{"title":"English or Perish? The Value of Linguistic Capital in the Social Sciences and Humanities.","authors":"Julien Larregue, Alice Pavie","doi":"10.1177/00380385251406882","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00380385251406882","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article examines the relationship between linguistic practices and funding success in Canadian social sciences and humanities. Through a mixed-methods approach combining data on 56,680 successful and unsuccessful grant applications submitted to the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and 45 interviews with past members of review committees, we analyse how language intersects with knowledge hierarchies and disciplinary cultures. Our findings show that writing a grant proposal in English rather than in French is associated with slightly higher chances of securing funding, mostly reflecting the greater recognition of applicants who have published in prestigious anglophone journals. However, the worth of this linguistic capital varies significantly across disciplines. These differences stem from how each discipline defines scientific value - whether through a more universal or context-dependent perspective and according to singular or plural hierarchies.</p>","PeriodicalId":48356,"journal":{"name":"Sociology-The Journal of the British Sociological Association","volume":"60 4","pages":"929-951"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13440969/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148680615","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Saying, Doing, Talking, Listening: A Mixed Methods Study of Fathers' Involvement in Childcare and Household Work Tasks and Responsibilities.","authors":"Kim de Laat, Andrea Doucet","doi":"10.1177/00380385251393091","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00380385251393091","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article examines how methodological approaches shape understandings of domestic responsibilities. Using mixed methods data from Canadian dual-earner households, we compare fathers' individual survey responses with couple interview accounts about their childcare and housework involvement. Survey and interview data align when assessing tasks - discrete actions with defined boundaries - but diverge when evaluating responsibilities, which involve anticipating needs, managing care and organizing household life. These discrepancies also reflect how gendered and racialized expectations can influence how fathers conceptualize their contributions. We argue that couple interviews reveal relational dimensions of domestic responsibilities that survey data alone cannot capture. This study advances feminist and family sociology by theorizing household labour not only as a set of measurable actions but as socially situated and cognitively distributed practices. Methodological pluralism, we contend, is essential to understanding the meanings and organization of care in everyday life.</p>","PeriodicalId":48356,"journal":{"name":"Sociology-The Journal of the British Sociological Association","volume":"60 4","pages":"825-846"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13440971/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148680575","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jason Hughes, Kahryn Hughes, Grace Sykes, Michelle O'Reilly, Charlie Sutton, John Goodwin, Khalid Karim
{"title":"What Is the Role of Imagined Futures in the Development of E-Cigarette Use among Young People?","authors":"Jason Hughes, Kahryn Hughes, Grace Sykes, Michelle O'Reilly, Charlie Sutton, John Goodwin, Khalid Karim","doi":"10.1177/00380385241290745","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00380385241290745","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Public health 'gateway' narratives concerning young people's e-cigarette use warn against a future generation beset by escalating addiction and a possible epidemic of tobacco- and vaping-related illnesses. We argue that such imaginaries of vaping futures are in fact based in smoking pasts, which, while likely not 'real' in the sense of predicting the development of youth vaping, have real consequences through influencing the conditions of young people's e-cigarette use. Drawing on a study of 14-18-year-old vapers, we consider how the future imaginaries of gateway thinking - characterised by escalating dependence - both oppose and intersect with a cultural stock of neo-liberal future imaginaries - marked by progressive independence and self-determination. We show how both sets of imaginaries are negotiated and entangled within the logics and practices of young vapers' 'futures-in-process' to advance debates in the sociology of futures and offer a radical rethinking of substance use by youth.</p>","PeriodicalId":48356,"journal":{"name":"Sociology-The Journal of the British Sociological Association","volume":"59 2","pages":"231-249"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11984781/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144004726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Forms of Capital, Social Change and the Weight of the Past: The Effective Agents of the Swiss Field of Power 1910-2015.","authors":"Thierry Rossier, Jacob Aagaard Lunding","doi":"10.1177/00380385251322061","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00380385251322061","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this article we delve into the elites' evolving forms of power to study the relationship between social change and capital accumulation. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu's notion of the field of power and relying on the identification of the field's effective agents in Switzerland, we investigate the changing relations among the most important forms of capital. We use prosopographical data spanning six historical periods from 1910 to 2015 and thanks to multiple correspondence analysis we uncover the changing structure of the field of power. We show the dominance of economic and organisational network powers throughout history. While both forms of power opposed before the Second World War, they could be accumulated together between the 1950s and the 1980s but opposed again in the recent period. The article contributes to 'big picture' sociology, offering historical accounts of broad social trends and provides evidence of a recent return to past inequality logics.</p>","PeriodicalId":48356,"journal":{"name":"Sociology-The Journal of the British Sociological Association","volume":"59 4","pages":"761-781"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12306905/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144754908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Using Natural Experiments to Uncover Effects of Anti-Refugee Riots on Attitudes of Refugees","authors":"Nicole Schwitter, Ulf Liebe","doi":"10.1177/00380385231206072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00380385231206072","url":null,"abstract":"While previous research has focused on terrorist attacks and natives’ attitudes towards immigration, we examine the effect of anti-refugee attacks on refugees’ attitude towards the host country. We use survey data from the 33rd wave of the German Socio-Economic Panel as the fieldwork period overlapped with the infamous anti-refugee riots in Bautzen and as the survey includes a refugee sample. Making use of this natural experiment, we find significant and negative short-term effects of the riots on respondents’ perception of Germany, as well as low geographic variation. Such natural