Opportunities and Alliances: The Relational Dynamics of Criminal Collusion in Latin America
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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ABSTRACT Using biographical methods, the study explores the lives of 34 young people undertaking engineering apprenticeships in Teesside, Northeast England. It examines why working‐class youth in a deindustrialised region might be attracted to engineering, how they might secure apprenticeship, and the invaluable role households play in orchestrating ...
Anoop Nayak, Graham Gaunt
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Twenty‐First Century Butlers and the New Spirit of Service
ABSTRACT More than 50 years ago, Lewis Coser argued that the “servant” had become obsolete, claiming that such a “premodern” occupation could not function within modernity without religious legitimations. However, with parts of the contemporary service sector exhibiting the very characteristics that Coser viewed as “premodern”—especially within ...
Bryan Boyle
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Restructuring Law Enforcement Agencies to Support Prosocial Values: A Behavior-Scientific Model for Addressing Police Brutality. [PDF]
Ghezzi EL, Funk JA, Houmanfar RA.
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Valorizing Erasure: Imperial Knowledge Production in Anglo‐American Coverage of Chad's ‘Toyota War’
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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Playing the Game: Illusio and the Cultural Normalisation of Shadow Education in Greece and Beyond
ABSTRACT Shadow education has become a defining feature of contemporary schooling systems, yet dominant explanations continue to emphasise access, market expansion, and examination pressure. This article advances a sociological account of how shadow education becomes culturally normalised within contexts formally committed to public educational ...
Alexandros Kamplitsis
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From Margins to Privilege: Revisiting the Sociology of Youth Subcultures Through Omnivorousness
ABSTRACT Advantaged young people may engage in transgressive or non‐conformist subcultural practices usually associated with disadvantaged youth. When undertaken from privileged positions, however, these practices can carry markedly different meanings, costs and rewards.
Chi‐Chung Wang
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The Electoral Class Gap: Working‐Class Non‐Voting on the Rise in Twenty‐First Century Norway
ABSTRACT The growing working‐class disengagement from politics witnessed in Western democracies in recent decades poses a serious threat to democratic legitimacy. Crucial in meeting this challenge is scrutinising arenas that connect disadvantaged groups of the electorate to politics.
Vebjørn Nordhagen
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Parenting as Civic Action: A Relational Framework for Citizenship
ABSTRACT This article conceptualizes parenting as a form of civic action. Identifying a relational turn in theories of citizenship, we propose an analytical framework for examining civic meanings in everyday parental acts. Foregrounding the intersubjective and intergenerational nature of state–citizen relations, the framework expands existing theories ...
Lauren Erdreich +3 more
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The wider network of social relationships and desistance from crime
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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