This study systematically reviews literature on U.S. police responses to intimate partner violence (IPV) to identify how police actions were measured, types of police interventions, and consequences of police responses. A comprehensive keyword search was conducted across 12 databases to identify relevant studies. It used predefined inclusion and exclusion criteria aligned with PRISMA-P guidelines. Ultimately, 16 articles were coded according to a pre-developed coding scheme. It finds that 43.7% of the studies investigated the impact of police responses on IPV victims or offenders, while 31.0% aimed to identify the factors associated with those responses. When police responses were used as an independent variable, the most commonly measured interventions included whether the incident was reported to the police and whether arrests were made (62.5%). Victim-related variables, such as leaving an abusive partner, mental health status, repeat victimization, and perceived safety, were frequently examined in relation to police responses. Notably, only 37.5% of the studies provided policy implications, which often focused on recommending additional training or educational programs for law enforcement professionals. This review advances the IPV literature by examining pre-COVID-19 research on police responses, emphasizing theoretical grounding, outcome diversity, and policy relevance. It outlines directions for evidence-based policing research.

This paper explores the development of computational social science (CSS) in China via the model of contested field formation. This model highlights that Chinese CSS emerges amid tensions between institutionalization-driven structural forces and entrenched epistemological traditions, defying both the Western diffusion and the top-down dominance models. The model highlights that three external structural pressures fuel CSS's expansion in Chinese universities: the state's New Liberal Arts (xinwenke) policy, a central-government’s higher education reform that pushes humanities and social sciences toward interdisciplinary, digital, and now AI+ transformation; a graduate labor market crisis that renders CSS training a career credential for humanities and social sciences students; and growing platform data and computational infrastructure enabling innovative research designs. These pressures face two internal constraints: a faculty shortage hindering effective New Liberal Arts implementation on the one hand and, on the other, the epistemological pushback from indigenization-oriented and autonomous-knowledge-system discussions that pivot on whether CSS can generate signature Chinese concepts or merely import universalist categories.

In the United States, school mobility is relatively common and often linked to negative academic outcomes, yet little is known about its role in non-Western contexts with more standardized educational systems. Does the relationship between school mobility and academic achievement differ in contexts where schools are more uniform in curriculum, instruction, and academic expectations? This study addresses this question by examining the determinants and consequences of school mobility in South Korea, a country characterized by a highly standardized education system. Using nationally representative longitudinal data on fifth-grade students, this study finds that only 3.2% of students transferred schools between Grades 5 and 6—the final two years of elementary school in South Korea—including 0.7% who transferred for strategic reasons and 2.5% for nonstrategic reasons. Students from non-intact families were more likely to transfer for non-strategic reasons, whereas socioeconomically advantaged students were more likely to move strategically. However, school mobility had no significant association with achievement gains after accounting for covariates, regardless of transfer motivation. These findings suggest that while the motivations underlying school mobility may be similar across countries, its academic consequences are shaped by institutional contexts rather than representing a universal pattern.

Social class and cohort are widely recognized as two key factors that shape parenting attitudes. Yet studies rarely examine them together or assess their relative importance. This study investigates how these two factors jointly influence parenting attitudes. Using data from the 2021 Taiwan Social Change Survey (Family Module), the study examines four measures of parenting attitudes related to parent–child interactions: joint decision-making, preference fulfillment, rule enforcement, and nonintervention. The results show that class is positively associated with joint decision-making and negatively associated with nonintervention, whereas cohort is not significantly associated with any of the four measures. Furthermore, class-based differences are consistently negligible across cohorts. By highlighting the central role of social class, this study shows that parenting attitudes constitute an important domain through which social inequality is reproduced.

While a growing body of research has emphasized the role of state-granted legitimacy in shaping public acceptance of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), less is known about why public views of CAM may remain heterogeneous even when it receives official endorsement. We address this question by highlighting the importance of user experience, using Chinese mainland as a case study. Chinese medicine (CM) is a well-known form of CAM that is deeply embedded in China’s healthcare system, supported by extensive infrastructure and strong policy backing. Drawing on in-depth interviews about people’s use of CM for self-treatment and rehabilitation after COVID-19, we find that “lived efficacy”, a subjective evaluation of effectiveness grounded in personal experience, plays a salient role in health-related decision-making. Individuals with positive prior experiences of CM tend to rely less on external information and often differentiate among various forms of CM, including state-endorsed products and folk practices. By contrast, those without such lived efficacy are more likely to adopt state-endorsed CM remedies based on trusted health information sources, such as government messaging. This study contributes to the literature by showing that the effects of state-granted legitimacy and institutional trust on CAM adoption are conditional and mediated by a multidimensional decision-making process. Lived efficacy and information trust constitute two key mechanisms through which respondents interpret the efficacy-based legitimacy of CM.

