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About Sociology

Sociology, an official journal of the British Sociological Association, is acknowledged as one of the leading journals in its field. For more than five decades, the journal has made a major contribution to the debates that have shaped the discipline and has an undisputed international reputation for publishing original research of the highest academic standard. The scope of Sociology is wide ranging - both geographically and substantively - and it includes shorter notes, comments, reviews of recent developments and book reviews as well as core theoretical and empirical research papers. It also publishes occasional special issues principally devoted to particular themes.

All issues of Sociology are available to browse online.This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Current Issue

Sociology 為雙月刊， 最新一期的內容（Volume 59 Issue 3, June 2025）分為“Article”“Book Review”兩個欄目，共13篇文章，詳情如下。

Contents

Articles

Sociology 59(3), 2025

Conceptualising Black (Co-)Reflexive Feminist Methodologies: Collaboration, Process and Critical Friendship

Chantelle Jessica Lewis，Bryel Kerkhoff-Parnell

This article situates Black feminist research on race and class as a pre-determined collaborative process, which builds on a plethora of existing scholarship as well as on the relationships and wisdoms of others. We want to pay homage to the way we arrive at our ideas about social life together. We see lived experience(s) as a fundamental aspect of our work as social scientists and Black feminist practitioners, but also acknowledge the pitfalls of this approach. Using Bryel’s transcriptions of Chantelle’s ethnographic research with Black and Black mixed-race families as an example, we aim to bring a fresh perspective to this long-standing approach, while emphasising that this leaves us open to the creation of over-individualised accounts of often-marginalised social lives. We hope to further discourses that acknowledge and celebrate the numerous, complicated and personal pathways taken by researchers as they analyse their data, specifically in methodologically insider–outsider encounters.

Not Talking about Climate Change: Everyday Interactions, Relational Work and Climate Silences

Katy Wright，Sarah Irwin

Despite evidence of extensive and growing concern about climate change, citizens remain relatively unlikely to discuss it in everyday conversation, presenting a puzzle to commentators and researchers. Different explanations of climate silence have been suggested, most notably from social psychology and from political economy perspectives, which posit forms of cultural control. However, there is limited evidence about the relational contexts of everyday climate talk and the meanings that people themselves attach to it. In this article, we analyse data from new qualitative research and explore how climate talk is patterned, forms of self-silencing and the meanings attached to climate talk, with reference to its interactional and relational contexts. We argue that social interactional contexts, relational work and mundane forms of practical constraint play an under-investigated yet crucial role in limiting climate talk.

University and the Pursuit of a ‘Career’ for Working-Class Youth in Deindustrial Rochdale

Amit Singh

This article examines the way in which working-class young people in Rochdale, a former industrial town in the north-west of England, imagine their future transitions from college to work through qualitative research at Rochdale’s only A-Level college. It explores how students’ aspirations to attend university reflect their desire for a ‘career’ in the absence of alternative forms of work and as a symbolic marker of upward social mobility that is subsequently differentiated from other forms of work as a form of distinction, as a great deal of emphasis is placed on the moral and cultural worth of a ‘career’. In doing so, this article highlights how such perceptions are shaped by the material conditions faced by these young people, such as inequality, financial precarity, and relative poverty against the backdrop of deindustrialisation.

Beyond the Body Productive: Exploring the Transformative Potential of Self-Tracking

Rachel Spence，Rachel Ashman，Anthony Patterson，Philippa Hunter-Jones

Previous studies of self-tracking often focus on themes such as control, surveillance and the production of self-optimising neoliberal subjects. This article extends understanding by exploring the affective capacities of self-tracking in fostering wellbeing and forging meaningful relationships. Drawing upon a Deleuzian conceptual framework and the experiences of a sample of self-tracking individuals in the United Kingdom, we examine how self-tracking practices can encourage the formation of new relationships, habits and capacities that enhance wellbeing in unique and personal ways. Our analysis presents three key themes: tracking towards meaningful relationships, routinising wellbeing and self-tracking through the struggle. Crucially, our findings move beyond the ‘body productive’ exposing how the affective capacities of self-tracking emerge through dynamic interactions between users, devices and wider assemblages, rather than being solely determined by technology. In doing so, we highlight the importance of personal and relational dimensions of wellbeing as they intersect with self-tracking technologies.

Towards a Relational Sociology of Retrofit

Mark Davis，Lucie Middlemiss，Stephen Hall，Donal Brown，Ruth Bookbinder，Anne Owen，Marie Claire Brisbois，Giulia M Mininni，Iain Cairns，Matthew Hannon

Decarbonisation of residential buildings (‘retrofit’) is vital if nations are to meet declared net zero targets. This challenge is especially acute in the UK, which has some of the least energy efficient homes in Europe. Yet, to date, sociology has paid relatively little attention either to the urgency of this challenge or to its potential solutions. This article uses concepts from relational sociology to propose a complete reframing of the retrofit challenge and concludes by offering suggestions to improve energy policy design and incentives. It opens new avenues for sociologically driven research into how and why people ‘retrofit’ their homes, highlighting dynamics of trust, power and emotion as meaningful barriers to retrofit at scale. We conclude that the multiple stakeholders seeking to boost energy efficiency interventions in homes should focus less upon economic incentives for ‘rational actors’ and more upon reducing, facilitating and smoothing the ‘relational work’ needed to deliver retrofit.

