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We publish rigorous, original research that speaks to a general sociological audience and draws on an array of quantitative and qualitative methods ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/146…

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British Journal of Sociology @bjsociology.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This article examines how Chinese migrant entrepreneurs engage with the "Made in Italy" label. Drawing on interviews and ethnographic work, it explores how commercial nationalism shapes the marginalisation and legitimisation of migrant-led production. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ buff.ly/PCRSQtk
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Rebranding the Nation: Migrant Fashion Production and the Contested Politics of ‘Made in Italy’
This article examines how Chinese migrant entrepreneurs in Prato engage with the contested meaning of the Made in Italy production label. As Chinese-run fashion firms have become central to Italy’s…
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British Journal of Sociology @bjsociology.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This article examines class inequality in voting in the egalitarian context of Norway, arguing that occupational class offers a relational and multidimensional approach to understanding electoral participation disparities. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ buff.ly/g25QysD
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The Electoral Class Gap: Working-Class Non-Voting on the Rise in Twenty-First Century Norway
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British Journal of Sociology @bjsociology.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Drawing on a representative survey of 9083 full-time academics at German higher education institutions, this article examines how academics across different career ranks assess their freedom in teaching and research. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ buff.ly/eSCrcQP
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Is There a ‘Cancel Culture’, and if so, for Whom? Rank-Based Differences in Restrictions on Academic Freedom
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British Journal of Sociology @bjsociology.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This article explores David Goodhart’s “Somewheres vs Anywheres” thesis. Analysing survey data, researchers found no evidence that “Somewheres” are more opposed to migration or social change. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ buff.ly/7i6zJjs
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The Road to Nowhere: Being Rooted in a Region Does Little to Predict Support for Populist Parties or Opposition to Migration and Social Change
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Catherine Tan @catherinetan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Check out my article on American shamans in the current issue of @bjsociology.bsky.social ! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Ficto‐Primitive Capital: What Wellness Seekers Gain From Practicing Shamanism and Other Healing Traditions
Behind its worldly and socially conscious aesthetic, the wellness industry serves the health and fitness interests of North American and European consumers by commercializing non-Western and Indigeno...
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British Journal of Sociology @bjsociology.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Based on 32 households in Shanghai, this paper develops the concept of graduated involution to explain how summer holidays have been reconstituted from leisure time into an educational arena for Chinese families under conditions of compressed modernity. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ buff.ly/9WbaqMF
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Graduated Involution Under Compressed Modernity: Differences in the Summer Holidays as a Phase in the Public Life-Course in Shanghai, China
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British Journal of Sociology @bjsociology.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Shadow education has become a defining feature of contemporary schooling. Drawing on Bourdieu's concept of illusio, this article explores how shadow education becomes culturally normalised within contexts formally committed to public educational equality. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ buff.ly/1bWnIOH
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Playing the Game: Illusio and the Cultural Normalisation of Shadow Education in Greece and Beyond
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British Journal of Sociology @bjsociology.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
🟡 A new issue of The British Journal of Sociology is now available. Featuring new research from scholars across the globe, this issue explores key questions around inequality, culture, identity, politics and social change. Read the #BJS ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14684446...
