Showing papers in "Current Sociology in 2019"
TL;DR: The authors unpack the concept of fake news, defining diverse types and forms of misleading news, and propose a framework to detect fake news and to classify them according to different types of news.
Abstract: Alarmed by the oversimplifications related to the ‘fake news’ buzzword, researchers have started to unpack the concept, defining diverse types and forms of misleading news. Most of the existing wor...
62 citations
TL;DR: The mobilities of increasing numbers of "middling" migrants from Asia to Australia involve complex trajectories that encompass multiple transitions across statuses and places as well as ambiguities as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: The mobilities of increasing numbers of ‘middling’ migrants from Asia to Australia involve complex trajectories that encompass multiple transitions across statuses and places as well as ambiguities...
59 citations
TL;DR: The sociology of migration has experienced various paradigmatic shifts in recent decades, largely reflecting mutually constitutive interests in both the place of origin and the destination as mentioned in this paper, as well as the socio-economic conditions of migration.
Abstract: As a fast-moving field of study, the sociology of migration has experienced various paradigmatic shifts in recent decades, largely reflecting mutually constitutive interests in both the place of hu...
49 citations
TL;DR: The article argues that temporariness and precarity are constantly negotiated in the lives of the transnational family through different temporal strategies, and by bracketing off intense emotions and downplaying ruptures in relationships, the trans national family is able to focus on their future aspirations of achieving their projects through migration.
Abstract: By focusing on the relations of intimacy between migrant wives working in Singapore and their left-behind husbands living in the Philippines, this article investigates how transnational couples negotiate the liminalities and temporariness embedded in the experience of labour migration Using the timescales of migration as a conceptual frame, the article analyses the mutual, if uneven, shaping of marital relationships at the micro-timescale of transnational family time and the meso-timescale of Singapore's labour migration regime It focuses on how 'doing family' across distance is centrally facilitated through the affordances of communication technologies to create rhythms and manage ruptures These technologies are crucial in (re)making domestic family time in the transnational household The way the micro-temporalities of transnational family life are reorganised works in tension with how couples negotiate liminal conditions imposed by Singapore's work permit and pass system The article argues that temporariness and precarity, which deter the imagination of a stable future, are constantly negotiated in the lives of the transnational family through different temporal strategies By bracketing off intense emotions and downplaying ruptures in relationships, the transnational family is able to focus on their future aspirations of achieving their projects through migration As migration timelines are indefinitely extended and family separation is prolonged, the transnational family strives to endure through these strategies of (re)making their temporalities
35 citations
TL;DR: In the last 30 years, the relevance of risk for social actors and societies has been coupled with a growing academic debate extending across disciplines and practical fields as discussed by the authors, which has been referred to as risk-based risk management.
Abstract: In the last 30 years, the relevance of risk for social actors and societies has been coupled with a growing academic debate extending across disciplines and practical fields. In the sociological li...
29 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, different interpretations of the local are presented and critiqued and a different account of the localization is given, and different accounts of local and localization can be found in the literature.
Abstract: Addressing a major theoretical lacuna in the literature concerning ‘the local’ and localization, different interpretations of the local are presented and critiqued and a different account of the lo...
29 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyse the 2015 student mobilizations in South Africa (SA), which arose in opposition to a 10% hike in tuition fees planned for 2016 at the University of Witwatersrand (WITS) and spu...
Abstract: This article analyses the 2015 student mobilizations in South Africa (SA), which arose in opposition to a 10% hike in tuition fees planned for 2016 at the University of Witwatersrand (WITS) and spu...
28 citations
TL;DR: The modus operandi of far-right political groups is crafted through strategic and systematic relationships between symbolic and material forms of violence, as discussed in this paper, where the authors consider the discursive str...
Abstract: The modus operandi of far-right political groups is crafted through strategic and systematic relationships between symbolic and material forms of violence. This article considers the discursive str...
28 citations
TL;DR: The sociological study of class, whether Marxist, Weberian or Bourdieusian, has discussed class systems and individuals' location in these systems within the framework of the nation-state as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: The sociological study of class, whether Marxist, Weberian or Bourdieusian, has discussed class systems and individuals’ location in these systems within the framework of the nation-state and has l...
27 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider the disjunctures that exist between the temporalities of legal status and those of migrants' lived experiences, and explore the relationship between precarity and temporalit.
Abstract: This article considers the disjunctures that exist between the temporalities of legal status and those of migrants’ lived experiences, and explores the relationship between precarity and temporalit
27 citations
Abstract: The founding works of nationalism theory identify two overarching categories of nationalism: civic and ethnic. While the former is lauded as liberal, inclusive, and rational, the latter is derided ...
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyse how people in Guliston, southern Tajikistan, conceive of "waiting" both for labour-migrants to return from Russia, and to realize the projects that these migrants and their fa...
Abstract: This article analyses how people in Guliston, southern Tajikistan, conceive of ‘waiting’ both for labour-migrants to return from Russia, and to realise the projects that these migrants and their fa...
TL;DR: The authors reviewed the scholarship on radical right movements in Europe and focused on three strands of this literature: first, the macro-level contextual opportunities-based explanations for the radical right movement in Europe, second,
Abstract: This article reviews the scholarship on radical right movements in Europe. It focuses on three strands of this literature: first, the macro-level contextual opportunities-based explanations for the...
TL;DR: The recent massive arrival of war refugees has challenged Europe's political unity and fanned the flames of anti-Muslim populism as mentioned in this paper, and both discourses have been framed in terms of shifting solidarity.
