I checked 9 sociology journals on Monday, May 25, 2026 using the Crossref API. For the period May 18 to May 24, I found 13 new paper(s) in 6 journal(s).

American Journal of Sociology

Deportation’s Fallout: Evidence from Denmark
Michael T. Light, Lars H. Andersen, Noa Hendel
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American Sociological Review

Between Two Rituals: Face and Effervescence as Moments of Social Life
Anders Vassenden, Nicholas Hoynes, Taylor Price, Iddo Tavory
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Many of the social outcomes and patterns located at the very center of sociological inquiry are grounded in interaction ritual dynamics. Yet, while broadly used across subdisciplinary divides, such rituals are depicted in radically different ways. Drawing from a Durkheimian tradition, and following Erving Goffman and Randall Collins, we distinguish between what we term “rituals of face” and “rituals of effervescence”—rituals aimed at defending the self, and rituals that produce emotional entrainment. Leveraging two very different empirical research projects—patterns of ethnoracial stigmatization in Norway and an ethnography of creative songwriting sessions in Canada—we show that these two kinds of rituals are simultaneously at play. Using the first empirical case, we show how actors ritually segregate their social worlds, saving face with white audiences while often producing effervescence with minority audiences. Using the second, we show how rituals of face and of effervescence are recursively intertwined. We then argue that distinguishing these interaction ritual forms, and attending to their situational dynamics, allows us to ask new empirical questions and to develop a better understanding of the interactional structure of diverse processes: from social movement dynamics to discrimination.
Colonization Fever: Malaria and the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict, 1882 to 1914
Omri Tubi
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What are the origins of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict? In this article, I shed new light on the beginnings of Zionist colonization and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict by focusing on the effect of malaria on labor competition in late-Ottoman Palestine. In doing so, I develop a bioterritorial theory of colonization; I propose that disease can profoundly shape territorialization, labor regimes, political-economic development, and intergroup conflict over labor and land. In dialogue with Du Bois’s work on collectivist colonization in closed labor markets, I use this bioterritorial theory to understand early economic competition between Jews and Arabs. I show how disease shaped this competition by undermining malaria-naïve Jewish workers, who consequently struggled to survive in the country. I propose that malaria was a highly important factor driving the Jewish workers to ally with the World Zionist Organization in pursuit of exclusivist collective settlements, thereby shifting their focus from labor to land. To develop this argument, I draw from historical data, including memoirs, newspaper articles, reports, letters, and scientific publications. The bioterritorial theory contributes to scholarship on settler colonialism, theories of disease and colonization, and explanations of colonization and conflict that focus on ideology and ethnonationalism.

Annual Review of Sociology

Diversity as a Dominant Social Value
Clayton Childress, Omar Lizardo
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Over the past half-century, sociologists working across subfields and analytic levels have documented the downstream implementations of diversity as a dominant social value. We synthesize this research, paying special attention to scholarship examining five key analytic contexts: class, taste, interactions, organizations, and cultural objects. The literature suggests that, despite persistent hierarchies of valuation and worth, a “conspicuous openness to diversity” has become particularly institutionalized among organizations and elites, operating as a foundational schema. We conclude with three directions for future research: exploring both historical and contemporary backlashes to diversity on the local and global scale, the impacts of diversity as a dominant social value for both non-elites and those who are cast as visible evidence of diversity, and the underlying mechanisms behind conspicuous openness to diversity, given well-documented gaps between discourse and action.
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

