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Insurance and the "Irrationalization" of Disaster Policy: A Political Crisis Theory for an Age of Climate Risk. 保险与灾害政策的“非理性”：气候风险时代的政治危机理论。

IF 3.3 2区社会学

British Journal of Sociology Pub Date : 2025-07-29 DOI: 10.1111/1468-4446.70017

Stephen J Collier

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Social Mobility, Self-Selection, and the Persistence of Class Inequality in Electoral Participation. 社会流动、自我选择与选举参与中的阶级不平等。

IF 3.3 2区社会学

British Journal of Sociology Pub Date : 2025-07-29 DOI: 10.1111/1468-4446.70018

Giacomo Melli, Nan Dirk de Graaf, Geoffrey Evans

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Managing Risk & Seeking Dignity: Working-Class Perceptions of University in London, Rochdale & Morecambe. 管理风险与寻求尊严：工人阶级对伦敦、罗奇代尔和莫克姆大学的看法。

IF 2.7 2区社会学

British Journal of Sociology Pub Date : 2025-07-26 DOI: 10.1111/1468-4446.70021

Amit Singh

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Capital and the Family. 《资本与家族》

IF 2.7 2区社会学

British Journal of Sociology Pub Date : 2025-07-26 DOI: 10.1111/1468-4446.70015

Jens Beckert, Isabell Stamm

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Global Fields and Migration Regimes: Citizenship by Investment. 全球领域和移民制度：投资公民。

IF 2.7 2区社会学

British Journal of Sociology Pub Date : 2025-07-24 DOI: 10.1111/1468-4446.70011

Kristin Surak

{"title":"Global Fields and Migration Regimes: Citizenship by Investment.","authors":"Kristin Surak","doi":"10.1111/1468-4446.70011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.70011","url":null,"abstract":"In the past decade, scholars of international migration have made remarkable strides in unpacking the complex infrastructures that channel cross-border mobility by investigating the operation of profit-oriented migration industries and the regulatory tussles of multilevel migration governance. However, little work has combined the insights of both to reveal how they interact to facilitate or inhibit the growth of particular migration regimes. This article integrates the two strands by reconceptualizing them as part of the same global field, which offers resources for exploring how the struggle for profit intersects with competitions over regulatory capital. It clarifies these dynamics through a case study of the sale of citizenship to wealthy individuals. Focusing first on the involvement of regulatory capital in the competition around economic capital, it shows how and with what outcomes countries and firms cooperate or compete in the system, leading to program resilience or risks. Then turning to the involvement of economic capital in competitions leveraging regulatory capital, it reveals how global powers can influence the citizenship policies of other countries and how third powers dominate in different ways, impacting program growth and profitability. The upshot offers greater traction for examining the limits of state sovereignty and reveals how migration regimes are produced within uneven global playing fields structured by fundamental doxa.","PeriodicalId":51368,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Sociology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144709750","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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What Is Justice? Reflections on the Criminal Justice System in Brazil. 什么是正义？对巴西刑事司法制度的思考。

IF 2.7 2区社会学

British Journal of Sociology Pub Date : 2025-07-23 DOI: 10.1111/1468-4446.70019

Fernanda Oliveira, Isabela Corby, Juliana Góes

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Unnatural Wills: Inheritance Disputes and Inequality. 非自然遗嘱：继承纠纷与不平等。

IF 2.7 2区社会学

British Journal of Sociology Pub Date : 2025-07-23 DOI: 10.1111/1468-4446.70016

Shay O'Brien

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Christophers, Brett. 2024. The Price Is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won't Save the Planet. London, UK: Verso Books. 布雷特·克里斯托弗斯，2024。《价格错了：为什么资本主义不能拯救地球》伦敦，英国：Verso Books。

IF 2.7 2区社会学

British Journal of Sociology Pub Date : 2025-07-23 DOI: 10.1111/1468-4446.70014

Brett Christophers

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Chinese Concerted Cultivation: The Pattern and Determinants of Chinese Parenting and Its Cumulative Consequences on Children's Cognitive Developments. 中国协同培养：中国父母教养模式和决定因素及其对儿童认知发展的累积影响。

IF 2.7 2区社会学

British Journal of Sociology Pub Date : 2025-07-12 DOI: 10.1111/1468-4446.70010

Boyan Zheng

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Immigrants in the Income Elite in Germany: The Role of Immigrant-Native Households. 德国收入精英中的移民：移民-本土家庭的作用。

IF 2.7 2区社会学

British Journal of Sociology Pub Date : 2025-07-01 DOI: 10.1111/1468-4446.70007

Florian Zimmermann, Matthias Collischon, Anja Wunder

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