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Caught in an Authoritarian Trap of Its Own Making? Brazil s ‘Lava Jato’ Anti‐Corruption Investigation and the Politics of Prosecutorial Overreach. George Mészáros. Journal of Law and Society. 2 days ago ["\nAbstract\nThe negative and corrosive impacts of corruption in the fields of economics, politics, and law are widely discussed. Less understood are the potentially negative impacts of anti‐corruption struggles and strategies themselves. This article presents a case study of Brazil's ‘Car Wash’ (‘Lava Jato’) scandal from a legal and political perspective. Although the subsequent Operation Car Wash investigation was widely regarded as remarkably successful, supposedly buttressing the rule of law through high‐profile prosecutions of leading politicians and businesspersons, the article argues that legal due process, wider constitutional law, and the political process were undermined. While the use of media leaks to strengthen the investigation proved tactically successful, when coupled with new legal instruments it undermined the presumption of innocence and contributed to a climate in which political and legal debates themselves became increasingly subordinated to simplistic polarizing anti‐corruption discourses, thereby undermining an already fragile political and institutional environment.\n", "Journal of Law and Society, EarlyView. "] Partition by Degrees: Routine Exceptions in Border and Immigration Practice between the UK and Ireland, 1921–1972. C. R. G. Murray, Daniel Wincott. Journal of Law and Society. 2 days ago ["\nAbstract\nUsing archival materials, we reflect on the legal process of creating (and mitigating) a border in Ireland after partition in 1922 and interactions between those laws and the people whom they affected. After 1922, superficially durable exceptions developed to the territorial state's distinctions between citizens and foreign nationals under the aegis of the Common Travel Area. They survived the 1930s UK–Ireland ‘Economic War’, were sustained (if in a restricted form) during the Second World War and were rebuilt in its aftermath. These arrangements proved beneficial for both countries, providing an outlet for surplus labour for Ireland and a resource for the UK economy. We nonetheless explore how far practice reflected this overarching cooperative framework, particularly given the complications introduced by the policies of Northern Ireland's institutions.\n", "Journal of Law and Society, EarlyView. "] Are muscle fibres of body builders intrinsically weaker? A comparison with single fibres of aged‐matched controls. Elena Monti, Luana Toniolo, Lorenzo Marcucci, Michela Bondì, Ivan Martellato, Bostjan Šimunič, Paolo Toninello, Martino V. Franchi, Marco V. Narici, Carlo Reggiani. Acta Physiologica. 2 days ago ["\nAbstract\n\nAim\nSkeletal muscles of Body Builders (BB) represent an interesting model to study muscle mass gains in response to high volume resistance training. It is debated whether muscle contractile performance improves in proportion to mass. Here, we aim to assess whether muscle hypertrophy does not occur at the expense of performance.\n\n\nMethods\nSix BB and Six untrained controls (CTRL) were recruited. Cross‐sectional area (CSA) and maximum voluntary contraction (MVC) of quadriceps femoris muscle (QF) and CSA and architecture of vastus lateralis (VL) were determined. Moreover, a biopsy was taken from VL mid‐portion and single fibres were analysed.\n\n\nResults\nQF CSA and MVC were 32% (n.s., P = .052) and 58% (P = .009) higher in BB than in CTRL, respectively. VL CSA was 37% higher in BB (P = .030). Fast 2A fibres CSA was 24% (P = .048) greater in BB than in CTRL, when determined in immunostained sections of biopsy samples. Single permeabilized fast fibres CSA was 37% (n.s., P = .052) higher in BB than in CTRL, and their force was slightly higher in BB (n.s.), while specific tension (P0) was 19% (P = .024) lower. The lower P0 was not explained either by lower myosin content or by impaired calcium diffusion. Conversely, the swelling caused by skinning‐induced permeabilization was different and, when used to correct P0, differences between populations disappeared.\n\n\nConclusions\nThe results show that high degree of muscle hypertrophy is not detrimental for force generation capacity, as increases in fibre size and force are strictly proportional once the differential swelling response is accounted for.\n\n", "Acta Physiologica, EarlyView. "] Prostacyclin facilitates vascular smooth muscle cell phenotypic transformation via activating TP receptors when IP receptors are deficient. Ziqing Li, Wenwei Luo, Shi Fang, Xinyi Chen, Tong Lin, Sihang Zhou, Lili Zhang, Wanqi Yang, Zhenzhen Li, Jiantao Ye, Junjian Wang, Peiqing Liu, Zhuoming Li. Acta Physiologica. 2 days ago ["\nAbstract\n\nAim\nBy activating prostacyclin receptors (IP receptors), prostacyclin (PGI2) exerts cardiovascular protective effects such as vasodilation and inhibition of vascular smooth muscle cell (VSMC) proliferation. However, IP receptors are dysfunctional under pathological conditions, and PGI2 produces detrimental effects that are opposite to its physiological protective effects via thromboxane‐prostanoid (TP) receptors. This attempted to investigate whether or not IP receptor dysfunction facilitates the shift of PGI2 action. Methods: The effects of PGI2 and its stable analog iloprost on VSMC phenotypic transformation and proliferation were examined in A10 cells silencing IP receptors, in human aortic VSMCs (HAVSMCs) knocked down IP receptor by CRISPR‐Cas9, or in HAVSMCs transfected with a dysfunctional mutation of IP receptor IPR212C. Results: PGI2/iloprost treatment stimulated cell proliferation, upregulated synthetic proteins and downregulated contractile proteins, suggesting that PGI2/iloprost promotes VSMC phenotypic transformation in IP‐deficient cells. The effect of PGI2/iloprost was prevented by TP antagonist S18886 or TP knockdown, indicating that the VSMC detrimental effect of PGI2 is dependent on TP receptor. RNA sequencing and Western blotting results showed that RhoA/ROCKs, MEK1/2 and JNK signalling cascades were involved. Moreover, IP deficiency increased the distribution of TP receptors at the cell membrane. Conclusion: PGI2 induces VSMC phenotypic transformation when IP receptors are impaired. This is attributed to the activation of TP receptor and its downstream signaling cascades, and to the increased membrane distribution of TP receptors. The VSMC detrimental effect of PGI2 medicated by IP dysfunction and TP activation might probably exacerbate vascular remodelling, accelerating cardiovascular diseases.\n\n", "Acta Physiologica, EarlyView. "] A Democratic Emergency After a Health Emergency? Exposure to COVID‐19, Perceived Economic Threat and Support for Anti‐Democratic Political Systems. Michele Roccato, Nicoletta Cavazza, Pasquale Colloca, Silvia Russo. Social Science Quarterly. 3 days ago ["\n\nObjectives\nThe urgency of the COVID‐19 pandemic has led governments to impose restrictions on individual freedom and required citizens to comply with these restrictions. In addition, lockdowns related to COVID‐19 have led to a significant economic crisis. We aimed to study how the pandemic and related economic threats have impacted support for anti‐democratic political systems.\n\n\nMethod\nWe analyzed data from a quota panel of the Italian adult population (N = 1,195), surveyed once before and once during the pandemic.\n\n\nResults\nA hierarchical regression model showed that exposure to COVID‐19 and perceived economic insecurity were associated with support for anti‐democratic political systems, independent of participants’ predispositions toward a strong leader.