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Sociology
Alanna Kamp, Rachel Sharples, Matteo Vergani, Nida Denson
Summary: This survey examined the experiences of racism among Asian Australians during the COVID-19 pandemic and explored their reporting behaviors and barriers. The findings showed that 40% of participants experienced racism, but the majority did not report the incidents. Barriers to reporting included lack of trust in statutory agencies, feelings of hopelessness, shame or disempowerment, and lack of knowledge about reporting tools and human rights. Enhancing people's confidence to report racism is an urgent task.
JOURNAL OF INTERCULTURAL STUDIES
(2023)
Correction
Education & Educational Research
Matthew A. M. Thomas, Janet Serenje, Ferdinand Mwaka Chipindi
BRITISH JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION
(2023)
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Agriculture, Multidisciplinary
Michela Giovannini, Francesca Forno, Natalia Magnani
Summary: In the past two decades, there has been a rise in community-driven processes of consumer-producer cooperation, highlighting the growing significance of local communities in addressing the demand for organic, local, and sustainable food. This article examines the motivations behind individuals joining Civic Food Networks (CFNs) and how it affects the variety of food in their households. Additionally, it explores the impact of CFN participation on daily food practices, with a focus on dietary diversification.
AGRICULTURE AND HUMAN VALUES
(2023)
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Criminology & Penology
Wonki Lee
Summary: This study used moderated-mediation analysis to examine the moderating role of the propensity for criminal coping in the link between negative emotions and delinquent behaviors from a general strain theory perspective. The results revealed that the propensity for criminal coping plays a significant role in connecting negative emotions and engagement in delinquent behaviors.
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Ethnic Studies
Diana Arbaiza
Summary: This article examines the racial politics surrounding African colonial subjects in Spain during the latter half of the 19th century, exploring the representations of the first groups brought to the metropole and the shift from a social categorization model based on monogenetic theories to one influenced by the rise of scientific racism.
ETHNIC AND RACIAL STUDIES
(2023)
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Sociology
Edward A. Chamberlain
Summary: This research focuses on the relationality between eating practices, social identities, and social media, specifically examining the eating habits of the LGBTQ+ population. It explores the connection between acts of tourism, social media, and queer experience, highlighting the similarities between eating experiences portrayed in social media marketing and politically charged commensalism among LGBTQ+ individuals. The study also discusses the cultural diversity of LGBTQ+ travelers and the efforts made by resort towns to create more inclusive culinary environments.
FOOD CULTURE & SOCIETY
(2023)
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Criminology & Penology
Ronald Kramer
Summary: Grounded in an analysis of the Netflix series Dahmer-Monster, this article offers a theory that crime dramas, including Dahmer-Monster, can be understood as a mediated freak show. It argues that these shows present abnormal images to reaffirm the concept of normalcy for the audience. The article contributes to connecting critical criminologies with scholarly interest in ableism and speciesism.
CRIME MEDIA CULTURE
(2023)
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Sociology
Hannah Wohl, Max Besbris
Summary: This study explores how brokers shape consumers' valuation by establishing trust, creating consumption settings, and finding matches between consumers and products through face-to-face interactions in the New York housing and art markets.
QUALITATIVE SOCIOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Sociology
Ov Cristian Norocel
Summary: This article responds to calls for expanding the conceptual scope of Critical Discourse Studies (CDS) by proposing research bricolage as a means of critically engaging with conceptual constructs from adjacent social science disciplines. By borrowing concepts from political science, gender studies, and digital sociology, the proposed CDS innovation is better equipped to examine digital identities in far-right metapolitical projects. The article illustrates this approach by focusing on an important European far-right entity with transnational connections.
INNOVATION-THE EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Sociology
Roberta Villalon
Summary: This article is a translation of an interview with Ochy Curiel Pichardo. The interview took place during the SWS 2023 Winter Meeting and focused on the topic of decolonial feminisms. Curiel Pichardo's theoretical work and feminist praxis were the main focus of the interview. The article also mentions Curiel Pichardo's keynote speech from the 2022 winter meeting, where she discussed how her experiences, research, and actions have contributed to feminism.
Article
Social Issues
Gabriel Delong, Do-Hong Kim, Sarah Kiperman
Summary: Sexual and gender minoritized (SGM) adolescents navigate their sexuality in a heteronormative society, with outness being associated with both peer victimization and increased feelings of connectedness. The outness inventory (OI), a commonly used tool to measure outness among SGM adults, has never been validated with an SGM adolescent population. This study examines the psychometric defensibility of the OI among SGM adolescents, finding that a two-structure model of outness to family and world represents the social contexts in which SGM adolescents negotiate their outness.
