British Journal of Sociology

Papers
(The median citation count of British Journal of Sociology is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
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Standpoint theory and middle‐range theorizing in International Sociology51
Mapping out the interpersonal boundary stones in contemporary China: Guanxi network structure and its association with traditional culture endorsement30
Issue Information29
Breaking good? Young people's mechanisms of resilience, resistance and control27
Corrigendum25
On Medical Domination24
Searching for desirable bodies: How recruiters value physically exertive extracurricular activities for graduate hiring at elite professional firms in China23
Self‐Description and the Agro‐Industry's Response to Environmental Crises22
Politicians' high‐status signals make less‐educated citizens more supportive of aggression against government: A video‐vignette survey experiment22
Love Across Class. By RoseButler and EveVincent, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. 202418
Artificial Intelligence as a Strategy in the British Economic Field18
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The unclaimed: Abandonment and hope in the city of angels. By P.Prickett and S.Timmermans, London: Penguin Random House. 202417
Examining factors influencing Turkish Jewish attitudes towards the Armenian genocide17
The Electoral Coalition of the Radical Right in Western Europe16
Nation‐builders and market architects: How social origins mold the careers of law graduates over 200 years in Norway16
The Strength of Weak Ties? Understanding Educational Differences in Parents' Childcare Benefit Knowledge by Applying a Social Capital Approach15
Welfare brokers and European Union migrants' access to social protection14
Unpolitical solutionism: Wealth elite sentiments against democracy and politics14
The Scylla State. A gendered understanding of the experiences of marginalised women in the United Kingdom13
The Bigger Pictures of L’État Providence : On François Ewald’s Theorisation of the Insurantial Society12
Managing racism? Race equality and decolonial educational futures12
Two Islamophobias? Racism and religion as distinct but mutually supportive dimensions of anti‐Muslim prejudice12
Dependence and Precarity in the Gig Economy: A Longitudinal Analysis of Platform Work and Mental Distress11
Caregiving fathers and the negotiation of crossroads: Journeys of continuity and change11
The gender gap in fair earnings increases with age due to higher age premium for men11
Commercial Surrogacy Is not a Secret Handshake: It Is a High‐Five: Gay Fathers in China’s Changing Landscape11
Cooling Out or Branching Out? Accounting for the Aspirations‐Attainment Paradox Among Immigrant Youth in Sweden11
Children picturing their own worlds: Using photovoice to amplify children’s voice in sociological research10
Articulation, or the persistent problem with explanation10
Gray areas: How the way we work perpetuates racism and what we can do to fix it. By Adia HarveyWingfield, New York: HarperCollins Amistad. 2023. 304 pages. ISBN: 978006307981610
The relational costs of crossing class lines10
The Role of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Solutions in Transforming Educational and Employment Access for Individuals With Disabilities10
The Double Erosion of Liberal Citizenship: Economization and Moralization10
Sociology after the postcolonial: Response to Julian Go's ‘thinking against empire’10
Screenshots, SIM Cards, and Household Governance: Digital Coercive Control and Evidence Making in Uganda10
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The Fall and Rise of the English Upper Class: Houses, Kinship and Capital Since 1945. By DanielSmith, Manchester: 20239
Agents of reform: Child labor and the origins of the welfare state. By ElisabethAnderson, Princeton (NJ), Oxford: Princeton University Press. 2021. pp. 384. $32.00/£28.00. ISBN: 978‐0‐691‐22089‐59
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Refuge: How the state shapes human potential. By HebaGowayed, Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2022. 195 pages. £22.00 (pbk)9
The rainbow connection: Disrupting background affect, overcoming barriers and emergent emotional collectives at “Pride in London”8
Time use surveys, social practice theory, and activity connections8
How kindness took a hold: A sociology of emotions, attachment and everyday enchantment8
Understanding the Mediating Effect of Child Abuse and Poor Mental Health on the Use of Adolescent Family Violence: Findings From an Australian Study8
Furthering racial liberalism in UK higher education: The populist construction of the ‘free speech crisis’8
The hidden majority/minority consensus: Minorities show similar preference patterns of immigrant support as the majority population8
Issue Information ‐ List Of Books Reviewed7
Family Rituals in the Hungry Ghost Festival: Spirituality and Multiplex Beliefs in China7
A counterexample to secularization theory? Assessing the Georgian religious revival7
