Sociology of Education, ASA journal
official account for the ASA journal: Sociology of Education
Editors: William Carbonaro and Anna Haskins
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- 📣New Work Wednesday📣 How does education–occupation mismatch shape racial/ethnic labor market inequality among highly educated workers? This study uses longitudinal data to examine the labor market consequences of racialized signaling, analyzing vertical and horizontal dimensions of mismatch.
- New Work Wednesday! In this study, scholars bridge institutional logics with theory on teacher professional identity to empirically examine the deeply institutionalized, taken-for-granted ways U.S. society has come to think of teaching which are internalized by PK–12 teachers.
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- ⏰Throwback Thursday ⏰ Do students' enrollment in private schools change levels of racial segregation across urban school districts? This study compares the actual racial composition of schools with the racial composition of school-aged children living in the corresponding attendance areas. #TBT
- 📣New Article Alert!📣 This study leverages Illinois administrative records over 25 years to provide estimates of whether an officially recorded juvenile arrest lingers beyond high school through college completion. el.sagepub.com/ls/click?upn...
- Wishing everyone a restful winter break. ❄️ Join us in the new year for new content, tips, and sociology of education research!🤗
- ⏰Throwback Article Thursday⏰ This study determines whether academic failure was a risk factor for adolescent drinking, and vice versa, and then to identify the mechanisms underlying these two longitudinal associations. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... #TBT
- ✨New Work Wednesday ✨ This study bridges institutional logics with theory on teacher professional identity to empirically examine the deeply institutionalized, taken-for-granted ways U.S. society has come to think of teaching using survey data. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #NewWork
- ✍️Editor Tip Tuesday✍️ Authors may submit papers with color graphics. However, there is a significant cost associated with publishing papers with color graphics, which is borne by the author. Thus, black-and-white is usually the best option. #EditorTip
- 📩Message Monday 📩 We want to thank the following outgoing Editorial Board members for their service to the journal: Ebony Bridwell-Mitchell, Rebecca Cruz, Nilda Flores-Gonzalez, Chantal Hailey, Yader Lanuza, Ed Morris, Chandra Muller, Lara Perez-Felkner and Richard Welsh. #Message
- ✨️Fresh Take Friday✨️ Check out a new member of the SoE editorial board: Jennifer L. Jennings. She is a Professor at Princeton University. Her research interests are racial, socioeconomic, and gender disparities in educational and health outcomes. jlj.scholar.princeton.edu #FTF
- ⏰️Throwback Article Thursday⏰️ Black girls are 3x more likely than white girls to be disciplined in school—often for subjective infractions like 'disobedience' or dress code violations. This study reveals that school discipline isn’t just about behavior. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #TBT
- 📣New Work Wednesday📣 This article presents evidence on linear, nonlinear, and cumulative gender peer effects on test scores. The study utilizes data containing the history of the gender composition of students’ classrooms over multiple grades. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #NewWork
- ✍️Editor Tip Tuesday! ✍️ Sociology of Education does not publish research notes, due to page limits. But many sociology journals do (e.g., Demography, Journal of Marriage and Family). Consider whether your paper is a good fit for this format. #EditorTip
- 📩 Message Sharing Monday📩 Want to know what is going on at ASA @asanews.bsky.social? Check out new events and opportunities on the ASA Calendar! Visit www.asanet.org/calendar to stay up-to-date with events and deadlines of interest to sociologists. #MessageMonday
- SoE reviewers are the best! We have been so impressed by the care, time, and high quality feedback provided by our reviewers. Thank you, we are so grateful for your service to the journal! 💛
- 📣New Article Alert!📣 How do college students seek help from academic advisers? This study shows that even when both working- and middle-class students are comfortable seeking help, differences can still remain in HOW they seek help. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
- ✍️Editor Tip Tuesday✍️ Fried turkey is delicious, but it can be very dangerous to prepare! Please be careful and never try to fry a frozen turkey! #EditorTip
- 📩Message Monday📩 Check out our TOC video!!
- 📩Message Monday📩 Want to receive our Table of Contents delivered directly to your inbox or get immediate notifications when new articles are published online? Watch this video for instructions to sign up for SoE email alerts from Sage. #MessageMonday
- ✨Fresh Take Friday✨ Check out a new member of the SoE editorial board: Lauren Schudde is an Associate Professor at University of Texas-Austin. She studies how to ameliorate social inequities in the United States through higher education policy. liberalarts.utexas.edu/sociology/fa... #FTF
- ⏰Throwback Article Thursday⏰ Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, this study revealed that the number of classes failed in one year predicted alcohol use a year later more than early alcohol use predicted later class failures. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
- 📣New Article Alert📣 This article presents evidence on linear, nonlinear, and cumulative gender peer effects on test scores. The study utilizes exceptional Swedish data containing the history of the gender composition of students’ classrooms from first to ninth grade. el.sagepub.com/ls/click?upn...
- ✍️Editor Tip Tuesday ✍️ Editor Tip Tuesday! Authors should use endnotes sparingly in the main text of their paper. Too many endnotes distract the reader and can undermine the continuity of the text. #EditorTip
- 📩Message Mondays📩 Teachers matter! If you know someone who has made outstanding contributions to teaching sociology and the scholarship of teaching in sociology, nominate them for the ASA 2026 Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award. Deadline is January 1, 2026. www.asanet.org/about/awards...
