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Insurance companies' lack of LGBTQ+ affirmation: discrimination, distrust, and dissatisfaction among LGBTQ+ people. 保险公司对LGBTQ+缺乏肯定：LGBTQ+人群的歧视、不信任和不满。

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Frontiers in Sociology Pub Date : 2025-07-18 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.3389/fsoc.2025.1569519

Dustin Z Nowaskie, Dehandra Blackwood, Frank Garcia, Jorge D Flautero

{"title":"Insurance companies' lack of LGBTQ+ affirmation: discrimination, distrust, and dissatisfaction among LGBTQ+ people.","authors":"Dustin Z Nowaskie, Dehandra Blackwood, Frank Garcia, Jorge D Flautero","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1569519","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2025.1569519","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction: LGBTQ+ individuals have historically faced and continue to experience stigma and discrimination in various areas, including healthcare. There is very limited data regarding LGBTQ+ people's perceptions of their health insurer and health insurer workers.Methods: An online cross-sectional survey was conducted with a national sample of United States residents, who responded to questions about their healthcare, including experiences with their health insurer and health insurer workers.Results: Compared to cisgender, heterosexual people (n = 1,400), LGBTQ+ people (n = 1,234) reported significantly poorer experiences with their health insurer, including being dissatisfied with their health insurer; believing their health insurer is not their advocate; distrusting their health insurer; not knowing what is covered in their health plan; being dissatisfied with providers in their health plan; and not believing their health insurer meets their needs. Additionally, compared to cisgender, heterosexual people, LGBTQ+ people conveyed poorer experiences with health insurer workers, including health insurer workers not addressing them by their names; not being comfortable when interacting with them; not being coordinated; misgendering them; and being discriminatory toward them.Discussion: LGBTQ+ communities continue to face significant healthcare disparities, including stigma and discrimination from health insurers and health insurer workers. Longitudinal dedication to LGBTQ+ education, advocacy, and institutional reform is necessary to dismantle the entrenched discrimination in health insurer environments and create more equitable, supportive environments for all LGBTQ+ people.","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"10 ","pages":"1569519"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12314559/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144776387","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}

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Gnosis and counterstories: decolonial disability reflections on delinking as a transgressive social methodology. 灵知与反故事：作为一种越界的社会方法论，去殖民化的失能反思。

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Frontiers in Sociology Pub Date : 2025-07-18 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.3389/fsoc.2025.1578464

Alexis Padilla, Paulo Tan

{"title":"Gnosis and counterstories: decolonial disability reflections on delinking as a transgressive social methodology.","authors":"Alexis Padilla, Paulo Tan","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1578464","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2025.1578464","url":null,"abstract":"This essay articulates an innovative counterstory-based methodology of decolonialde linking which disrupts the very epistemic foundations of sociological disciplinary boundaries and ways of thinking about the production and distribution of knowledges. As non-white co-authors, we have opted to follow to adopt an expansive conception of decolonial/border-thinking gnosis and delinking as a way to embrace all knowledges, particularly those which do not conform to disciplinary modes of exposition and rationalist systematicity within the epistemic conceptions of knowledge. Using two disabled counterstories as gnosis illustrations, our essay shows how their enactment transgresses established norms for addressing and engaging with traditional, discipline-bound epistemological concerns. As such, we aim to open theoretical and methodological avenues for decolonial and non-Eurocentric spheres of imagination. More specifically, since the worlds of mathematics and mathematics education are so dominated by rationalist and neurotypical epistemologies grounded on the Cartesian duality of matter vs. ideas, both of our illustrative counterstories will deal with aspects that disrupt such epistemological paradigms through intersectional cripistemologies.","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"10 ","pages":"1578464"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12315588/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144776386","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}

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A comprehensive overview of a large-scale survey on inequality perceptions (IneqPer) in Italy. 对意大利不平等观念（IneqPer）的大规模调查的全面概述。

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Frontiers in Sociology Pub Date : 2025-07-18 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.3389/fsoc.2025.1620096

Nevena Kulic, Olga Griaznova, Eleonora Clerici, Daniela Bellani, Debora Mantovani, Loris Vergolini, Francesco Scervini