What do stances on immigrants' welfare entitlement mean? Evidence from a correlational class analysis7
Variation in the social composition of the UK academic elite: The underlay of the two—or three—cultures?6
A Man Among Other Men: The Crisis of Black Masculinity in Racial Capitalism. By JordannaMatlon, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2022. 306 pp. $130.00 (hardcover); $32.95 (paperback). ISBN13: 97815016
Asian Americans in an anti‐Black world. By Claire JeanKim, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2023. pp. 1–412. ISBN: 97810092222806
Cultural and Human Capital Signals in Hiring—A Factorial Survey Experiment Across Contexts6
Decolouring. The Racial Imprints of Upward Mobility in Lima's Dominant Class6
From where do legislators draw scientific knowledge? Organizations as scientific authorities in four countries' parliamentary debates6
Insurance and Social Theory: An Introduction to the Special Issue6
Threatening dystopias: The global politics of climate change adaptation in Bangladesh. By KasiaPaprocki, Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press. 2021. p. 267 including front matter, appendices, g6
Taking Stock: Elite Studies and Social Change6
Radicalisation studies: An emerging interdisciplinary field6
When the ‘Old’ Attend to the ‘Old’: Female Direct Care Workers Doing Gendered and Classed Age in the Chinese Elder Care Industry5
Emerging Global Cities: Origin, Structure, and Significance. By AlejandroPortes and Ariel C.Armony, New York: Columbia University Press, 2022. Pp. 368. $35.00 / £30.00 (paper).5
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Gateways, Funnels, and Stackers: How People Hide Property Ownership Through Offshore Structures5
From Boardrooms to Platforms: Elite Brokerage and Digital Influence in Chilean Pro‐Market Think Tanks5
The Body in Extremist White Supremacism5
Prestige Fetishism in the Academy: Comte's Mirror, the Magic Mirror or an Illusion of Reality?5
Gender, Families, and Wealth Accumulation Among the One‐Child Generation5
Sociology and The Complexity of What Is Missing5
After positivism: New approaches to comparison in historical sociology. By Nicholas HooverWilson, DamonMayrl (Eds.), New York: Columbia University Press. 20245
Transport digitalisation: Navigating futures of hypercognitive disablement5
Gender inequalities in unpaid public work: Retention, stratification and segmentation in the volunteer leadership of charities in England and Wales5
To the Rescue of Cultural Capital: Seizing the Emotional Underpinnings of Contemporary Social Cleavages5
Normative Cumulation: Justifying the Production of Knowledge in American Family Demography4
Reading Margaret Kennedy’s The Feast (1950) at the Same Time as Dan Evan’s A Nation of Shopkeepers: The Unstoppable Rise of the Petty Bourgeoisie (2023)4
Climate Moralities Offset: A Case of Formative Voluntary Carbon Markets4
Examining the recent strike wave in the UK: The problem with official statistics4
The resentful undergrowth of nostalgia: Ontological insecurity, relative deprivation and powerlessness4
The paradoxical role of social class background in the educational and labour market outcomes of the children of immigrants in the UK4
‘We need to start building up what's called herd immunity’: Scientific dissensus and public broadcasting in the Covid‐19 pandemic4
Renewal without replication: Expanding Durkheim's theory of disruptions via queer nightlife4
More Productive Bodies Faster! Human Capital and Anti‐Intellectualism in Danish University Reform4
What is the Liberalizing Potential of Higher Education? An Analysis of Academic Fields and Anti‐Immigrant Sentiment Across 32 Countries4
Pursuing individualism without feminism: Leisure life and gender politics of young female bar‐goers in urban China4
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Gendered Attitudes or Structural Barriers? Men Front Line Workers' Perspectives on What Keeps Men out of Paid Care Work in Australia4
From Dyadic Distance to Space in Family Networks: Reciprocity of Family Support in Switzerland4
Do you like school? Social class, gender, ethnicity and pupils' educational enjoyment4
Entrepreneuring Legitimacy: A Case Study of the Cultural Codes and Boundary‐Makings of the Tech Elite4
Intellectual Solidarity and Reflexive Dislocation: Sociology in the Age of Global Authoritarianism4
Early‐life impairments, chronic health conditions, and income mobility4
Only Fools Believe Their Theories Are Finished Products! Thirty Years of Updates to the ‘Racialized Social Systems’ Approach to Race Matters4
Comparing Transgender Identities in the Census of Scotland and the Census of England and Wales4
A Nation of Shopkeepers: The Unstoppable Rise of the Petty Bourgeoisie. By DanEvans, London: Repeater Books, 2023. 330 pp. £12.99 (paperback). ISBN: 978‐1‐91‐346269‐74
Continuing complexity: The university careers of a scientific elite in relation to their class origins and schooling3
