Current Sociology, Ahead of Print. The enabling and constraining properties of networks, their effects on participants, and their subsequent social consequences have all been extensively explored in a large and growing literature. A feature of social n…
Current Sociology, Ahead of Print. Individualization theorists claim that the socio-cultural changes of late modernity have dissolved class division and awareness. In contrast, this review of class research on Icelandic society since the dawn of modern…
Current Sociology, Ahead of Print. The article focuses on the mobilization carried out by tenants living in a rent-stabilized building in NYC’s Lower East Side. Their action was a central part of a large and successful struggle against the landlord, bl…
Current Sociology, Ahead of Print. Since the Second World War there have been significant changes in the gender systems of industrialised countries, largely driven by increased female labour force participation. Changes in men’s domestic participation …
Current Sociology, Ahead of Print. Sociologists have been investigating financialization over the past two decades. Shareholder value orientation has been named as one of the central driving forces for financialization in the US. However, financializat…
Current Sociology, Ahead of Print. Existing scholarship on the lives and wellbeing of China’s left-behind children often frames the issues as a function of their parents’ migration, which leaves a significant gap in discussing the role of the state in …
Current Sociology, Ahead of Print. This article examines how the experience of childhood has changed in urban China against the backdrop of the wider political, social and economic transformations in the 20th century. Drawing on 95 life history intervi…
Current Sociology, Ahead of Print. This article engages with existing applications of Bourdieusian (habitus, field and capitals) theory as applied to ‘street’ settings. It advocates for the recognition of strategies developed by those involved in road …
Current Sociology, Ahead of Print. The sociology of childhood is currently at a crossroads for developing research agendas beyond the ‘new’ social studies of childhood of the 1980s and 1990s, which suffer from four problems: cultural relativism derived…
Current Sociology, Ahead of Print. Do poor people love their children less? In the case of child laborers, this seemingly straightforward question has generated a range of complex responses. This includes research within the value of children (VOC) fra…