Sociological Review Research Articles

International Representation in US Social-Science Journals

In this paper we examine the publication of international articles in the two leading journals in sociology, the American Sociological Review and the American Journal of Sociology. The most prominent journals in several other social-science fields, namely economics, demography, political science and education, are included for purposes of comparison. “International” is defined alternatively with respect to topics and authors. The journal with the least representation of international topics is the American Educational Research Journal, followed by the two leading sociology journals. The journal Demography is also more international in focus than are ASR and AJS. Economics, as represented by the American Economic Review, and political science, as represented by the American Political Science Review, are the most international of this set of fields. The rank order of journals follows largely the same pattern when the focus shifts to international authorship rather than international subject matter. Foreign first authors are not uncommon, but many of these authors received their PhD degrees from a university based in the US or held a faculty position in the US. Co-authorship teams are most likely to be all US authors, but cross-national teams are not at all uncommon. Our findings suggest that a disproportionate focus on the U.S. may limit the sociological imagination and result in an impoverished sociological toolkit that is ill-suited for understanding the global reality of deeply diverse and divided societies. In addition, the opportunity structure available to sociologists around the globe is somewhat skewed. Foreign sociologists who rely upon publication in US journals for career advancement may find themselves at a disadvantage.

Introduction to Deviance, The Undead: Contemporary Deviancy and Social Movements, A Special Issue

The sociology of deviance refuses to die, despite decades-long critiques. In the 1970s, Scheff, Gove, and Chauncey treated the pages of the American Sociological Review to debates about labeling th...

Mere presence of informal guardians deters burglars: a virtual reality study

ObjectivesThis study investigates the deterrent effects of incremental levels of guardianship on residential burglary and assesses how burglars differ from non-burglars in terms of their perceptions of opportunities for burglary.MethodsIn a virtual reality experiment, 181 incarcerated burglars and 172 non-burglars (university students) were tasked to appraise a virtual neighbourhood in search of a burglary target. During the appraisal process, participants were exposed to different levels of guardianship, ranging from the mere presence of a guardian to an intervening guardian.ResultsThe presence of a guardian deterred both burglars and non-burglars alike, with only negligible incremental effects for levels of guardianship. For burglars, guardianship increased the perceived likelihood of being caught and the perceived level of social cohesion, whereas it decreased neighbourhood attractiveness. The burglars differed from the non-burglars in terms of how they appraised the virtual neighbourhood, clearly reflecting differences in expertise between both groups.ConclusionsWith respect to residential burglary, the results suggest that guardians—in line with the original notion of guardianship developed by Cohen and Felson (American Sociological Review, 44(4), 588–608, 1979)—serve as a deterrent simply by being present.

4 Migration research and analysis: Growth, reach and recent contributions

4 Migration research and analysis: Growth, reach and recent contributions

Governing the Philippine Public: The National College of Public Administration and Governance and the Crisis of Leadership without Identity

Governing the Philippine Public: The National College of Public Administration and Governance and the Crisis of Leadership without Identity

Chasing Dreams, Finding Nightmares: Exploring the Creative Limits of the Music Career

Chasing Dreams, Finding Nightmares: Exploring the Creative Limits of the Music Career

