New book review 📙 👀
Making sense of algorithmic systems consequences for society, across the economy, politics, and society, @kjhealy and @marionfourcade "show how processes of datafication—and more specifically, ordinal ranking—are reorganizing how people are seen." @lauraknelson.bsky.social writes in her review of their recently published book, The Ordinal Society.

https://doi.org/10.1177/00016993251351777

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👉 New article out 👀

In 'Politics of welfare exclusion: Open and concealed welfare chauvinism and public support for social assistance reform', Mikkel Haderup Larsen uses a conjoint experiment to test how welfare chauvinism in proposals to reform the Danish Social Assistance system affects public support. He finds support for more direct forms of welfare chauvinism - but mainly among right-wing voters.

OA: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00016993251351544

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JUST PUBLISHED 👀

Heine Andersen on the recent passing of Jürgen Habermas and his legacy in critical theory and sociology more widely.

Habermas, Andersen writes, succeeded in what earlier members of the Frankfurt School and critical theory failed to achieve: to formulate an explicitly normatively oriented social critical theory, and from there to build a bridge to a larger enlightened public audience.

🌐 https://doi.org/10.1177/00016993261440724

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Now online 👀🌐

Staffan Kumlin, "Divorce risk and political distrust: Gendered consequences of couple instability".

In this study, Staffan Kumlin seeks to explain gender gaps in politics by focusing on family dynamics. Using Norwegian panel data, he finds that partnered fathers with persistently high perceived divorce risk gradually develop greater distrust in political institutions.

In open access here 👇

https://doi.org/10.1177/00016993261429680

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ONLINE NOW 👀✨

Matthias Collischon and Alexander Patzina, "Wages and institutional trust between 2019 and 2023".

🌐 In Open Access here: https://doi.org/10.1177/00016993261442013

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NOW ONLINE 👀🌐

Kaja Warnke, Valentina Di Stasio, and Marcel Lubbers, "Discrimination attributions in the workplace".

In this scoping review, the authors find that workplace discrimination is more likely to be perceived when status asymmetry or prototypical victims/perpetrators in terms of gender or race are involved, and less likely when diversity policies or equality framing are present.

In Open Access here 👇
https://doi.org/10.1177/00016993261434083

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NEW ISSUE OUT🎉⭐📗

Our new issue 69:2 (May 2026) has just been published! Great new sociological research, book reviews, and more!

See below for a list of contents and find it online 🌐 here:

https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/asja/69/2

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Say hi to our new Editorial Board members 👋

In the past year, seven new members have joined the Editorial Board of Acta Sociologica. In the composition of our board, we strive to broaden diversity both in terms of fields, geography, and identities. In this round, we have especially strengthened our board in the fields of sociological theory, digital methods, and ethnography.

👉 New article out 👀

In ‘Against underdog metaphysics: Alvin Gouldner and the Marxist critique of post-theory’, Carl Wilén and Johan Söderberg use Gouldner to connect the reservations that Marxists have long expressed about the revolutionary potential of the lumpenproletariat with the Marxist critique of post-theory.

Open access: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00016993251356339

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