Current Sociology, Ahead of Print. This article presents a critical framework for understanding the harms produced by military institutions. Assessments of military harms are undertaken across the sociological study of the military, ranging from public…
Current Sociology, Ahead of Print. This Current Sociology Monograph draws together six articles that broker novel concepts into economic sociology. To orient this enterprise, this article examines the concepts of creativity and novelty in social theory…
Current Sociology, Ahead of Print. Using four rounds of nationally representative U.S. panel survey data (NLSY97) and fixed-effects models, this study examines whether and how transitions to marriage/cohabitation/parenthood are associated with gender-s…
Current Sociology, Ahead of Print. This article analyses adults’ experiences of sibling relationships in the context of the network of family and kin relations – namely, family figurations. In sociological research, there has been growing interest in q…
Current Sociology, Ahead of Print. This article addresses Oliver Cromwell Cox’s criticisms of the application of the concept of caste to understand race relations in the southern states of the Unite States. It proposes that there are deep similarities …
Current Sociology, Ahead of Print. This commentary responds to the essay by Suraj Yengde titled ‘Race and Caste in the Making of US Sociology’, picks up a few threads in Yengde’s argument and attempts to unravel them in the interests of deepening this …
Current Sociology, Ahead of Print. In this article, we take a look at the influence of 20th-century provenance of caste as a category of academic importance meriting a debate in American sociology and beyond. Two actors participated in the animating di…
Current Sociology, Ahead of Print. This brief response raises a few key questions emerging from Suraj Yengde’s lecture and suggests a critical direction they can be steered towards. It considers in what sense caste may deserve an epistemology of its ow…
Current Sociology, Ahead of Print. Emerging out of religious conflict in early modern Europe, the terms race and caste as we understand them today went on to define hierarchical relations in different parts of the globe. Yet, they have never completely…
Current Sociology, Ahead of Print. The concern to think about the place of caste as a conceptual category – within, and in relation to, broader sociological understandings of inequality – was the primary motivation of the British Sociological Associati…