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{"title":"Laying Grounds for Dialogue: Exploring Anti-Racist Activists' Negotiations of Emotions When Challenging Colour-Blindness in Norway.","authors":"Kine Marie Michelet","doi":"10.1111/1468-4446.70121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.70121","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this article, I explore how 36 Norwegian anti-racist activists of colour negotiate emotions when engaging with the white majority population. Much recent research on racist ideology draws on Bonilla-Silva's framework of colour-blindness, arguing that the white majority nowadays is more likely to deny systemic racism. However, few studies have explored the relationship between micro-level interactions and colour-blind ideology beyond the realm of language. Using Ahmed's theory on affective economies along with decolonial perspectives on emotions, I empirically demonstrate how an unequal distribution of emotions across racial divides works as a central mechanism in the development of colour-blind ideology. This finding reveals the need to incorporate the role of emotions within the literature on colour-blindness more broadly, as similar tendencies may be prevalent in other Western societies.</p>","PeriodicalId":51368,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Sociology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147823360","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}

{"title":"The Worldviews of Elites: Differences Between Inheritors and Newcomers.","authors":"Gabriel Otero","doi":"10.1111/1468-4446.70122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.70122","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The main goal of this paper is to examine variations in the political attitudes of elites in Chile concerning two key dimensions: socioeconomic attitudes (concerning redistribution, taxation, and state provision of services) and sociocultural attitudes (concerning immigration, LGBTQ+ rights, gender equality, and democratic values). I propose a framework that underscores the potential impact of the source of elite power-whether economic, political, or cultural-in shaping differences in political attitudes. Additionally, I suggest that patterns of intergenerational persistence and mobility (e.g., being born into an elite family) may contribute to variations in attitudes among elite individuals. To test the study's expectations, I use survey data collected between 2019 and 2020 from a sample of 416 individuals belonging to Chile's economic, political, and cultural elites. Using multiple correspondence analysis (MCA), findings reveal substantial variation in political attitudes among elite individuals, with socioeconomic and sociocultural orientations strongly aligned. Explanatory analyses using multivariate regression models reveal that variations in attitudes among elite individuals are largely shaped by their elite type and social origins, with members of the economic elite and those from elite origins displaying the most conservative and inegalitarian views on both dimensions. Moreover, significant attitudinal tensions are observed between inheritors and newcomers, not only across the elites as a whole but also within the economic, political, and cultural elite groups.</p>","PeriodicalId":51368,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Sociology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147823323","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}

{"title":"Cruel and Usual: Recursive Racial Cruelty at the US Immigration Courts.","authors":"Nabila N Islam","doi":"10.1111/1468-4446.70120","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.70120","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this paper, I advance a theorization of recursive racial cruelty by focusing on the suffering of racialized respondents in the US immigration courts and connecting it to the routine functioning of the US empire and colonial racial capitalism. Immigration courts operate within the US Department of Justice (DOJ), where immigration judges hear the government's removal (deportation) cases against non-citizen residents and adjudicate their right to stay in the US. As the legal avenue for settling questions of deportation and asylum, these courts are often posed as humane and just alternatives to the spectacular public displays of cruelty involving militarized raids, abductions, and expedited deportations (sometimes to third-country prisons) that have characterized Trump's two terms in office. Using ethnographic data from 42 cases in Boston from 2020-2022, which took place during both Trump and Biden's presidential terms, I argue that the immigration courts are in fact a parallel public-facing vehicle and staging ground for racial cruelty for the US empire-state. In the immigration courts, a combination of de jure and de facto practices work daily to reinforce a racialized politics of imperial membership. In the process, it also circulates money out of the hands of racialized respondents and their families, so that eventually profit can be made. Furthermore, the racial cruelty exercised in the immigration courts, is recursive in two ways. For each immigrant respondent, such cruelty recurs and builds in every stage of the court proceedings, from the initial hearing to the adjudication of bond to the final deportation order, and through their everyday experience in proximate institutions such as detention centers. As a result of the ongoing effects of US (and more broadly, Euro-American) imperialism in much of the world, racial cruelty also recurs generationally and sometimes transnationally during immigrant respondents' lifetimes. By advancing a theory of recursive racial cruelty, this article contributes to decolonial theory building and bridges sociological literature on US immigration, race, organizations, empire, and political economy.</p>","PeriodicalId":51368,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Sociology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147788837","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}

