📖 New book review in Social Forces Review of “Laboring in the Shadows: Precarity and Promise in Black Youth Work” Reviewed by @louiseseamster.bsky.social ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/sf/soag070

📢 New in Social Forces Does sending more people to college make a society believe in merit? Across thirty countries, yes. But it also widens the gap between graduates and everyone else in who buys that. By Angran Li & Minghao Tang ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/sf/soag089

📖 New book review in Social Forces Review of “At Home in the City: Growing Old in Urban America” Reviewed by Rebecca L Utz & Jordana L Clayton ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/sf/soaf092

📣 New in Social Forces Who has to prove they can do the job? White men are hired on assumed ability; Black men, Black women, and White women must match every requirement to get the same shot. By @kojichavez.bsky.social & Katherine Weisshaar et al ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/sf/soaf243

📖 New book review in Social Forces "What Work Means: Beyond the Puritan Work Ethic" by Claudia Strauss Reviewed by Cristobal Young ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/sf/soaf093

📢 New in Social Forces Asked about jobs, family, and faith, ordinary Americans kept slipping into conspiracy talk unprompted, one in ten of them. In the pandemic, most of the rise was people pushing back. By Niko Pyrhönen & @gwenaellebauvois.bsky.social et al ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/sf/soag002

📖 New book review in Social Forces Review of “Denied: Women, Sports, and the Contradictions of Identity” Reviewed by Ajhanai C I Keaton ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/sf/soaf085

🚩 New in Social Forces What teaches people to share power in democratic schools and collectives isn't a rulebook. Veteran members hold back their own influence and let slow, messy decisions play out, so newcomers learn to lead. By Amanda B Cox ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/sf/soag076

📖 New book review in Social Forces "A Victim's Shoe, a Broken Watch, and Marbles: Desire Objects and Human Rights" by Lea David Reviewed by @danl3v.bsky.social ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/sf/soaf110

🚩 New in Social Forces What do right-to-work laws cost workers beyond wages? Retirement and health coverage. Benefits eroded where the laws passed, and Indiana's would have held up better without one. By Alec P Rhodes ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/sf/soag086

📖 New book review in Social Forces "Policing Patients: Treatment and Surveillance on the Frontlines of the Opioid Crisis" by Elizabeth Chiarello Reviewed by @fhmjh.bsky.social ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/sf/soaf113

🚩 New in Social Forces What builds expertise among Argentina's agroecology farmers isn't official training. It's discernment, weighing state advice against their own goals, keeping what fits and dropping what serves agribusiness. By Agueda Ortega ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/sf/soag085

📖 New book review in Social Forces "Urban Power: Democracy and Inequality in São Paulo and Johannesburg" by Benjamin H. Bradlow Reviewed by @schechtlm.bsky.social ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/sf/soaf114

📣 New in Social Forces Environmental racism is often treated as recent. But in six US cities from 1880 to 1930, racialized neighborhoods already faced steadily rising industrial pollution, so it took root far earlier than thought. By Jonathan Tollefson ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/sf/soag001

📖 New book review in Social Forces "Conditional Belonging: The Racialization of Iranians in the Wake of Anti-Muslim Politics" by Sahar Sadeghi Reviewed by Castañeda Heide ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/sf/soaf108

🚩 New in Social Forces Pay gaps are widest inside the best-paid groups, and here's why: already high earners are the ones who land in the top-paying firms and jobs, and that pull gets stronger the higher you go. By @l-sage.bsky.social ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/sf/soag067

📖 New book review in Social Forces "The Policing Machine: Enforcement Endorsements, and the Illusion of Public Input" by Tony Cheng Reviewed by Brianna Remster ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/sf/soaf122

📣 New in Social Forces You'd expect that telling employers a minority group is equally productive would cut hiring bias. It didn't. Only individual proof of qualification erased it; the group message wiped out even that. By @akiraigarashi.bsky.social & Susumu Cato ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/sf/soag072

📖 New book review in Social Forces "We Belong Here: Gentrification, White Spacemaking, and a Black Sense of Place" by Shani Adia Evans Reviewed by Zawadi Rucks-Ahidianai ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/sf/soaf120

📣 New in Social Forces More low-income women finish college than ever, which reads as progress. But caretaking, work, and coursework pull at once, and they interrupt college more than low-income men or richer women. By @kmatheny.bsky.social & Ilana M Horwitz et al ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/sf/soag068

📖 New book review in Social Forces "The Paradox of Islamic Finance: How Shariah Scholars Reconcile Religion and Capitalism" by Ryan Calder Reviewed by Aaron Z Pitluck ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/sf/soaf117

📢 New in Social Forces Primary school is supposed to close early gaps. It only half does: reading and math gaps from the starting line shrink, but new gaps in how fast children learn widen total inequality. By @kimstienstra.bsky.social ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/sf/soag077

📖 New book review in Social Forces "Other People’s Colleges: The Origins of American Higher Education Reform" by Ethan W. Ris Reviewed by @profgamecock.bsky.social ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/sf/soaf121

📢 New in Social Forces Whether workers see a boss as legitimate depends not just on how the boss treats them but on what coworkers think. Peer approval outweighs the higher-ups'. By Kate Hawks & Cathryn Johnson et al ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/sf/soag004

📖 New book review in Social Forces "Challenging Inequality: Variation Across Postindustrial Societies" by Evelyne Huber, John D. Stephens Reviewed by Martin Seeleib-Kaiser ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/sf/soaf116

