This article examines how distance impacts the network of connections across social movement organisations through analysing Extinction Rebellion Australia, who diffused from the densely populated and spatially compact UK to Australia.

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This article conceptualises parenting as a form of civic action. Identifying a relational turn in theories of citizenship, it proposes an analytical framework for examining civic meanings in everyday parental acts.

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This article examines how Chinese migrant entrepreneurs engage with the "Made in Italy" label. Drawing on interviews and ethnographic work, it explores how commercial nationalism shapes the marginalisation and legitimisation of migrant-led production.

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This article examines class inequality in voting in the egalitarian context of Norway, arguing that occupational class offers a relational and multidimensional approach to understanding electoral participation disparities.

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Drawing on a representative survey of 9083 full-time academics at German higher education institutions, this article examines how academics across different career ranks assess their freedom in teaching and research.

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This article explores David Goodhart’s “Somewheres vs Anywheres” thesis. Analysing survey data, researchers found no evidence that “Somewheres” are more opposed to migration or social change.

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Based on 32 households in Shanghai, this paper develops the concept of graduated involution to explain how summer holidays have been reconstituted from leisure time into an educational arena for Chinese families under conditions of compressed modernity.

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Shadow education has become a defining feature of contemporary schooling. Drawing on Bourdieu's concept of illusio, this article explores how shadow education becomes culturally normalised within contexts formally committed to public educational equality.

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🟡 A new issue of The British Journal of Sociology is now available.

Featuring new research from scholars across the globe, this issue explores key questions around inequality, culture, identity, politics and social change.

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Read Jennifer Whillans's review of "The Return of the Housewife: Why Women Are Still Cleaning Up" by Emma Casey.

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This article draws on ethnographic research in Delhi to examine promise-to-marry cases in India, showing how women experience coercive control, emotional manipulation, reproductive harms, economic fraud and violence in pre-marital relationships.

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How does imperial knowledge production operate when Western media coverage of a Global South subject is predominantly admiring instead of hostile? This article offers a critical discourse analysis of Anglo-American news during the 1980's Chad-Libya conflict.

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Drawing on interviews with OnlyFans creators, this article develops the concept of total self-commodification to account for a form of platform labour whose unit of extraction is the creator's continuous intimate self.

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Through a case study of the 21st-century butler, this paper proposes a “new spirit of service” that expresses servanthood and social class through “professionalism” and “lifestyle”, securing servant-like labour within work generated by wealth inequalities.

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