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Childhood Residential Mobility and the Life-Course Accumulation of Wealth Inequalities: Evidence From the 1958 British Birth Cohort. 童年居住流动性与财富不平等的一生积累：来自1958年英国出生队列的证据。

IF 2.6 2区社会学

British Journal of Sociology Pub Date : 2026-07-12 DOI: 10.1111/1468-4446.70150

Riccardo Valente

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Family Rituals in the Hungry Ghost Festival: Spirituality and Multiplex Beliefs in China. 中元节的家庭仪式：中国的精神性与多元信仰。

IF 2.6 2区社会学

British Journal of Sociology Pub Date : 2026-06-29 DOI: 10.1111/1468-4446.70146

Becky Yang Hsu, Liu Zhuang

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The Normative Turn: Back to Hobhouse? 规范转向：回到霍布豪斯？

IF 2.6 2区社会学

British Journal of Sociology Pub Date : 2026-06-25 DOI: 10.1111/1468-4446.70143

Martyn Hammersley

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Opportunities and Alliances: The Relational Dynamics of Criminal Collusion in Latin America. 机会与联盟：拉丁美洲犯罪勾结的关系动态。

IF 2.6 2区社会学

British Journal of Sociology Pub Date : 2026-06-25 DOI: 10.1111/1468-4446.70145

Eldad J Levy, Javier Auyero

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Subjective Social Inequalities, Lay Perceptions of Merit and Puzzles of Explanation. 主观的社会不平等，对优点的看法和解释的困惑。

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British Journal of Sociology Pub Date : 2026-06-20 DOI: 10.1111/1468-4446.70137

Sarah Irwin

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Criminal Records as Classification Situations. 作为分类情形的犯罪记录。

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British Journal of Sociology Pub Date : 2026-06-19 DOI: 10.1111/1468-4446.70142

Lindsay Bing, Sarah Esther Lageson

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Producing Fraud at the Welfare-Migration Nexus: Migrant Families and Children's Social Care. 在福利-移民关系中产生欺诈：移民家庭和儿童的社会关怀。

IF 2.6 2区社会学

British Journal of Sociology Pub Date : 2026-06-18 DOI: 10.1111/1468-4446.70141

Eve Dickson, Rachel Rosen

{"title":"Producing Fraud at the Welfare-Migration Nexus: Migrant Families and Children's Social Care.","authors":"Eve Dickson, Rachel Rosen","doi":"10.1111/1468-4446.70141","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-4446.70141","url":null,"abstract":"This article interrogates the production of 'fraud' at the interface between welfare and migration regimes. Taking the welfare micropublic of children's social care in the UK as a case study, we focus on encounters between migrant families subject to the 'no recourse to public funds' immigration condition and London local authorities. Through analysis of policy documents and ethnographic data, we trace the counter-fraud turn within the local state in the 2010s. We argue that a shift away from 'the child in need' and towards destitution as the threshold for support saw children's rights legislation reinterpreted through the lens of 'fraud', implicitly racialising impoverished migrant children as undeserving of essential support. Paying close attention to questions of undeservingness, defined in part through attributions of fraud, we highlight the ways in which migrant parents are subject to suspicion by social services. We suggest that existing literature on the 'problem' of welfare fraud helps us to contextualise this shift but does not yet sufficiently address the production of fraud at the welfare-migration nexus. Drawing on more contemporary ethnographic material, we show how the counter-fraud turn has been deepened and expanded. We argue that extensive counter-fraud practices have been developed through processes of discretion at the local level, producing and normalising major shifts in the enactment of policy that remain relatively hidden in the absence of more contextualised ethnographic research. Migrant families have thus been rendered ever-suspicious, either gatekept from essential support due to their 'fraudulence' or subject to ongoing monitoring if they receive support, caught up in the impossible labour of disproving their own 'fraudulence'. Finally, we show that counter-fraud approaches arise from the interface between welfare and migration regimes in ways that bolster the logics of both immigration controls and welfare retrenchment, whilst amplifying the reach of the counter-fraud turn.","PeriodicalId":51368,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Sociology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148279939","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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Screenshots, SIM Cards, and Household Governance: Digital Coercive Control and Evidence Making in Uganda. 截图、SIM卡和家庭治理：乌干达的数字强制控制和证据制作。

