From visibility to vulnerability: how women scientists face gendered hostility in science communication Public communication of science has become a central component in the relationship between science and society. However, the media exposure of research staff has given rise to #sociology link

Fraud Detection Without Specificity: A Null-Calibration Evaluation of the eforensics Model on Two Decades of Korean Elections Bayesian finite-mixture election-forensics models in the tradition of Mebane (2016) classify vote-counting units as clean or fraudulent from aggregate tur #sociology link

How Do Ecological Restoration Programs Shape Grain Production? Evidence from China’s Three-North Shelter Forest Program Balancing ecological restoration and grain production is a core challenge for land management in arid and semi-arid regions. Large-scale ecological engineering #sociology link

A Guinada Conservadora da Maçonaria Brasileira: Do Estado Novo ao Bolsonarismo O artigo analisa a guinada conservadora das lideranças da maçonaria brasileira desde a década de 1930 até o bolsonarismo, evidenciada por consistente revisão bibliográfica e rigorosa análise histórica. #sociology link

The evolution, regional heterogeneity, goal imbalance, and socio-economic-ecological coupling coordination of sustainable development in China: 2000–2021 Since the 21st century, China has actively responded to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, grow #sociology link

Does Disadvantage Matter? An Experimental Assessment of Public Judgments about the Punishment of Disadvantaged Offenders Does bias towards disadvantaged offenders drive their over-punishment? This article offers an experimental assessment of individual judgments about how socio- #sociology link

The (Minimal) Effect of Immigrant Enfranchisement: Evidence from Local Elections in Spain Does extending voting rights to immigrants change election outcomes? We answer this question using two natural experiments in Spain: the 2007 EU enlargement, which granted municipal voting r #sociology link

A Feminist Political Economy Analysis of Temporal Inequalities Studies of inequality have become more popular in recent decades as the incidence of inequality and its consequences have become problematised. Alongside these studies, an interest in time use and temporal inequalitie #sociology link

A New Probabilistic Method for Forecasting Mortality: A Case Study of Estonia A new probabilistic mortality forecasting approach is introduced that unlike the Lee-Carter Method (and its variants) is directly linked to the fundamental demographic equation, the cornerstone of demo #sociology link

Treatment Effect Heterogeneity, Propensity Score Methods, and Generalizing Experimental Results This paper evaluates the propensity score as a tool for summarizing treatment effect heterogeneity and facilitating extrapolation from experimental settings to broader populations. We #sociology link

El deudor que gobernaba el contrato: el fin del pago enervante de la acción resolutoria y la opción del contratante diligente (Corte Suprema, 8 de julio de 2026, rol N° 13.766-2025) ¿Puede el deudor demandado de resolución enervar la acción pagando durante el juicio? La postura t #sociology link

Against the Sovereign User: Fundamental Rights, Technology and the Case for Relational Rights Fundamental rights discourse remains too attached to the figure of the autonomous, self-directing individual who asserts rights against interference. Digital technology reveals the inade #sociology link

Anatomy of a Collaboration: The Compositional Relationship between R. K. Merton’s “Oscillations in Scientific Theories” (1933) and Chapter 12 of Pitirim A. Sorokin’s Social and Cultural Dynamics, Vol. II Chapter 12 of the second volume of Pitirim A. Sorokin's Social and Cultural #sociology link

Addressing Workforce Training Gaps in Domestic and Family Violence in Primary Healthcare Settings: A Scoping Review Background: Domestic and family violence (DFV) is a persistent and complex challenge in primary healthcare, particularly in general practice, where care is continuo #sociology link

Joe's, Chez Marie, Tan's: How Often the World Names Businesses After People, and Why It Doesn't Track Culture When a baker, tailor, or restaurateur names a business after a person, do some cultures do this far more than others? A large and replicated literature on given names fin #sociology link

La inscripción de papel: inscripciones paralelas, posesión material y los límites de la ficción registral (Corte Suprema, 13 de julio de 2026, rol N° 22.945-2025) ¿Qué ocurre cuando el Registro habla dos veces? La sentencia de la Corte Suprema de 13 de julio de 2026 (rol N° 22.94 #sociology link

Breaking Symmetry, Not Choosing Direction: A Model of Hierarchy as a Position Amplifier, and What It Can and Cannot Recover Hierarchies form even among near-equals. Their inequality is usually read as meritocracy sorting on ability, as a coordination device a group needs, or as c #sociology link

Intersecting Realities: Gender, Healthcare, and Policy in Context While gender is increasingly acknowledged as a powerful determinant of health and healthcare access, contemporary societies remain riddled by the prevalence of gendered healthcare disparities. By contrasting existi #sociology link

Change, Change Agents and Gender Dynamics in Public Organizations: Challenges and Opportunities This chapter explores how gender dynamics shape the experiences, expectations, and effectiveness of change agents in public organizations during policy implementation. Drawing on a thr #sociology link

Digital Decoupling and Technological Inequality in Europe: Social Hyperconnectivity versus Artificial Intelligence-Based Productive Transformation This study analyses the relationship between artificial intelligence-based productive transformation, digital social penetration, and #sociology link

Governing Artificial Intelligence: Public Preferences and Regulatory Options Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming economies, societies, and polities, raising fundamental questions about how it should be regulated. Policymakers face choices over whether to priorit #sociology link

Uncertainties in Architectural Production: Between Apparatus and Actor-Network Theory This paper reconsiders the relationship between the concept of the apparatus (dispositif) and Actor-Network Theory (ANT) through an analysis of architectural production in contemporary China. Wh #sociology link

Are We Modeling but Not Measuring VMT for AVs? Reframing the AV–VMT Debate Through Operational Evidence A growing body of literature argues that autonomous vehicles (AVs) will substantially increase vehicle miles traveled (VMT), contributing to congestion, induced demand, and env #sociology link

Exploring the conceptual boundaries of “geoengineering” and its relationship to intentionality Geoengineering, a term which introduced the notion that large-scale interventions in the Earth system could alleviate the negative impacts of climate change independently of emissions r #sociology link

Analysis of Hierarchical Structures in Concept Cafe Culture: An Empirical Study Based on Popularity Concentration Structures and Multidimensional Cultural Classification This study investigates the cultural structure of Japanese concept cafes (ConCafes). Despite the widespread pr #sociology link

A Semi-Automated Directory System for the UK Local News Landscape: Supporting Policy and Research The UK local news landscape faces significant challenges, with declines in outlets, staffing, and relevance due to market pressures, digital disruption, and media consolidation. This #sociology link

Measuring the Informal Economy: An Approach from Angola informal Economy On this approach, some techniques to measure the informal economy, has been analysed, in particular, was used for example the direct methods to measure informal economy, using in particular the Informal GDP #sociology link

Learning by Transacting: A General Theory of Bidirectional Knowledge Flows in Market Exchange Arrow (1962b) identified a fundamental paradox in markets for information: a buyer cannot value knowledge without possessing it, and a seller cannot demonstrate knowledge without surrend #sociology link

Triple Trouble: Rethinking the Framing of Problematic Information Purpose. This paper proposes a unifying conceptual framework for analysing problematic information in order to address persistent terminological fragmentation across disciplines and improve conceptual clarity in re #sociology link

Far-Right Speeches and Emotional Contagion in Parliament: Sequential and Multimodal Evidence from Germany Does the parliamentary presence of far-right parties make democratic debate more negative? Existing text-based evidence suggests a more nuanced answer: after the entry of the #sociology link