Taking Stock: Elite Studies and Social Change
ABSTRACT This article provides a systematic synthesis of contemporary elite sociology through the analytical lens of change and stability. We distinguish between two types of change: change within elites, referring to transformations in elite composition, circulation, or internal characteristics; and change by elites, designating processes whereby ...
Lena Ajdacic +13 more
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A critical interrogation of the legitimacy of commercial actors in food policy partnerships. [PDF]
Knai C +6 more
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Excavating Early Burawoy: Toward a Third Position in the Race‐Class Debates
ABSTRACT This paper intervenes in contemporary sociological debates over the relationship between race and class by excavating the early writings of Michael Burawoy. Against the prevailing polarization between twin absolutist models in which either racism or capitalism alone possesses causal force, we argue that Burawoy articulates a third position—one
Zachary Levenson, Marcel Paret
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Engineered non-contestation: Deterring electoral contestation using violence in local elections. [PDF]
Das N.
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Does Inequality Blur Class Lines? Meritocratic Attitudes in Comparative Perspective
ABSTRACT Scholars of inequality generally find that lower‐class individuals are more skeptical of meritocratic narratives that link economic success to individual work effort. However, past research has yielded inconclusive findings about how economic inequality affects meritocratic attitudes across different class groups.
Roshan K. Pandian, Ronald Kwon
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Producing Fraud at the Welfare‐Migration Nexus: Migrant Families and Children's Social Care
ABSTRACT This article interrogates the production of ‘fraud’ at the interface between welfare and migration regimes. Taking the welfare micropublic of children's social care in the UK as a case study, we focus on encounters between migrant families subject to the ‘no recourse to public funds’ immigration condition and London local authorities.
Eve Dickson, Rachel Rosen
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What happened to Putin's friends? The radical right's reaction to the Russian invasion on social media. [PDF]
Wang C, Altiparmakis A.
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“Now we don't have that freedom to not work”: Childhood and parenting in insecurity culture
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
Allison J. Pugh
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Between normative universality and sharing embodied knowledge-exploring the (re-) definition of legitimate knowledge and knowers using the example of the German public media debate about racism. [PDF]
Weiß AN.
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Talking across worlds: The ontological turn and communication in natural resource co-management with Indigenous communities. [PDF]
Chew S.
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