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The International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy provides a global, interdisciplinary forum for research and debate in sociology and social policy focusing on topics related to economic and management issues (corporate social responsibility, business ethics, work organisation and entrepreneurship).

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Beyond active ageing: pension reforms, segmentation and intersectionality in the Italian labour market
Research agenda on social policy: a first taxonomy for social policy
Corrigendum: Healing the healers: how empathy, active coping and mindfulness drive well-being and happiness of healthcare employees
Digital identity, algorithmic-administrative governance and the transformation of social policy provisioning in Ghana: a political economy analysis of digitally mediated welfare systems
First-mover advantage in AI adoption in higher education: a critical discourse analysis of social policy, inequality, and institutional governance

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May 25 2026
Artificial intelligence in sociology and social policy
Vanessa Ratten
April 01 2026
The moral economy of environmental policies: how welfare and environmental attitudes affect environmental policy support
Kathrin Komp-Leukkunen, Zhen Jie Im
March 26 2026
Artificial intelligence governance and social policy divergence: a comparative political economy perspective on global AI regulation
Deepak Kumar, Chinmaya Kumar Sahu
March 26 2026
Explaining gendered informality: how family policies shape women's participation in unregistered employment in Europe
Niklas Mäkinen
March 18 2026
Exploring labour transformations in platform work through the lens of informal work: a new framework of analysis
Diego Coletto, Iraklis Dimitriadis

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