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Between work and care: a comparative study of the trajectories of women from different social classes in Cuba and Argentina. 在工作与护理之间：古巴和阿根廷不同社会阶层妇女发展轨迹的比较研究。

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Frontiers in Sociology Pub Date : 2026-04-22 eCollection Date: 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.3389/fsoc.2026.1756504

Leticia Muñiz Terra, Dayma Echevarría León, Yenisei Bombino Companioni

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Roper romps, feeling rules, and the "appropriately inappropriate" management of joy. 罗珀嬉戏，感觉规则，以及“适当不适当”的快乐管理。

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Frontiers in Sociology Pub Date : 2026-04-22 eCollection Date: 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.3389/fsoc.2026.1738791

Jessica S Pearce

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"Reddit's dark knight": moral inversion, digital populism, and the aesthetic of resistance. “Reddit的黑暗骑士”：道德反转、数字民粹主义和抵制美学。

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Frontiers in Sociology Pub Date : 2026-04-22 eCollection Date: 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.3389/fsoc.2026.1780129

Anurag Shekhar, Musawenkosi D Saurombe

{"title":"\"Reddit's dark knight\": moral inversion, digital populism, and the aesthetic of resistance.","authors":"Anurag Shekhar, Musawenkosi D Saurombe","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2026.1780129","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2026.1780129","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction: In December 2024, Luigi Mangione was arrested in connection with the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Rather than condemning the accused, large numbers of Reddit users celebrated him as a folk hero. This study examines how that construction emerged and what it reveals about public attitudes towards institutional trust and retributive justice online.Methods: A total of 6,466 comments across 38 threads from 14 subreddits, including r/politics, r/antiwork, r/WorkReform, and r/Fauxmoi, were collected between December 2024 and April 2025. Data were analysed using reflexive thematic analysis.Results: Five themes emerged: folk hero glorification and moral inversion; distrust in institutions and folk justice; systemic injustice, moral outrage, and catharsis; digital protest and anti-corporate activism; and the spectacle and aesthetic of resistance.Discussion: These themes show how digital communities construct alternative moral orders that invert formal notions of justice and elevate grassroots counter-narratives. Drawing on digital populism, moral disengagement theory, and spectacle culture, the study explains how Reddit's affordances, including anonymity, algorithmic amplification, and weak content moderation, intersect with healthcare injustice, class resentment, and institutional distrust. The findings are relevant for researchers, policymakers, and platform designers seeking to understand how retributive discourse circulates under conditions of eroded institutional trust.","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"11 ","pages":"1780129"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13143952/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147843797","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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Transcendental model selection: a computational account of symbolic cognition and general intelligence through morality and culture. 先验模型选择：通过道德和文化对符号认知和一般智力的计算解释。

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Frontiers in Sociology Pub Date : 2026-04-22 eCollection Date: 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.3389/fsoc.2026.1646503

Shagor Rahman, Andrew Pashea

{"title":"Transcendental model selection: a computational account of symbolic cognition and general intelligence through morality and culture.","authors":"Shagor Rahman, Andrew Pashea","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2026.1646503","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2026.1646503","url":null,"abstract":"General intelligence enables flexible problem solving across diverse contexts by minimizing uncertainty. Symbolic systems such as language extend this capacity, allowing humans to build social groups and construct world models beyond typical biological constraints. Previous research on linguistic communication within active inference has emphasized deep hierarchical models that ensure shared semantics between communicators. We argue that these models, while powerful, require extension to account for symbolic genesis, specifically using morality not only as uncertainty minimization across cultural niches, but also as the mechanism that created the virtual space enabling symbolic cognition. Our ancestors transcended dyadic modeling by implementing cultural layers through novel model selection, enabling in-group signaling and hierarchical social organization through psychological typing. This rendered the generative process endogenous (self-referential). Our emotional and impulsive tendency toward morality, we argue, enabled the deeper level of abstraction and the stable third-party triangulated perspective necessary for symbolic thought. This framework can be evaluated through simulations similar to recent active inference literature and provides a foundation for building generally intelligent systems aligned with human cultural values.","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"11 ","pages":"1646503"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13143734/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147843802","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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Loneliness as a predictor of self-rated health: a gendered, cross-national analysis in six European countries. 孤独作为自我评估健康的预测因素：六个欧洲国家的性别、跨国分析。

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Frontiers in Sociology Pub Date : 2026-04-21 eCollection Date: 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.3389/fsoc.2026.1726387

Ana G Padrón Armas, Josué Gutiérrez-Barroso, Esther Torrado Martín-Palomino, Rafael Serrano Del Rosal