ЖИЗНЕННЫЕ ТРАЕКТОРИИ НАРКОЗАВИСИМЫХ: БОЛЕЗНЬ, РЕЛИГИОЗНОСТЬ И МЕТАМОРФОЗЫ СОЦИАЛЬНОСТИ

The article, based on the author’s field materials conducted among drug-addicted patients of rehabilitation centers, examines their biographical “medical histories”, an important aspect of which is the experience of accepting a new reality, their own chronic disease. In a simple way, drug addiction can be seen as one of the variants of one’s disturbed adaptation to their familiar or a wider social environment, leading to incorrect life strategies. And if drug addiction is considered as a complex disease within the framework of the biopsychosocial model, then the treatment can consist of different practices including psychological, religious and adaptation-socialization components. The religiosity of the participants is studied based on a conceptual framework, formed by studies conducted in the USA of the phenomenon of religious conversion in the midst of new religious movements. The article analyzes the role of religiosity in the emergence and maintenance of a patient’s interest in treatment and in the development of a new social reality. The author also examines the attitude of drug addicts to modern therapeutic practices that use the religious factor directly, and studies their life trajectories. References Bogdanovskaia, I.M. 2002. Smyslovaia organizatsiia sovremennogo religioznogo opyta lichnosti [Semantic Organization Contemporary Religious Personality Experience]. PhD diss. abstract, St. Petersburg. Bulanova, I.S. 2015. Izmenenie samosoznaniia pod vliianiem rastushchei religioznosti [Identity Change Influenced by Increasing Religiosity]. PhD diss., Yaroslavl’. Gillespie, V.B. 1991. The Dynamics of Religious Conversion, Identity and Transformation. Birmingham: Religious Education Press. Ho-Yee Ng, and D.T.L. Shek. 2001. Religion and Therapy: Religious Conversion and the Mental Health of Chronic Heroin-Addicted Persons. Journal of Religion and Health 40 (4): 399–410. Ipatova, L.P. 2006. Tipy religioznogo obrashcheniia v pravoslavie zhenshchin v sovremennoi Rossii [Types of Religious Conversion in the Orthodoxy of Women in Modern Russia]. PhD diss., Moscow. Ipatova, L.P. 2006. Votserkovlenie: dva biograficheskikh primera [Community Entry: Two Biographical Examples]. Chelovek, soobshchestvo, upravlenie 3: 62–77. Lofland, J., and R. Stark. 1965. Becoming a World-Saver: A Theory of Conversion to a Deviant Perspective. American Sociological Review 30 (6): 862–875. Stark, R., and R. Finke. 2000. Acts of Faith: Explaining the Human Side of Religion. Berkeley: University of California Press. Stark, R., and W.S. Bainbridge. 1987. A Theory of Religion. New York: Peter Lang.

Race and Publishing in Sociology

A literature on the relationship between race and publication productivity in academia is under-developed. Using the field of sociology, we present publication and related career data from the CVs of 539 tenure-line faculty who work in one of three tiers, indicated by National Research Council rankings, and who belong to one of three professional cohorts, constructed by the year in which they earned their Ph.D.s. The study examines the publication patterns among four groups: whites, African Americans, Latinos, and Asians. African Americans and Latinos publish peer-reviewed sole-authored articles in smaller, but not substantially smaller, proportions than whites and Asians, a pattern manifest across organizational tiers but which attenuates the younger the cohort. Whites and Asians are substantially more likely to co-author article work. Whites and faculty of color publish academic books in roughly equal proportions. Race differences in publication in two general journals, the American Sociological Review and the American Journal of Sociology, are more sharply graded by race but not as substantially as one might expect given the identified specialty areas in which members of these groups predominantly work. We rely upon work on the relationship between race and the academic profession to situate the analysis. We identify methodological preferences of work as a key source to account for the observed patterns associated with publication and race. We also discuss our findings in relation to work on racial inequality in higher education.

A Sociological Review of China's Social Credit Systems and Guanxi Opportunities for Social Mobility

AbstractThis paper proposes a novel understanding of social mobility in China by exploring the literature on social credit systems. I propose that social credit systems, which include credit rating systems and factors of social governance, can affect occupational attainment, as they may influence or function in tandem with guanxi networks. Through social credit systems, there could possibly be a new order of stratification powered by norms of social conformity. These systems can curtail social mobility efforts by designating some individuals as high risk. In addition, these systems can regulate social behaviors, as actions that are considered “right” are rewarded, while “wrong” actions result in penalties.

The Evolution of Research Methods and Techniques Applied on the Terrorism Academic Papers

This article examines the research methods and techniques applied on academic papers related to terrorism. This is done through an extensive review and analysis of one thousand five hundred (1,500) papers that were published in twenty different journals such as American Economic Review, Journal of Policy Modeling, Economic Modeling, Journal of Economic Literature, Quality and Quantity, Journal of Global History, Journal of Social History, Quarterly Journal of Political Sciences, Journal of Politics, The Sociological Review, Critical Studies on Terrorism, Foreign Affairs, Global Crime, Intelligence and National Security, Politics, Religion & Ideology, Terrorism and Political Violence, Terrorism and Political Violence Security Studies, Journal of Military Ethics, Journal of Conflict Resolution within a 30-years period (1990–2020). It was observed that at different period in time, all these one thousand five hundred (1,500) academic papers always keep a constant transformation of its research methods and techniques that invoked the uses of different and new quantitative and qualitative frameworks of analysis to facilitate the explanation of the complex and dynamic behavior of terrorism. Finally, this research proposes a new research field entitled Terrorismology.

