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{"title":"European digital transformation for Roma girls' health: the case of Spain.","authors":"Daniela E Miranda, Valeria Terán-Tinedo, João Henrique Borges Bento, Tomas de Jong, Jaisalmer de Frutos-Lucas","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1562088","DOIUrl":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1562088","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The digital experiences of Roma girls are shaped through the Digital Determinants of Health (DDoH) such as poor housing conditions with limited digital infrastructure, under-resourced public schools in marginalized neighborhoods, and dominant narratives that overlook their capacities and contributions. Although the European digital transformation advances rapidly, it often fails to address the enduring impacts of structural antigypsyism across DDoH. This article addresses the following questions: (1) how do European digital transformation efforts respond to the impacts of historical antigypsyism on Roma girls' digital experiences? (2) What dynamics across societal, community, interpersonal, and individual levels shape the violation and protection of Roma girls' digital rights in marginalized neighborhoods? and (3) How can European digital transformation policies be operationalized to support a shift from impoverished to meaningful digital participation for Roma girls across all levels of the digital ecosystem? To answer these, the study employs a triangulation approach integrating policy analysis of relevant European strategies on digitalization and Roma inclusion, field observations from ongoing participatory research, and a targeted literature review providing theoretical and comparative grounding. The triangulation of these sources supports the development of an analytical framework for Roma Girls' Digital Rights that allows to map digital experiences through an ecological lens. By bridging policies with local realities, this paper provides actionable recommendations to operationalize macro-level policies with the everyday realities of Roma girls, ensuring that they can experience digitalization as a pathway to empowerment and as active contributors to Europe's digital future.</p>","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"10 ","pages":"1562088"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12323838/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144790232","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":"Coding the future: digital technologists and the constitution of the next system.","authors":"Dhruv Deepak, Ben Manski","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1362848","DOIUrl":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1362848","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Digital technologists are coding the world of our immediate future. Digital commoners are a subset of digital technologists who aim to expand the spheres of life held in common, strengthen mutual aid, and create the conditions for shared participation in power. Relying on an understanding of technologists as activists, of technology as a movement, and of digital code as constitutional design, we analyze the digital commoners and their movement. Relying on a theory of the constitutive powers of digital technology in the areas of design, affordance, and sovereignty, we examine platform cooperatives, peer production systems, data sovereignty initiatives, and digital governance platforms, and analyze how these initiatives align with broader movements for system change. We argue that digital commoners are producing the elements of a digital commonwealth, a new form of democratic economic polity. Finally, we call on scholars and academic institutions to intervene and support digital commoning efforts, amplifying technologists' capacity to code the future toward shared goals.</p>","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"10 ","pages":"1362848"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12321829/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144790231","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, work, and satisfaction: a decomposition approach to job satisfaction gaps in Egypt and Tunisia.","authors":"Mesbah Fathy Sharaf, Abdelhalem Mahmoud Shahen","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1573489","DOIUrl":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1573489","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>This study revisits the paradox of the contented female worker by analyzing gender disparities in job satisfaction in Egypt and Tunisia.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Using nationally representative labor force survey data, we construct a multidimensional job satisfaction index based on eight dimensions: earnings, job security, nature of work, working hours, work schedule, work environment, commuting distance, and job-qualification match. To explain gender gaps in job satisfaction, we apply the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition method, both with and without correcting for sample selection bias.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Our results show that conclusions about the existence and direction of the gender gap depend critically on accounting for selection effects. Before correcting for selection bias, women in Egypt report significantly higher job satisfaction than men, while no gender gap is observed in Tunisia-echoing the contented female worker paradox. However, once sample selection is controlled for, the paradox disappears in both countries. In Egypt, the observed gender gap is fully explained by differences in observable characteristics (endowment effect), while in Tunisia, it is largely driven by differences in returns to those characteristics (coefficient effect), highlighting structural inequalities in the labor market.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>To test the robustness of our results, we also conduct the decomposition using an alternative measure of job satisfaction based on a single overall satisfaction question. The consistency of results across both measures reinforces the validity of our conclusions. Together, these findings caution against relying solely on standard models of job satisfaction and emphasize the importance of considering sample selection and multidimensional outcomes. The study underscores the need for policy interventions that promote fairer working conditions, expand access to employment benefits, and address gender-based disparities in labor markets.