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{"title":"How to dad? Italian fathers discuss fatherhood online.","authors":"Luca Falzea","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2026.1692529","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2026.1692529","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>This article examines how Italian fathers navigate masculinity, care, and parental wellbeing through an analysis of an online fathers' forum.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The methods are qualitative: a critical discourse analysis of 180 posts and comments, that appeared on the forum between 2019 and 2025 was used to explore how participants negotiate their roles in a society that continues to privilege maternal caregiving, despite growing calls for gender equality.</p><p><strong>Results and discussion: </strong>The findings reveal a hybrid model of fatherhood that blends emotional engagement and caregiving with traditional elements of masculinity, such as protection and provision. Fathers in the forum share experiences of joy, anxiety, and loneliness, highlighting the emotional complexity of parenthood and the societal pressures shaping their identities. The forum provides a rare supportive space for men to discuss vulnerabilities and fatherhood outside the manosphere's misogynistic discourse, fostering community and emotional expression.</p>","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"11 ","pages":"1692529"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13132769/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147821289","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":"Social identity formation among Pride parade participants.","authors":"Liya Ai, Chikako Tanimoto","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2026.1719108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2026.1719108","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>This study examines the formation of social identity among Pride parade participants.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 36 individuals who participated in Pride parades in Japan, including 24 identified as LGBT+, 9 as non-LGBT+, and 3 as unspecified. Data were analyzed using constructivist grounded theory.</p><p><strong>Findings: </strong>The process of social identity formation was categorized into four stages: (1) Belonging to the In-Group, (2) Behaving as an In-Group Member, (3) Recognizing One's Role within the In-Group, and (4) Universalizing the In-Group Identity. In the Belonging stage, participants perceived themselves as the in-group while positioning heteronormative society as the out-group. In the Behaving stage, shared practices such as carrying rainbow flags and chanting reinforced group solidarity. In the Recognizing stage, participants were differentiated into Core and Supporting roles, highlighting internal role differentiation. In the Universalizing stage, participants emphasized attitudinal differences between in-group and out-group while simultaneously expressing a goal of dissolving such boundaries.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>These findings contribute to the application of social identity theory to Pride parade participation by demonstrating how collective action fosters shared identity formation among both LGBT+ and non-LGBT+ participants. The study also identifies a novel in-group-out-group configuration, conceptualized as the in-group within the out-group, and suggests the potential for integrating queer theory, particularly the concept of performativity, with social identity theory.</p>","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"11 ","pages":"1719108"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13128402/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147821456","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":"Algorithmic management in the global gig economy: an interdisciplinary systematic literature review and critical discourse analysis.","authors":"Bianca Ifeoma Chigbu","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2026.1743445","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2026.1743445","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Algorithmic management-the delegation of managerial functions to algorithmic systems has become a defining feature of work in the global gig and platform economy. This article presents a systematic literature review (SLR) of 103 scholarly sources, complemented by a targeted critical discourse analysis (CDA) to examine how algorithmic management operates across diverse regions and is discursively framed. While gig work engages millions of workers worldwide, scholarly attention has centered disproportionately on Western contexts. I develop an interdisciplinary research framework that integrates sociology, labor studies, digital economy, and law to analyze the implications of algorithmic management for labor practices, worker autonomy, and regulation. The study asks: (1) what dominant themes and findings emerge in the literature across regions and contexts; (2) how these themes are discursively framed in scholarly and policy texts; and (3) what research gaps and policy implications emerge from this synthesis. The SLR reveals several prevalent themes: the tension between promised flexibility and algorithmic control, worker resistance and agency, biases and fairness in algorithmic systems, and the influence of local institutional contexts, while the CDA uncovers how academic narratives often oscillate between portraying algorithmic management as an extension of digital Taylorism and a catalyst for novel forms of worker autonomy. This review offers contributions by mapping the state of knowledge, highlighting a critical gap in global and comparative analysis, and proposing an agenda for future research and policymaking.</p>","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"11 ","pages":"1743445"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13124556/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147821295","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":"Perspectives toward bridge employment among aged governmental officers in selected provinces in Thailand.","authors":"Natthayanee Chantaplaboon","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2026.1759238","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2026.1759238","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Many countries, including Thailand, are facing an aging society. Several organizations, both public and private, are considering bridge employment as an option for solving the situation. This study explored aged government officers' perspectives on bridge employment. A qualitative approach and a cross-sectional design were applied in this study by interviewing 28 aged governmental officers regarding their motivation and need for support to work efficiently. Thematic analyses revealed eight themes: (1) health status and work performance, (2) aging, workplace factors, and work performance, (3) job characteristics and workloads, (4) career progression and self-development, (5) organizational commitment, (6) social and mental wellbeing, (7) compensation and welfare, and (8) work-place environment and working culture. The motivations and organizational support required by aged officers seem to differ by gender, with males prioritizing social contact and mental wellbeing while females gravitate more toward financial gains. The suggestions for human resource management offered by interviewees included work-related interventions focusing on job assignment, team management, work hours, and organizational culture. These findings may be considered by policymakers in the public sector to develop strategic plans to use bridge employment in addressing the shortage of personnel and the aging population.