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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 bimonthly, with the latest issue (Volume 74 Issue 1, January 2026) including 12 articles. Details are as follows.
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Explosive legacies: Gaza and colonial aphasia
Yasmin Gunaratnam
Israel’s deadly 2023 military assault on Gaza – recognised as genocide by humanitarian organisations – is at the heart of this article. We now know much more about the political economy of Israel’s settler colonialism, in which leading institutions in North America and Europe, including universities, are embedded. And yet our anticolonial solidarity remains at best glitchy and unreliable. Rather than defaulting to complicity as an explanation, I turn to the lasting effects of colonial explosive violence on the discipline and on the falling short of some of our foundational late twentieth-century critical concepts and methods. As well as advocating for an involved public sociology, including an academic boycott of Israel, I call for a reckoning with Sociology’s colonial aphasia and the legacies of its historically ambivalent solidarity with anticolonial struggles.
Translation and the climate emergency: A new sociological imagination
Esperança Bielsa
This article puts translation at the centre of an understanding of science, culture and politics and their interrelations in the face of anthropogenic climate change. It argues for an integrated approach to these traditionally separate knowledge domains in the form of a translational sociology that is centred on the politics of translation across languages, disciplines and knowledges, as well as practices of political advocacy and deliberation and policy implementation. A first section introduces the concept of metamorphosis to capture the transformations of the present and delineates its connections to a materialist notion of translation. Then the contours of a translational sociology built around analytically distinct processes of linguistic translation, political translation, policy translation and knowledge translation are specified. After that, these interrelated practices are examined with reference to relevant transnational instances through which the politics, science and culture in relation to the climate emergency are articulated and renewed: the Conference of the Parties (COP), the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Covering Climate Now (CCNow). A concluding section argues for the more general significance of a translational approach beyond established academic disciplines in terms of a new sociological imagination.
Expanding the ‘Third Space’ between Western and non-Western knowledge: Nakane Chie’s Japanese Society as anti-Eurocentric theory
Rin Ushiyama
Decolonial theorists have frequently employed dichotomies such as North–South, East–West, White–Black and Metropole–Periphery to characterise the exclusion of knowledge produced by marginalised populations around the world. This article argues that such dichotomies overlook a body of knowledge that lies in the liminal space between these polarities: the Third Space of ideas. It proposes that a more diverse history of sociological thought requires an acknowledgement of thinkers who developed putatively ‘Western’ ideas towards anti-Eurocentrism. Through a case study of the Japanese anthropologist Nakane Chie and her 1970 book Japanese Society, this article shows how concepts of ‘hybridity’ and ‘contamination’ are essential for reconstructing how so-called ‘non-Western’ scholars innovated Western theories in anti-Eurocentric directions. This article shows how the sociological canon could be expanded through an attention to how different schools of thought have evolved transnationally.
‘I do feel proud that almost everyone I know voted’: The emotional foundations of dutiful citizenship
Nathan Manning
Democratic politics in many parts of the world seems increasingly characterised by intense emotions, bitter divisions and growing polarisation. Amidst this charged political atmosphere it is a common refrain that an emotional politics forfeits rational dialogue and threatens our democracy. In contrast to such claims this article argues that emotions are central to citizenship and political participation. Drawing upon qualitative archival material from the British Mass Observation Project (1983–2017) the article explores the enduring emotional dimensions of dutiful citizenship. Civically engaged respondents experienced electoral politics emotionally and with a striking intensity. In contrast to accounts which associate dutiful citizenship with dry notions of duty, responsibility and obligation, this article begins an exploration of the emotional underpinnings of dutiful citizenship; the deep and abiding feelings citizens can have towards democratic politics and their political engagement. Findings indicate that a wide range of emotions are central to the evaluative and sense-making processes of dutiful citizens and the ways in which they are mobilised for sustained political engagement. The article concludes by suggesting that a focus on the emotional and expressive aspects of dutiful citizenship may help to cultivate committed young democrats for the future.
Rethinking governmentality and citizenship in Germany: The spiritual path of civic education
Jacob Lypp
According to a dominant diagnosis, democratic citizenship is in crisis in Europe – a claim that has led to flourishing calls for increased civic education to teach ordinary people the norms of ‘good citizenship’. In this article, I develop a sociological critique of this pedagogisation of citizenship. I do so through an ethnography of the German civic education sector. I outline that, since 1945, a large state-funded civic education agenda has recast German citizenship as a project of spiritual becoming. Relying on pedagogical techniques of intimate self-exploration, affective self-revelation and physical embodiment, civic educators strive to cultivate their students’ ethical personhood. Preoccupied with enabling every citizen to display personal uprightness in the face of threats to democracy, this pedagogy runs on moralising ideals of ethical exemplarity and martyrological self-sacrifice. Theoretically, my analysis advances existing conceptualisations of contemporary European citizenship regimes. If scholars have often understood these regimes as a (Foucauldian) governmentality, crucial questions remain about how this governmentality infiltrates civic subjectivities, and how citizen-subjects agentively embrace this governmentality as authoritative for their own lives. I argue that, by drawing on Michel Foucault’s writings on spirituality and conversion, we can address these lacunae. This not only closes a gap in governmentality studies and the political sociology of citizenship, it also provides a fresh take on fundamental questions of structure and agency in the social sciences – highlighting how people agentively inhabit governing practices that spell their own subjection.