{"title":"Loneliness as a predictor of self-rated health: a gendered, cross-national analysis in six European countries.","authors":"Ana G Padrón Armas, Josué Gutiérrez-Barroso, Esther Torrado Martín-Palomino, Rafael Serrano Del Rosal","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2026.1726387","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2026.1726387","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Loneliness is a recognized social determinant of health with substantial physical and psychological implications. Self-rated health (SRH) is a widely used population indicator, with strong predictive validity for morbidity and mortality.Objective: To examine whether loneliness is associated with SRH across six European countries (Germany, Greece, Ireland, Poland, Spain and Sweden), incorporating a gender perspective and the moderating role of sociodemographic factors.Methods: Using a quota-based, cross-sectional sample (N = 4,800), we conducted descriptive analyses by country, sex, and age group, and estimated nested OLS regression models (treating SRH as a 1-5 scale) to examine the association between SRH and loneliness.Results: Higher loneliness was consistently associated with poorer SRH across all models, even after adjusting for sociodemographic and contextual covariates. Women reported lower SRH and higher loneliness, most pronounced at younger ages, while socioeconomic status emerged as the strongest structural correlate of SRH.Conclusion: Loneliness is robustly associated with poorer SRH and exhibits cross-national variation, yet gender gaps remain salient. Findings underline the need for targeted public health interventions addressing loneliness, with particular emphasis on gender equity and protection for the most vulnerable groups.","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"11 ","pages":"1726387"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13138951/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147843840","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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Correction: Senior Caribbean women: migration, resilience within the context of intersectionality. 更正：加勒比老年妇女：移民，在交叉背景下的复原力。

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Frontiers in Sociology Pub Date : 2026-04-21 eCollection Date: 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.3389/fsoc.2026.1832693

Val Sylvester

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Segmented paths, shared beliefs? Employment histories and welfare preferences in Chile. 分段的路径，共同的信念？智利的就业历史和福利偏好。

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Frontiers in Sociology Pub Date : 2026-04-20 eCollection Date: 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.3389/fsoc.2026.1735350

Andrés Biehl, Ignacio Cabib, Andrés González Ide

{"title":"Segmented paths, shared beliefs? Employment histories and welfare preferences in Chile.","authors":"Andrés Biehl, Ignacio Cabib, Andrés González Ide","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2026.1735350","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2026.1735350","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction: In Latin America, employment status consistently fails to predict redistributive attitudes. This is a puzzle given that labor market informality shapes access to social protection. Yet most studies rely on cross-sectional data, overlooking how cumulative work trajectories across the life course structure welfare preferences. This article examines how formal and informal employment histories shape current preferences for redistribution and taxation among Chileans born between 1938 and 1963.Methods: Using a specially designed survey with a life-history calendar administered to 792 older Chileans, we reconstruct individual employment trajectories between ages 30 and 60. Sequence analysis and hierarchical clustering identify typical trajectory types, which are then related to preferences for redistribution and taxation through logistic regression models.Results: We identify trajectories ranging from persistently formal to erratic to inactive. Individuals with erratic or inactive trajectories are significantly more likely to favor targeted benefits over universalism and less likely to hold fiscal citizenship attitudes toward broad-based domestic taxation.Discussion: These findings challenge two sets of expectations. First, they qualify the cross-sectional evidence suggesting that formal and informal workers in Latin America hold similar preferences. Second, and more surprisingly, they run counter to conventional welfare state theory, which predicts that workers with precarious or interrupted employment histories would push for universal benefits as a form of social insurance. Instead, we find the opposite: cumulative employment instability appears to breed support for targeted transfers and weaker fiscal citizenship. By adopting a life-course perspective, we show that trajectory may be a key driver of divergent welfare preferences in the region.","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"11 ","pages":"1735350"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13135952/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147843809","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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Childhood violence across distinct, overlapping, and concurrent contexts: polyvictimization, polyperpetration, and missed interventions points among child knife crime fatalities in England. 在不同的、重叠的和同时发生的背景下的儿童暴力：英国儿童持刀犯罪死亡中的多重受害、多重犯罪和错过干预点。

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Frontiers in Sociology Pub Date : 2026-04-20 eCollection Date: 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.3389/fsoc.2026.1771547

Jade Levell, Tom Roberts, Jo Staines, Vicky Sleap, Sylvia Stoianova, Edward Carlton, Karen Luyt