Techniques of disinformation: Constructing and communicating "soft facts" after terrorism.

Informed by social media data collected following four terror attacks in the UK in 2017, this article delineates a series of “techniques of disinformation” used by different actors to try and influence how the events were publicly defined and understood. By studying the causes and consequences of misleading information following terror attacks, the article contributes empirically to the neglected topic of social reactions to terrorism. It also advances scholarship on the workings of disinforming communications, by focusing on a domain other than political elections, which has been the empirical focus for most studies of disinformation to date. Theoretically, the analysis is framed by drawing an analogy with Gresham Sykes and David Matza's (1957) account of the role of “techniques of neutralization” originally published in the American Sociological Review. The connection being that where they studied deviant behaviour, a similar analytic lens can usefully be applied to disinformation cast as “deviant” information.

Horowitz, Jonathan. 2018. “Relative Education and the Advantage of a College Degree.” American Sociological Review 83(4):771–801.

Horowitz, Jonathan. 2018. “Relative Education and the Advantage of a College Degree.” <i>American Sociological Review</i> 83(4):771–801.

Influence of marriage on mental health: sociological studies review

The author substantiates the importance of sociological analysis of mental health factors in modern conditions through the example of married couples. The paper reveals the essence of sociological concepts (theory of stress, structural strain theory, stigma theory) in the study of mental health and factors that determine it. It is established that the theory of stress considers an individual’s current state of life and negative life events to be factors determining mental health. It also indicates high risks of mental illness in groups with a low socioeconomic status. The representatives of the structural strain theory qualify weak social support for others and weak individual control over life circumstances, along with unfavorable organization of social space, as significant factors in the deterioration of mental health. It is noted that, according to the stigma theory, mentally unhealthy people become victims of stigma since others identify them as deviants, expecting corresponding behavior. Based on the analysis of a number of studies, a conclusion is drawn about the effect of marriage on mental health indicators, regardless of gender. It is revealed that some researchers point to improvement in mental health in a short term, while others do not show such dependence at all. The key role of «quality of marriage» and spouses’ satisfaction with marriage in the formation and strengthening of their mental health is noted.

A Few Words on Non-intervention

The essay “A Few Words on Non-intervention” by British philosopher and politician John Stuart Mill, published in Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country in December, 1859, has been translated into Russian for the first time for this issue of the Russian Sociological Review. Here, Mill justifies the foreign policy of the British Empire, and considers the criteria when the doctrine of non-intervention may be ignored in the sphere of international relations. There are three cases that make legitimate military intervention possible: (1) the overcoming of the doctrine of non-intervention when it is necessary to confront humanitarian disasters such as slavery; (2) an intervention allowing people to be given their freedom and to protect their right of self-determination; (3) an intervention as a tool to fight against tyranny.

80th anniversary of the journal Sociološki Pregled/Serbian Sociological Review

In 2018, the journal Sociološki Pregled/Sociological Review celebrated its 80th anniversary. The first Serbian sociological journal Društveni Život/ Social Life was published in Belgrade in 1920 and 1921, and then renewed in 1930 in Novi Sad. The editor-in-chief and publisher of this journal was Mirko Kosić, a professor at the Faculty of Law in Subotica. After establishing Society for Legal Philosophy and Sociology in 1935 and Society for Sociology and Social Sciences in 1938, a new sociological journal - Sociological Review , edited by a professor from the Faculty of Law in Belgrade, Đorđe Tasić - began to be published. Thematically it covered various sociological disciplines and other social sciences for sociology is a multidisciplinary science. The work of the Sociological Society and the journal was interrupted by the II World War, in which Đorđe Tasić was killed. Other members of the Society for Sociology and Social Sciences and associates of Sociološki Pregled were no longer interested in sociology and sociological topics. Sociološki Pregled was renewed in 1961 by the Serbian Sociological Society, first as a collection of papers and then as a journal in 1964. Since then, the journal has been an active participant of scientific and academic life in this region providing an overview of current trends in sociology in the world and in our country. The intellectual elite of Serbia has participated in its publishing both directly and indirectly, both its oldest and prominent members and the youngest ones. About 200 issues of Sociološki Pregled with more than 30,000 pages were published from 1938 to 2018 and present a valuable material for sociological life and an irreplaceable information manual on decades of contemporary history of Serbia and Yugoslavia. Such a role could not have been played by any other journal. Sociološki Pregled is a theoretical journal, a manual, an informative newsletter, a reminder, a witness, an informer - all at the same time. That is why it is necessary to consider the journal in both historical and contemporary perspectives.

