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{"title":"Towards a renewed understanding of barriers to immigrant parents’ involvement in education","authors":"Josefine Jahreie","doi":"10.1177/00016993221110870","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00016993221110870","url":null,"abstract":"This article investigates Danish and Norwegian early childhood education and care teachers’ expectations of immigrant parents’ involvement in kindergarten. The findings are interpreted in terms of the multifaceted interplay between social class relations, culture, migration and hegemonic ideals of intensive parenting and concerted cultivation. By taking the early childhood education and care teachers’ standpoint, the article contributes a renewed understanding of previous reports of barriers to immigrant parents’ involvement in their children's education. Based on early childhood education and care teachers’ accounts, I identify three key tensions: (1) conflicting perceptions of responsibility, (2) conflicting perceptions of children's roles and how to communicate with children and (3) conflicting perceptions of what kindergarten is and what constitutes valuable knowledge. The findings suggest the existence of a distinct Nordic adaptation to intensive parenting, contradicting parts of the dominant understandings of concerted cultivation found in more school-oriented curricular contexts, such as the UK and France, while still maintaining the original key characteristics of concerted cultivation.","PeriodicalId":47591,"journal":{"name":"Acta Sociologica","volume":"66 1","pages":"307 - 321"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46098952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book Review: Post-Democracy: After the Crises","authors":"Alon Helled","doi":"10.1177/00016993221108485","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00016993221108485","url":null,"abstract":"for prisoners and the homeless, lax hygiene standards, crowded living conditions, and uneven testing amplify the pandemic’s adverse impact. Chapters 7 through 10 discuss the interaction between the pandemic and social inequalities by focusing on culture, education, digital inequality, and political ideology. In many Asian countries, wearing masks is commonly accepted, contrary to the opposition to masks in many Western cultures. This might explain why COVID-19 spread more rapidly in the USA than in Asia. The relationship between culture and pandemics is complex; even more complex is the relationship between pandemics and politics. At the beginning of the pandemic, politicians focused mainly on government spending, elections, and international aid, but as the pandemic progressed, wearing masks, safe voting practices and vaccines became political issues. The most intense education-related debate centered on the question of whether schools should be closed and shifted to remote learning. The answer related to whether schools could implement basic safety measures, had sufficient funding for testing and prevention supplies, and could estimate the risk of virus transmission promptly. Shutting down classroom teaching seemed the safest bet, but that exacerbated the digital divide problem. Computer and internet access is not only for the privileged in developing countries, but even in the UK, more than 600,000 children did not have internet access at home at the beginning of the pandemic. Apart from education, the digital division also affects employment, entertainment, medical care, food delivery, online shopping, information, and social relationships. The remaining three chapters point to how we can work toward a better future by focusing on issues of inequality. Chapter 11 highlights that the COVID-19 outbreak shows that we cannot ignore environmental protection. Chapter 12 illustrates that vaccination plays a crucial role in helping the world to “move on.” However, unequal distribution among countries, vaccination hesitation and resistance among some groups, and less effectiveness of existing vaccines against mutated viruses undermine the impact of vaccination. Chapter 13 focuses on what the authors believe is “a unique opportunity for humanity to rethink, and rebuild, our societies” (p. 160), for the pandemic has made otherwise hidden inequalities visible. This book is well organized and demonstrates that COVID-19 has made an already unequal world more unequal and created new disparities by comprehensively explicating the interactions between the pandemic and the economy, culture, education, politics, and the environment. It is a valuable resource for scholars and students interested in the impact of COVID-19 by bringing together a wealth of cutting-edge information and research. The authors call for moving forward but readers might expect to see more specific recommendations of how to do so. However, this slight regret does not detract from the book","PeriodicalId":47591,"journal":{"name":"Acta Sociologica","volume":"66 1","pages":"112 - 114"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41373529","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book Review: The New Handbook of Political Sociology","authors":"Kristinn Már Ársælsson","doi":"10.1177/00016993221102052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00016993221102052","url":null,"abstract":"democratic regimes in relation to nondemocratic states in what could be labeled global market-oriented governance. Overall, Crouch’s book is a well-structured examination of democracy and the contradictory and critical relations crossing politics and economics. The book’s vantage point sensitizes readers to democratic sensibilities and good practices, far beyond the mere labeling of (post-) democracy as a formal societal container. It represents a “post-post-modernist” critique of hyper-capitalistic society and the challenging role citizens must play to reappropriate political rights and claim social justice. Social scientists and practitioners interested in democracy, neoliberalism, and society-economy relations will benefit greatly from reading Crouch’s theoretical and empirical observations.","PeriodicalId":47591,"journal":{"name":"Acta Sociologica","volume":"66 1","pages":"114 - 115"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43731384","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book Review: Diversity Regimes: Why Talk is Not Enough to Fix Racial Inequality at Universities","authors":"Stephanie M. Ortiz","doi":"10.1177/00016993221104169","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00016993221104169","url":null,"abstract":"the