This paper by Muhammad Abdul Aziz, Muhammad Umar and Deborah Hamer-Acquaah examines the UK's 2025 Immigration White Paper as a critical site for understanding how immigration policy functions as an instrument of racial capitalism.
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Read Roberto Rizza's review of "Job Insecurity and Life Courses" by Sonia Bertolini, Valentina Goglio and Dirk Hofäcker.
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Focusing on the understudied genre of Grime, this paper by Tom R. Leppard and @apdsocy.bsky.social investigates whether the pull of similarity - the tendency to form homophilous ties - overrides competitive pressures within the genre.
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How do various #JobDemands & resources impact perceived stress and, consequently, how people cope?
This #EarlyView article in SI examines how job conditions influence substance use for cognitive enhancement in Germany.
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This paper by @ondrejspacek.bsky.social explores the effect of cultural capital on educational outcomes, showing that while institutionalised cultural capital boosts university completion, embodied cultural capital has no effect.
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This commentary gathers testimonies from Danish researchers reflecting on the structural pressures eroding academic freedom across universities.
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This piece by Arash Beidollahkhani examines the systematic erosion of academic freedom and the institutionalised censorship and repression of academics in Iran following the Woman, Life, Freedom movement.
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This article by @madsjaeger.bsky.social and @rozameuleman.bsky.social draws on three-generations of data from Denmark to demonstrate how cultural tastes don’t just signal status, they shape real inequalities in access to opportunities.
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Marriage and wealth reinforce each other, creating large net‑worth gaps between married and cohabiting couples. This paper asks whether rising cohabitation changes that pattern, using Canada to explore when gaps persist, widen or narrow.
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Based on 77 qualitative interviews with professors in higher education, this article draws on sociological accounting theories, focusing on the ‘excuses’ and ‘justifications’ used when discussing gender issues.
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This paper examines the structural mechanisms that sustain the feminisation of care by analysing men's experiences in frontline aged and disability care.
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This paper treats the elite family as a shared site of work shaped by material, socio‑cultural and narrative labour. Through a multi‑generational study, it foregrounds how gender and sexuality structure this family work.
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Read Harland Prechel's review of "Sociology of Corruption: Patterns of Illegal Association in Hungary" by David Jancsics.
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Class identity is a crucial sociological concept, but is often only measured at the individual level. Examining data from 31 prominent American religious denominations in the early 20th century, this paper asks: do groups have class identities?
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This paper draws on Bourdieu's concepts of capital conversion, symbolic capital, and meritocracy to explore the gendered dynamics of meritocracy.
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How do those who are pulling away economically justify their advantageous positions? This article explores the status legitimations and interconnected boundary-makings of the tech elite.
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Read Jordanna Matlon's response to John Solomos's, Tanisha Spratt's, and Gala Rexer's reviews of "A Man among Other Men: The Crisis of Black Masculinity in Racial Capitalism".
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The article also shows how vigilantism can move from street violence into formal political power — leaving lasting institutional effects.
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New Early View article (Open Access) in Sociology Lens.
This article asks a difficult but important question: how can the expansion of rights sometimes trigger violent backlash? It develops a theory of political vigilantism through the case of anti-Palestinian vigilantism in Israel.
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Rather than a simple colonizer–colonized binary, this article shows how local state actors could reconfigure symbolic, physical, and economic power to resist and renegotiate colonial control.
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New Early View article (Open Access) in Sociology Lens.
How did colonial power actually work on the ground? This article uses field theory to show how British rule in Egypt operated through competing power domains rather than absolute domination.
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From European intellectual history to Iranian nation-building, this article shows how racialized admiration traveled, localized, and shaped modern political imaginaries.
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This study examines how European Persophilia helped shape Aryanist racial thought and later influenced Iranian nationalism and identity debates.
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Read Tanisha Spratt's review of "A Man Among Other Men: The Crisis of Black Masculinity in Racial Capitalism" by Jordanna Matlon.
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How are immigrants' understandings of ethnicity influenced by class? This study draws on interviews with 28 Chinese immigrants in the UK to examine how border‑crossing experiences shape their views of ethnicity, identity, and ethnic boundaries.
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Read John Solomos's review of Jordanna Matlon's "A Man among Other Men: The Crisis of Black Masculinity in Racial Capitalism".
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This article shows that by predominantly adopting a being-laden set of metaphysical assumptions, the complexity discourse overlooks subtler and more nuanced aspects of elucidating social settings.
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Read Annick Prieur's research note, which reflects on why the sociology of inequalities must be bridged with the sociology of emotions.
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Drawing on 65 qualitative interviews with Australian workers on project-based platforms, this article explores how platforms reproduce gendered inequalities while sustaining the promise of flexibility.
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Read Gala Rexer's review of "A Man Among Other Men: The Crisis of Black Masculinity in Racial Capitalism" by Jordanna Matlon.
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