwinner families with overworking breadwinners remain the most advantaged group, the gap between them and overworking single-breadwinner families narrowed substantially by 2018–2022. These findings suggest that labor market reward structures associated with long and inflexible work schedules may reshape family-level economic incentives in ways that reinforce gendered divisions of paid work, particularly among affluent families.
Review of “Koreatown, NYC: The Consumption of a Transnational Brand”
Elizabeth Jacobs
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Review of “Sacred Callings: An Eventful Analysis of the Global Catholic Priesthood”
Matthew T Loveland
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Do caring fathers earn less? Earnings consequences of fathers’ parental leave use
Corinna Frodermann, Ann-Christin BĂ€chmann, Andreas Filser
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In many Western societies, policy efforts seek to increase fathers’ involvement in parental leave, yet many fathers remain reluctant due to concerns about earnings consequences. Despite these concerns, the consequences of parental leave and their underlying mechanisms remain understudied. Using novel German administrative data on 109,735 married fathers who became first-time parents between 2007 and 2013, we analyze their earnings trajectories following parental leave. The large sample allows for investigating potential differences in earnings trajectories between fathers who took no parental leave and fathers who took leave of different durations. To improve comparability between the different groups of fathers, we apply two-way fixed-effects models weighted by coarsened exact matching. Moreover, the data enables us to consider differences in post-birth work volume as potential confounder for differences in earnings trajectories. We find that fathers who take parental leave experience lower earnings trajectories compared with those without leave. This difference increases with leave duration: 7 years after the birth of their first child, fathers who took up to 2 months of leave see their annual earnings increase 2.2 percentage points less relative to their pre-birth baseline than fathers who took no leave—for those who took longer leave, the gap is 12.8 percentage points. While these gaps initially appear disproportionately larger for longer leave durations, the disparity diminishes once we account for differences in active employment and part-time transitions. Moreover, the differences in work volume explain a large share of the observed earnings gaps, reducing them to 1 and 4.6 percentage points.
Review of “Believing in Light After Darkness: Displacement and Refugee Resettlement”
Bernadette Ludwig
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Working from home among older adults in the UK: examining its link to labor market exit intentions and expected retirement age
Yanan Zhang, Sarah Harper, Senhu Wang, Bing Gong
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Prolonging work life has been widely discussed in countries facing population aging. We examine the association between working from home (WFH) and both the labor market exit intentions and expected retirement age among the older workforce in the UK, utilizing data from the harmonized British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) and the UK Household Longitudinal Survey (UKHLS), covering the period from September 1998 to May 2020. Findings indicate that WFH is linked to reduced labor market exit intentions and a later expected retirement age, through improved subjective well-being. The association between WFH and expected retirement age is significantly stronger among women than among men. The estimated associations for the labor market exit intentions are also larger among women, although the corresponding gender interaction terms are not statistically significant. Additionally, the specific domains of subjective well-being that mediate the link between WFH and the labor market exit intentions differ between men and women. These insights support enhancing WFH policies to keep older adults economically active, which improves their well-being and advances gender equality by prolonging older women’s careers.

Social Networks

Unlinked: Why alters reported in name generators cannot be used to estimate personal network size
Alejandro Dinkelberg, Christopher McCarty, Miguel A. Gonzålez-Casado, Miroslav Pulgar, Angel Sånchez, José Luis Molina
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Social Science Research

Marriage in a divided world: Spousal political dissimilarities and marital conflict in Hong Kong
Adam Ka-Lok Cheung
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The intersection of gender and education in care work: How work from home reshaped care-related travel
Sarah George
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Vertical and horizontal educational stratification in risk of subjective status loss
Samuel H. Fishman
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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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Doing gender, doing health: Disentangling the relationship between gender and health lifestyles
Bing Han, Trenton D. Mize
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Sibling group sex composition and gender-typical educational choices
Kieron Barclay, Magnus Bygren
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Group threat and power-differential theories as differential predictors of religion-motivated hate crimes and the construction of local hate crime statistics
Brendan Lantz, Sylwia J. Piatkowska, Ashton Hoover
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Double robust, flexible adjustment methods for causal inference: An overview and an evaluation
Nathan I. Hoffmann
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‘Reading between the lies’: Reading achievement, socioeconomic inequality, and adolescents' resistance to misinformation
Mobarak Hossain, Jason Jabbari
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Degrees of engagement: Higher education, gender, and civic participation in South Korea
Hanwool Park, Seongsoo Choi
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Do people stay ‘hunkered down’ in diverse spaces? A longitudinal analysis of positive and negative social contact and the development of trust in linguistically diverse areas
James O'Donnell, Qing Guan
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Marriage endures, fertility evolves: Family dynamics and life satisfaction in China
Mengsha Luo
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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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Historical exception or historical continuity? Black-White disparities in long-term displacement from the City of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina
Michael S. Rendall, Narayan Sastry, Lori B. Zehr
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Impact of subsidized childcare on maternal employment: A comparative study on native and migrant women in Germany
Aslıhan Yurdakul, İbrahim Engin Kılıç
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Sociological Science

Ethnopolitical Exclusion and Resource Conflict
Wali Reheman
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Socius

Quiet Quitting in America: An Empirical Assessment of Three Explanations
Yu (Rachel) Guo, Yang Cao
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Since 2022, quiet quitting has captured widespread public and scholarly attention, yet its causes remain poorly understood. This article advances the literature by identifying and empirically testing three explanations. Regression analyses using the 2014, 2018, and 2022 waves of the General Social Survey show that quiet quitting is more common among workers who enjoy better work environments and higher job satisfaction—contradicting the mainstream management explanation that portrays unhealthy environments and job dissatisfaction as the chief culprits. We also find that workers in more advantageous labor market positions and those permitted to work remotely are more likely to practice quiet quitting, supporting the a rational response explanation that conceptualizes workers as opportunistic actors with an inherent tendency to minimize effort. Consistent with the cultural shift explanation, workers who view work as an economic means rather than an intrinsically valuable activity are more likely to quietly quit, and the phenomenon has grown more prevalent in the postpandemic era. Together, these findings suggest that quiet quitting is not a new label for old problems addressable through managerial interventions but an emerging trend shaped by broader socioeconomic contexts. We conclude by discussing sociology’s crucial role in understanding quiet quitting and the underlying shifts in how individuals approach work in advanced capitalism.