\n\n\nConclusion\nAn authoritarian personality is not a necessary precondition for individual anti‐democracy: when facing severe personal threats, anyone could restore a subjective sense of control over the social world by becoming anti‐democratic, independent of their initial predisposition to support anti‐democratic political systems.\n\n", "Social Science Quarterly, EarlyView. "] The Effect of Classmates’ Maternal College Attainment on Volunteering in Young Adulthood. Jinho Kim. Social Science Quarterly. 3 days ago ["\n\nObjective\nIn this study, I explore whether and how attending class with students who have a college‐educated mother generates positive spillovers to classmates’ volunteering behavior in young adulthood.\n\n\nMethods\nUsing data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health), I employ a quasi‐experimental research design that exploits variation in student composition across grade cohorts within schools.\n\n\nResults\nThis study finds that the proportion of classmates with college‐educated mothers has a positive impact on the likelihood of students’ engagement in volunteering in young adulthood. Exposure to a higher proportion of classmates with college‐educated mothers increases adolescents’ future volunteering, in part, by directly transmitting civic values and providing civic opportunities and indirectly increasing “dominant status” attainment in young adulthood.\n\n\nConclusion\nThis study suggests that the spillover effects of having peers with highly educated mothers go beyond educational outcomes and influence volunteering behavior that persists into adulthood.\n\n", "Social Science Quarterly, EarlyView. "] From starving artist to entrepreneur. Justificatory pluralism in visual artists grant proposals. Julia Peters, Henk Roose. British Journal of Sociology. 3 days ago ["\nAbstract\nInspired by French pragmatism and using Bourdieu's notion of “refraction” as an indication of a field's autonomy, we explore in‐depth what kinds of justifications visual artists deploy to legitimate their requests for government money. Based on 494 government grant proposals from visual artists between 1965 and 2015 in Belgium, we find six such justifications. The reputational, esthetic, and romantic justifications are grounded in autonomous criteria of worth, such as artistic CVs, the work of art itself, and a compulsive desire to make art. Since the 90s, social, academic, and entrepreneurial justifications bring in heteronomous criteria, or refractions of field‐external values. Artistic practices become increasingly legitimized through engagement with social/political issues, academic methods and terminology, and an entrepreneurial spirit. We empirically show how the refraction of governmental logics is multi‐faceted, yet always related to or combined with artistic concerns, which we interpret as characteristic for the artistic field's persisting autonomy in the face of heteronomous pressures.\n", "The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView. "] The effects of cognitive load during an investigative interviewing task on mock interviewers’ recall of information. Pamela Hanway, Lucy Akehurst, Zarah Vernham, Lorraine Hope. Legal and Criminological Psychology. 3 days ago ["\n\nPurpose\nAlthough investigative interviewers receive training in interviewing techniques, they often fail to comply with recommended practices. Interviewers are required to actively listen, accurately remember information, think of questions to ask, make judgements, and seek clarification, whilst conducting interviews with witnesses, victims, or suspects. The current study examined the impact of increased cognitive load on mock interviewers’ recall of a witness’s account.\n\n\nMethod\nParticipants took the role of an investigative interviewer in one of three conditions, high cognitive load (HCL), moderate cognitive load (MCL), or no cognitive load (NCL). Participants watched a video‐recorded free narrative of a child witness during which they followed condition‐relevant task instructions. Each participant rated their perceived cognitive load during their task and then recalled (free and cued recall) the content of the witness’s account.\n\n\nResults\nParticipants in the HCL and MCL conditions perceived higher cognitive load and demonstrated poorer performance on the free recall task than those in the NCL condition. Participants in the HCL condition demonstrated poorer performance on the cued recall task compared to participants in the NCL condition.\n\n\nConclusions\nThe cognitive demands required to complete an investigative interview task led to an increased perceived cognitive load and had a negative impact on recall performance for mock interviewers. Accurately recalling what has been reported by a witness is vital during an investigation. Inaccurate recall can impact on interviewers’ questioning and their compliance with recommended interviewing practices. Developing and practising interview techniques may help interviewers to better cope with the high cognitive demands of investigative interviewing.\n\n", "Legal and Criminological Psychology, EarlyView. "] Performing care: emotion work and ‘dignity work’ – a joint autoethnography of caring for our mum at the end of life. Samantha Wilkinson, Catherine Wilkinson. Sociology of Health Illness. 4 days ago ["\nAbstract\nIn this paper we, twin sisters, present a joint autoethnographic account of providing end of life care for our mum who had terminal cancer. Using the theoretical framing of performance from Goffman's theory of Dramaturgy, we present the findings from a joint autoethnography, focusing on two key themes: performing emotion work and performing what we conceptualise as ‘dignity work’. This paper's contributions are twofold. First, conceptually, this paper offers an important contribution to literature concerned with the sociology of illness, by critically engaging with Goffman's notion of frontstage and backstage performance, applied to the context of home care provided by family carers. The second contribution of this paper is methodological; we promote the under‐utilised approach of a joint autoethnography and argue for its usefulness in the context of end of life care. We contend that the process of writing this paper was emotionally challenging, yet arriving at the final paper, which serves as a legacy of our mum, was cathartic. We argue for the usefulness of written diaries as a backstage arena through which other informal carers can think through, and come to terms with, experiences of death and dying.\n", "Sociology of Health & Illness, EarlyView. "] When States Align Social Welfare Programs: Considering the Child Support Income Exclusion for SNAP. Colleen M. Heflin, Leonard M. Lopoo, Mattie Mackenzie‐Liu. Social Science Quarterly. 4 days ago ["\n\nObjective\nIn the United States, state social services rarely coordinate across departments, a practice that could both increase receipt and reduce administrative burden. The purpose of this article is to investigate the state‐level conditions associated with the adoption of policies that benefit participants in multiple social welfare programs, focusing on the case of the child support income exclusion for SNAP benefit eligibility calculations.\n\n\nMethods\nUsing annual data for each of the states (including the District of Columbia), we estimate multiple analyses to test three hypotheses regarding which factors are associated with policy adoption.\n\n\nResults\nWe find that collaboration across social programs is more likely as state income tax revenues increase and when administrative costs are lower.\n\n\nConclusions\nOur findings suggest that state revenue and administrative costs are associated with state interagency alignment but find only weak evidence that political ideology is a factor.