From "University expansion, academic fields, and the match between the degree and…" by @jonathanhorowitz.bsky.social et al.: As degrees spread, economics and math majors find better-fitting jobs. Philosophy, sociology, and science majors see worse matches. 🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soag096

Finding from Andrés Villarreal et al. in Social Forces: Does self-employment help immigrant men get ahead? Over 20 years, usually not. Many turn to it after being underpaid as employees, and it tends to slow their long-term earnings growth. 🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soag039

Finding from @felixbusch.bsky.social et al. in Social Forces: In 1980, few professional and managerial workers held a graduate degree. By 2019, over a third did. That shift explains a large share of their growing pay lead over other jobs. 🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soag045

Finding from @vilacamoraes.bsky.social in Social Forces: When Brazilian judges overturned a business executive's bribery conviction, public support for the courts fell. What moved opinion was the outcome, not whether the trial followed fair procedure. 🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soag029

From "Reflections on Editing <i>Social Forces,</i> …" by Arne L Kalleberg: Sixteen years editing one of sociology's flagship journals, and a candid look back at what changed in the field and in the craft of an editor. 🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soag084

Finding from @lquillian.bsky.social et al. in Social Forces: [HOOK — SHAPE=scene: Open on the concrete people or case, then widen to the pattern. ≤180 chars] 🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soag028

From "Job precarity and earnings inequality in contemporary China" by @zzhipeng.bsky.social: In China, market competition doesn't punish short-term workers everywhere. In the state sector it narrows their pay gap; in the private sector it widens it. 🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soag087

From "Paving the way: redlining and contemporary transportation emissions in US cities" by @raymckane.bsky.social et al.: Neighborhoods redlined a century ago still have higher traffic emissions today, whoever lives there now. The roads outlasted the maps. 🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soag083

From "Later life social interactions in community spaces" by Maleah Fekete et al.: Older adults in denser places spend more time alone and less time with kin, and more with neighbors, professionals, and strangers. Where you live shapes who you talk to each day. 🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soag088

From "Higher education expansion and attainment gaps in meritocratic beliefs" by Angran Li et al.: As college enrollment grows across the West, faith in meritocracy rises overall. But the divide widens: degree holders buy in, non-graduates grow skeptical. 🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soag089

From "An imperfect match? gender and racial discrimination in hiring and…" by @kojichavez.bsky.social et al.: White men are hired on assumed competence even when they miss job requirements. Others must prove the match first; Black women face the steepest bar. 🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soaf243

From "Conspiracy talk in the lives of ordinary Americans: everyday experiences of…" by Niko Pyrhönen et al.: One in ten Americans brought up conspiracy theories unprompted. During the pandemic, the sharpest rise came from people pushing back, not spreading it. 🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soag002

From "Filling the collective-practice gap: pedagogies of participation in…" by Amanda B Cox: In democratic groups, veterans share power by holding back: they mute their own influence and tolerate slow, messy decisions so newcomers learn to lead. 🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soag076

From "For what benefit? State Right to Work laws and employer-provided retirement…" by Alec P Rhodes: Right to work laws don't just hold down wages. They also weaken the retirement and health benefits workers get on the job when unemployment rises. 🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soag086

From "Whose merit, which redistribution? Elites, taxes, and transfers in Brazil and…" by @liviosilva.bsky.social et al.: Elites who see the poor as lazy oppose welfare transfers; crediting their own success to hard work matters far less. 🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soag064

From "Unpacking the nexus of Islamic religiosity and attitudes towards individual…" by Marija Dangubić et al.: Many highly religious Dutch Muslims also accept homosexuality, complicating the idea that devotion means rejecting gay rights or gender equality. 🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soaf149

From "Risky climate: the endogenous institutionalization of climate disclosure in…" by Janna Z Huang: Advocates turned voluntary climate reporting into a regulatory standard, casting climate as a risk to companies, not a risk companies pose to the planet. 🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soag009

From "It is not what you weigh, it is how you present it: body size, attractiveness,…" by @yiangli.bsky.social et al.: At larger body sizes, older women but not men had less access to partners and partnered sex, a sign of gendered standards of attractiveness. 🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soaf046

From "Transmorphic organizations: racial segregation and discrimination against…" by Jonathan S Coley et al.: Evangelical colleges that once excluded Black students now tend to bar gay and transgender students, unlike Catholic and mainline peers. 🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soaf175

From "Unshared spaces: a field experiment on the politico-cultural contexts of…" by Heiko Beyer et al.: Transgender and nonbinary renters faced clear housing discrimination in Germany, least in cities with preventive policies and more nonreligious residents. 🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soaf204

From "Organizational accountability and gender segregation: can bureaucratic reforms…" by Kevin Stainback: Workplaces that set diversity goals, put a human resources professional in charge, and monitored personnel decisions saw gender segregation fall. 🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soag003

From "Beer and the labor process: how risk-taking, crowded housing, and family…" by @s-chavez.bsky.social et al.: Migrant roofers in the riskiest jobs, crowded housing, and long family separations drink more, using beer to blunt fear and monotony. 🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soag016

From "Between beliefs and borders: migration, religion, and abortion attitudes" by @ferraraale.bsky.social et al.: Immigrants' abortion attitudes drift toward their new country and away from their homeland, even when they move somewhere more conservative. 🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soag017

From "Childbearing attitudes amid successive novel infectious disease epidemics: a…" by Letícia J Marteleto et al.: Memories of the Zika outbreak shaped Brazilian women's childbearing decisions when COVID arrived, then faded as the pandemic wore on. 🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soag020

From "Discordant attitudes, desires, and behaviors…" by @meilers.bsky.social et al.: When young women's sexual attitudes and desires conflict, behavior tends to follow desire, not attitude. Desires proved more malleable than long-held attitudes. 🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soag021

From "From persuasion to evasion: anti-collective action…" by John N Robinson et al.: To build affordable housing in suburban Chicago, developers often skip persuasion. They sideline neighbors they consider unwinnable instead of trying to change their minds. 🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soag022

From "Narrations of non-motherhood…" by @hollyhummer.bsky.social: Japanese women framed childlessness as increasingly normal. American women described it as isolating and contested, something they felt pressed to justify. 🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soag026

From "Organizational status and online-offline mobilization cycles" by Jack G R Wippell: Online talk is usually treated as the spark for offline protest. In this white supremacist movement, the street actions fed back and reshaped the online activity too. 🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soag063

📖 New book review in Social Forces Review of “Detroit Never Left: Black Space, White Borders, Latino Crossings” Reviewed by Jessica Welburn Paige ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/sf/soag105

🌟 New in Social Forces A country hit by disaster does not automatically write a disaster law. Across 204 states from 1960 to 2025, what drives adoption is neighbors passing similar laws, not the hazards. By Maoxin Ye & @danielaldrich.bsky.social ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/sf/soag109