I checked 9 sociology journals on Friday, May 22, 2026 using the Crossref API. For the period May 15 to May 21, I found 14 new paper(s) in 6 journal(s).

American Journal of Sociology

Deportation’s Fallout: Evidence from Denmark
Michael T. Light, Lars H. Andersen, Noa Hendel
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American Sociological Review

Colonization Fever: Malaria and the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict, 1882 to 1914
Omri Tubi
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What are the origins of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict? In this article, I shed new light on the beginnings of Zionist colonization and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict by focusing on the effect of malaria on labor competition in late-Ottoman Palestine. In doing so, I develop a bioterritorial theory of colonization; I propose that disease can profoundly shape territorialization, labor regimes, political-economic development, and intergroup conflict over labor and land. In dialogue with Du Bois’s work on collectivist colonization in closed labor markets, I use this bioterritorial theory to understand early economic competition between Jews and Arabs. I show how disease shaped this competition by undermining malaria-naïve Jewish workers, who consequently struggled to survive in the country. I propose that malaria was a highly important factor driving the Jewish workers to ally with the World Zionist Organization in pursuit of exclusivist collective settlements, thereby shifting their focus from labor to land. To develop this argument, I draw from historical data, including memoirs, newspaper articles, reports, letters, and scientific publications. The bioterritorial theory contributes to scholarship on settler colonialism, theories of disease and colonization, and explanations of colonization and conflict that focus on ideology and ethnonationalism.
Between Two Rituals: Face and Effervescence as Moments of Social Life
Anders Vassenden, Nicholas Hoynes, Taylor Price, Iddo Tavory
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Many of the social outcomes and patterns located at the very center of sociological inquiry are grounded in interaction ritual dynamics. Yet, while broadly used across subdisciplinary divides, such rituals are depicted in radically different ways. Drawing from a Durkheimian tradition, and following Erving Goffman and Randall Collins, we distinguish between what we term “rituals of face” and “rituals of effervescence”—rituals aimed at defending the self, and rituals that produce emotional entrainment. Leveraging two very different empirical research projects—patterns of ethnoracial stigmatization in Norway and an ethnography of creative songwriting sessions in Canada—we show that these two kinds of rituals are simultaneously at play. Using the first empirical case, we show how actors ritually segregate their social worlds, saving face with white audiences while often producing effervescence with minority audiences. Using the second, we show how rituals of face and of effervescence are recursively intertwined. We then argue that distinguishing these interaction ritual forms, and attending to their situational dynamics, allows us to ask new empirical questions and to develop a better understanding of the interactional structure of diverse processes: from social movement dynamics to discrimination.

Annual Review of Sociology

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.
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.