\n\n", "Social Science Quarterly, EarlyView. "] Armed Conflict and the Timing of Childbearing in Azerbaijan. Orsola Torrisi. Population and Development Review. 4 days ago ["\nAbstract\nResearch on fertility changes in former Soviet states of the South Caucasus is scant and has overlooked the role of armed conflicts. This study contributes to filling these gaps by providing the first detailed account of fertility changes in Azerbaijan since independence and by exploring them in relation to the Nagorno‐Karabakh conflict with Armenia. Estimates from retrospective birth history data from the 2006 Demographic and Health Survey show that since 1991 period fertility declined to almost below‐replacement levels, essentially as a result of stopping behavior, and, only recently, slight birth postponement. While the conflict seems to have little influence on aggregate trends, discrete‐time logit models accounting for unobserved heterogeneity reveal a 42–45 percent higher risk of transitioning to the second birth for women who have been exposed to conflict violence—whether in the form of forced migration or because of residence in the conflict‐torn Karabakh region—than for nonexposed women. Never‐migrant women from Karabakh have also significantly higher probability of having a first child. Further positive effects on fertility are observed for women who lost a child during peak conflict years. Risk‐insurance and replacement effects are possible mechanisms explaining such fertility responses.\n", "Population and Development Review, EarlyView. "] Does Deliberation Increase Public‐Spiritedness? Rui Wang, James S. Fishkin, Robert C. Luskin. Social Science Quarterly. 4 days ago ["\n\nObjective\nThis article investigates the hypothesis, dating back to de Tocqueville and Mill, that deliberation helps make citizens more “public‐spirited,” increasing their support for policies that benefit the community, even at some possible cost to themselves. The hypothesis has previously occasioned much speculation but little empirical investigation.\n\n\nMethods\nWe employ data from a series of regional Deliberative Polls in Texas, gathering random samples from seven different service areas for weekend‐long deliberations about the pros and cons of alternative energy choices. Confidential questionnaires were administered at time of recruitment and at the end of the weekend.\n\n\nResults\nThe participants showed an increased willingness to pay for renewable energy, conservation, and to see to it that everyone’s basic needs are met. The contours of these results suggest that they should be taken as evidence of increased public‐spiritedness.\n\n\nConclusion\nWe provide new evidence in support of the venerable hypothesis that deliberation increases public‐spiritedness—among deliberation’s most important but hitherto least examined effects.\n\n", "Social Science Quarterly, EarlyView. "] Men, masculinities and diabetes: ‘doing gender’ in Italian men’s narratives of chronic illness. Valeria Quaglia. Sociology of Health Illness. 5 days ago ["\nAbstract\nThere has been a growing interest in the study of masculinity and its intersection with health. However, and despite epidemiological data showing men’s general disadvantage in health, there are only a few empirical studies that explore men’s experiences of chronic illness. Drawing on empirical data collected in qualitative research on masculinity and autoimmune diabetes, this article investigates the multiple ways in which gender may intersect with health, in an attempt to go beyond the widespread thesis that ‘masculinity is bad for men’s health’. In line with more recent critical perspectives on the study of men’s health that have challenged this oversimplistic assumption, this work further problematises masculinity in relation to health and illness. In‐depth interviews have been conducted with 40 young/adult diabetic men from working/middle‐class backgrounds. The findings show that gender might intersect health in complex ways and diabetic men can embody and re‐signify health practices in order to fulfil or redefine dominant ideals of masculinity. From the analysis, three different ‘diabetic masculinities’ have been identified and will be discussed: the Diabetic Quantified Self, the Athlete and the Free Spirit.\n", "Sociology of Health & Illness, EarlyView. "] Societal religiosity and the gender gap in political interest, 1990–2014. Juan J. Fernández, Antonio M. Jaime‐Castillo, Damon Mayrl, Celia Valiente. British Journal of Sociology. 5 days ago ["\nAbstract\nThis manuscript examines the structural causes of the gender gap in political interest. In many countries, men are more interested in politics than women. Yet, in others, men and women prove equally interested. We explain this cross‐national variation by focusing on the effects of societal religiosity. Since religion sustains the traditional gender order, contexts where societal religiosity is low undermine the taken‐for‐grantedness of this order, subjecting it to debate. Men then become especially interested in politics to try to reassert their traditional gender dominance, or to compensate for their increasingly uncertain social status. A secular environment thus increases political interest more among men than among women, expanding this gender gap. Using the World and European Values Survey, we estimate three‐level regression models and test our religiosity‐based approach in 96 countries. The results are consistent with our hypothesis.\n", "The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView. "] A critical examination of Iacono and Ben‐Shakhar s critique of Ginton s innovative technique for estimating polygraph CQT accuracy in real‐life cases. Avital Ginton. Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling. 5 days ago ["\nAbstract\nGiven the inherent difficulties in validating the comparison question polygraph test (CQT) by using a wide range of the conventional two categories of studies—field and laboratory (NRC, The polygraph and lie detection, committee to review the scientific evidence on the polygraph, 2003)—the innovative method presented by Ginton, Psychology, Crime & Law, 2013, 19, pp. 577–594 has been considered to be a breakthrough (Raskin & Kircher, Credibility assessment: Scientific research and applications, 2014, pp. 63–129). In their recent review of the current status of polygraph validity, Iacono and Ben‐Shakhar, Law and Human Behavior, 2019, 43, pp. 86–98 dedicated a significant portion of their article to scrutinising that novel approach. They did applaud Ginton's innovation for the development of the new methods but criticised its outcomes to the point that nullified any contributions it might have had in dealing with the long‐lasting controversy regarding the CQT validity. The present response to that critique examines their argumentations in dismissing Ginton's study point by point, indicating reliance on some speculations that had nothing to do with reality and a profound misunderstanding or misinterpreting of the data.\n", "Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, EarlyView. "] Atrocity Stories and Access to Elite Universities: Chickens at the Station. Sam Hillyard, Jonathan Tummons, Madeleine Winnard. Symbolic Interaction. 