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“We Represent a Definite Social Class”: The Class Identities and Resources of American Religious Groups in the Roaring Twenties

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Class identity is a crucial sociological concept, but is only ever measured at the individual level. In this paper, we ask: do groups have class identities? And do those class identities correspond with material resources? To answer these questions, we examine data from 31 of the most prominent American religious denominations in the early ...
Tessa Huttenlocher, Melissa Wilde
wiley   +1 more source

Then a miracle occurs: cause, effect, and the heterogeneity of criminal justice research. [PDF]

open access: yesJ Exp Criminol
Del Pozo B   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Meritocracy, Recognition and Double Consciousness: Why Black and Muslim Italians Move to (and Sometimes Leave) Post‐Brexit Britain

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article rethinks meritocratic ideology as practical knowledge that transforms through biographies of social and geographical mobility. Drawing on 37 interviews with Black and Muslim Italians living in Britain or returned to Italy, the article shows that meritocracy is rarely invoked as a coherent ideology but works as practical, embodied ...
Simone Varriale, Michela Franceschelli
wiley   +1 more source

Cooling Out or Branching Out? Accounting for the Aspirations‐Attainment Paradox Among Immigrant Youth in Sweden

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In Sweden, as in many countries, immigrant youth tend to exhibit higher educational aspirations than native‐born youth, yet their attainment often falls short of their greater ambitions. This study, resulting from a research project focused on educational transitions in two Swedish municipalities, explores two mechanisms that help explain the ...
Andrea Voyer, Stefan Lund
wiley   +1 more source

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