</p>","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"11 ","pages":"1759238"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13122673/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147783832","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":"Safe harboring and governance: Lakota relational systems as context for women's health integration.","authors":"Lawrence Merle Nelson","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2026.1793764","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2026.1793764","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This Perspective develops a sociological model of <i>safe harboring</i> to explain how governance design shapes the capacity of health systems to sustain integrated care. Drawing on long-standing relational familiarity with Lakota governance practices, articulated here as the \"Sundance Ecosystem,\" the analysis examines women's health-and Primary Ovarian Insufficiency in particular-as a structural stress test for contemporary health systems. Women's health routinely spans multiple physiological systems, social roles, and time horizons, exposing limitations in governance arrangements organized around administrative silos and episodic coordination. The Sundance Ecosystem is treated as an orienting relational governance model rather than as an object of study or empirical case. It informs the articulation of <i>safe harboring</i> as a governance condition defined by continuity, distributed responsibility, and legitimacy grounded in sustained participation rather than hierarchical control. This orientation complements, rather than replaces, sociological theory by clarifying governance features often obscured within institution-centered systems. The manuscript argues that fragmentation in women's health research persists not as a technical failure of coordination but as a structural consequence of governance design. <i>Safe harboring</i> reframes integration as a governance property, emphasizing the conditions under which health systems can sustain continuity, relational accountability, and interpretive coherence across complex, intersecting health needs. This Perspective articulates these concepts for the governance of Primary Ovarian Insufficiency care and human investigation, demonstrating how continuity, responsibility, and interpretive integration can be structurally supported across both clinical and research domains.</p>","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"11 ","pages":"1793764"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13111038/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147783841","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 health system and women experiencing violence: the dedicated pathway in Emergency Departments in Italy and the experience in the city of Rome.","authors":"Francesca Proia, Alice Marta Mauri","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2026.1681402","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2026.1681402","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Violence against women (VAW) is a global public health problem and the health sector has an especially important role to play, considering the serious health risks faced by women. Women who experience violence are, more than others, at risk of acute and chronic health problems, as well as premature death. Medical services-especially Emergency Departments (EDs)-play a crucial role in a system that aims to intercept VAW at an early stage and guarantee women's fundamental rights. In 2017, Italy approved <i>National Guidelines for healthcare and Hospital Organizations on emergency and socio-healthcare assistance for women experiencing violence</i>. World Health Organization (WHO) and national policy guidelines state that healthcare providers must develop integrated and multidimensional responses to intervene in cases of violence. The study aims to draw attention to the implementation of the guidelines because of two reasons. The first one is that no systematic assessment has yet been conducted to determine how effectively they are being applied. The second one is about how an integrated and multidimensional response can be developed in a complex setting such as an EDs to support women experiencing violence. The ongoing research makes use of desk and field research. Regarding the desk analysis, the study used technical reports and scientific literature to reconstruct the origins, characteristics and goals of national guidelines. The field research was conducted in Rome, because of its historical significance as one of the longest-running experiences of this kind in Italy. The case was studied by analyzing documentation and conducting field interviews with three anti-violence association referees present in the EDs and by visiting their EDs workplaces. This contribution presents selected findings. Specifically, it: outlines the objectives of the National Guidelines; reconstructs the heterogeneity of organizations operating in the city of Rome; examines three experiences of healthcare services that host anti-violence practitioners; highlights critical issues in the implementation of integrated and sustainable measures; emphasizes the need for stronger engagement by regional and hospital authorities to ensure that the Guidelines can fulfill their potential within broader policies to combat male violence against women.</p>","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"11 ","pages":"1681402"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13111089/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147783814","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":"Digital habitus and the sociotechnical transformation of everyday life in the United Arab Emirates: a hybrid framework of governmentality, surveillance capitalism, and Gulf state modernity.","authors":"Abdelrahim Abulbasher","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2026.1766932","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2026.1766932","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Rapid digitalization in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has reshaped everyday life, yet existing scholarship has not fully captured how digital practices are embedded within broader sociotechnical and political-economic transformations. In particular, there is a need for a framework that integrates cultural dispositions with structures of power, governance, and market logics.