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Karl Popper Versus Karl Mannheim on Sociology and Democratic Governance 卡尔·波普尔与卡尔·曼海姆论社会学与民主治理。

IF 3.3 2区社会学

British Journal of Sociology Pub Date : 2025-05-05 DOI: 10.1111/1468-4446.13221

Martyn Hammersley

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Equally Bad, Unevenly Distributed: Gender and the ‘Black Box’ of Student Employment 同样糟糕，分布不均：性别与学生就业的“黑箱”。

IF 3.3 2区社会学

British Journal of Sociology Pub Date : 2025-05-04 DOI: 10.1111/1468-4446.13210

Mia Ruijie Zhong, Rachel Lara Cohen, Kim Allen, Kirsty Finn, Kate Hardy, Cassie Kill

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Artificial Intelligence as a Strategy in the British Economic Field 人工智能作为英国经济领域的战略。

IF 3.3 2区社会学

British Journal of Sociology Pub Date : 2025-04-29 DOI: 10.1111/1468-4446.13218

Will Atkinson

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Ukrainian Refugees and Welfare Deservingness: A Comparative Study of UK Government Discussions Around the 2022 Ukraine Conflict and 2015 Migrant Crisis 乌克兰难民与福利应得性：2022年乌克兰冲突与2015年移民危机前后英国政府讨论的比较研究

IF 3.3 2区社会学

British Journal of Sociology Pub Date : 2025-04-27 DOI: 10.1111/1468-4446.13219

Joshua Garland, Juhyun Lee

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Decolonizing the Global: Contested Cosmopolitanisms in Global Queer Activism 非殖民化全球：全球酷儿行动中有争议的世界主义。

IF 3.3 2区社会学

British Journal of Sociology Pub Date : 2025-04-15 DOI: 10.1111/1468-4446.13217

Minwoo Jung

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Review of “Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley”. By Carolyn Chen, Princeton, New Jersey, USA: Princeton University Press, 2022. 272 pp. $18.95/£15.99 《工作祈祷代码：当工作成为硅谷的宗教》卡罗琳·陈，美国新泽西州普林斯顿：普林斯顿大学出版社，2022年。272页，18.95美元/ 15.99英镑

IF 3.3 2区社会学

British Journal of Sociology Pub Date : 2025-04-13 DOI: 10.1111/1468-4446.13216

Rebecca C. Franklin

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Review of the Book The Chile Project. By Sebastián Edwards, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2023. 376 pp. $32.00/£28.00. ISBN: 9780691208626 《智利计划》一书书评。作者：Sebastián爱德华兹，普林斯顿，新泽西州：普林斯顿大学出版社，2023年。376页，32.00美元/ 28.00英镑。ISBN: 9780691208626

IF 3.3 2区社会学

British Journal of Sociology Pub Date : 2025-04-12 DOI: 10.1111/1468-4446.13215

Dana Brablec

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Commercial Surrogacy Is not a Secret Handshake: It Is a High-Five: Gay Fathers in China’s Changing Landscape 商业代孕不是秘密握手，而是击掌：中国变化中的同性恋父亲。

IF 3.3 2区社会学

British Journal of Sociology Pub Date : 2025-04-12 DOI: 10.1111/1468-4446.13214

Eileen Y. H. Tsang

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Banal Radicalism: Free Spaces and the Routinization of Radical Practices in Far-Right Movements 平庸的激进主义：极右翼运动中激进实践的自由空间和常规化。

IF 3.3 2区社会学

British Journal of Sociology Pub Date : 2025-04-08 DOI: 10.1111/1468-4446.13213

Oded Marom

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The Bigger Pictures of L'État Providence: On François Ewald's Theorisation of the Insurantial Society. État普罗维登斯的大图景：论弗朗索瓦·埃瓦尔德的保险社会理论。

IF 2.7 2区社会学

British Journal of Sociology Pub Date : 2025-04-05 DOI: 10.1111/1468-4446.13204

Turo-Kimmo Lehtonen

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