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The British Journal of Sociology: Volume 77, Issue 4
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British Journal of Sociology @bjsociology.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Read Jennifer Whillans's review of "The Return of the Housewife: Why Women Are Still Cleaning Up" by Emma Casey. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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The Return of the Housewife: Why Women Are Still Cleaning Up. By E. Casey, Manchester University Press, 2025. 214 pp. £20.00 (hardback). ISBN: 978-1-5261-7097-2
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British Journal of Sociology @bjsociology.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This article draws on ethnographic research in Delhi to examine promise-to-marry cases in India, showing how women experience coercive control, emotional manipulation, reproductive harms, economic fraud and violence in pre-marital relationships. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ buff.ly/Gs235L2
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Unkept Promises, Unequal Worlds: A Sociological Study of Intimate Abuse in Promise-to-Marry Cases in India
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British Journal of Sociology @bjsociology.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
How does imperial knowledge production operate when Western media coverage of a Global South subject is predominantly admiring instead of hostile? This article offers a critical discourse analysis of Anglo-American news during the 1980's Chad-Libya conflict. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️
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Valorizing Erasure: Imperial Knowledge Production in Anglo-American Coverage of Chad's ‘Toyota War’
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British Journal of Sociology @bjsociology.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Drawing on interviews with OnlyFans creators, this article develops the concept of total self-commodification to account for a form of platform labour whose unit of extraction is the creator's continuous intimate self. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Beyond the Gig: Selling Intimacy as Labour on OnlyFans
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British Journal of Sociology @bjsociology.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Through a case study of the 21st-century butler, this paper proposes a “new spirit of service” that expresses servanthood and social class through “professionalism” and “lifestyle”, securing servant-like labour within work generated by wealth inequalities. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️
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Twenty-First Century Butlers and the New Spirit of Service
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British Journal of Sociology @bjsociology.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Drawing on literary and artistic representations, this paper argues that mystery is not a residual pre-modern trace but an endogenous and durable feature of the modern urban experience. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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The Mysterious Stranger and Modern Enchantment
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British Journal of Sociology @bjsociology.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Why do people volunteer informally? This paper shifts the focus from volunteers’ motivations to the demand for help within their social networks. Perceived need, altruism and gender, plays a key role in shaping who steps up, especially during times of crisis. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️
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Demand Networks and Informal Volunteering
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British Journal of Sociology @bjsociology.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
This study examines high-achieving students in Norwegian lower secondary schools who follow accelerated learning trajectories in mathematics, asking whether and how fast-tracking improves their learning and performance. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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British Journal of Sociology @bjsociology.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Drawing on focus group discussions among university students in Beijing, Hong Kong, and Taipei, this paper examines how young people collectively draw boundaries between love, harm and justice when interpreting cyber dating abuse. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Comparative Framing From Below: How Young People in Three Cities Interpret Cyber Dating Abuse by Drawing Boundaries Between Love, Harm, and Justice
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British Journal of Sociology @bjsociology.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
In this address, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva discusses the development of his theoretical framework and the idea of "racial habituation". He explores the centrality of “white normativity” to understand racial affairs. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Only Fools Believe Their Theories Are Finished Products! Thirty Years of Updates to the ‘Racialized Social Systems’ Approach to Race Matters
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Bryan Boyle @bryanboyle.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
New article in @bjsociology.bsky.social: "Twenty-first century butlers and the new spirit of service" (OA). Looking at the butlers that serve the wealthy today, I ask how they consent to conditions of work that many consider "servile" by modern standards. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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British Journal of Sociology @bjsociology.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Read Vladimir Bortun's review of "How the Radical Right Has Changed Capitalism and Welfare in Europe and the USA" by Philip Rathgeb, #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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How the Radical Right Has Changed Capitalism and Welfare in Europe and the USA. By Philip Rathgeb, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. 232 pp. £84. ISBN: 9780192866332
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British Journal of Sociology @bjsociology.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
This study explores why working-class young people in Northeast England pursue engineering apprenticeships, how they secure them, and the role of household support in sustaining these pathways. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️
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British Journal of Sociology @bjsociology.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This article explores how self-descriptions can orient organisations towards trajectories that sustain activities that contribute to environmental crises while simultaneously acknowledging both the crises themselves and the need for transformative responses. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️
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Self‐Description and the Agro‐Industry's Response to Environmental Crises
This article explores how self-descriptions can orient organisations towards trajectories that sustain activities that contribute to environmental crises while simultaneously acknowledging both the…
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British Journal of Sociology @bjsociology.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Read Max Holleran's review of "Yuppies: The Bankers, Lawyers, Joggers, and Gourmands Who Conquered New York" by Dylan Gottlieb. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Review of Yuppies: The Bankers, Lawyers, Joggers, and Gourmands Who Conquered New York. By Dylan Gottlieb. Harvard University Press, 2026
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Simone Varriale @simov.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Really happy to see my new article on far-right politics, touristification and the ‘political economy of taste’ published in @bjsociology.bsky.social (open access) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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How Cultural Taste Shapes Recognition and Redistribution Struggles: Far‐Right Politics, Touristification and the Political Economy of Taste
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 dr...
