Sociological Review

Papers
(The median citation count of Sociological Review is 2. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Convivial narratives as agency: Middle-class Muslims evading racialisation in Copenhagen33
The familiar strange of sociological fiction32
Owing the daughter-in-law: Bridewealth and the dynamics of intergenerational care in rural China30
New forms of distinction: How contemporary cultural elites understand ‘good’ taste23
Assembling consensual non-monogamy: Intimacies and multiplicities22
The physicality of mindsports through elite bridge players’ sensorial experiences: Presence, confidence and bodies21
The ordinariness of life-making in displacement: Young Ukrainian workers’ care and work in Warsaw after 202220
Financing elite education: Economic capital and the maintenance of class power in English private schools20
Neoliberal multiculturalism and ethnic entrepreneurial self: A transnational perspective on ethnicity in China20
Turning over Stoke-on-Trent (pottery): Ritual, affect and haunting19
Revisiting young masculinities through a sound art installation: What really counts?18
Governing progress: From cybernetic homeostasis to Simondon’s politics of metastability17
Translating ‘Understanding’/ understanding translation: A reflexive approach16
Compassionate responsibilisation in a neoliberal paternalistic homelessness system: ‘They’re not just numbers to me, I do actually care’16
Dystopian fiction, postcolonialism and non-human biography: Sociological speculatives and crisis complexity15
Who counts in poverty research?15
You’ll never walk alone: Theorizing engaged walking with Doreen Massey14
Sinners, saints, and racialized scapegoats: (Mis)interpellation and subject positions in the face of citizenship revocation in Norway14
Women as subjects of risk in Bangladesh’s coastal riskscapes14
Deep listening, slow relationships, world-making: Indigenous and feminist ecological reflections on the Listening Guide and the Live Methods Manifesto14
Time with houseplants: A sociological analysis of temporalities, affective entanglements and practices of care14
Rejecting resistance: Everyday resistance and harmony in Chinese hip-hop14
Not coming out as affective care: LGBTQ+ individuals navigating the feeling landscape of intergenerational relationships13
‘People just dae wit they can tae get by’: Exploring the half-life of deindustrialisation in a Scottish community13
Varieties of alternativeness: Relational practices in collaborative housing in Vienna13
Freedom and unfreedom in au pairing: Probing unfree labour from the perspective of social reproduction12
Apprehension of reproducing racialized stigmas in storytelling on street harassment in France: ‘I feel I’d just be adding to the stereotype’12
From godkin to oddkin: Love, friendship and kin making beyond the human family12
Accent and the manifestation of spatialised class structure12
Creating a safer space: Being safe and doing safety in queer and feminist punk scenes*12
Navigating cultural intimacies: Long-lasting friendships in the Scottish South Asian diasporas11
Higher education and social recognition: On the moral dimension of pupils’ aspirations and choices in Chile11
Introduction to Live Methods Revisited: The roots and conjuncture of Live Methods11
The drinking at home woman: Between alcohol harms and domestic experiments11
Racialised mobilities in China11
Becoming ‘working’ women: Formations of gender, class and caste in urban India11
Foot notes: Retracing the steps towards diagnosis11
Waiting for Tindaya: Modern ruins and indigenous futures in Fuerteventura10
Children’s food, care and the practices of da pei in urban China10
From Chateau Latour to Chateau Bourdieu: The sociology of wine between empire, class, ethnicity and gender (or, the oenologic of practice)10
Cryptocurrencies and the promise of individual economic sovereignty in an age of digitalization: A critical appraisal10
An interventionist sociologist: Stuart Hall, public engagement and racism10
The private life approach to the rise of neo-familism in China10
Pluriversal intersectionality, critique and utopia10
Spiral movement: Writing with fascism and urban violence9
Bourdieu on love: A latent capital, a primary field and a new research agenda9
What’s love got to do with it? Live methods and researching with children who have experienced domestic abuse and social work intervention9
Family strains, negative emotions and juvenile delinquency9
Racialised terminologies and the BAME problematic: A perspective from football’s British South Asian senior leaders and executives9
Some stories, more scenes9
Drugs, techno and the ecstasy of queer bodies9
Migrant NHS nurses as ‘tolerated’ citizens in post-Brexit Britain9
Nonsuicidal self-injury and intersubjective recognition: ‘You can’t argue with wounds’9
The nation’s happiness, women’s altruism and the affective politics of self-blame: Generating a ‘mood of commitment’9
Amnesia and the erasure of structural racism in criminal justice professionals’ accounts of the 2011 English disturbances8
The arrival of the Anthropocene in social theory: From modernism and Marxism towards a new materialism8
Rifted subjects, fractured Earth: ‘Progress’ as learning to live on a self-transforming planet8
Fiction in Goffman8
Contesting the universal claims of Western feminism: Black feminism and reproductive rights in France and the Overseas Departments (1960s–1980s)8
‘An incorporeal disease’: COVID-19, social trauma and health injustice in four Colombian Indigenous communities8
Following diversity through the university: On knowing and embodying a problem7
Love, laughter and solidarity on the docks in Liverpool, c.1950s–1990s7
Sociologically unspeakable? The ethics of ethnography and live methods7
What matters in the queer archive? Technologies of memory and Queering the Map7
Troubling grief: Spectrality, temporality, refusal, catharsis7
Race, rhetorical veneers and the virulence of colonial violence during COVID7
Emotion work, affect and intergenerational ties: Understanding children’s engagement with therapeutic culture7
Regimes of motherhood: Social class, the word gap and the optimisation of mothers’ talk7