Does educational attainment matter for attitudes toward immigrants in Chile? Assessing the causality and generalizability of higher education's so‐called “liberalizing effect” on economic and cultural3
Issue Information ‐ List Of Books Reviewed3
The Quantified Scholar: An introduction to the book3
In sight, in mind: Spatial proximity to protest sites and changes in peoples' political attitudes3
Job Insecurity and Life Courses. By SoniaBertolini, ValentinaGoglio, and DirkHofäcker, Bristol: Bristol University Press. 20243
(Dis)trust in Digital Insurance: How Datafied Practices Shift Uncertainties and Reconfigure Trust Relations3
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Variations in media framing of movements in China, France, and the U.S.: An intersectional approach3
What cultural hierarchy? Cultural tastes, status and inequality3
The government of emergency: Vital systems, expertise, and the politics of security. By Stephen J.Collier and AndrewLakoff, Princeton University Press. 20213
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The big con. How the consulting industry weakens our businesses, infantilizes our governments and warps our economies. By MarianaMazzucato and RosieCollington. Penguin. 2023. pp. 352.3
De(‐)Meaning Anti‐Racism3
Contesting individualization and individualism in marriage in East Asia: Dual‐income couples' monetary practices3
Side hustle safety net: How vulnerable workers survive precarious times. By AlexandreaRavenelle, Oakland: University of California Press. 2023. 344 pages. £25. ISBN: 97805203873003
What Is Justice? Reflections on the Criminal Justice System in Brazil3
Dynamics of wilful ignorance in organizations3
A conceptual refinement of ritual: The case of guanxi3
Lagging behind by doing good: How volunteering prolongs unemployment3
Class Ruptures and Openings: The Role of Social and Family History in Narratives on Class Mobility and Reproduction3
The temporality of memory politics: An analysis of Russian state media narratives on the war in Ukraine3
Cruel optimism, affective governmentality and frontline poverty governance: ‘You can promise the world’3
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Rituals, Runaways, and the Haitian Revolution: Collective Action in the African Diaspora. By C. N.Eddins, 2021. 360 pp. £20.07 (paperback), open access (online)3
Risk, Reciprocity, and Academic Pursuit in India2
The Negotiation of Intergenerational Support for Housing: Diverging Patterns Among Renters and Homeowners2
The Politics of Knowledge: Race, Decolonial Knowledge, and Activist Research in Belgium and the UK2
How kin help with parental investments2
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The Normative Turn: Back to Hobhouse?2
Privileged Precarity: How the Mobile Middle Class Leverage Housing Insecurity as Labour Market Strategy2
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Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto. By KoheiSaito, New York, USA: Astra House. 2024. pp. 288. $18.00 (paperback). ISBN: 97816626027262
Elite recruitment in US finance: How university prestige is used to secure top executive positions2
Religious residue: The impact of childhood religious socialization on the religiosity of nones in France, Germany, Great Britain, and Sweden2
The neoliberal multicultural state and the urban Indigenous associative model in Santiago de Chile2
“Now we don't have that freedom to not work”: Childhood and parenting in insecurity culture2
Life funds, urban development, and the experimental practices of financial sociology2
‘Levelling up’ social mobility? Comparing the social and spatial mobility for university graduates across districts of Britain2
The Link Between Contextual Poverty and Academic Achievement: Evidence Using Panel Data From a Lower‐Middle‐Income Country2
The New Petty Bourgeoisie Versus the Lumpen PMC? A Nation of Shopkeepers: The Unstoppable Rise of the Petty Bourgeoisie by D. Evans, London: Repeater Books, 2023, 300 pp. £12.99 (paperback). ISBN-10: 2
Engineering Apprenticeships: Youth Transitions, Industrial Capital and the Role of Working‐Class Households2
How Class Influences the Ethnic Identity of Chinese Immigrants in the UK: Citizenship, Work, and Solidarity2
Laying Grounds for Dialogue: Exploring Anti‐Racist Activists' Negotiations of Emotions When Challenging Colour‐Blindness in Norway2
Review of the Book The Chile Project . By SebastiánEdwards, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2023. 376 pp. $32.00/£28.00. ISBN: 97806912
Trolling is Not the Point: Ideological Violence and the Limits of Digital Safety2
Race, Class, Parenting and Children's Leisure: Children's Leisurescapes and Parenting Cultures in Middle‐Class British Indian Families. By UtsaMukherjee, Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2023. 169 p2
Dimensions of class identification? On the roots and effects of class identity2
Royal power in the market‐oriented society: The Swedish King's consecration of business and corporate elites2
What's good for the gander is even better for the goose: Women buying commercial sex in China2
