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{"title":"A good autistic life: an autistic-led conceptualization of autistic flourishing through autistic women's-lived experiences.","authors":"Åsa Hedlund, Maria Eriksson Wester, Pia Edenvik, Cecilia Ingard, Kajsa Isakson, Lisa Kron Sabel, Danielle Unéus, Therese Lindström, Melissa H Black, Hanna Bertilsdotter Rosqvist","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1611803","DOIUrl":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1611803","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction and objective: </strong>Interest in developing an understanding of \"autistic flourishing\" is steadily increasing in research and autistic communities. Flourishing is a multidimensional construct explained somewhat by positive emotion, but mostly by good psychological and social functioning. Autistic people process information and stimuli differently from neurotypical people, so it may be reasonable to assume that their definition of flourishing and the factors that influence it may differ from those of neurotypical people. Exploring flourishing from autistic women's perspectives is essential, as they have been historically overlooked in autism research, despite differing from autistic men in presentation and facing higher mental health risks.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This autistic-led, partly collective, autoethnographic study was conducted within the context of a broader project exploring the concept of autistic flourishing. Here, we employ a two-phased phenomenological approach, drawing on both autistic and neurotypical frames of analyses. In the first phase, autistic women draw on their lived experiences in a collective autoethnography, including both focus groups and collective writing, to shape the concept of flourishing and its indicators. These insights were further developed by neurotypical authors, who compare to neurotypical experiences and conceptualizations of flourishing.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Two themes and twelve subthemes were identified. The first theme, \"Living with a neurodivergent bodymind,\" presents how autistic women define and experience flourishing. The second theme, \"Strategies for autistic flourishing,\" highlights actions autistic women take to achieve or maintain flourishing.</p><p><strong>Discussion and conclusion: </strong>Through our autistic-led approach drawing on neurodiverse frames of analysis, our work presents a first initial investigation of autistic flourishing among women. Our findings suggest qualitative differences in autistic derived definitions of flourishing and its indicators compared to those of neurotypicals, emphasizing the importance of developing an autistic-driven understanding of flourishing.</p>","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"10 ","pages":"1611803"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12506894/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145259382","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":"Gender-based violence and its relationship to the mental health of female university students.","authors":"Kenia Laz-Figueroa, Brizeida Raquel Hernández Sánchez, José Carlos Sánchez García, Fabricio Guevara-Viejó, Valeria Molina-Molina","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1597261","DOIUrl":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1597261","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Gender-based violence (GBV) poses a significant threat to women's mental health, especially in university settings where structural dynamics of subordination may persist. In Ecuador, more than 64% of women over the age of 15 have experienced some form of violence, underscoring the need for contextual studies.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This study used a quantitative, cross-sectional design with a random sample of 380 female students from the Psychology program at the State University of Milagro (UNEMI). Two instruments were used: the Dating Abuse Questionnaire (DAQ) to assess five types of violence (psychological, physical, economic, sexual, and sociocultural) and the SCL-90-R inventory to measure mental health symptoms. Exploratory factor analyses and ANOVA tests were performed.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The results showed a high prevalence of psychological violence, with significant correlations between it and symptoms of paranoid ideation, anxiety, depression, and interpersonal sensitivity. The ANOVA analysis showed that students exposed to violence (psychological, physical, economic, sexual) had significantly higher levels of psychological symptoms than those who did not report experiences of violence. Sociocultural influence showed a weaker association with symptoms.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>The findings confirm that GBV acts as a chronic stressor that negatively impacts the mental health of female university students. The need to implement institutional interventions and public policies that promote safe, inclusive, and violence-free academic environments is highlighted.