{"title":"Review Essay: US Dominant Achievement Ideology Fuels Inequality The Battle Nearer to Home. By Christopher Bonastia. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2022. Pp. xvii+311. $90.00 (cloth); $28.00 (paper). Academic Apartheid. By Sean J. Drake. Oakland: University of California Press, 2022. Pp. vii+257. $85.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper). Race at the Top: Asian Americans and Whites in Pursuit of the American Dream in Suburban Schools. By Natasha Warikoo. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, …","authors":"Prudence Carter","doi":"10.1086/727699","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/727699","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7658,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Sociology","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134997467","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":":<i>Trade and Nation: How Companies and Politics Reshaped Economic Thought</i>","authors":"Nicholas Hoover Wilson","doi":"10.1086/725844","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/725844","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7658,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Sociology","volume":"143 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135736803","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":":<i>How Green Became Good: Urbanized Nature and the Making of Cities and Citizens</i>","authors":"Michael M. Bell","doi":"10.1086/725448","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/725448","url":null,"abstract":"Previous articleNext article Book ReviewHow Green Became Good: Urbanized Nature and the Making of Cities and Citizens. By Hillary Angelo. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. Pp. 264. $95.00 (cloth); $30.00 (paper).Michael M. BellMichael M. BellUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmailPrint SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by American Journal of Sociology Volume 129, Number 2September 2023 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/725448 For permission to reuse a book review printed in the American Journal of Sociology, please contact [email protected].PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.","PeriodicalId":7658,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Sociology","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135738314","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Representational Hierarchies in Social Movements: A Case Study of the Undocumented Immigrant Youth Movement","authors":"Tara Fiorito, Walter J. Nicholls","doi":"10.1086/726582","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/726582","url":null,"abstract":"During the late 2010s, the undocumented immigrant youth movement embraced inclusive and intersectional representations. Directly impacted activists deconstructed language and symbolic categories that excluded. However, their movement continued to stratify activists along representational lines. This article combines theories of intersectionality and symbolic power to develop the concept of “representational hierarchy.” Producing representations requires legitimacy, and the resources needed for legitimacy (i.e., symbolic capital) are unevenly distributed to activists. Activists in possession of these resources can rise to the top and exert control over the means of representation. Dominant activists enforce representations and their positioning through coercive (“calling out”) and consensual (“calling in”) mechanisms. Our project employs ethnographic data from two periods of investigation: 2011–12 and 2018. The data include interviews with new and experienced activists, analysis of movement documents, and 400 hours of participant observations. For this specific article, we draw mostly on interviews conducted in 2018.","PeriodicalId":7658,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Sociology","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135738315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":":<i>Trapped in a Maze: How Social Control Institutions Drive Family Poverty and Inequality</i>","authors":"Edward W. Morris","doi":"10.1086/725632","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/725632","url":null,"abstract":"Previous articleNext article Book ReviewTrapped in a Maze: How Social Control Institutions Drive Family Poverty and Inequality. By Leslie Paik. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. Pp. xv+174. $85.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper).Edward W. MorrisEdward W. MorrisUniversity of Kentucky Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmailPrint SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by American Journal of Sociology Volume 129, Number 2September 2023 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/725632 For permission to reuse a book review printed in the American Journal of Sociology, please contact [email protected].PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.","PeriodicalId":7658,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Sociology","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135738320","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Contributors","authors":"","doi":"10.1086/728228","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/728228","url":null,"abstract":"Previous articleNext article FreeContributorsPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmailPrint SectionsMoreAnna Skarpelis is the inaugural Richard Lachmann Chair of Sociology and assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at Queens College (CUNY). Her research examines the relationship between scientific knowledge, social classification, and power across three substantive areas: citizenship, war, and artificial intelligence. She is currently working on understanding the impact of generative AI on notions of the human.Rachel Wetts is the Acacia Assistant Professor of Environment and Society and Sociology at Brown University. Her research examines how cultural and social psychological processes interact with systems of power and privilege to shape American politics. Wetts’s previous work has been published in Social Forces and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, among other outlets.Letian (LT) Zhang is assistant professor at Harvard Business School. His current research mainly examines cross-country differences and social inequality in the labor market. He obtained a PhD in sociology from Harvard University and a BS in mathematics from Stanford University.Walter J. Nicholls is professor of urban planning and public policy at the University of California, Irvine. His main areas of research are social movements, immigration