Criminal Records as Classification Situations2
Regional variation in intergenerational social mobility in Britain2
Urban Power: Democracy and Inequality in São Paulo and Johannesburg. By BenjaminBradlow, New York: Princeton University Press, 2024. 224 pp. $29.95/£25.00 (paper)2
Reconsidering reparations. By Olúfẹ́mi O.Táíwò, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 20222
Convertibility of Cultural Capital: A Longitudinal Study of University Students From 2017 to 20242
Review of running the family firm. By LauraClancy, Manchester: Manchester University Press. pp. 336. £15.991
The Politics of Unpaid Labour: How the Study of Unpaid Labour Can Help Address Inequality in Precarious Work. By V.Pulignano and M.Domecka, Oxford University Press, 2025. 299 pp1
Neighbourhood Effects Across Generations and the Reproduction of Inequality1
Understanding the Role of Migration, Culture and Transnational Ties in Family Financial Assistance With Home Ownership1
Capital and the Family1
Racial Health Equity and the Question of Black (Non?) Being: Exploring the Uses of Afropessimism in Approaches to Anti‐Racist Health Promotion1
The Mysterious Stranger and Modern Enchantment1
How investors account for the quick and the dead1
Meritocratic beliefs in the United States, Finland, and China: A multidimensional approach using latent class analysis1
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The Worldviews of Elites: Differences Between Inheritors and Newcomers1
Unnatural Wills: Inheritance Disputes and Inequality1
Therapy Culture for the Business Class: Exploring How CEO Peer Groups Make and Legitimate Elite Cohesion1
The social life of money for children1
The social life of creative methods: Filmmaking, fabulation and recovery1
Caught Between Ideology and Self‐Interest: Subjective Social Status and Meritocratic Beliefs Shape Whether People Perceive, Feel Anger About, and Want to Change Economic Conflict1
Facing arrhythmia. Reconstructing time in the pandemic by the metropolitan creative classes in Poland1
The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won’t Save the Planet. By BrettChristophers, London: Verso Books,2024. 442 pp. Hardback $29.95, Paperback $19.95, e‐book $9.991
Political economy of colonial and post‐colonial India. By Aditya Mukherjee, Delhi: Primus Books. 2022. pp. 5751
Ficto‐Primitive Capital: What Wellness Seekers Gain From Practicing Shamanism and Other Healing Traditions1
The rise of central banks: State power in financial capitalism. By LeonWansleben, Harvard University Press. 20231
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Generations, events, and social movement legacies: Unpacking social change in English football (1980–2023)1
Thinking against empire: Anticolonial thought as social theory1
Seeking western men: Mail‐order brides under China’s global rise. By MonicaLiu, Stanford University Press. 20221
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Life Course Social Mobility and Parenthood. Counterfactual Estimates of the Motherhood Class Penalty in Britain1
Marriage, Wealth, and the Spread of Cohabitation in Canada1
Civic involvement in deprived communities: A longitudinal study of England1
The socioeconomic dimensions of racial inequality in South Africa: A social space perspective1
Opportunities and Alliances: The Relational Dynamics of Criminal Collusion in Latin America1
The coloniality of age: Navigating the chronopolitics of Black childhood1
Corrigendum to “Getting Ahead in the Social Sciences: How Parenthood and Publishing Contribute to Gender Gaps in Academic Career Advancement” [ British Journal of Sociology 1
From a national elite to the global elite: Possibilities and problems in scaling up1
The dispositif is alive! Recovering social agents in Foucauldian analysis1
Karl Popper Versus Karl Mannheim on Sociology and Democratic Governance1
The Quantified Scholar: How Research Evaluations Transformed the British Social Sciences. By Juan PabloPardo‐Guerra, Columbia University Press. 2022. pp. 272. US$35.00 (paperback)1
The culture trap: Ethnic expectations and unequal schooling for black youth, By DerronWallace, New York, NY: Oxford University Press. 2023. pp. 312. $30.99. ISBN: 97801975314711
Distinctions in the making: A theoretical discussion of youth and cultural capital1
Income change and sympathy for right‐wing populist parties in the Netherlands: The role of gender and income inequality within households1
Fairness Evaluations of Higher Education Graduates’ Earnings: The Role of Female Preference for Equality and Self‐Interest1
Exploring normative frameworks of fairness through (relational) institutional habitus in Oxford's undergraduate admissions process1
Review of The Sound of Difference: Race, Class and the Politics of 'Diversity' in Classical Music By KristinaKolbe, 2024, Manchester University Press, vii + 281 pp., #85 (hardcover), ISBN 9781526165491
“We Represent a Definite Social Class”: The Class Identities and Resources of American Religious Groups in the Roaring Twenties1
