Generating Social Stratification: Toward a New Research Agenda

Resilient socioeconomic unsustainability poses a threat to democracy whose importance has yet to be fully acknowledged. As the prospect of sustainability transition wanes, so does perceived legitimacy of institutions. This further limits representative institutions’ ability to take action, making democratic deepening all the more urgent. I investigate this argument through an illustrative case study, the 2017 People’s Climate March. In a context of resilient unsustainability, protesters have little expectation that institutions might address the ecological crisis and this view is likely to spread. New ways of thinking about this problem and a new research agenda are needed.

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The role of affect in travel risk perception: a new research agenda

Tourism Analysis ◽

10.3727/108354220x15959441493056 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

I-Chieh Michelle Yang

Keyword(s):

Risk Perception ◽

Positive Affect ◽

Research Agenda ◽

Tourism Industry ◽

Psychological Process ◽

Related Research ◽

Risk Research ◽

Conceptual Paper ◽

New Research

This conceptual paper proposes a new research agenda in travel risk research by understanding the role of affect. Extant scholarship tends to focus on travel risk perception or assessment as a cognitive psychological process. However, despite the phenomenal growth of the tourism industry globally, research related to travel risk perception remains stagnant with no significant breakthrough. Drawing on the existing empirical evidences in risk-related research, this paper asserts that affect plays a potent role in influencing travel risk perception – positive affect leads to more positive travel risk perception, vice versa. In this paper, existing empirical evidences and theories are presented to provide support for this proposition.

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For a Sociology of Sectarianism

The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of the Middle East ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190087470.013.29 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Rima Majed

Keyword(s):

Middle East ◽

Knowledge Production ◽

Social Stratification ◽

Research Agenda ◽

Disciplinary Knowledge ◽

Area Studies ◽

Specific Research ◽

Sociological Literature

This chapter offers an overview of the study of sectarianism in the Middle East. It argues that, because it has often been treated as an area studies topic, the study of sectarianism has long been absent from the mainstream sociological literature. By bridging between disciplinary knowledge production and the area-specific research agenda, this chapter proposes some conceptual and methodological notes to advance our understanding of the sectarian phenomenon in the Middle East. This chapter is a call for the development of a “sociology of sectarianism,” one that moves beyond Middle East exceptionalism to study the phenomenon of sectarianism in its complexity by locating it historically and analyzing it globally within the broader interlocking systems of social stratification.

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Traversing the Mexican Odyssey: Reflections on Political Change and the Study of Mexican Politics

Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos ◽

10.1525/msem.2002.18.1.159 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 18 (1) ◽

pp. 159-188

Author(s):

Mark Eric Williams

Keyword(s):

Research Agenda ◽

Political System ◽

Democratic Transition ◽

Political Change ◽

The Political ◽

Market Reforms ◽

New Research ◽

Mexican Politics

This essay explains how the peculiar properties of Mexico's political system helped shape the approach to the study of Mexican politics. It assesses some of the strengths and limitations of the scholarship this produced, examines the political changes that fueled Mexico's democratic transition, and assesses their implications both for Mexico's recent market reforms and the study of Mexican politics in general. It finds that the demise of single-party rule and fundamental changes in patterns of governance have opened new research avenues, and suggests an emerging research agenda in light of these developments. En este ensayo se explica la manera en que las propiedades peculiares del sistema políítico mexicano ayudaron a configurar el acercamiento al estudio de la políítica mexicana. Se valoran algunas de las ventajas y las desventajas en este enfoque, se examinan los cambios polííticos que influyeron en la transicióón democráática mééxicana y se analizan sus implicaciones en las reformas recientes del mercado y estudio de la políítica mexicana en general. El anáálisis concluye que, debido al cese de influencia del antiguo réégimen del partido oficial y a los cambios fundamentales en los modelos de gobierno, se han abierto nuevas ááreas de investigacióón, proponiendo un nuevo programa de investigacióón que tome en cuenta el giro de los nuevos acontecimientos.

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The Contradictions and Intersections of Class and Gender in a Global City: Placing Working Women's Lives on the Research Agenda

Environment and Planning A Economy and Space ◽

10.1068/a3781 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 37 (3) ◽

pp. 441-461 ◽

Cited By ~ 54

Author(s):

Linda McDowell ◽

Diane Perrons ◽

Colette Fagan ◽

Kath Ray ◽

Kevin Ward

Keyword(s):

Labour Market ◽

Gender Discrimination ◽

Research Agenda ◽

Global City ◽

High Status ◽

Full Time ◽

Women's Lives ◽

Gender Divisions ◽

And Gender ◽

New Research

In this paper we examine the relationships between class and gender in the context of current debates about economic change in Greater London. It is a common contention of the global city thesis that new patterns of inequality and class polarisation are apparent as the expansion of high-status employment brings in its wake rising employment in low-status, poorly paid ‘servicing’ occupations. Whereas urban theorists tend to ignore gender divisions, feminist scholars have argued that new class and income inequalities are opening up between women as growing numbers of highly credentialised women enter full-time, permanent employment and others are restricted to casualised, low-paid work. However, it is also argued that working women's interests coincide because of their continued responsibility for domestic obligations and still-evident gender discrimination in the labour market. In this paper we counterpose these debates, assessing the consequences for income inequality, for patterns of childcare and for work–life balance policies of rising rates of labour-market participation among women in Greater London. We conclude by outlining a new research agenda.

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