Vol. 20 No. 2 (2026)

Published: 2026-08-06

Traces, Inference, and Truth: Carlo Ginzburg (1939–2026) In Memoriam of Carlo Ginzburg

Maurizio Catino

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Symposium

The Political Life of Everyday Sustainability. Conspicuous Sustainable Consumption and Normative Resistance

Roberta Sassatelli

5-21
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Symbolic Drivers of Unsustainable Mass Consumption: Embracing and Resisting Consumerism

Magnus Boström

23-43
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Consuming with Conscience? The Moral Privilege and Narrative Scale Paradoxes of Happy Meat

Josée Johnston, Emily Huddart

45-61
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Market Inequalities and Ecological Distinction: The Moral Ruses of Sustainable Consumption across the North-South Divide

Manisha Anantharaman, Sophie Dubuisson-Quellier

63-84
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Consumption, Sustainability and Variegated Consumer Societies: Development and Distinction in Late-Socialist China and Vietnam

Arve Hansen

85-104
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Quiet Luxury. Simplicity, Sustainability, and the Rearticulation of Status in Consumer Culture

Paolo Magaudda, Roberta Sassatelli

105-129
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Debate

Social Physics, or the Interpretative Turn? Debating the Sciences of Society after AI

Noortje Marres

131-139
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Social Physics in the Age of Generative AI: How, Exactly, Is Society Complex?

Petter Törnberg, Justus Uitermark

141-150
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Machine Demons

Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra

151-162
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Is Language Social Action? A Commentary on Language Agents

Michael Castelle

163-177
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Interpretivism and AI

Carrie Friese

179-186
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Sociology and the Politics of AI: The Sovereign Individual Revisited

Nicholas Gane, Roger Burrows

187-195
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Focus

A Sociological Eye on AI. Key Concepts, Analytical Dimensions, and Methodological Tensions

Marco Solaroli, Emma Garzonio

197-227
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Essays

Discursive Strategies and “Humanity Differentials”. A Critical Analysis of the Representation of Victims in the War on Gaza

Andrea Caroselli, Pasquale Schiano

229-245
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Social Change in the Covid-19 Era: A Retrospective

Ekaterina Markova

247-264
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Mixed Embeddedness in Motion: Kurdish and Turkish Entrepreneurship in Germany and the UK

Mehmet Rauf Kesici

265-288
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Interviews

Craft, Curiosity, and Knowledge: Duncan Watts in Conversation with Philipp Brandt

Duncan J. Watts, Philipp Brandt

289-307
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Segregation and Spatial Inequality: Enduring Lessons and Unresolved Challenges. John R. Logan in Conversation with Niccolò Morelli

Niccolò Morelli, John R. Logan

309-319
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