experiments in the form of unexpected events during survey design offer social scientists the possibilities to identify causal effects from observational survey data as they split respondents into a control and treatment group. Given the vast amount of (cross-)national survey data, often including specific subsamples, our study demonstrates the great potential of natural experiments for sociological research on minority groups in society.","PeriodicalId":48356,"journal":{"name":"Sociology-The Journal of the British Sociological Association","volume":"139 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136067964","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Creating a New Normal? Technosocial Relations, Mundane Governance and Pandemic-Related Disruption in Everyday Life","authors":"Aleks Deejay, Kathryn Henne","doi":"10.1177/00380385231205135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00380385231205135","url":null,"abstract":"In many parts of the world, individuals and groups have managed significant disruptions prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic. This article draws on data collected through interviews with 40 Australia-based participants regarding their day-to-day routines and technological engagement as they navigated mobility restrictions intended to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease. We use insights from Science and Technology Studies to shed light on how their technosocial relations enabled and regulated participants’ sociality while informing their desires for normalcy. Findings highlight perspectives and practices that diverge from popular framings of the pandemic as giving rise to a ‘new normal’. Instead, our analysis shows how human and non-human actors became inextricably linked in the management of everyday disruptions, illustrating forms of mundane governance. We conclude by reflecting on how Science and Technology Studies-informed approaches to the mundane glean important insight for the sociological study of the pandemic specifically and of everyday life generally.","PeriodicalId":48356,"journal":{"name":"Sociology-The Journal of the British Sociological Association","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135512973","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Practices of Consumption: Cohesion and Distinction within a Globally Wealthy Group","authors":"Karen Lillie, Claire Maxwell","doi":"10.1177/00380385231206070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00380385231206070","url":null,"abstract":"An ongoing debate in the literature is around the existence and constitution of a so-called ‘global elite’. This article enters that debate – seeking to understand what connected but also divided a group of wealthy young people occupying a transnational space. It examines consumptive practices at one of the most expensive secondary schools in the world, educating a cross-section of the globally wealthy in Switzerland. The article offers insights into the boredom that pervaded this group, shaping some of the consumptive practices that bound its members. It also argues that other consumptive practices reflected consciously articulated differences within this group, such as national- and linguistic-based social groupings. The case study offers a unique opportunity to examine consumption as a lens onto cohesion and distinction within a particular group of transnationally located, wealthy young people, thus contributing to scholarship around the nature of the ‘global elite’ at large.","PeriodicalId":48356,"journal":{"name":"Sociology-The Journal of the British Sociological Association","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135995720","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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: Avtar Brah, <i>Decolonial Imaginings: Intersectional Conversations and Contestations</i>","authors":"Shannon Martin","doi":"10.1177/00380385231202637","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00380385231202637","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48356,"journal":{"name":"Sociology-The Journal of the British Sociological Association","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135858977","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Belonging-Assemblage: Experiences of Unaccompanied Young People Seeking Asylum in the UK","authors":"Özlem Ögtem-Young","doi":"10.1177/00380385231199669","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00380385231199669","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, I examine how belonging takes place within lives shaped by the hostile milieu of UK immigration policies and politics, by focusing on the everyday experiences of unaccompanied young people seeking asylum. Drawing on Deleuze and Guattari’s assemblage, I suggest an understanding of belonging as a rhizomatic assemblage, comprising the interactions and relations of diverse forces and flows. Based on the analysis of in-depth interviews with unaccompanied young people and the professionals who care for or work with them, I conclude that belonging is reconfigured in-between relations, always incomplete and in transition. I argue that belonging is characterised by inconsistencies and ruptures and made possible by the ‘micro-politics’ of those unaccompanied young people encounter in their everyday lives. I contribute to the literature by conceptualising the sociological notion of belonging in a novel way and exposing its key components and nature formed under precarious conditions.","PeriodicalId":48356,"journal":{"name":"Sociology-The Journal of the British Sociological Association","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135591638","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jordan Foster, David Pettinicchio, Michelle Maroto, Andy Holmes, Martin Lukk
{"title":"Trading Blame: Drawing Boundaries around the Righteous, Deserving and Vulnerable in Times of Crisis.","authors":"Jordan Foster, David Pettinicchio, Michelle Maroto, Andy Holmes, Martin Lukk","doi":"10.1177/00380385221137181","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00380385221137181","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Symbolic boundaries shape how we see and understand both ourselves and those around us. Amid periods of crisis, these boundaries can appear more salient, sharpening distinctions between 'us' and 'them' and reinforcing inequalities in the social landscape. Based on 50 in-depth interviews about pandemic experiences among Canadians with disabilities and chronic health conditions, we examine how this community distinguishes between the 'deserving' and 'undeserving', and how emotions related to blame and resentment inform the boundaries they draw. We find that people with disabilities and chronic health conditions drew boundaries based on unequal health statuses and vulnerabilities and between those who are and are not legitimately entitled to government aid. Underlying these dimensions are a familiar set of moral tropes that respondents use to assert their own superiority and to inveigh their frustrations. Together, they play an important role in solidifying boundaries between groups, complicating public perceptions of policy responses to crisis.</p>","PeriodicalId":48356,"journal":{"name":"Sociology-The Journal of the British Sociological Association","volume":"57 5","pages":"1040-1059"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/a9/85/10.1177_00380385221137181.PMC10555531.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41160697","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}