British Journal of Sociology
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We publish rigorous, original research that speaks to a general sociological audience and draws on an array of quantitative and qualitative methods ➡️ https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14684446
Drawing on 37 interviews with Black and Muslim Italians living in Britain or returned to Italy, this article shows that meritocracy is rarely invoked as a coherent ideology but works as practical, embodied common sense about the world order.
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December 8, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Drawing on 37 interviews with Black and Muslim Italians living in Britain or returned to Italy, this article shows that meritocracy is rarely invoked as a coherent ideology but works as practical, embodied common sense about the world order.
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This article focuses upon Christian climate activists in the UK and how they are reinterpreting their theological beliefs in ways that mobilise religious communities, arguing for a re-enchantment of studies of contemporary climate change activism.
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December 4, 2025 at 11:02 AM
This article focuses upon Christian climate activists in the UK and how they are reinterpreting their theological beliefs in ways that mobilise religious communities, arguing for a re-enchantment of studies of contemporary climate change activism.
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Drawing on a new module of fairness beliefs within the nationally representative Australian Survey of Social Attitudes, this article explores whether individuals who endorse equal opportunity are also more likely to hold positive attitudes towards migration.
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December 3, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Drawing on a new module of fairness beliefs within the nationally representative Australian Survey of Social Attitudes, this article explores whether individuals who endorse equal opportunity are also more likely to hold positive attitudes towards migration.
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Read Isabel Pike's review of "Making Women Pay: Microfinance in Urban India" by Smitha Radhakrishnan.
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December 1, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Read Isabel Pike's review of "Making Women Pay: Microfinance in Urban India" by Smitha Radhakrishnan.
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Drawing on an ethnographic study of abortion services in France, this article proposes and defines the concept of medical domination by combining insights from political sociology, Bourdieu's theory of domination, and intersectional perspectives.
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November 28, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Drawing on an ethnographic study of abortion services in France, this article proposes and defines the concept of medical domination by combining insights from political sociology, Bourdieu's theory of domination, and intersectional perspectives.
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Read Tom P J Parkin's review of "Civil Repair" by Jeffrey C. Alexander.
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November 26, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Read Tom P J Parkin's review of "Civil Repair" by Jeffrey C. Alexander.
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This article examines 20th-century American family demography as a case study, tracing historically how scholars justified their nascent scholarship through moral arguments linked to perceived social goods that demography produces.
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November 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
This article examines 20th-century American family demography as a case study, tracing historically how scholars justified their nascent scholarship through moral arguments linked to perceived social goods that demography produces.
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This article highlights the role and types of White innocence. It uses St. Augustine, Florida, and Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, to outline the contours of narrative and consumptive innocence.
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November 24, 2025 at 12:01 PM
This article highlights the role and types of White innocence. It uses St. Augustine, Florida, and Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, to outline the contours of narrative and consumptive innocence.
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What makes the city's diverse strangers actually interact face-to-face? Drawing on long-term urban ethnography in Oslo, Norway, this article explores ‘contact-supporting circumstances’ in urban public space.
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November 20, 2025 at 1:01 PM
What makes the city's diverse strangers actually interact face-to-face? Drawing on long-term urban ethnography in Oslo, Norway, this article explores ‘contact-supporting circumstances’ in urban public space.
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This article examines how ethnonationalism becomes a resource for navigating the precarity of ageing. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, it shows how financially privileged Québécois seniors enact nationhood through everyday cultural practices.
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November 19, 2025 at 12:02 PM
This article examines how ethnonationalism becomes a resource for navigating the precarity of ageing. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, it shows how financially privileged Québécois seniors enact nationhood through everyday cultural practices.
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Read Laurie E. Adkin's review of "Climate Justice and the University: Shaping a Hopeful Future for All" by Jennie Stephens.
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November 18, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Read Laurie E. Adkin's review of "Climate Justice and the University: Shaping a Hopeful Future for All" by Jennie Stephens.
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This article shows that infrastructural power—a state's capacity to coordinate society and implement policy—was associated with higher vaccination rates during COVID-19, regardless of its level of despotic power.
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November 17, 2025 at 1:02 PM
This article shows that infrastructural power—a state's capacity to coordinate society and implement policy—was associated with higher vaccination rates during COVID-19, regardless of its level of despotic power.
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Drawing on 41 semi-structured interviews with wealthy members of the business class living in and around Manchester, this paper explores how therapy culture has travelled upwards, to the executive and owning class, through CEO peer groups.
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November 13, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Drawing on 41 semi-structured interviews with wealthy members of the business class living in and around Manchester, this paper explores how therapy culture has travelled upwards, to the executive and owning class, through CEO peer groups.
