I checked 9 sociology journals on Sunday, August 02, 2026 using the Crossref API. For the period July 26 to August 01, I found 43 new paper(s) in 7 journal(s).

American Sociological Review

Relational Roots of Civic Fields: Capital Conversion and Organizational Reproduction in a Developing Country
Jose Eos Trinidad
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Social scientists have long studied the emergence of civic organizations through two dominant perspectives: demand-side theories arguing that these groups fill gaps left by government and market failures, and supply-side theories emphasizing resource mobilization and dependence. However, these theories insufficiently account for how contemporary nonprofits and social enterprises arise in increasingly networked, professionalized, and competitive environments. This article interrogates the relational roots of civic fields, centering the concrete ties and interactions through which new organizations are incubated, resourced, and legitimated. Using the case of a dozen new civic organizations in a developing country, I show how founders leverage interpersonal and interorganizational ties to convert social capital into intellectual, economic, human, and symbolic capital. However, this ability for capital conversion depended on actors’ positions in the field and dispositions embedded in their habitus. These processes contribute to the field’s organizational reproduction —that is, reproduction of professional practices, funding models, and state-aligned approaches mirroring founders’ shared social (dis)positions. As civic organizations play increasingly prominent roles in development and governance, understanding their relational origins helps explain whose visions of social change gain organizational form.

