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{"title":"Enlightened False Consciousness: Why Climate Consciousness Is Not Followed by Action","authors":"Bülent Diken,&nbsp;Carsten Bagge Laustsen","doi":"10.1111/johs.70064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/johs.70064","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The article discusses enlightened false consciousness by focusing on the denial of the climate crisis. It approaches this idea by first emphasizing the role of emotions in connection with actions, arguing that a classical rationalist perspective falls short of grasping this. The article is divided into four parts. First, it focuses on the relationship between emotions and knowledge in relation to the climate issue. This leads to a discussion of the ways in which cognitive dissonance can be managed, that is, the ways in which recognized but uncomfortable knowledge can be bracketed so that it is not felt as disturbing. This is the background for the third part, which singles out the importance of maintaining normality or, more technically, protecting one's habitus from challenges. We conclude by asking how, despite this insistence on normality, one can understand and present oneself as progressive and climate-conscious.</p>","PeriodicalId":101168,"journal":{"name":"Sociology Lens","volume":"39 3","pages":"461-468"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/johs.70064","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148872149","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘Deaf Is Only One of Us’ and Other Viewpoints in Historical Debates on TV and Film Captioning in Hong Kong","authors":"Jan-Eerik Leppaenen","doi":"10.1111/johs.70058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/johs.70058","url":null,"abstract":"<p>What are captions, and why do they matter? Captioning is a text-based tool that makes it easier for those who do not sufficiently recognize spoken language on the screen to understand TV and films. Furthermore, the captions help viewers understand the screen content, notwithstanding the context they are in. Captions on film, TV programs, social media, or motion pictures can be referred to as ‘open’ or ‘closed’. In open format, captioning is always ‘on’; in closed format, it can be manually switched on or off. The benefit of captioning is that it improves deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) people's reading skills and overall understanding of the film's content, and it is significantly vital for the DHH Community, especially when sign language is unavailable. This article describes the early phases of captioning for the national television channels in Hong Kong between the 1960s and the 1980s. Hong Kong became the center of the Asian film industry during these decades. In contemporary Hong Kong in the 2020s, licensing policies dictate the captioning conditions for TV programs and films. It is pertinent to observe how captions were perceived and implemented—whether for the benefit of people with DHH or the public—as they are today, taken for granted in TV, film, and media publications, backed by national and international policies promoting accessibility to information. This study draws from systematic archival research of Hong Kong Public Records on the topic and extensive ethnographic research in Hong Kong between 2018 and 2020. In this article, I will investigate: First, how and why did captioning emerge historically (1960s and 1980s) as a key accessibility practice for deaf and hard-of-hearing audiences in audiovisual media? Second, how did archival debates among broadcasters, policymakers, and Deaf Communities frame the purpose and value of captioning? Hong Kong, as one of the epicenters of the global film industry—especially Asian cinema—is an ideal location to investigate the subject and its implications for various groups of people. This study presents critical discussions on the topic and situates them within the Hong Kong context. The theoretical framework and analysis are based on Social Worlds/arenas, an ethnographic reading on Grounded Theory, and an analytical outline of various social domains where Deaf Community made visible. Through examples of historical correspondence, I aim to demonstrate how selected Hong Kong public organizations and policy-level representatives perceive the function and value of TV captioning, ultimately highlighting its usage for DHH people in Hong Kong and their access to broadcast information.</p>","PeriodicalId":101168,"journal":{"name":"Sociology Lens","volume":"39 3","pages":"446-460"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/johs.70058","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148872151","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"What Is to Be Maratha: Contemporary Articulations of Maratha Caste Associations in Maharashtra","authors":"Akshay Sawant","doi":"10.1111/johs.70063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/johs.70063","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Since the 1980s, caste associations in Maharashtra have re-emerged as interest groups and as critical sites of identity reconstitution in response to social and economic transformations. This article examines the contemporary articulations of Maratha identity through the case of the Maratha Seva Sangh (MSS), a prominent caste association. Focusing on the structure, discourse, and strategies of MSS, it analyzes how the association addresses the dual questions of “Who is Maratha?” and “What is to be Maratha?”. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and MSS's published material, the article argues that MSS adopts a distinctly non-Brahmin ideological stance seeking to redefine Maratha identity amid sociopolitical contestations, including economic decline, growing Dalit and Bahujan critiques, and weakening caste cohesion. In doing so, the article contributes to broader debates on caste, identity-making, and the evolving role of caste associations in contemporary India.