{"title":"Privileged Precarity: How the Mobile Middle Class Leverage Housing Insecurity as Labour Market Strategy.","authors":"Tim White","doi":"10.1111/1468-4446.70118","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-4446.70118","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>How does the ability to weather insecurity give some an upper-hand over others? This paper examines the interrelationship between housing and labour market precarity among middle class young professionals. Drawing on interviews with residents of co-living schemes-for-profit shared housing where tenants are on temporary rental contracts-it explores how residential precarity is strategically leveraged in pursuit of tumultuous careers in the knowledge economy. I propose the concept of privileged precarity in order to interrogate this dynamic and the contradictory subjectivities emerging therefrom. Whereas precarity is experienced by working class and marginalised households as a state of oppression, we see how the privileged can harness it as an asset and resource. In particular, the precarious tenure relations of co-living enabled participants to synchronise their lives with the rhythms of hyper-competitive and insecure careers in the tech sector-quickly pivoting to new economic opportunities and interacting with work on the terms of its contingent availability. By way of conclusion, the paper calls attention to the socially stratifying potentials of privileged precarities, and reflects on the applicability of the concept to other social domains and relations of inequality.</p>","PeriodicalId":51368,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Sociology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147700663","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}

{"title":"Why do Public Debates Escalate? Trigger Points and the Moral Dynamics of \"Hot Politics\".","authors":"Linus Westheuser, Thomas Lux, Steffen Mau","doi":"10.1111/1468-4446.70115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.70115","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Escalating, emotionally charged, and moralized forms of controversy are a central feature of contemporary politics. Our study develops a framework for understanding how political debates between ordinary citizens become heated; why certain issues provoke particularly strong emotions; and how this affective potential is weaponized by \"polarization entrepreneurs\" in politics and the media. Based on an analysis of focus group discussions conducted in Germany, we identify recurring dynamics of affective escalation which we call trigger points. Trigger points are discursive breaches in which ordinary disagreement turns into affectively charged \"hot politics\". Observing how debates escalate, the study argues that trigger points derive their affective potential from the violation of widely shared, implicit moral expectations. Specifically, we identify four widely recurring trigger points, each of which is rooted in a distinct set of moral expectations: \"unequal treatments\" (equality), \"disrupted normality\" (normality); \"behavioral impositions\" (autonomy); and \"threatened boundaries\" (control). Trigger points thus reveal a moral deep structure of public opinion. In this way, the concept helps bridge macro-level diagnoses of polarized publics and micro-level evidence showing that most citizens are only intermittently politicized. Trigger points illuminate how controversies between ordinary citizens can become charged with affects like anger, fear or disgust, without presupposing coherent ideologies or stable partisanship. More broadly, the framework offers a tool for analyzing wedge issues, perceived polarization, and the strategic emotionalization of politics by political entrepreneurs.</p>","PeriodicalId":51368,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Sociology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147693476","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}

{"title":"From Boardrooms to Platforms: Elite Brokerage and Digital Influence in Chilean Pro-Market Think Tanks.","authors":"Manuel Torres-Riquelme","doi":"10.1111/1468-4446.70117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.70117","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article examines how Chilean pro-market think tanks-the Centro de Estudios Públicos (CEP) and the Fundación para el Progreso (FPP)-operate as performative brokers, translating elite network positions into epistemic authority across hybrid media environments. Through a mixed-methods analysis combining social network analysis of interlocking directorates with statistical modelling of over 6000 media items (2012-2024), we develop the concept of performative brokerage: the enactment of public expertise through platform-specific repertoires. Our findings reveal two distinct brokerage modalities. CEP exemplifies technocratic-distributed brokerage, leveraging extensive corporate-academic interlocks and high interfield capacity to sustain authority through traditional media gatekeeping. In contrast, FPP employs compensatory brokerage, offsetting limited corporate embeddedness through algorithmic visibility and moral-ideological repertoires tailored to digital platforms. Methodologically, we introduce an interfield capacity index extending Burt's brokerage measures, and employ robust modelling strategies-Negative Binomial regressions, Spearman correlations, and zero-inflation correction-to analyse platform-specific engagement across Facebook, TikTok, and YouTube. Results show that while CEP dominates citation-based authority, FPP achieves reach through platform efficiency rather than emotional escalation. By integrating Burt's structural holes, Bourdieusian capital conversion, and the sociology of economisation and performativity, we advance performative brokerage as a framework that explains how think tanks translate network advantages into public authority through platform-specific credibility performances.</p>","PeriodicalId":51368,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Sociology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147662661","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}

