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{"title":"Revisiting the classics on secularization theory.","authors":"Haldun Gülalp","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1635582","DOIUrl":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1635582","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Secularization theory's sway has waned since the end of the 20^th century, but the myth that the \"founding fathers\" of sociology were pioneers of this theory has survived. This article aims to demolish this myth through a comparative analysis of the works of Karl Marx, Max Weber, and Emile Durkheim, and raises fresh questions about the concept of secularization.</p>","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"10 ","pages":"1635582"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12308156/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144754650","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}

{"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":"<p><p>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.</p>","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}

{"title":"Editorial: Constructing objectivity: emotions in legal decision-making.","authors":"Louise Victoria Johansen, Mojca M Plesničar, Sharyn Roach Anleu, Stina Bergman Blix","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1639607","DOIUrl":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1639607","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"10 ","pages":"1639607"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12303947/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144745366","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}

{"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":"<p><p>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.</p>","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}

{"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":"<p><p>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, <i>p</i> < 0.001) and financial awareness of family business operators (β = 0.294, <i>p</i> < 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.</p>","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}

{"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":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>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.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>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.</p><p><strong>Results and discussion: </strong>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.</p>","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}

{"title":"Struggling for epistemic and emotional justice-a collaborative autoethnography of personal assistance.","authors":"Lill Hultman, Maya Hultman","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1425224","DOIUrl":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1425224","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The present article explores the intersection between disability and the emotions evoked by the experience of living with Personal Assistance (PA) in everyday life. The aim is to explore the emotion work around navigating the emotional and epistemic injustice faced by disabled people and their family members. As family members, mother and daughter, we are bound by our mutual experiences of being recipients of disability support. Research tends to focus on the professional gaze. Hence, the emotion management of disabled people living with disability support and their family members needs to be better understood. Life with PA provides a context that illustrates what epistemic and emotional injustice in various forms feels like. Our narratives may help to increase the understanding of the complex interplay between assistance coordinators, external personal assistants, young adults in need of PA, and family members involved in providing PA in everyday life. Focusing on our experiences of having linked lives underlines the entanglement of having different roles vis-a vis each other. Utilizing a collaborative autoethnographic approach we have identified three themes, <i>The interconnectedness between emotion invalidation and crip time, The expectation of emotion work</i> and <i>Managing conflicting needs in the light of emotion work and linked lives</i>. The findings show a difference concerning the expectation of emotion management, where external PAs perform emotional labor during work hours, while assistance users and family members perform emotion work throughout the day. Professionals often cause epistemic injustice in different situations and increase the need to perform emotion work in implementing PA instead of acknowledging the lived experience of assistance users and family members. When assistance coordinators or external PAs seek to eliminate certain emotions from the experiences of users or their family members, they overlook valuable insights about the situation. Silencing those with lived experiences risks dismissing individuals who possess relevant first-hand knowledge due to their emotional connection to the experienced injustice.</p>","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"10 ","pages":"1425224"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12289647/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144733694","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}

{"title":"Identifying key risk factors for Chinese international students: a hybrid AHP-DEMATEL-cross-reinforcement matrix approach with policy implications.","authors":"Hongwei Li, Lei Wang, Junhong Gao","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1610036","DOIUrl":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1610036","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Chinese students usually face risks from various aspects in the process of studying abroad. The use of the analytic hierarchy process alone ignores the interplay between the influencing factors and lacks systematic thinking about the identification of key influencing factors due to the intricacies of the factors affecting and constraining these risks. Therefore, we utilize the DEMATEL method and cross-reinforcement matrix to improve the weights obtained from AHP and to enhance the accuracy and scientific rigor of the weight vectors. Finally, five factors with the largest weights of risk factors affecting international students are identified through the analysis. They are self-management ability, language ability, policy of the host country, economic conditions of the host country, and values. Appropriate risk response countermeasures are proposed to reduce the risk potential of international students based on the results. Exploring the risk factors affecting students studying abroad can provide a reference for Chinese students to predict and control the risks of studying abroad. It can also provide support for international institutions to recruit, manage, and assist Chinese students.</p>","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"10 ","pages":"1610036"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12287043/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144709150","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}

{"title":"Impact of migratory flows and socio-environmental factors on dengue epidemiology in Oaxaca, Mexico.","authors":"Diana Matías-Pérez, Araceli Guerra-Martínez, Emilio Hernández-Bautista, Alma Dolores Pérez-Santiago, Alma Lilia Antonio-Cruz, Iván Antonio García-Montalvo","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1617789","DOIUrl":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1617789","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Oaxaca, state rich in culture and biodiversity, is currently facing a growing challenge due to the combined effects of mass migration and a significant increase in dengue cases. In recent years, the continuous influx of migrants seeking better opportunities has transformed the region's social and economic landscape, with a severe impact on public health. Dengue, transmitted by <i>Aedes mosquitoes</i>, has become a critical concern for health authorities, particularly given the favorable climatic conditions for vector proliferation in Oaxaca. The arrival of thousands of migrants, many from countries with endemic dengue outbreaks, has facilitated the introduction of new virus serotypes into the region. Their precarious conditions during their transit, including makeshift shelters with few sanitary facilities, create environments conducive to mosquito proliferation. This is aggravated by the accumulation of garbage and lack of access to potable water. The public health response is urgent and multifaceted, with educational campaigns on dengue prevention targeting both residents and migrants. However, these initiatives face the challenge of reaching a diverse population with different levels of information and access to essential services. Collaboration between non-governmental organizations and government is necessary to address the immediate public health needs of these migratory flows.</p>","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"10 ","pages":"1617789"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12283985/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144699787","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}

{"title":"Contesting liberal-colonial citizenship: the planetary model of citizenship and the struggle for the 'right to shelter'.","authors":"Catharina Peeck-Ho, Mathias Bös","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1520611","DOIUrl":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1520611","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Anti-immigrant mobilization has reached a new peak with the rise of right-wing neo-fascist movements and many problems in contemporary societies are discursively linked to immigration. These developments pose new challenges to the ongoing struggle for immigrants' rights, as current discourses on so-called \"sanctuary cities\" in the United States demonstrate. The article makes the case that these phenomena are connected to different knowledge orders about citizenship and its underlying principles. While the liberal nation-state is based on the idea of the equality and national sovereignty, new social movements have fundamentally problematized global social inequalities and injustices. Their visions are not only about equality between humans, but include a different understanding of society's relationship with nature. In this article, we argue that the normative foundations and knowledge orders associated with these issues are accompanied by different-and sometimes incompatible-models of citizenship, which can be typified as 'liberal-colonial citizenship' and 'planetary citizenship'. They imply different notions of belonging and social justice and emphasize different forms of rights (e.g., citizenship rights vs. human rights). An analysis of current discourses on the so-called 'right to shelter' law in Massachusetts shows how different models of citizenship are applied to legitimize political claims, suggesting either an inclusive model for dealing with immigration or excluding non-citizens. The paper shows how the legal and administrative inclusion of immigrants reflects contested knowledge orders about the content and normative basis of citizenship within these struggles.</p>","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"10 ","pages":"1520611"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12285653/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144699786","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}