Theorising in Philippine Sociology, 1955–2017

Abstract The article’s principal objective is to assess the state of theorising in Philippine sociology via the pages the Philippine Sociological Review (PSR). It reviews a portfolio of theoretical articles published by PSR over the span of seven decades (1955–2017). With PSR as the “interpretive canon,” the review uncovers suggestive actualities regarding the nature and extent of sociological theorising in the country. The theorising praxis of Filipino sociologists is characterised by a duality of “undercurrents” indicative of actual and potential actions that are habitual in nature (inclinations) yet porous enough to accommodate adjustments (possibilities) epitomised by episodic calls to theorise. Their nexus, albeit imbued with tension and ambivalence, is construed as predictive of promising futures (trajectories) for the discipline in the country. The article concludes that the climate of sociological theorising in the Philippines is essentially synchronous in the global trend along such area of concern.

Influence of Social Media on Brand and Branding: A Sociological Review

Social media is a platform of reflection our society to depicts various views and opinions on how society should live. Social media, either it is printed, electronic or the web helps community stay connected one way or another. So, to say even teaching how one should choose a brand. Brand in this article refers to a brand is a permanent mark that is hot­â€stamped onto a good or service. This article will look into how social media is making an impact of the brand chosen by consumer. This contextual discussion will focus on how social media is seen a platform that could stimulate the thoughts of consumer in choosing and buying certain brand in a sociological view. In discussing the impact of social media and brand, various factors brands familiarity, perception, quality and value will be covered.

Institutional hybridity and cultural isomorphism in contemporary policing

Recent work on policing has increasingly acknowledged the influence of a broad array of changes upon both the structure and culture of police organizations. Generally, however, literature and research have tended to focus attention onto those elements of the broader police environment that effect such developments, whereas little commentary, to date, has been directed towards those features which impact across the broader public sector. Through drawing on the concepts of ‘hybrid professionalism’ [Noordegraaf M (2015) Hybrid professionalism and beyond: (new) forms of public professionalism in changing organizational and societal contexts. Journal of Professions and Organization 2: 187–206] and ‘institutional isomorphism’ [DiMaggio PJ and Powell WW (1983) The iron cage revisited: Institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields. American Sociological Review 48: 147–160], this conceptual paper will argue that the impact of neoliberal ideology on the contemporary public sector has created a police organization for which professionalism increasingly denotes generic management skills that are common across different occupations and different police roles. In particular, it will be suggested that such institutional isomorphism may drive ideational responses commensurate with cultural change within police organizations. In short, therefore, the paper will make the case that, in parallel with changes already identified by other academics, broader structural changes may lead to a narrower and more generic set of cultural responses within contemporary police organizations.