firm, especially those with clients, either stymied or buttressed these new frameworks. Lastly, Chapter 5 reveals how external supports (e.g. paid staff and grandmothers) helped to ease the pressures of caregiving and further bolstered women’s performance at work. Accidental Feminism has three broad implications for research on social change, work, organizations, globalization, and feminism. First, Ballakrishnen reveals the interplay between local and global forces in a changing profession. The emergence of transnational ideals, like meritocracy, shaped local practices. A novel case of Indian professional firms with more equal outcomes than their counterparts in the United States reveals the importance of thinking globally. The focus also challenges the typical Western lens in U.S. academia. Ballakrishnen calls attention to the tendency in Western scholarship to assume that prosocial change only occurs in the majority White countries. This is especially clear in research on topics like diversity, inclusion, and equity. Second, the accidental nature of this gender-egalitarian change allows for fresh empirical and theoretical insights that have much to inform existing research on workplace inequality. Ballakrishnen reveals how organizational change with advantageous outcomes for workers, in this case women, can be unintentional, rather than the result of deliberate interventions, feminist or otherwise. Unfortunately, much like intentional feminist interventions at work (e.g. “Lean In” and D&I trainings), accidental forms of gender “equality” may build off of and exacerbate other forms of inequality. This brings us to the book’s third broad implication. By combining multiple levels of analysis, Ballakrishnen identifies how new forms of equality may rest on or reproduce other forms of inequality. In law in India, gender, class, and capital interact in the reproduction of inequality. The book thus poses the important question of whether gender parity is feminist: Are the outcomes “feminist” if other forms of intersecting inequalities are not alleviated? Ballakrishnen concludes by considering how the accidental can queer what it means to craft feminist change. Accidental Feminism will appeal to audiences interested in inequality, gender, feminism, class, diversity, inclusion, work, professional services, globalization, and organizational and institutional change. Ballakrishnen has crafted a well-designed study with meticulous analysis, keen insights, and a compelling argument that will inform academic, policy, and practitioner audiences alike.","PeriodicalId":47591,"journal":{"name":"Acta Sociologica","volume":"66 1","pages":"350 - 351"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44551232","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Understanding the immigrant-native gap in childcare use: An empirical exploration for 21 European countries","authors":"W. Van Lancker, E. Pavolini","doi":"10.1177/00016993221102506","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00016993221102506","url":null,"abstract":"In this contribution, we examine whether and why there is a gap in the use of formal childcare services between immigrant and native families across 21 European countries. We focus on three sets of potential determinants: (1) social class, education and labour market position; (2) immigrant-specific factors such as norms in the region of origin, citizenship acquisition and length of stay in the country of residence; and (3) contextual factors such structural constraints impeding access to childcare and traditional norms on motherhood in the region of origin. Drawing on data from the 2010 ad hoc module of the EU Labour Force Survey, we find evidence for an immigrant-native gap in formal childcare use. Adjusted for social class position, education and maternal employment, immigrant families are less likely to use childcare compared to native families across European countries. However, there are important cross-country differences in the size of this gap. The study also provides evidence for immigrant-specific explanations: acquiring citizenship and staying longer in the country of residence increases the probability to use childcare, while the strength of traditional norms in the region of origin reduces the probability to use childcare. Finally, we find that structural barriers to childcare use negatively affect childcare use for both native and immigrant families. Removing barriers to childcare use in terms of availability and affordability will benefit everyone.","PeriodicalId":47591,"journal":{"name":"Acta Sociologica","volume":"66 1","pages":"74 - 95"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42335114","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Formal commitments versus actual practices? Narratives as tools of epistemic governance in the debate over Finnish forestry","authors":"M. Sivonen, Jukka Syväterä","doi":"10.1177/00016993221099618","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00016993221099618","url":null,"abstract":"Nation states often end up adopting practices that are incongruent with their formal commitments to international efforts, such as mitigation of climate change. Although the necessity of a transfer towards carbon-neutral societies is widely understood, such decoupling is a challenge to transition. This study analyses the political discourse in the Finnish media from 2017 to 2018 around the European Union's Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) Regulation. The discourse embodies a contradiction, as the Finnish government sought to justify its aim to log a record amount of forest while officially pledging to climate change mitigation. The forest industry and the government launched a major lobbying campaign to influence the regulation calculations to be adopted by the European Union. Several representatives of the scientific community rose to oppose the government's plan of action by distributing scientific knowledge on the negative climate effects caused by extensive forestry; a vigorous public debate around the correct ways to use this natural resource ensued. Our analysis identifies three prevailing narratives, each portraying and resolving the contradiction in a distinct way. We argue that narratives work as tools of epistemic governance and demonstrate how policy actors selectively weave scientific knowledge into such narratives.","PeriodicalId":47591,"journal":{"name":"Acta Sociologica","volume":"66 1","pages":"239 - 