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This paper explores the causal effect of motherhood on women's occupational class trajectories using data from the 1970 British Cohort Study. It shows that motherhood significantly increases downward mobility and limits access to professional occupations.
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November 12, 2025 at 12:03 PM
This paper explores the causal effect of motherhood on women's occupational class trajectories using data from the 1970 British Cohort Study. It shows that motherhood significantly increases downward mobility and limits access to professional occupations.
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Read Benjamin H. Bradlow's review of "The Price Is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won’t Save the Planet" by Brett Christophers.
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November 10, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Read Benjamin H. Bradlow's review of "The Price Is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won’t Save the Planet" by Brett Christophers.
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This article explores the role of culture, ethnicity, transnational ties, and migration in family financial assistance with home ownership. It argues that academic studies on the topic have been dominated by Anglo-centric experiences.
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November 6, 2025 at 11:02 AM
This article explores the role of culture, ethnicity, transnational ties, and migration in family financial assistance with home ownership. It argues that academic studies on the topic have been dominated by Anglo-centric experiences.
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Drawing on in-depth interviews and focus groups, this article explores older adults' concerns about wealth in their decisions to date and repartner, showing how family concerns and financial matters are balanced with desires to date.
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November 5, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Drawing on in-depth interviews and focus groups, this article explores older adults' concerns about wealth in their decisions to date and repartner, showing how family concerns and financial matters are balanced with desires to date.
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Drawing upon 82 individual interviews, this article argues that families are dynamic and sequentially unfolding sites of wealth transfers, acting as both enablers and limiters of women's wealth accumulation.
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November 3, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Drawing upon 82 individual interviews, this article argues that families are dynamic and sequentially unfolding sites of wealth transfers, acting as both enablers and limiters of women's wealth accumulation.
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Drawing on 78 interviews and 12 focus groups, this study shows that science fiction shapes the US public's understanding of economic consequences from AI, informing widespread concerns that sentient machines might fully replace human workers.
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October 16, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Drawing on 78 interviews and 12 focus groups, this study shows that science fiction shapes the US public's understanding of economic consequences from AI, informing widespread concerns that sentient machines might fully replace human workers.
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📣 Submit your abstract for the British Journal of Sociology Conference by Monday 20 October.
There is no predetermined theme, and we invite scholars of all ranks and affiliations to submit abstracts on any aspect of sociology.
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There is no predetermined theme, and we invite scholars of all ranks and affiliations to submit abstracts on any aspect of sociology.
Submit your abstract ➡️ www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/br...
October 15, 2025 at 11:02 AM
📣 Submit your abstract for the British Journal of Sociology Conference by Monday 20 October.
There is no predetermined theme, and we invite scholars of all ranks and affiliations to submit abstracts on any aspect of sociology.
Submit your abstract ➡️ www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/br...
There is no predetermined theme, and we invite scholars of all ranks and affiliations to submit abstracts on any aspect of sociology.
Submit your abstract ➡️ www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/br...
This study investigates discrepancies between teacher and student perceptions of student's school enjoyment and effort, and whether these discrepancies are associated with student SES.
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October 13, 2025 at 12:03 PM
This study investigates discrepancies between teacher and student perceptions of student's school enjoyment and effort, and whether these discrepancies are associated with student SES.
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The article contributes to debates on the sociology of marginality with a three-tiered discussion of migration, homelessness and methodological frameworks, which are rarely considered together.
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October 9, 2025 at 11:02 AM
The article contributes to debates on the sociology of marginality with a three-tiered discussion of migration, homelessness and methodological frameworks, which are rarely considered together.
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Since the 1990s, high-income individuals have increasingly sorted into the Democratic Party as a result of their socially liberal views. This study uses a forced-choice conjoint experiment to explore why high-income Democrats support redistributive policies.
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October 8, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Since the 1990s, high-income individuals have increasingly sorted into the Democratic Party as a result of their socially liberal views. This study uses a forced-choice conjoint experiment to explore why high-income Democrats support redistributive policies.
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This paper problematises perspectives that treat the social as an artefact of administrative practice or that prioritise experiences of moral purpose and commonality, arguing that such positions risk mythologising ‘society’.
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October 6, 2025 at 11:02 AM
This paper problematises perspectives that treat the social as an artefact of administrative practice or that prioritise experiences of moral purpose and commonality, arguing that such positions risk mythologising ‘society’.
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The most recent British census was the first to elicit transgender identity. This research note considers the difference between the results of the English and Welsh 2021 Census and the Scottish 2022 Census.
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October 2, 2025 at 12:03 PM
The most recent British census was the first to elicit transgender identity. This research note considers the difference between the results of the English and Welsh 2021 Census and the Scottish 2022 Census.
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