Annual Review of Sociology

Intersectionality and the Internet: Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality, and the Digital
Safiya U. Noble, André Brock, Kishonna Gray, Sarah T. Roberts
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Over the past 20 years, the broad field of digital media and technology studies has been influenced by theories of power that include intersectionality as a key organizing theory and method. In this article, we review the major contributions across multiple fields of study, particularly critical race and digital studies, to the examinations of the Internet and technology that use intersectionality as an organizing logic. Applying intersectionality as a conceptual lens into digital technology design, dissemination, and use has aided in findings that the computing industries are ill-equipped to map the world, its conditions, or its inhabitants. In reframing this sociocultural complexity as solvable by mathematics, statistics, code, and data, these industries make dehumanizing political and ethical decisions through reduction—from people and culture to content and abstracting the world to data. In the process, they intentionally reify long-standing inequities in the name of efficiency, progress, and profit and fail to capture what is necessary to improve life in socially, politically, and environmentally just ways. While intersectionality theory is complex, its intricacies afford critical culture digital scholars the epistemological tools and methodological insights needed to highlight that people, communities, and the environment must be considered prior to, in the midst of, and downstream of technoculture's mechanistic, rationalist, extractive desires or capitalism's desires for profit through exploitation.
Colorism as a Fundamental Cause of Inequalities in Health
Ellis P. Monk,, Hannah Craig
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One of the most influential theories guiding research on the social determinants of health is the theory that socioeconomic status (SES) is a fundamental cause of health inequalities. Nevertheless, the authors of that theory agree that SES is not the only fundamental cause of health worth considering. They, along with other researchers, have identified racism as another important fundamental cause of health inequalities that affects health: ( a ) through its link to SES; ( b ) through its association with flexible resources such as prestige (or status), freedom, and beneficial social connections; and, crucially, ( c ) how it affects multiple disease outcomes through multiple mechanisms above and beyond SES. We argue that colorism, which is a system of discrimination based on the lightness or darkness of one's skin color that is often obscured by or even conflated with racism, is also a fundamental cause of health inequalities for many of the same reasons that racism is. While there is still much to learn about colorism and health, as we acknowledge, there is still enough existing evidence to reasonably conclude that colorism, too, is a fundamental cause of health inequalities—and one that affects health above and beyond both SES and race/ethnicity.
Gender and the Far-Right
Kathleen M. Blee, Francesca Scrinzi
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The role of gender in far-right parties and movements received little attention until the late twentieth century, when feminist and masculinity studies began to draw attention to women's participation in these politics and the gendered nature of men's far-right activism. In the past decade, research in this area has flourished, creating a distinct subspecialty. This review focuses on recent scholarship on the discourse and practices of femininity/women and masculinity/men in the far-right and the transnational antigender movement opposed to feminist and LGBTQ+ political gains. It also suggests topical and methodological directions for the next stage of research and reflects on the ethical, political, and safety challenges that scholars of the far-right and gender encounter today.
Discrimination and Health Inequalities
Martin Aranguren
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Although theory suggests that discrimination generates health inequalities in a variety of ways, research today concentrates almost exclusively on one particular mechanism: the conscious experience of unfair treatment, often termed “perceived discrimination.” To rethink perceived discrimination as one among other mechanisms, this review draws on the social stress model, reinterpreted as a macro-micro-macro sociological explanation. This reframing additionally reveals that the social stress model rests on an implicit theory of the emotional actor that provides no guidance to distinguish psychiatric illness (an individual problem) from nondisordered but painful emotional responses to external adversity (a social problem). To prevent this confusion, the review puts forward an account of the emotions that emphasizes their rootedness in the social world. On the empirical front, the review covers ethnic differences in depression and psychosis, as well as recent studies indicating that only a small portion of discriminatory treatment surfaces in the target's consciousness as perceived discrimination.
Sending Money Home: Understanding the Social Dynamics of Migrant Remittances
Hasan Mahmud, Min Zhou
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This article synthesizes major strands of scholarship on migrant remittances, addressing the central question of what motivates migrants to remit and how these motivations vary across social, temporal, and structural contexts. We review classical and neoclassical theories, the migration–development nexus, and the New Economics of Labor Migration, highlighting analytical limits in their economistic assumptions. We then examine sociological and transnational approaches that reconceptualize remittances as socially embedded practices shaped by gendered obligations, kinship norms, moral economies, sending-state regimes, and digital mediation. Building on this literature, we outline a multilevel sociological framework that situates remittance behavior at the intersections of microlevel familial subjectivities, mesolevel community expectations and transnational networks, and macrolevel political–economic structures. This framework underscores the recursive relationship between the causes and consequences of remitting, illustrating how remittances simultaneously sustain households, reshape social relations, and reproduce state and global dependencies, thereby challenging linear models prevalent in development discourse.
Luck and Predictability in the Life Course
Arnout van de Rijt, Fabrizio Bernardi, William Foley, Lucas Sage
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There is an emerging recognition among sociological theorists that luck may play a substantial role in life course achievement. There is also a nascent empirical literature that finds life outcomes to be unpredictable and unexpected life events to be a likely cause. A third literature of causal event studies provides thousands of point estimates of the life course consequences of random events. This review brings these literatures together under a unified framework.
The Architecture of Global Capital: Elites, States, and the New Geography of Wealth
Kimberly Kay Hoang, Camille Biron-Boileau
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This article reviews the sociological and interdisciplinary literature on the global architecture of elite wealth, emphasizing structural transformations in the global political economy following the 2008 financial crisis. First, we review the literature on wealth stratification and its limits for studying the current structure of elite wealth. Second, we highlight the dimensions central to this new landscape and examine the reorganization of global production and capital flows, including the outsourcing of manufacturing and the rise of new economic centers in East and Southeast Asia, which challenge nation-bounded analyses of wealth. Third, we show how both democratic and authoritarian states strategically partner with private capital, blurring political distinctions and enabling elite consolidation. Fourth, we trace the expansion of offshore finance that fosters the rise of a transnational elite supported by professional intermediaries. We conclude by calling for new theoretical and methodological tools to study elite power, hidden capital flows, and their implications for inequality and governance.
Qualitative Research in an Era of Artificial Intelligence: A Pragmatic Approach to Data Analysis, Workflow, and Computation
Corey M. Abramson, Tara Prendergast, Zhuofan Li, Daniel Dohan