5 days ago ["\nThe article explores the interactional management of class relations using atrocity stories as a conceptual device vis‐à‐vis new case study data. We argue that interactionist ideas are well placed to comment on the hidden injuries of class in the higher education sector and demonstrate this using atrocity stories and Goffman's work. We use the atrocity stories of atypical cases (non‐traditional graduates of an elite university) to expose class differences. Atrocity stories and Goffman's work on cooling, impression management, and total institutions were used here to unlock extended interviews with graduates from the 1960s–1980s who attended one elite British university. The findings expose the manifestation of the English class structure and a variety of responses. The conclusion finds evidence of resistance rather than challenge. A call is made for more longitudinal ethnographic research exploring how universities might promote access agendas—with particular attention to those both upwardly and downwardly mobile.\n", "Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView. "] September 16, 2020 doi: 10.1007/s10611-020-09917-y open full text Negotiating Medical Authority: Shared Decision‐Making in the ICU. Jason Rodriquez. Symbolic Interaction. 7 days ago ["\nHospitalized individuals who are unable to communicate have the right to an empowered surrogate who participates in shared decision‐making. Based on 300 hours of participant observation in an intensive care unit (ICU) and 35 interviews with staff, this article examines shared decision‐making as a negotiated social process of aligning frames of understanding. Drawing from Erving Goffman's concepts of frames (1974) and performance teams (1959), this article shows the interactional strategies ICU clinicians as a team used to bring family surrogates' frame of understanding into alignment with their own assessment that the patient was unlikely to survive. Findings show clinicians maintained authority over end‐of‐life care while also maintaining a process recognized as shared decision‐making.\n", "Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView. "] September 15, 2020 doi: 10.1002/symb.514 open full text ‘We re responsible for the diagnosis and for finding help’. The help‐seeking trajectories of families of children on the autism spectrum. Isabelle Courcy, Catherine des Rivières‐Pigeon. Sociology of Health Illness. 7 days ago ["\nAbstract\nThis article focuses on parents' process of seeking help for their child when a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder is made or suspected. The study was conducted with 18 parents of children aged 4–10 years in Quebec (Canada). A trajectory‐network approach was applied in order to carry out an in‐depth analysis of family help‐seeking trajectories based on the relationships mobilised (or neglected) over time and on life course events that may have precipitated (or hindered) help‐seeking actions. Semi‐directed interviews based on a name generator were conducted. A qualitative analysis of the content of family narratives was done and followed by the production of a schematic representation of each families' help‐seeking trajectory. The results identified four constitutive phases during which relationships within the family, within associations, or with health and social services or education professionals helped or hindered the help‐seeking process. The results show the relevance of the proposed approach for analysing the help‐seeking process and better supporting families of children on the autism spectrum.\n", "Sociology of Health & Illness, EarlyView. "] September 15, 2020 doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.13184 open full text Pragmatic Prosumption: Searching for Food Prosumers in the Netherlands. Esther J. Veen, Hans Dagevos, Jan Eelco Jansma. Sociologia Ruralis. 7 days ago ["\nAbstract\nThis paper explores the concept of prosumption in the world of food. Prosumption is a combination of production and consumption: food prosumers are people who actively produce food for self‐consumption. Besides reflecting on sociological conceptualisations of prosumption, this exploratory study uses an online survey (N = 835) and semi‐structured interviews (N = 12) to examine prosumption empirically. Respondents, living in Almere, the Netherlands, have mostly personal and pragmatic reasons, such as the enjoyment of gardening and the pleasure of producing food, to engage in some form of prosumption. Respondents are hardly motivated by profound concerns about sustainability or a wish to create a ‘radical’ alternative food system. We argue, therefore, that a more pragmatic approach to the concept of prosumption in the field of food is more appropriate than sociological interpretations linking prosumption to such grand themes as power, capitalism and activism.\n", "Sociologia Ruralis, EarlyView. "] September 15, 2020 doi: 10.1111/soru.12323 open full text A Queer Sociology: On Power, Race, and Decentering Whiteness. Ghassan Moussawi, Salvador Vidal‐Ortiz. Sociological Forum. 8 days ago ["\nIn this article, we argue for “a queer sociology” that centers race and processes of racialization, while naming and decentering Whiteness. “A queer sociology” is a field that foregrounds relations of power, particularly: race, class, empire, gender and gender identity, and sexuality, and that does not use queer in a reductionist way (or merely in reference to LGBT identity‐based projects). We question the uses of queer theory in sociology and show how previous iterations miss/ignore multiple genealogies of the field, like Black feminist thought, women of color feminisms, and the queer of color critique. “A queer sociology” centers power relations beyond gender and sexuality, recognizing the invisible and overarching work of Whiteness and the US (as unnamed centers of analyses) in structuring not only the sociology of sexualities, but sociological thinking overall. We invite sociology to engage with our theorization of “a queer sociology” as a way to transform our categories of analysis and how we conceive of power.\n", "Sociological Forum, EarlyView. "] September 14, 2020 doi: 10.1111/socf.12647 open full text Behavioural profiles and offender characteristics: Typology based on the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) in homicide cases. Jonghan Sea, Eric Beauregard, Donna Youngs. Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling. 8 days ago ["\nAbstract\nThis study used cluster analysis in 126 homicide cases based on Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI; Morey, 1999). PAI was implemented by 126 homicides and then dichotomously coded for the presence or absence of cut‐off PAI scale score in order to create criteria for analysis. These cases were input for the agglomerative hierarchical cluster using Ward's method as the clustering algorithm. The results of the analysis classified five clusters: “normal,” “antisocial,” “submissive‐depressive,” “soma‐anxiety” and “isolated.” The representative characteristics were explored and compared with five clusters. As a result, these five clusters significantly differed in various criminogenic variables, such as criminal record and imprisonment experience. But, other variables were not significantly discriminated.\n", "Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, EarlyView. "] September 14, 2020 doi: 10.1002/jip.1559 open full text September 14, 2020 doi: 10.1007/s10940-020-09473-7 open full text September 14, 2020 doi: 10.1007/s10612-020-09529-x open full text Law s Wars, Law s Trials. Richard L. Abel. Journal of Law and Society. 9 days ago ["\nAbstract\nThe rule of law is a foundation of the liberal state. The US ‘War on Terror’ under Presidents Bush and Obama threatened and violated the rule of law in multiple ways. This article surveys those challenges and analyses how US institutions responded in order to assess the capacity of the legal system to resist political pressure in moments of crisis.\n", "Journal of Law and Society, EarlyView. "] September 13, 2020 doi: 10.1111/jols.12244 open full text “I was discriminated against because I was seen as PRC‐Chinese”: The negotiation between ethnicity and nationalism among Taiwanese migrants in Australia. Yao‐Tai Li. British Journal of Sociology. 