{"title":"A comprehensive overview of a large-scale survey on inequality perceptions (IneqPer) in Italy.","authors":"Nevena Kulic, Olga Griaznova, Eleonora Clerici, Daniela Bellani, Debora Mantovani, Loris Vergolini, Francesco Scervini","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1620096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2025.1620096","url":null,"abstract":"The article describes the content, the methodology and the selected results deriving from a large-scale cross-sectional IneqPer survey in Italy (n = 12,000, 2024/2025) aimed at understanding the determinants of inequality perceptions and their consequences for public opinion. The dataset offers novel dimensions that include the questions on global inequality and global redistribution, individual position in global distribution, the perceived social mobility in the society, perceived gender inequality and perceptions of discrimination against immigrants, among others. Moreover, for a number of questions, it offers a possibility of cross-validation with a range of recent datasets including European Social Survey (2020), European Value Study (2017), and the International Social Survey Program (2019). The first results show that Italians indeed recognize inequality along all dimensions (e.g., socio-economic inequality, gender inequality and inequality between migrants and natives), yet they do not strongly perceive themselves as personally affected by discrimination. Moreover, although cross-validation checks reveal a strong alignment between IneqPer data and other international value surveys, respondents in the IneqPer dataset tend to express slightly more progressive views.","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"10 ","pages":"1620096"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12313601/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144776385","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}

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White masculinity and the radical right in Europe: an intersectional analytical framework. 欧洲白人男子气概与激进右翼：一个交叉分析框架。

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Frontiers in Sociology Pub Date : 2025-07-17 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.3389/fsoc.2025.1611191

Anna Guildea

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Revisiting the classics on secularization theory. 重温世俗化理论的经典。

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Frontiers in Sociology Pub Date : 2025-07-16 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.3389/fsoc.2025.1635582

Haldun Gülalp

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The impact of authoritarian leadership on workplace bullying from the perspective of Chinese Confucian culture: a mediating model with gender as a moderator. 中国儒家文化视角下的专制领导对职场欺凌的影响：以性别为调节因子的中介模式。

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Frontiers in Sociology Pub Date : 2025-07-15 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.3389/fsoc.2025.1586660

Junjie Yang, Ziyi Luo, Yunxuan Yang, Hanlin Feng

{"title":"The impact of authoritarian leadership on workplace bullying from the perspective of Chinese Confucian culture: a mediating model with gender as a moderator.","authors":"Junjie Yang, Ziyi Luo, Yunxuan Yang, Hanlin Feng","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1586660","DOIUrl":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1586660","url":null,"abstract":"Workplace bullying severely impairs employees' physical and mental health and disrupts the workplace ecosystem. Pinpointing its causes accurately is crucial for effective governance. Drawing on the values of hierarchical order and male dominance over females highlighted in Chinese Confucian culture, and the theoretical framework of the interaction between individuals, environment and behavior (Triadic Reciprocal Determinism), this study takes the hostile work environment as the mediating variable and gender as the moderating variable to explore the influence mechanism of authoritarian leadership on workplace bullying. Data from 1,193 employees were collected through questionnaires, and statistical analyses were conducted using SPSS 29.0 and AMOS software. The results show that authoritarian leadership has a significant positive impact on the occurrence of workplace bullying, and the hostile work environment plays a partial mediating role between them. Meanwhile, compared with men, women are more likely to be targeted by bullying in a hostile environment. This research reveals the profound influence of the concepts of hierarchical order and gender differences in Confucian culture on workplace bullying, and points out the importance of optimizing leadership styles, improving the organizational atmosphere, and paying attention to the vulnerable workplace situation of women in preventing and controlling workplace bullying. The findings provide a theoretical framework for understanding the cultural specificity of workplace behavior and offer gender-differentiated intervention strategies for enterprise management and government policy formulation.","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"10 ","pages":"1586660"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12303883/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144745367","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}

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Editorial: Constructing objectivity: emotions in legal decision-making. 社论：构建客观性：法律决策中的情感。

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Frontiers in Sociology Pub Date : 2025-07-15 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.3389/fsoc.2025.1639607

Louise Victoria Johansen, Mojca M Plesničar, Sharyn Roach Anleu, Stina Bergman Blix

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The refugee waves and the continuum of violence experienced by Ukrainian refugee women in Bulgaria. 难民潮和在保加利亚的乌克兰难民妇女所遭受的持续暴力。

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Frontiers in Sociology Pub Date : 2025-07-15 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.3389/fsoc.2025.1587585

