I checked 9 sociology journals on Thursday, July 09, 2026 using the Crossref API. For the period July 02 to July 08, I found 31 new paper(s) in 7 journal(s).

American Journal of Sociology

Authoritarian Absorption: The Transnational Remaking of Epidemic Politics in China
Carol A. Heimer
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Global Mega-Science: Universities, Research Collaborations, and Knowledge Production
Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra
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A Good Reputation: How Residents Fight for an American Barrio
Philip ME Garboden
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A Victim’s Shoe, a Broken Watch, and Marbles: Desire Objects and Human Rights
Fiona Greenland
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Privileging Place: How Second Homeowners Transform Communities and Themselves
Mary J. Fischer
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The Manufacturing of Job Displacement: How Racial Capitalism Drives Immigrant and Gender Inequality in the Labor Market
Prentiss Dantzler
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DREAMers and the Choreography of Protest
Benjamin Roth
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Distancing the Past: Racism as History in South African Schools
Sherry L. Deckman
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Working Platforms
Josh Seim
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From Skepticism to Competence: How American Psychiatrists Learn Psychotherapy
Catherine Tan
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Curricular Injustice: How U.S. Medical Schools Reproduce Inequalities
Victor Erik Ray
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Social Forces

Paving the way: redlining and contemporary transportation emissions in US cities
Rachel McKane, Patrick Trent Greiner
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We expand upon the structural human ecology tradition by recasting its classic drivers as historically racialized mechanisms operating within a system of racial capitalism. We draw on critical approaches to environmental justice to link multiscalar processes to material infrastructures, theorizing redlining and interstate-highway planning as coupled racial projects that organize the production of transportation emissions across urban space. To test this empirically, we combine Home Owners’ Loan Corporation grades with on-road carbon dioxide (CO₂) and estimate multilevel models for 9661 census tracts nested in 194 US cities (2010, 2015). Redlined areas exhibit higher on-road CO₂ net of contemporary tract characteristics. Associations between affluence, whiteness, and emissions are strong in greenlined areas but largely flat in redlined areas, and public-transit commuting shares show little relationship to emissions across grades. Together, the results indicate that spatially fixed, historically racialized transport infrastructure continues to concentrate emissions in disinvested neighborhoods regardless of who lives there now.
Higher education expansion and attainment gaps in meritocratic beliefs
Angran Li, Minghao Tang
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Over the past decades, higher education has expanded dramatically worldwide, yet how this transformation shapes public beliefs in meritocracy remains underexplored. This study examines how the expansion of higher education has shaped public beliefs in meritocracy across thirty Western countries. Drawing on four waves of repeated cross-national data from the International Social Survey Programme (1987, 1992, 2009, 2019, and ISSP), three-level mixed-effects models show that the gross tertiary enrollment ratio is positively associated with overall endorsement of meritocratic beliefs. Individuals with a college degree express stronger meritocratic beliefs than non-degree holders. Furthermore, the magnitude of the attainment gap increases with gross tertiary enrollment ratios, indicating that higher education expansion (HEE) reinforces belief divides. The findings suggest that HEE diffuses meritocratic norms while simultaneously stratifying their credibility across social groups. It further reveals that mass higher education generates a dual consciousness of meritocracy, combining endorsement and skepticism among individuals. The study highlights how expanding education systems shape the ideological foundations of inequality and underscores the paradoxical role of higher education as both a universalistic script and a positional resource.
Later life social interactions in community spaces
Maleah Fekete, Tianyao Qu, Brea L Perry, Siyun Peng, Adam R Roth
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Daily social interactions provide access to key social resources, yet little research has examined how these interactions vary across geographic space—particularly in later life. Using ecological momentary assessment data from a state-representative study of older adults in Indiana, we examine how interactions with different partners vary across a continuum of municipality population density. Further, we assess whether this variation is shaped by social opportunity structures—such as number of community parks, theaters, and volunteer organizations—and whether patterns persist during leisure time, when individuals are free to choose their interaction partners. Results show that higher population density is associated with more time spent alone, more interactions with “shared-foci partners” (i.e., partners known through foci of activity, such as neighbors, professionals, congregation members—though associations are driven primarily by professionals, strangers, and “others”), and fewer interactions with kin. Adjusting for social opportunity structures does not affect the observed association between population density and aloneness, interactions with shared-foci partners, or interactions with kin, indicating that differential access to social opportunity spaces does not explain these relationships. Restricting analyses to leisure activities reveals that differences in shared-foci partner interactions by population density disappear—implying they are driven by variation in obligatory tasks—while differences in kin interactions and, to a lesser extent, time spent alone persist. By identifying population density as a structural factor that shapes everyday sociality, this study underscores the role of geographic context in structuring older adults’ access to social connection and the resources embedded in daily interaction.
Job precarity and earnings inequality in contemporary China
Zhipeng Zhou
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Job precarity is a core mechanism of workplace inequality that underlies economic segmentation between organizational insiders and outsiders. Yet less is known about how institutional contexts affect dual employment arrangements that create differential rewards between long-term and short-term workers. Drawing on institutional distinctions between China’s state and private sectors under marketization, this study shows how compensation for employment relations differ across sectors, how sector-specific returns vary with marketization levels, and how these differential returns contribute to overall earnings inequality within sectors. In the private sector, labor flexibility helps offset the costs of maintaining long-term employment through lower pay for short-term workers. In the state sector, the socialist personnel system preserves advantages for permanent employees, whereas the economic egalitarianism norms constrain the sustainability of these advantages under dual employment relations. Analyzing data from the nationally representative China Family Panel Studies 2018 and leveraging provincial marketization variations, I find that the state sector has less employment precarity than the private sector overall but imposes a larger earnings penalty on short-term employment. This penalty is smaller in more marketized provinces, mitigating overall earnings inequality associated with employment type within the state sector. In the private sector, however, both forms of inequality are larger in more marketized provinces. These within-sector earnings penalties and their association with marketization are most pronounced among low-paid workers, and cross-sector disparities are concentrated between government and public institutions and private enterprises. The findings challenge the view that marketization uniformly worsens precarious workers’ earnings and demonstrate the institutional foundations of labor market inequality in contemporary China.
Review of “Explosive Emotions: How Modern Society Shapes What We Feel”
Natalia Ruiz-Junco
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Review of “The Unruly Facts of Race: The Politics of Knowledge Production in the Early Twentieth-Century Immigration Debate”
Nima Dahir
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Review of “Trans Pleasure: On Gender Liberation and Sexual Freedom”
Abigail Tessmer, Meredith G F Worthen
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Review of “Hidden Suicides and Fatal Overdoses: A Forward Path”
William McConnell
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Social Networks

