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The journal is peer-reviewed and committed to publishing high-quality research on substantive issues of fundamental importance to the study of society. The journal's mission is broad in scope, encompassing empirical works (both quantitative and qualitative), as well as works that develop theories, concepts, or methodological strategies. Sociological Forum is the flagship journal of the..
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This article focuses on queer men's relationship with hegemonic masculinity and femmephobia. The study was conducted with the aim of investigating how different understandings of masculinity and femininity can fuel femmephobia. Ten posts within the Reddit forum “r/gaybros” were analyzed, along with their 1356 collective comments. Within the analysis, the users of r/gaybros were found to define their expression of masculinity as independent and free from any societal constraints or expectations. To be masculine meant resisting the stereotype that associates queerness with femininity. F ..read more
Wiley Online Library » Sociological Forum
1M ago
Sociological Forum, Volume 39, Issue 1, Page 1-3, March 2024 ..read more
Wiley Online Library » Sociological Forum
1M ago
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Authoritarian regimes are known to repress the political activity of their diasporas transnationally by threatening harsh sanctions. But is this their only mode of transnational repression? This article builds on scholarship on social control to explore whether migrants bring internalized forms of political repression from their authoritarian home country to their democratic country of settlement—and if so, how it shapes their transnational political activity. In-depth life-history interviews with 29 U.S.-citizen and permanent-resident Syrian immigrants living in Los Angeles, Californ ..read more
Wiley Online Library » Sociological Forum
2M ago
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Immigrant educational selectivity—immigrant parents' educational attainment relative to their peers who did not migrate—is associated with better schooling outcomes for children at later stages of the educational pipeline in the United States. Less is known, however, about its influence on early education-related outcomes. Using Early Childhood Longitudinal Study data from three different cohorts and quantitative analyses, I examine the relationship between immigrant selectivity and school readiness at school entry (proxied through math skills and approaches to learning evaluations ..read more