I checked 9 sociology journals on Friday, May 08, 2026 using the Crossref API. For the period May 01 to May 07, I found 43 new paper(s) in 4 journal(s).

Social Forces

The role of graduate education in the rising wage premium for professional and managerial occupations, 1980–2019
Felix Busch, Paula England, Wenhao Jiang
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Part of the rise in US wage inequality comes from a widening gap between professional/managerial (PM) and other occupations (NPM). We examine the role of education in the trend in this gap from 1980 to 2019. Prior research typically combined all college graduates in one category, but we highlight the distinctive role of graduate degrees. Since 1980, NPM occupations have never had as many as five percent with a graduate degree, but by 2019, thirty-six percent of individuals in PM occupations had a graduate degree. Using a decomposition-of-change technique, we show that the increased gap between NPM and PM in the proportion of their workers with graduate degrees explains nineteen percent of the growth in the gap. A two-way fixed-effects analysis shows that those occupations that increased their proportion of workers with a graduate degree more had steeper wage growth. Wage returns rose modestly for BA/BS degrees and dramatically for having a graduate degree. However, a BA/BS degree was less likely to get one a PM job in 2019 than in 1980, whereas a graduate degree was just as likely to get one PM job in 2019 as in 1980. We discuss how our findings fit predictions from three theoretical perspectives emphasizing skill-biased technological change, the expanding knowledge economy, and increased credentialism.
The role of self-employment in immigrants’ economic assimilation: a longitudinal analysis
Andrés Villarreal, Christopher R Tamborini
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Immigrants have been shown to have higher self-employment rates than the native-born. However, unlike socioeconomic outcomes such as education and earnings, for which a narrowing gap with natives signals a positive outcome, immigrants’ high self-employment rates have a more ambivalent meaning. Self-employment may reflect problems in the economic assimilation process if it is used as a strategy by immigrants who are underpaid in the wage/salary labor market or if self-employment leads to lower earnings growth in the long run. We use a restricted dataset in which respondents of the Current Population Survey have been linked with their tax records to examine the self-employment trajectories of immigrant men who arrived as adults over their first 20 years since arrival. The longitudinal information allows us to test whether immigrants who transition to self-employment are those who are underperforming in the wage/salary labor market. We are also able to assess the long-term impact of self-employment by comparing the earnings growth of immigrants before and after becoming self-employed. Our findings indicate that immigrants who turn to self-employment are underpaid in the wage/salary labor market. Self-employment also often leads to lower long-term earnings growth although there are important differences among immigrants by race and ethnicity and level of education.
Examining the relationship between male-breadwinning and divorce: the impact of work-family policies in the United States
Kimberly McErlean
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There is ongoing debate as to whether gender specialization, historically considered to be the most efficient family arrangement, or gender egalitarianism, now typically seen as more economically and ideologically desirable, is more negatively associated with divorce in the contemporary United States. In the context of a stalled gender revolution, I draw upon gender equity theory to explore whether differential levels of institutional support for gender equality in the home, operationalized as state-level work-family policy supports, help explain why traditional gender arrangements are still often associated with marital stability among different gender couples. I use the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (1995–2019) merged with state policy information to test the hypothesis that gender specialization primarily reduces the risk of divorce when institutional support for balancing work and family life is low, using an indicator I term structural support for working families, especially among married parents. Findings support this hypothesis: male-breadwinning and gender specialization reduce divorce risk when structural support for working families is low, but there are no differences across work-family arrangements when support is high. By integrating micro- and macro-level views on gender, public policy, and family life, this study helps us understand how gendered institutional structures have shaped the progression of the gender revolution in the United States.
Review of “Everyday Futures: Language as Survival for Indigenous Youth in Diaspora”
Andrea GĂłmez Cervantes
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Social Networks

Socioeconomic homogeneity in acquaintance networks: Occupational prestige, education, and intergenerational mobility
Alejandro Espinosa-Rada, MatĂ­as Bargsted, Francisca Ortiz Ruiz
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Understanding the formation of interdisciplinary collaboration networks with an ERGM approach
Jinqing Yang, Xingyu Luo, Siyu Yao, Yuhan Wei
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If all friends are perfectly reliable, then one friend always suffices: How non-reciprocity creates the Dunbar circles
Alexander V. Gubanov, Ivan V. Kozitsin
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Embedding-based synthetic control for causal inference in dynamic networks
Eunsung Yoon, Zhuofan Li
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Ownership networks, financing and firm growth
Robert Petrunia, Linh Phan, Leonardo Sánchez-Aragón
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From mapping to action: Social network analysis as a strategic tool in cross-national community interventions
Giorgia Trasciani, Stefano Ghinoi, Guido Conaldi
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Beyond weak ties in prison: An investigation of core support networks of incarcerated persons
Siyun Peng, Martha Tillson, Maria Rockett, Marisa Booty, Carrie B. Oser
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Alter composition with overlapping group memberships
Martin G. Everett, Stephen P. Borgatti
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Social network connectivity and food insecurity among single parents: Findings from a representative survey in Ghana
Obed Jones Owusu-Sarpong, Kabila Abass, Solomon Osei-Tutu, Armstrong Francis Tumawu, Razak M. Gyasi
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Getting lonely and isolated? Transitions in social isolation profiles over time and factors associated with them among older adults
Pildoo Sung, Angelique Chan, Abhijit Visaria, June May-Ling Lee
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Using social network analysis to understand residents’ social connection in a Singapore neighbourhood
Yohei Kato, Francine Chan, Belinda Yuen
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Social isolation by design: Bias in measuring core networks in Taiwan?
Minheng Chen, Yang-chih Fu, Xin Guo, Qiang Fu
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Multiple senses of community in central and peripheral neighborhoods of Seville: The fragmentation of personal networks in social housing estates
Isidro Maya-Jariego, Francisco J. Santolaya, Pablo Pastor-Alcayde
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The impact of dyads and extended networks on political talk: A factorial survey experiment in the Netherlands
Bas Hofstra, Thijmen Jeroense, Jochem Tolsma
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Dissipation and bondedness in networks via conflict-based cohesion
Kenneth S. Berenhaut, Liangdongsheng Lyu, Yuxiao Zhou
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The influence of relational mobility on social exclusion behavior: The mediating role of social participation intention
Shuyue Zhang, Linlin Lei, Lilan Liu, Shijiang Zuo
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The ties that bother: Difficult relationships in the personal networks of older adults
Lea Ellwardt, Theo G. van Tilburg
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Social Science Research