Do occupations confer equal prestige on female and male incumbents?
Maik Hamjediers, Ferdinand Geissler, Johannes Giesecke, Markus Schrenker
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While common measures of occupational prestige target shared beliefs about occupations at the aggregate level, little is known about whether these apply equally across potentially different incumbents of the same occupation. We address this gap by asking whether occupations confer the same prestige to female and male incumbents. Therein, occupational prestige provides an empirical lens on the evaluation of gendered labor market positions, allowing us to test theories of the devaluation of women’s work and perceptions of incumbents in gender-atypical occupations. We conducted a survey experiment that signals occupational incumbents’ gender via grammatically gendered occupational titles in German and collected about 64,000 prestige ratings for 106 occupations that cover half of the employed workforce. Findings indicate less prestige assigned to feminine compared to masculine occupational titles, suggesting that female incumbents face a prestige disadvantage. This applies foremost to male-dominated occupations, supporting theories on the devaluation of women’s work among them. However, these within–occupation gender prestige gaps are relatively small compared to prestige variation between occupations and unlikely to undermine established prestige measures in most empirical applications. These insights shed light on how gender and occupations relate in conveying prestige and contribute to the methodology of surveying occupational prestige, especially when faced with grammatically gendered languages.
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 “Disabled Power: A Storm, a Grid, and Embodied Harm in the Age of Disaster”
Adrianna Munson
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Precarious work schedules and flexibility: implications for work-caregiving conflict and parenting stress
Jaeseung Kim, Julia R Henly
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Although there is growing recognition that unstable and unpredictable work schedules create challenges for working parents, research is scarce on whether access to flexibility from different resources can attenuate problems created by scheduling instability. Guided by Emlen’s conceptualization of flexibility and the Job Demands-Resource Model, we examine the buffering effects of flexibility resources—from work, child care, and family—on work-caregiving conflict and parental stress in the context of work schedule instability. We first assessed the direct relationship between schedule instability and these outcomes and found it was associated with a higher level of work-caregiving conflict but not parenting stress. We then considered the direct and moderating role of flexibility resources and found that work schedule input and provider flexibility buffered the relationship between schedule instability and work-caregiving conflict. Policy implications to ameliorate work schedule instability and strengthen flexibility resources are discussed.

Social Science Research

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Corrigendum to “Educational assortative mating and changing patterns of parental financial investment in children, 1990–2024” [Soc. Sci. Res. 136C (2026) 103347]
Hyo Joo Lee
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From margins to mainstream: Migrant experiences and intergenerational transmission of educational aspiration in urban China
Ting Ge, Guangye He, Chenshuo Wu
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The role of gender in gene by family SES interactions – A twin study across four European countries
Hannu Lehti, Kim Stienstra, Tina Baier, Torkild H. Lyngstad
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Socius

Rights of Nature in the United States: An Empirical Analysis of Local Legal Adoption
Raffaele Sindoni, Jesse Callahan Bryant
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The authors present the first comprehensive empirical analysis of rights of nature (RoN) adoption in the United States, a globally growing legal movement asserting that rivers, forests, and ecosystems should be holders of rights. Although RoN is often theorized as a globally emergent, biocentric legal innovation, accounts of its U.S. diffusion remain sparse. The authors analyze all U.S. RoN efforts from 2002 to 2024 and integrate them with county-level social and environmental pollution indicators. The analytic strategy proceeds in three stages: (1) descriptive comparisons between RoN and non-RoN counties, (2) analysis of pollution violation intensity to assess RoN links to environmental burden, and (3) hierarchical clustering to assess RoN county heterogeneity. Contrary to existing scholarship that found U.S. RoN to be overwhelmingly white and conservative, the authors find that RoN ordinances arise in diverse sociopolitical and demographic contexts. The authors also find no link of RoN arising in geographies with heightened pollution violations. Thus, this analysis suggests that RoN adoption, despite its immediate legal radicality, has widespread local appeal in the United States. This breadth of relevance raises important contemporary challenges for sociology and points toward new directions for theorizing legal standing beyond the human.
Keys to the Future: How Gender and Sexuality Jointly Shape Parental Financial Support for Home Ownership
Yiwen Wang, Katherine Alexander, Caroline Wolski, Bridget Gorman, Rachel Kimbro
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Homeownership is a key marker of economic stability, yet rising housing costs have made it increasingly difficult for young adults to purchase homes. Parental financial transfers can help offset these barriers, but such support is unevenly distributed across social groups. Although past research has documented gender disparities in intergenerational transfers, little is known about how these patterns extend to sexual minority individuals or how gender and sexuality jointly shape parental support. Using data from the 2020–2021 Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity, Socioeconomic Status, and Health Across the Life Course study, the authors examine the need for and receipt of parental financial support for home buying across gender and sexual identity groups. Logistic regression models adjust for family background, socioeconomic status, and partnership characteristics. The results show substantial variation in parental support for home purchase across intersecting categories of gender and sexual identity. Gay men and straight women are less likely to receive parental financial assistance for home buying, even after accounting for socioeconomic resources, financial need, and partnership-related factors. These findings suggest that parental support for home buying may reflect heteronormative and gendered expectations, reinforcing social inequalities through unequal intergenerational transfers. Limited access to parental support may constrain homeownership opportunities and contribute to cumulative disadvantage over the life course.