Family socioeconomic status and sibling correlations in upper secondary education. An empirical analysis of educational inequalities in Italy1
Description, Articulation and Limitations in the Social Theory of Insurance1
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Global Inequality of Opportunity in Education Decreased During the 20th Century0
Relatability as a Racialised Construct in Corporate Graduate Recruitment: Revealing a Hidden Mechanism of Labour Market Exclusion for Black African Youth in South Africa0
Different while being similar: The dual institutional process and differential organizational status0
Social Justice in Post‐Conflict Societies: Lessons From Northern Ireland0
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Superyachts: Luxury, Tranquillity, and Ecocide. By GregorySalle, Cambridge: Polity Press. 2024, pp. 122. ISBN: 987‐1‐5095‐5995‐40
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The Power Elite in Greenland0
Does Inequality Blur Class Lines? Meritocratic Attitudes in Comparative Perspective0
Doubly disadvantaged: Unemployment, young age, and electoral participation in the United Kingdom0
Parenthood and dynamics of life satisfaction in times of COVID‐190
Conceptualising informal institutions: Drawing on the case of guanxi0
When Universities Turn Carceral: Between Academic Freedom and Elimination0
Understanding Catastrophe Insurance as a Commons?0
How Should We Speed the Green Transition—By Promoting Profit, or Circumventing It? London, 397 pp. £22.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978‐1‐80429‐230‐30
Global Fields and Migration Regimes: Citizenship by Investment0
Social inequality in completion rates in higher education: Heterogeneity in educational fields0
The Ties That Rhyme: Duality in Symbolic and Structural Networks of Grime Music0
Exploring the utility of eye tracking for sociological research on race0
Blackstone vs BlackRock0
Positioning precarity: The contingent nature of precarious work in structure and practice0
The Sociogenomics of Social Stratification and General Theories of Inequality0
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Niklas Luhmann's Unknown Class Theory and Its Explanatory Potential for the Clustering of Inequalities0
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Unbottled: The fight Against Plastic Water and for Water Justice. By Jaffee, D, The University of California Press, 2023. 384 pp. £80.00 (hardback), £24.00 (paperback). ISBN: 97805203066220
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More Than the Sum of Multiple Care: Ambivalence in Sandwich Care0
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Demystifying the link between higher education and liberal values: A within‐sibship analysis of British individuals’ attitudes from 1994–20200
Democracy From Within: A Democratic Cultural Schema in the US Public0
Classified out of society? How educational classification induces political alienation through feelings of misrecognition0
Students' Interactional Cultural Capital and Academic Performance in Test‐ and Teacher‐Based Assessments0
Elite mobility and continuity during a regime change0
Class, gender and the work of working‐class women amid turbulent times0
Politicising Commodification. European Governance and Labour Politics from the Financial Crisis to the Covid Emergency. By RolandErne, SabrinaStan, DarraghGolden, ImreSzabo, and VincenzoMaccarone, Cam0
Far‐right boundary construction towards the “other”: Visual communication of Danish People’s Party on social media0
Social Mobility, Self‐Selection, and the Persistence of Class Inequality in Electoral Participation0
Armed robbery and the meanings of money0
Bankruptcy, Bubbles and Bailouts: The Inside History of The Treasury Since 1976. By AeronDavis, Manchester University Press, April 2024. 309 pp (paperback edition). ISBN: 978‐1‐5261‐7746‐90
At risk: Indian sexual politics and the global AIDS crisis. By Gowri Vijayakumar, Stanford University Press. 2021. pp. 258. $26 (pbk)0
Becoming and unbecoming academics: Classed resources and strategies for navigating risky careers0
Review of social mobility, social inequality, and the role of higher education. By Elena G.Popkova, Bruno S.Sergi, Konstantin V.Vodenko, Boston: Koninklijke Brill NV. 2023. pp. 388. €163.00 (paperback0
The self in selfies—Conceptualizing the selfie‐coordination of marginalized youth with sociology of engagements0
Excavating Early Burawoy: Toward a Third Position in the Race‐Class Debates0
“Because we all love K‐Pop”: How young adults reshape symbolic boundaries in Paris, Manchester, and Philadelphia0
How the Radical Right Has Changed Capitalism and Welfare in Europe and the USA. By PhilipRathgeb, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. 232 pp. £84. ISBN: 97801928663320
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The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State0
Are economists overconfident? Ideology and uncertainty in expert opinion0
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