A new issue of @bjsociology.bsky.social is out now! Find the latest articles in the British Journal of Sociology #BJS ➡️ buff.ly/oNaSQsN

A new issue of The British Journal of Sociology is out now! Find our latest articles in the #BJS ➡️ buff.ly/oNaSQsN @lsesociology.bsky.social

📣 The Call for Papers for the British Journal of Sociology 2026 Conference is open! The conference will showcase cutting-edge research from across the discipline of sociology, bringing together over 200 academics to advance their research. Submit your paper by 20 October 2025 ➡️ buff.ly/TdmBcur

2024 was hands down the BEST sociology conference I attended in years

Join us for the next BJS conference in April 2026! I came away from the last energized and inspired. Can’t wait to learn from colleagues from around the world.

📣 The Call for Papers for the British Journal of Sociology 2026 Conference is open! Following the success of our inaugural conference in 2024, we are delighted to announce its return on 23 and 24 April 2026 at LSE. 📆 Submit your paper by 20 October 2025 ➡️ buff.ly/TdmBcur

Happy to see this work in The British Journal of Sociology (@bjsociology.bsky.social)! Hope it sparks discussion on how social mobility interacts with democratic participation and what this means for representation and social inclusion.

How far is too far for family support? This study maps how emotional and material reciprocity travels across Swiss families and finds that reciprocity depends not just on physical distance but on the broader structure of the family. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ buff.ly/Bivonbr

This paper shows how elites' racialised identities and their understanding of racialised inequality shape their redistributive preferences, but this varies depending on whether they are evaluating race-conscious or race-neutral policies. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

This article explores how parental work ties shape children's educational choices, finding that children from lower-educated families are more likely to enrol in higher education if a parent works among highly educated colleagues. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

This article presents findings from a secondary analysis of data from the Adolescent Family Violence in Australia (AFVA) study—the first national study of the nature, prevalence and impacts of AFV in Australia. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Drawing on case studies of two disaster insurance programmes in the US, this article argues that shifts between mutualism and individualisation in disaster insurance are symptoms of an “irrationalisation” of disaster policy. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ buff.ly/iWPjgo1

Following an increase in non-voting among the British working class in recent decades, this study examines the impact of occupational class mobility on the intergenerational transmission of electoral participation. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Who gets to grieve and who gets buried in bureaucracy? This paper considers how navigating UK death administration depends on the bereaved's cultural and social capital, turning mourning into a matter of inequality. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ buff.ly/b6LDUbS

This article examines how social networks shape parents’ knowledge of childcare benefits in the Netherlands. It finds that lower-educated parents know less overall, but gain more from weak ties than their higher-educated peers. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ buff.ly/KSJGeYd

We're delighted to announce that British Journal of Sociology's impact factor has increased to 3.3 for 2024 and that our submission to first decision time is 57 days ⬆️ Find out more about the #BJS, read recent open access papers, and submit an article here ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1468...

This article explores how climbing the social ladder reshapes racial identity within Lima’s elite class. It finds that 'Mestizos' often escape the stigmatised label 'Cholo' through a process the writer terms 'decolouring'. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ buff.ly/ttGtSz7

How are capital and the family interconnected? This article argues that by owning capital across generations, families bridge the temporal gap between the durability of capital and the finite lifespan of private property holders. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ buff.ly/WrEFMkp

Amit Singh's paper examines how working-class young people enrolled at college perceive university, arguing the desire to attend university depends on risk versus reward, the “migrant effect” and the pursuit of dignity and respect. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ buff.ly/2OHu6w9

This year's BJS Early Career Prize has been awarded to @giozzam.bsky.social for their paper "Saving one's face while saving one's soul? The refraction of tactical approaches to penance as a disciplinary device in Counter-Reformation Italy". Read the open access paper in #BJS ➡️ buff.ly/wnZkVya

🚨 Save the date for The British Journal of Sociology Conference 2026 🚨 We're delighted to confirm that the @bjsociology.bsky.social conference will return next year at LSE. More details, including how to submit a paper for consideration, will be announced soon.

📢The call for papers for the @bjsociology.bsky.social special issue "The precarity of work and life: how insecurity equalizes and stratifies people’s experiences" is now open! All the information, and the call for papers, can be found here➡️ buff.ly/QboPfDC

We're pleased to announce this year's BJS Prize has been awarded to David Calnitsky and Kaitlin Pauline Wannamaker for their paper "The revolution next door". Read the open access article in #BJS ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

This article explores how profit-driven migration industries and multilevel governance interact to shape global migration regimes. It uncovers how economic and regulatory capital collide, revealing the limits of state sovereignty. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ buff.ly/NrQNTLz

This article explores how inheritance disputes in early 20th-century Dallas shaped wealth distribution and social norms. It finds that these disputes reinforced broader inequalities tied to race, gender, class, and family structure. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ buff.ly/fL7gcBj

