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https://read.qxmd.com/read/38530088/economic-returns-to-reproducing-parents-field-of-study
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jesper Fels Birkelund
Research on the influence of family background on college graduates' earnings has not considered the importance of the match between parents' and children's field of study. Using a novel design based on within-family comparisons, I examine long-term earnings returns to reproducing parents' field of study in Denmark. I find that individuals whose field of study matches that of a parent have earnings that are 2 percent higher than those of their siblings with college degrees in different fields, on average. Earnings returns to field inheritance are highest in the fields of law (9 percent), medicine (6 percent), and engineering (4 percent) and are driven mainly by income from self-employment...
March 26, 2024: British Journal of Sociology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38319788/in-defence-of-sociological-description-a-world-making-perspective
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Mike Savage
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
February 6, 2024: British Journal of Sociology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38303685/articulation-or-the-persistent-problem-with-explanation
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Noortje Marres
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
February 2, 2024: British Journal of Sociology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38288988/symbolic-boundary-work-jewish-and-arab-femicide-in-israeli-hebrew-newspapers
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Eran Shor, Ina Filkobski
We analyze 391 news reports in Israeli newspapers between 2013 and 2015, covering murders of women and their family members by other family members and intimate partners. We compare articles where the perpetrators and victims are Jewish to those where the perpetrators and victims are Palestinian citizens of Israel (henceforth PCI). We found that articles tend to provide much more details about Jewish culprits than about PCI ones. As for ascribed motives, most murder cases by Jews were framed as an outcome of individual personality or the pathology of the culprit...
January 30, 2024: British Journal of Sociology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38281272/family-background-consistently-affects-economic-success-across-the-life-cycle-a-research-note-on-how-brother-correlations-overlap-over-the-life-course
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Kristian Bernt Karlson
Scholars of social mobility increasingly study the role of family background in shaping attainment throughout the entire life course. However, research has yet to establish whether the family characteristics influencing early career attainment are the same as those influencing late career attainment. In this research note, I apply an extended sibling correlation approach to analyze brothers' life cycle earnings and family income, using data from the U.S. National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979. My analysis reveals a near-perfect correlation in the family characteristics that affect attainment at early, mid, and late career stages...
January 28, 2024: British Journal of Sociology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38200623/what-do-stances-on-immigrants-welfare-entitlement-mean-evidence-from-a-correlational-class-analysis
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Thijs Lindner, Stijn Daenekindt, Willem de Koster, Jeroen van der Waal
Recent in-depth qualitative research indicates that different people ascribe different meanings to their apparently similar stances on immigrants' entitlement to welfare. We are the first to investigate such variation quantitatively among the public-at-large, applying the novel method Correlational Class Analysis to an original survey fielded among a representative sample in the Netherlands (n = 2138). We uncover five ways of looking at immigrants' entitlement to welfare, each including both people who oppose that entitlement and those who support it...
January 10, 2024: British Journal of Sociology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38193747/is-it-time-sociology-started-researching-incompetence
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Edmund Chattoe-Brown
There appears to be a mismatch between apparent incompetence in the world and the amount of sociological research it attracts. The aim of this article is to outline a sociology of incompetence and justify its value. I begin by defining incompetence as unsatisfactory performance relative to standards. Incompetence is thus intrinsically sociological in being negotiated and socially (re)constituted. The next section foregrounds how widespread and serious incompetence is. This renders effective sociological understanding crucial to welfare...
January 9, 2024: British Journal of Sociology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38165793/social-inequality-in-completion-rates-in-higher-education-heterogeneity-in-educational-fields
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Håvard Helland, Thea B Strømme
This article examines how social disparities in dropout rates vary by educational field. Previous studies have shown that first-generation students, in general, have lower higher education completion rates than their fellow students. Less is known, however, about how such disparities vary between educational fields. We distinguish between general and field specific cultural capital and find that general cultural capital mainly operates through academic preparedness in upper secondary school, and after controlling for upper secondary school grade point average (GPA), students with parents with higher education degrees in a different field than themselves do not complete their degrees more often than first-generation students...
January 2, 2024: British Journal of Sociology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38159089/time-use-surveys-social-practice-theory-and-activity-connections
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Dale Southerton, Jennifer Whillans
Social practice theory (SPT) represents a growing body of research that takes the 'doings and sayings' (social practices) of everyday life as its core unit of enquiry. Time use surveys (TUS) represent a substantial source of micro-data regarding how activities are performed across the 24-h day. Given their apparent complementarities, we ask why TUS have not been utilised more extensively within SPT-inspired research. We advance two contentions: (1) ontological tensions obscure the relevance of TUS data in addressing core SPT research questions, and (2) SPT concepts do not readily translate for application in TUS analysis...
December 30, 2023: British Journal of Sociology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38145462/searching-for-desirable-bodies-how-recruiters-value-physically-exertive-extracurricular-activities-for-graduate-hiring-at-elite-professional-firms-in-china
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Ran Ren
The field of research in evaluating and applying Bourdieu's theories has seen growing interests in studying how the formation and effect of cultural capital vary in different contexts and fields. While existing studies have increasingly focussed on evaluating the role of cultural capital in creating educational inequalities in the Chinese context, little is known about how activities and taste are valued in the Chinese labour market. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with 73 recruiters in elite professional firms in China, this article presents a study on how recruiters interpret physically exertive extracurricular activities (ECAs) for graduate hiring...