</p>","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"10 ","pages":"1597261"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12504487/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145259383","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":"\"Industrial citizenship\" and social inequality in Japan: the dynamics of contract and status in shaping inequalities.","authors":"Jun Imai","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1647338","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2025.1647338","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper reinterprets social inequality in Japan through the concept of industrial citizenship-a framework that understands inequality not as the result of structurally and economically determined class positions, but as the historical product of contestations over citizenship. These struggles, embedded in labor relations, intertwine the logics of contract and status, shaping context-specific employment relations, including rights and obligations for different categories of workers. Rather than assuming the universality of class, this approach highlights how institutionalized struggles over inclusion and recognition produce divergent hierarchies. In postwar Japan, industrial citizenship developed into <i>company citizenship</i>, where regular employment status was confined within the organizational boundaries of individual firms. This model generated inequality structured not by class, but by company size, gender, and employment status. As employer prerogatives were consolidated, norms of inclusion-based on company membership and flexible abilities-became institutionalized and deeply embedded. Even after neoliberal reforms that ostensibly emphasized contractual arrangements, the underlying logic of company citizenship persisted. Legal changes clarified the boundaries between employment statuses, while new employment tracks further stratified regular employees-both outcomes rooted in the logic of company citizenship. Crucially, these arrangements were sustained not only by managerial authority but also by worker consent shaped by company citizenship norms, making inequality appear fair and thus institutionally stable. By foregrounding industrial citizenship, this paper offers an alternative to class-centered frameworks. It emphasizes how historically contingent configurations of status and contract shape the (reproduction of) inequality, providing a comparative tool for analyzing stratification in capitalist democracies beyond liberal assumptions.</p>","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"10 ","pages":"1647338"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12506895/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145259301","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":"Breaking barriers: gender diversity and environmental identity in Pakistan's ranger workforce.","authors":"Hamera Aisha, Rizwana Aziz, Faiza Sharif, Britt Thielen, Rohit Singh, Haseena Anbarin, Fareeha Naseem, Rabia Tahir","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1575590","DOIUrl":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1575590","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Gender diversity enhances conservation outcomes by fostering inclusive decision-making and more effective policies. This study presents Pakistan's first national, gender-disaggregated analysis of its biodiversity conservation ranger workforce, examining women's perceptions, diversity barriers, and how ranger roles shape environmental identity and place attachment,. Using a mixed-method approach, we engaged 49 female and 191 male rangers, employers, and officials from wildlife, forest, and fisheries departments across all provinces and territories. Findings reveal a stark gender imbalance, with women constituting 2.6 percent of the workforce. Female rangers reported stronger biodiversity protection motivation and environmental identity, yet perceived far less acceptance in their departments. Key barriers included the male-dominated image of the profession, non-inclusive policies, recruitment biases, social and family restrictions, absence of female role models, and safety concerns. Despite their strong commitment, women disproportionately face inadequate resources, ill-fitting equipment, safety risks, and work-life balance challenges. Addressing these systemic barriers requires embedding gender equity in recruitment, promotion, and training. Workplace policies must ensure proper equipment, safety, and accommodations, while fostering an enabling environment that recognizes and supports women's contributions. Embedding gender diversity in conservation is essential for building a resilient and sustainable ranger workforce capable of delivering biodiversity and climate goals.</p>","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"10 ","pages":"1575590"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12504291/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145259378","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":"Beyond recognition: gendered violence and the critique of political economy in Croatia.","authors":"Jana Kujundžić","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1656897","DOIUrl":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1656897","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper critiques the understanding of gendered violence solely through the lens of recognition politics without addressing the politics of redistribution in post-conflict, post-socialist Croatia. Since the 1990s, privatization and transition period have eroded social security nets and workers' rights, even as legal reforms and international conventions on victims' protections were incorporated into the Croatian legal system, mainly by EU-funded civil society projects. Persistent underfunding of health, education and social welfare systems undermines meaningful efforts to tackle gendered violence. Drawing on in-depth expert interviews with members of the judiciary, police, social welfare organizations, feminist NGOs, and women's shelters, the paper highlights issues within the legal and social welfare systems through a Marxist-feminist lens. Survivors face the imperative to engage in precarious work, incur significant costs when engaging the legal system, and struggle with limited access to welfare and care services. At the same time, the privileged status of war veterans reinforces social hierarchies and intensifies gendered inequalities. These findings suggest that combating gendered violence cannot be separated from struggles against capitalist exploitation. By connecting recognition and redistribution politics, the paper situates gendered violence within the erosion of post-socialist welfare systems and the persistence of militarized privilege.