Social network elements in loneliness interventions for older migrants: Insights from intervention documents and trainers
Mirjam Kingma, Tineke Fokkema, Bianca Suanet, BaƟak Bilecen
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Not all bonds are created equal: Dyadic latent class models for relational event data
Rumana Lakdawala, Roger Leenders, Joris Mulder
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Gender differences in workplace friendship development: Insights from network dynamics
Inga Carboni, Andrew Parker, Alessandro Lomi
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Who you know, what you believe, what you share: Personal networks and health misinformation susceptibility
Eun Cheol Choi, Lindsay E. Young
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Social Science Research

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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Sociological Methods & Research

Micro Effects on Macro Structure: Identification, Interpretation, Mediation, and Sensitivity Analysis for Model Selection
Jenna Wertsching, Scott W. Duxbury
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How do social network interactions at the micro level generate novel network structures at the macro level? While recent methodological advancements have enabled the statistical analysis of micro–macro network effects, the current literature says little about the conditions sufficient to draw causal inference, how to evaluate indirect pathways that generate macro-level structures, or how to assess the sensitivity of empirical estimates to model choice. We address each of these problems in the micro effects on macro structure (MEMS) framework for micro–macro network analysis. We first report new formal results showing that the MEMS is nonparametrically identified under the conditional ignorability assumption and that, when identified, the MEMS can be interpreted under the “causes of effects” framework. We then show that the MEMS can be decomposed into direct and indirect effects to conduct mediation analysis when the interest is in multimechanistic pathways, where micro mechanisms shape macro outcomes by acting indirectly via intervening micro mechanisms. Finally, we build on these results to introduce a simple sensitivity test for the robustness of empirical estimates to model selection. We illustrate the utility of the methods in an empirical analysis of direct and indirect pathways linking in-group preference, out-group avoidance, and triadic closure to network segregation.

Sociological Science

Leveraging Genomic Data to Document Within-Race Attractiveness Penalties Among Black Americans
Beza Taddess, Luyin Zhang, Sam Trejo
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The Double Bind of Precarious Work: Creating Need and Undermining Support
Tyler Woods, Kristen Harknett, Daniel Schneider
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A Roadmap for Inequality Research: Transparency, Intersectionality, and Multiple Measures of Race
Emma Williams-Baron, Aliya Saperstein
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Socius

Visualizing the Prevalence of Couples’ Work-Family Arrangements across Countries
Camille Portier, Kimberly McErlean, LĂ©a Pessin
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Cross-national differences in individual patterns of paid and unpaid work are well documented, yet how couples jointly allocate time across both remains comparatively understudied. Where couple-level work-family arrangements have been studied, research has relied on qualitative or single-country designs, leaving open whether a singular typology generalizes cross-nationally and how its prevalence varies across countries. Using multigroup latent class analysis applied to data from the International Social Survey Programme 2012 and 2022 for 37 countries, we derive a cross-national typology of eight couple-level work-family arrangements. We then present a visualization of how these arrangements vary across countries, organized by country groups based on welfare regime or shared political and cultural histories. We find that a single typology of couple-level arrangements holds across different countries, but what varies is the prevalence of couples following each arrangement. Nordic countries show the highest prevalence of egalitarian arrangements, and East Asian and Latin American countries are dominated by traditional specialization. Conservative and liberal countries overlap considerably, both characterized by substantial her-second-shift arrangements. Eastern Europe and postsocialist countries are the most internally heterogeneous country group.
Between Privilege and Paradox: Migration, Motherhood, and Stalled Careers
Eszter Balogh, Zsuzsanna Szvetelszky, Jåzmin Szonja Ábrahåm, Judit T. Nagy
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This study examines the migration and labour market experiences of highly educated Hungarian mothers living in Vienna through qualitative research. We seek to understand how family migration and motherhood shape these women’s integration and labour market participation. Our findings indicate that mothers remain permanently outside the labour market, a situation stemming not primarily from structural barriers but from intertwined factors: the existential security provided by the husband’s income, traditional norms of motherhood, and the fear of social decline. Mothers’ integration does not appear as a linear process but rather follows a parallel pattern: Women connect with Austrian institutions primarily in an indirect manner by setting up a proxy integration while building strong ties within Hungarian communities, creating a self-segregating co-ethnic integration. The empirical contribution of this study demonstrated in the sample studied is to show that the labour market inactivity of highly educated migrant women is the result of complex social and psychological mechanisms. To capture this phenomenon, we introduce the concepts of “backstage integration” and “social surfing.”