🚩 New in Social Forces Asylum officers give more weight to claims that move them emotionally, often regardless of an applicant's background or the formal merits of the case. By Talia Shiff ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/sf/soag007

📖 New book review in Social Forces "Righteous Sisterhood: The Politics and Power of an All-women’s Motorcycle Club" by Sarah L. Hoiland Reviewed by Chris M Smith ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/sf/soaf118

🚩 New in Social Forces Most people think siblings should inherit equally. The wealthy make an exception: they accept giving one child more to keep a family business intact. By @natrinh.bsky.social & @dariatisch.bsky.social et al ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/sf/soag010

📖 New book review in Social Forces "The Borders of Privilege: 1.5-Generation Brazilian Migrants Navigating Power Without Papers" by Kara Cebulko Reviewed by @lucialeon.bsky.social ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/sf/soaf115

🚩 New in Social Forces Jobs filled by people from privileged backgrounds pay more. And within those jobs, workers from upper-class families earn even more than their peers. By @dirkwitteveen.bsky.social ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/sf/soag012

📖 New book review in Social Forces "Controlling Reproduction: Women, Society, and State Power" by Nancy E. Riley, Nilanjana Chatterjee Reviewed by Yong Cai ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/sf/soaf088

📢 New in Social Forces Elites credit their own success to hard work. But opposition to income transfers comes from a different belief: that the poor simply did not put in the effort. By @liviosilva.bsky.social & Graziella Moraes Silva et al ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/sf/soag064

📖 New book review in Social Forces "Hear Our Stories: Campus Sexual Violence, Intersectionality, and How We Build a Better University" by Jessica C. Harris Reviewed by Amber Joy Powell ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/sf/soaf119

📢 New in Social Forces Many highly religious Dutch Muslims also accept homosexuality, cutting against the idea that Muslim faith uniformly clashes with liberal values on gender and sexuality. By Marija Dangubić & Fenella Fleischmann ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/sf/soaf149

📖 New book review in Social Forces "Unlocking the Red Closet: Gay Male Sex Workers in China" by Eileen Yuk-ha Tsang Reviewed by Doug Guthrie ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/sf/soaf238

🚩 New in Social Forces Corporate climate disclosure rules grew from private advocates, not regulators, who reframed climate change as a financial risk to companies rather than a harm companies cause. By Janna Z Huang ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/sf/soag009

📖 New book review in Social Forces "By the Power Vested in Me: How Experts Shape Same-Sex Marriage Debates" by Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer Reviewed by Kathleen E Hull ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/sf/soaf158

📢 New in Social Forces Among older adults, larger body size lowers women's access to a partner and partnered sex, but not men's. The gap tracks attractiveness and physical functioning, not weight alone. By @yiangli.bsky.social & Linda J Waite ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/sf/soaf046

📖 New book review in Social Forces "A Good Reputation: How Residents Fight for an American Barrio" by Elizabeth Korver-Glenn, Sarah Mayorga Reviewed by Jonathan Wynn ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/sf/soaf028

📢 New in Social Forces Evangelical Protestant colleges that once barred Black students now tend to bar gay and transgender students too. Mainline and Catholic schools with the same past rarely do. By Jonathan S Coley & Gabby Gomez ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/sf/soaf175

📖 New book review in Social Forces "Alfred Schutz, Phenomenology, and the Renewal of Interpretive Social Science" by Besnik Pula Reviewed by John R Hall ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/sf/soaf037

📢 New in Social Forces Transgender and nonbinary renters in Germany face clear discrimination in shared housing, but it eases in cities with secular populations and protective state policies. By Heiko Beyer & Elea Pfleger ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/sf/soaf204

📖 New book review in Social Forces "Regression Inside Out" by Eric W. Schoon, David Melamed, Ronald L. Breiger Reviewed by Jun Xu ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/sf/soaf045

🚩 New in Social Forces Workplaces cut gender segregation when they set diversity goals, give a human resources professional oversight, and regularly review who gets hired and promoted. By Kevin Stainback ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/sf/soag003

📖 New book review in Social Forces "We Are Each Other's Business: Black Women's Intersectional Political Consumerism During the Chicago Welfare Rights Movement" by Nicole M. Brown Reviewed by Mary Ann Clawson ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/sf/soaf043

📢 New in Social Forces Migrant roofers who rebuild storm-damaged homes drink more when the work is riskier, their housing is crowded, and family is far away. Many say beer dulls the fear and the monotony of the job. By @s-chavez.bsky.social & @jingli-econ.bsky.social ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/sf/soag016

📖 New book review in Social Forces "When Rape Goes Viral: Youth and Sexual Assault in the Digital Age" by Anna Gjika Reviewed by @pierrebrasseur.bsky.social ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/sf/soaf049

🚩 New in Social Forces Immigrants' views on abortion shift toward those of their new country over time and across generations, even when they move somewhere more conservative than where they came from. By @ferraraale.bsky.social & Yasemin Nuhoğlu Soysal et al ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/sf/soag017

📖 New book review in Social Forces "Catholics in America: A Social Portrait" by Lisa A. Keister Reviewed by Brian Starks ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/sf/soaf044

🚩 New in Social Forces Women in Brazil who had lived through the Zika epidemic drew on that memory to decide whether to have children during the COVID pandemic. By Letícia J Marteleto & Molly Dondero et al ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/sf/soag020