Editorial Board
- Gender Studies Section
- Contemporary Politics and Society Section
- Social Economics Section
- Social Policy and Welfare Section
- International Migration Section
- Work, Employment and the Labor Market Section
- Family Studies Section
- Childhood and Youth Studies Section
- Social Stratification and Inequality Section
- International Relations Section
- Crime and Justice Section
Please note that the order in which the Editors appear on this page is alphabetical, and follows the structure of the editorial board presented on the MDPI website under information for editors: editorial board responsibilities.
Members
Interests: community participation; transition; inclusive research and education
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Interests: family; sex and gender; sexuality and health development
Interests: translation studies; language; broadcasting; theatre
Interests: religion and politics, especially the influence of Catholicism on political thought and actions
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Interests: development and underdevelopment in Brazil, Latin America, and developing countries; racial inequality; affirmative action; quantitative methods applied to race and ethnic injustice; labor market; public policies monitoring and evaluation; poverty reduction programs; educational and health systems; land reform
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Interests: racial inequality; urban violence; homicide trends; labor markets and work; racial threat; police use of force; racial stratification; quantitative research; macro-level research
Interests: ‘race’ and racism; exclusion; victimization; policing and social control; race/ethnic-based hate; violent behaviour
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Interests: alcohol; substance use; violence; gender; deviance
Interests: political communication; political journalism; disinformation; public sphere; populism; social media
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Interests: global and comparative political economy; nationalism and ethnicity; political sociology; philosophy of social science; European Union; Cuba; United States
Interests: comparative politics; Latin America; Africa
Interests: urban studies; housing policy; Japan; South Korea; welfare regimes
Interests: parenting; parent-child relationships; adolescent autonomy development; family decision-making; overparenting; information management; inductive discipline and parental psychological control
Interests: social work and social policy in the areas of poverty, housing, marginality, democracy and participatory strategies
Interests: political economy; social class; ethics; social inequalities; critical realism; moral economy; post-Soviet economies; resistance; social movements; the voluntary sector; regional focus: Central Asia
Interests: globalization; inequality; urban sociology
Interests: reproductive decision-making; fathers; grandparents; life history flexibility; family demography
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Interests: social stratification; gender; quality of life; quantitative methods; life course; social demography; comparative studies; knowledge discovery & data mining
Interests: capital punishment; civil rights and civil liberties; constitutional law; criminal law, criminal procedure, and criminal justice; critical legal theory; jurisprudence; law and society; legal history; racial and social justice
Interests: world-system analysis; globalization; urbanization and development; comparative and historical sociology; labor studies; East Asian political economy; global cities and urban systems; Amazon and e-commerce; global supply chains
Interests: political science; comparative politics; international relations; political methodology; causal inference
Interests: immigration; immigrants in Canada; housing experiences of immigrants; housing in small and mid-sized cities; suburbanization of immigrants; ethnic entrepreneurship; ethnic neighborhoods
Interests: gender inequality; interracial family formation; assisted reproductive technologies; technology industry; critical race theory; sociology of work; gendered organization theory
Interests: the use of digital technology and data in social contexts including telehealth, e-policing, e-services, open data, social media data, and big data
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Interests: sustainable development; city and regional planning; climate change planning; urban design; urban morphology; social ecology; social change
Interests: sociological analysis of professional judgement and decision-making with an emphasis on understanding how science, formal knowledge, rhetoric, moral judgement, emotion and subjectivity interact in professional practice, particularly in child health and welfare
Interests: sexual crime; online sexual offending, including sextortion; sexual preoccupation and addiction; antilibidinal medication/medication to manage problematic sexual arousal; circles of support and accountability; young people demonstrating sexually harmful behaviour; prevention of sexual offending; non-offending partners and impact on families of people committing a sexual offence; desistance, reintegration and resettlement; mandatory life sentences (release, reintegration and support for individuals) religion and spirituality
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Interests: travel behavior analysis and modeling; travel and land use; sustainable mobility issues; business travel; cross-border mobility
Interests: organizational sociology; economic sociology; social stratification; comparative and historical studies; work and technology; globalization and development
Interests: law; public policy; injury compensation policy; disability rights; mixed-methods
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