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American Journal of Sociology @amjsoc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Religion impacts American public life in three distinct, cross-cutting ways: politically, civically, and culturally. Today, the growing politicization of religion is challenging religion-based civic solidarity, generating divergent responses in urban and rural areas.

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A Farewell to Public Religion? Retheorizing and Assessing the Public Relevance of Religion | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 0, No ja

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American Journal of Sociology @amjsoc.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

New in AJS: How does organizational expertise shape urban integration? Brandtner and Laryea find suite-level expertise draws foundation funding and drives systemic integration; yet, many nonprofits build social integration through street-level expertise—or "tool up" to combine both.

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From Suites to Streets: Professional Expertise and the Organizational Pursuit of Social and Systemic Integration | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 0, No ja

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American Journal of Sociology @amjsoc.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

“The Less Agreeable Side of Charisma” uses the case of Donald Trump to show how incredulous elites and media figures unwittingly help stage the “miraculous proofs” that fuel charismatic movements—their shock and moral outrage paradoxically converts into revolutionary power.

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The Less Agreeable Side of Charisma: Donald Trump, Incredulous Onlooking, and Antistructural Power | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 0, No ja

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American Journal of Sociology @amjsoc.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Congratulations to the 2026 Gould Prize winner - Diffusion Through Multiple Domains: The Spread of Romantic Nationalism Across Europe, 1770–1930 by Andreas Wimmer, Seungwon Lee, and Jack LaViolette www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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American Journal of Sociology @amjsoc.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The July 2026 issue of the American Journal of Sociology is now available online at www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/ajs/curr...

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American Journal of Sociology @amjsoc.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

More kin, closer ties: Black young adults have 30–40% more emotionally close, frequently contacted, and nearby relatives than their white peers – a surplus rooted in horizontal kin (siblings, cousins, aunts/uncles).

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Kinship in Black and White Families: The Strength of Horizontal Ties | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 0, No ja

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American Journal of Sociology @amjsoc.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Recruiting minority officers is a strategy for curbing police misconduct. But what if officer networks remain segregated? CPD data show that cross-race ties in officer networks matter more than simple diversity numbers for predicting misconduct risk. We need network integration and representation.

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Networks at Work: Officer Diversity, Network Segregation, and Police Misconduct | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 0, No ja

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American Journal of Sociology @amjsoc.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

New evidence from Denmark documents the collateral consequences of deportation for the spouses left behind. A substantial number (13%) of spouses also leave the country within 18 months. For those that stay, employment drops but then recovers within a year, but total income never recovers.

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American Journal of Sociology @amjsoc.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Patterns of ethnoracial reidentification are predicted by party affiliation. Eighteen years of Florida voter records show that Republicans are nearly twice as likely as Democrats to reidentify from Hispanic to White and Black to Hispanic, while Democrats more often move in the opposite direction.

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The Race of Politics: Partisan Affiliation and Ethnoracial Boundary Crossing | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 0, No ja

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American Journal of Sociology @amjsoc.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

The March 2026 issue of the American Journal of Sociology is now available online at www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/ajs/curr...

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American Journal of Sociology @amjsoc.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

The South has historically been the epicenter of racial inequality in the US. But the geography of racial inequality has shifted in the decades since the Civil Rights movement. Today, Black-white income disparities are lower in the South than the rest of the country. @robertmanduca.bsky.social

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Shift, Not Stasis: The Geography of Post–Civil Rights Racial Inequality | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 0, No ja

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American Journal of Sociology @amjsoc.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

How do states build and lose the capacity to decarbonize? Livio Silva-Muller analyzes how Brazil achieved one of the most successful cases of decarbonization ever recorded, how those results were later undone, and how Brazil’s experience sheds light on other cases. @liviosilva.bsky.social

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American Journal of Sociology @amjsoc.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Party organization requires a distinct social structure—one produced by capitalist dispossession. Two regions, both agrarian, indigenous, and revolutionary: Only one amenable to party organization. Underlying economic structures determined fundamentally different political outcomes.

