British Journal of Sociology

Papers
(The median citation count of British Journal of Sociology is 1. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Relations of extraction, relations of redistribution: Empire, nation, and the construction of the British welfare state45
Ordinal citizenship33
“This is a political movement, friend”: Why “incels” support violence30
‘More options…less time’ in the ‘hustle culture’ of ‘generation sensible’: Individualization and drinking decline among twenty‐first century young adults22
Brahmin Left versus Merchant Right? Education, class, multiparty competition, and redistribution in Western Europe20
The absorption and multiplication of uncertainty in machine‐learning‐driven finance20
Habitus and climate change: Exploring support and resistance to sustainable welfare and social–ecological transformations in Sweden19
Post‐industrial masculinities and gym culture: Graft, craft, and fraternity18
Understanding the social and cultural bases of Brexit*17
“They don’t know what it’s like to be at the bottom”: Exploring the role of perceived cultural distance in less‐educated citizens’ discontent with politicians16
Primary and secondary effects of social origins on educational attainment: New findings for England14
Participation in civil society organizations and ethnic minorities’ interethnic friendships in Britain14
(Dis)Engagement with queer counterpublics: Exploring intimate and family lives in online and offline spaces in China13
Survival finance and the politics of equal pay12
Older Iranian Muslim women’s experiences of sex and sexuality: A biographical approach12
Unveiling everyday discrimination. Two field experiments on discrimination against religious minorities in day‐to‐day interactions12
The intergenerational transmission of language skill12
From parvenu to “highbrow” tastes: The rise of cultural capital in China’s intergenerational elites12
A revolt of the deplored? The role of perceived cultural distance in the educational gradient in anti‐establishment politics12
From starving artist to entrepreneur. Justificatory pluralism in visual artists' grant proposals12
A “Phoenix” rising from the ashes: China’s Tongqi, marriage fraud, and resistance11
How (not) to feed young children: A class‐cultural analysis of food parenting practices10
The adaptation of educational expectations in response to ability tracking: Variations by migration background10
Ethnic inequality in choice‐ and performance‐driven education systems: A longitudinal study of educational choices in England, Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden10
Belonging, believing, behaving, and Brexit: Channels of religiosity and religious identity in support for leaving the European Union*10
Rethinking respectability politics10
Terrorist attacks and minority perceived discrimination9
Data money makers: An ethnographic analysis of a global cryptocurrency community9
Temporality in the social sciences: New directions for a political sociology of time9
“It's hard to become mothers”: The moral economy of postponing motherhood in neoliberal Chile8
The dark side of onward migration: Experiences and strategies of Italian‐Bangladeshis in the UK at the time of the post‐Brexit referendum8
Damaged hardmen: Organized crime and the half‐life of deindustrialization8
“Involved in something (involucrado en algo)”: Denial and stigmatization in Mexico’s “war on drugs”8
Spatial and social mobility in England and Wales: A sub‐national analysis of differences and trends over time7
“If no one grieves, no one will remember”: Cultural palimpsests and the creation of social ties through rituals7
“How you keep going”: Voluntary sector practitioners' story‐lines as emotion work7
From integrated to fragmented elites. The core of Swiss elite networks 1910–20157
Conceptualising informal institutions: Drawing on the case of guanxi7
Thinking against empire: Anticolonial thought as social theory6
How the past becomes the past: The temporal positioning of collective memory6
Who you know: The classed structure of social capital6
What cultural hierarchy? Cultural tastes, status and inequality6
Just what is critical race theory, and what is it doing in British sociology? From “BritCrit” to the racialized social system approach6
From occupational to existential class: How to analyze class structure in hybrid societies (The case of Serbia)6
Contested ease: Negotiating contradictory modes of elite distinction in face‐to‐face interaction6
How happenings do (not) turn into events: A typology and an application to the case of 9/11 in the American and Dutch public spheres6
The paradox of local inequality: Meritocratic beliefs in unequal localities6
Piketty comes to South Africa6
From workers to capitalists in less than two generations: A study of Chinese urban top group transformation between 1988 and 20136
Far‐right boundary construction towards the “other”: Visual communication of Danish People’s Party on social media6
“You have to do something”: Snoring, sleep interembodiment and the emergence of agency6
Narrating inequality, eliding empire6
Resilience as a multi‐directional movement process: A conceptual and empirical exploration6
Dynamics of wilful ignorance in organizations6
The social infrastructure of online marketplaces: Trade, work and the interplay of decided and emergent orders6
Social capital as a partial explanation for gender wage gaps6
“The media love the artificial versions of what’s going on”: Media (mis)representations of Down’s syndrome5
Societal religiosity and the gender gap in political interest, 1990–20145
The structure of food taste in 21st century Britain5