A Model for Designing Authentic Learning

Student internships and work experience schemes provide students with highly authentic learning experiences (Bosco &amp; Fern, 2014). Therefore many university programmes include a job-experience element that students must demonstrate completion of, usually through a report signed by the employer that the student has managed to find work with over their summer break. Auckland University of Technology provides a summer student scholarship scheme that provides contestable scholarship funding for students to work on university specified projects over the summer break. Each scholarship requires 370 hours of project-related work, followed by a summary report. In this presentation we explore a model that extends the summer student scholarship concept as part of a longer term collaboration between university students, academic supervisors, and industry representatives. This extended model brokers real world projects that benefit the wider community through developing solutions to health care problems in collaboration with a local district health board (ADHB or Auckland District Health Board). In this model communication design students apply to form design teams, selected and supervised by university academics, to address design briefs from the district health board’s Design Lab. Key aspects of this collaboration include: developing a sense of trust between the university and the district health Design Lab, establishing a supervision team and protocols, and establishing an ecology of supporting resources - including providing students with the work space and infrastructure access to achieve the project goals. The summer student scholarships are designed to be the first step in a long term collaboration that will potentially lead into major undergraduate student projects and post-graduate research. The summer scholarship projects use a Design Based Research (DBR) methodology (McKenney &amp; Reeves, 2018) to address the first design stages of specific health care problems: analysis and exploration, and initial prototype design. The following stages of a DBR methodology (design implementation, evaluation, and redesign) are addressed through subsequent major student projects or post graduate research following agreement with the district health Design Lab after the presentation of the summer student scholarship project outcomes. The scope of the projects aim to explore the potential of wearable and mobile technologies to enhance health care practice and the patient experience (Rich &amp; Miah, 2017). The research questions underpinning the extended student scholarship model are:&#x0D; &#x0D; &#x0D; In what scenarios can wearable and mobile technologies most effectively enhance health care practice and the patient experience?&#x0D; What are the design principles that can guide the development of authentic mobile learning collaborative student projects?&#x0D; &#x0D; References&#x0D; &#x0D; Bosco, A. M., &amp; Fern, S. (2014). Embedding of authentic assessment in work-integrated learning curriculum. Asia-Pacific Journal of Cooperative Education, 15(4), 281-290.&#x0D; McKenney, S., &amp; Reeves, T. C. (2018). Conducting educational design research: Routledge.&#x0D; Rich, E., &amp; Miah, A. (2017). Mobile, wearable and ingestible health technologies: towards a critical research agenda. Health Sociology Review, 26(1), 84-97.&#x0D;

Survey of Stigma (Erving Goffman), Pride Mark in Selected Iranian Contemporary Drama

Stigma refers to the different view of society to t marred identities. In such cases there is a difference between the potential identity and the actual identity. Those carrying a stigma try to resist public view about themselves by ignoring their position and showing new identities and behavioral characteristics. Social stigma creates unhappiness for a labelled person or community on social grounds that tries to distinguish them, from other portions of society. Stigma then can be attached to a person, by the greater society, who differs from their cultural norms. Social stigma can result from mental disorder, physical disabilities, diseases, illegitimacy, sexuality, beliefs, principles, religion, beauty, gender identity, parenthood, education, race, ethnicity, power, reputation, wealth, occupation, class, affiliation, brainpower or criminality. Attributes associated with social stigma often vary in different societies depending on the geopolitical and corresponding sociopolitical contexts. According to Erving Goffman, there are three forms of social stigma: Obvious deformations (such as wounds), corporal signs or physical and social disability. Variation in personal traits stigmatized in this way, including falling in a school exam, working a low wage job, single parenthood, economic failure, unemployment, welfare dependency, infidelity, mental disorder, drug addiction, and wrong background. Tribal stigmas are behaviors of a tribal group, ethnic, nationality, or religion that is believed to be a deviation from the general normative civilization. Gender is a more outstanding ground in Iranian contemporary drama than other types of stigma. This paper is a gender sociological review over the selected Iranian drama by using Erving Goffman Theory of Stigma. This paper considers stigma as Hamartia and then compares and categorizes different types of stigma between men and women in selected Iranian Drama by exploring the power of labeling in sexual relationships. Then, identity crisis and different ways of hiding stigma are explored: Including abiding behavior, alienation and passive manner toward others (spouse or father) among women; while men try to rebuild their identity and regain their credit. Stigma-related factors in men are more in connection with the external environment (culture, economics, and politics) and are often in interaction with their counterparts (men), while women are more stigmatized by physiological and marital relations or in interaction with the opposite sex. Omission, eject denial; ignoring privacy are the most common ways of dealing with stigmatized characters. Ultimately, stigma is about public control. A consequence of this is that stigma is necessarily a social happening. Without a society, one cannot have a stigma. What this article has added to Goffman’s Theory of Stigma is what we have called Pride Mark. To have a stigma, one must have a stigmatizer and someone who is stigmatized. In Pride Mark, one who has stigmatized is noble, enlighten, intellectual man, a person who is marginalized by society because of his superiority in knowledge.