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British Journal of Sociology @bjsociology.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Are members of the public still committed to democracy? Drawing on Civil Sphere Theory and the sociology of culture and cognition, this article tempers fears of democratic decline and bridges two sometimes conflicting traditions in cultural sociology. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️
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Democracy From Within: A Democratic Cultural Schema in the US Public
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British Journal of Sociology @bjsociology.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Drawing on longitudinal data from the 1958 National Child Development Study, this article examines whether childhood residential mobility contributes to adult wealth accumulation, through which developmental pathways, and under what conditions. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️
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Childhood Residential Mobility and the Life-Course Accumulation of Wealth Inequalities: Evidence From the 1958 British Birth Cohort
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British Journal of Sociology @bjsociology.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Read Scott W. Duxbury's review of "Open Secrecy: How Technology Empowers the Digital Underground" by Isak Ladegaard. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Open Secrecy: How Technology Empowers the Digital Underground. By Isak Ladegaard
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British Journal of Sociology @bjsociology.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Using the Hungry Ghost festival, which approximately 378 million people in mainland China engage in annually, this article explores why individuals in China undertake numerous tasks for souls and spirits, whether or not they believe that these beings exist. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️
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Family Rituals in the Hungry Ghost Festival: Spirituality and Multiplex Beliefs in China
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British Journal of Sociology @bjsociology.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Read Thirza Wakefield's review of "A Nation of Shopkeepers: The Unstoppable Rise of the Petty Bourgeoisie" by Dan Evans. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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A Nation of Shopkeepers: The Unstoppable Rise of the Petty Bourgeoisie. By Dan, Evans, London: Repeater Books, 2023. 330 pp. £12.99 (paperback). ISBN: 978-1-91-346269-7
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British Journal of Sociology @bjsociology.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
This article revisits Leonard Hobhouse, an early advocate of a “normative sociology”, and explores what his work can tell us about the promises and pitfalls of bringing values explicitly into sociological analysis. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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The Normative Turn: Back to Hobhouse?
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British Journal of Sociology @bjsociology.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Based on fieldwork in Mexico and judicial wiretap analysis in Argentina, this paper shows how collusion between state actors and violent non-state actors operates through relational networks rather than stable hierarchies or fixed institutional arrangements. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️
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Opportunities and Alliances: The Relational Dynamics of Criminal Collusion in Latin America
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British Journal of Sociology @bjsociology.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
This article draws on qualitative data to argue that specific, individualised and binary framings of merit and non-merit beliefs in conventional accounts under-explore the varied ways in which people recognise structural processes. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Subjective Social Inequalities, Lay Perceptions of Merit and Puzzles of Explanation
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British Journal of Sociology @bjsociology.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
This article argues that criminal records increasingly function as classificatory tools. Drawing on examples from law, policy and markets, it shows how opportunities to mitigate criminal record marks reward those with more resources. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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British Journal of Sociology @bjsociology.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
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. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Education, Skills, and Intergenerational Inequality in Status Attainment: Causal Mediation Analysis and Typology of 23 OECD Countries
Scholars have long investigated intergenerational inequality, with attention to the associations among social origins, education, and socio-economic destinations: the so-called OED triangle.…
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British Journal of Sociology @bjsociology.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
This paper connects cultural taste to capitalist mechanisms of redistribution through the political economy of taste. It examines how performances of taste reshape representations of working-class culture and how they are mobilised by elites. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️
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British Journal of Sociology @bjsociology.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
In this research note, Herman G. van de Werfhorst explores how the field of the sociogenomics of inequalities would benefit from discussing what its findings and ambitions mean for core theories of social stratification and mobility. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️