A divided kingdom? Variation in polarization, sorting, and dimensional alignment among the British public, 1986–20185
Public support for social security in 66 countries: Prosperity, inequality, and household income as interactive causes5
Dynastic cores and the borrowed time of newcomers. Wealth accumulation and the Norwegian one percent5
Childhood disability, social class and social mobility: A neglected relationship5
Breaking the silence on femicide: How women challenge epistemic injustice and male violence5
Profile of the super rich in China: A social space analysis5
“The whole thing is really managing crisis”: Practice theory insights into interpreters' work experiences of success and failure5
Outward specific trust in the balancing of hierarchical government trust: Evidence from mainland China5
The resentful undergrowth of nostalgia: Ontological insecurity, relative deprivation and powerlessness4
Income inequality, cultural capital, and high school students' academic achievement in OECD countries: A moderated mediation analysis4
Black lives matter, capital, and ideology: Spiraling out from India4
Making financial uncertainty count: Unit‐linked insurance, investment and the individualisation of financial risk in British life insurance4
Caregiving fathers and the negotiation of crossroads: Journeys of continuity and change4
Understanding autonomy and relationality in men's lives4
“I don’t think anybody really knows”: Constructing reflexive ignorance in climate change adaptation4
Intersectionality on the go: The diffusion of Black feminist knowledge across disciplinary and geographical borders4
Agricultural capitalism, climatology and the “stabilization” of climate in the United States, 1850–19204
Lives on track? Long‐term earnings returns to selective school placement in England and Denmark4
Parenthood and dynamics of life satisfaction in times of COVID‐194
Elite recruitment in US finance: How university prestige is used to secure top executive positions4
How moderates make boundaries after protracted conflict. Everyday universalists, agonists, transformists and cosmopolitans in contemporary Northern Ireland4
Anywheres, Somewheres, local attachment, and civic participation4
Historical change in an elite profession—Class origins and grades among law graduates over 200 years4
Below the radar: A U.K. benefit fraud media coverage tsunami—Impact, ideology, and society4
Epistemology of surveillance: Revealing unmarked forms of discipline and punishment in Israeli academia4
Public life as identity construction: A case study based on an SL square‐dancing group in Shanghai4
Religious residue: The impact of childhood religious socialization on the religiosity of nones in France, Germany, Great Britain, and Sweden4
The social origins and schooling of a scientific elite: Fellows of the Royal Society born from 19004
Legacies of civil wars: A 14‐year study of social conflicts and well‐being outcomes in farming economies4
Social stratification in meaningful work: Occupational class disparities in the United Kingdom3
School‐to‐work transition and subjective well‐being in Australia3
Planning versus the market: The dispute between Hayek and Mannheim and its contemporary relevance3
Felt deficits in time with children: Individual and contextual factors across 27 European countries3
Property, wealth, and social change: Piketty as a social science engineer3
From liberal to neoliberal citizenship: A commentary on Marion Fourcade3
Capital and ideology: A global perspective on inequality regimes3
The self in selfies—Conceptualizing the selfie‐coordination of marginalized youth with sociology of engagements3
Trouble with autonomy in behavioral insurance3
Embracing the nation: Strategic deployment of sexuality, nation, and citizenship in Singapore3
Demystifying the link between higher education and liberal values: A within‐sibship analysis of British individuals’ attitudes from 1994–20203
We were never cool: Investigating knowledge production and discourses of cool in the sociology of music3
A counterexample to secularization theory? Assessing the Georgian religious revival3
“I was discriminated against because I was seen as PRC‐Chinese”: The negotiation between ethnicity and nationalism among Taiwanese migrants in Australia3
Hollywood experts: A field analysis of knowledge production in American entertainment television3
Precarious bodies: The securitization of the “veiled” woman in European human rights3
Revisiting the “Great Levelling”: The limits of Piketty’sCapital and Ideologyfor understanding the rise of late 20th century inequality3
Navigating the nationalist landscape of exclusion: Armenian citizens of Turkey and the politics of naming3
Assimilated or the boundary of Whiteness expanded? A boundary model of group belonging2
The radical ambitions of counter‐radicalization2
Class and status in interwar England: Current issues in the light of a historical case2
All about ideology? Reading Piketty´s with Latin American lenses2
Respectability and boundary making on a superdiverse housing estate: The cross‐racial deployment of intra‐ethnic stereotypes2
Humanitarianism, securitization, and containment in Jordan's Za'atari Refugee Camp2
Pathways from origins to destinations: Stability and change in the roles of cognition, private schools and educational attainment2
Neoliberal precarity and primalization: A biosocial perspective on the age of insecurity, injustice, and unreason2
Race as technology and the carceral methodologies of molecular racialization2
Neither acquiescence nor defiance: Tuscan wineries' “flexible reactivity” to the Italian government's quality regulation system2
Are economists overconfident? Ideology and uncertainty in expert opinion2
