Current Sociology, Ahead of Print. I introduce the concept of transactional pathways, coined by anthropologist Jane Guyer, to trace the institutional processes that contribute to uneven and unjust patterns of wealth and status distribution under system…
Current Sociology, Ahead of Print. What analytical framework can we employ to conduct ethnographic investigation into family businesses? As sociological and anthropological perspectives increasingly extend their gaze beyond the legal confines of firms …
Current Sociology, Ahead of Print. The concepts of precariousness that emerged in Western countries from the 1980s onwards highlight uncertainty regarding the form, scope and nature of labour in the near future. In this article, we use the concept of a…
Current Sociology, Ahead of Print. This article examines the relationship between intermarriage and integration in a novel context, centering on Israeli adolescents with ethnic origins from both Europe and Middle Eastern and North African countries. Cu…
Current Sociology, Ahead of Print. How do we imagine economic objects, processes, and actions? More importantly, if the future is inherently uncertain what limits the range of possible imaginings such that actors can agree and coordinate? Building on t…
Current Sociology, Ahead of Print. Humour has a well-established role in the public life of politics; however, its use within families affected by macro-level political events remains understudied. This article explores how families employed humour to …
Current Sociology, Ahead of Print. We introduce and discuss the concept of community objection against the backdrop of the dominant scholarly tendency to attribute a shared viewpoint to residential communities. The notion of community objection arises …
Current Sociology, Ahead of Print. State officials in Weber’s rational-bureaucratic ideal type execute the business of the state rationally and dispassionately. Yet, in practice, the professional lives of bureaucrats are often deeply imbued with emotio…
Current Sociology, Ahead of Print. This article traces the mainstreaming of the idea that there is a ‘free speech crisis’ in the United Kingdom, from its emergence in the 2010s to the Free Speech Act of 2023. We argue that ‘free speech’ is initially co…
Current Sociology, Ahead of Print. This article explores the recent proliferation of intermediary agencies and digital platforms that provide senior home care in Spain. Based on qualitative fieldwork consisting of semi-structured interviews (n = 20) an…