British Journal of Sociology
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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 ➡️ https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14684446
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January 6, 2026 at 1:00 PM
📣 Reminder to all British Journal of Sociology Conference presenters - you must have registered by Monday 12 January 2026 to confirm your place.
You will have received the registration link via email.
You will have received the registration link via email.
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January 5, 2026 at 1:38 PM
A new issue of the British Journal of Sociology is out now!
Read our latest articles in the #BJS ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14684446...
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This article seeks to differentiate between different types of radical right-wing voters in Europe, analysing their social characteristics and identifying different voting motives.
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January 2, 2026 at 11:00 AM
This article seeks to differentiate between different types of radical right-wing voters in Europe, analysing their social characteristics and identifying different voting motives.
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This study investigates how Norwegian Muslims make meaning of ascriptions by mainstream society, exploring how Muslims derive understanding from ascriptions made by others and how this process influences their self-formation.
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December 30, 2025 at 12:02 PM
This study investigates how Norwegian Muslims make meaning of ascriptions by mainstream society, exploring how Muslims derive understanding from ascriptions made by others and how this process influences their self-formation.
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This article explores how and why police officers and data analysts respond to “colonial situations” behind predictive policing.
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December 23, 2025 at 12:02 PM
This article explores how and why police officers and data analysts respond to “colonial situations” behind predictive policing.
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This commentary reflects on how, as academic and activist spaces move online, queer, Dalit and feminist voices increasingly face repression through targeted digital attacks.
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December 22, 2025 at 1:02 PM
This commentary reflects on how, as academic and activist spaces move online, queer, Dalit and feminist voices increasingly face repression through targeted digital attacks.
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Drawing on 15 months of ethnographic fieldwork, this article explores the emotional labour of young carers who care for ill or disabled family members in China, a context where children's caregiving remains largely invisible.
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December 18, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Drawing on 15 months of ethnographic fieldwork, this article explores the emotional labour of young carers who care for ill or disabled family members in China, a context where children's caregiving remains largely invisible.
#EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
#EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
A new issue of the British Journal of Sociology is out now!
Read our latest articles in the #BJS ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14684446...
Read our latest articles in the #BJS ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14684446...
December 17, 2025 at 12:03 PM
A new issue of the British Journal of Sociology is out now!
Read our latest articles in the #BJS ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14684446...
Read our latest articles in the #BJS ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14684446...
This commentary reflects on scholarship as struggle via dwelling on caution and risk-taking in academia, ‘sanctity’ of code of conduct, and the academic being.
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December 15, 2025 at 12:02 PM
This commentary reflects on scholarship as struggle via dwelling on caution and risk-taking in academia, ‘sanctity’ of code of conduct, and the academic being.
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In Sweden, immigrant youth tend to exhibit higher educational aspirations than native-born youth, yet their attainment often falls short. This study explores two mechanisms that help explain the aspirations-attainment paradox.
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December 10, 2025 at 12:03 PM
In Sweden, immigrant youth tend to exhibit higher educational aspirations than native-born youth, yet their attainment often falls short. This study explores two mechanisms that help explain the aspirations-attainment paradox.
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Drawing on 37 interviews with Black and Muslim Italians living in Britain or returned to Italy, this article shows that meritocracy is rarely invoked as a coherent ideology but works as practical, embodied common sense about the world order.
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December 8, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Drawing on 37 interviews with Black and Muslim Italians living in Britain or returned to Italy, this article shows that meritocracy is rarely invoked as a coherent ideology but works as practical, embodied common sense about the world order.
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This article focuses upon Christian climate activists in the UK and how they are reinterpreting their theological beliefs in ways that mobilise religious communities, arguing for a re-enchantment of studies of contemporary climate change activism.
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December 4, 2025 at 11:02 AM
This article focuses upon Christian climate activists in the UK and how they are reinterpreting their theological beliefs in ways that mobilise religious communities, arguing for a re-enchantment of studies of contemporary climate change activism.
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Drawing on a new module of fairness beliefs within the nationally representative Australian Survey of Social Attitudes, this article explores whether individuals who endorse equal opportunity are also more likely to hold positive attitudes towards migration.