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":101168,"journal":{"name":"Sociology Lens","volume":"39 3","pages":"436-445"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148872119","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Family Representation in Contemporary Turkish Cinema: A Longitudinal Corpus Analysis, 1996–2024","authors":"Defne Tüzün,&nbsp;Fuat Doğa Erten,&nbsp;Gamze Turunç,&nbsp;Esin Paça Cengiz,&nbsp;Deniz Gedizlioğlu,&nbsp;İbrahim Şahin Ateş,&nbsp;Sevin Yaman,&nbsp;Demetsu Zelal Er Aykut","doi":"10.1111/johs.70078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/johs.70078","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Family has long occupied a central place in contemporary cinema in Turkey, yet existing scholarship has largely examined its representation through close readings of selected films or specific themes. This article adopts a different perspective by analyzing family representations across a longitudinal corpus of 850 films produced between 1996 and 2024. Combining qualitative content analysis with interpretive analysis, it treats films as a visual archive through which changing understandings of the family can be examined in relation to broader social transformations. Using a systematic coding framework, the study analyzes family structures, interpersonal relations, authority, conflict, gender roles, and narrative outcomes. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu's conceptualization of the family as a socially constructed institution and adapting Lyman Tower Sargent's distinction between utopian and dystopian imaginaries, the article distinguishes between utopian and dystopian modes of family representation. The findings reveal a persistent tension between critique and preservation. Although families are more frequently represented as sites of conflict, inequality, and dysfunction than as harmonious social units, narratives rarely allow them to dissolve completely. Instead, conflicts are commonly resolved by preserving or reconstituting the family, reaffirming its symbolic legitimacy despite exposing its internal contradictions. Methodologically, the study demonstrates the value of qualitative content analysis for investigating long-term transformations in cinematic representation through large-scale longitudinal film corpora.</p>","PeriodicalId":101168,"journal":{"name":"Sociology Lens","volume":"39 3","pages":"543-557"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/johs.70078","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148872107","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Correction to “Anti-Consumerism Action Practices and Media Representation of Chinese Netizens: A Netnographic Study of the Douban ‘No Buy’ Group”","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/johs.70057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/johs.70057","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Zhou, C., and J. Pan. 2025. “Anti-Consumerism Action Practices and Media Representation of Chinese Netizens: A Netnographic Study of the Douban ‘No Buy’ Group.” <i>Sociology Lens</i> 38: 200–211. https://doi.org/10.1111/johs.70005.</p><p>Following first online publication, errors were identified in two reference citations and their corresponding in-text citations. The references incorrectly cited as “Park and Kang (2023)” and “Yu and Xu (2021)” have been replaced with the correct sources. All corresponding in-text citations have been updated accordingly.</p><p>The corrected references are as follows:</p><p>Velkova, J., and A. Kaun. 2021. “Algorithmic Resistance: Media Practices and the Politics of Repair.” <i>Information, Communication &amp; Society</i> 24, no. 4: 523–540. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2019.1657162.</p><p>Gibbs, M., J. Meese, M. Arnold, B. Nansen, and M. Carter. 2015. “#Funeral and Instagram: Death, Social Media, and Platform Vernacular.” <i>Information, Communication &amp; Society 18</i>, no. 3: 255–268. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2014.987152.</p><p>These corrections do not affect the main arguments or conclusions of the article.</p><p>The authors apologize for the errors and for any inconvenience caused.</p>","PeriodicalId":101168,"journal":{"name":"Sociology Lens","volume":"39 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/johs.70057","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148871934","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"An Examination of Cultural Transformation in Türkiye After 1980 in the Context of “Neoliberal Governmentality”","authors":"Muhammed Salim Danış","doi":"10.1111/johs.70077","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/johs.70077","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The January 24 Decisions of 1980 and the subsequent Özal era marked a profound rupture, carrying Türkiye from an import substitution economy to an outward-oriented, “free-market” order. Drawing on Michel Foucault's concept of neoliberal governmentality, this study conducts a qualitative, interpretivist discourse analysis of Turgut Özal's official speeches, the period's press, party documents, and legal regulations: the new human type projected by neoliberal values and arabesk music as an index of changing taste. The central argument is that this cultural transformation was not a spontaneous market outcome but a governmental strategy constructed through the state's own steering interventions. The findings show that the governmental discourse of the period programmatically summoned an entrepreneurial subject along the axes of depoliticization, individualization, and consumption, whereas arabesk, passing through legitimation, marketization, emotional privatization, and identification, was reconstituted as a field of experience in which this subjectivity was rehearsed in everyday life. Despite the state's failure in its direct design, transformation through the market reveals a logic of “governing without governing,” turning culture into a functional apparatus for reproducing hegemony.