</p>","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"10 ","pages":"1656897"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12504513/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145259352","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":"Women's intuition as attunement: a biological and social perspective.","authors":"Shalini Verma, Lucy Raiya Kind","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1542563","DOIUrl":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1542563","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper proposes that women, due to both evolutionary pressures and sociocultural reinforcement, have developed heightened intuitive capacities, more specifically, attunement capabilities. We define attunement as the ability to somatically, emotionally, and cognitively resonate with the internal states of oneself or another. It is especially important in contexts involving caregiving, safety detection, and emotion regulation. Crucially, this ability is not static; it can be dulled or distorted by traumatic experience and reclaimed through healing. Through the restoration of nervous system balance, individuals, and especially trauma survivors, may gain more accurate and deeper information and thus greater access to their intuition. By grounding female intuition in the body and relational experience, we position it as a vital, learnable, and reparative human skill, particularly important in-but not limited to-caregiving, therapy, decision making, and community life. Finally, we stress that since attunement is an ability innate to all humans and not just women, men too can heighten their attunement abilities, and thus their intuition, and we as a society can encourage all beings to increase this potent and beneficial ability.</p>","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"10 ","pages":"1542563"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12519890/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145303805","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":"Changing rooms and changing rules: a trans teacher's lessons in gender and institutional ambiguity.","authors":"Yi Yau, Ya Chun Shen, Boon Hooi Lim","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1656821","DOIUrl":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1656821","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study adopts a critical autoethnographic approach to explore how a transgender teacher navigates structural violence and institutional erasure during gender transition within Taiwan's educational system, addressing a research gap on transgender educators in Asia. Through embodied narratives of administrative encounters, spatial exclusion, sexual harassment, and pedagogical tensions, the research reveals a disconnect between gender diversity legislation and the institutional inertia of school governance. Drawing on \"administrative violence,\" \"institutional diversity,\" and \"gender performativity,\" it analyzes how everyday practices such as data fields, bathroom access, gendered evaluations, professional recognition, and harassment responses reproduce epistemic violence and marginalization. It further argues that non-normative embodiment, relational pedagogy, and affective labor serve as key strategies for reconfiguring teacher subjectivity and challenging dominant assumptions of a \"qualified\" educator. By highlighting the dual condition of visibility and vulnerability in classrooms, the research shows transgender teachers as not only victims but also agents of disruption and transformation.</p>","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"10 ","pages":"1656821"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12490964/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145233467","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":"Perceptions of inequality and meritocracy: their interplay in shaping preferences for market justice in Chile (2016-2023).","authors":"Juan Carlos Castillo, Andreas Laffert, Kevin Carrasco, Julio Iturra-Sanhueza","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1634219","DOIUrl":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1634219","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Several countries have experienced a shift toward the privatization and commodification of public goods, welfare policies, and social services. In Latin America, Chile stands out as a paradigmatic case where this trend has led to the extensive marketization of essential services. From a moral economy perspective, the extent to which individuals consider it fair for access to such services to depend on market criteria has been conceptualized as market justice preferences. This study investigates the relationship between perceptions of economic inequality, meritocratic beliefs, and market justice preferences in Chile between 2016 and 2023.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Using six waves of panel data from the Chilean Longitudinal Social Survey-ELSOC (Nobservations = 8,643; Nindividuals = 1,687), the analysis examines how subjective assessments of inequality shape attitudes toward the role of merit in access to key social services such as healthcare, education, and pensions.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The findings show that greater perceived inequality is associated with lower market justice preferences. However, individuals who believe that effort is rewarded are more likely to legitimize existing disparities. In contrast, the perception that talent is rewarded shows a negative effect on market justice preferences; an effect that intensifies as perceived inequality increases over time. The study also considers the influence of major social movements during this period, which appear to have reshaped public discourse on justice and fairness.