Abstract: The recent massive arrival of war refugees has challenged Europe’s political unity and fanned the flames of anti-Muslim populism. Both discourses have been framed in terms of ‘shifting solidarity’ ...
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reveal how sexual intimacy is part of the relationship work that couples ordinarily complete to sustain their partnerships over time, and how it is perceived as crucial to relationship success.
Abstract: Sex is perceived as crucial to relationship success. This article reveals how sexual intimacy is part of the relationship work that couples ordinarily complete to sustain their partnerships over ti...
TL;DR: This paper explored the practices through which young people cultivate themselves as subjects of value to the post-Fordist labour force, and went beyond an existing emphasis on young people's focus on themselves.
Abstract: This article explores the practices through which young people cultivate themselves as subjects of value to the post-Fordist labour force. In this, the article goes beyond an existing emphasis on y...
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on young Russian-speaking migrants' day-to-day institutional encounters with labour market activation policies in Finland and present an analysis that contributes to the discussion on labour a...
Abstract: The article focuses on young Russian-speaking migrants’ day-to-day institutional encounters with labour market activation policies in Finland. The analysis contributes to the discussion on labour a...
TL;DR: In this paper, the author analyzes ethnographic data conducted with migrant carewers to study both ends of migration and show that migration scholars have called for studying both sides of migration, but few studies have empirically done so.
Abstract: Although migration scholars have called for studying both ends of migration, few studies have empirically done so. In this article the author analyzes ethnographic data conducted with migrant carew...
TL;DR: Hong Kong is residence to around 200,000 Filipina domestic workers who have migrated to the city in order to earn money for their families and futures as discussed by the authors The employment of these migrants is organized
Abstract: Hong Kong is residence to around 200,000 Filipina domestic workers who have migrated to the city in order to earn money for their families and futures The employment of these migrants is organized
TL;DR: Singapore is host to approximately 1.7 million transient migrants who either work or study in the city-state as mentioned in this paper and there has been extensive research on the conditions of low skilled or unskilled workers.
Abstract: Singapore is host to approximately 1.7 million transient migrants who either work or study in the city-state. While there has been extensive research on the conditions of low skilled or unskilled w...
TL;DR: The authors rethinks xenophobia in South Africa by positioning it as an inevitable and unavoidable symptom of racism and Islamophobia, and re-thinks it as a necessary and unavoidable consequence of racism.
Abstract: It has been a decade since the 2008 xenophobic attacks in South Africa. Reflecting on these, this article rethinks xenophobia in the country by positioning it as an inevitable and unavoidable sympt...
TL;DR: In the early 2000s, moral panics were recast as collective grievances that arise from p... as mentioned in this paper, and they were conventionally explained as socially regressive overreactions to objectively minor problems.
Abstract: Moral panics are conventionally explained as socially regressive overreactions to objectively minor problems. In the early 2000s, moral panics were recast as collective grievances that arise from p...
TL;DR: In this article, the Afterword to the current Sociology Monograph on "Migrant Temporalities: Rethinking Migrant Trajectories and Transnational Lifestyles in the Asian Context" reflects on how this issue adds funda
Abstract: This Afterword to the Current Sociology Monograph on ‘Migrant Temporalities: Rethinking Migrant Trajectories and Transnational Lifestyles in the Asian Context’ reflects on how this issue adds funda
TL;DR: In the world of science, international impact is omnipresent and scholars and administrators now often make use of international impact as a yardstick by which to assess the quality of science as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Internationalization pressures are omnipresent in the world of science. Scholars and administrators now often make use of international impact as a yardstick by which to assess the quality of natio...
TL;DR: In this paper, a narrative approach to studying risk is proposed, which moves away from common attempts to identify individuals "at risk" of social problems on the basis of static chara...
Abstract: This article proposes a narrative approach to studying ‘risk’. A narrative approach moves away from common attempts to identify individuals ‘at risk’ of social problems on the basis of static chara...
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe an ongoing pilot study exploring the potential usefulness of a visual and sensory methodology for investigating the social percolation of social networks in a video surveillance system.
Abstract: Building on the visual criminological endeavour, the article describes an ongoing pilot study exploring the potential usefulness of a visual and sensory methodology for investigating the social per...
TL;DR: In this article, the emergence and magnitude of student protests in Chile in 2011 and in Quebec in 2012 is explained. But, the authors do not discuss the role of race relations in student mobilization.
Abstract: This article aims at explaining the emergence and magnitude of student protests in Chile in 2011 and in Quebec in 2012. These two societies witnessed unprecedented levels of student mobilization th...
TL;DR: In this paper, a biased view towards self-employed returnees as neoliberal self-entrepreneurs is challenged, as the normalized approach of the migration-development nexus tends to depict them.
Abstract: Challenging a biased view towards self-employed returnees as neoliberal selves, as the normalized approach of the migration–development nexus tends to depict them, this article builds an alternativ...
TL;DR: Generalized trust correlates strongly with many desirable institutional and societal characteristics and for this reason, variations in the level of generalized trust have been the object of intens... as mentioned in this paper, which has been a subject of intensification in the literature.
Abstract: Generalized trust correlates strongly with many desirable institutional and societal characteristics and for this reason, variations in the level of generalized trust have been the object of intens...
TL;DR: The study of the internationalization of science seems to be focused on the natural and formal sciences and on networks of the Global North as mentioned in this paper, while a shift towards the social sciences and a peripheral reg...
Abstract: The study of the internationalization of science seems to be focused on the natural and formal sciences and on networks of the Global North. A shift towards the social sciences and a peripheral reg...