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The Sociogenomics of Social Stratification and General Theories of Inequality
The field of the sociogenomics of inequalities would benefit from discussing what its findings and ambitions mean for core theories of social stratification and mobility. Do sociologists need to…
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British Journal of Sociology @bjsociology.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Nearly ten years ago, our special issue brought together perspectives on Brexit and its wider implications. A decade on, many of the themes still resonate, from inequality and identity to political division and belonging. On the anniversary of Brexit, revisit the articles ➡️ buff.ly/0JdLWLA
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Special issue: The Trump/Brexit Moment: Causes and Consequences
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British Journal of Sociology @bjsociology.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
This article by Justyna Kajta and Stefan Bieńkowski emphasises the role of historical context and family histories in shaping processes of class mobility and class reproduction, and examines these processes from a biographical perspective. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️
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British Journal of Sociology @bjsociology.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Read Nicola Bishop's review of "A Nation of Shopkeepers: The Unstoppable Rise of the Petty Bourgeoisie" by Dan Evans, writing how the book offers important new insights on a persistently overlooked social group. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Reading Margaret Kennedy’s The Feast (1950) at the Same Time as Dan Evan’s A Nation of Shopkeepers: The Unstoppable Rise of the Petty Bourgeoisie (2023)
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British Journal of Sociology @bjsociology.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Read Claude Didry's review of "Politicising Commodification. European Governance and Labour Politics from the Financial Crisis to the Covid Emergency" by Roland Erne, Sabrina Stan, Darragh Golden, Imre Szabo, and Vincenzo Maccarone. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Herman van de Werfhorst 🟥 @hermwerf.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
My research note on what the sociogenomics of stratification can teach us about broad sociological theories of inequality got accepted by the @bjsociology.bsky.social. My thinking for this note started when @melindacmills.bsky.social came to present her work on status at the @eui-eu.bsky.social. >
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Journal of Cultural Economy @jcultecon.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Our coEiC @allartmarkets.bsky.social has a piece in this alongside @maijutanninen.bsky.social & @gertmeyers.bsky.social ; Stephen Collier; Elena Esposito & Alberto Cevilini; Pierre Francois; Laurence Barry; Turo Kimmo Lehtonen; Paula Jarzabokowski et al
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LSE Sociology @lsesociology.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
📣 A new @bjsociology.bsky.social special issue on Insurance and Social Theory has just been published! The special issue examines the evolving landscape of insurance and its implications for how society navigates future uncertainty Read in the #BJS ➡️ buff.ly/q7Fmncb
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Special Issue: Insurance and Social Theory
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British Journal of Sociology @bjsociology.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
This paper provides suggestions for recruitment, interview strategies and design to gain high-quality data on wealthy people. It is based on an interview study of 81 US racially-diverse families with a median net worth of $25 million. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️
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British Journal of Sociology @bjsociology.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Drawing on qualitative interviews with middle-class households aged 30 to 39 in Paris, this paper examines how parental financial support is negotiated among homebuyers and renters and how it affects family relationships. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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British Journal of Sociology @bjsociology.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
📣 We've published a new special issue on Insurance and Social Theory! The issue, guest edited by Turo-Kimmo Lehtonen, Elena Esposito and Alberto Cevolini, examines the evolving landscape of insurance and how society navigates future uncertainty. Read the #BJS special issue ⬇️
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Special Issue: Insurance and Social Theory
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British Journal of Sociology @bjsociology.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
This study theorises relatability as a racialised cultural–affective filter that covertly sustains inequality. Drawing on qualitative interviews, the article identifies interlinked processes through which whiteness operates as a normative anchor in hiring. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️
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British Journal of Sociology @bjsociology.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Based on ethnographic fieldwork with Congolese traders operating in Kinshasa's urban economy, this article examines how differentiated family ties and wealth transmission shape social mobility and the intergenerational reproduction of inequality. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️
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British Journal of Sociology @bjsociology.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
This paper addresses the question of how hiring agents evaluate cultural capital signals in light of different human capital signals, drawing on a factorial survey experiment across different geographical, industry and career stage contexts. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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