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The British Journal of Sociology, Volume 77, Issue 2, Page 189-200, March 2026.ABSTRACT In this article, I propose and define the concept of medical domination by combining insights from political sociology, Bourdieu's theory of domination, and intersectional perspectives. Drawing on a multi‐sited ethnographic study of abortion services in France, I analyse how a set of legitimised and institutionalised power practices shape ...
Raphaël Perrin
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Contemporary Accounting Research, Volume 43, Issue 1, Page 370-397, Spring 2026.ABSTRACT The evaluation of auditors in the Big 4 audit firms has largely remained a “black box” in accounting and audit research. Little is known about how these processes operate within audit firms or how they relate to promotion decisions. This study addresses this gap by providing direct insight into promotion committee decision‐making.
Claire Garnier +2 more
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Prestige at Play: University Hierarchies and the Reproduction of Funding Inequalities
Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, Volume 63, Issue 1, February 2026.ABSTRACT This article examines the relationship between university prestige, disciplinary cultures, and the (re)production of funding inequalities in the humanities and social sciences. We combine qualitative and quantitative methods by analyzing: (1) data on 56,680 successful and unsuccessful grant applications submitted to the Canadian Social ...
Julien Larregue, Alice Pavie
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Gender, SSE and French public policies for ageing at home
Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, Volume 96, Issue 4, Page 749-767, December 2025.Abstract In France as in other countries, there is a consensual preference by public authorities, old people and their families to stay at home as long as possible. This means the necessity of care work carried out informally by relatives, or formally by professionals.
Annie Dussuet, Louise Gasté
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Effectively Maintained Inequality in Canada Revisited
Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, Volume 62, Issue 4, Page 281-298, November 2025.ABSTRACT The mass expansion of higher education (HE) systems during the 20th century pushed social scientists to theorize how high participation systems continued to reproduce inequalities across socio‐economic lines. One popular theory in sociology, dubbed effectively maintained inequality (EMI), suggests that families from the upper economic strata ...
Roger Pizarro Milian, David Zarifa
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Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, Volume 62, Issue 4, Page 324-334, November 2025.ABSTRACT The COVID‐19 pandemic marked a significant shift in the landscape of social assistance in Canada, as emergency support became more widely accessible. Faced with the prospect of rapidly distributing aid during an international crisis, this study draws on interviews with 19 volunteers from an emergency food program in Vancouver's Downtown ...
Carly Hamdon
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Ecological Applications, Volume 35, Issue 7, October 2025.Abstract Coastal subarctic systems are inhabited by bivalve and gastropods, which due to their lifecycle and longevity are reliable indicators of ecological alterations in the environment. Recent laboratory studies have shown that young life stages of invertebrates perceive natural sounds, and their settlement, behavior, and fitness could be altered by
Nathália Byrro Gauthier +10 more
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Risk, Hazards &Crisis in Public Policy, Volume 16, Issue 3, September 2025.ABSTRACT This article explores the sociohistorical construction of civilian unpreparedness as a public policy issue in Los Angeles, arguing that it emerged not as a neutral response to escalating urban risks, but as a mechanism through which actors negotiated power dynamics amid urban transformations between 1940 and 1980.
Piero Tellerías Melgarejo
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Racket sociality: investigating intimidation in North India
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 3, Page 771-788, September 2025.This article is an ethnographic investigation into acts of intimidation and threats. Theoretically, it dialogues with ‘racket’ – a key analytical term in the sociology of domination, state‐making, and mafias. The anthropology of power, violence, and crime has paid scant attention to the morphology of threats and the ways interpersonal intimidation ...
Lucia Michelutti
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Caught between two worlds: Big 4 professionals moving to non–Big 4 firms
Contemporary Accounting Research, Volume 42, Issue 3, Page 2156-2187, Fall 2025.Abstract Researchers have studied the entry of professionals into the public accounting field, their careers at an organization, and their exit from the field. However, they have largely overlooked the mobility of these professionals, whose careers involve firm transfers.
Laurence Daoust +2 more
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