The American Journal of Sociology, founded in 1895 as the first journal in its discipline, is a peer-reviewed, bimonthly academic journal that publishes original research and book reviews.
American Journal of Sociology
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Are internal labor markets still valuable? We construct a new LinkedIn-based measure of internal career ladders and link it to USPTO data on 446K U.S. inventors. Firms that promote from within are associated with more productive inventors—a pattern that fades near retirement.
The March 2026 issue of the American Journal of Sociology is now available online at www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/ajs/curr...
Are key aspects of the self-concept malleable or do they fluctuate around stable baselines? The authors find that changes in adolescence and the transition to adulthood persist over time but from around 30 to midlife changes are less durable. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
New evidence from Denmark documents the collateral consequences of deportation for the spouses left behind. A substantial number (13%) of spouses also leave the country within 18 months. For those that stay, employment drops but then recovers within a year, but total income never recovers.
The South has historically been the epicenter of racial inequality in the US. But the geography of racial inequality has shifted in the decades since the Civil Rights movement. Today, Black-white income disparities are lower in the South than the rest of the country. @robertmanduca.bsky.social
The January 2026 issue of the American Journal of Sociology is now available online at www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/ajs/2026...
Party organization requires a distinct social structure—one produced by capitalist dispossession. Two regions, both agrarian, indigenous, and revolutionary: Only one amenable to party organization. Underlying economic structures determined fundamentally different political outcomes.
Recruiting minority officers is a strategy for curbing police misconduct. But what if officer networks remain segregated? CPD data show that cross-race ties in officer networks matter more than simple diversity numbers for predicting misconduct risk. We need network integration and representation.
Patterns of ethnoracial reidentification are predicted by party affiliation. Eighteen years of Florida voter records show that Republicans are nearly twice as likely as Democrats to reidentify from Hispanic to White and Black to Hispanic, while Democrats more often move in the opposite direction.
How do states build and lose the capacity to decarbonize? Livio Silva-Muller analyzes how Brazil achieved one of the most successful cases of decarbonization ever recorded, how those results were later undone, and how Brazil’s experience sheds light on other cases. @liviosilva.bsky.social
