We checked 6 sociology journals on Friday, November 07, 2025 using the Crossref API. For the period October 31 to November 06, we retrieved 4 new paper(s) in 1 journal(s).

Social Forces

Review of “Mothering in the Time of Coronavirus”
Jennifer Randles
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When the watchdogs look away: the role of engineers’ ideological commitments in their grappling with tech bias
Erin A Cech
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Amid breakneck advancements in digital and mechanical technologies, postindustrial societies lean on tech professionals, particularly engineers, to be public welfare watchdogs—to recognize the potential for public welfare threats and to be accountable to intervene. But do engineers recognize public welfare concerns like tech bias as part of their professional responsibilities? Do they acknowledge technology’s role in inequality? Using representative survey data of US engineers, I find that the majority disregarded the recognition, accountability, and remediation of tech bias as part of their professional duties. Arguing that engineers’ grappling with tech bias is not a detached professional assessment but a sensemaking practice entwined with other ideological commitments, I find that politically conservative engineers were far less likely than their more liberal peers to see tech bias concerns as part of their professional duties. Tellingly, engineers who endorsed traditional ideologies in the professional culture of engineering about the defense of epistemic purity of their work were also less likely to see tech bias concerns as part of their responsibilities. These findings have important implications for tech equity and professions literatures: not only can inequality concerns be deeply politicized among professionals, but professionals can interpret the dismissal of these inequality concerns as broadly consistent with integrity and excellence in their field.
Review of “Dreams Achieved and Denied: Mexican Intergenerational Mobility”
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo
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Repertoires of repair: managing ontological insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic
Ryan Hagen, Denise Milstein
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This article examines the practices used by people who, while in a state of crisis, attempt to restore the sense of continuity and dependability in their environment that is a prerequisite for meaningful social action. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with 115 people conducted during the catastrophic first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in New York City, we identify major categories and triggers of disruption as well as what we call the “repertoires of repair,” socially learned practices employed to bridge these ruptures. We find two main categories of repair work: changes to the socio-material environment of action, and changes to cognition. We refer to these categories as “agentic enactment” and “cognitive grounding” respectively. In our conclusion we suggest some implications of seeing ontological security as an ongoing relational achievement rather than a latent state of individual psychology. Challenging a transformational bias in sociology, we call for further research on the cultural work people do to produce continuity against continual disruption, and how even these efforts can paradoxically result in unintended social change.