Sociology LensPub Date : 2026-02-27Epub Date: 2025-11-21DOI: 10.1111/johs.70024
Robert Pascoe, Chris McConville
{"title":"Gang Girls, the Street Corner, and “New Urban Frontiers”: Melbourne, Boston, Chicago, 1910–1945","authors":"Robert Pascoe, Chris McConville","doi":"10.1111/johs.70024","DOIUrl":"10.1111/johs.70024","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Along with urban sociologists identified with the Chicago School, William F. Whyte in his <i>Street Corner Society</i> sought to understand street gangs and political networks in the poor neighborhoods of American cities, 1910–1945. To varying degrees these sociologists marginalized women. Furthermore, and despite claims that their theories could be universalized, they rarely considered cities beyond the United States. Their incomplete accounts can be enhanced by historical comparisons with the Australian city of Melbourne. In the early twentieth century, Melbourne's “larrikinesses” took a more active role in the “push” than is commonly recognized. They then took advantage of Melbourne's expanding public transport system to pursue their adventures beyond home neighborhoods. In a wonderful historical twist, the two worlds met briefly during the Pacific War when US Marines were stationed in Melbourne.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":101168,"journal":{"name":"Sociology Lens","volume":"39 1","pages":"32-41"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147567640","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}
Sociology LensPub Date : 2026-02-27Epub Date: 2025-11-19DOI: 10.1111/johs.70022
Johannes Siegmund
{"title":"White Fragility at the European Borders: The “Refugee Crisis” and the Reconfiguration of European Identities","authors":"Johannes Siegmund","doi":"10.1111/johs.70022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/johs.70022","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Migrants and refugees trigger intense public reactions in European societies which range from denial to confusion, from open violence to humanitarianism, and constitute the discourse of the “refugee crisis”. This paper applies Robin DiAngelo's term <i>White Fragility</i> to European discourses on migration and refugees and to the European border regime for developing an understanding of the border spectacle and its moral panics as a defensive reaction to racial stress. Although European reactions are contradictory in many ways, the “refugee crisis” performs a stabilizing function in the European border regime: Instead of listening to the political arms of refugee and migrant movements, European societies fight about their own identities and values. Considering this, there is still also a possibility to deal with fragility as a source of knowledge and understand it as a possible terrain for radical solidarity.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":101168,"journal":{"name":"Sociology Lens","volume":"39 1","pages":"21-31"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147567616","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}
Sociology LensPub Date : 2026-02-27Epub Date: 2025-12-28DOI: 10.1111/johs.70031
Ganiy Karassayev, Kanat Yensenov, Gabit Kenzhebayev, Almagul Kushpayeva, Beibitgul Tokabayeva
{"title":"History of Kazakh, Chinese, and Russian Relations (XVIII–XIX Centuries)","authors":"Ganiy Karassayev, Kanat Yensenov, Gabit Kenzhebayev, Almagul Kushpayeva, Beibitgul Tokabayeva","doi":"10.1111/johs.70031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/johs.70031","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study conducts a comparative analysis of the strategies employed by Russia and China in their interactions with the Kazakh khanates during the XVIII–XIX centuries. By examining the distinctive approaches of each power, the study assesses their implications on the socioeconomic and political development of Kazakhstan. Utilizing a historical-comparative methodology, the research delves into archival materials, written sources, and publications by European researchers to provide an in-depth analysis of the dynamics of international relations. The findings reveal that both China and Russia aimed to strengthen their influence in the region through trade relations and territorial claims. China sought to expand its economic influence by promoting trade contacts with Kazakh tribes, thereby supporting their autonomy and restraining Russian expansion. Conversely, the Russian Empire introduced administrative and military structures in Kazakhstan, gradually subordinating it to its political and economic interests, which led to significant changes in the socioeconomic structure of Kazakh society. The study highlights the significant influence of the political and economic strategies of Russia and China on the integration of Kazakh territories into their spheres of interest. By focusing on the comparative and strategic aspects, this research provides a comprehensive understanding of the complex interplay between these powers and their lasting impact on the geopolitical landscape of Central Asia.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":101168,"journal":{"name":"Sociology Lens","volume":"39 1","pages":"106-118"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147570155","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}
Sociology LensPub Date : 2026-02-27Epub Date: 2025-12-09DOI: 10.1111/johs.70028
Ádám Havas
