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The sociological stakes of attitudes toward the families and care of older adults with dementia. 对老年痴呆症患者的家庭和护理态度的社会学风险。

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Sociological Forum Pub Date : 2026-03-31 DOI: 10.1111/socf.70067

Sarah E Patterson, Kelsi Caywood, Faith Stinson

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Micropolitics in School-Based Health Centers' Provision of Sexual Health Services. 校本保健中心提供性健康服务的微观政治。

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Sociological Forum Pub Date : 2025-10-23 DOI: 10.1111/socf.70014

Dara Shifrer, Alyssa Nestler, Haley Simons, Rachel Springer

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Workplace Discrimination and Older Black Women's Mental Health: An Examination of Relational Support-Strain Processes. 职场歧视与老年黑人妇女心理健康：关系支持-压力过程的检验。

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Sociological Forum Pub Date : 2025-06-01 Epub Date: 2025-01-17 DOI: 10.1111/socf.13041

Christy L Erving, Kendra Jason, Miaya Blasingame

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Kids in limbo: War, uncertainty, and the school experiences of Ukrainian refugee students in Poland 陷入困境的孩子们：战争、不确定性和波兰境内乌克兰难民学生的求学经历

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Sociological Forum Pub Date : 2024-09-18 DOI: 10.1111/socf.13022

Iwona B. Franczak, Amy C. Lutz

{"title":"Kids in limbo: War, uncertainty, and the school experiences of Ukrainian refugee students in Poland","authors":"Iwona B. Franczak, Amy C. Lutz","doi":"10.1111/socf.13022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/socf.13022","url":null,"abstract":"Russia's invasion of Ukraine begun on February 24, 2022. By December 2022, approximately 8 million Ukrainians left their homes seeking safety in other countries. One million Ukrainian refugees (mostly mothers and children) settled in Poland and 200,000 Ukrainian refugee children attended Polish schools in July 2023. Based on the interviews conducted with Polish speaking teachers and Ukrainian mothers in Poland, this research examines educational experiences of Ukrainian school‐age children who fled the war and enrolled in Polish schools. This study draws on the recent literature on refugee education and related fields, adapts Horst and Grabska's theory of “radical uncertainty”, and expands on the social demographic lens on refugee migration by including educational experiences of refugee youth. Findings suggest that changes to family and school routines caused by the war hindered academic performance and social–emotional well‐being of some Ukrainian school‐age refugees regardless of mothers' advantageous socio‐economic backgrounds. Although some Ukrainian students experienced educational inequalities because of their refugee status, the uncertainty caused by the war was the driving force behind the changes in students' educational lives. We also find that schools are crucial in creating a sense of familiarity and restoring a sense of stability among refugee students.","PeriodicalId":21904,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Forum","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142266080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Know your place: Fractured epistemic privilege among women in state organizations 了解自己的位置：国家组织中妇女在认识论上的特权断裂

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Sociological Forum Pub Date : 2024-09-12 DOI: 10.1111/socf.13021

Tair Karazi‐Presler

{"title":"Know your place: Fractured epistemic privilege among women in state organizations","authors":"Tair Karazi‐Presler","doi":"10.1111/socf.13021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/socf.13021","url":null,"abstract":"Based on 67 in‐depth interviews, this article explores how women in positions of power in two major organizational fields in Israel—the military and government ministries—develop different types of gender knowledge. In the military, an extremely and publicly gendered organization, the interviewees demonstrate gender reflexivity and pragmatic literacy of power relations. In the government ministries, which tend to conceal and even repress gendered power, the interviewees demonstrate (neoliberal) feminist consciousness and a limited ability to conceptualize power relations. The contribution of this article is threefold. First, it challenges the common view that gender reflexivity and feminist consciousness are causally related by emphasizing fractured epistemic privilege among women in different organizational contexts. Second, it demonstrates that women's survival practices produce gender knowledge, which in turn produces gender practices in organizational contexts. Third, it argues that different types of gender knowledge develop as a byproduct of the gendered power‐relation characteristics of each specific organizational context. Accordingly, this article offers a framework for analyzing emerging forms of gender sociopolitical knowledge in organizations as an additional dimension of gender inequality and a possible basis for transforming it.","PeriodicalId":21904,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Forum","volume":"148 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142182207","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Dividing paradise: Rural inequality and the diminishing American dream By JenniferSherman, Oakland, CA: University of California Press. 2021. pp. 288. $29.95 (pbk). ISBN: 9780520305137 分割的天堂：农村的不平等和日益减少的美国梦作者：JenniferSherman，加利福尼亚州奥克兰市：加州大学出版社。2021 年。288 页。29.95 美元（平装本）。ISBN: 9780520305137

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Sociological Forum Pub Date : 2024-08-26 DOI: 10.1111/socf.13019