Webs of reciprocity: Colonial taxation and the need for reparations2
Who's a good citizen? Status and power in minority and majority youths' conceptions of citizenship2
One foot on shore: An analysis of global millionaires' demand for U.S. investor visas2
Gender balance in the workforce and abortion attitudes: A cross‐national time‐series analysis2
Dissecting the “do good and do well” phenomenon: The case of the UK's market for social investment2
The contextual effect of trust on perceived support: Evidence from Roma and non‐Roma in East‐Central Europe2
Distinctions in the making: A theoretical discussion of youth and cultural capital2
“Because we all love K‐Pop”: How young adults reshape symbolic boundaries in Paris, Manchester, and Philadelphia2
Dimensions of class identification? On the roots and effects of class identity2
The relational costs of crossing class lines2
Resilience in the context ofconflict‐relatedsexual violence and beyond: A “sentient ecology” framework2
“There's just too many”: The construction of immigration as a social problem2
Consecration and meritocracy in elite business schools: The case of a Swedish student union1
Who still needs the nation? Empire, identity and the British welfare state1
After inclusion. Thinking with Julian Go's ‘Thinking against empire: Anticolonial thought as social theory’1
“Relations of extraction”: Some issues for social policy1
Social class and approaches to shaping educational expectations1
“If at First You don’t Succeed”: Why Žižek Failed in France but Succeeded in England1
Professionalism in the era of accountability: Role discrepancy and responses among teachers in the Netherlands1
How educational systems respond to diversity, inclusion and social justice: Disability, power, discipline, territoriality and deterritorialization1
Race, risk, and American religious groups' views of Nazi Germany in 19351
Liberal‐secular power and the traps of muslim integration in Western Europe1
Early‐life impairments, chronic health conditions, and income mobility1
Continuing complexity: The university careers of a scientific elite in relation to their class origins and schooling1
The lives of others: Class divisions, network segregation, and attachment to society in Chile1
Institutional underpinnings, global reach, and the future of ordinal citizenship1
Minding the curve: The influence of social origin on earnings inequality by education in Mexico1
The education gap over immigration and socioeconomic security1
Exploring the utility of eye tracking for sociological research on race1
Inequality and the Chinese elite: Between international convergence and national divergence1
Debating Capital and Ideology: An introduction to the special issue1
The rainbow connection: Disrupting background affect, overcoming barriers and emergent emotional collectives at “Pride in London”1
Different while being similar: The dual institutional process and differential organizational status1
From public to commercial service: State‐market hybridization in the UK visa and immigration permit infrastructure, 1997–20211
The hidden majority/minority consensus: Minorities show similar preference patterns of immigrant support as the majority population1
Sociology after the postcolonial: Response to Julian Go's ‘thinking against empire’1
Unpolitical solutionism: Wealth elite sentiments against democracy and politics1
Elite mobility and continuity during a regime change1
In sight, in mind: Spatial proximity to protest sites and changes in peoples' political attitudes1
The transformation of Industrial Citizenship in the course of European integration1
The Scylla State. A gendered understanding of the experiences of marginalised women in the United Kingdom1
The paradoxical role of social class background in the educational and labour market outcomes of the children of immigrants in the UK1
Social character, interdependence, and the dualities of other‐directedness1
Does belief in meritocracy increase with inequality? A reconsideration for European countries1
‘We need to start building up what's called herd immunity’: Scientific dissensus and public broadcasting in the Covid‐19 pandemic1
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From where do legislators draw scientific knowledge? Organizations as scientific authorities in four countries' parliamentary debates1
Occupational mobility and cognitive ability: A commentary on Betthäuser, Bourne and Bukodi1
Charismatic authority and fractured polities: A cross‐national analysis1
Cultural capital and perception of teacher‐student relationships: Uncovering inequalities at schools in China1
The role of patriarchal structure and gender stereotypes in cyber dating abuse: A qualitative examination of male perpetrators experiences1
Individualism without full individualization? The compressed life trajectories of the Tibetan graduates of an English training program1
“Surveillance capitalism” and the angst of the petit sovereign1
Welfare brokers and European Union migrants' access to social protection1
Pursuing individualism without feminism: Leisure life and gender politics of young female bar‐goers in urban China1
Doubly disadvantaged: Unemployment, young age, and electoral participation in the United Kingdom1
Managing racism? Race equality and decolonial educational futures1
The aesthetics of hierarchy1
Performing the people: Review of Isaac Ariail Reed’s Power in modernity: Agency relations and the creative destruction of the king’s two bodies1
The more it changes the more it stays the same: The French social space of material consumption between 1985 and 20171
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