politics, and urban policy. His recent books include The Immigrant Rights Movement: The Battle of National Citizenship (2019) and Cities and Social Movements: Immigrant Rights Activism in the United States, France , and the Netherlands, 1970–2015 (2017; coauthored with Justus Uitermark).Tara Fiorito is assistant professor of sociology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her research broadly falls under the category of reflexive migration studies, engaged scholarship, and social movement studies, with a particular focus on understanding processes of societal resilience, politicization, and emancipation.Rob J. Gruijters is associate professor in education and international development at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, where he is affiliated with the Research for Equitable Access and Learning (REAL) Centre. His current research focuses on social stratification, educational inequality, and young adult life courses in different global contexts.Zachary Van Winkle is assistant professor of sociology at the Sciences Po Paris Centre for Research on Social Inequalities (CRIS). His research focuses on the interplay between family demography and social inequality from a comparative life course perspective.Anette E. Fasang is professor of sociology at the Department of Social Sciences at Humboldt University of Berlin. Her current research interests include comparative life course sociology in high and low income countries, social demography, family research, and the development of quantitative methods for longitu","PeriodicalId":7658,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Sociology","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135738312","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":":<i>Managing Medical Authority: How Doctors Compete for Status and Create Knowledge</i>","authors":"Daniel Dohan","doi":"10.1086/725449","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/725449","url":null,"abstract":"Previous articleNext article Book ReviewManaging Medical Authority: How Doctors Compete for Status and Create Knowledge. By Daniel A. Menchik. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2021. Pp. xx+308. $95.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper).Daniel DohanDaniel DohanUniversity of California, San Francisco Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmailPrint SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by American Journal of Sociology Volume 129, Number 2September 2023 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/725449 For permission to reuse a book review printed in the American Journal of Sociology, please contact [email protected].PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.","PeriodicalId":7658,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Sociology","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135738318","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":":<i>The Arab Spring Abroad: Diaspora Activism against Authoritarian Regimes</i>","authors":"Andrew P. Davis","doi":"10.1086/725450","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/725450","url":null,"abstract":"Previous articleNext article Book ReviewThe Arab Spring Abroad: Diaspora Activism against Authoritarian Regimes. By Dana M. Moss. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. xviii+272. $29.99 (paper).Andrew P. DavisAndrew P. DavisNorth Carolina State University Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmailPrint SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by American Journal of Sociology Volume 129, Number 2September 2023 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/725450 For permission to reuse a book review printed in the American Journal of Sociology, please contact [email protected].PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.","PeriodicalId":7658,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Sociology","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135738322","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"<i>Horror Vacui:</i> Racial Misalignment, Symbolic Repair, and Imperial Legitimation in German National Socialist Portrait Photography","authors":"A. K. M. Skarpelis","doi":"10.1086/727562","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/727562","url":null,"abstract":"Racial purity and supremacy were central to Nazi Germany’s claims to European dominion. At the same time, their very own “racial scientific” research showed that most Germans were “mixed-race.” Given the dissonance between phenotypical aspirations to a Nordic ideal and the reality of a largely nonblond German population, how did the National Socialist regime maintain legitimacy to rule? Anthropologists, bureaucrats, and artists resolved this racial misalignment through horror vacui racialization, an excessive social classification that manifested as a racializing turn inward aimed at Christian Germans. I theorize the role of culture and art in stabilizing race-based rule in authoritarian and colonial contexts through racial repair that realigns desired and actual racial self-understandings. The article shows how an ostensibly biologically essentialist regime strategically used racial relativism in science, politics, and popular culture. I outline the sociological implications of this work for the sociologies of culture, of race and ethnicity, of theories of the state, of empire, and of science and technology studies.","PeriodicalId":7658,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Sociology","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135736805","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":":<i>Unlivable Lives: Violence and Identity in Transgender Activism</i>","authors":"Amy L. Stone","doi":"10.1086/725658","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/725658","url":null,"abstract":"Previous article Book ReviewUnlivable Lives: Violence and Identity in Transgender Activism. By Laurel Westbrook. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. Pp. ix+271. $85.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper).Amy L. StoneAmy L. StoneTrinity University Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmailPrint SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by American Journal of Sociology Volume 129, Number 2September 2023 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/725658 For permission to reuse a book review printed in the American Journal of Sociology, please contact [email protected].PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.","PeriodicalId":7658,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Sociology","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135738313","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}