Socioeconomic divides in curricular pathways: Unpacking decision-making mechanisms and peer effects
Nicola Pensiero, Carlo Barone, Jan Germen Janmaat
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Job loss and births. A couple-level study of Norwegian plant closures
Rishabh Tyagi, Elisa Brini, Daniele Vignoli
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Answering the call: How changes to the salience of job characteristics affect college students’ decisions
Carly D. Robinson, Katharine Meyer, Chasity Bailey-Fakhoury, Amirpasha Zandieh, Susanna Loeb
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When do educational expectations motivate effort? Expectation-opportunity alignment and study time across 27 countries
Anna Yong
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Childhood exposure to local wealth inequality, economic isolation in schools, and inter-class social ties in adulthood
Manuel Schechtl
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Educational assortative mating and changing patterns of parental financial investment in children, 1990–2024
Hyo Joo Lee
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Gendered work and family trajectories: How do STEM graduates fare in the labor market?
Rosa Weber, Camilla Härtull, Jan Saarela
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The gender system: A cross-national perspective
Rafael Quintana
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Polluting student test performance: School-based evidence on the adverse effects of air pollution
Maria Rubio-Cabañez, Jonas Radl
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Link dissolution outperforms link formation in promoting cooperation in social dilemmas
Yen-Sheng Chiang, Mayuko Nakamaru, Chih-Ya Shen
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Social and emotional skills and young people's expectations of social status and mobility
Francesca Borgonovi, Seong Won Han
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Wealth mobility and inequality: A theoretical framework
Yuval Elmelech
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Social welfare expansion and political support during economic slowdown: A panel data analysis of China, 2010-2018
Xue Li, Bingdao Zheng
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Do social networks help or hurt? Accessed status and tie strength across occupational status and mental well-being
Lijun Song, Zhe Zhang, Philip J. Pettis, Meagan Rainock
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Crisis vulnerability and social stratification: Educational inequalities in political trust dynamics during the COVID-19 pandemic
Gundula Zoch, Steffen Wamsler
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On the reproduction of gendered and classed inequalities: Understanding children's family labor in Brazil
Aida Villanueva, Carolina AragĂŁo
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Endogamy norms and the gendered friendship-making of Muslim youth
David Kretschmer, Lars Leszczensky
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The Paradox of Internet Use in Russia: Undermining Social Trust while Fostering Democratic Values
Daria Turavinina, Yot Amornkitvikai
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Beyond Black and White: Racial stereotyping and support for racial redress policies
Eric Silver, Kerby Goff, John Iceland
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Three decades of interethnic marriage in China: Ethnic boundaries, educational sorting, and status exchange
Yanwen Wang, Zheng Mu
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Liberal and radical inequality of opportunity in Sweden
Michael Grätz, Kieron J. Barclay
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Socius

Visualizing the Spatial Distribution of Aging Places in the United States, 2000 to 2020
Paige E. Price, Paige Kelly, Ryan P. Thombs
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Population aging has important sociological implications at the community level, including reductions in local workforce size, greater demand for health and social services, and changing housing needs. Communities also differ in their ability to support aging populations, such as in rural areas, where population decline and limited-service infrastructure may result in challenges due to these population changes. This data visualization describes the spatial distribution of aging places in the United States across two decades, comparing 2000–2010 and 2010–2020. The authors categorize counties into three types of aging places: (1) nonaging counties, (2) aging-in-place counties, and (3) retirement destination counties. For 2000 to 2010, the authors show that aging counties were relatively limited in number and most counties were classified as nonaging. The 2010–2020 map reveals a striking transformation driven primarily by the expansion of aging-in-place counties. This shift reflects not only the addition of new aging-in-place counties but also the reclassification of many retirement destinations as aging-in-place counties. In total, the number of counties classified as aging increased from 476 to 1,353, showing a broad diffusion of aging county status across the United States. These maps provide a spatial foundation for examining how demographic pathways to aging shape inequality and well-being among older adults.