IF 2.6 2区社会学

British Journal of Sociology Pub Date : 2026-06-17 DOI: 10.1111/1468-4446.70140

Charles Namatovu

{"title":"Screenshots, SIM Cards, and Household Governance: Digital Coercive Control and Evidence Making in Uganda.","authors":"Charles Namatovu","doi":"10.1111/1468-4446.70140","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.70140","url":null,"abstract":"Tech facilitated intimate partner violence is increasingly embedded in everyday Ugandan digital life, including phone confiscation, SIM card control, WhatsApp monitoring, coerced \"proof,\" mobile money coercion, and reputational threats. This article examines digital coercive control as household governance and analyses how survivors and frontline supporters produce evidence under threat, focusing on the practical work of assembling \"evidence packages\" that may include screenshots, voice notes, timelines, and witnesses. Drawing on comparative qualitative research across an informal settlement in Kampala, a regional town, and a rural district with strong kin governance, the analysis shows how digital control reorganizes access to communication and money, how evidence making is shaped by safety calculations and stigma, and how institutions unevenly validate or dismiss digital traces. The article contributes to the sociology of intimate partner violence by showing that evidentiary credibility is socially distributed: the same digital trace may be read as proof, gossip, provocation, shame, or insufficient evidence depending on the survivor's social position, available intermediaries, and institutional venue. The article advances a low-resource approach to safer evidence intake across policing, health care, and community mediation, emphasizing patterned coercive control and survivor safety.","PeriodicalId":51368,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Sociology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148273814","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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Education, Skills, and Intergenerational Inequality in Status Attainment: Causal Mediation Analysis and Typology of 23 OECD Countries. 教育、技能和地位获得的代际不平等：23个经合组织国家的因果中介分析和类型。

IF 3.3 2区社会学

British Journal of Sociology Pub Date : 2026-06-15 DOI: 10.1111/1468-4446.70139

Satoshi Araki

{"title":"Education, Skills, and Intergenerational Inequality in Status Attainment: Causal Mediation Analysis and Typology of 23 OECD Countries.","authors":"Satoshi Araki","doi":"10.1111/1468-4446.70139","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.70139","url":null,"abstract":"Scholars have long investigated intergenerational inequality, with attention to the associations among social origins, education, and socio-economic destinations: the so-called OED triangle. Meanwhile, recent research highlights distinct roles of education and skills in status attainment. Extending these studies, this article proposes a new framework-the OESD quadrangle-that incorporates origin, education, skills, and destination to better understand the structure of intergenerational inequality and its cross-national patterns. As an application, causal mediation analysis based on the counterfactual framework is performed using data from the OECD Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC) for 27,812 individuals in 23 countries, encompassing parental status, respondents' educational attainment, adult cognitive skills, and occupational outcomes. The findings corroborate prior research, demonstrating that education significantly mediates the origin-destination association in all cases. Importantly, adult skills also exert a mediating power net of education, ranging from 4% (Sweden) to 25% (USA) of the total origin effect estimates in conservative models. These results suggest that fostering cognitive skills among the disadvantaged may help mitigate intergenerational inequality, although its magnitude varies across societies. By linking these cross-national differences to fundamental concepts such as meritocracy and credentialism, the study concludes with a preliminary typology of societies from a comparative perspective.","PeriodicalId":51368,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Sociology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148260529","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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How Cultural Taste Shapes Recognition and Redistribution Struggles: Far-Right Politics, Touristification and the Political Economy of Taste. 文化品味如何塑造认知和再分配斗争：极右翼政治、旅游化和品味的政治经济学。

IF 3.3 2区社会学

British Journal of Sociology Pub Date : 2026-06-12 DOI: 10.1111/1468-4446.70136

Simone Varriale

{"title":"How Cultural Taste Shapes Recognition and Redistribution Struggles: Far-Right Politics, Touristification and the Political Economy of Taste.","authors":"Simone Varriale","doi":"10.1111/1468-4446.70136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.70136","url":null,"abstract":"This article connects cultural taste to capitalist mechanisms of redistribution through the concept of political economy of taste. Building on Bourdieusian scholarship on recognition struggles and drawing on Mike Savage and Nancy Fraser, it examines how public performances of taste reshape representations of working-class culture and how these representations are mobilised by both far-right and centre-left elites to advance policies that redistribute economic resources upwards. The article develops the concept through two case studies: far-right politics and touristification. Combining theoretical discussion of existing literature and new empirical analyses of Giorgia Meloni's taste performances and touristification in Naples (Italy), it shows how positive recognition of working-class culture, framed as 'authentic' by political elites, opens new possibilities for capitalist accumulation, thus widening economic inequalities. The article argues that Bourdieusian taste studies have overlooked these dynamics because of their focus on the stratification of tastes, rather than on how taste can transform mechanisms of exploitation and expropriation. The article thus proposes a different epistemic orientation: towards taste as a political weapon reshaping national political economies.","PeriodicalId":51368,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Sociology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2026-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148240459","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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