</p>","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"10 ","pages":"1573489"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12321886/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144790233","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":"Spirituality and palliative care: international models and new perspectives.","authors":"Enrico De Luca, Barbara Sena, Kate Butcher, Lindsay Jane de Wal","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1523685","DOIUrl":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1523685","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In recent years, healthcare organizations and scholars, particularly in Western societies, have increasingly recognized the importance of the spiritual dimension in patient care. However, this aspect still needs to be fully integrated into everyday practices. Palliative care has begun to emphasize spirituality, addressing patients' psychological and existential needs through a holistic approach beyond the traditional biomedical paradigm. This concept analysis will first explore healthcare and medical professionals' challenges in implementing shared and patient-centered spiritual practices. It will then draw on experiences integrating spirituality in palliative care from Thailand and Italy and introduce two conceptual models for spiritual care and needs assessment from the UK. The discussion will encourage the implementation of integrated models of spiritual needs assessment and care in adult end-of-life and palliative care settings (that address any life-limiting illness). This approach will enable health professionals to effectively address patients' spiritual needs, fostering authentic conversations that are pivotal in integrating models and transforming the care experience into an empowering and meaningful one for staff and patients.</p>","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"10 ","pages":"1523685"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12319047/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144785554","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 digital and AI inclusion: participatory and intersectionality-informed methods for disability and migrant justice.","authors":"Karen Soldatic, Mikyung Lee, Eunice Tunggal, Ashley Liao, Liam Magee","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1593330","DOIUrl":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1593330","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Everyday consumer technologies are increasingly integral to autonomy, mobility, and social participation among people with disabilities and migrants from culturally and linguistically diverse (CaLD) backgrounds. However, these technologies often remain inaccessible and exclusionary at the intersection of these identities. This study examined how CaLD migrants with disabilities engage with everyday consumer technologies using participatory and intersectionality-informed approaches. This article focuses on Stage Two of the Autonomy, Diversity & Disability: Everyday Practices of Technology project, funded by the Australian Research Council industry partnership grant (LP: 190900099), which involved individual interviews, creative workshops, guided discussions, post-workshop reflections, and the co-creation of AI-generated e-books. Drawing on three case studies, the analysis identified three key findings: (1) participants experienced a disproportionate burden in navigating digital accessibility and advocating for their needs; (2) generative AI perpetuated biases and misrepresentations of intersecting identities; and (3) participants actively used everyday consumer technologies to foster agency, learning, caregiving, and cultural connection. Through sustained participatory engagement, the researchers identified methodological parameters to inform future disability-inclusive, participatory, and intersectionality-informed research.</p>","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"10 ","pages":"1593330"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12341580/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144838090","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":"10 years' cultural variation of Croatia from pre to post accession: the changed value and unchanged cultural position.","authors":"Chunyan Wang, Ivica Bakota, Ivana Buljan, Yuhong Shang","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1487913","DOIUrl":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1487913","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Croatia's accession to the European Union (EU) in 2013 completed its institutional integration; however, the alignment of its social and cultural values with those of other EU member states remains an ongoing process.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Utilizing Hofstede's cultural dimensions framework and data from rounds 5 and 10 of the European Social Survey (ESS), this study examines the evolution of Croatia's value orientations from 2010 to 2020 and assesses whether the cultural value gap between Croatia and other EU members has narrowed.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The study identifies significant cultural shifts: the decline in Masculinity, Uncertainty Avoidance, and Power Distance indexes, alongside an increase in Individualism. These shifts are in the same direction with those of the old EU members. However, despite these changes, Croatia's cultural value distance from other EU members has largely remained constant. Particularly, Power Distance index in Croatia is persistently higher than the average level.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>These findings suggest that the EU should strengthen its common values within the newly accessed members. Policies aimed at encouraging participation in EU-wide cultural and economic projects may also bridge cultural divides. The study contributes to an understanding of cultural change in post-transition societies and their implications for EU integration.</p>","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"10 ","pages":"1487913"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12319006/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144785553","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":"Insurance companies' lack of LGBTQ+ affirmation: discrimination, distrust, and dissatisfaction among LGBTQ+ people.","authors":"Dustin Z Nowaskie, Dehandra Blackwood, Frank Garcia, Jorge D Flautero","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1569519","DOIUrl":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1569519","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>LGBTQ+ individuals have historically faced and continue to experience stigma and discrimination in various areas, including healthcare. There is very limited data regarding LGBTQ+ people's perceptions of their health insurer and health insurer workers.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>An online cross-sectional survey was conducted with a national sample of United States residents, who responded to questions about their healthcare, including experiences with their health insurer and health insurer workers.