Thinking Sex in Sociology: Sexualities Research in the Twenty-First Century 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 a
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The Architecture of Global Capital: Elites, States, and the New Geography of Wealth This article reviews the sociological and interdisciplinary literature on the global architecture of elite wealth, emphasizing structural transformations in the global political economy following
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The Social Psychology of Peer Downfall: A Systematic Review of Schadenfreude, Moral Disengagement, and Hostile Responses in Close Systems Social systems, ranging from workplaces to digital platforms, are structured by implicit hierarchies in which individual performance is contin
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Sending Money Home: Understanding the Social Dynamics of Migrant Remittances 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, a
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Climate Change Coverage in The Guardian, 2010–2025 Leading news outlets play a central role in shaping how political leaders and the public understand the causes, impacts, and solutions to climate change. Here, we provide the first comprehensive assessment of how The Guardian, a
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Kinship Interlocks: How the Intimate Exchange of Wealth, Status, and Power Generates Upper-Class Persistence American Sociological Review, Volume 91, Issue 2, Page 191-226, April 2026. How do some families manage to entrench themselves in the upper class for many generations whil
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Diskriminierung von Konsument:innen in Deutschland. Vignetten zur Verbraucher:innenarbeiten Dieses Working Paper präsentiert fünf Vignetten zu Diskriminierung im Konsumalltag in Deutschland. Die Vignetten basieren auf 30 Interviews mit Verbraucher:innen, die im Rahmen des Projekt
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Development of a scale to measure self-advocacy skills among female university students Objective: This study aimed to develop a Female University Student Self-Advocacy Skills Scale (FUS-SSS) and test its reliability and factor model fit. This study also assessed factors associat
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Salience Shifts and Managerial Discretion: How Periods of Islamist Terrorism Affect the Employment of Middle Eastern Men American Sociological Review, Volume 91, Issue 2, Page 313-348, April 2026. Islamist terrorist attacks evoke negative stereotypes and symbolic threat perceptio
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Behavioural Interventions to Improve Home-Based Office-Workers’ Health Many organizations have traditionally supported their employees’ physical and mental health through a variety of office-based programs and interventions. The shift from in-office work to working from home, whi
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Living with Ghosts: How Physical Traces of the Past Shape Cultural Trauma in Chinatowns American Sociological Review, Volume 91, Issue 2, Page 286-312, April 2026. Cultural trauma refers to how past experiences of harm can fundamentally transform a community’s shared identity, po
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Simple Requests Help Desk-Based Workers Stand Up More: A Meta-Analytic Summary In a series of eight studies, spanning laboratory and field experiments, we examined the effect of messages describing the present and/or future consequences of prolonged sitting on standing behavior a
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Collateral Decision-Making: The Case of Pretrial Detention and the Criminal Courts American Sociological Review, Ahead of Print. Research shows that penal state involvement facilitates a wide range of detrimental consequences, yet existing theoretical accounts tend to focus on st
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Using Gamification to Overcome Common Behavioral Biases and Increase Financial Well-Being Having good financial well-being, which looks different for everyone and depends on what makes you happy, is an essential component of overall well-being, yet many adolescents and young adul
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Η Ισορροπία Nash ως Αναλυτικό Εργαλείο στη Δημόσια Διοίκηση Διάγνωση Παθογενειών και Στρατηγικές Παρέμβασης στο Ελληνικό Πλαίσιο Το παρόν άρθρο αξιοποιεί τη Θεωρία Παιγνίων για να διαγνώσει επίμονες παθογένειες της δημόσιας διοίκησης, όπως η γραφειοκρατική αδράνεια, αντιμετωπίζο
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The False Polarization of Heroes: How Social Sorting Affects Collective Memory Iconic historical figures are meant to represent a society’s most enduring and universal values. And yet, across partisan and sociodemographic groups Americans believe their most important values are w
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Beyond the Brink: Diagnosing Tipping Points in Public Administration – An Integrated Framework of Systemic Entrapment, Organizational Inertia, and Cognitive Capture The concept of the tipping point, which describes abrupt and non-linear changes in complex systems, is gaining incr
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Thirty-five years of accelerating heat stress in Kenya: subnational patterns of hazard, exposure burden, and vulnerability in priority populations Background: Extreme heat is an increasing public health threat in sub-Saharan Africa,
yet evidence on subnational disparities and gro
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Engaged Yet Exhausted: Work Engagement and Burnout of Librarians Post-COVID Work engagement and burnout have detrimental effects on the wellbeing of librarians and can be one indicator of how well a library functions. This study uses the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES) and t
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The Queen Bee Mother: A Developmental and Contextual Framework for Evolved Female Intra-Group Power Dynamics in Aotearoa New Zealand Workplaces The Queen Bee syndrome is well established in organisational scholarship as a pattern in which senior women distance themselves from fem
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From Digital Twins to Adaptive Metaverse Infrastructures: A Distributed Systems Framework for Smart Buildings and Factories The article introduces the concept of Smart Infrastructure Metaverse (SIM) and considers it from the perspective of Distributed Adaptive Systems (DAS). The
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Imagining tomorrow's cities: Representations of urban futures in Google Images and visual generative AI This study investigates how urban futures are represented on Google Images and by visual generative AI, such as DALL-E, focusing on the prioritized sociotechnical imaginaries.
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Adapting for Solitude: Stress-Coping, Substitution Behaviors, and Intentions to Return in Wilderness Recreation Increasing visitation to Wilderness Areas is intensifying pressure on ecological conditions and visitor experience quality, highlighting gaps in current monitoring sy
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Identity-Driven Sustainable Consumption: How Conspicuous Consumption Motives Mediate Moral Identity and Green Purchase Intentions This study examines how moral identity shapes green purchase intentions among young consumers in an emerging market context, and why identity-driven m
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Who Produces? AI, Delegation, and the Collapse of Managerial Boundaries Recent advances in generative AI have made a broader AI-mediated reorganization of knowledge work newly visible. In software and adjacent white-collar domains, AI systems increasingly participate in producing
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Instruments for Measuring Knowledge, Attitudes, and Skills in Preventing Sexual Violence against Children: Scoping Review Millions of girls and boys in the world experience abuse and exploitation every year. The UNICEF data reported that between 2005 and 2022 at least 16,000 chil
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Beyond Sustainable Development: A Critique and the Framework of Civilizational Justice For decades, the world has pledged to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. Yet emissions keep rising, temperatures break records every year, and inequality deepens. This is not a failure
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Multimodal Misinformation: How Climate Obstruction Is Constructed on TikTok This article examines how conspiratorial climate claims are multimodally constructed and
emotionally mobilized on TikTok, advancing understanding of multimodal climate
misinformation in short-form audiovi
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Assessing Party Success Following Conflict Onset: An Alternative to Leadership Tenure in regard to the United States The oft-used leadership tenure measure in international relations is ill-suited to the United States and other democracies where the Head of State has term limits.
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The Scientific Case Against Parental Alienation: A Critical Review Parental alienation syndrome (PAS) and its reformulation as parental alienation (PA) have gained traction in family courts despite persistent scientific controversy. This review synthesizes peer-reviewedresearch a
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