</p>","PeriodicalId":101168,"journal":{"name":"Sociology Lens","volume":"39 3","pages":"522-542"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/johs.70077","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148872135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Perceiving Vegetation From Social Positions: Discourses on Plants in a Mediterranean Landscape","authors":"Javier Jurado-Pardeiro,&nbsp;Francisco Guerrero,&nbsp;Henar Baldán,&nbsp;Nayla Fuster","doi":"10.1111/johs.70053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/johs.70053","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Understanding how vegetation is perceived, named and valued requires attention to the social positions from which these perceptions are produced. This article analyses vegetation perception from different social positions based on qualitative research conducted in the province of Jaén (Andalusia, Spain), a Mediterranean landscape characterized by high plant diversity and the predominance of olive cultivation. Drawing on discussion groups with the general population and in-depth interviews with experts, the study applies sociological discourse analysis to identify patterns of vegetation perception and recognition. The results show that experts and the general population share references to a limited set of socially prominent species, but differ markedly in how vegetation is classified, prioritized and interpreted. Expert discourses rely on technical and ecological classifications, whereas those of the general population are shaped by everyday experience, social uses, memory and sensory recognition. These differences vary systematically according to social position, life trajectories and forms of practical engagement with the plant environment. The study highlights the existence of multiple forms of plant recognition and underscores the contribution of sociological approaches to understanding biodiversity perception and informing more socially attuned environmental management strategies.</p>","PeriodicalId":101168,"journal":{"name":"Sociology Lens","volume":"39 3","pages":"362-375"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/johs.70053","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148871963","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Curricular Imaginaries in a Modernizing Society: Philosophy of Life in China's 1922 Schooling Reform","authors":"Huiyan Piao,&nbsp;Zifan Jiang,&nbsp;Shuangye Chen","doi":"10.1111/johs.70067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/johs.70067","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This paper examines the lifespan of the new school subject of Philosophy of Life (PoL) in China's 1922 Schooling Reform, which laid down the foundation of China's modern schooling system, noting that the 1922 National Curriculum was shaped by curricular imaginaries comprising intellectual elites, particularly through the National Education Association (NEA), instead of government departments. Complementing the theory of refraction with Charles Taylor's conceptualization of social imaginaries, this paper explores how PoL emerged in response to social crises and reflected a broader vision of modernization, despite its failure in passing the “acid test” of sustainability. By theorizing a perspective of curricular imaginaries, this paper analyzes various “refraction episodes” that embedded competing educational ideas and actions among academics, teachers, and publishers. This paper concludes that the PoL subject offers critical insights into the complexities of modern educational reform, where the interplay of competing curricular visions and a lack of institutional stability contributed to its decline.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":101168,"journal":{"name":"Sociology Lens","volume":"39 3","pages":"483-497"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148871942","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Seven Decades of Demographic Trends at the Hugo Awards From 1953 to 2023: How the Award Recipients Reflect Actual and Aspirational Demographic Trends in Society","authors":"Grace Boglev","doi":"10.1111/johs.70061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/johs.70061","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study analyses the demographic trends at the Hugo Awards, with a focus on the authors' genders, languages, nationalities, and uses of pseudonyms. This research uses publicly available information published by the World Science Fiction Society and the Hugo Awards to determine demographic trends in nominated and winning authors for the Best Novel category over 7 decades. Several years of controversies around manipulation of the voting, and how these controversies themselves reflect and represent social changes, have also been considered. This analysis shows that trends for some of the demographic features of authors have changed significantly over the decades and done so largely in line with corresponding societal changes and changes to the publishing industry and science fiction. However, some demographic categories have remained stable over the years, despite external sociocultural and changes and changes to the operation of the awards themselves. The changes in demographic trends at the Hugo Awards observed in this paper have been slow, inconsistent, and met with multiple occasions of backlash.</p>","PeriodicalId":101168,"journal":{"name":"Sociology Lens","volume":"39 3","pages":"414-426"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/johs.70061","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148872145","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Learning From the Past to Read the Present: Political Crisis, Democratization, and Double Movement in Early Twentieth-Century Chile","authors":"Beatriz Silva Pinochet,&nbsp;Mauricio Rifo Melo","doi":"10.1111/johs.70055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/johs.70055","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This article analyses the cycle of social and political conflict that unfolded in Chile in the early twentieth century. It focuses on the uncertainty-rich phase of 1918–1925 as a critical juncture that opened competing institutional pathways. Leaning on democratization studies and on Polanyi's double movement approach, the article conceptualizes capitalist dislocation as a main trigger of the crisis and of the emerging protective demands from that period. This perspective is introduced an analytical framework for examining Chilean specific democratic pathway. Empirically, the study draws on case study method. In that line, and in order to gain deeper understanding of political conflict debates of the period a systematic qualitative analysis of press debates across ideologically diverse outlets (1918–1925), complemented by secondary scholarship extending from the late nineteenth century to the late 1930s.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":101168,"journal":{"name":"Sociology Lens","volume":"39 3","pages":"388-398"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148872147","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}