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Now published by SAGE The Sociological Review has been publishing high quality and innovative articles for over 100 years. During this time we have steadfastly remained a general sociological journal, selecting papers of immediate and lasting significance. Covering all branches of the discipline, including criminology, education, gender, medicine, and organization, our tradition extends to research that is anthropological or philosophical in orientation and analytical or ethnographic in approach.

The Sociological Review is also home to a prestigious Monograph Series that publishes collections of outstanding and original scholarly articles on issues of general sociological interest. Dedicated to showcasing the very best and most innovative sociologically informed work, and to promoting emerging as well as established academics, the series has for over fifty years produced intellectually stimulating, coherent volumes of the highest quality.

The Sociological Review is published by the Sociological Review Publication Limited with the support of Keele University. The profit from the sale of the Journal is donated to the Sociological Review Foundation Limited, a registered charity whose purpose is to advance the education of the public on the subject of sociology.

The Sociological Review is published bimonthly, with the latest issue (Volume 73 Issue 3, May 2025) including two sections: "Article" and "Book Symposium", totaling 17 articles. Details are as follows.

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ARTICLES

The ordinariness of life-making in displacement: Young Ukrainian workers’ care and work in Warsaw after 2022

Daria Krivonos

Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among young Ukrainian nationals in Warsaw from 2020 to 2023, the article examines how the labour of social reproduction is placed on Ukrainian migrant workers, who are confronted with the responsibility of ensuring care for their families and communities in the context of forced displacement. The analysis puts the concept of ‘crisis ordinariness’ in dialogue with social reproduction feminism to offer the ‘ordinariness of life-making’ as a prism to examine the mundane and invisibilised labour of social reproduction performed by migrant communities alongside their ‘productive’ work lives in precarious labour markets. It is argued that forced displacement is not only a shock event and a disruption of the normal but a day-to-day problem of social reproduction, defined as the ability of individuals to maintain their lives daily. By focusing on ordinariness as opposed to emergency, the analysis demonstrates that it is the already-precarious migrant workers who bear the burden of ameliorating protracted ‘crisis’ through their reproductive labour. In particular, the article engages with the overlooked role of young people who care for their peers, co-nationals, siblings, parents and grandparents locally and transnationally.

Young adults and investing for the future: Examining futuring practices and wellbeing through digital brokerage platforms

Benjamin Hanckel，Natalie Ann Hendry

Young adults’ lives are increasingly characterised by uncertainty, which has heightened since the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as an expectation that they transition into adulthood as entrepreneurial, responsible subjects. In this context, greater numbers of young people are participating as retail investors, motivated by the growing accessibility of financial technologies, including digital brokers. Yet this technological accessibility does not explain why or how they decide to invest. Drawing on focus group discussions with Australian young adults (19–30 years) who invest via digital brokers, this article explores their participation as retail investors. Focused on long-term financial ‘horizons’, participants explained how investing requires temporal work to mitigate existing uncertainty and enable their imagined future wellbeing. Drawing on theories of ‘futuring’, we surface their varied practices towards hedging against and with uncertain and risky futures. Such practices weigh up individuals’ circumstances, which are regulated through gender, class and contextual considerations, as well as housing or employment market imaginaries and key (imagined) milestones in one’s life. The article considers the implications of these futuring practices, where not investing becomes a risk for future wellbeing, and how these practices align with the entrepreneurial present that has become a critical aspect of young people’s transitions into adulthood.

Exploring the generational ordering of kinship through decisions about DNA testing and gamete donor conception: What’s the right age to know your donor relatives?

Leah Gilman，Petra Nordqvist，Nicky Hudson，Lucy Frith

The development of direct-to-consumer genetic testing (DTCGT), in conjunction with social media, has had profound consequences for the management of information about donor conception. One outcome is that it is now possible to circumvent formal age-restrictions on accessing information about people related through donor conception. Consequently, many donor conceived people and their parents face questions regarding what is the ‘right age’ to seek out such connections with ‘donor relatives’. In this article, we share findings from 20 interviews with UK-based parents through donor conception, exploring how they grapple with such questions and possibilities. This involves parents reflecting on the meaning of childhood and its significance in processes of kinship. We identify three ontologies of childhood in participants’ reasoning: children as kinship catalysts, children as vulnerable to kinship risk and children as emerging kinship agents. We discuss what our findings tell us about the generational ordering of kinship. We show that processes through which genetic relatedness is made to matter (or not) are understood to operate differently according to the generational position of those involved due to culturally-specific understandings of childhood. These ontologies of childhood, and their relationship to kinship, are (re)produced in and through parent–child relationships.

