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{"title":"Racialized Organizations and the Interest Divergence Dilemma¹","authors":"Victor Ray","doi":"10.1111/socf.12950","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/socf.12950","url":null,"abstract":"This essay makes three points on the contemporary racial backlashes' impact on racialized organizations. First, Derrick Bell's notion of interest convergence—which argues that diversity policies did not spring from the goodness of white people's hearts but were a face‐saving political necessity—helps to explain why the current assault on racially ameliorative policy has been so effective and why the retreat from diversity may worsen. Conservative activists are attempting to force interest divergence, as the historical conditions leading to affirmative action and diversity policy have disappeared. Second, Powell's decision in Regents of University of California versus Bakke, which made diversity orthodox, was facilitated by interest convergence. Diversity emerged as a deeply reformist organizational strategy designed to manage civil rights activists' revolutionary calls for a fully inclusive society. Third, interest divergence and the retreat from diversity have major implications for deepening racial inequality in organizations. By attempting to ensure interest divergence, contemporary right‐wing movements hope to make the currently implicit white dominance of mainstream organizations (Ray 2019b) explicit again.","PeriodicalId":21904,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Forum","volume":"211 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135974576","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}

{"title":"Transgender Youth Are Under Attack: The Work of Response","authors":"Tey Meadow","doi":"10.1111/socf.12962","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/socf.12962","url":null,"abstract":"This is a terrifying time to be LGBTQ in America. In the first 2023 legislative session alone, Republican lawmakers introduced more than 100 new bills specifically targeting transgender youth. This is part of a coordinated, multi‐state attack on transgender Americans about which there is open and very public acknowledgement. If you look, you'll see medical and psychiatric governing boards, major human rights organizations, policymakers, researchers like myself, and parent activists scrambling to speak back in what has become an impossible rhetorical landscape. The single most powerful move conservative lawmakers have made is to place transgender Americans and our advocates on an endless hamster wheel of response to a seemingly never ending series of aggressions. Part of how homo‐ and cis‐sexism function is to set the contours of public debate. This is a reflection on being a sociologist in the midst of these ongoing cultural conversations.","PeriodicalId":21904,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Forum","volume":"236 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135973849","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}

{"title":"Gender, Authoritarian Populisms, and the Attack on Democracy","authors":"Arlene Stein","doi":"10.1111/socf.12947","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/socf.12947","url":null,"abstract":"The rhetoric of “saving children” has long been central to the religious right playbook in the United States, especially in campaigns against abortion rights, gay/lesbian rights, and against comprehensive sex education. Today the guardians of the traditional family, increasingly globalized, have shifted their focus to protecting women and girls from so‐called “gender ideology.” These campaigns emerge in relation to a renewed authoritarian populism which seeks consent for deeply conservative policies by claiming to represent “the people” against the supposed threat posed by minority groups aligned with elites. In these campaigns, feminists and LGBT people are charged with conspiring with medical professionals and teachers to indoctrinate children and undermine fixed notions of gender and sexuality. Rather than see these campaigns as single‐issue attacks on feminists or LGBT people, we should understand them as attacks on democracy; an effective defense against them therefore requires us to promote a vision of inclusive democracy.","PeriodicalId":21904,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Forum","volume":"223 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135974875","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}

{"title":"Dilemmas and Dimensions of Social Movement Escalation¹","authors":"David S. Meyer","doi":"10.1111/socf.12949","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/socf.12949","url":null,"abstract":"Social movements must find ways to intensify their efforts to maintain political relevance—and potential influence. But escalation comes with risks in the potential reactions from authorities, supporters, potential supporters, and opponents. I argue that recognizing two elements of escalation can help. First, we need to acknowledge that movements are not unitary actors and that a large movement cannot always stop putative allies from escalating in risky ways. Second, I argue that scholars and activists can do better in making sense of the dynamics of escalation by disaggregating three dimensions of aggression by tactics, claims, and venues, assessing the range of responses to escalation on each of these dimensions. Social movement organizers face continual pressure to find ways to escalate, but responses from authorities and allies can provide a brake on escalation. I illustrate my arguments with reference to contemporary movements of the left and right in the United States and conclude by discussing the importance (and danger) of certain government responses.","PeriodicalId":21904,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Forum","volume":"197 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135974276","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}

