I checked 9 sociology journals on Wednesday, August 12, 2026 using the Crossref API. For the period August 05 to August 11, I found 7 new paper(s) in 4 journal(s).

American Journal of Sociology

The Less Agreeable Side of Charisma: Donald Trump, Incredulous Onlooking, and Antistructural Power
Paul Joosse
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Social Forces

Having a child through medically assisted reproduction: a social stratification perspective
Alice Goisis, Alina Pelikh, Maria Palma, Pekka Martikainen, Niina Metsä-Simola, Hanna Remes
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Prior research documents marked social disparities in births through medically assisted reproduction (MAR), which are often attributed to unequal access to treatment. However, social inequalities may also arise from processes operating after MAR treatments begin. We examine this possibility using population-level administrative register data from Finland, a context where MAR treatments are generously subsidized and access barriers are relatively low. Focusing on all childless women who initiated MAR treatments between 1995 and 2019, we analyze whether and why women with tertiary education are more likely than less-educated women to have a child through MAR. The results show that, among childless women who start MAR treatments, those with tertiary education are more likely to have a child after MAR than women with below tertiary education. This educational gradient is partly explained by differences in early treatment discontinuation, uptake of more invasive and more successful MAR treatments, and per-cycle treatment success rates. The results support the hypothesis that social stratification processes in MAR outcomes continues after the start of MAR treatments.
Integrating or segregating? Gentrification, the changing city-suburb divide, and black exceptionalism
Jackelyn Hwang, Elizabeth Roberto, Francine I Stephens, Jacob S Rugh
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Racial residential segregation has been pivotal in maintaining racial inequality following the Civil Rights Era. The transformation of cities by the spread of gentrification in recent decades may have mitigated these longstanding divisions or reproduced them as gentrification reorganizes residential patterns across urban space. However, the extent and nature of this relationship remain in question. We bridge theories of racial capitalism and residential sorting to test the racialized nature of gentrification’s prevalence, and we use a decomposition approach for measuring segregation to examine the relationship between the prevalence of gentrification and changes in segregation between various race-income groups from 1990 to 2019 across US metropolitan areas. We find that the prevalence of gentrification within central cities is associated with decreasing segregation between several groups—including poor Black and nonpoor White households—but also increasing segregation between poor minority and nonpoor White households in the suburbs and between nonpoor Black and White households overall. Altogether, the results highlight the changing spatial structure of segregation and the evolution of residential attainment for nonpoor Black households in the twenty-first century. They suggest that the spread of gentrification may contribute to dismantling longstanding patterns of segregation by race and class but may simultaneously contribute to new patterns of segregation in the suburbs and reinforce Black-White divisions.
Review of “Trading Beyond Understanding: Machine Learning, Risk, and Markets”
Koray Caliskan
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Social Science Research

Sibling group sex composition and gender-typical educational choices
Kieron Barclay, Magnus Bygren
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Socius

The Division of Labour and Female Partners’ Relative Pay across Phases of Parenthood: Evidence from UK Dual-Earner Couples
Wei Zhuang, Mark Elliot, Colette Fagan, Kathrin Morosow
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The transition to first parenthood is a critical juncture at which both paid and unpaid work become more gendered within couples. From a life course perspective, parenthood is not a discrete event but a process that couples traverse together across successive phases. Far less is known, however, about how the gendered division of labour and its implications for the within-couple pay gap evolve across subsequent phases of parenthood. Using longitudinal data from UK dual-earner couples (1996–2023), this study examines gender dynamics across four parenthood phases using couple-level fixed-effects and Karlson–Holm–Breen (KHB) mediation analysis. First, we find that the initial shock of parenthood is not temporary. Gendered divisions become entrenched in the established phase and re-intensify with subsequent births, while male partners’ labour contribution remains virtually unchanged. Second, the KHB decomposition reveals that the asymmetric division of labour significantly accounts for shifts in female partners’ relative hourly pay across phases: The female partner’s share of paid work operates as a suppressor that partially offsets negative direct effects, whereas her share of housework further reinforces relative pay disadvantage. This study contributes by (1) providing a multi-phase, couple-level account of how gendered arrangements unfold as families move through parenthood, bearing on ongoing debates between resource-based and gender-based explanations of couples’ division of labour, and (2) testing the mediation pathway linking parenthood phases to within-couple pay inequality and identifying when across the parenthood trajectory the reallocation of labour most strongly accounts for this inequality.
Social and Genetic Origins Show Similar Patterns of Stratification in Educational Attainment
Martin Arstad Isungset
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Family background is strongly correlated with educational attainment, and this correlation can stem from genetics, family environments, or their interplay. Using data from the Norwegian Mother, Father, and Child Cohort Study linked to the Medical Birth Registry of Norway and administrative records, the author shows that social and genetic origins display broadly similar levels of stratification. Among those who obtain a master’s or PhD degree, 51 percent have parents from the highest education quartile, and 42 percent have a polygenic index from the highest quartile. Both sources likely drive intergenerational correlations. But the two origins are not independent. Roughly half of the polygenic index’s association with education comes from family environments, not direct genetic effects. Part of the resemblance is therefore the index remeasuring social origin, not genes and environment arriving at the same place.