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December 3, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Drawing on a new module of fairness beliefs within the nationally representative Australian Survey of Social Attitudes, this article explores whether individuals who endorse equal opportunity are also more likely to hold positive attitudes towards migration.
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Read Isabel Pike's review of "Making Women Pay: Microfinance in Urban India" by Smitha Radhakrishnan.
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December 1, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Read Isabel Pike's review of "Making Women Pay: Microfinance in Urban India" by Smitha Radhakrishnan.
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Drawing on an ethnographic study of abortion services in France, this article proposes and defines the concept of medical domination by combining insights from political sociology, Bourdieu's theory of domination, and intersectional perspectives.
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November 28, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Drawing on an ethnographic study of abortion services in France, this article proposes and defines the concept of medical domination by combining insights from political sociology, Bourdieu's theory of domination, and intersectional perspectives.
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Read Tom P J Parkin's review of "Civil Repair" by Jeffrey C. Alexander.
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November 26, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Read Tom P J Parkin's review of "Civil Repair" by Jeffrey C. Alexander.
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This article examines 20th-century American family demography as a case study, tracing historically how scholars justified their nascent scholarship through moral arguments linked to perceived social goods that demography produces.
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November 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
This article examines 20th-century American family demography as a case study, tracing historically how scholars justified their nascent scholarship through moral arguments linked to perceived social goods that demography produces.
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This article highlights the role and types of White innocence. It uses St. Augustine, Florida, and Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, to outline the contours of narrative and consumptive innocence.
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November 24, 2025 at 12:01 PM
This article highlights the role and types of White innocence. It uses St. Augustine, Florida, and Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, to outline the contours of narrative and consumptive innocence.
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What makes the city's diverse strangers actually interact face-to-face? Drawing on long-term urban ethnography in Oslo, Norway, this article explores ‘contact-supporting circumstances’ in urban public space.
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November 20, 2025 at 1:01 PM
What makes the city's diverse strangers actually interact face-to-face? Drawing on long-term urban ethnography in Oslo, Norway, this article explores ‘contact-supporting circumstances’ in urban public space.
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This article examines how ethnonationalism becomes a resource for navigating the precarity of ageing. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, it shows how financially privileged Québécois seniors enact nationhood through everyday cultural practices.
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November 19, 2025 at 12:02 PM
This article examines how ethnonationalism becomes a resource for navigating the precarity of ageing. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, it shows how financially privileged Québécois seniors enact nationhood through everyday cultural practices.
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Read Laurie E. Adkin's review of "Climate Justice and the University: Shaping a Hopeful Future for All" by Jennie Stephens.
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November 18, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Read Laurie E. Adkin's review of "Climate Justice and the University: Shaping a Hopeful Future for All" by Jennie Stephens.
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This article shows that infrastructural power—a state's capacity to coordinate society and implement policy—was associated with higher vaccination rates during COVID-19, regardless of its level of despotic power.
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November 17, 2025 at 1:02 PM
This article shows that infrastructural power—a state's capacity to coordinate society and implement policy—was associated with higher vaccination rates during COVID-19, regardless of its level of despotic power.
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Drawing on 41 semi-structured interviews with wealthy members of the business class living in and around Manchester, this paper explores how therapy culture has travelled upwards, to the executive and owning class, through CEO peer groups.
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November 13, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Drawing on 41 semi-structured interviews with wealthy members of the business class living in and around Manchester, this paper explores how therapy culture has travelled upwards, to the executive and owning class, through CEO peer groups.
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This paper explores the causal effect of motherhood on women's occupational class trajectories using data from the 1970 British Cohort Study. It shows that motherhood significantly increases downward mobility and limits access to professional occupations.
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November 12, 2025 at 12:03 PM
This paper explores the causal effect of motherhood on women's occupational class trajectories using data from the 1970 British Cohort Study. It shows that motherhood significantly increases downward mobility and limits access to professional occupations.
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Read Benjamin H. Bradlow's review of "The Price Is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won’t Save the Planet" by Brett Christophers.
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November 10, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Read Benjamin H. Bradlow's review of "The Price Is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won’t Save the Planet" by Brett Christophers.
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