- ✨Fresh Take Friday ✨ Check out a new member of the SoE editorial board: Anthony Abraham Jack. He is an Associate Professor at Boston University. His research documents the overlooked diversity among lower-income undergraduates. www.bu.edu/wheelock/pro... #FreshTake
- ⏰Throwback Article Thursday⏰ This study identifies five dimensions of within-school differentiation—curriculum, pedagogy, assessment, grouping, and climate—and examines how they intersect to shape educational outcomes. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... #TBT #SchoolDifferentiation
- 📣New Work Wednesday!📣 Drawing on over two years of ethnographic fieldwork in two disparate suburban high schools, this study shows how students’ experience of alienation is linked to an exacting achievement narrative in U.S. schooling. el.sagepub.com/ls/click?upn... #NewWork
- ✍️Editor Tip ✍️ If you use AI to help write your paper, please be sure to disclose to us how it was used when you submit your paper. This should also be disclosed in the “Acknowledgements” section if the paper is published. #EditorTip
- 📩Message Monday📩 Want to receive our Table of Contents delivered directly to your inbox or get immediate notifications when new articles are published online? Watch this video for instructions to sign up for SoE email alerts from Sage. #MessageMonday
- ✨Fresh Take Friday✨ Check out a new member of the SoE editorial board! Amy Hsin is a Professor at the University of Notre Dame. Her work examines how structural forces shape educational outcomes, labor market trajectories and family life. keough.nd.edu/about/facult... #FreshTake
- ⏰Throwback Article Thursday!⏰ This article examines how schools' racial and ethnic mix of students and teachers influences black, white, and Latino students' occupational expectations, educational aspirations, and concrete attitudes. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... #TBT
- 📣New Work Wednesday📣 Using in-depth interviews, this study examines exclusion and the persistence of STEM disparities for underrepresented minority (URM) students at one diverse college campus. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #NewWork
- ✍️Editor Tip Tuesday✍️ “(results not shown)” and “(available upon request)” are a thing of the past. On-line appendices are the best way to include supplementary findings in your paper. They don’t count against your word count at any stage of the review process. #EditorTip
- 📩Message Monday📩 Check out these Sociology of Education Student Spotlights! sites.google.com/view/sociolo... #Message
- ✨Fresh Take Friday✨ Check out a new member of the SoE editorial board! Hanna Dumont is a Professor at the University of Potsdam. She examines the processes in families and schools that lead to differences in students’ cognitive and motivational development. www.uni-potsdam.de/en/edpsy/han... #FTF
- ⏰Throwback Article Thursday⏰ By scapegoating 'redneck' students, schools deny systemic racism while ignoring deep racial & class inequalities. This ethnographic study shows how this deflection maintains the status quo. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... #TBT
- 📣New Work Wednesday!📣 Is teaching a calling, a profession, or labor? This study maps how 3 institutional logics—an accountability logic, a democratic logic, and a moral calling logic—shape teachers’ identities. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #NWW
- ✍️Editor Tip Tuesday! ✍️ Before submitting, please consider whether your manuscript is a good fit for Sociology of Education. A major reason why papers are desk-rejected is a lack of engagement with sociological theory and/or research in our subfield. #EditorTip
- 📨Happy Message Monday! 📨 Read a fantastic sociology of education book lately? Nominate that author for the ASA 2026 Distinguished Scholarly Book Award. Deadline is January 1, 2026. www.asanet.org/about/awards...
- ✨️Fresh Take Friday!✨️ Check out a new member of the SoE editorial board member. Vanessa Delgado is a Assistant Professor at Washington State University. She explores the incorporation pathways and educational experiences of Latino/a families. soc.wsu.edu/faculty/wsu-... #FreshTake
- Throwback Article! Are school shootings examples of organizational deviance? Using data from two schools that experienced shootings, the authors show how the organizational factors of schools can lead to the loss of information about troubled students. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
- 📣New Work Wednesday📣 This study examines how specific study program features affect enrollment intentions. Findings suggest that adjusting program content, flexibility, and support services enhances those intentions. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... #NewWork
- ✍️Editor Tip Tuesday✍️ Authors: be sure to highlight the contribution of your work to our subfield. “What is new here?” is a common refrain from reviewers in papers that are rejected. #EditorTip
- 💌Message Monday💌 Know a good sociology of education dissertation? Nominate that student for the ASA 2026 Dissertation Award! The deadline is January 1, 2026. www.asanet.org/about/awards...
- ✨Fresh take Friday✨ Check out a new member of the SoE editorial board. Anna Katyn Chmielewski is a Associate Professor at the University of Toronto.She examines educational policy and social inequality, both in North America and internationally. discover.research.utoronto.ca/15484-anna-k... #FTF
- ⏰Throwback Thursday⏰ Does racial mismatching impact student educational outcomes? Using the 2002 Education Longitudinal Study, this study finds that the effects of mismatch often depend on the racial/ethnic statuses of both the teacher and the student journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... #TTB
- 📣New Work Wednesday 📣 In this article, scholars leverage Illinois administrative records over 25 years linked to a multicohort longitudinal study to provide estimates of whether an recorded juvenile arrest lingers beyond high school through college. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... #NewWork
- ✍️Editor Tip Tuesday!✍️ If we invite you to review a manuscript, please accept or decline our invitation as soon as you receive it! We hope you accept! But if you decline, please do so ASAP, so that we can find someone else and reduce the time-to-decision for our authors. #EditorTip