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Computational developments—particularly artificial intelligence—are reshaping social scientific research and raising new questions for in-depth methods such as ethnography and qualitative interviewing. Building on classic debates about computers in qualitative data analysis, we revisit possibilities and dangers in an era of automation, large language model chatbots, and big data. We introduce a typology of contemporary approaches to using computers in qualitative research: streamlining workflows, scaling up projects, hybrid analytical methods, the sociology of computation, and technological rejection. Drawing from scaled team ethnographies and solo research integrating computational social science alongside in-depth observation, we describe methodological choices across study life cycles, from literature reviews through data collection, coding, text retrieval, and representation. We argue that new technologies hold potential to address long-standing methodological challenges when deployed with knowledge, purpose, and ethical commitment. Yet, a pragmatic approach—moving beyond technological optimism and dismissal—is essential given rapidly changing tools that are both generative and dangerous. Computation now saturates research infrastructure, from algorithmic literature searches to scholarly metrics, making computational literacy a core methodological competence in and beyond sociology. We conclude that when used carefully and transparently, contemporary computational tools can meaningfully expand, rather than displace, the irreducible insights of qualitative research.
The Division of Labor Under Strain: Increasing Task Burdens, Insufficient Coordination Capacity, and the Possible Impacts of Artificial Intelligence
Michelle Jackson, Britiny Cook, Kassandra Roeser
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Classical theories of the division of labor emphasize the overwhelming productivity benefits that arise from specialization. But recent evidence reveals that the division of labor in late industrial societies is under increasing strain. Here, we discuss two types of strain: increasing task burdens and coordination problems. First, worker task burdens are expanding due to the rationalization, bureaucratization, and financialization of late industrial societies. Second, population growth, system complexity, and political attacks on bureaucracy mean that organizational capacity is being overwhelmed. Rising exposure to crises—including pandemics, climate disasters, and geopolitical conflict—further undermines the robustness of the division of labor: Workers are forced to take on unfamiliar tasks and the resilience of existing systems is challenged. We conclude our review by considering the potential of artificial intelligence to relieve or exacerbate these vulnerabilities by reshaping task structures, enhancing coordination, and supporting crisis response. The review integrates fragmented literatures to highlight systemic challenges and possible future trajectories of work and society.
Poverty and Public Policy in the Context of Crisis
Zachary Parolin
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This review offers a framework for studying the measurement, consequences, and sources of poverty in times of crisis. Recent crises—such as COVID-19, the Great Recession, and environmental disasters—expose limitations of the standard social science toolkit for studying poverty and offer lessons for improving poverty and policy research. Regarding measurement, evidence suggests that the intrayear volatility of incomes and blurred boundaries between resource-sharing units deserve greater focus in poverty measurement debates. Regarding consequences, research emphasizes the need to quantify poverty's distinct roles as a risk factor versus stratifying feature during crises. Regarding sources, evidence from recent crises offers direct tests of competing theories of poverty and offers clear lessons for policy strategies to reduce poverty. I conclude that sociologists’ conceptual toolkit is uniquely well-suited to capture the multifaceted nature of poverty; the discipline should more forcefully incorporate its principles into a renewed study of poverty and public policy.
The Gendered Politics of Illiberalism
Eva Fodor, Erika Kispeter
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In this article we review the multi-disciplinary literature on how gender is implicated in illiberal and authoritarian-leaning politics as well as how illiberal political regimes impact gender justice. While a large body of literature is dedicated to the analysis of the so-called “antigender” discourses adopted by illiberal politicians, less is written about how these are translated into policy and institutional change. We identify two key policy areas where illiberal leaders have been particularly active and innovative: in reregulating aspects of reproduction to suit their ethno-nationalist, pronatalist agenda and in reshaping knowledge production around the concept of gender. We argue that policy and institutional change in these two areas is particularly relevant for the process of gendered dedemocratization. While both discourse and policy change are important to understand the gendered nature of illiberal rule, we need more information on how gendered illiberalism actually reshapes society and gender hierarchies.
The Weakness of Strong States
Andrew G. Walder
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Analysts of social movements habitually conceive of political mobilization as a collective action problem, potentially misleading analysts about the nature of the conflicts. Collective action mobilizes individuals to pursue interests shared by a given group. Collective behavior is mobilization that undermines shared interests and splits existing groups, leading to unintended and collectively destructive outcomes. This article recounts several of the author's research projects into political upheavals in Mao-era China, in which movements initially thought to be a form of collective action focused by network ties turned out to be a form of collective behavior that undermined structurally strong dictatorships and the interests of their beneficiaries. The research revealed the hidden vulnerabilities of strong network ties and seemingly impregnable authoritarian structures built on them.
Thinking Sex in Sociology: Sexualities Research in the Twenty-First Century
Kristen Schilt, D'Lane R. Compton, Khoa Phan
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In this article, we take stock of major developments in sociological approaches to the study of sexual life in the twenty-first century. First, we highlight the breadth of theoretical and methodological approaches within the sociology of sexualities subfield. We explore the growth of research that centers race, ethnicity, age, and geographic location within the study of sexualities. We also showcase the growing body of transnational research that critically examines the shifting forms of state power that constrain and enable the possibilities of sexual autonomy and collective action. Second, we examine the emerging subfield of LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender)-inclusive demography, detailing the limitations and possibilities of this methodological approach and recent patterns in findings. Finally, we highlight how feminist and queer critiques have expanded the conceptual frameworks for studying sex beyond the procreative/nonprocreative binary that long pervaded the discipline. We end with ideas for how to safeguard the epistemological and methodological diversity of sexualities research in sociology.
The Making of Meritocratic Status Orders
Fabien Accominotti, Michael Sauder
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This article surveys a growing body of work examining the concrete consequences of implementing meritocracy in social life. To date, this work remains compartmentalized into the separate subfields of cultural sociology, economic sociology, organizational science, and the sociology of education and stratification. We bring this work together by arguing that it explores meritocracy as the making of merit-based status orders, or merit orders. Merit orders are status hierarchies—sets of relations of value superiority, equality, or inferiority people perceive among others—based on assessments of others’ merit, achievement, or performance. They exist as cultural objects and cultural schemas, and they can be studied for their shape and for their sharedness. Most importantly, focusing on merit orders enriches our understanding of how meritocracy enters social stratification processes. This is because meritocracy shapes stratification not only by sorting individuals into unequal social positions, but also by creating merit orders that have stratifying effects of their own. In particular, the making of merit orders has a tendency to moralize inequality by framing disparities in social advantage as differences in individual merit, it teaches observers to perceive quality differences among social actors in hierarchical terms that undermine egalitarian beliefs, and it can directly exacerbate inequality in merit-based rewards when the architecture of merit orders is more hierarchy-like.