9 days ago ["\nAbstract\nResearch on race and ethnicity has focused on conditions under which solidarity will be developed to consolidate collective benefits. For example, facing racial discrimination can bring large‐scale affiliations (e.g., people of color, Latinos, or Asians) to fight against racial injustice. Focusing on the negotiation and struggle between ethnicity and nationalism among Taiwanese migrants in Australia—a politicizing context associated with a prior definition of Chinese category, despite inherent differences within it, this article shows the complexity of ethnicity when ethnic identity/solidarity intersects with nationalism and racial discrimination. I argue that Taiwanese migrants attach specific meanings to the ethnic (Chinese) category and constantly connect to and shift its boundaries in different contexts. Meanwhile, they also make a distinction between racial discrimination from white Australians and political hostility from PRC‐Chinese. This article proposes a procedural and contextual understanding of ethnic identity, solidarity, nationalism, and boundary making/unmaking within the Chinese category as it is enacted in Taiwanese migrants' everyday lives. It also examines situational variability in the salience of ethnic identifications, racialization of the ethnic category, and people's interpretation of ethnic and national identity when facing racial discrimination.\n", "The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView. "] September 13, 2020 doi: 10.1111/1468-4446.12786 open full text Implication of TRPC3 channel in gustatory perception of dietary lipids. Babar Murtaza, Aziz Hichami, Amira S. Khan, Jiri Plesnik, Omar Sery, Alexander Dietrich, Lutz Birnbaumer, Naim A. Khan. Acta Physiologica. 9 days ago ["\nAbstract\n\nAim\nThe pathogenesis of obesity has been associated with high intake of dietary fat, and some recent studies have explored the cellular mechanisms of oro‐sensory detection of dietary fatty acids. We further assessed the role of transient receptor potential canonical (TRPC) channels in oro‐sensory perception of dietary lipids.\n\n\nMethods\nWe determined by RT‐qPCR and western blotting the expression of TRPC3/6/7 channels in mouse fungiform taste bud cells (mTBC). Immunocytochemistry was used to explore whether TRPC3 channels were co‐expressed with fatty acid receptors. We employed wild‐type (WT) mTBC, and those transfected with small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) against TRPC3 or STIM1. Ca2+ signalling was studied in TBC from TRPC3−/− mice and their WT littermates.\n\n\nResults\nWe demonstrate that mouse fungiform taste bud cells (mTBC) express TRPC3, but not TRPC6 or TRPC7 channels, and their inactivation by siRNA or experiments on TBC from TRPC3−/− mice brought about a decrease in fatty acid‐induced gustatory Ca2+ signalling, coupled with taste bud CD36 lipid sensor. TRPC3 channel activation was found to be under the control of STIM1 in lingual mTBC. Behavioural studies showed that spontaneous preference for a dietary long‐chain fatty acid was abolished in TRPC3−/− mice, and in mice wherein lingual TRPC3 expression was silenced by employing siRNA.\n\n\nConclusion\nWe report that lingual TRPC3 channels are critically involved in fat taste perception.\n\n", "Acta Physiologica, EarlyView. "] September 13, 2020 doi: 10.1111/apha.13554 open full text Keratin 1 attenuates hypoxic pulmonary artery hypertension through suppressing pulmonary artery media smooth muscle expansion. Li Zhang, Xi‐xi Zeng, Yu‐mei Li, Shao‐kun Chen, Li‐yu Tang, Nan Wang, Xi Yang, Mo‐jun Lin. Acta Physiologica. 10 days ago ["\nAbstract\n\nAim\nAbnormally activated vascular smooth muscle cells are key factors in pulmonary artery remodeling (PAR) and pulmonary artery hypertension (PAH). Keratin 1 is involved in inflammatory diseases; however, its role in PAH is unknown. We speculated that keratin 1 could regulate PASMCs and prevent PAH.\n\n\nMethods\nRats were exposed to hypoxia (10% O2) or MCT (50 mg/kg, intraperitoneal injection) or treated with AAV6 virus. PAR was measured through HE and Masson staining. PASMC activities were measured by MTS assay, EdU, and Western blot analyses after cell knockdown with siRNAs or overexpression with Krt1 vectors.\n\n\nResults\n1. Hypoxic PAR was associated with a decrease in keratin 1, especially in PASMCs. 2. Keratin 1 knockdown led to cell proliferation, migration, and contraction to synthetic transformation, while keratin 1 overexpression attenuated hypoxia‐induced changes in PASMCs. 3. Decreased keratin 1 induced TLR7 upregulation and mediated increases in the inflammatory factors S100a8 and S100a9. 4. Keratin 1 overexpression reduced the inflammatory factor expression induced by TLR7 activation. 5. Further studies demonstrated that keratin 1 expression was negatively correlated with pulmonary vascular pressure following prolonged hypoxia. 6. Pretreatment with keratin 1 decreased pulmonary artery pressure and the right heart hypertrophy index and alleviated PAR in two model rats. 7. Keratin 1 exhibited a hypermethylation status in hypoxic pulmonary arteries in the sequencing. Hypoxia‐induced decrease in keratin 1 expression was associated with Dnmt1 upregulation induced by YY1 downregulation in PASMCs.\n\n\nConclusion\nThis study suggests that keratin 1 regulates PASMC expansion and has a preventive effect on PAH.\n\n", "Acta Physiologica, Accepted Article. "] September 12, 2020 doi: 10.1111/apha.13558 open full text September 12, 2020 doi: 10.1007/s10610-020-09466-z open full text September 12, 2020 doi: 10.1007/s11292-020-09443-w open full text September 12, 2020 doi: 10.1007/s10940-020-09474-6 open full text September 12, 2020 doi: 10.1007/s10610-020-09468-x open full text Making financial uncertainty count: Unit‐linked insurance, investment and the individualisation of financial risk in British life insurance. Arjen Heide. British Journal of Sociology. 11 days ago ["\nAbstract\nWhile most scholarship in the sociology of insurance has focused on the making of insurance risk by investigating mechanisms of pooling and spreading, this article examines insurers’ management of financial uncertainty. Based on a large corpus of written sources and 44 semi‐structured oral history interviews, this article seeks to describe and explain a shift in how financial uncertainty is dealt with in British life insurance, away from traditional multipolar arrangements revolving around actuarial prudence and discretion, towards bipolar arrangements that rely on explicit risk quantification and the logic of risk‐based capital to “individualise” financial risk. The article identifies two factors that were key in bringing about this shift: first, the competitive dynamics that unfolded with the emergence of challenger “unit‐linked” insurers in the 1960s, and, second, changes in the professional ecology, as manifested by the changing relations between the actuarial profession and insurance supervisors.\n", "The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView. "] September 11, 2020 doi: 10.1111/1468-4446.12783 open full text Dealing with dysnomia: Strategies for the cultivation of used concepts in social research. Clayton Fordahl. British Journal of Sociology. 11 days ago ["\nAbstract\nThis article follows recent calls to turn social theory away from its fixations on intellectual history and toward the mechanics and craft of creating social theories in the research process. The subject of this article is a dilemma common to theorizing in social science: dysnomia, or the phenomenon in which some object is poorly named. Specifically, this article focuses on how social scientists distinguish original concepts from their equivalents in everyday speech. Three tactics for dealing with dysnomia are named—academic arcana, classification and sociologism—and considered in order to ascertain the strengths and weaknesses of each.