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About Sociology

Sociology, an official journal of the British Sociological Association, is acknowledged as one of the leading journals in its field. For more than five decades, the journal has made a major contribution to the debates that have shaped the discipline and has an undisputed international reputation for publishing original research of the highest academic standard. The scope of Sociology is wide ranging - both geographically and substantively - and it includes shorter notes, comments, reviews of recent developments and book reviews as well as core theoretical and empirical research papers. It also publishes occasional special issues principally devoted to particular themes.

All issues of Sociology are available to browse online.This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Current Issue

Sociology 為雙月刊， 最新一期的內(nèi)容（Volume 59 Issue 6, December 2025）分為"Special Issue: Sociology Under Attack""Roundtables""Articles""Book Reviews""Thank You to Referees"五個欄目，共16篇文章，詳情如下。

Contents

Editorial

Sociology 59(6), 2025

How and Why Sociology Is under Attack

Spyros Themelis, Gargi Bhattacharyya, Iulius Rostas

We started to think about this special issue in an earlier moment when the jobs of colleagues in sociology departments were under attack and the reinvigoration of the networks of the global Right (energised by Trump’s first term) informed a renewed ideological battle about the role of universities and of the social sciences in particular. In the intervening period, the landscape has shifted a little, but not towards a defence of Sociology…

Special Issue Articles

Sociology 59(6), 2025

‘Decolonizing the Hindu Mind’: Authoritarian Populism and the Political Life of Decolonial Theory in India

Shray Mehta

This article argues that authoritarian populism poses a serious challenge to sociological theorization. Decolonial Theory has formed the intellectual backbone of the rise of Narendra Modi to power in India and, since 2014, has become a productive force, manifesting itself in new forms of statecraft in India. How has this come to be? Using the tools of historical sociology, this article builds a history of the ‘enemy of the people’ in Indian public discourse to conceptualize how Hindutva intellectuals used Decolonial Theory to gain legitimacy and eliminate the ‘other’. To confront this violent articulation of Decolonial Theory by Hindutva intellectuals, I argue that it is no longer possible to use the category of ‘native/indigenous’ as a location of sociological knowledge production. Instead, I propose the methodology of ‘looking within and without’ sociology to address the claims of decoloniality and meet the challenge of authoritarian populism.

The Role of Sociology in an Illiberal Political Setting: The Case of Hungary

Andrew Ryder, Béla Soltész

Using Hungary as a case study, the article explores the faltering and erratic trajectory of sociology, where its development has been impeded through elites wedded to conservative tradition/authoritarianism and or the vanguardism of Marxist-Leninism, these elites were wary of the innovative and disruptive potential of sociology. Sociologists though have aligned themselves with these hierarchical and hegemonic forces or simply kept quiet. A small number have offered dissent. The article discusses the role that sociology has played in Hungary, particularly during the times of authoritarian governance, which has historically been frequent, including in the present with the self-proclaimed illiberal regime of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. The article argues that critical sociology should seek, in the tradition of the public intellectual, to offer resistance to authoritarianism and try and capture the imagination of the public acting as catalysts of transformative action that augurs a new ‘politics of happiness’.

Resisting Neoliberalism’s War on the Sociological Imagination: Reflections on PhD Work as Anti-Racist Practice

Jasbinder S Nijjar

This article reflects on undertaking PhD work as a form of anti-racist practice from an angle with significant promise for sociology and the social more generally. I argue that amid neoliberalism’s denial of structural discrimination and its attendant war on the sociological imagination, radical possibilities permeate PhD scholarship. They include extending the sociological imagination into the radical imagination via histories of power and resistance, recognising the theoretical and empirical impact of reading on the sociological imagination, writing in defence of the sociological imagination and synthesising the sociological imagination with lived theory to produce critical knowledge about everyday life for community activism. By evidencing what a sociological PhD can be, I contend that the promise of doctoral study to resist intensifying social inequalities under neoliberal arrangements coincides with the broader potential to salvage an insurgent sociology and reclaim the university from neoliberalism’s vice grip as a site of social struggle.

Wicked Problems Untamed by Attacking Sociology in Higher Education: (Re)Entrenching Sociologies to Prevent Environmental Crises

Greg William Misiaszek

Deprioritizing and delegitimizing sociologies through global neoliberalization of higher education diminishes societies’ ability to tame wicked problems by removing a discipline that untangles the inherent messiness between anti-environmental acts and social injustice. Attacks include thinning sociology into neoliberal, (neo)colonial tools that, at best, ignore and, at worst, justify hegemony, socio-historical oppressions (e.g. racism, patriarchy, heteronormativity), injustices, inequalities, planetary unsustainability and anthropocentrism. A vital role of higher education in public spheres is teaching students for praxis to solve wicked environmental problems in which transformative sociologies are essential. The conundrum of how teaching sociologies diversifies reflexivity for effective problem-solving is also the reason why the discipline is being attacked – as pedagogical enemies of hegemonies grounded upon neoliberalism – will be unpacked. Ecopedagogical and transdisciplinary approaches to teaching sociologies to end wicked problems will also be highlighted.

The Rise and Fall of Sociology in Brazilian Schools: From Public Sociology to Public Attacks

Amurabi Oliveira

Sociology has faced attacks in different parts of the world, and while there are common elements in these attacks, there are also unique issues in each national and regional context. In this work, I analyze the rise and fall of sociology in the school curriculum, highlighting recent attacks, with the main threat represented by conservative movements that have been active in the Brazilian educational field, notably the ‘Escola sem Partido’ (School without Party). However, in addition to these attacks, I also aim to shed light on the resistances that have occurred, mainly through social movements and scientific associations.