Sociology of Medicine: Orderly Heterogeneity Among Once-Settled Categories
Daniel A. Menchik
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Sociologists have long shown the multiplicity of ways that medicine is organized, and how it individually and collectively organizes us. In the half-century following its mid-century emergence, the sociology of medicine in the United States was constituted by a theoretical vocabulary anchored in concepts of roles and professions, and a methodological commitment to ideal types. More recently, research has called attention to these foci in ways that prompt close attention to categories once considered relatively homogeneous. After briefly discussing the key emphases of early work, I review contemporary literature's most active areas and intersections, especially organizations, professions and labor, and science and knowledge. In particular, the review demonstrates the behavior of the literature's key stakeholders—such as doctors and hospitals—as displaying a certain orderly heterogeneity. That is, although variation and diversity are characteristic of medical work, this heterogeneity is not random. Rather, I show that practices are organized systematically to reflect and constitute local and global communities of health care users and providers. I identify how the corpus suggests that more work could be done across key topics of the sociology of medicine to enable theoretical synthesis of these empirical results.
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.
Cross-Border Intimate Mobilities Between the Global South and North: Resetting the Research Agenda Beyond Marriage Migration
Paul Statham, Sirijit Sunanta
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Three decades ago, influential marriage migration perspectives emerged that importantly transformed the agenda for studies on how women from the Global South experience intimate relations with men from the wealthier North. Applying feminist gender perspectives, this field centered on a woman's subjective lived experiences of her asymmetrical, unequal union with a foreign man, focusing on reproductive labor and questions of hypergamy. It remains the dominant analytic lens, but we advocate a rethink. First, we argue for extending the marriage migration frame to cross-border intimate mobilities, so that it includes a fuller range of this type of gendered, sexualized, and unequal intimate social relationship. Second, it is necessary to account for the important contextual backstory—opportunity structures—that facilitates the evolution of significant pathways for intimate mobilities between specific Southern and Northern places over time. We demonstrate by reference to Thailand, one of the largest sources and locations for cross-border intimate mobilities.
Not Quite White: Immigration and the Changing Ethnic Composition of Whites in the United States
Jen'nan G. Read
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Who counts as white in the United States? This has been a demographic puzzle since US citizenship was first limited to “free white persons” in 1790. Over time, immigrants from various world regions began to comprise the white population, creating a numerical majority and what is now the widely used reference category for measuring racial inequality. This review traces the evolving composition of the white racial category from the 1960s to the present, highlighting increased immigration from Eastern Europe and the Middle East as key sources of diversity within the federally defined white population. I organize the review into three sections. The first section reviews the historical construction of the white racial category in relation to the federal classification system used by the US Census. The second section examines compositional changes in the global origins of white immigrants since the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act. It highlights how geopolitical events have shaped divergent migration and resettlement experiences for immigrants from Eastern Europe and the Middle East—groups who are legally classified as white but often racialized as “not quite white.” The third section reviews research on immigration and health to illustrate how compositional changes in the white population affect our understanding of US health disparities. The discussion considers the implications of treating whites as a single, monolithic group and calls for greater analytic attention to within-group diversity among whites in studies of inequality.
Legacies of Racialized Social Control
David Cunningham
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Research on legacies of racialized control recognizes and examines how historical violence continues to exert effects on contemporary inequalities. Focused predominantly on histories of enslavement and lynching in the US South, studies have demonstrated the continuing hold of systems of control on a wide range of racialized outcomes, including income inequality and poverty, violent crime, incarceration and other criminal legal consequences, political polarization, residential segregation, and educational and health disparities. Over the past two decades, the literature has matured significantly, evolving from studies demonstrating these durable temporal connections to more recent robust attention to a unified theoretical framework and the mechanisms that enable legacy effects to persist over long time periods. This review emphasizes recent refinements associated with parsing sources of persistent inequalities, accounting for interrelationships among modes of control, and identifying factors that interrupt as well as produce durable legacy effects. It concludes with recommendations to more directly engage the systemic nature of racialized control, take fuller advantage of leverage provided by expanding methodological foci, and thicken connections to parallel work in cognate fields.
Abortion Politics and Democratic Backsliding: Lessons from Latin America
Jocelyn Viterna, Matthew Brooke
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Abortion is a polarizing political issue across the American continent, yet US-focused scholars seldom interrogate the consequences of abortion politics for democratic institutions. Latin America scholarship has done better. Moving beyond the typical academic focus of explaining abortion liberalization or abortion politicization, this regional scholarship investigates how conservative actors strategically isolate and amplify the antiabortion position as a means of consolidating alliances and deepening elite control over legislative and judicial institutions. More provocatively, this scholarship also suggests that elites use the unique liminal legality of the fetus to blur, and ultimately weaken, national commitments to legal and judicial equality, thus facilitating democratic backsliding. Legal access to safe abortion is critical for the life, health, and human rights of women and girls around the world, but the Latin America scholarship suggests that gaining and maintaining abortion rights is also critical for healthy democracies.
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.
Financialization in the Twenty-First Century: Contemporary Trends and Emerging Research Directions
Ken-Hou Lin, Kim Pernell
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Following the 2008 financial crisis, financialization has emerged as a central research program for analyzing the changing economy and its broader social consequences. This article examines recent scholarship on financialization and argues that this economic transformation has evolved substantially in the past two decades, demanding a more expansive analytical framework and new research directions. Focusing on the economy-wide organization of capital, we document three trends that characterize the contemporary manifestation of financialization in the United States: ( a ) rising intermediation by nonbank financial institutions, ( b ) growing investment in nontraditional financial assets, and ( c ) deepening household participation in the financial market as investors. These developments have wide implications regarding the stability of financial systems, the operation of businesses, and the distribution of economic resources across US society.