Is adoption an environmental threat? Domestication fantasies in Swedish adoption narratives

Richey Wyver，Steve Matthewman

In 2017 Ghassan Hage published Is Racism an Environmental Threat? The book’s question misleads. For Hage does not seek to show that the former leads to the latter, rather, he elucidates the logics of domination that are common to both. Hage states that ‘generalised domestication’ is the clearest optic through which to see both racism reproducing and revitalising itself and violence towards the environment. This is a way of being in the world that seeks to capture, tame, domesticate and control people and non-humans. It seeks to render others docile and to extract value from them. In so doing it leads to the creation of ‘homely spaces’. Following Hage, this article asks: Is adoption an environmental threat? We reflect on the role of international adoption in fantasies of Swedishness using Hage’s concept of domestication to explore the desire for ‘transracial’ bodies of adoptees in white national space. We argue that the adoptee body plays an important role in domesticating the Swedish nation. It is used to represent national myths of goodness, anti-racism and international solidarity; effectively bringing national projects into the home. This is linked to a broader desire for domestication that encompasses colonialism, slavery and species and environmental domination. While our focus is on Sweden – which has the highest per capita adoption rates in the world – we hope that our scholarship can inform adoption issues elsewhere, as well as contribute to sociological debates around extraction and domination in postcolonial contexts more broadly.

The secret and The Circle: Georg Simmel’s social theory and Dave Eggers’ dystopian fiction

Daniel Davison-Vecchione

This article considers Dave Eggers’ 2013 dystopian novel The Circle, which critically explores digital surveillance, alongside Georg Simmel’s social-theoretical writings on the secret, social distance and proximity, and the intersection of social circles. The article shows how Simmel’s social theory illuminates important aspects of secrecy and surveillance in The Circle, including the secret’s constitutive role in individuality and social relations, and allows one to reframe the estranging effect of certain dystopias in terms of Simmelian strangerhood, which is based on the paradoxical unity of closeness and remoteness in social-spatial relations. Conversely, The Circle in certain respects pushes beyond Simmel’s social theory by using literary devices to critically explore social subjectivity and by highlighting elements of 21st century life that challenge or complicate Simmel’s sociological claims. Especially notable in this respect are The Circle’s insights into the affective intimacies between people and their personal technologies that shape our digital social practices. By bringing Simmel’s social theory and The Circle into productive dialogue, this article lays the groundwork for an approach to analysing dystopia that more fully appreciates the genre’s sociological import – including how at least some dystopias implicitly engage in social theorising – than prevailing, literary-formalist approaches to the study of speculative fiction.

Capitalist realism is dead. Long live utopian realism! A sociological exegesis of Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future

Lara Monticelli，Mikkel Krause Frantzen

Can utopian realism constitute an antidote to today’s ‘pervasive atmosphere of capitalist realism’, as defined by the late critical theorist Mark Fisher? Through this article, a collaboration between a sociologist and a literary scholar, we argue that the answer to this question is a resounding yes. To substantiate our thesis, we conduct a ‘sociological exegesis’ of the best-selling science fiction book The Ministry for the Future written by the prolific US author Kim Stanley Robinson. The book, set in a quasi-present future, describes a multiplicity of successful transformative strategies implemented to address the ongoing climate crisis and, as the title of the novel suggests, preserve the future of human and non-human life on planet Earth. While still a fictional recount, we claim that the novel possesses a sociological quality since it showcases a unique approach to societal change that we label ‘utopian realism’. This approach combines top-down strategies with grassroots organising, technological solutions with back-to-nature projects, and ecomodernism with eco-spiritualism. We analyse the novel through the lens of contemporary sociological debates on the transformative power of utopianism as found in many science fiction books, movies and TV series. We are especially inspired by the work of Ruth Levitas, Mathias Thaler, McKenzie Wark, Lisa Garforth and Erik Olin Wright. Our conclusion is that The Ministry for the Future represents an attempt to move beyond the dystopian pervasiveness of capitalist realism and thus constitutes a much needed, albeit far from unproblematic, contribution to envisioning just and sustainable alternative futures.

Fly-tipping and the sociology of abandonment

Helen Holmes，Julia Perczel

This article addresses a prominent gap in sociological studies of consumption and disposal. Whilst waste and disposal studies have traditionally focused on the production of waste or its subsequent treatment at municipal disposal facilities, little has focused sociologically on waste outside of these confines, such as littering and fly-tipping. Focusing on the latter, this article makes an original contribution by drawing on fly-tipping to demonstrate the need for further sociological study on material abandonment and its relevance for the fields of consumption and disposal, and more broadly issues of sustainability. Drawing on qualitative interviews with 14 local authority waste officers and local councillors, we argue that fly-tipping disrupts the usual linear pathways of consumption, occurring in transitional zones between the site of production/ownership of objects/materials (e.g. households, construction sites) and that of its acceptance and treatment into formal waste infrastructures (local authority waste processing). We illustrate how fly-tipping incorporates both aspects of disjuncture and abandonment but that it cannot simply be positioned as an act without care. We do this through a focus on three interconnected key facets of fly-tipping: (1) the complexity of defining; (2) issues of measurement and responsibility; and (3) socio-economic factors and the influence of the built environment.

Rendering, waste disposal and the production of value

Daniel P. G. Robins

This article unpacks the concept of rendering to explain how disposal produces value out of waste materials. Rendering draws attention to the management of meaning attached to waste materials, showing how cultures of environmental sustainability and market capitalism shape their valorisation during disposal. To illustrate this, I draw on ethnographic data from research on the operation of corpse disposal in England. This research reveals three mechanisms of rendering: (1) quantification where economic rationale is entangled with the legal-rational authority of environmental metrics; (2) containment where specific spaces of disposal and the movement between them shape the flow of meaning; and (3) the often hidden labour techniques that become a part of the value of the waste. Rendering provides a fuller account of disposal as a production process, which should be at the heart of sociological work that speaks to the often unbalanced relationship between environment and capitalism.

