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Sociology papers (journals + SocArXiv) @socpaperbot.bsky.social · 1h

Correction to: Fear of a Black Neighborhood: Anti-Black Racism and the Health of White Americans This is a correction to: Patricia Louie, Reed T DeAngelis, Fear of a Black Neighborhood: Anti-Black Racism and the Health of White Americans, Social Forces, Volume 102, Issue 3, March
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Sociology papers (journals + SocArXiv) @socpaperbot.bsky.social · 1h

Long-term effects of institutional slavery on Black representation in entrepreneurship: a study of US communities I argue that the historical prevalence of slavery in different US communities has led to discernible patterns of hate crimes and hate groups. Such legacies of institu
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Sociology papers (journals + SocArXiv) @socpaperbot.bsky.social · 1h

Are women with disabilities more at risk of intimate partner violence? Women with disabilities may face heightened risks of intimate partner violence (IPV) given the discrimination and barriers they face in society. While some country-specific studies explore the link between dis
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Sociology papers (journals + SocArXiv) @socpaperbot.bsky.social · 1h

The effect of legislation on perceived disability discrimination: a heterogeneous difference-in-differences analysis Equalizing opportunities and outcomes between individuals with and without disabilities is a stated goal for most governments in Western welfare democracies. Yet,
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Sociology papers (journals + SocArXiv) @socpaperbot.bsky.social · 1h

The wages of investor power: shareholder exploitation in Europe Exploitation, or the ability of property owners to gain at worker’s expense, is a classic sociological explanation for inequality. However, it is a difficult process to identify and empirically show with most data so
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Sociology papers (journals + SocArXiv) @socpaperbot.bsky.social · 1h

The religion of White identity politics: Christian nationalism and White racial solidarity Though recent research on White racial solidarity has advanced our understanding of White identity politics in the United States, the religious underpinnings of White identity politics rema
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Sociology papers (journals + SocArXiv) @socpaperbot.bsky.social · 1h

Remote/hybrid work in flux: work-place/preference mismatch and adaptations The COVID-19 pandemic led to an unprecedented employer-driven shift to remote/hybrid work for those whose jobs allow it, but then came retrenchments, forging disjunctures between where one works (remote/hy
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Sociology papers (journals + SocArXiv) @socpaperbot.bsky.social · 1h

Institutional anomie, religious ecologies, and violence in American communities Institutional anomie theory (IAT) posits that religion is a social institution that influences crime, yet religion has been relatively neglected in empirical research on IAT. We elaborate the role of
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Sociology papers (journals + SocArXiv) @socpaperbot.bsky.social · 1h

Breathing unequal air: environmental disadvantage and residential sorting of immigrant minorities in England and Germany Despite ongoing debates on environmental justice, the link between selective residential migration and the unequal exposure to environmental hazards remains un
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Sociology papers (journals + SocArXiv) @socpaperbot.bsky.social · 1h

Correction to: The effect of legislation on perceived disability discrimination: a heterogeneous difference-in-differences analyses This is a correction to: Alexi Gugushvili, Jan Grue, The effect of legislation on perceived disability discrimination: a heterogeneous difference-in
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Sociology papers (journals + SocArXiv) @socpaperbot.bsky.social · 1h

Colonial legacy and contemporary civil violence: a global study from 1960 to 2018 This study assesses whether the legacy of colonialism continues to influence patterns of civil violence in the contemporary era. A large and established quantitative literature attributes civil viol
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Gentrification in small cities: growth coalitions, civic engagement, and political participation Most gentrification research uses large cities as cases to make sense of how the process unfolds, while studies of gentrification in nonmetropolises tend to focus on the process’s sim
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Sociology papers (journals + SocArXiv) @socpaperbot.bsky.social · 1h

Welfare benefit cuts in early childhood and future educational outcomes: a natural experiment Understanding the long-term effect of early childhood poverty on a child’s life prospects presents a methodological challenge due to the potential endogeneity of family income, making it
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Sociology papers (journals + SocArXiv) @socpaperbot.bsky.social · 1h

It is not what you weigh, it is how you present it: body size, attractiveness, physical functioning, and access to partnership and sexuality for older men and women Physical attractiveness has been linked to better economic, dyadic, and health outcomes but is understudied. We foc
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Sociology papers (journals + SocArXiv) @socpaperbot.bsky.social · 1h

The politics of the Norwegian capitalist class: the inner circle and wealthy owners This paper investigates the political activities of different segments within the capitalist class, comparing an inner circle of interlocked directors to a list of Norwegian wealthy owners. Drawin
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Sociology papers (journals + SocArXiv) @socpaperbot.bsky.social · 2h

Fractal scaling of feminist politics and the emergence of woman life freedom movement in Iran This article presents a socio-historical analysis of the ways women’s everyday resistance and struggles over several decades have contributed to the emergence of the Woman, Life, Freedom
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Sociology papers (journals + SocArXiv) @socpaperbot.bsky.social · 2h

What Lies between the Poles? Selective Uncertainty and Occluded Bias in Immigration Attitudes in California Although much extreme discourse is found at the poles, we still know little about how individuals in the center make sense of immigration as “complicated” and even “too com
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Sociology papers (journals + SocArXiv) @socpaperbot.bsky.social · 2h

Risk of exposure to COVID-19 and informal social control in Hong Kong: the mediating role of social cohesion† Many strategies for preventing and containing the spread of COVID-19 require wide-scale public cooperation backed by informal social control. Yet, fear of infection may e
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Sociology papers (journals + SocArXiv) @socpaperbot.bsky.social · 2h

Partisan animosity and protest participation in the United States In the United States, partisans are more likely to protest than other citizens. This study compares the relative strength of two explanations for why. One contends that partisanship, as a group identity, may lead p
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Sociology papers (journals + SocArXiv) @socpaperbot.bsky.social · 2h

Strategic non-engagement: new Russian political migrants and the effects of extraterritorial spillover of authoritarianism This research investigates the ways in which authoritarianism constrains the transnational political engagement of recent Russian emigrants, a group known as
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Sociology papers (journals + SocArXiv) @socpaperbot.bsky.social · 6h

Survey on the effectiveness of the rent brake in Munich This study explores the effectiveness of Germany’s rent control regulation in the context of Munich's housing crisis. The rent brake, aimed at preventing excessive rents in tense housing markets, was implemented in 2015 in G
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Sociology papers (journals + SocArXiv) @socpaperbot.bsky.social · 10h

The Limits of Tolerance: A Field Experiment at a German University on Bias against the Israeli Flag In the aftermath of the October 7, 2023 attacks, reports of anti-Israel expressions at German universities have raised questions about the prevalence and nature of such sentiments
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Sociology papers (journals + SocArXiv) @socpaperbot.bsky.social · 18h

Participating in Chinese Social Question and Answer Communities: A Case Study of Zhihu.com Zhihu.com, as a representative of the Social Question and Answer (SQA) community in China, currently has a very large user base. Experts, scholars and talent from all walks of life are brou
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Sociology papers (journals + SocArXiv) @socpaperbot.bsky.social · 22h

The Labor of Hope: Meritocracy and Precarity in Egypt by Harry Pettit American Journal of Sociology, Volume 130, Issue 5, Page 1344-1346, March 2025.
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Sociology papers (journals + SocArXiv) @socpaperbot.bsky.social · 1d

Comparing Egocentric and Sociocentric Centrality Measures in Directed Networks Egocentric networks represent a popular research design for network research. However, to what extent and under what conditions egocentric network centrality can serve as reasonable substitutes for the
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