{"title":"How Can Sociologists Help People Better Understand (or Solve) Current Social Problems, Structural Inequality or Social Injustice?","authors":"Karen A. Cerulo","doi":"10.1111/socf.12946","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/socf.12946","url":null,"abstract":"This essay underscores the importance of public sociology and the critical and policy outcomes it encourages. The work also notes the importance of translating sophisticated theory and high quality, intricate methods for public consumption. The essay concludes by reviewing the growth of public sociology in the field at large and the special focus Sociological Forum has built in this area since 2015.","PeriodicalId":21904,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Forum","volume":"213 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135974570","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}

{"title":"Hidden in Plain Sight: “Neutral” Enclosures for High‐Skilled Immigrants During COVID‐19¹","authors":"Bandana Purkayastha, Rianka Roy","doi":"10.1111/socf.12965","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/socf.12965","url":null,"abstract":"Politicians and mainstream media in the EU, UK, and US regularly emphasize the need for highly skilled migrants, but, over the last few decades, the terms and conditions for these highly skilled migrants have changed drastically. As part of the neoliberal migrant control regime, highly skilled migrants are brought to countries under very restrictive conditions. They work and contribute taxes but have few to no political rights. Based on data on highly skilled Indian migrants in the US during the pandemic, we argue that highly skilled “nonimmigrants” are placed within a thicket of laws and policies that act as enclosures, but these seemingly neutral enclosures remain “hidden in plain sight” because of the silence about their near‐indentured life conditions.","PeriodicalId":21904,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Forum","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134908759","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}

{"title":"The Narrative Construction of State (il)Legitimacy in Colombia's Peace Laboratory¹^,²","authors":"Alex Diamond","doi":"10.1111/socf.12971","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/socf.12971","url":null,"abstract":"How is state legitimacy established in areas where it has long been lacking? While scholars have generally explained the construction of legitimacy as a consequence of state actions and used survey research or experiments to describe local evaluations of the state, in this article I describe the microprocesses that link the two: how communities experience the state, collectively make sense of it, and behave in ways that consent to or challenge state power. Based on 3 years of ethnographic fieldwork in a rural Colombian village experiencing growing state presence after decades of armed group control, I theorize the emergence of state legitimacy or illegitimacy as a process of narrative construction. Locals facing a landmark peace process and a coca substitution program that has destroyed the local economy make sense of the state by constructing narratives about it that spread throughout the community. These narratives combine with material need to influence forms of social action that demonstrate assent to or defiance of state power—behavior that communities also understand through public narratives. Fine‐grained ethnographic description of the narrative construction of legitimacy demonstrates the importance of collective meaning‐making processes to political beliefs and behavior.","PeriodicalId":21904,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Forum","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135315504","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}