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Compared to cisgender, heterosexual people (<i>n</i> = 1,400), LGBTQ+ people (<i>n</i> = 1,234) reported significantly poorer experiences with their health insurer, including being dissatisfied with their health insurer; believing their health insurer is not their advocate; distrusting their health insurer; not knowing what is covered in their health plan; being dissatisfied with providers in their health plan; and not believing their health insurer meets their needs. Additionally, compared to cisgender, heterosexual people, LGBTQ+ people conveyed poorer experiences with health insurer workers, including health insurer workers not addressing them by their names; not being comfortable when interacting with them; not being coordinated; misgendering them; and being discriminatory toward them.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>LGBTQ+ communities continue to face significant healthcare disparities, including stigma and discrimination from health insurers and health insurer workers. Longitudinal dedication to LGBTQ+ education, advocacy, and institutional reform is necessary to dismantle the entrenched discrimination in health insurer environments and create more equitable, supportive environments for all LGBTQ+ people.</p>","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"10 ","pages":"1569519"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12314559/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144776387","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":"Gnosis and counterstories: decolonial disability reflections on delinking as a transgressive social methodology.","authors":"Alexis Padilla, Paulo Tan","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1578464","DOIUrl":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1578464","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This essay articulates an innovative counterstory-based methodology of decolonialde linking which disrupts the very epistemic foundations of sociological disciplinary boundaries and ways of thinking about the production and distribution of knowledges. As non-white co-authors, we have opted to follow to adopt an expansive conception of decolonial/border-thinking gnosis and delinking as a way to embrace all knowledges, particularly those which do not conform to disciplinary modes of exposition and rationalist systematicity within the epistemic conceptions of knowledge. Using two disabled counterstories as gnosis illustrations, our essay shows how their enactment transgresses established norms for addressing and engaging with traditional, discipline-bound epistemological concerns. As such, we aim to open theoretical and methodological avenues for decolonial and non-Eurocentric spheres of imagination. More specifically, since the worlds of mathematics and mathematics education are so dominated by rationalist and neurotypical epistemologies grounded on the Cartesian duality of matter vs. ideas, both of our illustrative counterstories will deal with aspects that disrupt such epistemological paradigms through intersectional cripistemologies.</p>","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"10 ","pages":"1578464"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12315588/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144776386","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":"A comprehensive overview of a large-scale survey on inequality perceptions (IneqPer) in Italy.","authors":"Nevena Kulic, Olga Griaznova, Eleonora Clerici, Daniela Bellani, Debora Mantovani, Loris Vergolini, Francesco Scervini","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1620096","DOIUrl":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1620096","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The article describes the content, the methodology and the selected results deriving from a large-scale cross-sectional IneqPer survey in Italy (<i>n</i> = 12,000, 2024/2025) aimed at understanding the determinants of inequality perceptions and their consequences for public opinion. The dataset offers novel dimensions that include the questions on global inequality and global redistribution, individual position in global distribution, the perceived social mobility in the society, perceived gender inequality and perceptions of discrimination against immigrants, among others. Moreover, for a number of questions, it offers a possibility of cross-validation with a range of recent datasets including European Social Survey (2020), European Value Study (2017), and the International Social Survey Program (2019). The first results show that Italians indeed recognize inequality along all dimensions (e.g., socio-economic inequality, gender inequality and inequality between migrants and natives), yet they do not strongly perceive themselves as personally affected by discrimination. Moreover, although cross-validation checks reveal a strong alignment between IneqPer data and other international value surveys, respondents in the IneqPer dataset tend to express slightly more progressive views.</p>","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"10 ","pages":"1620096"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12313601/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144776385","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":"White masculinity and the radical right in Europe: an intersectional analytical framework.","authors":"Anna Guildea","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1611191","DOIUrl":"10.3389/fsoc.2025.1611191","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper develops an intersectional analytical framework to examine the radical right in Europe, focusing on how white masculinity shapes the identity, ideology, and power relations of the party family and its support. Concepts pertaining to privilege, status threat, and appeals to victimhood thread these analytical levels together, linking the micro-functional behaviours and attitudes of men to more macro-sociological concepts such as hegemonic masculinity and the relationship between masculinity, technology, and capitalism. Building on \"superordinate intersectionality,\" this paper interrogates several overstretched concepts prevalent in radical right scholarship and critiques the discipline's persistent blind spots, particularly its failure to adequately theorise race and gender. By foregrounding white masculinity in its conceptual and analytical endeavour, this paper offers new frames for understanding the radical right.</p>","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"10 ","pages":"1611191"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12310917/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144761660","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}