{"title":"The Social Genesis of the Hungarian Literary Field: Symbolic Revolution and the Fall of Aristocratic Authority","authors":"Ádám Havas","doi":"10.1111/johs.70028","DOIUrl":"10.1111/johs.70028","url":null,"abstract":"<p>At the center of this study is a key event in the formation of the modern Hungarian literary field: the series of debates known as the Lexicon Trial (1830–1831), which played a decisive role in the institutionalization and autonomization of literature during Hungary's Reform Era (1825–1848). Over these years, the literary sphere gradually began to organize itself around “pure” esthetic judgments—a transformation that can be conceptualized as a “symbolic revolution” in Bourdieu's sense. This historical–sociological analysis focuses on strategies of the “social capitalization of knowledge,” drawing on Viktor Karády's concept to trace how pre-intellectual groups migrating to Pest-Buda laid the foundations for the main literary professions. I interpret the polemic surrounding the publication of the lexicon as a clash between the progressive-autonomous and conservative factions of literary figures, with the aim of capturing, in sociological terms, how a demarcated market of symbolic goods was established in Hungary. I aim to demonstrate the utility of a Bourdieusian historical–sociological framework for examining the genealogy of semi-peripheral fields of cultural production, particularly those marked by belated embourgeoisement, thereby offering an alternative to positivist literary history. This work also serves as an invitation to apply Bourdieusian historical analysis in one of its domains par excellence: the autonomization of fields.</p>","PeriodicalId":101168,"journal":{"name":"Sociology Lens","volume":"39 1","pages":"83-96"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/johs.70028","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147564120","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}
Sociology LensPub Date : 2026-02-27Epub Date: 2025-11-19DOI: 10.1111/johs.70022
Johannes Siegmund
{"title":"White Fragility at the European Borders: The “Refugee Crisis” and the Reconfiguration of European Identities","authors":"Johannes Siegmund","doi":"10.1111/johs.70022","DOIUrl":"10.1111/johs.70022","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Migrants and refugees trigger intense public reactions in European societies which range from denial to confusion, from open violence to humanitarianism, and constitute the discourse of the “refugee crisis”. This paper applies Robin DiAngelo's term <i>White Fragility</i> to European discourses on migration and refugees and to the European border regime for developing an understanding of the border spectacle and its moral panics as a defensive reaction to racial stress. Although European reactions are contradictory in many ways, the “refugee crisis” performs a stabilizing function in the European border regime: Instead of listening to the political arms of refugee and migrant movements, European societies fight about their own identities and values. Considering this, there is still also a possibility to deal with fragility as a source of knowledge and understand it as a possible terrain for radical solidarity.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":101168,"journal":{"name":"Sociology Lens","volume":"39 1","pages":"21-31"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147567480","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}
Sociology LensPub Date : 2026-02-27Epub Date: 2025-12-28DOI: 10.1111/johs.70031
Ganiy Karassayev, Kanat Yensenov, Gabit Kenzhebayev, Almagul Kushpayeva, Beibitgul Tokabayeva
{"title":"History of Kazakh, Chinese, and Russian Relations (XVIII–XIX Centuries)","authors":"Ganiy Karassayev, Kanat Yensenov, Gabit Kenzhebayev, Almagul Kushpayeva, Beibitgul Tokabayeva","doi":"10.1111/johs.70031","DOIUrl":"10.1111/johs.70031","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study conducts a comparative analysis of the strategies employed by Russia and China in their interactions with the Kazakh khanates during the XVIII–XIX centuries. By examining the distinctive approaches of each power, the study assesses their implications on the socioeconomic and political development of Kazakhstan. Utilizing a historical-comparative methodology, the research delves into archival materials, written sources, and publications by European researchers to provide an in-depth analysis of the dynamics of international relations. The findings reveal that both China and Russia aimed to strengthen their influence in the region through trade relations and territorial claims. China sought to expand its economic influence by promoting trade contacts with Kazakh tribes, thereby supporting their autonomy and restraining Russian expansion. Conversely, the Russian Empire introduced administrative and military structures in Kazakhstan, gradually subordinating it to its political and economic interests, which led to significant changes in the socioeconomic structure of Kazakh society. The study highlights the significant influence of the political and economic strategies of Russia and China on the integration of Kazakh territories into their spheres of interest. By focusing on the comparative and strategic aspects, this research provides a comprehensive understanding of the complex interplay between these powers and their lasting impact on the geopolitical landscape of Central Asia.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":101168,"journal":{"name":"Sociology Lens","volume":"39 1","pages":"106-118"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147569832","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}
Sociology LensPub Date : 2026-02-27Epub Date: 2025-11-22DOI: 10.1111/johs.70025
Zhongyan Yang
{"title":"Father's Perspective: Factors Considered When Choosing to Enter a Stay-at-Home Father and Working Mother Relationship","authors":"Zhongyan Yang","doi":"10.1111/johs.70025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/johs.70025","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The emergence of stay-at-home fathers (SAHFs) challenges the traditional societal gender division of labor in which men work outside the home while women manage the household. This new form of fatherhood profoundly impacts families' long-term development. Although SAHFs are a significant topic in western fatherhood research, they have received relatively little attention from domestic scholars. This paper uses grounded theory to analyze the motivations and practical experiences of 22 Chinese SAHFs through in-depth interviews. The findings reveal that there are multiple reasons for becoming a SAHF. Economic factors are the primary consideration, followed by career constraints or transitions, direct childcare needs, and personal strengths. Based on these motivations, the interviewers can be categorized as value-consistent, compromise-driven, and hybrid, demonstrating a degree of dynamic mobility. The study also emphasizes the significant impact of intersecting gender and class dynamics. Middle-class families tend to make active choices based on economic benefits and ideals of gender equality, whereas low-income families often transition into this role due to employment constraints or social pressures.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":101168,"journal":{"name":"Sociology Lens","volume":"39 1","pages":"42-55"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147568060","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}