The boundary-work of volunteering and the value of unwaged work in the dual crisis of care
Emma Dowling
Based on qualitative research into formal volunteering in semi-rural towns in the north-east and south-west of Germany, this article analyses the consequences of a turn to volunteering in the German welfare regime. The article explores the meaning and function of volunteering for volunteers, organisations and the welfare regime, and identifies a series of conflicting goals. While fiscal pressures and staff shortages may lead to an instrumental resort to volunteering, its value is repeatedly constituted by the fact that it is not waged or professionalised work. Individuals often seek out volunteering opportunities to (re)claim their autonomy or assert the value of care, in some cases to compensate for the frustrations of the neoliberal restructuring of care work. However, volunteers also provide components of caring squeezed out of waged care work due to this restructuring. Moreover, volunteers do not always substitute components of waged work, they also step in where previously there might have been a family member to help someone. The article discusses the value of practices of volunteering through the subjective interpretations of volunteers and coordinators to show how these conflicting goals provoke three types of boundary-work that define the remit of volunteering: (1) claims to volunteering as unique; (2) volunteering as compensatory activity; (3) the defence of volunteering through closure and resignification. The article suggests that volunteering in part stabilises a dual crisis of care, understood as a crisis of waged care work and of social reproduction, without offering a sustainable solution.
Care biographies: Challenging narratives of declining intergenerational care within strong welfare states
Sara Eldén
Strong welfare states are often assumed to be lacking in intergenerational family care engagements. This article challenges this narrative by putting conceptualisations of individualisation and autonomy into conversation with theories on relationality and care, relating this to biographical narratives of intergenerational care practices during the expansion of the Swedish welfare state. The research involves in-depth interviews with 63 informants spanning three generations – grandparents, adult children and grandchildren – exploring their lived experiences of care practices and relations across the lifespan. By employing Mason’s framework of relational layers, the study shows the complex nature of intergenerational engagements, suggesting the concept of sentient engagements as a lens through which to understand the increased importance of emotional activities of care in people’s everyday lives. By putting narratives of care at different points in time – the post-war era, the 1960s–1980s and the 2000s – against each other, the study highlights changing practical and sentient engagements. Particularly notable is the growing significance of grandparent–grandchild relationships, which emerge as crucial sites of support – but also ambivalence – in intergenerational care relations.
The European care border regime: Theorising extraction, exploitation and East–West inequalities in cross-border care work in central Europe
Zuzana Uhde
In the European Union (EU), a significant portion of migrant care workers comprise European citizens from Central and Eastern EU member states. Partly due to the closing of EU inner borders in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, East–West inequalities and the exploitation of cross-border EU workers have become a visible public topic. The article suggests that the intra-EU workers’ border crossings provide an important sociological insight into the marketised geographies of care and how the – open-yet-bordered – EU arena contributes to social categorisations of people and the continued systemic devaluation of care. The author draws contours of the European care border regime and analyses how it is enacted in the geographical space of central Europe, adding nuances to a critique of ethno-racialised hierarchies of the EU care market. In particular, the article focuses on cross-border care mobility between Czechia, Germany and Austria to explore the connections between extractive and exploitative dimensions of the European care border regime. Contrasting the position and experiences of live-in and residential care workers, the author outlines an understanding of the extractivist regime of exploitation and how it consolidates, produces and legitimises the systemic devaluation of care and structural inequalities between EU citizens. The article also contributes to current debates on the racialised in-between position of Central and Eastern Europe as white-but-not-Western.
Continuing personhood and the increasing bureaucratisation of death: ‘My dad doesn’t need electricity in heaven’
Kate Reed，Anna Balazs
Bureaucracy has been a core sociological concern since the discipline’s inception. While sociologists have explored the impact of bureaucracy on many areas of social life (from work to immigration policy), less is known about how bereaved individuals navigate the bureaucracy of death. After a loved one dies a range of time-consuming and time-sensitive hidden bureaucratic tasks must be completed – such as notifying officials and managing the estate – across public, private and third sector organisations. How do individuals experience and navigate such bureaucracy at a time of extreme sadness and vulnerability? Drawing on data from a qualitative study on death administration, this article explores people’s encounters with bureaucratic processes after bereavement. The article illuminates the challenging nature and ultimate failure of bureaucratic procedures in death administration. Such procedures create insensitivity around issues of personhood, often compounding emotional distress and vulnerability. Our analysis illuminates the ways in which this can lead to the operation of bureaucratic violence, a specific type of domination in which citizen subjectivities are affected by abstract rules and hostile organisational structures. By shedding light on death administration processes the article extends sociological understandings of bureaucracy and offers an innovative contribution to literature on grief.
