I checked 9 sociology journals on Friday, September 11, 2026 using the Crossref API. For the period September 04 to September 10, I found 15 new paper(s) in 5 journal(s).

Social Forces

Review of “Koreatown, NYC: The Consumption of a Transnational Brand”
Elizabeth Jacobs
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School preferences across countries and social groups: a factorial survey experiment in the United States, Germany and Italy
Guido Salza, Moris Triventi
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This paper examines whether evaluations of primary-school characteristics vary across national and social contexts. Using a factorial survey experiment with more than 2500 respondents in the United States, Germany, and Italy, participants evaluated hypothetical schools differing in six attributes. By holding information, cost, and proximity constant, the design isolates stated preferences from several constraints that shape observed school choices. Multilevel models estimate the effects of school attributes on enrolment intention, perceived academic effectiveness, and expected social integration. Two findings stand out. First, respondents with and without university education evaluate school characteristics in remarkably similar ways, providing limited evidence that school preferences are strongly stratified by educational background. Second, although the general pattern of evaluations is broadly similar across countries, the relative effects of particular attributes vary: U.S. respondents are more responsive to school performance levels, Italian respondents to academic growth, and extracurricular activities and parental involvement also differ in salience across contexts. Respondents react significantly to all six school attributes across the three evaluative dimensions, indicating that school preferences are shaped by multiple academic, social, and organizational considerations. Overall, our findings suggest that cross-national and social inequalities in school attendance are unlikely to be explained by preference differences alone.
Review of “Kid Cops: What Communities Gain and Lose from Junior Police in Schools”
Rebecca D Gleit
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Human rights and populist wrongs: how populist incumbents threaten democracy, 1990–2023
Wade M Cole
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This paper leverages variation in respect for human rights to intervene in ongoing debates over the consequences of populism for democracy. Compiling data for 103 democratic countries between 1990 and 2023, and using a novel cross-national classification of populist leaders and parties, I examine the relationships between left-wing, centrist, and right-wing populist incumbency and 18 measures of civil, political, and social rights. Two-way fixed-effects and heterogeneity-robust difference-in-differences analyses reveal that populists do not attack human rights indiscriminately. Instead, left- and right-wing populists preside over sharp declines in core political rights that are essential to free and fair elections, including the freedoms of speech, association, and the press. Their effects on civil and social rights are more limited and vary by populist subtype, while centrist populists generally exhibit weaker effects overall. These patterns suggest that left- and right-wing populists violate human rights strategically, concentrating on rights that enable political opposition, public criticism, and democratic accountability. The findings imply that populism is destructive not merely of liberal democracy, as commonly argued, but of democracy itself. More broadly, they demonstrate the value of disaggregating populism and human rights for understanding threats to contemporary democracy.
Review of “Sacred Callings: An Eventful Analysis of the Global Catholic Priesthood”
Matthew T Loveland
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Do caring fathers earn less? Earnings consequences of fathers’ parental leave use
Corinna Frodermann, Ann-Christin Bächmann, Andreas Filser
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In many Western societies, policy efforts seek to increase fathers’ involvement in parental leave, yet many fathers remain reluctant due to concerns about earnings consequences. Despite these concerns, the consequences of parental leave and their underlying mechanisms remain understudied. Using novel German administrative data on 109,735 married fathers who became first-time parents between 2007 and 2013, we analyze their earnings trajectories following parental leave. The large sample allows for investigating potential differences in earnings trajectories between fathers who took no parental leave and fathers who took leave of different durations. To improve comparability between the different groups of fathers, we apply two-way fixed-effects models weighted by coarsened exact matching. Moreover, the data enables us to consider differences in post-birth work volume as potential confounder for differences in earnings trajectories. We find that fathers who take parental leave experience lower earnings trajectories compared with those without leave. This difference increases with leave duration: 7 years after the birth of their first child, fathers who took up to 2 months of leave see their annual earnings increase 2.2 percentage points less relative to their pre-birth baseline than fathers who took no leave—for those who took longer leave, the gap is 12.8 percentage points. While these gaps initially appear disproportionately larger for longer leave durations, the disparity diminishes once we account for differences in active employment and part-time transitions. Moreover, the differences in work volume explain a large share of the observed earnings gaps, reducing them to 1 and 4.6 percentage points.
Review of “Believing in Light After Darkness: Displacement and Refugee Resettlement”
Bernadette Ludwig
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Working from home among older adults in the UK: examining its link to labor market exit intentions and expected retirement age
Yanan Zhang, Sarah Harper, Senhu Wang, Bing Gong
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Prolonging work life has been widely discussed in countries facing population aging. We examine the association between working from home (WFH) and both the labor market exit intentions and expected retirement age among the older workforce in the UK, utilizing data from the harmonized British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) and the UK Household Longitudinal Survey (UKHLS), covering the period from September 1998 to May 2020. Findings indicate that WFH is linked to reduced labor market exit intentions and a later expected retirement age, through improved subjective well-being. The association between WFH and expected retirement age is significantly stronger among women than among men. The estimated associations for the labor market exit intentions are also larger among women, although the corresponding gender interaction terms are not statistically significant. Additionally, the specific domains of subjective well-being that mediate the link between WFH and the labor market exit intentions differ between men and women. These insights support enhancing WFH policies to keep older adults economically active, which improves their well-being and advances gender equality by prolonging older women’s careers.
Review of “Life After Epidemics: Ebola Survivors and the Social Dimensions of Recovery”
Alexandre White
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Social Networks

The security–efficiency trade-off in ransomware networks
Giovanni Radhitio Putra Sadewo, David Bright, Chad Whelan, JĂĽrgen Lerner
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Social Science Research

Patterns of racial identification among children of intermarried Asian Indians: Evidence from longitudinally and intergenerationally linked Census data
Luna Chandna
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Marriage in a divided world: Spousal political dissimilarities and marital conflict in Hong Kong
Adam Ka-Lok Cheung
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Gender, sexual orientation, and intimate partner violence: Timing and cumulative exposure among U.S. adults
Mick Cunningham, Kristin L. Anderson
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Sociological Science

Ethnopolitical Exclusion and Resource Conflict
Wali Reheman
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Socius

An Oasis of Equality? Race and Stress on the MTurk Platform
Jeremy Reynolds, Julieta Aguilar
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People of color face many disadvantages in the conventional labor market, and the gig economy reproduces many of them. In this article, we examine racial differences in work stress among U.S. gig microtask workers on the Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) platform. We suspected that because workers’ racial identities are concealed on MTurk, racial differences in work stress might be negligible, especially after accounting for personal, household, and employment situations and differences in MTurk experience. Popular explanations of racial inequality suggest that such factors can generate inequality even when organizations are ostensibly race neutral. We find, however, that Black and Hispanic MTurk workers report more work stress than White workers even after controlling for those factors and others. Mediation tests echo previous research on MTurk by highlighting a connection between work stress and schedule control. Black and Hispanic MTurk workers report more work stress, in part, because they are less satisfied with the timing of their hours. Work stress among Hispanic workers also reflects their comparatively low influence on the timing of their hours. We encourage more research on inequality among microtask workers to explore why anonymity is not more effective at reducing inequality.