Towards a Theory of Cis-Supremacy: Conceptualising Ongoing Barriers to Trans Equality

Cal Horton

Trans scholarship and trans perspectives have historically been marginalised from mainstream academia. There is value in ongoing theoretical exchange between sociology and the evolving post-discipline of applied trans studies. This article introduces three prominent theories within applied trans studies, namely cisnormativity, pathologisation and gender minority stress, considering the strengths and limitations of these theories. The author then highlights the need for a greater theoretical focus on cis power, drawing from scholarship on white supremacy to articulate and introduce a theory of cis-supremacy. Within the UK cis-supremacy manifests in experiences of control and coercion; problematisation; toleration of trans harm; and cis institutional dominance. A theory of cis-supremacy calls attention to the forces and systems that actively oppress trans people, perpetuating systemic and sustained injustices. Recognition of cis-supremacy is important for understanding intersectional inequality, and a vital component of any movement for trans liberation.

Gendered Returns to Education: The Association between Educational Attainment, Gender Composition in Field of Study and Income

Sara Seehuus，Thea Bertnes Str?mme

Women’s higher college completion rates and greater economic returns to education are regarded as a pathway towards economic gender equality. However, gender-segregated educational choices contribute to persisting gender segregation in the labour market and the gender pay gap. Few studies have explored how the returns to education vary based on the gender composition of fields of study. Using comprehensive register data from Norway, this study examines the link between income and gender-typed fields of study across education levels. Consistent with prior research, we find that women experience larger relative returns to higher education, indicating that women have more to gain from investing in education. Moreover, female-dominated fields yield lower returns compared with gender-balanced and male-dominated fields across all education levels. Lastly, and contrary to the ‘glass escalator’ notion, the economic penalty associated with female-dominated education is greater for men than for women.

Hometown Relations in WeChat Practice among Internal Migrants: Rethinking Social Capital Logic in Modernised China

Yutian Xiong，Yimei Zhu

This study explores how Chinese internal migrants utilise WeChat to sustain their hometown-based networks by rethinking the western concepts around social capital in the digitally driven modern Chinese society characterised by normalised population mobility. We highlight that WeChat is a highly converged digital tool that is embedded in Chinese people’s everyday life and acts effectively as the central hub of individuals’ overall social networks. This infrastructuralisation of WeChat allows migrants to leverage bonding, bridging and linking social capital from their multidimensionally overlapped hometown-based personal ties, both close and weak, along with institutional ties within a single platform. We redefine bridging social capital as migrants are able to access valuable information and perspectives beyond weak ties. We argue that Chinese socio-cultural norms influence individuals’ digital capital, aiding in network maintenance and the exchange for social, economic and cultural capital. This study further identifies the divides in the capital acquisition and exchange processes.

The ‘Two’ Universities: Cross-Class Encounters and the Segregated Inclusion of Non-Elite Women at an Elite University

Paulina Rodríguez

Widening participation policies often depict access to elite universities as an inherently inclusive force, particularly for disadvantaged women who have been underrepresented in prestigious degrees. These agendas promise not only access but also social inclusion, with a key aspect being interactions with affluent peers. Drawing on interviews with undergraduates at an elite Chilean university and using Michèle Lamont’s approach to symbolic boundaries, this article explores the two facets of boundary-drawing dynamics between economically elite and widening participation-admitted female students. The results identify the criteria and perceived properties of these boundaries, highlighting the intersectional role of gender. While strong and durable class boundaries exist, the analysis shows the seemingly contradictory dynamics of ‘segregated inclusion’ for widening participation-admitted female students. These insights challenge binary views of inclusion and exclusion, highlighting the dual character of these institutions: elites reinforce existing ties through resegregation, while disadvantaged students are socially included but in a segregated manner.

‘Proxy Parenting’ and Creating a ‘Golden Touch’: Practices and Discourses of Intensive Grandparenting

Terese Anving，Sara Eldén，Linn Alenius Wallin，Franciska Brodersen

Grandparents’ involvement in their adult children’s families has increased in recent decades, especially in relation to care arrangements around grandchildren. This ‘new army of proxy parents’ calls for the need to critically analyse grandparental care. Drawing on a study on intergenerational care in Sweden, involving grandparents, adult children and grandchildren (63 interviewees including 28 grandparents), we suggest the concept of intensive grandparenting as an analytical lens for understanding contemporary grandparental involvement in care for grandchildren. Intensive grandparenting is done in a complex and ambivalent relation to parenting, making grandparents ‘proxy parents’ that help realise intensive parenting ideals, while also realising ‘good grandparenting’ ideals through adding a ‘golden touch’ to grandparent–grandchild relations. This growing involvement of grandparents, while highly appreciated, risks reproducing gendered and classed inequalities within and between families.

Book Reviews

Sociology 59(3), 2025

Book Review: Romit Chowdhury, City of Men: Masculinities and Everyday Morality on Public Transport

Xuenan Zhao

Based on: Chowdhury RomitCity of Men: Masculinities and Everyday Morality on Public TransportNew Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2023, $27.95 (pbk) (ISBN: 9781978829534), 216 pp.

Book Review: Michael Mann, On Wars

Alexander Reece Loescher Quinlan

Based on: Mann MichaelOn WarsNew Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2023, ￡30.00 hbk (ISBN: 9780300266818), 616 pp.

Book Review: Catherine Happer, The Construction of Public Opinion in a Digital Age

Giuliana Tiripelli

Based on: Happer CatherineThe Construction of Public Opinion in a Digital AgeManchester: Manchester University Press, 2024, ￡85.00 (hbk) (ISBN: 9781526180223), 224 pp.

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