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Political legitimacy after the pits: Corruption narratives and labour power in a former coalmining town in England. 矿坑之后的政治合法性：英国前煤矿城镇的腐败叙事与劳工权力。

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British Journal of Sociology Pub Date : 2024-11-18 DOI: 10.1111/1468-4446.13169

Sacha Hilhorst

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Settling secondhand sales: Pricing symbolic items in an emergent online marketplace environment. 解决二手销售问题：在新兴的网络市场环境中为象征性物品定价。

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British Journal of Sociology Pub Date : 2024-11-17 DOI: 10.1111/1468-4446.13168

Ryan Fajardo

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A long view of social mobility in Scotland and the role of economic changes. 从长远角度看苏格兰的社会流动性和经济变化的作用。

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British Journal of Sociology Pub Date : 2024-11-17 DOI: 10.1111/1468-4446.13162

Lindsay Paterson, Fangqi Wen, Richard Breen, Cristina Iannelli, Jung In

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Becoming and unbecoming academics: Classed resources and strategies for navigating risky careers. 成为和不成为学者：在有风险的职业生涯中游刃有余的阶级资源和策略。

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British Journal of Sociology Pub Date : 2024-11-14 DOI: 10.1111/1468-4446.13165

Marte Mangset, Julia Orupabo

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Variation in the social composition of the UK academic elite: The underlay of the two-or three-cultures? 英国学术精英社会构成的差异：两种或三种文化的基础？

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British Journal of Sociology Pub Date : 2024-10-22 DOI: 10.1111/1468-4446.13154

Erzsébet Bukodi, John H Goldthorpe

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Action-based explanations as a basis for the analysis and design of the social world. 基于行动的解释是分析和设计社会世界的基础。

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British Journal of Sociology Pub Date : 2024-10-16 DOI: 10.1111/1468-4446.13155

Andrea Maurer

{"title":"Action-based explanations as a basis for the analysis and design of the social world.","authors":"Andrea Maurer","doi":"10.1111/1468-4446.13155","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.13155","url":null,"abstract":"In sociology, the question of what it means to explain social phenomena and how this relates to the purpose of the social sciences is important but nowadays rarely asked. This article elaborates on this question and provides an answer by outlining the program of \"explanatory sociology\" as a branch of the modern social science approach. It is shown that, in this framework, to explain means to uncover cause-effect relationships based on models of individuals who are assumed the central force in social life. This idea is taken further to uncover specific challenges that individuals face in social life and how and why they establish and manage (or do not) social forms that help to organize the world from the viewpoint of their abilities and needs. Such action-oriented explanations have been presented and developed in sociology since its very beginning. Two main forms or logics to construct action-based explanations are outlined and developed due to the form and function of the used action theory or model. The article contributes to the discussion about the form and task of sociological theorizing by presenting action-based explanations as a form of sociological theorizing that defines a clear task in exploring challenges in social life and assessing possible forms of coping with them from the perspective of individuals. By doing so, two main ways of broadening explanations are considered and compared in light of what the purpose of sociology might be.","PeriodicalId":51368,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Sociology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142480406","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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Meritocratic beliefs in the United States, Finland, and China: A multidimensional approach using latent class analysis. 美国、芬兰和中国的择优信念：使用潜类分析的多维方法。

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British Journal of Sociology Pub Date : 2024-10-09 DOI: 10.1111/1468-4446.13152

Li Zhu

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Racial discrimination in helping situations depends on the cost of help: A large field experiment in the streets of Paris. 帮助环境中的种族歧视取决于帮助的成本：巴黎街头的大型实地实验。

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British Journal of Sociology Pub Date : 2024-10-08 DOI: 10.1111/1468-4446.13156

Martin Aranguren

{"title":"Racial discrimination in helping situations depends on the cost of help: A large field experiment in the streets of Paris.","authors":"Martin Aranguren","doi":"10.1111/1468-4446.13156","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.13156","url":null,"abstract":"Decades of field experiments show that White Americans are more likely to discriminate against Black Americans when the situation provides a nonracist rationalization for withholding help from a Black target - for instance, when the cost of helping looks unreasonable. However, work on racial discrimination in helping is scarcer outside of the US context. The present experiment extends this line of research to Europe and studies differences in helping asiatique (Asian), blanc (White) and noir (Black) men and women in France. In addition, it assesses to what extent racial discrimination in the probability to provide assistance is moderated by the perceived cost of help. The study rests on a sample of over 4500 independent observations collected through a factorial design that combines 12 testers (equally apportioned in race and gender groups), two social class conditions and four observation sites. Testers asked for directions to pedestrians in front of the traffic lights of a busy road, and pedestrians could provide different forms of help that varied in perceived cost. The analysis indicates that overall asiatique and noir testers receive help less often than their blanc counterparts. It also shows that racial discrimination is stronger when the perceived cost of helping is higher.","PeriodicalId":51368,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Sociology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142395167","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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Variations in media framing of movements in China, France, and the U.S.: An intersectional approach. 中国、法国和美国媒体对运动报道的差异：交叉方法。

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British Journal of Sociology Pub Date : 2024-10-05 DOI: 10.1111/1468-4446.13153

Yao Li, Marion Cassard, Brooke Holmes, Huixuan Wu

{"title":"Variations in media framing of movements in China, France, and the U.S.: An intersectional approach.","authors":"Yao Li, Marion Cassard, Brooke Holmes, Huixuan Wu","doi":"10.1111/1468-4446.13153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.13153","url":null,"abstract":"Current literature often links contentious protests with media hostility, showing that news outlets typically portray protests involving disruption or violence in a negative light. Contesting this literature, this work introduces an intersectional approach-focusing on geopolitics, protest goals and actions-to theorize divergences in the media framing of protests that entail violence. To illustrate these divergences, we use mixed methods-network analysis and content analysis-to examine an original dataset on U.S. media coverage of three large movements in different countries. These movements share similarities in their anti-status quo goals and contentious actions but differ in geopolitical locations: one taking place in the U.S., the second in a U.S. ally country, and the third in a non-ally country. As the first to apply network analysis in movement-media studies, this comparative study contributes to a systematic examination of media framing variations both within and across social movements. This work also complicates our understanding of violence and media representation by introducing a theoretically-informed approach that considers multiple factors simultaneously.","PeriodicalId":51368,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Sociology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142378606","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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"Social science is explanation or it is nothing." Introduction to a debate. "社会科学要么是解释，要么什么都不是"。辩论导言。

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British Journal of Sociology Pub Date : 2024-09-20 DOI: 10.1111/1468-4446.13100

Monika Krause

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