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Editorial: Understandings and experiences of colourism: global perspectives. 社论：对肤色歧视的理解和经验：全球视角。

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Frontiers in Sociology Pub Date : 2026-09-30 eCollection Date: 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.3389/fsoc.2026.1964986

Aisha Phoenix, Nadia Craddock, Margaret Hunter

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Consensus or conflict? Recommender systems as recursive exposure systems in the production of polarization. 共识还是冲突？推荐系统作为递归曝光系统在偏振产生中的应用。

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Frontiers in Sociology Pub Date : 2026-09-30 eCollection Date: 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.3389/fsoc.2026.1940431

Sadiq C P, Rahul Shukla

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Governing relational opportunity in hybrid work: structural relational deprivation and the reproduction of workplace inequality. 管理混合型工作中的关系机会：结构性关系剥夺和工作场所不平等的再现。

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Frontiers in Sociology Pub Date : 2026-09-30 eCollection Date: 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.3389/fsoc.2026.1955187

Nthabeleng Innocentia Mdhluli

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Systemic failure and the totalization of public hospitals: a theoretical and conceptual synthesis of health governance in Latin America. 系统性失败和公立医院的总化：拉丁美洲卫生治理的理论和概念综合。

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Frontiers in Sociology Pub Date : 2026-09-29 eCollection Date: 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.3389/fsoc.2026.1956466

Mauro Marino Jiménez, Mariella Montes-Vecco, Nicole Nuñez-Zambrano

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Solidarity in the critical zone: habitability and the reconstruction of the sociological concept of solidarity. 关键地带的团结：可居住性与社会团结概念的重建。

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Frontiers in Sociology Pub Date : 2026-09-29 eCollection Date: 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.3389/fsoc.2026.1800408

Marco Bontempi

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Embodied social exclusion: habit memory and the reproduction of caste in Dalit autobiographies. 体现社会排斥：习惯记忆与达利特自传中种姓的再生产。

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Frontiers in Sociology Pub Date : 2026-09-28 eCollection Date: 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.3389/fsoc.2026.1884348

Dhanshree C, R Preetha

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Futures literacy as a research tool for socio-material revaluation in sufficiency-oriented climate mitigation. 未来扫盲作为以充足为导向的气候缓解中社会物质重估的研究工具。

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Frontiers in Sociology Pub Date : 2026-09-25 eCollection Date: 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.3389/fsoc.2026.1824778

Ioannis Theocharis, Björn Bohnenkamp

{"title":"Futures literacy as a research tool for socio-material revaluation in sufficiency-oriented climate mitigation.","authors":"Ioannis Theocharis, Björn Bohnenkamp","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2026.1824778","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2026.1824778","url":null,"abstract":"Demand-side climate mitigation requires methodological approaches capable of interrogating how everyday material practices are shaped by anticipatory assumptions about the future. While decluttering has been discussed as a potential entry point for sufficiency-oriented consumption, existing approaches largely focus on individual reflection and functional evaluation, leaving collective and anticipatory dimensions underexplored. This article develops and systematizes an adapted Futures Literacy Lab (FLL) as a methodological framework for examining socio-material revaluation processes in the context of stored household consumer goods. Building on Futures Literacy theory, the method operationalizes revaluation through structured phases-Reveal, Reframe, and Rethink-supplemented by an optional Act phase. Through developmantalworkshops, three ideal-typical workshop formats were derived: contextual thematic futures, object-centered future projection, and scenario-based reframing. Rather than presuming immediate behavioral change, the framework makes anticipatory assumptions visible and negotiable through collective intelligence knowledge creation, thereby expanding interpretative space relevant to sufficiency transitions. The article contributes a transferable methodological approach for investigating and facilitating socio-material revaluation in high-consumption contexts, positioning anticipatory imagination as a complementary tool within climate mitigation and just transition research.","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"11 ","pages":"1824778"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13649379/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149171155","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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Translating screen-media guidance into caregiver practices: moving from digital silos to shared spaces for young children. 将屏幕媒体指导转化为护理实践：从数字孤岛到幼儿共享空间。