{"title":"Nativism Redux","authors":"Milton Vickerman","doi":"10.1111/socf.12973","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/socf.12973","url":null,"abstract":"Sociological ForumEarly View Book Review Nativism Redux Milton Vickerman, Corresponding Author Milton Vickerman [email protected] Department of Sociology, University of Virginia, Randall Hall, Room 208, P.O. Box 400766, Charlottesville, Virginia, 22904 USASearch for more papers by this author Milton Vickerman, Corresponding Author Milton Vickerman [email protected] Department of Sociology, University of Virginia, Randall Hall, Room 208, P.O. Box 400766, Charlottesville, Virginia, 22904 USASearch for more papers by this author First published: 23 October 2023 https://doi.org/10.1111/socf.12973Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onEmailFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat REFERENCES Bobo, Lawrence. 2011. “Somewhere Between Jim Crow and Post-Racialism: Reflections on the Racial Divide in America Today.” Daedelus 140: 2: 11–38. Chesnut, Coleen and Suzanne Eakes. 2022. “‘Divisive Concepts:’ Legal Challenges to the Public School Curriculum.” Teachers College Record (May 25). Accessed July 21, 2023. https://journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cmscontent/TCZ/Commentaries%20Collection/2022%20Commentaries/%E2%80%9CDivisive%20Concepts-%E2%80%9D%20Legal%20Challenges%20to%20the%20Public%20School%20Curriculum%20-1655939875.pdf DeSantis, Ron. 2023. “Governor DeSantis Delivers Inaugural Address, Sets Priorities for Second Term” [News Release]. https://www.flgov.com/2023/01/03/governordesantis-delivers-inaugural-address-sets-priorities-for-second-term/ Gossett, Thomas. 1997. Race: The History of an Idea in America. New York: Oxford University Press. Grant, Madison. 1918. The Passing of the Great Race. New York: Arno Press. Guterl, Matthew P. 2008. American Mediterranean. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Higham, John. 1967. Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. Majewska, Izabela and Sean Freeder. 2022. “The Persuasive Impact of Teachers as Position Experts on Education Policy: Florida and ‘Stop WOKE’.” Florida Journal of Educational Research 59: 4: 1–18. Massey, Douglas. 2005. “Racial Discrimination in Housing: A Moving Target.” Social Problems 52: 2: 218–225. Massey, Douglas and Nancy Denton. 1993. American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Peck, Reece. 2014. “‘You Say Rich, I Say Job Creator’: How Fox News Framed the Great Recession Through the Moral Discourse of Producerism.” Media, Culture and Society 36: 4: 526–535. Pervez, Sadia and Shazia Saeed. 2010. “Portrayal of Muslims and Islam in the ","PeriodicalId":21904,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Forum","volume":"27 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135366308","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}

{"title":"Why Fight? The Combatant Careers of the Anti‐Kyiv Fighters in the Donbas War¹","authors":"Natalia Savelyeva, Svetlana Erpyleva","doi":"10.1111/socf.12970","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/socf.12970","url":null,"abstract":"Based on original qualitative data on the mobilization of anti‐Kyiv combatants during the war in eastern Ukraine (started in 2014), this article suggests an approach for understanding the spontaneous mobilization of nonstate armed groups during contemporary military conflicts. This approach is based on the notion of career as a collective path of mobilization unfolding over time. It explains how different mobilization factors usually proposed in the literature on contemporary civil wars acquire their mobilization power. The article identifies five combatant careers leading to joining the anti‐Kyiv armed groups: evolving localists, disrupted outcasts, nationalist warriors, adventurous ideologues, and inspired sympathizers. It demonstrates that (1) mobilization requires the combination of factors such as economic incentives, ideological affinity, social connections, and conflict dynamics in a particularly sequenced way, (2) this combination is different for each career path, and (3) these factors acquire their mobilizing capacity only in the context of particular social trajectories.","PeriodicalId":21904,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Forum","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135413725","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}

{"title":"Is the Crack Era Really Misunderstood? The Need to Go in New Directions","authors":"Randol Contreras","doi":"10.1111/socf.12975","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/socf.12975","url":null,"abstract":"Sociological ForumEarly View Book Review Is the Crack Era Really Misunderstood? The Need to Go in New Directions Randol Contreras, Corresponding Author Randol Contreras [email protected] Department of Media and Cultural Studies, University of California, Riverside, 900 University Avenue, Riverside, California, 92521 USASearch for more papers by this author Randol Contreras, Corresponding Author Randol Contreras [email protected] Department of Media and Cultural Studies, University of California, Riverside, 900 University Avenue, Riverside, California, 92521 USASearch for more papers by this author First published: 23 October 2023 https://doi.org/10.1111/socf.12975Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onEmailFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat REFERENCES Bourgois, Philippe. 2003 [1995]. In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio, 2nd ed. New York: Cambridge University Press. Contreras, Randol. 2013. The Stickup Kids: Race, Drugs, Violence, and the American Dream. Berkeley: University of California Press. Massing, Michael. 1998. The Fix. Berkeley: University of California Press. Early ViewOnline Version of Record before inclusion in an issue ReferencesRelatedInformation","PeriodicalId":21904,"journal":{"name":"Sociological Forum","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135367152","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}