This article analyzes how local political contexts at the municipal and intra-ethnic community levels shape the participation of immigrant place entrepreneurs in local growth politics and their pathways of entry into it. Based on in-depth interviews in Koreatown and Monterey Park in Los Angeles, the paper illustrates how immigrant involvement in local development evolves in response to differences in governance arrangements, electoral influence, and spatial scale. The findings show that the composition and organization of immigrant leadership, along with its position within the regional configuration of ethnoburbs, not only shape the strength of immigrant influence in land use outcomes but also how that influence is recognized, brokered, and constrained by public officials and neighboring growth regimes. Furthermore, political empowerment for immigrant and racial minority communities is often connected to place-based interests, as ethnic identity can shape how neighborhoods and commercial districts are valued, defended, and governed. The comparison highlights contrasting models of immigrant-led development politics: Koreatown operates as an auxiliary to Los Angeles’s dominant growth regime, concentrating leverage among a narrow set of well-positioned actors in a vertical and institutionally centralized political system, while Monterey Park exhibits a more autonomous, horizontally oriented model shaped by majority-representation governance and regional competition and cooperation. Across both cases, immigrant growth politics reflects coalitions in which place-based identity and capital-driven strategies interact in shaping development outcomes.

This article examines the temporal structure of state-seeking nationalist mobilization in the modern world-system. Scholars of nationalism have long debated whether nationalism expands with modernization, declines after reaching a historical peak, recurs in successive waves, or remains contingent on specific political conjunctures. Yet these competing temporal assumptions are rarely examined systematically. This article introduces polynomial regression analysis as a post-positivist heuristic method for making such assumptions visible and comparable. Rather than treating polynomial regression as a device for mechanically confirming or falsifying theories, it uses it as a diagnostic tool that clarifies how different interpretations become plausible under different specifications of time, geography, and periodization. Using the State-Seeking Nationalist Movements dataset, which tracks mobilization by stateless nations from 1492 to 2013, the article compares linear, quadratic, and cubic specifications across historical and geographical scopes. The findings show that linear, arc-shaped, and cyclical interpretations each capture partial dimensions of the historical trajectory. In the Global North after 1800, state-seeking nationalism appears as a secular increase, postwar decline, and renewed wave depending on model specification. At the world-systemic level, however, the inclusion of the Global South shifts the timing and form of decline.

How does educational modality shape the social organization of student life? While the structural consequences of face-to-face versus screen-to-screen instruction have attracted scholarly attention, direct evidence on how this transition reshapes student social networks remains limited. Drawing on complete transcript records and network data from Korea University in 2019 (N=21,607) and 2020 (N=21,572), this paper analyzes co-enrollment networks before and after the shift to online education. The COVID-19 pandemic offers a rare quasi-natural experiment. Despite this disruption, the macrolevel architecture of co-enrollment networks proved resilient, preserving small-world properties with similar connectivity, clustering, and degree assortativity. Beneath this stability, however, online learning reorganized network formation; residential proximity and academic performance became stronger bases of assortative sorting, while disciplinary and cohort boundaries remained largely unchanged. Most strikingly, GPA-based assortativity increased even when self-evaluation-based assortativity declined, suggesting that online learning amplifies institutional measures of academic standing while eroding the social salience of students' subjective academic identities as an axis of sorting. These findings reveal a fundamental paradox. Rather than dissolving social boundaries, online education appears to have reinforced stratification along residential and performance lines.

Green criminology, or the study of environmental (“green”) harms, crime, and injustice, has explored a wide range of issues over the past three decades. An important environmental issue that has received little attention is species extinction. To facilitate the discussion about harms against animals from species extinction, this article reviews relevant literature and frames the processes propelling species extinction from a political economic green criminological (PEG-C) perspective. The driving motivation of capitalism—profit making—leads to continually expanding raw material extraction and production that contributes to escalating forms of ecological destruction that drives species extinction. The contemporary extinction cycle is called the 6th wave of extinction. Researchers in the hard sciences note that this 6th extinction is being caused by human behavior, making it distinct from the five previous extinction periods. They also note that there is little hope that this extinction period can be easily remedied. Significant alterations in environmental policy and human behavior are required to save species from extinction.