\n", "The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView. "] September 11, 2020 doi: 10.1111/1468-4446.12788 open full text Can digital data diagnose mental health problems? A sociological exploration of ‘digital phenotyping’. Rasmus H. Birk, Gabrielle Samuel. Sociology of Health Illness. 11 days ago ["\nAbstract\nThis paper critically explores the research and development of ‘digital phenotyping’, which broadly refers to the idea that digital data can measure and predict people’s mental health as well as their potential risk for mental ill health. Despite increasing research and efforts to digitally track and predict ill mental health, there has been little sociological and critical engagement with this field. This paper aims to fill this gap by introducing digital phenotyping to the social sciences. We explore the origins of digital phenotyping, the concept of the digital phenotype and its potential for benefit, linking these to broader developments within the field of ‘mental health sensing’. We then critically discuss the technology, offering three critiques. First, that there may be assumptions of normality and bias present in the use of algorithms; second, we critique the idea that digital data can act as a proxy for social life; and third that the often biological language employed in this field risks reifying mental health problems. Our aim is not to discredit the scientific work in this area, but rather to call for scientists to remain reflexive in their work, and for more social science engagement in this area.\n", "Sociology of Health & Illness, EarlyView. "] September 11, 2020 doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.13175 open full text ‘A holistic approach’: incorporating sustainability into biopedagogies of healthy eating in Sweden’s dietary guidelines. Karolin Bergman, Elin Lövestam, Paulina Nowicka, Karin Eli. Sociology of Health Illness. 12 days ago ["\nAbstract\nDietary guidelines can be considered a pedagogical tool, designed to promote healthy eating at the population level. In this study, we critically examine the biopedagogies implicated in Sweden’s official dietary guidelines. Published in 2015, these guidelines take a potentially innovative ‘holistic approach’ to food and eating, addressing the challenge of formulating dietary advice that considers both human health and environmental concerns. Applying Bacchi´s ‘What’s the problem represented to be?’ approach, we interrogate how the guidelines frame the interplay of public health concerns and environmental concerns in making food choices. We find that the biopedagogies of sustainable eating, as presented in these guidelines, implicate the subject position of the ideal eater. The ideal eater values sustainability, has high cultural capital, and draws on both taste and nutritional knowledge to make good food choices. However, while the ideal eater is expected to be aware of environmental issues, these are incorporated into the ideal eater’s choices only in addition to the primary concern of health. Thus, although the guidelines frame a ‘holistic approach’ as the solution to both health and environmental concerns, in cases where health and environmental priorities conflict, the guidelines’ biopedagogies of sustainable eating align with earlier biopedagogies of healthy eating.\n", "Sociology of Health & Illness, EarlyView. "] September 10, 2020 doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.13172 open full text National Culture on the Cross‐National Variation of Homicide: An Empirical Application of the Inglehart–Welzel Cultural Map. Kai Lin, Ashley M. Mancik. Sociological Forum. 12 days ago ["\nAlthough there has been a growing literature on the effects of culture on the cross‐national variation of homicide, this literature remains limited in the operationalization of national culture as well as in the modeling of the cultural effects. Adopting a multidimensional measure of national culture developed in the World Values Survey, this study examines the effects of various aspects of national culture, as well as their interaction, on the cross‐national variation of homicide. The findings of this study provide evidence for the effect of national culture on homicide variation across countries while painting a more complex picture about the potential mechanisms of these effects.\n", "Sociological Forum, EarlyView. "] September 10, 2020 doi: 10.1111/socf.12640 open full text Is a new structurally dispossessed class developing in the United States? Thomas A. Hirschl, George A. Spisak. British Journal of Sociology. 12 days ago ["\nAbstract\nThis study inquires whether a new structurally dispossessed class is developing in the United States. The new class proposition is derived from social theory and operationalized by two empirical characteristics: not in the labor force (NILF) and family income below poverty. The primary data source is the Current Population Survey over the years from 1968 to 2018, and threshold demographic criteria for class development is specified as increasing size and diversity. Because evidence is found to support the latter criterion but not the former, the proposition that a new class is developing is partially rejected. The analysis finds that new social components are joining the NILF/impoverished including men, Hispanics, college graduates, and young adults. Second, that the NILF/impoverished are politically active in terms of electoral participation, and no more likely than the total electorate to have voted for a populist Presidential candidate in 2016. NILF/impoverished recipiency of state transfers varies over time, increasing through the Great Recession, then receding. The implications of the investigation are discussed in terms of the likelihood that the NILF/impoverished will generate new forms of political opposition to the rule of capital.\n", "The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView. "] September 10, 2020 doi: 10.1111/1468-4446.12782 open full text Perpetration of violence by female sex workers in Papua New Guinea: ‘We will crush their bones’. British Journal of Criminology. 12 days ago AbstractThere is a small but important body of literature on female sex workers’ (FSWs) violence towards others, but little of that focused on low- and middle-income countries. Drawn from a larger biobehavioural study of FSWs in three cities in Papua New Guinea, we analyse the interviews from 19 FSWs who reported having perpetrated physical violence towards four major groups: (1) ex-husbands; (2) clients; (3) other sex workers and (4) other people (mainly women). Our study demonstrates that FSWs’ use of violence arises from a complex set of social, material and gendered circumstances and cannot be addressed in isolation from other aspects of their lives. September 10, 2020 doi: 10.1093/bjc/azaa058 open full text Hydrophobic interactions between the HA helix and S4‐S5 linker modulate apparent Ca2+ sensitivity of SK2 channels. Young‐Woo Nam, Meng Cui, Razan Orfali, Adam Viegas, Misa Nguyen, Eman H. M. Mohammed, Khalid A. Zoghebi, Simin Rahighi, Keykavous Parang, Miao Zhang. Acta Physiologica. 12 days ago ["\nAbstract\n\nAim\nSmall‐conductance Ca2+‐activated potassium (SK) channels are activated exclusively by increases in intracellular Ca2+ that binds to calmodulin constitutively associated with the channel. Wild‐type SK2 channels are activated by Ca2+ with an EC50 value of ~0.3 μmol/L. Here, we investigate hydrophobic interactions between the HA helix and the S4‐S5 linker as a major determinant of channel apparent Ca2+ sensitivity.