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American Journal of Sociology

(《美国社会学杂志》)

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《美国社会学杂志》简介

American Journal of Sociology (美国社会学杂志，简称AJS）创刊于1895年，是社会学领域创办历史最悠久的学术期刊。AJS发表社会学及相关社会科学领域的原创研究和书评，双月发行。本刊由芝加哥大学出版社出版，现任主编是伊丽莎白·克莱门斯(Elisabeth S. Clemens)。

Current Issue

AJS（Volume 130, Number 3, November 2024）设有“Articles”“Review Essay”“Book Reviews”三个栏目，共收录了16篇文章，详情如下。

Contents

Articles

The Anatomy of Regime Change: Transnational Political Opposition and Domestic Foreign Policy Elites in the Making of US Foreign Policy on Iraq

Wisam H. Alshaibi

Scholars attribute the causes of the 2003 US war in Iraq to threats to national security or declining hegemonic power. The dominant accounts, however, fail to clarify how Iraqi regime change emerged as official US foreign policy, despite policymakers’ hostility toward such an objective throughout the 1990s. I highlight how the exiled Iraqi opposition to Saddam Hussein mobilized neoconservative policymakers to advocate for regime change. My account links transnational foreign policy lobbying to the epistemic structure of the field of foreign policy, emphasizing overlapping elite networks, epistemic fluency, and cultural fit as key factors driving the adoption of Iraqi regime change. Using novel archival records and interviews with the architects of US foreign policy on Iraq, I challenge the conventional accounts of the worst foreign policy blunder since the Vietnam War and contribute to research on the micropolitics of “big” policy change, the historical sociology of foreign policy, and transnationalism and state power.

Gendered Market Devices: The Persistence of Gender Discrimination in Insurance Markets

Greta R. Krippner

This article explores the reasons for the stubborn persistence of gender discrimination in insurance long after gender classifications have been banned in employment, housing, and credit markets. In order to understand why insurance is the last bastion of overt, legally sanctioned discrimination in the post–Civil Rights era, I draw on a historical analysis of political contestation surrounding insurers’ pricing practices in life and auto insurance markets in the 1980s and 1990s. I argue that insurers’ persistent discrimination can be explained by attending to the way in which gender comes to be embedded in the tools insurers use to price risk. This analysis has implications for understanding how social difference can be understood not simply as providing a context for market behavior but as built into the infrastructure of the economy itself, a durable part of the apparatus used to price and value.

Macro-Micro Interaction in Knowledge Construction: Structural and Communicative Memory in Rwanda and Sierra Leone

Jillian LaBranche

Scholars have investigated how state narratives about mass violence produced at the macrolevel shape education. This article instead examines the microlevel and its interaction with macrolevel narratives. It explores how parents who have experienced mass violence teach newer generations about their nation’s history of violence, partly within the parameters set by macro actors; it also touches on the role of schoolteachers. Rwanda and Sierra Leone, two countries with contrasting political regimes, serve as case studies. Parents in both contexts negotiate state-sponsored narratives of violence with their own experiences of genocide and war. Yet parents in both countries face distinct challenges whether in an authoritarian or a more liberal political context. Informed by 100 interviews with parents and supplemented by observation in schools, this article first demonstrates interactions between structural memory and communicative memory in the intergenerational transmission of knowledge. Second, it shows how structural memory sets parameters within which communicative memory evolves.

Crossing the Line: A Quantitative History of Anti-Miscegenation Legislation in the United States, 1662–2000

Scott Washington

This article examines laws against interracial sex or marriage in the United States between 1662 and 2000. Isolating the period after Reconstruction, it surveys four regions: the South, the West, the Midwest, and the Northeast. Several findings are reported. In addition to a contagion process affecting (1) levels of activity, (2) definitions of the word “Negro,” and (3) penalties, the article documents the existence of a stigma peculiar to the black population. Although the racial coverage of anti-miscegenation statutes expanded during the post-Reconstruction era, state legislatures did not respond to the threat posed by Asians, Indians, and blacks identically.

The Increase in Refugees to Germany and Exclusionary Beliefs and Behaviors

Marco Giesselmann,David Brady, and Tabea Naujoks

In 2015–16, Germany experienced a rapid and controversial increase in refugees that varied substantially across German districts. This increase provides unique leverage for analyzing how fractionalization, threat, and contact shape the consequences of immigration and ethnolinguistic heterogeneity. Using the German Socio-Economic Panel and local district-level administrative data on refugee shares, we innovatively focus on within-person/within-district change in six exclusionary beliefs and behaviors. We demonstrate a two-level cross-cutting process that integrates threat and contact theory but contradicts fractionalization theory. As the refugee share increased nationally, concerns about immigration and Far Right party support increased. However, district-level refugee shares significantly reduced concerns about immigration and Far Right party support. Also, rising district-level refugee shares are not associated with concerns about social cohesion, trust, residential moves, and subjective fair tax rates. While districts with fewer refugees drove the national-level threat, rising district-level refugee shares reduced or did not heighten exclusionary beliefs and behaviors.

Review Essay

Book Reviews

Banished Men: How Migrants Endure the Violence of Deportationby Abigail Andrews and the Students of the Mexican Migration Field Research Program

Susan Bibler Coutin

Green Card Soldier: Between Model Immigrant and Security Threatby Sofya Aptekar

Amy Lutz

Engaged and Evade: How Latino Immigrant Families Manage Surveillance in Everyday Lifeby Asad Asad

Edelina Burciaga

Fair Share: Senior Activism, Tiny Publics, and the Culture of Resistanceby Gary Alan Fine

Kathleen M. Blee

Unbottled: The Fight against Plastic Water and for Water Justiceby Daniel Jaffee

Jerel M. Ezell

From Chinatown to Every Town: How Chinese Immigrants Have Expanded the Restaurant Business in the United Statesby Zai Liang

Wenquan Zhang

Refashioning Race: How Global Cosmetic Surgery Crafts New Beauty Standardsby Alka V. Menon

David J. Hutson

Moving the Needle: What Tight Labor Markets Do for the Poorby Katherine S. Newman and Elisabeth S. Jacobs

David B. Grusky

Revolutions in Cuba and Venezuela: One Hope, Two Realitiesby Silvia Pedraza and Carlos A. Romero

Leslie C. Gates

We, Together: The Social Ontology of Usby Hans Bernhard Schmid

Daniel R. Huebner

GoFailMe: The Unfulfilled Promise of Digital Crowdfundingby Erik Schneiderhan and Martin Lukk

Anne Kovalainen

Equal Partners? How Dual-Professional Couples Make Career, Relationship, and Family Decisionsby Jaclyn S. Wong

Caitlyn Collins

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