Social Forces

Framing inclusion: discursive logics of entitlement in immigrant social rights advocacy
Mara Junge
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This article investigates how civil society organizations (CSOs) advocate for immigrant access to social assistance in politically charged environments. It explores whether the frame choices of CSOs are shaped by their relationships with government bodies and examines the implications of these narratives for representing a highly diverse group of non-citizens. The article introduces a novel two-dimensional framework that categorizes advocacy frames along two axes: “scope of inclusion” (Targeted Inclusion vs. Universal Inclusion) and “justification for entitlement” (Individual Justification vs. Structural Justification). Findings from document analysis reveal a predominant reliance on frames that call for the inclusion of specific groups basing entitlement on individual characteristics independent of CSOs’ relationship to the state. The most radical frame type (Structural Justification for Universal Inclusion), however, is more frequently used by independent CSOs. Analyses of interviews underscore that CSOs navigate a trade-off: aligning with targeted, individualistic frames can achieve incremental policy gains, but potentially reinforces stratified notions of “deservingness”, contributing to internal hierarchies within immigrant communities. Conversely, advancing structural justification for universal inclusion carries the potential to challenge systemic inequalities yet risks limited immediate resonance within the political mainstream. These insights highlight the tension between short-term policy success and long-term systemic change in CSO advocacy strategies. The empirical findings, alongside theoretical discussions, extend beyond this specific policy field, offering broader insights into civil society strategies in adverse contexts.

