<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>The sociological literature on social networks overwhelmingly considers the number of core social contacts. Social networks, however, reach far beyond this small number of social ties. We know little about individual variation i...

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>Categories that become taken-for-granted tend to acquire rule-like standing. That is, people begin to strongly expect certain behaviors from entities that have claimed affiliation with them, and these expectations tend to induce...

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>This article proposes a theory of how interaction in groups influences differential participation in political activism and interrogates this theory through an empirical analysis of online Facebook group interaction. We study th...

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>Although there is some evidence of declining intergenerational mobility in wealthy countries, the sources of these changes are not well understood. This paper examines the changes in intergenerational mobility in Denmark, which ...

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>The gray divorce rate, which describes divorce among individuals aged 50 and older, has doubled since 1990. Extending prior research that showed the transition to parenthood has a “braking effect” on divorce, we examined whether...

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>How do educational systems prepare workers for the labor market? Stratification research has often made a distinction between two ideal-types: “qualificational spaces,” exemplified by Germany with a focus on vocational education...

Migrants are omnipresent in cosmopolitan societies. &nbsp;Propelled from their homelands by poverty, violence, and environmental disasters—and the promise of better opportunities and security—migrants have found their way into metropolitan regions. At the same time, we ...

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>Two well-known findings are that the religious are happier than the non-religious, and people are less happy when they lose their job. We investigate a link between these by asking whether religion buffers against the negative e...

If there is one positive consequence stemming from the election of Donald Trump to the White House, it is the surge of critical investigations examining the relationships between big tech and democ...