Roundtables

Sociology 59(6), 2025

The Promises and Perils of AI for Sociology

Anson Au, Eric Fong

This article argues that in an age of artificial intelligence (AI), sociologists have not adequately thought about the challenges posed to their work and pedagogy. Drawing on examples from Hong Kong, we foreground the challenges that AI poses to sociological education, student success and working conditions, amid the marketization of higher education and broad shifts in funding toward STEM disciplines. We then suggest four tactical strategies for sociology to respond and live with AI: (1) incorporating computational training into sociological education; (2) incorporating AI into instrument design for sociological research; (3) incorporating AI into models of inference; and (4) incorporating AI into classroom and campus design. We contend that, in doing so, we may rethink the repertoires of professional sociology with new frontiers for AI applications and modalities of student education.

Teaching Sociology in Contemporary Hungary

Eszter Berényi, Beáta Nagy, Gergely Rosta, ágnes Rényi

Over the past 15?years, Hungary has undergone a series of political transformations that have had a profound impact on higher education. The government has begun to strengthen its loyal right-wing conservative academic regime, which helps to propagate its neo-conservative agenda; it has meanwhile restructured and steadily narrowed the scope of higher education and especially of the social sciences, converting most state universities into public interest trusts and tightening the budget of the few remaining state universities. Some university programmes, such as gender studies, have been banned, and recently there have been serious cuts in publicly funded university places, particularly in the humanities and social sciences. As a result, most sociology lecturers are underpaid and feel the pressure of the government’s hostility to critical social sciences. The move towards internationalization may improve the financial situation, but it further narrows the space for addressing the social problems of local society.

On Teaching Sociology ‘Decolonially’ in Singapore: Notes on Possibilities and Challenges

Ali Kassem

This article explores the possibilities and challenges of teaching sociology ‘decolonially’ at the National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore. Drawing on the classroom as a site of knowledge, it highlights how students’ diverse lived experiences and epistemic positionalities facilitate the deconstruction of foundational Eurocentric categories including race, religion and modernity. However, hierarchical learning models, competitive educational structures and reductive circulations of categories such as ‘Asian values’ pose significant barriers to decolonial pedagogy. NUS classrooms accordingly offer promising ground for pluriversal dialogue and critical engagement that nonetheless necessitates unlearning and undoing various complex and entwined constraints to foster liberatory alternatives otherwise.

Articles

Sociology 59(6), 2025

Religion, Diversity and Outgroup Tolerance Across 79 Countries: The ‘Homogenizing’ Role of Heterogeneity

Robert Andersen, Jing Hu, Tony Huiquan Zhang

Although a large body of research addresses the relationship between ethnic diversity and social tolerance, little is known about the role of religious diversity. Using mixed models fitted to World Values Survey data and national statistics from 79 countries, we examine how outgroup tolerance relates to religious identity and country-level religious diversity. We demonstrate three noteworthy findings: religious minorities are generally more tolerant than the majority population, regardless of religious diversity; tolerance is positively related to diversity; and the diversity–tolerance relationship is strongest for the majority population. Consistent with contact theory, these findings suggest that knowledge of outgroups plays a crucial role in shaping attitudes towards them. As members of an outgroup, minorities are more likely to understand outgroup disadvantage. Relative to the majority population, minorities are thus more tolerant of other minority groups, especially when diversity is low. In highly diverse societies, minority groups receive more exposure and knowledge of them increases, resulting in both minorities and the majority population being more tolerant of them.

Is Misrecognition Recognised? Classed Perceptions of Occupational Status

H?vard Helland, Sam Friedman, Vegard Jarness, J?rn Ljunggren

Sociological work commonly assumes that people across the class hierarchy tacitly accept, or misrecognise, an occupational status hierarchy. In this article we interrogate this drawing on unique nationally representative Norwegian survey data (N = 4235). We find that people in all class positions do indeed perceive a clear occupational status hierarchy, although working-class respondents attribute higher average status scores to working-class occupations. Significantly, this status order is maintained even when respondents assess the status occupations ought to have – albeit with a significantly more compressed status hierarchy. Finally, we find little evidence that those in different class positions use different criteria to evaluate status. These results indicate that people do not dispute existing status hierarchies, or even their normative basis, even when this positions them lower in terms of social esteem. We argue this provides support for Bourdieu’s assertion that class domination occurs via a ‘doxic naturalisation’ of the status order.

Affective Sex Work in a Post-Socialist Context

Leja Markelj, Majda Hr?enjak

This article examines the transformations of the sex industry in the context of shifting structures of intimacy and labour in late capitalism, focusing on the post-socialist context in Slovenia. Using a mixed-methods approach, including an online survey, focus group discussions and netnography, it examines the evolving role of affective labour in sex work and its implications for the working conditions of sex workers. Findings indicate that affective labour, traditionally confined to high-end services such as escort and the ‘girlfriend experience’, is becoming generalised and normalised across the sex industry. In the Slovenian transitional context, the repositioning of affective labour stems from informalisation, deregulation and limited professionalisation of sex work, which – coupled with global shifts in intimacy and sex commerce in late capitalism – establishes an opportunity structure for new standards of service quality and compels workers to mobilise and navigate surplus affective labour that is no longer capitalised.

Book Reviews

Sociology 59(6), 2025

Book Review: Anne Rogers and David Pilgrim, Living with Health Inequalities: Upstream–Downstream Connections

Mahua Patra, Dipto Chakraborty

Book Review: Sara Riva, Simon Campbell, Brian Whitener and Kathryn Medien (eds), Border Abolition Now

Allison Rogers Quinlan

Book Review: Ann Oakley, The Science of Housework: The Home and Public Health, 1880–1940

Emma Casey

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Thank You to Referees

Sociology 59(6), 2025

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