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{"title":"Holding It Together: How Women Became America’s Safety Net. By Calarco, J., Portfolio Penguin, 2024. 336 pp. £24.00 (hardback). ISBN: 9780593538128","authors":"Tristan Bridges","doi":"10.1111/1468-4446.13189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.13189","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51368,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Sociology","volume":"76 3","pages":"701-702"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144273087","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":"A Du Boisian Sociological Imagination: The Black Radical Tradition, Marxism and Du Boisian Sociology","authors":"José Itzigsohn","doi":"10.1111/1468-4446.13186","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-4446.13186","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>W. E. B. Du Bois is finally recognized as one of the founders of sociology, a social theorist, and a methodological innovator. The recognition of Du Bois' work is accompanied by the emergence of a contemporary Du Boisian sociology. This sociology takes inspiration from the work of Du Bois, but it does not limit itself to his work. It aims to bring into sociology the work of scholars that so far have been confined to the margins of the discipline, among them, Franz Fanon and Stuart Hall. Yet, as Du Bois work gets increasing visibility, important debates emerge. One of these debates concerns Du Bois' relation to Marxism, and the relationship between Du Boisian sociology to Marxist sociology. Marxist sociologists argue that Du Bois' late work, as well as the work of Franz Fanon and Stuart Hall, belongs in the Marxist tradition. In this essay I argue that while Du Bois, Fanon, and Hall were sympathetic to Marxism, their work cannot be encapsulated within the Marxist tradition. The question of the human was central to their thought. Moreover, for them colonialism and racism structure identity, lived experience and politics under capitalism in ways that are not reducible to class and class conflict. The Marxist appropriation of their work diminishes its originality and precludes the discipline from questioning the coloniality of its historical silences and its epistemic limits.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51368,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Sociology","volume":"76 3","pages":"499-510"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143015530","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 dispositif is alive! Recovering social agents in Foucauldian analysis","authors":"Johan Gøtzsche-Astrup,&nbsp;Kaspar Villadsen","doi":"10.1111/1468-4446.13174","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-4446.13174","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Michel Foucault's concept of the <i>dispositif</i> is increasingly salient in sociological scholarship. We identify and criticise an ‘anonymous’ emphasis in this scholarship, which often presents the <i>dispositif</i> as an anonymous network that acts without human agents. To remedy this tendency we develop an agent-inclusive version of the <i>dispositif</i> for sociological research. Turning to Foucault's work from the 1970s, we recover descriptions of how social groups act as instigators of <i>dispositifs</i> through their invention of tactics and techniques. We develop these into an agent-inclusive version of dispositional analytics and suggest five steps to pursue in empirical analysis. We exemplify these steps through a historical case of protesting. Finally, we show how our revisionist version of the <i>dispositif</i> meets critiques of Foucault's agentless approach and discuss the implication for a further integration of sociological research with dispositional analytics.</p>","PeriodicalId":51368,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Sociology","volume":"76 2","pages":"442-456"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-4446.13174","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142933545","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Lagging behind by doing good: How volunteering prolongs unemployment","authors":"Elisabeth Lilleøre Holstein,&nbsp;Hans-Peter Y. Qvist","doi":"10.1111/1468-4446.13182","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-4446.13182","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study contributes new insights into whether volunteering improves the employment prospects of jobless individuals by examining its relationship with the speed at which they secure new jobs— an outcome that has received limited attention in previous research. Our comprehensive data enables us to investigate this by constructing an event history dataset that merges information from the Danish Volunteer Survey with administrative register data. Our results show that when we adjust for variations in education and labor market experience, jobless individuals who volunteer remain unemployed approximately two weeks or 31 percent longer than those who do not. Although our results remain correlational, they challenge the wisdom of promoting volunteering as a reemployment strategy, which some governments in European countries already do while others consider doing so. We recommend that policymakers reconsider the promotion of volunteering as a reemployment tool and call for further research into the relationship between volunteering and unemployment duration, particularly in different national contexts.</p>","PeriodicalId":51368,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Sociology","volume":"76 3","pages":"483-498"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-4446.13182","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142933544","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Review of social mobility, social inequality, and the role of higher education. By Elena G. Popkova, Bruno S. Sergi, Konstantin V. Vodenko, Boston: Koninklijke Brill NV. 2023. pp. 388. €163.00 (paperback). ISBN: 9789004539983","authors":"Yonghua (Yoka) Wang,&nbsp;Mengting Huang","doi":"10.1111/1468-4446.13180","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.13180","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51368,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Sociology","volume":"76 2","pages":"476-478"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143582088","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":"After positivism: New approaches to comparison in historical sociology. By Nicholas Hoover Wilson, Damon Mayrl (Eds.), New York: Columbia University Press. 