Theory and Society

Contested discrimination: a theory of the societal struggle over definition and prevalence

Published on 3 Nov 2026

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Circuit pressures and scientific norms

Published on 3 Nov 2026

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The stuff of sociality: Alan Fiske’s

Published on 3 Nov 2026

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How can sociology contribute to the new political economy? lessons from the rise and future demise of world-systems analysis

Published on 28 Oct 2026

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Why has low fertility become a polarized issue?

Published on 23 Oct 2026

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The rebirth of the author: writing critical social theory in the time of generative AI

Published on 23 Oct 2026

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Comment on “Can artificial intelligence predict the most important contemporary philosophers?”

Published on 9 Oct 2026

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Classifying the classifiers: academic algorithmic symbolic violence and the reproduction of stratification in sociology

Published on 1 Oct 2026

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Time perception and criminal identity formation: extending the criminology of time

Published on 1 Oct 2026

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Improving racialization research: a post-publication peer review of Shoub et al. (2026)

Published on 29 Sep 2026

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Review of Piotr Sztompka’s . 2025. New York: Routledge

Published on 22 Sep 2026

A critical introduction to contemporary social theory: key theories and theorists of the 21st century, by Piotr Sztompka. New York and London: Routledge, 2025. 248 pp. $62.99 paper. ISBN: 9781032756127

Published on 21 Sep 2026

Flawed methods and overstated conclusions regarding ‘Brain Sex’: a peer review of Kurth et al. (2022)

Published on 21 Sep 2026

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The “predetermined narrative” of methodological rigor: a rejoinder to Ogunbajo et al.

Published on 17 Sep 2026

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Causal inference from a single treated state: a peer review of Lee et al. (2024) and the exchange that followed

Published on 16 Sep 2026

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Black Ships: What Kind of Martial Art Is Sociology?

Published on 14 Sep 2026

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In the spirit of continuing debate

Published on 14 Sep 2026

Why just these four ways of coordinating, and how got them

Published on 8 Sep 2026

The diversity hypothesis: A rapid scoping review of diversity and scientific output and impact in the natural and social sciences

Published on 3 Sep 2026

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Bridging AI and sociology: a comparative analysis of AI integration in China and the US

Published on 31 Aug 2026

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From empirical hypothesis to moral commitment: how American sociology’s central framework became unchallengeable

Published on 27 Aug 2026

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The Not-So-Curious Case of the Bathroom Safety Study: Ideological Bias and the Erosion of Scholarly Scrutiny

Published on 19 Aug 2026

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The growth of knowledge in criminology: toward a more optimistic appraisal of theoretical progress

Published on 19 Aug 2026

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The kindness of strangers: on the social significance of evanescent interaction

Published on 14 Aug 2026

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Evolutionary psychology did not make people blame the victim: comment on Persson and Hostler (2026)

Published on 10 Aug 2026

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The fidelity of large language models in social science: a human-ai parallel experimental test of middle-range theory

Published on 31 Jul 2026

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Avertogenic deaths: how upstream justice decisions shape police lethal force

Published on 30 Jul 2026

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Can artificial intelligence predict the most important contemporary philosophers? updating and extending Collins’ ‘sociology of philosophies’

Published on 27 Jul 2026

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What kind of field is computational social science? Fragmentation, pluralism, and unification

Published on 27 Jul 2026

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LLM-enhanced computational grounded theory and the triadic dynamics of human-AI-society interaction

Published on 20 Jul 2026

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