Alexey Pamporov

{"title":"The refugee waves and the continuum of violence experienced by Ukrainian refugee women in Bulgaria.","authors":"Alexey Pamporov","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1587585","DOIUrl":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1587585","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the continuum of violence experienced by Ukrainian refugee women in Bulgaria over the past 3 years, following the full-scale invasion by the Russian army. The study draws on a secondary analysis and triangulation of three quantitative surveys commissioned by UNHCR and UNICEF in Bulgaria, along with three waves of a randomized socio-economic survey funded by UNHCR. Employing a constructivist grounded theory approach, the article proposes a typology of several refugee waves. It argues that the period of arrival, the means of arrival, and the type of accommodation selected reflect the survival strategies of refugee women and may influence their exposure to both community-based and transnational gender-based violence (GBV). The findings indicate that certain institutional features of Bulgaria's state accommodation programme for individuals with temporary protection status expose women and girls to additional risks of GBV, including survival sex and relocation to areas associated with commercial sex work. The vulnerability of Ukrainian refugees is further exacerbated by three country-specific factors: institutional neglect of violence against women and girls; widespread acceptance of cultural myths related to sexual violence; and prevailing national stereotypes targeting Ukrainians and, more broadly, women from certain Slavic backgrounds. The analysis clarifies the various forms of the continuum of violence affecting the Ukrainian women and girls in Bulgaria and confirms the patterns of \"slow violence\" and the \"violence of uncertainty,\" observed in the Eastern Mediterranean region by other international studies.","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"10 ","pages":"1587585"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12303893/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144745368","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}

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Financial awareness and business development cognition positively influence the sustainable development of rural family businesses. 财务意识和企业发展认知正向影响农村家族企业的可持续发展。

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Frontiers in Sociology Pub Date : 2025-07-11 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.3389/fsoc.2025.1569713

Zheng Xingpeng, Jacquline Tham, Ali Khatibi

{"title":"Financial awareness and business development cognition positively influence the sustainable development of rural family businesses.","authors":"Zheng Xingpeng, Jacquline Tham, Ali Khatibi","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1569713","DOIUrl":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1569713","url":null,"abstract":"Family businesses are the primary form of economic organization worldwide. In most countries, family businesses account for 70 to 90% of the annual global gross domestic product (GDP) and 50 to 80% of all jobs. In rural areas of China, the number of family farms engaged in cultivation is estimated to be up to 4 million as of October 2023. Family businesses exhibit unique characteristics compared to non-family businesses, and further research is needed on how to promote their sustainable development. Therefore, we constructed structural equation model (SEM) to explore the role of family business operators' business development cognition and financial awareness in sustainable development and investigated 507 family business operators of rural cultivation. We used SPSS 25.0, AMOS 24.0 to analyse the data. Research results indicated that the business development cognition (β = 0.327, p < 0.001) and financial awareness of family business operators (β = 0.294, p < 0.001) positively influenced the sustainable development of family businesses. In this process, the abilities of family business operators to run businesses played a moderating role. This study complemented and improved the Upper Echelons Theory (UET), and pointed out that the ability of CEOs alone was not enough to promote the development of rural family firms, and the combination of CEO's cognition of business development, financial awareness and abilities to run businesses was needed to promote the sustainable development of rural family firms. Then, several implications have been provided for family business operators.","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"10 ","pages":"1569713"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12291685/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144733692","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}

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Rethinking social action through the info-ecological dimensions of two collaborative public health platforms: the people's health movement and the citizen sense project platforms as examples of health-net-activism. 通过两个协作公共卫生平台的信息生态维度重新思考社会行动：人民健康运动和公民意识项目平台，作为健康网络行动主义的例子。

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Frontiers in Sociology Pub Date : 2025-07-11 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.3389/fsoc.2025.1602858

Silvia Surrenti, Massimo Di Felice

{"title":"Rethinking social action through the info-ecological dimensions of two collaborative public health platforms: the people's health movement and the citizen sense project platforms as examples of health-net-activism.","authors":"Silvia Surrenti, Massimo Di Felice","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1602858","DOIUrl":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1602858","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction: The analysis of online platforms is usually restricted to their communicative properties, similar to analyzing digital infrastructures that facilitate interactions among users. However, the definition is missing a broader interpretation rather than tools or communicative channels. To review this instrumental vision, scholars in a variety of fields have begun to analyze platforms from a multidisciplinary perspective as technical, economic, and sociocultural ecosystems that characterize the structure of contemporary society.Methods: In this article, we adopt an info-ecological approach to the processes of platformization through a qualitative analysis of two platforms dedicated to health and quality of life. The infoecological approach suggests a new living condition that promotes the emerging computational ecologies composed of a web of people, data, algorithms, biodiversity, information, cities, viruses, and so forth, supporting a more-than-human common experience.Results and discussion: The purpose is to examine how the heterogeneity of platform ecosystems (human and non-human) have been generating a cultural shift. That is to say, a-more-than-human interconnected and trans-organic network of networks that in our perspective also represent what we have called a new type of health-net-activism and digital citizenship.","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"10 ","pages":"1602858"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12290893/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144733693","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}

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