Bourdieu on love: A latent capital, a primary field and a new research agenda

Will Atkinson

This article offers an elaboration and reconstruction of Pierre Bourdieu’s brief account of interpersonal love in Masculine Domination. Although Bourdieu presented love as a possibility of escape from relations of domination, he also understood that love was a product of labour, inserted within an economy of exchanges, and liable to become infused with domination. I build on these remarks to make the case that it is possible to conceive of love becoming a form of ‘capital’ operative within fields of intimate relations. Two substantial consequences flow from this move. First, it gives specificity to a species of field that has a threefold primacy over all others. Second, it throws into sharp relief the fact that what a person does in one field is contextualised by their location in many fields. Both moves widen the scope of Bourdieusian research considerably by pushing it into new intellectual territory and deepening its explanatory capacity.

An inherently reflexive habitus: Navigating lesbian, gay and bisexual lives in Cyprus

Andria Christofidou，Christiana Ierodiakonou

This article advances literature on reflexive habitus in relation to LGB people by demonstrating empirically that habitus and reflexivity can coexist, albeit in very complex ways. The analysis offered relies on interview data with self-identified lesbian women, gay men and bisexual people in Cyprus – a context that is undergoing social change while however preserving its core heteronormative and conservative values. Drawing on LGB people’s experiences, perceptions and practices in this context, the article demonstrates how socio-cultural ideologies and discourses that stigmatise and Other LGB people constrain what they may do while at the same time making them increasingly reflexive. Their reflexive habitus generates constant reflection, self-awareness and reflexive practices, but these practices tend to mainly reproduce existing social structures. And yet, when LGB people find themselves in empowering interactions and relations, they may engage in acts of resistance that challenge and stretch structural boundaries and are often liberating in their ways, portraying thus the complexity of navigating LGB lives in this context. As such, the analysis shows how habitus and reflexivity may coexist and generate post-reflexive practices that are contextually bound and vary in their capacity towards social change.

Othering, peaking, populism and moral panics: The reactionary strategies of organised transphobia

Fran Amery，Aurelien Mondon

This article shows that organised transphobia is promoted using similar strategies and politics as the wider reactionary movement which has become increasingly mainstream. In particular, we outline the transphobic process of ‘othering’ based on moral panics, which seeks to construct, homogenise and exaggerate a threat and to naturalise it in the bodies and existence of the ‘Other’. Reactionary politics rely on authoritarian tendencies and strategies which aim to remove the rights of certain communities, and as such threaten wider demands for equal rights. They claim to speak on behalf of ‘the people’, in this case often (certain) women, against an elite which seeks to grant unfair rights and privileges to a mostly silent and silenced minority, even though said rights are precarious and limited, and power is rarely on their side. Rather than a bottom-up movement in defence of women, what we refer to as ‘organised transphobia’ is a top-down movement that relies on prominent platforms and privileged access to shaping public discourse to divert attention away from the real struggle most women and LGBTQ+ people are facing conjointly.

Outline of a critical sociology of free speech in everyday life: Beyond liberal approaches

John Michael Roberts

Critical sociologists have been conspicuous by their absence in theoretical debates about free speech in everyday life. The aim of this article is to address this missing gap in critical sociology by making some tentative suggestions about how such a theory might advance. Drawing mainly from the ideas of Pierre Bourdieu and Judith Butler, the article suggests that free speech occurs when coalitions come together in venues to discuss the possession and dispossession of certain resources; resources that coalitional members enjoy or are denied from enjoying in social fields. If a coalition engages in dialogue and other types of expression that pushes for an equal distribution of different resources so as to make lives more liveable, then the coalition will most likely also be constructing subversive ‘heretical discourse’. Furthermore, the coalition will also most likely be challenging dominant and hegemonic symbolic constructions of ‘linguistic competence’ in a social field. The article develops these points by analysing two prominent liberal schools of thought on free speech: the marketplace of ideas school and the deliberative school. The article argues that these liberal schools cannot satisfactorily account for power relations and complexity of identity formation in relation to free speech.

Book Symposium

Book symposium: Organising for Change: Social Change Makers and Social Change Organisations

Kirsteen Paton

Taking research on social change one step further and into the digital: Commentary on Organising for Change: Social Change Makers and Social Change Organisations by Silke Roth and Clare Saunders

elena pavan

Some thoughts in response to Organising for Change: Social Change Makers and Social Change Organisations by Silke Roth and Clare Saunders

Lydia Ayame Hiraide

Theorizing social change making: Seeking patterns of interactions across time and space. Commentary on Organising for Change: Social Change Makers and Social Change Organisations by Silke Roth and Clare Saunders

Malin Arvidson

Organising for Change one year later – Response to the critics

Silke Roth，Clare Saunders

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