253"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42304623","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Co-occurring occupations among siblings in Norway","authors":"Stian A. Uvaag","doi":"10.1177/00016993221095985","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00016993221095985","url":null,"abstract":"According to class theory, social class boundaries are akin to social mobility patterns. This study explores these patterns by looking at co-occurring occupations among siblings. The author uses data from Norway's population-wide registers to analyze occupational co-occurrences among siblings across 98 occupations. The association is analyzed in relative terms: how often occupations are held by both siblings compared to what would be expected if there was no statistical association between siblings’ occupations. The Mobility Network Clustering Algorithm (MONECA) identifies groups of occupations that are strongly connected. The analysis shows that siblings tend to have the same occupation. Furthermore, non-manual and manual occupations are identified as two separate groups of strongly connected occupations. The analysis also shows a more differentiated structure in occupations, with increased tendencies for siblings to be in more narrow subgroups of the occupational structure. In the non-manual group, occupations in management, finance, business, and sales form a separate cluster from administrative workers, the professions, and cultural-artistic occupations. Beyond this, the occupational structure is differentiated into smaller subgroups.","PeriodicalId":47591,"journal":{"name":"Acta Sociologica","volume":"66 1","pages":"254 - 270"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42380342","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Political changemakers in Norway: The strategies and political ideas of welfare providers","authors":"Signe Bock Segaard","doi":"10.1177/00016993221088785","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00016993221088785","url":null,"abstract":"This article contributes to the knowledge of interest groups’ political power. It examines how interest groups shape political debates and decision-making, and what strategies are most successful to this end, through an in-depth case study analysis of the Norwegian transposition of the revised EU policy on public procurement. The case is unique as it illustrates a policy process that changed direction at the eleventh hour, embodies an ideational fight between different views of a good society, and—surprisingly—concludes in favour of non-profit interests. Based on hearing statements, media items, transcripts from the final parliamentary debate on the matter, and interviews with leaders of interest groups, the article demonstrates that the ability to coordinate action and frame and control the public and political debate was a vital power resource for non-profit interests, who did so using a broad range of both direct and indirect strategies. The political ideas advanced through these two strategies were nearly identical; however, the indirect strategy was more personified and strongly emphasised normative conflict.","PeriodicalId":47591,"journal":{"name":"Acta Sociologica","volume":"66 1","pages":"136 - 152"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42835406","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Has the terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo fuelled resistance towards Muslim immigrants in Europe? Results from a natural experiment in six European countries","authors":"Michael Savelkoul, Manfred te Grotenhuis, P. Scheepers","doi":"10.1177/00016993221088447","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00016993221088447","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, Europe witnessed several terrorist attacks by Islamist terrorists. To date, crucial questions are whether and how such events influence the European public’s resistance towards Muslims, and if such influence depends on the level of intergroup competition, both at the contextual and individual level. Using the European Social Survey (ESS7), we were able to compare respondents interviewed shortly before and after the terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo in January 2015. While we found no support for a moderating role of intergroup competition, our study shows that the levels of resistance towards Muslim immigrants were higher shortly after the attacks in Ireland and Czech Republic, however, lower in France. For Austria, Finland and Germany we found no influence. Our findings indicate that one cannot be too careful with generalizing conclusions from single countries.","PeriodicalId":47591,"journal":{"name":"Acta Sociologica","volume":"65 1","pages":"357 - 373"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65022186","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Professional talk on cybervetting: Accounting for a contested practise","authors":"C. Backman, Anna Hedenus","doi":"10.1177/00016993221088741","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00016993221088741","url":null,"abstract":"Even though recruiters’ practise of searching for information online during recruitment and selection has been a contested practise, owing to the risk of discrimination and privacy intrusions as well as poor evidence for its ability to predict work performance, it is used in recruitment. In this article, our aim is to understand how ‘professional talk’ is used as a discursive resource to legitimize contested practises such as the practise of cybervetting by recruiters. The study is based on interviews with 37 recruiters in Sweden, all of whom had experience of cybervetting jobseekers. We found that professional talk was linked to objectivity and being unemotional, having knowledge about recruitment methods and the ability to distinguish between relevant and irrelevant information. In relation to the theory on professional talk, our study contributes with empirical evidence for the normative function of professional talk. Using cybervetting, as a case of legitimizing controversial practises, we provide a theoretical contribution to the theory on professional talk by illustrating how professional talk not only fills a disciplinary function by restraining a practise but also by enabling, legitimizing and providing discursive frames for how it can be performed.","PeriodicalId":47591,"journal":{"name":"Acta Sociologica","volume":"66 1","pages":"59 - 73"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44654340","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}