2024","authors":"George Lawson","doi":"10.1111/1468-4446.13183","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.13183","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51368,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Sociology","volume":"76 3","pages":"699-700"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144273218","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 social life of creative methods: Filmmaking, fabulation and recovery","authors":"Nicole Vitellone,&nbsp;Lena Theodoropoulou,&nbsp;Melanie Manchot","doi":"10.1111/1468-4446.13177","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-4446.13177","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this article we consider the theoretical and methodological implications of Deleuzian fabulation for research on recovery from drugs and alcohol as an alternative way of making and doing methods in sociology. The article draws on data produced as part of an ongoing interdisciplinary research collaboration, begun in 2019, with the visual artist and filmmaker Melanie Manchot, social scientists Nicole Vitellone and Lena Theodoropoulou, and people in recovery from drugs and alcohol engaged in the production of Manchot’s first feature film STEPHEN. This project attends to the methodological practice of filmmaking as a way of thinking with and alongside colleagues from divergent disciplines about the role of methods, concepts and practices for confronting and resisting processes of stigmatisation. Investigating the research participants’ engagement with Manchot’s filmmaking practices in STEPHEN as a way to tell stories otherwise, our goal is to engage the social life of creative methods and in doing so, propose an alternative narrative of recovery. In this investigation, we use the term fabulation as developed by Deleuze. In <i>Cinema II</i>, Deleuze makes a distinction between the cinema of reality, where storytelling derives from the camera’s objective gaze and a given character’s subjective actions, and cinema verité where the boundaries between fiction and reality are blurred. In cinema verité, the camera is not an objective observer but an active producer that keeps reminding the viewer that the on-screen characters are neither fully real, nor fictional. Attending to Deleuze’s description of fabulation as it emerges through this process of challenging the existence of ‘real’ identities in cinema, and beyond, we investigate the use of cinematic devices and fabulative processes of filmmaking in the production of STEPHEN. In doing so, the article develops a methodological account of the activity of fabulation as a material and embodied practice that resists processes of stigmatisation. Through this interdisciplinary project, we propose a new arts-based research agenda which points to the ways in which fabulation as a minor mode of recovery concerns an engagement with the creation of a people to come.</p>","PeriodicalId":51368,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Sociology","volume":"76 2","pages":"423-441"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-4446.13177","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142900340","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Rethinking sanctions: Exploring resistance and internal dynamics through a target-centred lens","authors":"Ali A. Ghareh Daghi","doi":"10.1111/1468-4446.13184","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.13184","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51368,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Sociology","volume":"76 3","pages":"690-698"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144273236","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":"Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto. By Kohei Saito, New York, USA: Astra House. 2024. pp. 288. $18.00 (paperback). ISBN: 9781662602726","authors":"Yusuf Murteza","doi":"10.1111/1468-4446.13181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.13181","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51368,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Sociology","volume":"76 2","pages":"473-475"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143581950","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":"Disruptive diversity: Exploring racial commodification in the Norwegian cultural field","authors":"Sabina Tica","doi":"10.1111/1468-4446.13178","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-4446.13178","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Scholars have suggested that the heightened focus on diversity in Western cultural fields may drive forms of racial commodification, impacting cultural representations of ‘race’. However, few studies apply Bourdieu's theory of cultural production to understand how racial commodification may also disrupt field dynamics. This article aims to explore how racialised minority cultural producers in Norway experience the intensified focus on diversity within the cultural field. Drawing on Bourdieu's theory of cultural production, critical diversity studies and the cultural industries approach, I analyse fieldwork and interviews with 41 Norwegian cultural producers. This analysis reveals three key diversity-related changes participants experienced: (1) a transformation of racial identities into commodities, (2) a shift towards racial self-commodification, and (3) a change in the value of ‘diverse stories’. The findings suggest that the increased focus on diversity encourages a form of racial commodification, with a dual impact on racialised minorities' artistic freedom. While it restricts their potential for aesthetic recognition, it also creates a platform to redefine what counts as legitimate culture. This offers insights into an under-researched aspect of diversity efforts and racial commodification, revealing how this commodification can instigate change within the cultural field.</p>","PeriodicalId":51368,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Sociology","volume":"76 2","pages":"407-422"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-4446.13178","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142848350","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}