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Two Primitive Accumulations Behind Party Articulation: Bolivia's MNR (1952–1964) | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 0, No ja

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American Journal of Sociology @amjsoc.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Are internal labor markets still valuable? We construct a new LinkedIn-based measure of internal career ladders and link it to USPTO data on 446K U.S. inventors. Firms that promote from within are associated with more productive inventors—a pattern that fades near retirement.

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The Value of Internal Labor Markets: Evidence from LinkedIn Profiles and U.S. Inventors | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 0, No ja

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American Journal of Sociology @amjsoc.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Are key aspects of the self-concept malleable or do they fluctuate around stable baselines? The authors find that changes in adolescence and the transition to adulthood persist over time but from around 30 to midlife changes are less durable. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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American Journal of Sociology @amjsoc.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

The January 2026 issue of the American Journal of Sociology is now available online at www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/ajs/2026...

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American Journal of Sociology | Vol 131, No 4

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American Journal of Sociology @amjsoc.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Khanna shows that men don’t extend equal support for gender equality to all groups of women. An experimental group processes approach shows how men’s gender attitudes are shaped by race & class identities of the women in question and the relation between women’s identities & men’s own identities.

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A Relational Approach to the Study of Gender Attitudes: Unobserved Heterogeneity and the Importance of Group Processes | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 0, No ja

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American Journal of Sociology @amjsoc.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Interested in submitting an article to the AJS for consideration? Go to our authors' resources page for guidelines: ajs.uchicago.edu/for-authors/

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American Journal of Sociology @amjsoc.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

How do street-level regulators cope with pressure from labor and capital alongside limited capacity? Examining Gilded Age factory inspectors, this article introduces "soft regulatory capture" to show how regulators adapt to competing constraints and how this can lead to institutional restructuring.

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Soft Regulatory Capture and Institutional Change: Factory Inspection in Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, 1879–1912 | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 0, No ja

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American Journal of Sociology @amjsoc.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Is the criminal legal system becoming more gender egalitarian? A new study of 30+ years of Texas data finds the gender gap in convictions is growing, but incarceration is becoming more equal. What does this mean for gender and the carceral state? #CriminalLegalSystem #Gender

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Is the Criminal Legal System Becoming More Gender Egalitarian? The Gender Gap in Criminal Court Case Outcomes in Texas, 1993–2015 | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 0, No ja

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American Journal of Sociology @amjsoc.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

How do Black and White Americans assess the legitimacy of another person’s racial self-identification? Using a series of survey experiments, authors @marissathompson.bsky.social, Sam Trejo, @ajalvero.bsky.social, and @daphmarts.bsky.social illustrate the characteristics that drive racial conceptions

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Policing the Boundaries of Blackness: How Black and White Americans Evaluate Racial Self-Identifications | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 0, No ja

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American Journal of Sociology @amjsoc.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Did free secondary education reduce the role of genes in shaping life outcomes? Using the 1944 Education Act in England, the authors find that the reform weakened the link between genes and education, income, and wealth—boosting equality of opportunity.

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Does Expanding Free Secondary Education Moderate the Relationship Between Genes and Socioeconomic Outcomes? Evidence from the Education Act of 1944 in England | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 0, N...

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American Journal of Sociology @amjsoc.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Businesses, associations, and places of worship are key aspects of immigrant community life. Why do some groups build dense organizational ecologies but others don’t? A new analysis of 25,117 ethnoreligious organizations in 4900 communities suggests that culture—not social structure—drives density

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Local Communities, Distant Origins: How Cultural Distance and Local Context Shape Immigrant Ethnoreligious Infrastructures | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 0, No ja

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American Journal of Sociology @amjsoc.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

The November 2025 issue of the American Journal of Sociology is now available online at www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/ajs/curr...