Social Networks

Predicting member churn in dynamic groups: A multi-dimensional analysis
Maha Marhag, Raji Ghawi, JĂŒrgen Pfeffer
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Social Science Research

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Corrigendum to ‘Do sanctuary policies increase crime? Contrary evidence from a county-level investigation in the United States’ [Soc. Sci. Res. 106 (2022) 102743]
Marta Ascherio
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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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Toward a formal sociological model of partner search
Lawrence L Wu
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The intergenerational mobility advantage of educators’ children: Capital embedded in occupations
Clayton Adamson, Karl Vachuska
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Catalysts and buffers: How diversity and status in social networks shape attitudes towards inequality in contemporary societies
Gonzalo Franetovic
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Americans' views of religion in public life: The effect of three cultural models on attitudes toward religious and nonreligious groups
David Sikkink, Greg Wurm
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Horizontal stratification and educational homogamy in South Korea: Marriage patterns and preferences across elite- and non-elite university graduates
Sangsoo Lee, Hyunjoon Park, HJ Katelyn Kim
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The good, the bad, and the healthy: A factorial survey analysis of situational morality in consumption and healthcare
Selen GĂŒler
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Gender convergence of cannabis use, dependence, and risk in the U.S.
Mike Vuolo, Brian C. Kelly, Maria M. Orsini, Amanda Roxburgh
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Motherhood and access to top positions: The one percent glass-ceiling under Nordic family policies
Trond Petersen, Andrew Penner, Are Skeie Hermansen
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Risk, return, and resonance: Symbolic considerations in everyday stock selection
Adam S. Hayes, LĂ©na Pellandini-SimĂĄnyi, Ambreen Tour Ben-Shmuel, Jan-Hendrik Bucher
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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and perceived intergenerational mobility in Czechia and Uruguay. An unexpected event during survey design study
Maik Hamjediers, Patrick PrÀg, Alexi Gugushvili
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Reassessing the gendered link between maternal employment and adult children's labor market participation: A trajectory-based approach
Xueqian Chen
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Socialite or sociable? Highbrow tastes, omnivorous inclinations, and perceptions of individuals’ status and qualities
Mads Meier JĂŠger, Rikke Haudrum Rasmussen
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On your mark, get set, go: A multilevel analysis of racial residential segregation in U.S. metropolitan areas
Nereyda Y. Ortiz Osejo, Amber R. Crowell, Luna Chandna
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The role of sanitary pads in school achievement in low-income settings
Anoushka Patel, William G. Axinn, Dirgha J. Ghimire
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Depressive symptom trajectories from adolescence to midlife among Latin Americans in the United States: Variation by generation and region of origin
Eda G. Christensen, Kim Korinek, Daniel E. Adkins
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Sociological Methods & Research

Marginal Structural Effects for Exponential Random Graph Models
Scott W. Duxbury
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Exponential random graph models (ERGMs) are now a staple for social network analysis due to their ability to parameterize effects from endogenous network structures, such as two stars and triangles. However, interpreting coefficients for structural ERGM terms poses two problems. First, it is not possible to change the value of a structural term “holding all else constant” in models with nontrivial dyadic dependencies. Second, parameters for structural ERGM terms may be affected by scaling (noncollapsibility), which can alter the direction, size, and significance of structural coefficients. While the first issue is known in the literature, the second has not been previously reported. This study introduces a methodological framework based on marginal structural effects (MSEs) to address both problems. MSEs capture the discrete marginal effect of an endogenous network structure by calculating the difference in probability when comparing two potential ties that differ only by the value of a structural term. MSEs provide an intuitive interpretation for structural network effects and are robust to the effects of scaling. Extensions to comparisons between models, interactions with exogenous covariates, and analysis of samples of networks are discussed. An example is provided using the largest AddHealth school network to demonstrate how the framework can be applied.

Sociological Science

Access to Higher Education and Support for Meritocracy: Effort, Skill, and Education as Components of Merit
Hye Kwon, Jani Erola
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