I checked 9 sociology journals on Friday, October 16, 2026 using the Crossref API. For the period October 09 to October 15, I found 13 new paper(s) in 4 journal(s).

Social Networks

Network members can hide from group centrality measures
Marcin Waniek, Andrzej Nagórko, Talal Rahwan
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Social Science Research

Are you looking for secrets? How autonomy and norms shape concealment
Maria S. Grigoryeva, Blaine G. Robbins
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Debt and early midlife substance use and suicidal ideation
Samuel H. Fishman, Mackenzie Brewer, Matthew Andersson
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Women’s job market outcomes around live births and pregnancy losses
Alessandro Di Nallo
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Does it matter how we measure family complexity? Sequence-based indices and children's educational outcomes
Carla Rowold, Martin Gädecke, Zachary Van Winkle
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Sociological Science

Even More Unequal Childhoods: 45 Years of Widening Income Gaps in Parental Investments in the United States
Orestes Hastings
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Violent Conflict and Family Investment in Education
Dulce Manzano, Héctor Cebolla-Boado
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Reactionary Brokering: How Families Navigate the Strains of Jail Incarceration
Kristin Turney, Steven Schmidt, Isha Bhallamudi, Amy Liu, Ashley Torres
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The Happiness Paradox of Birth Order
Tamkinat Rauf
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Social Inequalities in Bereavement across the Life Course: A Study of Four-Generation Kinship Networks in Sweden
Isaac Sasson, Linus Andersson, Alyson van Raalte, Diego Alburez-Gutierrez
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Tracing Politicization in the U.S. Public Sphere, 1980–2024
Terrence Chen
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Governing the Agora—Informal Communication in Reputation-Based Online Markets
Ana Macanovic, Wojtek Przepiorka, Vincent Buskens
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Socius

Does Birth Order Influence Romantic Compatibility? A Study of Marriage Durations
Seymour Spilerman, Kieron Barclay
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The authors examine the relationship between the birth-order pairings of spouses and marital success using a sample of some 239,000 couples from Swedish population registers. To the authors’ knowledge, this is the first large-sample study of birth order and divorce that uses the couple, rather than the individual, as the unit of analysis. The relevance of birth order in romantic relationships has long fascinated the lay public and has given rise to a marital advice literature that purports to explain marital success in terms of birth-order pairings. The present article is divided into two sections. In the first, the authors investigate claims about birth order and marital success prevalent in the popular literature and show that they have little validity. In the second, the authors undertake an analysis of birth order and divorce risk, which reveals two major birth-order impacts: a pronounced only-child effect, in that couples in which either spouse is an only child have a notably higher divorce rate than couples in which neither is an only child, and for men, a protective effect against divorce from marriage to a first-born woman with siblings, an outcome that does not have a counterpart for women in their own pairing choices.