{"title":"Childhood violence across distinct, overlapping, and concurrent contexts: polyvictimization, polyperpetration, and missed interventions points among child knife crime fatalities in England.","authors":"Jade Levell, Tom Roberts, Jo Staines, Vicky Sleap, Sylvia Stoianova, Edward Carlton, Karen Luyt","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2026.1771547","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2026.1771547","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction: This study examines casefiles of children in England who were fatally stabbed between 2019 and 2024, focusing on their prior experiences of violence and adversity, aiming to identify missed opportunities for earlier intervention.Methods: We conducted a quantitative analysis using descriptive statistics and qualitative casefile analysis of 58 casefiles from the National Childhood Mortality Database, encompassing child fatalities by stabbing in England between 2019 and 2024, which had files available. Casefiles were examined for indicators of prior victimisation and perpetration. Patterns of polyvictimisation and polyperpetration were identified to understand concurrent and cumulative experiences of violence.Results: Casefile analysis revealed that, prior to this point, a significant number (58%) of children had experienced childhood domestic violence and abuse and were seldom supported by specialist services. 59% had experienced a victim/perpetrator overlap.Discussion: Casefile narratives indicated a range of barriers to effective support related to identification, assessment, and classification of early experiences of violence. Findings show that children are seldom treated as primary victims of childhood domestic violence and specialist support is often missed. Current intervention pathways fail to recognise the holistic, long-term, overlapping and cumulative experiences of violence in children's lives.","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"11 ","pages":"1771547"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13138837/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147843845","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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Existing and preferred organizational culture in Algerian power plants: a second look. 阿尔及利亚电厂现有的和首选的组织文化：再看。

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Frontiers in Sociology Pub Date : 2026-04-17 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.3389/fsoc.2025.1498129

Raouf Kaouache, Mohammed Himrane, Gene A Brewer, Abderrahmane Kaouache

{"title":"Existing and preferred organizational culture in Algerian power plants: a second look.","authors":"Raouf Kaouache, Mohammed Himrane, Gene A Brewer, Abderrahmane Kaouache","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1498129","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2025.1498129","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction: Understanding organizational culture has become crucial for effective human resource management in organizations, and essential for developing more successful change strategies. Building on an earlier research project, this study aims to compare the existing and preferred organizational culture types from Harrison and Stokes perspective to measure the impact of power, role, and support cultures on managers' aspirations to work within an achievement culture in four Algerian power plants.Methods: The study collects survey responses from 135 managers working in these power plants. This is a quantitative study which collects responses from 135 managers working in different organizational levels in these power plants. Data are analysed using the statistical package of social sciences, version 23 by comparing means and employing t tests and linear regression analysis.Results: The findings reveal significant differences between the existing and preferred culture types of power, achievement, and support cultures. Existing power culture scored higher than expected, while current achievement and support cultures scored lower than desired. In contrast, no significant differences between the current and preferred support cultures were found. In addition, the study revealed that preferred achievement culture is positively associated with existing power and support cultures.Discussion: In other words, managers working in traditional Arab cultures generally express stronger preferences for a culture that is more achievement oriented. The implications of these findings for Arab public management are discussed.","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"10 ","pages":"1498129"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13132782/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147821097","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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Digital religion in platform societies: authority, mediation, and social cohesion in algorithmic publics (2010-2025). 平台社会中的数字宗教：权威、调解和算法公众中的社会凝聚力（2010-2025）。

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Frontiers in Sociology Pub Date : 2026-04-17 eCollection Date: 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.3389/fsoc.2026.1802281

Ismaael AlMazaedh, Khalaf M Tahat, Mohannad Alkhalaileh, Dina N Tahat

{"title":"Digital religion in platform societies: authority, mediation, and social cohesion in algorithmic publics (2010-2025).","authors":"Ismaael AlMazaedh, Khalaf M Tahat, Mohannad Alkhalaileh, Dina N Tahat","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2026.1802281","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2026.1802281","url":null,"abstract":"This article critically synthesizes scholarship on digital religion and social cohesion published between 2010 and 2025. Drawing on a corpus of eighty-eight studies, we show that contemporary religious communication is increasingly governed by platform infrastructures, algorithmic visibility, and networked publics conditions that reshape religious authority, ritual practice, and community formation in ways that can both reinforce and fracture cohesion. Rather than treating platforms as neutral channels, the review conceptualizes digital religion as a layered socio-technical ecosystem whose outcomes hinge on the interaction between platform design, actor strategies, and audience participation. To integrate these literatures, the article advances the Platformed Cohesion Model (PCM), which specifies four interacting layers platform, actor, discourse, and cohesion through which digitally mediated religion produces variable effects on vertical cohesion (trust and legitimacy in institutions) and horizontal cohesion (solidarity and belonging among publics). The review concludes by identifying major gaps in cross-platform comparison, algorithm-centered inquiry, and audience-centered approaches, and proposes a research agenda for CMC scholarship that treats cohesion as an emergent property of platform-conditioned religious communication.","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"11 ","pages":"1802281"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13132766/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147821252","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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