We are seeking submissions from sociologists around the world for a special issue on the lived realities of insecurity — from job precarity to housing, debt, and more. Find out more and submit here ➡️https://buff.ly/QboPfDC 🗓️ Deadline: 2 Sept 2025

This article examines how parenting evolves across childhood and shapes cognitive outcomes. It finds that parental education matters most early on, but its influence lessens with age, showing the advantages of early parenting. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ buff.ly/8dJ9w8U

This research note details the analyses of European Social Survey (ESS) data, spanning 32 countries and over 120,000 respondents, revealing substantial variation in the association between field of study and anti-immigrant prejudice. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ buff.ly/NmxkmlS

We're excited to announce our upcoming project "The Precarity of Work and Life: How Insecurity Equalizes and Stratifies People’s Experiences." It will feature reflections on how insecurity shapes inequality across work, finance, housing, and more. ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

This research note examines the role of household composition for immigrants' pathways to the elite of the household income distribution in Germany. It highlights the importance of the household context for immigrants' access to the income elite. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ buff.ly/IcAQ2uK

"The university is not a sanctuary; it is a frontline site in the global struggle over justice and human rights. To study global structures of power without acknowledging how our own institutions are shaped by them is not an act of neutrality—it is a failure of scholarly responsibility."

This article focuses on how schools bring students of different tracks and family backgrounds together, and whether such between-school differences are associated with varying growth rates in civic and democratic engagement during secondary education. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ buff.ly/QBOpZm7

rawing on personal experiences of academic migration, this article explores how authoritarian logics are embedded in institutions often assumed to offer refuge, including the university. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

This article advances the study of racial extremism by analysing how practices of violence and sexuality are marked on the bodies of participants. The article draws on interviews with former members of U.S. white supremacist groups. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Our research note on the power elite in Greenland from @bjsociology.bsky.social is featured in @weekendavisen.dk www.weekendavisen.dk/ideer/toppen...

A new issue of The British Journal of Sociology (@bjsociology.bsky.social‬) is out now! Find our latest articles in the #BJS ➡️ buff.ly/X8OjcVS

New paper out with the @adkspanel.bsky.social team, in the @bjsociology.bsky.social. I was happy to lead this paper on track differences in civic engagement, using four-year panel data of the ADKS (DAPDV) project, from the start of the tracked system (roughly age 12-16) doi.org/10.1111/1468... >

A new issue of the The British Journal of Sociology is out now! Read the latest #BJS articles ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14684446...

Read Joshua Greene's review of "Unbottled: The fight Against Plastic Water and for Water Justice" by Daniel Jaffee. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

This article examines how parental education influences attitudes towards immigrants. It suggests that formative years are crucial for developing attitudes later in life and that educational inequalities affect future attitudes. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ buff.ly/4tB31Ed

New research note out in @bjsociology.bsky.social on the Power Elite in Greenland. The main finding: There is a highly knit elite network in Greenland. However, there are also clear fracturing lines based on the Greenlandic-Danish divide. A 🧵on findings doi.org/10.1111/1468...

This research note maps Greenland's power elite, amidst current geopolitical interest in the nation. Using social network analysis, the authors find an integrated and cohesive power elite dominated by actors from politics and public and private enterprises. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ buff.ly/5F3eOLD

By examining the development of the voluntary carbon offset market in Finland, this paper explores how the collective problem of acting on climate change is coordinated through particular moral engagements. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ buff.ly/Cz3eePN

This paper by Magne Paalgard Flemmen builds on a detailed mapping of environmental attitudes across social space. Arguing against the prosperity hypothesis, the paper shows that it is those rich in cultural capital who are most pro-environmental. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ buff.ly/9zkWcY0

This paper by Laurence Barry suggests that catastrophe insurance schemes should be considered within the framework of public goods and commons, and as a form of polycentric organisation whose success depends on collective action. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

In recent years, the insurance industry has experimented with innovations affecting its business model and social function. This article explores using digital technologies to monitor policyholder behaviour and personalise coverage. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ buff.ly/H7OuzKT

By analysing how afropessimism may inform anti-racist health frameworks, this article explores how its distinct theoretical perspectives can enrich, challenge, and constrain efforts to dismantle racial health inequities. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ buff.ly/brVduDG

Read Eve Worth's review of "The Fall and Rise of the English Upper Class: Houses, Kinship and Capital Since 1945" by Daniel Smith, which draws on a range of disciplines and case studies to explore the contemporary prominence of the English upper class #EarlyView at #BJS ➡️ buff.ly/3p2gQBM

This article by Maiju Tanninen and Gert Meyers examines how trust relations are reconfigured by the introduction of digital technologies and data, developments that could enable new ways to calculate, price and manage risks. #EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ buff.ly/PuAk3vY