Re(dis)covering Goffman: Disability, ‘deference’ and ‘demeanour’ in a community café
Gareth M. Thomas
Erving Goffman’s scholarship has been subject to intense critique in disability studies. Goffman’s account of ‘stigma’, in particular, is viewed as being antithetical to its driving principles, namely: to depart from deficit configurations of disability; to define disability as embedded in rigid and oppressive social structures; and to recognise more positive accounts of disability. In this article, I discuss the value of Goffman’s work for understanding the social worlds of disabled people. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork at a community café run by learning-disabled adults and non-disabled adults, I use Goffman’s neglected concepts of ‘deference’ and ‘demeanour’ to explore how learning-disabled adults are afforded respect, or not, in this space. I sketch out how mundane encounters – taking orders, making drinks, serving customers – are carefully accomplished in ways that accord deference to café team members and reassert their humanity and value. At the same time, I capture how customers, on occasion, do not act with deference, nor display ‘good’ demeanour. In such moments, their conduct – whereby team members are ignored, disregarded or framed as charitable subjects – animates deficit scripts of disability. To conclude, I argue that Goffman’s insights provide the machinery for demonstrating how learning-disabled adults’ interactions with (non-disabled) others must be central to an analysis of their lives.
Exploring generational othering through Internet memes
Giulia Giorgi
This article investigates the modalities through which Internet memes are involved in the process of generational othering. Existing research has emphasised that taking the distance from other cohorts is central to the reinforcement of generational cohesion. Nonetheless, studies empirically observing how generational categorisation occurs remain scarce. Internet memes, i.e. images or videos created and circulated online, can shed light on this process for their ability to express intergenerational conflicts and target specific cohorts. Using data coming from 41 semi-structured interviews, the article explores how memes contribute to the identification and portrayal of generational ‘others’, taking the Italian context as case study. The analysis leads to the identification of two generational ‘others’, the Old and the Young, whose characterisation relies on stereotyped beliefs related to digital literacy, media consumption, worldview and moral values. It is argued that memes partake in the process of generational othering as multimodal carriers of messages, which foster the construction, dissemination and consolidation of stereotypes associated with young and old people. Furthermore, the study shows how the memeification of conventional cohort labels (e.g. ‘boomer’) produces a semantic shift in the segmentation of generational categories, in which cultural aspects have a more prominent position than biographical age.
You’ll never walk alone: Theorizing engaged walking with Doreen Massey
Emma Jackson，Agata Lisiak
An avid supporter of Liverpool Football Club, geographer Doreen Massey was known to sing the club’s anthem, ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’, on her hikes in the Lake District. In this article, we propose to take the song title quite literally – as a definitive statement rather than a promise – because, for us, walking is never a solitary activity, it always happens together with others. We revisit Massey’s essay ‘A Global Sense of Place’ and recreate her walk on Kilburn High Road, London, to reflect on the inherent relationality of walking. Acknowledging that Massey’s walk can be read both as situated in time (a specific week in 1991) and a composite of many walks helps us to demystify the aura of genius revelation that is still commonly associated with urban walking. Instead, we approach the practice of walking mindful of the countless factors that inform what we (do not) see and hear. We argue that engaged walking – that is walking that seeks to overcome the many shortcomings of this key urban research method and acknowledges what remains hidden from the walker’s immediate view, while centring the politics of the street – can reveal much about the power structures that (re)shape our cities.
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《中国社会学学刊》(The Journal of Chinese Sociology)于2014年10月由中国社会科学院社会学研究所创办。作为中国大陆第一本英文社会学学术期刊，JCS致力于为中国社会学者与国外同行的学术交流和合作打造国际一流的学术平台。JCS由全球最大科技期刊出版集团施普林格·自然(Springer Nature)出版发行，由国内外顶尖社会学家组成强大编委会队伍，采用双向匿名评审方式和“开放获取”(open access)出版模式。JCS已于2021年5月被ESCI收录。2022年，JCS的CiteScore分值为2.0（Q2），在社科类别的262种期刊中排名第94位，位列同类期刊前36%。2025年JCS最新影响因子1.3，位列社会学领域期刊全球前53%（Q3）。
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