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Frontiers in Sociology Pub Date : 2026-09-25 eCollection Date: 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.3389/fsoc.2026.1923050

Jahau Lalnunmawii, Sreeja P Gangadharan

{"title":"Translating screen-media guidance into caregiver practices: moving from digital silos to shared spaces for young children.","authors":"Jahau Lalnunmawii, Sreeja P Gangadharan","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2026.1923050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2026.1923050","url":null,"abstract":"Screen time guidelines for preschoolers have heavily relied on duration controls. Recently, guidelines have evolved to focus on the content and context of use; however, digital health impacts are still widely measured against guideline targets that apply a one-size-fits-all assumption. Despite these recommendations, a global meta-analysis shows that only 35.6% of children under age five adhere to these guidelines. This low compliance is driven by contemporary lifestyle demands, busy parental schedules, and constrained urban spaces. Compounded by socioeconomic disparities and a lack of practical ideas for alternative activities, screens have become a default domestic childcare arrangement, escalating passive, isolated consumption. This paper introduces a three-layered ecological framework that bridges the gap between the targets of institutional guidelines and the diverse ground realities of managing digital engagement across different socioeconomic statuses. It lays out a practical blueprint to operationalize these objectives through a protocol that integrates screen awareness, meaningful alternatives, active engagement, responsive caregiving, and traditional games. This framework provides actionable guidance to help families transition from digital silos to interactive, shared spaces, aiming to alleviate parental stress and support the parent-child relationship.","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"11 ","pages":"1923050"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13649396/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149168332","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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Toward a theory of STEM academic departments as racialized organizations. 走向STEM学术部门作为种族化组织的理论。

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Frontiers in Sociology Pub Date : 2026-09-25 eCollection Date: 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.3389/fsoc.2026.1907948

Meaghan I Pearson, Aireale J Rodgers, Tatiane Russo-Tait

{"title":"Toward a theory of STEM academic departments as racialized organizations.","authors":"Meaghan I Pearson, Aireale J Rodgers, Tatiane Russo-Tait","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2026.1907948","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2026.1907948","url":null,"abstract":"Critical and STEM higher education scholars document how the fallacy of White supremacy has produced racialized macro-level (e.g., state) and micro-level (e.g., individual) structures gatekeeping the self-actualization and innovation of racially minoritized people and their communities. Although important, there has been an undertheorization of how meso-level structures like STEM academic departments gatekeep racially minoritized people and their knowledge systems. In this paper, we leverage theory of racialized organizations to illustrate how STEM academic departments in United States research-intensive, predominantly White institutions (PWIs) function as organizational sites of racial inequity. We use critical theory and empirical studies to explain how this racialized gatekeeping occurs through four structures: (1) graduate admissions and faculty hiring, (2) research, (3) instruction, and (4) service. Overall, this paper provides a conceptual and practical blueprint of how STEM academic departments, through their organizational rules and routines, maintain White racially hierarchies in STEM ecosystems. We conclude by offering examples of how STEM academic departments can engage, challenge, and disrupt their racially exclusionary organizational practices, so racially minoritized people and knowledge systems can survive and thrive in STEM ecosystems.","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"11 ","pages":"1907948"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13649448/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149169621","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: Beyond the autonomous individual: hydrosocial relations and the constitution of the relational hydrosocial self in an Andean conflict. 更正：超越自主个体：安第斯冲突中的水社会关系和关系水社会自我的构成。

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Frontiers in Sociology Pub Date : 2026-09-25 eCollection Date: 2026-01-01 DOI: 10.3389/fsoc.2026.1995892

Saríah Fanny Oré Gálvez, Alex Foyams Molina Linares, Jherry Lobaton Phocco Minaya, Alex Quispe Quispe, Solón Dante Carhuallanqui Ibarra, Juan Carlos Terres León, Rubén Ñaupari Molina, Crispin H W Barnes, Luis De Los Santos Valladares

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