Richard E. Ocejo

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Educational inequality as a consequence and cause of race 教育不平等是种族问题的结果和原因

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Sociological Forum Pub Date : 2024-08-22 DOI: 10.1111/socf.13016

Jane Rochmes

{"title":"Educational inequality as a consequence and cause of race","authors":"Jane Rochmes","doi":"10.1111/socf.13016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/socf.13016","url":null,"abstract":"This review starts from the premise that racial inequality has become a normalized backdrop within U.S. education, in many ways following the prevailing racial hierarchy in society. While enduring racial stratification produces numerous educational disparities, I argue that these disparities, in turn, contribute to reinforcing the symbolic meanings associated with racial categories. Put simply, racial inequality in education is both a consequence and a cause of race itself. I review these “predictable” patterns of racial inequality in education, distilling some of the nuances that are most frequently misunderstood and summarizing trends through recent data. Next, I examine explanations for racial inequality in education, debunking some persistent misconceptions. Then I synthesize the patterns and explanations with literature highlighting how racial inequality in education re‐constructs durable notions of racial categories and racialization. All three of these areas have produced significant scholarship, but they are seldom fully in conversation with one another. Finally, I discuss the role of race and racism in the latest politicization of schools to argue that it can be understood as a new wave in the colorblind era, with significant implications for the social construction of whiteness and the potential to stall progress toward reducing racial inequality in education.","PeriodicalId":21904,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Forum","volume":"78 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142182208","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The contribution of intimate partner violence to socioeconomic inequality among Black, Latina, and White women 亲密伴侣暴力对黑人、拉丁裔和白人妇女社会经济不平等的影响

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Sociological Forum Pub Date : 2024-08-15 DOI: 10.1111/socf.13013

Joanne M. Kaufman

{"title":"The contribution of intimate partner violence to socioeconomic inequality among Black, Latina, and White women","authors":"Joanne M. Kaufman","doi":"10.1111/socf.13013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/socf.13013","url":null,"abstract":"Women on average make less money than men, and this is particularly acute for Black and Latina women. While there are several contributors to socioeconomic inequality, violent victimization coming at critical times (adolescence, early adulthood) is one such contributor. Intimate partner violence (IPV) particularly impacts women, with Black and Latina women facing higher levels. Thus, it is important to consider for understanding inequality. This research examined the long‐term impact of IPV in adolescence and early adulthood on educational attainment and income among Black, Latina, and White women using the Add Health data. I found strong evidence for the impact of early adult IPV on reducing educational attainment among all women 15 years later and evidence for related reductions in income for Latina and White women. In addition, I found evidence that mental and physical health along with school attendance mediated the impact of IPV on later socioeconomic outcomes for Latina and White women. However, there was no evidence for the mediating mechanisms for Black women. Overall, this research provides evidence for the long‐term effects of IPV on socioeconomic inequality among women and highlights how the effects may differ by race and ethnicity.","PeriodicalId":21904,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Forum","volume":"156 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142182211","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The new generationalism: Generational antagonism and partisan polarization 新世代主义：代际对立与党派两极分化

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Sociological Forum Pub Date : 2024-08-13 DOI: 10.1111/socf.13017

Andrew M. Lindner

{"title":"The new generationalism: Generational antagonism and partisan polarization","authors":"Andrew M. Lindner","doi":"10.1111/socf.13017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/socf.13017","url":null,"abstract":"Despite the prevalence of generational labels like Boomers, Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z in popular discourse, most studies of generationalism have been restricted to content analyses of generational rhetoric. This study investigates the prevalence of negative generationalism, or negative affective sentiment towards perceived generational out‐groups within the US public and considers how it may be linked with partisan political identities. Using a nationally representative survey of 1232 Americans, this research examines the association between generational self‐identity and partisan identity using feeling thermometer scores for four generational groups (Boomers, Gen Xers, Millennials, and Gen Z) and the two major political parties (Democrats and Republicans). I also report the findings of an experimental manipulation testing the extent to which generational priming exacerbates affective partisan polarization. The results reveal strong evidence of positive affect towards one's generational in‐group, but a less consistent pattern of negative generationalism. Neither the correlational nor the experimental outcomes support a strong and consistent link between generationalism and partisanship, though Republicans feel significantly warmer towards Baby Boomers and colder towards Gen Z than independents. Despite the largely null findings concerning partisanship, this study reveals that these generational labels do appear to bear some degree of social meaning as social identities for people, pointing to new directions for future sociological research on generationalism.","PeriodicalId":21904,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Forum","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142182210","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Navigating the institutional maze of undocumented life 在无证生活的制度迷宫中穿行

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Sociological Forum Pub Date : 2024-08-13 DOI: 10.1111/socf.13015

Emma M. Lezberg

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