Article
Ethnic Studies
Jordi Moreras
Summary: This article analyzes the history of community funeral management among Moroccan economic migrants in Catalonia, shedding light on the negative perception they faced in the local society.
ETHNIC AND RACIAL STUDIES
(2023)
Article
Sociology
Elizabeth Reed, Laura Paddon, Eleanor Wilkinson, Cathryn MacLeod
Summary: This paper presents findings from a project exploring how lesbians make community in Southampton. The study used collaborative participatory mapping techniques and found a diffuse and multi-layered understanding of lesbian community in the city. The paper focuses on crafting 'safe' spaces, terminology, and finding and creating places of community. It concludes that finding an explicitly lesbian identity space can be fraught but is deeply valued and carefully negotiated. Collaborative mapping is shown to be a valuable tool for inclusive research into LGBTQ communities and spaces.
Article
Sociology
Prudence L. Carter
Summary: In her 2023 ASA presidential address, Prudence Carter discusses the challenges and progress of integration in the United States, highlighting the superficial application of diversity and its failure to address power and resource imbalances. She emphasizes the impact of an imbalance between distributional equality and relational equality on social progress and identifies other key areas for achieving integration. Carter calls for collaboration between the social sciences and humanities to address pressing societal issues.
AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW
(2023)
Article
Law
Nina Miller
Summary: The structure and implementation of EU free movement rules result in a diminished quality of rights and protections for individuals with caring responsibilities. As a result, women exercising their free movement rights in another EU member state face increased risks of legal and physical precarity, poverty, destitution, and exploitation. The connection between the gender care gap and EU free movement rules has not been recognized by policy makers and civil society, leading to a lack of strategy for addressing gender equality in this regard.
JOURNAL OF LAW AND SOCIETY
(2023)
Review
Anthropology
Nicole R. Y. Chen, Nadyanna M. Majeed, Gloria J. Lai, Paye Shin Koh, K. T. A. Sandeeshwara Kasturiratna, Manmeet Kaur, Alycia Z. Y. Ho, Jose C. Yong, Andree Hartanto
Summary: Pet ownership and interactions with animals have physiological and psychological benefits, increasing empathy and prosocial behaviors in humans. The type of prosociality measure, nature of human-animal interaction, animal species, and animal class significantly moderate this relationship. These findings have important implications for theory, methodology, and practical applications, and suggest directions for further research.
Article
Cultural Studies
Nassima Abdelghafour
Summary: This article, based on ethnographic research, explores the material conditions of price realization in a poverty-reduction intervention in rural areas. Using a pricing experiment, the study examines the willingness of extremely poor individuals to pay for solar lights and analyzes the consequences of materializing prices.
JOURNAL OF CULTURAL ECONOMY
(2023)
Article
Anthropology
Jessica Fernandes, Liliana Sousa, Pedro Sa-Couto, Joao Tavares
Summary: Companion animals play an important role in providing companionship for older people. However, research on their impact on community-dwelling older adults is insufficient and yields inconsistent results. This study found that people with depressive symptoms were more likely to have companion animals, but companion animals did not seem to be instrumental in terms of social interaction and satisfaction with life.
Article
Sociology
Linda Kridahl, Ann-Zofie Duvander
Summary: Approximately one-third of older adults in Sweden report depressive symptoms. This study investigates the explanations for depressive symptoms in older partnered individuals by examining their gender attitudes, household division of labor, and conformity to younger partnered individuals' gender attitudes and household division of labor. The findings show that individuals with traditional gender attitudes are more likely to have high levels of depressive symptoms, and lower conformity to commonly held gender attitudes is also associated with higher levels of depressive symptoms. However, household division of labor and conformity to common division of labor were not associated with depressive symptoms.
COMMUNITY WORK & FAMILY
(2023)
Article
Sociology
Lucy Ford, Neal Harris
Summary: This article argues that E.F. Schumacher's Small is Beautiful provides important insights for contemporary social theory, particularly his use of 'meta-economics' and 'scale' for advancing ecological social critique. While acknowledging the limitations of his theoretical imagination, the author demonstrates that the central critical insights Schumacher provides can be extricated from these problems.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL THEORY
(2023)