{"title":"Ficto-Primitive Capital: What Wellness Seekers Gain From Practicing Shamanism and Other Healing Traditions.","authors":"Catherine Tan","doi":"10.1111/1468-4446.70119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.70119","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Behind its worldly and socially conscious aesthetic, the wellness industry serves the health and fitness interests of North American and European consumers by commercializing non-Western and Indigenous healing traditions, including shamanistic practices. Explored in this paper, \"American shamans\" seek to heal a range of maladies by collecting traditions found outside of their own cultural heritage, from ceremonies of the Q'ero people in the Andes to those of the Sámi in Scandinavia. As part of an ethnographic study, this paper draws from participant observation and a sample of 41 interviews with self-identified shamanic and spiritual healers across the United States. I introduce ficto-primitive capital to describe the status pursued by individuals who cultivate practices, objects, and relationships associated with communities they imagine as being pre-modern and pre-industrial. American shamans accrue ficto-primitive capital in effort to escape problems they associate with Western modernity: loss of community, feelings of isolation, and lack of cultural substance. Ironically, despite having purported respect for the communities that inspire their healing methods, American shamans become agents of cultural imperialism and exploit global inequalities. Ficto-primitive capital offers an account of why shamanic and other wellness practices are growing in popularity among Westerners.</p>","PeriodicalId":51368,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Sociology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147655415","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}

{"title":"The Politics of Knowledge: Race, Decolonial Knowledge, and Activist Research in Belgium and the UK.","authors":"Elif Lootens","doi":"10.1111/1468-4446.70116","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.70116","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51368,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Sociology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147629273","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}

{"title":"How Does Higher Education Influence Attitudes Towards Muslims? Examining Mechanisms That Reduce Prejudice Within UK Universities.","authors":"Tom Fryer, Mathew Guest, Kristin Aune, Lucy Peacock","doi":"10.1111/1468-4446.70113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.70113","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article examines the relationship between encounters with religious diversity and the perspectives people form about Muslims. Its empirical focus is individuals studying at UK universities. Previous research suggests Muslims are amongst those most subject to negative prejudice in the UK, this being structured around racial or ethnic prejudice and negative judgements about Islam as a religion. Universities, on the other hand, generally retain a reputation for upholding values of equality, diversity and inclusion. While this reputation is not uncontested, evidence suggests high proportions of students affirm positive views about minority groups, including Muslims. This article examines longitudinal data from a national survey of university students to clarify how they view Muslims and examine how these views might have been shaped by their experience of university. Focusing on students' encounters with religious diversity, the article examines different mechanisms within the university experience that appear most significant in shaping a more positive outlook on Muslims. In so doing, it assesses the capacity of universities to drive progressive attitudinal change and investigates the social mechanisms that bring this about, highlighting in particular the initiation of 'proactive encounters' with other students affirming different worldviews.</p>","PeriodicalId":51368,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Sociology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147629279","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}

{"title":"Taking Stock: Elite Studies and Social Change.","authors":"Lena Ajdacic, François Schoenberger, Johanna Behr, Fabio Cescon, Lion Hubrich, Emma Ischinsky, Muneeb Salman, Juliana Mazzucotelli, Laura Mrčela, Alonso Pi Cholula, Céline Roy, Sophie Serrano, Helle Dyrendahl Staven, Tina Thakur","doi":"10.1111/1468-4446.70093","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-4446.70093","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article provides a systematic synthesis of contemporary elite sociology through the analytical lens of change and stability. We distinguish between two types of change: change within elites, referring to transformations in elite composition, circulation, or internal characteristics; and change by elites, designating processes whereby elites reshape broader social structures, norms, or inequalities. Through a systematic review of 164 empirical articles published in leading sociology journals between 2000 and 2024, we demonstrate that contemporary elite sociology engages extensively with temporal perspectives, though in asymmetric ways. By systematically examining combinations of elite types and research topics, we reveal systematic patterns: studies addressing nationality emphasize evolution and shifting configurations, while research on kinship and class more frequently examines continuity and reproduction. Crucially, we find that broader social change associated with elites is predominantly portrayed as an unintentional consequence rather than the result of deliberate strategic action. Based on these findings, we outline four directions for future research: reversing the temporal lens to investigate understudied dynamics; situating elite processes along a temporal spectrum that captures both continuity and transformation; examining the degree of intentionality in elites as agents of change; and integrating forward-looking perspectives to understand how elites imagine and actively shape trajectories. This synthesis advances elite sociology by revealing how temporal perspectives fundamentally structure our understanding of power relations and by identifying critical gaps in how we conceptualize elites' relationship to social transformation.</p>","PeriodicalId":51368,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Sociology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147629244","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}