Sociology papers (journals + SocArXiv)

Monitor Digital Working Society—Brief report on the first wave of surveys: Between interest, ambivalence, and uncertainty: How workers evaluate and use AI The brief report presents key findings from the first of four representative survey waves conducted as part of the Monitor Di
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Evidencing the relational and situated aspects of complex social systems affecting health: introducing an integrated mixed methods approach to understand school mental health Existing strategies for assessing adolescent mental health overlook the complex social and emotional cont
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Gender: Paternal Influences on Children’s Gender Attitudes Objective: This study provides the first systematic longitudinal analysis of the influence of paternal involvement in family life – across childhood and adolescence – on the gender-ro
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Foreign Direct Investment, Efficiency, and Regional Disparities in Uganda’s Coffee Sector Foreign direct investment (FDI) is widely promoted as a catalyst for agricultural transformation in developing countries, yet empirical evidence on its efficiency effects remains limited and
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Computer Science Students’ Perspectives on Job Search Information and Support Sources This research brief examines how computer science students navigate job search information and support in an increasingly competitive and AI-mediated labor market. Drawing on a mixed-methods stu
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The Faith Factor. How Scholars’ Religiosity Biases Research Findings on Secularization Valeria Rainero, Jörg Stolz, Ruud Luijkx
Sociological Science February 10, 2026
10.15195/v13.a7




Secularization is one of the most debated areas of research in current sociology of religion.
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Unsupervised methods for image clustering do not yet replace social scientists’ gaze A number of recent papers have used unsupervised image clustering methods for social science questions. However, there has not yet been research examining whether the clusters resemble the kinds
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Power to the People? Movement Party Representatives in Norwegian Local Government. Socio-economic inequalities in political participation are well documented, with elected assemblies typically overrepresenting older, highly educated men. In recent years, protest movements and mov
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Why Military Deterrence Fails Against Terrorism: Evidence from a Cross-National Analysis, 2011–2021 Drawing on deterrence theory, the War on Terror institutionalised a security framework centred on the use and threat of force as the primary means of addressing terrorism. Its core
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Managing Fuzziness: Leveraging LLMs for Discovering Credibility Indicators in Asylum Cases In many areas of law, legal concepts are characterised by a having degree of fuzziness,
which leads to “matters of degree” assessment when such concepts are applied in legal practice. In
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Academic Trajectories of Public High Schools through the Great Recession: A 17-Year Group-Based Analysis in Georgia Educational attainment is a critical social determinant of health, yet relatively little research has examined how long-run academic patterns at the school level ev
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From Synchrony to Synergy: A Load-Sharing Model for Team Neurodynamics For two decades, hyperscanning has interpreted inter-brain synchrony as the neural signature of teamwork. Yet evidence from real operations indicates that effective teams do not remain “in sync”; they redistri
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Inclusive Welfare State Research: Longitudinal Work-Injury Policy Data in 188 Countries Since the Industrial Revolution This chapter introduces the Global Work-Injury Policy Database Longitudinal (gwip_long v1) tracking the development, coverage, and generosity of work-injury com
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The Personnel Costs of Nationalization: Culture War Conflicts Increase School Policymaker Turnover The nationalization of politics creates new challenges for local public officials in the United States. We argue the intrusion of nationalized policy conflicts into local governmen
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Time-Invariant Models, Time-Varying Effects: The Reversal of Network Embeddedness across Professional Careers Research on the career network treats the effect of the relational structure on outcomes as invariant with time.
Among 495 elite Korean artists over seven decades (1929--
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Workplace trauma on the social housing and homelessness frontline This research explores workplace trauma in Australia’s social housing and homelessness services – including its extent, causes and impacts. It examines current practices to address this trauma, options to mitigate
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Bayesian Modeling of Subnational Contraceptive Prevalence in Pakistan: are the 2018-2030 policy targets achievable? Pakistan’s 2018-2030 Family Planning and Population Policy set forth ambitious targets, aiming for a 2 percent annual increase in overall contraceptive prevalence r
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A Critical Analysis of UNHCR’s Protection of Refugee Women. The global population of refugees is almost twice the women population; consequently, international protection regimes against refugees continue to despite the gender-related risks that they are subjected to. Although th
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Naturalizing Normativity in Neuroscience: A Musicological Bridge from Computational Methods Computational neuroscience has yielded powerful tools for analyzing brain structure and function, yet its foundational commitments to information theory and algorithmic modeling leave a c
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Empowerment and individualization: online banking and household financial organization Bringing economic and family sociology into the digital era, this study examines and highlights the transformative potential of online banking in reconfiguring household financial organization.
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Gender-specific (de)valuation of work or Can money get men into female-typed occupations? Gender segregation in occupations is a nuisance. The sorting of individuals to tasks by labelling work as female or male is responsible for a host of negative outcomes for individuals (most
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Should generative AI be used in reflexive qualitative research? Debates about generative AI have recently produced strong claims that such tools should be excluded from qualitative, and especially reflexive qualitative, research. This research note challenges that conclusion. We
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Visualizing the Rise and Seasonality of Mass Shootings in the U.S. We visualize monthly mass shooting incidents in the United States from 2013 to 2022 by integrating data from five major databases, each employing different definitional boundaries. The combined dataset provides th
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The postnormal society: On trials of co-existence in everyday environments In countries like the United Kingdom, social life is today marked by endemic disruption. We
live in postnormal times: the infrastructures underpinning everyday life, from affordable
housing to clean water,
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Redistribution is unlikely to overcome distributional concerns about regulatory climate policies in the residential sector While climate scientists largely agree that we are in a severe climate crisis, political leaders around the world struggle with the drastic reductions in gre
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Mapping The Socio-Demographic Diversity of Rural Denmark: A Data-Driven Micro-Area Classification Rural areas are often portrayed as relatively socially homogeneous and understood through a unidimensional urban–rural continuum. Yet growing evidence suggests that population compos
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Who Purchases Alternative Meat? Product-Specific Consumer Decision Structures in the United States and Japan Amid growing concerns about the environmental and ethical impacts of excessive meat consumption, alternative meats have attracted attention as more sustainable options. Ho
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Is National Identity Harmless to Ingroup Members? Leveraging Ingroup Favoritism and Moral Foundation to Promote Online Fandom Donation Social media is not only a contested space for fandoms vying for attention and influence, but also an important platform for carrying out a rang
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Liquid Claims on Illiquid Assets: The Economics of Retail Access to Private Markets Expanding retirement account access to alternative investments requires delivering illiquid returns to small-balance investors without compromising valuation integrity or liquidity. This paper stu
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The social gradient in infant health from a couple-level perspective: Revisiting the heterogamy penalty hypothesis This study examines how couples’ educational configurations shape infant health. Although the positive relationship between maternal education and infant health is w
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