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American Journal of Sociology @amjsoc.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

What are Americans’ perceptions of immigrants’ politics? How do beliefs about whether newcomers are future allies or adversaries shape immigration attitudes? A new #AJS article shows that perceived partisan (mis)alignment powerfully informs US public opinion on immigration.

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Red and Blue Immigrants: Political (Mis)Alignment, Immigration Attitudes, and the Boundaries of American National Inclusion | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 0, No ja

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American Journal of Sociology @amjsoc.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

What happens when public servants are asked to betray the values that brought them to service? New research traces how asylum officers under Trump navigated moral crisis and how their ability—or inability—to form with peers a shared aspiration for moral resolution determined who stayed or who left.

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Asylum Decision-Making Under Trump: Shared Aspirations for Moral Realignment as a Mechanism of Moral Boundary Work in Times of Crisis | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 0, No ja

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American Journal of Sociology @amjsoc.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Does using algorithms to make decisions eliminate exceptions—or simply change them? A new study takes a deep dive into the world of tenant screening to find out when people with problematic pasts still get a pass. How do exceptions for unpaid debts, criminal records, and eviction histories persist?

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Exceptions in the Algorithmic Age: Evidence from the Case of Tenant Screening | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 0, No ja

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American Journal of Sociology @amjsoc.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Interested in submitting an article to the AJS for consideration? Check out our authors' resources page first: ajs.uchicago.edu/for-authors/

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American Journal of Sociology @amjsoc.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

How does the incarceration of a student’s mother or father shape how teachers grade them? A new #AJS article by @erinjmccauley.bsky.social employs a vignette survey experiment to reveal that the effects of parental incarceration on teachers’ assessments of student work are profound and racialized.

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The Leniency of Low Expectations: Parental Incarceration, Race, and Teachers’ Evaluations of Student Writing | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 0, No ja

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American Journal of Sociology @amjsoc.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

When classifying others, White, Black, Latino, and Asian Americans all discount White self-identification more than they discount self-identification as Black, Latino, Asian or MENA. Classification and status theories make sense of why. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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Who Polices Which Boundaries? How Racial Self-Identification Affects External Classification | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 0, No ja

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American Journal of Sociology @amjsoc.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

The WWII GI Bill made millions of veterans homeowners, but it also increased Black-White gaps in homeownership and wealth. Results demonstrate how historic policies not only exacerbated past inequalities but also how these inequalities have persisted and intensified into the present.

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Wealth Begins at Home: The Housing Benefits of the 1944 GI Bill and the Reproduction of Black-White Inequality in Homeownership and Home Value | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 0, No ja

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American Journal of Sociology @amjsoc.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

The September 2025 issue of the American Journal of Sociology is now available online at www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/ajs/2025/131/2

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American Journal of Sociology @amjsoc.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Leveraging admin data (n=1 billion+), our 29-scholar team identifies a consistent 30-year trend in 12 OECD countries: Top and bottom earners increasingly work in different establishments! Fueled by deindustrialization, firm restructuring, and digitalization, this trend might erode social cohesion.

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The Great Separation: Top Earner Segregation at Work in Advanced Capitalist Economies1 | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 130, No 2

Earnings segregation at work is an understudied topic in social science, despite the workplace being an everyday nexus for social mixing, cohesion, contact, claims making, and resource exchange. It is...

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American Journal of Sociology @amjsoc.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

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American Journal of Sociology @amjsoc.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

The July 2025 issue of the American Journal of Sociology is now available online: www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/ajs/2025...

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American Journal of Sociology | Vol 131, No 1

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American Journal of Sociology @amjsoc.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

The May 2025 issue of the American Journal of Sociology is now available online at www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/ajs/curr...

