We checked 6 sociology journals on Friday, December 12, 2025 using the Crossref API. For the period December 05 to December 11, we retrieved 8 new paper(s) in 3 journal(s).

American Sociological Review

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Social Forces

Converging or unequal retirement patterns? Late working lives, retirement trajectories, and pension income in Germany over three decades of cohorts
Kun Lee, Bernhard Ebbinghaus
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Scholars increasingly recognize retirement transitions as gradual, complex, and unequal processes that shape inequalities in later-life outcomes, while the patterns of retirement are strongly influenced by welfare state reforms and socioeconomic transformations. Germany presents a unique case where late working lives are highly stratified, yet early retirement trends have dramatically reversed since major reforms in the 1990s, while facing multiple recessions. Against this backdrop, our study examines the dynamics of social stratification in retirement processes and their relationship with pension income following major transformations in Germany after reunification. Using administrative pension insurance records linked with survey data, we combine sequence and cluster analyses with regression models to study the late working lives in Germany across three decades of birth cohorts until 2019. Results demonstrate a gradual shift from early retirement trajectories to the “standard” type of retirement, with persistent disparities by education level. Women’s rising later-life employment has been driven more by flexible/part-time trajectories than standard forms, while some convergence is observed between the East and West. Differences in retirement trajectories significantly explain variations in public pension income, net of socio-demographic characteristics and lifetime work histories.
Review of “Burdens of Belonging: Race in an Unequal Nation”
Michelle S Dromgold-Sermen
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Review of “Birth Behind Bars: The Carceral Control of Pregnant Women in Prison”
Katie Quinn
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Review of “Remission Quest: A Medical Sociologist Navigates Cancer”
Annemarie Jutel
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Review of “Stuck at Home: Pandemic Immobilities in the Nation of Emigration”
Kerilyn Schewel
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Sociological Methods & Research

An Ordinal Item Response Model for Understanding Attitudes
Ingrid Mauerer, Gerhard Tutz
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We present an item response model for ordinal public opinion data to understand individual-level variation in attitudes as a function of covariates. The approach allows investigating how individuals (or population subgroups) differ in substantive stances and attitude strength. It is a two-dimensional partial credit model that incorporates covariates linked to attitude direction and strength into the basic model. We exemplify the types of substantive insights into heterogeneity that can be obtained from the approach but not from existing models with two applications: attitudes toward gender equality (European Values Study) and the evaluation of presidential candidates (American National Election Study).