December 25, 2023: British Journal of Sociology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38141163/gender-inequalities-in-unpaid-public-work-retention-stratification-and-segmentation-in-the-volunteer-leadership-of-charities-in-england-and-wales
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
David Clifford
While gender inequalities in employment (paid public work) and domestic and reproductive labour (unpaid private work) are a prominent focus within the sociological literature, gender inequalities in volunteering (unpaid public work) have received much less scholarly attention. We analyse a unique longitudinal dataset of volunteer leaders, that follows through time every individual to have served as a board member (trustee) for a charity in England and Wales between 2010 and 2023, to make three foundational contributions to our understanding of gender inequalities in unpaid public work...
December 23, 2023: British Journal of Sociology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38093399/examining-the-recent-strike-wave-in-the-uk-the-problem-with-official-statistics
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Andy Hodder, Stephen Mustchin
In the UK, there has been a significant increase in strike activity since the summer of 2022. Due to these increased levels of strike activity, it is logical for academics and policy makers to turn to the official data on labour disputes to help us understand what has been happening. Strikes remain of core sociological interest, yet are under researched in this journal. This research note briefly examines the recent strike wave in the UK drawing on data from the Office for National Statistics. The limitations of these data are outlined before consideration is given to other potential sources of data on labour disputes...
December 13, 2023: British Journal of Sociology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38087477/radicalisation-studies-an-emerging-interdisciplinary-field
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Tahir Abbas
This research note provides an overview of Radicalisation Studies as an emerging interdisciplinary field aimed at developing more holistic understandings of how and why individuals and groups turn to extreme ideologies and political violence. It traces the evolution of radicalisation research across core social science disciplines, including sociology, psychology, anthropology, and political science. While this burgeoning scholarship has expanded knowledge, persistent gaps remain due to studying radicalisation in disciplinary silos...
December 12, 2023: British Journal of Sociology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38010901/nation-builders-and-market-architects-how-social-origins-mold-the-careers-of-law-graduates-over-200%C3%A2-years-in-norway
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Maren Toft
This paper examines the types of work that jurists have historically undertaken and maps how opportunities for legal practice have been shaped by social origins across three centuries: after constitutional independence in the mid-1800s, during nascent industrial capitalism in the mid-1900s, and at present-day advanced capitalism. I analyze historical archive data on law graduates from the 19th and 20th centuries in combination with administrative registry data from the 1990s onwards and employ correspondence analysis to explore how social backgrounds shape careers, considering transformations in class structures and the changing significance of juridical expertise over time...
November 27, 2023: British Journal of Sociology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37974500/stressful-life-events-and-depressive-symptoms-during-covid-19-a-gender-comparison
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Yue Qian, Wen Fan
The COVID-19 pandemic precipitated a wide range of public health, economic, social, and political shocks, setting in motion life events that reverberated to affect individuals' mental health. Moving beyond a checklist approach, this study drew on individuals' own words to identify both conventional and novel sources of stress during COVID-19 and examine the role of stressful life events in producing gender disparities in depressive symptoms. Drawing on a 2021 U.S. nationally representative survey, we coded text responses to an open-ended question on stressful life events and conducted descriptive and regression analyses (n = 1733)...
November 17, 2023: British Journal of Sociology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37955958/early-life-impairments-chronic-health-conditions-and-income-mobility
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Alexi Gugushvili, Therese Dokken, Jan Grue, Jon Erik Finnvold
Individuals who have congenital conditions or become disabled early in life tend to have poorer educational and occupational outcomes than non-disabled individuals. Disability is known to be a complex entity with multiple causations, involving, inter alia, physiological, social, economic, and cultural factors. It is established that social factors can influence educational and occupational attainment for disabled people, and current disability policy in many countries, particularly in the Global North, stress the importance of equality of opportunity...
November 13, 2023: British Journal of Sociology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37947454/generations-events-and-social-movement-legacies-unpacking-social-change-in-english-football-1980-2023
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Mark Turner, Jan Andre Lee Ludvigsen
This article critically employs the case of association football in England, from 1980 to 2023, as a social movement timescape, to examine the political consciousness and long-term mobilisations of a generation of football supporter activists, and their capacity to influence politics, and respond to new, emerging, critical junctures, through networks of trust and shared memories of historical events. This is of crucial importance to sociology because it reveals the tensions between what are considered legitimate and illegitimate social practices which characterise contemporary society's moral economy...
November 10, 2023: British Journal of Sociology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37870988/review-of-race-brokers
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REVIEW
John Nelson Robinson
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
October 23, 2023: British Journal of Sociology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37865951/deepening-the-divide-does-globalization-increase-the-polarization-between-winners-and-losers-of-globalization
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Rasmus Ollroge
Does globalization increase polarization in attitudes toward international trade, immigration, and international organizations? Research from a variety of fields and disciplines assumes this relationship, but empirical studies are few. In this study, I examine whether globalization increases the attitudinal divide between education groups, with education being one of the main characteristics of social stratification distinguishing winners from losers of globalization. I use data from three waves of the National Identity Module of the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) from 1995 to 2013 covering 29 countries (n = 79,101) to analyze between- and within-country interactions between the level of globalization and education in explaining attitudes toward globalization...
October 22, 2023: British Journal of Sociology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/37864579/perceived-research-productivity-of-women-in-higher-education-an-investigation-of-the-impact-of-covid-19
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Aslı Ermiş-Mert
This study focuses on the predictors of women academics' perceived research productivity during the pandemic in Türkiye, by taking the changes in paid and unpaid workload alongside the felt pressure concerning productivity into consideration. Predicting the odds to report an above the mean level of decrease in perceived research productivity, unlike expected, increased housework time and administrative workload presented no statistically significant effect. On the other hand, extended care responsibilities (including but not limited to childcare) and felt pressure concerning research performance during the pandemic strongly predicted a high level of reported decrease in research productivity...
October 21, 2023: British Journal of Sociology
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