OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of British Journal of Sociology is 4. 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.)

Article	Citations
Relations of extraction, relations of redistribution: Empire, nation, and the construction of the British welfare state	45
Ordinal citizenship	33
“This is a political movement, friend”: Why “incels” support violence	30
‘More options…less time’ in the ‘hustle culture’ of ‘generation sensible’: Individualization and drinking decline among twenty‐first century young adults	22
The absorption and multiplication of uncertainty in machine‐learning‐driven finance	20
Brahmin Left versus Merchant Right? Education, class, multiparty competition, and redistribution in Western Europe	20
Habitus and climate change: Exploring support and resistance to sustainable welfare and social–ecological transformations in Sweden	19
Post‐industrial masculinities and gym culture: Graft, craft, and fraternity	18
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 politicians	16
Participation in civil society organizations and ethnic minorities’ interethnic friendships in Britain	14
Primary and secondary effects of social origins on educational attainment: New findings for England	14
(Dis)Engagement with queer counterpublics: Exploring intimate and family lives in online and offline spaces in China	13
From parvenu to “highbrow” tastes: The rise of cultural capital in China’s intergenerational elites	12
A revolt of the deplored? The role of perceived cultural distance in the educational gradient in anti‐establishment politics	12
From starving artist to entrepreneur. Justificatory pluralism in visual artists' grant proposals	12
Survival finance and the politics of equal pay	12
Older Iranian Muslim women’s experiences of sex and sexuality: A biographical approach	12
Unveiling everyday discrimination. Two field experiments on discrimination against religious minorities in day‐to‐day interactions	12
The intergenerational transmission of language skill	12
A “Phoenix” rising from the ashes: China’s Tongqi, marriage fraud, and resistance	11
The adaptation of educational expectations in response to ability tracking: Variations by migration background	10
Ethnic inequality in choice‐ and performance‐driven education systems: A longitudinal study of educational choices in England, Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden	10
Belonging, believing, behaving, and Brexit: Channels of religiosity and religious identity in support for leaving the European Union*	10
Rethinking respectability politics	10

How (not) to feed young children: A class‐cultural analysis of food parenting practices	10
Data money makers: An ethnographic analysis of a global cryptocurrency community	9
Temporality in the social sciences: New directions for a political sociology of time	9
Terrorist attacks and minority perceived discrimination	9
Damaged hardmen: Organized crime and the half‐life of deindustrialization	8
“Involved in something (involucrado en algo)”: Denial and stigmatization in Mexico’s “war on drugs”	8
“It's hard to become mothers”: The moral economy of postponing motherhood in neoliberal Chile	8
The dark side of onward migration: Experiences and strategies of Italian‐Bangladeshis in the UK at the time of the post‐Brexit referendum	8
“How you keep going”: Voluntary sector practitioners' story‐lines as emotion work	7
From integrated to fragmented elites. The core of Swiss elite networks 1910–2015	7
Conceptualising informal institutions: Drawing on the case of guanxi	7
Spatial and social mobility in England and Wales: A sub‐national analysis of differences and trends over time	7
“If no one grieves, no one will remember”: Cultural palimpsests and the creation of social ties through rituals	7
Far‐right boundary construction towards the “other”: Visual communication of Danish People’s Party on social media	6
“You have to do something”: Snoring, sleep interembodiment and the emergence of agency	6
Narrating inequality, eliding empire	6
Resilience as a multi‐directional movement process: A conceptual and empirical exploration	6
Dynamics of wilful ignorance in organizations	6
The social infrastructure of online marketplaces: Trade, work and the interplay of decided and emergent orders	6
Social capital as a partial explanation for gender wage gaps	6
Thinking against empire: Anticolonial thought as social theory	6
How the past becomes the past: The temporal positioning of collective memory	6
Who you know: The classed structure of social capital	6
What cultural hierarchy? Cultural tastes, status and inequality	6
Just what is critical race theory, and what is it doing in British sociology? From “BritCrit” to the racialized social system approach	6
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 interaction	6
How happenings do (not) turn into events: A typology and an application to the case of 9/11 in the American and Dutch public spheres	6
The paradox of local inequality: Meritocratic beliefs in unequal localities	6
Piketty comes to South Africa	6
From workers to capitalists in less than two generations: A study of Chinese urban top group transformation between 1988 and 2013	6
A divided kingdom? Variation in polarization, sorting, and dimensional alignment among the British public, 1986–2018	5
Public support for social security in 66 countries: Prosperity, inequality, and household income as interactive causes	5
Dynastic cores and the borrowed time of newcomers. Wealth accumulation and the Norwegian one percent	5
Childhood disability, social class and social mobility: A neglected relationship	5
Breaking the silence on femicide: How women challenge epistemic injustice and male violence	5
Profile of the super rich in China: A social space analysis	5
“The whole thing is really managing crisis”: Practice theory insights into interpreters' work experiences of success and failure	5
Outward specific trust in the balancing of hierarchical government trust: Evidence from mainland China	5
“The media love the artificial versions of what’s going on”: Media (mis)representations of Down’s syndrome	5
Societal religiosity and the gender gap in political interest, 1990–2014	5
The structure of food taste in 21^st century Britain	5
Anywheres, Somewheres, local attachment, and civic participation	4
Historical change in an elite profession—Class origins and grades among law graduates over 200 years	4
Below the radar: A U.K. benefit fraud media coverage tsunami—Impact, ideology, and society	4
Epistemology of surveillance: Revealing unmarked forms of discipline and punishment in Israeli academia	4
Public life as identity construction: A case study based on an SL square‐dancing group in Shanghai	4
Religious residue: The impact of childhood religious socialization on the religiosity of nones in France, Germany, Great Britain, and Sweden	4
The social origins and schooling of a scientific elite: Fellows of the Royal Society born from 1900	4
Legacies of civil wars: A 14‐year study of social conflicts and well‐being outcomes in farming economies	4

The resentful undergrowth of nostalgia: Ontological insecurity, relative deprivation and powerlessness	4
Income inequality, cultural capital, and high school students' academic achievement in OECD countries: A moderated mediation analysis	4
Black lives matter, capital, and ideology: Spiraling out from India	4
Making financial uncertainty count: Unit‐linked insurance, investment and the individualisation of financial risk in British life insurance	4
Caregiving fathers and the negotiation of crossroads: Journeys of continuity and change	4
Understanding autonomy and relationality in men's lives	4
“I don’t think anybody really knows”: Constructing reflexive ignorance in climate change adaptation	4
Intersectionality on the go: The diffusion of Black feminist knowledge across disciplinary and geographical borders	4
Agricultural capitalism, climatology and the “stabilization” of climate in the United States, 1850–1920	4
Lives on track? Long‐term earnings returns to selective school placement in England and Denmark	4
Parenthood and dynamics of life satisfaction in times of COVID‐19	4
Elite recruitment in US finance: How university prestige is used to secure top executive positions	4
How moderates make boundaries after protracted conflict. Everyday universalists, agonists, transformists and cosmopolitans in contemporary Northern Ireland	4