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American Journal of Sociology @amjsoc.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

New study on elite tax migration. Using IRS data, we show that while tax rates matter, embeddedness matters more. Millionaires don’t flee high-tax states unless their networks are disrupted. Embeddedness > incentives. States can still tax the rich. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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Taxing the Rich: How Incentives and Embeddedness Shape Millionaire Tax Flight | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 0, No ja

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American Journal of Sociology @amjsoc.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

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Who Polices Which Boundaries? How Racial Self-Identification Affects External Classification | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 0, No ja

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American Journal of Sociology @amjsoc.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

How are struggles between states and competing governors carried out? In an ethnography of Colombian roads, Alex Diamond shows that it comes down to the relationships that communities build with either state officials or guerrilla commanders, depending on where they turn for help with public goods.

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On the Road to State Power? State Formation Through Relationship Building in Rural Colombia | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 0, No ja

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American Journal of Sociology @amjsoc.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Hannah Waight and Adam Goldstein show that inequality perceptions have become increasingly polarized by partisanship.This gap has been driven by Republicans, whose increasing disavowal of growing inequality contributed to an overall decline in Americans’ perceptions in the new gilded age.

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The Polarization of Inequality Perceptions in the New Gilded Age | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 0, No ja

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American Journal of Sociology @amjsoc.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Does immigration enforcement lead to racial inequality? We find the Secure Communities program had little impact on arrests of Latinos or noncitizens in Texas and California. But the punishments for noncitizens increased in Texas, where the justice system was coupled with immigration enforcement.

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Does Immigration Enforcement Exacerbate Racial Inequality Under the Law? | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 0, No ja

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American Journal of Sociology @amjsoc.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

How do workers learn about and develop resources to enter alternative occupations? A new AJS article finds workplaces organize the division and contagion of labor. Bringing together workers of distinct occupations enables exchange of resources, and mobility unfolds along the nexus of collaboration.

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The Contagion of Labor: Linking Workplace Copresence and Occupational Mobility Patterns | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 0, No ja

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American Journal of Sociology @amjsoc.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

How do local protests become global? A new AJS article by @juliettes.bsky.social shows how historical emigration patterns can inadvertently create latent network infrastructures that enable movements to spread across borders. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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How Protests Spread: Diasporas, Wide Bridges, and the Transnational Diffusion of Un Violador en tu Camino | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 0, No ja

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American Journal of Sociology @amjsoc.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Why do employees feel more—or less—connected to their workplace? A new AJS study applies computational linguistics tools to assess organizational identification based on internal communication messages. People feel more attached when they’re embedded in tight-knit and wide-ranging work networks.

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Locally Ensconced and Globally Integrated: How Network Cohesion and Range Relate to a Language-Based Model of Organizational Identification | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 0, No ja

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American Journal of Sociology @amjsoc.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Network research emphasizes the value of open networks for job searches, but a new article by @lassefolke.bsky.social, @tomlyttelton.bsky.social, and Emil Begtrup-Bright uses administrative data to show that job seekers move to workplaces where they are connected to closed cliques of workers.

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What Makes a Contact Valuable? Hiring, Organizational Networks and the Advantages of Network Closure | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 0, No ja

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American Journal of Sociology @amjsoc.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

What makes a decision fair? A new AJS article by @joannapepin.bsky.social and @wjscarborough.bsky.social shows beliefs about gender, more so than economic explanations, alter perceptions of couples’ decision-making. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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American Journal of Sociology @amjsoc.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

In Nordic welfare states, not all family policies promote equality. A new AJS article by Evertsson, Moberg & van der Vleuten compares earnings penalties in same- and different-sex couples across countries, showing how policy design shapes work–care divisions www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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American Journal of Sociology @amjsoc.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

The March 2025 issue of the American Journal of Sociology is now available online at: www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/ajs/2025...

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American Journal of Sociology @amjsoc.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Want to learn how to write engaging book reviews for journals? Join Social Service Review on April 8 for a webinar led by Matthew Borus, PhD. Sign up today! uchicagogroup.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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American Journal of Sociology @amjsoc.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

For our first substantive post, we’d like to draw your attention to our new website (ajs.uchicago.edu) chock-full of useful information for authors, reviewers, and the wider community.

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