I checked 9 sociology journals on Wednesday, November 19, 2025 using the Crossref API. For the period November 12 to November 18, I found 8 new paper(s) in 3 journal(s).

Social Forces

Do university-educated families lose their edge as education expands? The withering performance and advantage of their children
Manuel T Valdés, Fabrizio Bernardi, Ilaria Lievore
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Extensive research has examined the effect of educational expansion in one cohort on educational inequality and occupational returns in that same cohort. This study makes a novel contribution by exploring whether the expansion of university education among parents affects their children’s academic achievement. We argue that this expansion reduces the selectivity of university attainment, making graduates progressively less selected on traits relevant to their children’s achievement. Additionally, expansion likely diminishes occupational returns on a university degree, increasing the proportion of overqualified university-graduated parents. Consequently, the average achievement of children from university-educated families should diminish with this expansion among parents. Using data from 30 countries across seven waves of the Program for International Student Assessment, we show that students from university-educated families experience a notable decline in achievement as the proportion of university-educated parents increases. Importantly, the growing over-qualification of university-educated parents and the diminishing objectified cultural capital of university-educated families mediate this negative effect. Furthermore, we also observe a negative association between educational expansion among parents and children’s achievement in non-university-educated families, but less pronounced, resulting in a negative (albeit modest) association between expansion among parents and inequality among children.
Review of “Powerless: The People’s Struggle for Energy”
Emily Rosenbaum
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Sociological Science

Pathways to Independence: The Dynamics of Parental Support in the Transition to Adulthood
Ramina Sotoudeh, Ginevra Floridi
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Public Support for the Legalization of Undocumented Immigrants during the 2016 Presidential Campaign
Mariano Sana
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The Causal Impact of Segregation on a Disparity: A Gap-Closing Approach
Ian Lundberg
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What You Need to Know When Estimating Monthly Impact Functions: Comment on Hudde and Jacob, “There’s More in the Data!”
Josef BrĂĽderl, Ansgar Hudde, Marita Jacob
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The Hardcore Brokers: Core-Periphery Structure and Political Representation in Denmark’s Corporate Elite Network
Lasse Henriksen, Jacob Lunding, Christoph Ellersgaard:, Anton Larsen
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Socius

Crossing Which Boundary? New Evidence on Racial and Educational Assortative Mating among Recent Different-Sex and Same-Sex Marriages
Haoming Song
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This study revisits the question of “who marries whom” by examining detailed patterns of racial and educational assortative mating across newlywed different-sex and same-sex couples in the United States. Against the backdrop of growing racial diversity, driven largely by recent immigration from Latin America and Asia, and the expansion of higher education, including graduate degrees, the author asks what boundaries are being crossed and for whom. Using nationally representative couple-level data from the 2013 to 2023 American Community Survey, the author found that same-sex newlyweds, particularly male couples, were more likely to be interracial and educationally heterogamous than different-sex couples, with educational crossing more prevalent. Detailed pairing further reveals that White-Hispanic and, to a lesser extent, White-Asian unions primarily accounted for higher interraciality among same-sex male couples. Among same-sex couples, educational heterogamy often involved pairings among those with at least some college experience, such as bachelor’s and graduate degree pairs. These findings underscore how structural demographic shifts are reshaping new marital sorting and call for moving beyond binary measures of homogamy to capture how much, which, and for whom boundaries are crossed in the ongoing study of “who marries whom.”