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>This paper develops a conceptual framework to explain how digital practices are produced, structured, and experienced in the UAE, with a focus on the transformation of everyday life.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The study adopts a theoretical and interpretive approach, building on the concept of <i>digital habitus</i> derived from Pierre Bourdieu's theory of habitus. It synthesizes insights from governmentality (associated with Michel Foucault), surveillance capitalism (as articulated by Shoshana Zuboff), and scholarship on Gulf state modernity to construct an integrated analytical framework.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The paper proposes a hybrid framework that conceptualizes digital habitus as shaped by the interaction of state governance, corporate digital infrastructures, and culturally specific forms of modernity. It highlights how everyday digital practices in the UAE are simultaneously enabled and constrained by systems of surveillance, data extraction, and state-led modernization, producing distinct patterns of behavior, identity formation, and social interaction.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>By integrating cultural, political, and economic dimensions, the proposed framework advances understanding of sociotechnical transformation in the UAE and offers a foundation for future empirical research on digital life in non-Western contexts.</p>","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"11 ","pages":"1766932"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13122905/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147783704","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: Masculinities, empathy, care, and non-violence.","authors":"Tatiana Moura, Haydée Caruso, Júlia Garraio","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2026.1835209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2026.1835209","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"11 ","pages":"1835209"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13099305/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147783809","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":"Reconfiguring agency under platform governance: Baby Boomer and Generation X singers negotiating identity, algorithms, and monetization.","authors":"Ashanti Hastuti, Suko Widodo, Fendy Suhariadi","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2026.1787838","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2026.1787838","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Digital platforms have reconfigured the organization of music markets through algorithmic curation, metricized visibility, and increasingly formalized copyright regimes. Yet scholarship often centers digital-native artists, leaving less understood how senior musicians negotiate platformization in Global South contexts. This article examines how Indonesian Baby Boomer (1940-1964) and Generation X (1965-1980) singers enact agency within the platform music economy by negotiating generational/professional identity, algorithmic logics, and income-making practices.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This qualitative study draws on narrative-biographical interviews with 12 informants, including senior singers and key industry stakeholders such as managers, label/publisher representatives, collective management bodies, and aggregators. The interviews were triangulated with public digital traces and policy documents and analyzed thematically using Atlas.ti.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The findings show that senior artists do not experience a linear decline of agency. Instead, agency is reconfigured into layered strategic, practical, and reflexive capacities operating across the structuration modalities of signification, domination, and legitimation. Metrics become a new language of success and decision-making, while control over resources expands through the consolidation of official channels as a digital home and the outsourcing of platform labor to micro-teams and family members. Copyright compliance is internalized as compliance by design, shaping content formats and channel choices alongside demands for more transparent rights governance. These dynamics are intertwined with Adaptation-Aggregation-Arbitrage strategies that stabilize and diversify income across streaming, advertising, licensing, and performance.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>The study offers a generationally sensitive account of cultural labor under platform governance and highlights implications for industry policy and capacity-building programs in platformized music economies.</p>","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"11 ","pages":"1787838"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13095580/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147783786","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 motherhood penalty and absence of leisure rights: legal examination and institutional response under China's three-child policy.","authors":"Tong Huang, Zebang Hu","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2026.1764494","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2026.1764494","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Under the comprehensive three-child policy, female workers face a threefold deprivation of time, capacity, and rights regarding their leisure rights, stemming from the structural tension inherent in their dual \"work-motherhood\" roles. The right to leisure, situated at the intersection of the right to rest, culture rights, and the right to development, constitute a core dimension for achieving holistic human development. Their jurisprudential legitimacy is rooted in the principles of substantive equality and the protection of vulnerable groups. At the level of social governance, this right serves as institutional underpinning for building a fertility-friendly society; economically, it contributes to enhancing human capital value and fostering the sustainable development of the \"she economy.\" To safeguard the leisure rights of female workers, a legal framework centered on \"work-life balance\" should be constructed. This involves core institutional measures such as paradigm reshaping, time guarantees, service support, and rights remediation, ultimately forming a synergistic e responsibility mechanism engaging the state, market, and family to promote gender equality and social sustainable development.</p>","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"11 ","pages":"1764494"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13095538/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147783791","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}