\n\n\nMethods\nSite‐directed mutagenesis, electrophysiological recordings and molecular dynamic (MD) simulations were utilized.\n\n\nResults\nMutations that decrease hydrophobicity at the HA‐S4‐S5 interface lead to Ca2+ hyposensitivity of SK2 channels. Mutations that increase hydrophobicity result in hypersensitivity to Ca2+. The Ca2+ hypersensitivity of the V407F mutant relies on the interaction of the cognate phenylalanine with the S4‐S5 linker in the SK2 channel. Replacing the S4‐S5 linker of the SK2 channel with the S4‐S5 linker of the SK4 channel results in loss of the hypersensitivity caused by V407F. This difference between the S4‐S5 linkers of SK2 and SK4 channels can be partially attributed to I295 equivalent to a valine in the SK4 channel. A N293A mutation in the S4‐S5 linker also increases hydrophobicity at the HA‐S4‐S5 interface and elevates the channel apparent Ca2+ sensitivity. The double N293A/V407F mutations generate a highly Ca2+ sensitive channel, with an EC50 of 0.02 μmol/L. The MD simulations of this double‐mutant channel revealed a larger channel cytoplasmic gate.\n\n\nConclusion\nThe electrophysiological data and MD simulations collectively suggest a crucial role of the interactions between the HA helix and S4‐S5 linker in the apparent Ca2+ sensitivity of SK2 channels.\n\n", "Acta Physiologica, EarlyView. "] September 10, 2020 doi: 10.1111/apha.13552 open full text Antiblackness as a Logic for Anti‐Immigrant Resentment: Evidence From California. G. Cristina Mora, Tianna S. Paschel. Sociological Forum. 12 days ago ["\nDrawing on data from a novel survey of Californians, this article examines the relationship between anti‐immigrant resentment and antiblackness. Over the last decade, there has been a significant increase in research on anti‐immigrant resentment, as well as a steady growth in public opinion literature on antiblack bias. Nonetheless, there are almost no studies that examine the relationship between these types of attitudes. Using two different measures of anti‐immigrant resentment and three different measures of antiblack bias, we find that antiblackness among those Californians surveyed was significantly and robustly correlated with anti‐immigrant resentment. Our findings suggest that even in a state where there is a relatively small black population and where there is little overlap between the categories of “black” and “immigrant,” attitudes toward blacks may be shaping attitudes toward immigrants. The findings suggest a need to move beyond dyadic theories of othering and in doing so, to think more critically about how the racialization of one group can shape the racialization of other groups.\n", "Sociological Forum, Volume 35, Issue S1, Page 918-940, September 2020. "] September 10, 2020 doi: 10.1111/socf.12601 open full text Searching for the “Sleeping Giant”: Racialized News Coverage of Latinos Pre‐2020 Elections. Bianca Gonzalez‐Sobrino. Sociological Forum. 12 days ago ["\nLatinos are often thought as potential game changers in the political world in the United States. As the media discusses and analyzes the 2016 election and the path to the 2020 elections, narratives on the role of Latinos leading up to the 2020 election have started to emerge. In this article, I seek to examine how U.S. daily newspapers frame the role of Latinos in the 2016 election and leading up to the 2020 elections. Previous literature has focused on the racialized media coverage of African American politicians and the effects of racial priming; however, extant literature has not explored how Latinos are framed in U.S. media when it comes to electoral politics. Using a sample of newspaper articles from the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal, I found that newspapers largely focus on the demographic changes while operating under various assumptions about those changes. First, newspapers frame Latinos as more likely to vote for a politician if they are Latino. Second, they construct Latinos as a monolithic ethnoracial group that has simplistic interests in immigration. Third, Latino voters and African American voters are often lumped into the same category when discussing mobilization. These narratives continue a tradition of framing Latinos in monolithic ways, while also showing slight departures from previous narratives.\n", "Sociological Forum, Volume 35, Issue S1, Page 1019-1039, September 2020. "] September 10, 2020 doi: 10.1111/socf.12605 open full text The Crisis of Masculinity for Gendered Democracies: Before, During, and After Trump. Myra Marx Ferree. Sociological Forum. 12 days ago ["\nThe mobilized masculinity of democracies today is often presented as either a natural way for men to respond to the economic and political challenges of globalization or as a return to the patriarchal style of politics of the past. This article argues instead for an understanding of liberal democracy itself as gendered, being the collective masculinity of brotherhoods representing rivalrous nations. The first great transition from patriarchies and monarchies to brotherhoods and democracies is not being unmade now but facing a second transition to a different understanding of gender and power. This normative rise of a partnership model in families and politics is incomplete and highly contested everywhere. In the United States, it has become a partisan conflict expressed in gender terms. The Republican defense of the brotherhood state and its exclusive version of national good is countered by a newer but increasingly institutionalized vision of democracies as representing women and men equally. By more explicitly demasculinizing family headship and political leadership, social justice movements and the Democratic Party symbolically resist the restoration of gender norms privileging breadwinners and brotherhoods.\n", "Sociological Forum, Volume 35, Issue S1, Page 898-917, September 2020. "] September 10, 2020 doi: 10.1111/socf.12599 open full text Race, Immigration, and Support for Donald Trump: Evidence From the 2018 North Carolina Election. Andrew J. Perrin, Mosi Adesina Ifatunji. Sociological Forum. 12 days ago ["\nOne of the longest standing debates in political sociology and political science concerns how people deploy identities and social cues to form political opinions. This debate turns on questions such as, is opinion formation essentially about social class, racial identification, or about other forms of identity or interest? Using original polling data from North Carolina, we model approval for President Trump in the run‐up to the 2018 midterm elections. Our findings show that support for Trump and the policies associated with his administration were highly connected to support for one policy that was particularly salient during that campaign—that is, the border wall. Among White respondents, support for the wall is strongly connected with perceptions of group threat; however, among Black respondents, group threat is unconnected with support for the wall and therefore for Trump and Trump‐related policies. Consistent with prior work on identity and political views, we theorize that cultural identification as a Trump supporter through one key issue serves as a learning mechanism through which voters develop support for other associated policies.\n", "Sociological Forum, Volume 35, Issue S1, Page 941-953, September 2020. "] September 10, 2020 doi: 10.1111/socf.12600 open full text Fake News Is Real: The Significance and Sources of Disbelief in Mainstream Media in Trump’s America. Taeku Lee, Christian Hosam. Sociological Forum. 