Climate change is little studied or taught by Bangladeshi sociologists, even though it poses significant threats to social life in the country. To uncover the level of importance given to climate change issues in sociology departments at Bangladeshi universities, this study analyzes data from six public universities. The data include sociology curricula and interviews with a selected group of teacher-sociologists. This paper unearths several critical factors behind the marginal responses to global warming from mainstream sociology in Bangladesh. First, sociologists seek to separate the discipline from other sciences by focusing solely on ‘social’ structure and social-scientific explanations. Sociology curricula have avoided the global warming agenda because of its allegedly ‘natural scientific’ nature. Second, sociologists are found to have a propensity to suspect teleology in general and to emulate the indifference towards the future found in contemporary society. With myopic vision, sociologists in Bangladesh tend to address immediate social ills while maintaining a safe distance from climate threats, which they view only as a future concern. Furthermore, a lack of expertise among Bangladeshi sociologists impedes the development of climate change courses.

This essay provides an overview of the origins of Hallyu, or the Korean Wave as Korean cultural products spread worldwide, thus elevating the status of South Korea as a whole. We explore the origins of the term and the growth in popularity of the primary components of the Korean Wave: K-pop with groups such as BTS and BLACKPINK, K-dramas such as Squid Games and Crash Landing on You, K-movies such as Parasite and KPop Demon Hunters, and K-beauty products, and how Hallyu has evolved from Hallyu 1.0, or locally-produced in Korea to Hallyu 3.0, or products produced outside of Korea for localized markets. The visibility of these cultural products outside of Korea has far surpassed the success of any other Asian and arguably any country outside of the US. We argue for its importance not only for South Korea’s soft power but also for increasing the visibility of Asians along with the East Asian diaspora. Hence, sociologists ought to incorporate the implications of these changes in their studies of Korea and the East Asian diaspora.

This paper aims to expand the scope of migration research beyond the economic, social, and political perspectives by exploring the role of cultural similarities in migration flows. Drawing data from various sources on language, colonial ties, and values, it uses the gravity model to examine the bilateral migration flows among 45 countries across Asia-Pacific, Europe, and the Americas between 2015 and 2020. It reports three findings about the association between cultural similarities and migration flows. First, countries that share a common official language and similar linguistic roots have higher migration flows among them. Second, it finds that colonial links do not have a positive impact on migration flows. Lastly, countries with similar cultural values on several dimensions show higher migration flows among them. It also demonstrates the direction of migration flows in relation to cultural values. These findings provide awaited insights into the importance of cultural factors in global migration patterns.

Large Language Models (LLMs) represent discursive formations that both shape and are shaped by global geopolitical imaginaries. They (re-)produce hierarchies of power relations, constructing some regions as sites of strategic importance while rendering others peripheral, some as potential threats while others as zones of opportunity. This study investigates how the interaction between ChatGPT-4-generated questions and DeepSeek-R1 responses, mediated by the author, functions as a dialogic space that (re-)constructs broader geopolitical imaginations. It adopts a qualitative approach grounded in discursive geopolitics, historical approach to discourse (HAD), and pragmasemiotic emphasis on textual agency. The primary dataset consists of ChatGPT’s prompted questions about seven geopolitically sensitive topics (CCP media control; Crimea; Uyghurs/Xinjiang; Chinese tech influence; U.S.–China trade; Great Firewall; Liu Xiaobo) and DeepSeek’s responses and its algorithmic behaviours (erasure messages, disclaimers, warnings, and suggested topic shifts). The conversational exchanges between ChatGPT and DeepSeek reveal how LLMs function not merely as data-generation tools but as a geopolitical actor that enacts national identity projects and ideological alignments.

Over the past few decades, sociology has experienced significant thematic and structural changes due to the rapid advancement of technology, growing social inequality, and changing forms of mobility and governance. The period 2010–2024 offers a significant window, spanning post-2008 economic restructuring, platform capitalism, COVID-19, and shifts in digital data infrastructures. Using bibliometric data and transformer-based topic modeling analysis, this study examines authorship patterns, institutional concentration, and thematic developments in 101,005 sociology articles published between 2010 and 2024. Our findings reveal that the University of Oxford leads in publication output (910 papers), while Ethnic and Racial Studies is the most prolific journal (3,214 papers). Gender distribution among authors is nearly balanced (50.4% female, 49.6% male), though ethnicity analysis shows significant disparities with White, non-Latino researchers comprising 61% of authorship. BERTopic analysis identified ten major research topics, with social theory and financial critique emerging as the dominant theme (9,016 documents). Temporal analysis demonstrates declining prominence of traditional theoretical topics and growing interest in mental sociology and gender studies. By mapping these patterns, the study offers an empirical foundation for understanding how sociology responds to broader societal changes and contributes to debates on equity, disciplinary boundaries, and future research trajectories.