Social Forces

Do occupations confer equal prestige on female and male incumbents?
Maik Hamjediers, Ferdinand Geissler, Johannes Giesecke, Markus Schrenker
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While common measures of occupational prestige target shared beliefs about occupations at the aggregate level, little is known about whether these apply equally across potentially different incumbents of the same occupation. We address this gap by asking whether occupations confer the same prestige to female and male incumbents. Therein, occupational prestige provides an empirical lens on the evaluation of gendered labor market positions, allowing us to test theories of the devaluation of women’s work and perceptions of incumbents in gender-atypical occupations. We conducted a survey experiment that signals occupational incumbents’ gender via grammatically gendered occupational titles in German and collected about 64,000 prestige ratings for 106 occupations that cover half of the employed workforce. Findings indicate less prestige assigned to feminine compared to masculine occupational titles, suggesting that female incumbents face a prestige disadvantage. This applies foremost to male-dominated occupations, supporting theories on the devaluation of women’s work among them. However, these within–occupation gender prestige gaps are relatively small compared to prestige variation between occupations and unlikely to undermine established prestige measures in most empirical applications. These insights shed light on how gender and occupations relate in conveying prestige and contribute to the methodology of surveying occupational prestige, especially when faced with grammatically gendered languages.
Conservative politics is more strongly associated with skepticism about science than is conservative religion - and both restrain enthusiasm more than they encourage negativity
Karyn Vilbig, Paul DiMaggio
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Research on Americans’ attitudes toward science shows that both theologically conservative religious views and political conservatism are associated with negative views of science and scientists. In their efforts to understand the relationship between conservatism and science attitudes, however, authors have often prioritized one type of conservatism—either religious or political—rather than exploring the unique role of each. This paper examines the relative weight of religious versus political conservatism as they relate to a variety of attitudes toward science. Using an original nationally representative survey and data from the Pew American Trends Panel, we show that outright hostility toward science is relatively rare, though it is associated with both theological conservatism and political conservatism. Political conservatism is more strongly associated with science attitudes than religious conservatism, a finding that holds across several measures of attitudes toward science, scientists, and science policies and is robust to the inclusion of measures of Christian nationalism. Moreover, these relationships are not limited to contentious scientific fields such as evolution and epidemics, but are also observable in areas of science that have not been seen as widely controversial. Finally, political and religious conservatism are more strongly associated with blunted enthusiasm for—rather than an outright rejection of—science and scientists
Review of “Disabled Power: A Storm, a Grid, and Embodied Harm in the Age of Disaster”
Adrianna Munson
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Review of “Legalized Inequalities: Immigration and Race in the Low-Wage Workplace”
Irene Vega
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Qualified lotteries can neutralize conflicts of interest in the appointment of individuals to positions of power
Malte Doehne, Katja Rost
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The preferential treatment of relatives, friends, and peers is, and has always been, a problem in the appointment of individuals to positions of power, such as executive managerial positions, judgeships, professorships, or leadership roles in public administration and regulatory agencies. Are there viable institutional alternatives to today’s reliance on recusals and consensus-based selection? In this paper, we examine a historical regime in 18th-century Basel, Switzerland, that combined meritocratic preselection with randomized choice through a qualified lottery to reduce favoritism in political appointments. In Basel, variants of qualified lotteries were implemented for over 100 years with the intent of combating nepotism and corruption. Using data on 22,017 male citizens and the families they married into, we analyze how three forms of social dependency relations—being born into, marrying into, or being embedded among the “right” families—shaped appointments to entry-level political office. We find that as the citizenry expanded, social dependencies became increasingly predictive of appointment outcomes. Yet under the qualified lottery regime, these dependencies lost their salience. Thus, our findings indicate that qualified lotteries can neutralize conflicts of interest not only in theory but also in practice. Qualified lotteries offer compelling alternatives to consensus-driven candidate selection because they can be designed to enhance fairness, reduce search costs, and mitigate conflicts of interest. Our study contributes to the broader discourse on institutional governance and on practices that mitigate conflicts of interest in the appointment of individuals to positions of power.
Precarious work schedules and flexibility: implications for work-caregiving conflict and parenting stress
Jaeseung Kim, Julia R Henly
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Although there is growing recognition that unstable and unpredictable work schedules create challenges for working parents, research is scarce on whether access to flexibility from different resources can attenuate problems created by scheduling instability. Guided by Emlen’s conceptualization of flexibility and the Job Demands-Resource Model, we examine the buffering effects of flexibility resources—from work, child care, and family—on work-caregiving conflict and parental stress in the context of work schedule instability. We first assessed the direct relationship between schedule instability and these outcomes and found it was associated with a higher level of work-caregiving conflict but not parenting stress. We then considered the direct and moderating role of flexibility resources and found that work schedule input and provider flexibility buffered the relationship between schedule instability and work-caregiving conflict. Policy implications to ameliorate work schedule instability and strengthen flexibility resources are discussed.

Social Science Research

From margins to mainstream: Migrant experiences and intergenerational transmission of educational aspiration in urban China
Ting Ge, Guangye He, Chenshuo Wu
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The role of gender in gene by family SES interactions – A twin study across four European countries
Hannu Lehti, Kim Stienstra, Tina Baier, Torkild H. Lyngstad
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Sociological Methods & Research

Rationale and Methodologies for Surveying Vulnerable Neighborhoods: Lessons From Three Nordic Countries
Peter Esaiasson, Kim Mannemar Sønderskov, Henning Finseraas, Niels Nyholt, Oskar Rönnberg, Jacob Sohlberg, Mari Vaattovaara
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The paper argues for the value of conducting surveys in vulnerable neighborhoods and provides a detailed account of a cost-effective strategy for surveying a recognized hard-to-survey population. The approach is illustrated through insights from the Vulnerable Neighborhoods Survey, conducted in three Nordic countries. The strategy focuses on a small number of specific neighborhoods and implements a range of measures to lower participation barriers. A key component involves combining random and non-random sampling techniques to facilitate the recruitment of a broad segment of residents. According to comparisons with registry data, the strategy produces samples that resemble the population on multiple demographic factors.