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From Boardrooms to Platforms: Elite Brokerage and Digital Influence in Chilean Pro-Market Think Tanks 从董事会到平台：智利亲市场智库中的精英经纪和数字影响力。

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British Journal of Sociology Pub Date : 2026-09-02 Epub Date: 2026-04-11 DOI: 10.1111/1468-4446.70117

Manuel Torres-Riquelme

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Convertibility of Cultural Capital: A Longitudinal Study of University Students From 2017 to 2024 文化资本可兑换性：2017 - 2024年大学生的纵向研究

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British Journal of Sociology Pub Date : 2026-09-02 Epub Date: 2026-02-23 DOI: 10.1111/1468-4446.70092

Ondřej Špaček

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Unkept Promises, Unequal Worlds: A Sociological Study of Intimate Abuse in Promise-to-Marry Cases in India. 未兑现的承诺，不平等的世界：印度婚姻承诺案例中亲密虐待的社会学研究。

IF 2.6 2区社会学

British Journal of Sociology Pub Date : 2026-09-02 DOI: 10.1111/1468-4446.70167

Monika

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Towards the Democratisation of Care? Insights From Co-Governance in Local Welfare in Spain and Italy 迈向医疗民主化？西班牙和意大利地方福利共治的启示。

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British Journal of Sociology Pub Date : 2026-09-02 Epub Date: 2026-03-17 DOI: 10.1111/1468-4446.70108

Francesca Donati, María Jesús Rodríguez-García

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Why do Public Debates Escalate? Trigger Points and the Moral Dynamics of “Hot Politics” 为什么公众辩论升级？“热政治”的触发点与道德动力。

IF 2.6 2区社会学

British Journal of Sociology Pub Date : 2026-09-02 Epub Date: 2026-04-15 DOI: 10.1111/1468-4446.70115

Linus Westheuser, Thomas Lux, Steffen Mau

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Relatability as a Racialised Construct in Corporate Graduate Recruitment: Revealing a Hidden Mechanism of Labour Market Exclusion for Black African Youth in South Africa. 相关性作为企业毕业生招聘中的种族化结构：揭示南非黑人青年劳动力市场排斥的隐藏机制。

IF 2.6 2区社会学

British Journal of Sociology Pub Date : 2026-09-01 Epub Date: 2026-05-20 DOI: 10.1111/1468-4446.70128

Sifiso Mthembu, Kurt April, Cihat Erbil, Mustafa F Özbilgin

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The Sociogenomics of Social Stratification and General Theories of Inequality. 社会分层的社会基因组学和不平等的一般理论。

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British Journal of Sociology Pub Date : 2026-09-01 Epub Date: 2026-06-10 DOI: 10.1111/1468-4446.70138

Herman G van de Werfhorst

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Cultural and Human Capital Signals in Hiring-A Factorial Survey Experiment Across Contexts. 招聘中的文化和人力资本信号——跨情境的析因调查实验。

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British Journal of Sociology Pub Date : 2026-09-01 Epub Date: 2026-05-20 DOI: 10.1111/1468-4446.70125

Luisa Burchartz, Kobe De Keere, Sara Geven

{"title":"Cultural and Human Capital Signals in Hiring-A Factorial Survey Experiment Across Contexts.","authors":"Luisa Burchartz, Kobe De Keere, Sara Geven","doi":"10.1111/1468-4446.70125","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-4446.70125","url":null,"abstract":"When evaluating candidates, hiring agents may draw on signals of human as well as cultural capital. While these processes have been considered separately, an open question is how the two types of signals interact. As signals of social class, cultural capital signals relate to human capital as they evoke stereotypes about competence, polish, and discipline, and can indicate different patterns of social mobility in combination with human capital signals. These interdependencies may be important in employee gatekeeping, and therefore in the reproduction of labour market inequalities. In this paper, we address the question of how hiring agents evaluate cultural capital signals in light of different human capital signals. We draw on a factorial survey experiment to analyse hiring agents' evaluations of different cultural capital signals (combining signals of class backgrounds and class practices) in relation to human capital indicators (the level and specificity of education, training participation, and work experience) across contexts. These contexts include two countries, Germany and England, two sectors, Software Development and Human Resource Management, and two career stages, the early and late career. The results show that the value of highbrow cultural capital signals depends on the context, as well as on human capital signals. In Software Development and HRM as the professional fields that we studied, hiring agents often did not give value to cultural capital signals. This was especially the case in England. In Germany, positive evaluations of cultural capital signals mostly followed a multiplication effect: such signals were only valued when higher human capital signals were also indicated. We found this pattern most clearly in Germany, particularly for late-career candidates. This multiplication effect underlines the importance of looking at combinations of cultural and human capital signals for understanding how inequalities are generated in gatekeeping processes.","PeriodicalId":51368,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Sociology","volume":" ","pages":"786-801"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13536517/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147984244","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}

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De(-)Meaning Anti-Racism. 德(-)反种族主义意义。

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British Journal of Sociology Pub Date : 2026-09-01 Epub Date: 2026-05-20 DOI: 10.1111/1468-4446.70130

Jasbinder S Nijjar

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Laying Grounds for Dialogue: Exploring Anti-Racist Activists' Negotiations of Emotions When Challenging Colour-Blindness in Norway. 为对话奠定基础：探索反种族主义活动家在挪威挑战色盲时的情绪谈判。

IF 2.6 2区社会学

British Journal of Sociology Pub Date : 2026-09-01 Epub Date: 2026-05-03 DOI: 10.1111/1468-4446.70121

Kine Marie Michelet

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