Sociology LensPub Date : 2026-02-27Epub Date: 2025-11-27DOI: 10.1111/johs.70023
Magdalena Zdun
{"title":"The Economic Culture of the Fourth Industrial Revolution as the Current Context of Innovation","authors":"Magdalena Zdun","doi":"10.1111/johs.70023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/johs.70023","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The Fourth Industrial Revolution is a set of rapid transformations of a technological and economic nature, resulting in the remodeling of society as a whole. The infrastructure of the Fourth Revolution not only represents an expansion of previously observed trends, but reveals itself as a platform on which a qualitatively different world is embedded. This world breaks ties with the earlier tradition of change with, among other things, the introduction of cyber-physical objects. These objects also break the classical dichotomies and invoke an original economic culture. The purpose of this analysis is to identify the mechanisms on the basis of which innovation is formed in the economic culture of the Fourth Revolution. Innovation, after all, is the best expression and realization of the observed changes. Its analysis will be made with reference to the cultural structure of the Fourth Revolution, which means diagnosis in the following areas: material, social, and symbolic. Each of these areas makes it possible to define innovation in relation to another transgression. The result of this diagnosis is the reconstruction of innovation as an analytical category, along with the determination of its ontological status and typological diversity.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":101168,"journal":{"name":"Sociology Lens","volume":"39 1","pages":"56-65"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147569983","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}
Sociology LensPub Date : 2026-02-27Epub Date: 2025-11-12DOI: 10.1111/johs.70021
Ali Meghji
{"title":"Early Remnants of Global Historical Sociology: Methodological Innovations Among Classical Black Sociologists","authors":"Ali Meghji","doi":"10.1111/johs.70021","DOIUrl":"10.1111/johs.70021","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this paper, I contend that classical Black sociologists—who received their doctorates in the late 19<sup>th</sup> century–mid 20<sup>th</sup> century—showed early signs of what is now termed as global historical sociology (GHS). Scholars such as W.E.B Du Bois, Franklin Frazier, Charles S Johnson, Allison Davis, and St Clair Drake formed a tradition of historical sociology—long before American sociology officially institutionalized comparative-historical sociology—and their conceptual and methodological approaches had similarities to the currently burgeoning movement of GHS. Like advocates of GHS, such classical authors often tracked relations across geographical boundaries, highlighting transboundary entanglements rather than reproducing methodological nationalism. Likewise, such classical authors sought to follow these relations across time to establish variation, explain such variation, and develop causal claims about the social universe. This paper thus calls for a greater recognition of the contributions classical Black sociologists made to the subfield of comparative-historical sociology, and sociology more broadly.</p>","PeriodicalId":101168,"journal":{"name":"Sociology Lens","volume":"39 1","pages":"8-20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/johs.70021","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147565298","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}
Sociology LensPub Date : 2026-02-27Epub Date: 2025-11-12DOI: 10.1111/johs.70021
Ali Meghji
{"title":"Early Remnants of Global Historical Sociology: Methodological Innovations Among Classical Black Sociologists","authors":"Ali Meghji","doi":"10.1111/johs.70021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/johs.70021","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this paper, I contend that classical Black sociologists—who received their doctorates in the late 19<sup>th</sup> century–mid 20<sup>th</sup> century—showed early signs of what is now termed as global historical sociology (GHS). Scholars such as W.E.B Du Bois, Franklin Frazier, Charles S Johnson, Allison Davis, and St Clair Drake formed a tradition of historical sociology—long before American sociology officially institutionalized comparative-historical sociology—and their conceptual and methodological approaches had similarities to the currently burgeoning movement of GHS. Like advocates of GHS, such classical authors often tracked relations across geographical boundaries, highlighting transboundary entanglements rather than reproducing methodological nationalism. Likewise, such classical authors sought to follow these relations across time to establish variation, explain such variation, and develop causal claims about the social universe. This paper thus calls for a greater recognition of the contributions classical Black sociologists made to the subfield of comparative-historical sociology, and sociology more broadly.</p>","PeriodicalId":101168,"journal":{"name":"Sociology Lens","volume":"39 1","pages":"8-20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/johs.70021","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147565300","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}