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>These findings contribute to a deeper understanding of how distributive beliefs evolve in contexts marked by persistent inequality and entrenched neoliberal frameworks. They indicate that while perceptions of inequality tend to undermine support for market justice, meritocratic beliefs-particularly those emphasizing effort-reinforce its legitimacy. By contrast, talent-based meritocratic perceptions weaken it, especially as inequality becomes more salient. The results also suggest that major collective events, such as the 2019 protests, did not fundamentally alter these underlying associations.</p>","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"10 ","pages":"1634219"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12488697/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145233515","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":"Realizing human rights in rural Punjab of India: a study of enforcement of selected human rights.","authors":"Puneet Pathak, Vagisha Nandini, Deepesh Yadav, Sukhwinder Kaur, Rajinder Kumar Sen, Shanti Riang","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1619603","DOIUrl":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1619603","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The realization of human rights assumes great significance in the context of India, the largest democracy in the world. Being a state party to binding international human rights covenants, India is obligated to take measures to ensure the realization of human rights by its citizens. With over 64% of its population residing in the villages, the panchayati raj institutions assume a crucial role in the realizing of human rights, considering their proximity to the rural population. The study's objective is to analyze the status of realization of selected human rights in terms of the 'respect, protect, fulfill and promote' framework, i.e., health, education and political participation in the selected Gram panchayats of Indian Punjab. The study adopted a quantitative approach, and primary data were collected through survey questionnaires from members of selected Gram Panchayats and beneficiaries availing the benefits of related governmental schemes. The study offers insights into the degree to which the state obligations regarding the selected human rights are being upheld and how the variation can be explained. The result revealed inconsistencies between the claims of panchayat members and the beneficiaries' experiences. The study exposed deficiencies in infrastructure and service delivery across the rights. The study recommends improving awareness and satisfaction regarding the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) and the Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan schemes for fulfilling the rights to health and education. Enhanced efforts are needed to promote these rights through regular awareness campaigns and discussions at Gram Sabha meetings. Furthermore, there is a need to strengthen campaigns for electoral participation, ensuring consistent and well-communicated Gram Sabha meetings, and active facilitation of the political involvement of marginalized groups for the effective realization of the right to political participation.</p>","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"10 ","pages":"1619603"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12481066/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145207845","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":"Cross-class interactions and subjective inequality: perceptions, beliefs and distributive preferences at a Colombian elite university.","authors":"Andres Mauricio Galeano-Salgado, María José Álvarez-Rivadulla","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1619937","DOIUrl":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1619937","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study examines how cross-class interactions influence perceptions and beliefs of inequality, and distributive preferences. It is based on the implementation of <i>Ser Pilo Paga</i>, a government program that granted access to high-quality higher education for low-income students in Colombia. Drawing on 61 in-depth interviews and complementary survey data, we find that exposure to peers from different socioeconomic backgrounds recalibrates students' understanding of inequality, making their perceptions more accurate and their attitudes toward redistribution more favorable-regardless of class. While students consistently held structural views of inequality, these interactions reshaped their views on merit, revealing its dual function as both a source of validation and a relational tool. Notably, we find that meritocratic beliefs coexisted with structural critiques, challenging assumptions that meritocracy legitimizes inequality. Finally, support for the fellowship program was nuanced and ambivalent, particularly among beneficiaries, who recognized both its benefits and its limitations as a redistributive mechanism. These findings advance sociological understandings of subjective inequality by highlighting how class contact in segregated societies can shift beliefs and preferences in ways that challenge dominant theories of self-interest and merit-based legitimation.</p>","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"10 ","pages":"1619937"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12481291/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145207825","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}