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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This piece examines the systematic erosion of academic freedom and the institutionalized censorship and repression of academics in Iran following the Woman, Life, Freedom movement, where universities have been reshaped into extensions of the security state through ideological vetting, pervasive surveillance, and the purging of dissenting ...
Arash Beidollahkhani
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Cultural and Human Capital Signals in Hiring—A Factorial Survey Experiment Across Contexts
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT When evaluating candidates, hiring agents may draw on signals of human as well as cultural capital. While these processes have been considered separately, an open question is how the two types of signals interact. As signals of social class, cultural capital signals relate to human capital as they evoke stereotypes about competence, polish ...
Luisa Burchartz +2 more
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Unequal Family Ties, Wealth Transmission and Social Mobility Among Congolese Traders in Kinshasa
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Based on ethnographic fieldwork among 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. We show that family support is neither uniform nor equally productive: its effects depend on both
Héritier Mesa, Joël Noret
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In recent years, sociological interest in the study of social class—particularly its subjective dimensions—has intensified. This article contributes to this growing body of literature by focusing on Poland as a case within the Central and Eastern European region.
Justyna Kajta, Stefan Bieńkowski
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Opportunities and Alliances: The Relational Dynamics of Criminal Collusion in Latin America
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Mexico and judicial wiretap analysis in Argentina, this paper shows that collusion between state actors and violent non‐state actors operates through fluid and competitive relational networks rather than stable hierarchies or fixed institutional arrangements.
Eldad J. Levy, Javier Auyero
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Valorizing Erasure: Imperial Knowledge Production in Anglo‐American Coverage of Chad's ‘Toyota War’
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How does imperial knowledge production operate when Western media coverage of a Global South subject is predominantly admiring instead of hostile? This article addresses that question through critical discourse analysis of sixty‐three Anglo‐American news articles covering the Chad‐Libya conflict of the 1980s, the ‘Toyota War’.
Harmata Aboubakar
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Monitoring Quality of Mafia‐Connected Accountants
Journal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We investigate the monitoring quality of accountants with ties to the Mafia in their role as auditors for “clean” firms—those with no known ties to organized crime. Using a proprietary government database, we identify Italian firms with alleged ties to the Mafia through their executives, directors, or shareholders.
Pietro A. Bianchi +3 more
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Journal of Forensic Sciences, EarlyView.Abstract Despite growing public awareness and political attention, the crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two‐Spirit People (MMIWG2+) in Canada and the United States remains unresolved. Indigenous families continue to report that the disappearances and deaths of their loved ones are investigated inadequately and without ...
Steff King +2 more
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The wider network of social relationships and desistance from crime
Criminology, EarlyView.Abstract Prior research has focused on marriage as a key relationship associated with crime cessation. Yet particularly within the contemporary context, relationships with parents, peers, and other family members may also foster or inhibit progress toward desistance.
Peggy C. Giordano +4 more
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Becoming monstrous: Beauty norms, body image, and discursive limits on compassion in The Substance
Nutrition &Dietetics, EarlyView.Abstract Aim This study analyses the Hollywood body horror film The Substance to explore how Western beauty culture regulates emotions and bodies. It aims to explore compassion within dominant body image discourses and considers how this impacts dietetic care. Methods Using Foucauldian discourse analysis informed by affect theory, the film was analysed
Phillip Joy
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