12 days ago ["\nAre appeals to discredit mainstream media reporting of political news in the guise of “fake news” merely a diversion from more fundamental threats to democratic politics and policymaking? Or is the emerging belief in “fake news” itself a looming threat? Using data from the Voter Study Group’s panel survey, we examine the relationship between disbelief in mainstream media and a wide range of social attitudes and policy preferences. We find that in December 2016, just after Trump’s election, belief in fake news wields an outsized influence, independent of partisanship, ideology, media consumption, and other established foundations of public opinion. The effects of fake news beliefs are especially pronounced on key elements of Trump’s rhetoric as candidate and as president—hostility toward immigrants, racial and religious minorities, gender equality, perceptions of America’s “greatness,” and even support for democratic norms and institutions itself. We also find some evidence that by January 2019, the belief in fake news has become even more focally associated with Trump. These findings portend the possibility of an emerging exclusionary, populist variant of American conservatism, of which disbelief in media institutions is a key component.\n", "Sociological Forum, Volume 35, Issue S1, Page 996-1018, September 2020. "] September 10, 2020 doi: 10.1111/socf.12603 open full text Covering the Dawsons: Racial Variation in Newspaper Framing of Urban Crime. Corey D. Fields, Shelby Newman. Sociological Forum. 12 days ago ["\nThis article uses newspaper coverage of a case from Baltimore, Maryland, to explore racial variation in the rhetorical framing of urban crime. In October 2002, seven members of the Dawson family were murdered in a house fire. The murders became an expression of Baltimore’s character and the lives of its residents. After analyzing 206 newspaper articles about the case, we find stark differences in the way the case, its causes, and its consequences are presented to readers. Newspapers with primarily white audiences—both “mainstream” and “alternative” papers—present the case as a horrific, singular instance, placing responsibility on the perpetrator. In contrast, articles in African American newspapers offer a complex web of explanation, calling attention to the structural inequalities and disparate access to state resources. Whereas white newspaper portray the Dawson family as martyrs in the drug war, black newspapers position the family as part of a wider of community of African Americans who are victims of slack policing, racial discrimination, and negligent social policy. We argue that these rhetorical differences are more than cosmetic. Rather, they provide a framework for better understanding the relationship between the press and policy makers. Differences in coverage of the case also contribute to our understanding of why blacks and whites have fundamentally different understandings of race in the United States.\n", "Sociological Forum, Volume 35, Issue S1, Page 1040-1057, September 2020. "] September 10, 2020 doi: 10.1111/socf.12607 open full text Preface: Foresight in 2020: Race and Gender in the Upcoming Election. Matthew W. Hughey. Sociological Forum. 12 days ago ["\nThis essay introduces contributions to a special issue of Sociological Forum titled “Foresight in 2020: Race and Gender in the Upcoming Election.” All articles in the issue can be accessed at the journal’s website, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/15737861. They will first appear under the “Early View” tab, and later in volume 35, supplement I.\n", "Sociological Forum, Volume 35, Issue S1, Page 875-876, September 2020. "] September 10, 2020 doi: 10.1111/socf.12608 open full text Gender and Race in American Elections: From the Pathos of Prediction to the Power of Possibility1. Matthew W. Hughey. Sociological Forum. 12 days ago ["\nI provide first an overview of the predictions of the 2016 U.S. presidential election and the public penance paid by political oracles in the wake of the results. Next, I reflect on the social science emphasis on forecasting “who” will win and by “how much.” Third, I argue that our collective emphasis on prediction and realpolitik may obscure, if not stop, our ability to both understand how and why outcomes occur (by illuminating causal mechanisms at play) as well as how to imagine and form social worlds different than our current social relations (by alleviating or eliminating destructive leadership, policies, and rhetoric). Fourth, I call attention to some important gender and racial dynamics—all with the aim of better understanding how modern politics work in order to identify and pursue equitable movements, policies, and laws, rather than to simply (and problematically) make pre‐election seasons into carnivalesque fortune‐telling distractions. I conclude with recommendations on social science at the nexus of gender, race, and politics.\n", "Sociological Forum, Volume 35, Issue S1, Page 877-897, September 2020. "] September 10, 2020 doi: 10.1111/socf.12609 open full text Issue Conclusion: Sociology, Political Inequality, and Democracy Beyond 2020. Michael L. Rosino. Sociological Forum. 12 days ago ["\nThe articles in this special issue all contribute to a broader and richer understanding of racial and gender politics. They help reveal how racialized and gendered barriers to political participation reflect and reproduce intersecting racialized and gendered systems of domination. In doing so, they provide insights that can be applied to uncover political processes, cultivate political praxis, and draw our awareness to empowering modes of social and political transformation. Given all this, I propose a renewed sociology of political inequality that focuses on advancing democracy. This agenda includes (1) emphasizing the state of democracy over the state of political party competition, (2) highlighting how democratizing social change happens at various levels, (3) developing and practicing empirically grounded public advocacy, (4) seeing social and political structures are interconnected, and (5) employing sociology in the service of democracy.\n", "Sociological Forum, Volume 35, Issue S1, Page 1058-1069, September 2020. "] September 10, 2020 doi: 10.1111/socf.12610 open full text Toward a Viable Progressive Third Party in 2020 and Beyond1. Jonathan H. Martin. Sociological Forum. 12 days ago ["\nCreating a strong, influential third party has been an abiding aspiration on the American left, and were this goal to be achieved, it could be a great boon to subordinate groups in the United States. Yet widespread doubts persist, even among progressives that this is desirable, and especially that it is possible. Here, I briefly review compelling reasons for thinking otherwise; I then consider in some depth the potential for starting to build a viable left third party leading up to and after the pivotal 2020 election. In doing so, I go beyond the existing literature on third parties, which has yet to reflect systematically on progressive third party prospects in this period. Specifically, I assess how the emerging political environment may shape left third‐party building, and I evaluate ongoing and developing attempts by key groups engaged in that effort. I find a distinct tension between conditions encouraging progressives to reform versus abandon the Democratic Party, and I identify one alternative party‐building tendency that seems most able to exploit the latter impulse due to its already established electoral viability. Last, I highlight relevant questions that remain for activists hoping to create an effective national left third party.\n", "Sociological Forum, Volume 35, Issue S1, Page 974-995, September 2020. "] September 10, 2020 doi: 10.1111/socf.12604 open full text

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