Infrastructuring exit migration: Social hope and migration decision-making in EU families who left the UK after the 2016 EU referendum7
Performers as emotional artisans: Crafting displays in theatre and workload7
The commodification of unaccompanied child migration: A double move of enclosure7
Home as a site of resistance/repression? The intersection of family, politics and the Hong Kong 2019 protest movement7
The affective fields of working class among ‘Eastern European’ migrants in the UK7
Facemasks, material and metaphors: An analysis of socio-material dynamics of the COVID-19 pandemic7
‘When we put our thoughts and ideas together, policy makers are listening to us’: Hope-work and the potential of participatory research7
Emotions and emotional reflexivity in undocumented migrant youth activism6
Organising for Change one year later – Response to the critics6
The lines of descent of the present crisis6
Continuing personhood and the increasing bureaucratisation of death: ‘My dad doesn’t need electricity in heaven’6
Queering Southern Italy: Towards a conceptualisation of ‘Meridian Sexualities’6
Living with Brexit: Families, relationships and the temporalities of everyday personal life in ‘Brexit Britain’6
Capitalist realism is dead. Long live utopian realism! A sociological exegesis of Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future6
The affective infrastructure of a protest camp: Asylum seekers’ ‘Right to Live’ movement5
Dark waters, dark waters5
Spectral labour in the Fens of Eastern England5
Citizenship and discomfort: Wearing (clothing) as an embodied act of citizenship5
Non-binary embodiment and bodily discomfort: Body as social signum5
Green capitalism, climate change and the technological fix: A more-than-human assessment5
The politics of the urban green: Class, morality and attachments to place5
Claiming deservingness: The durability of social security claimant discourses during the Covid-19 pandemic5
Afterword: Affective histories and class transmission5
The material effects of Whiteness: Institutional racism in the German welfare state5
The far right, banal nationalism and the reproduction of Islamophobia through the consumer activist campaign of Boycott Halal5
Exploring the generational ordering of kinship through decisions about DNA testing and gamete donor conception: What’s the right age to know your donor relatives?5
Disjunctive writing in the urban skinscape: Bodies, borders and the physiology of attention in a Rio de Janeiro favela5
The ‘where’ of EU social science collaborations: How epistemic inequalities and geopolitical power asymmetries persist in research about Europe5
Convertible, multiple and hidden: The inventive lives of women’s sport and activewear 1890–19405
Tilting relationalities: Exploring the world through possible futures of agriculture5
Thinking about generations, conjuncturally: A toolkit5
Intercorporeality in visually impaired running-together: Auditory attunement and somatic empathy5
The ambiguous lives of ‘the other whites’: Class and racialisation of Eastern European migrants in the UK5
Learning the post-Fordist feeling rules: Young women’s work orientations and negotiations of the work ethic5
Rethinking elites in British sociology: Great Britain as a house-society5
The digital writing of human rights narratives: Failure, recognition, and the unruly inscriptions of database infrastructures5
Theorizing autonomy in the platform economy: A study of food delivery gig workers in Latvia5
In search of unbordered homelands: Exploring the role of music in building affective internationalist politics of solidarity5
Doing community in social distancing times: Faith, sociality and new embodied practices during the Covid-19 pandemic4
The (in)visibility of sewage management and problematization as strategy for public awareness4
Present feelings, feeling present: Liveness in research on time and feeling during the Covid-19 pandemic4
Time structures in ethnomethodological and conversation analysis studies of practical activity4
Ecological uncivilisation: Precarious world-making after progress4
By, for, with women? On the politics and potentialities of wellness entrepreneurship4
Corrigendum4
Straying with the Trouble: Science fiction, utopia and the anti-carceral imagination4
Mrs Hinch, the rise of the cleanfluencer and the neoliberal refashioning of housework: Scouring away the crisis?4
Sociography of a curious object: Descriptive research, the #OneLess refill pilot, and practices of hesitation4
Bordering through unchilding: The case of Britain’s child migrants4
Schools as public things: Parents and the affective relations of schooling4
Vanguard fantasies: The wealthy upper classes as politically spirited wealth elite establishment4
‘I do feel proud that almost everyone I know voted’: The emotional foundations of dutiful citizenship4
Cultivating cultural capital and transforming cultural fields: A study with arts and disability organisations in Europe4
Towards an empirically robust theory of stigma resistance in the ‘new’ sociology of stigma: Everyday resistance in sheltered workshops4
Ambivalent pleasures: Towards narcofeminist alterlife4
Frictional rhythms of climate work in city governance4
W. E. B. Du Bois’s forgotten sociology of morality: Contesting the foundations and informing the future of the sociology of morality4
Situating decolonial strategies within methodologies-in/as-practices: A critical appraisal4
Introduction4
Research failure, crip temporalities and bipolar time in UK higher education4
‘We are forever traumatized’ – Aseel Baidoun interviewed by Cairsti Russell4
Fear and loathing in north London: Experiencing estate regeneration as psychosocial degeneration4
Dirt, decency and the symbolic boundaries of caregiving in residential homes for older people4
Sociography: Writing Differently3
Reconceptualising Judith Butler’s theory of ‘grievability’ in relation to the UK’s ‘war on obesity’: Personal responsibility, biopolitics and disposability3
Intergenerational relations: Paradoxical integration of feelings, opportunities and issues3
Non-identity accounts: Personal myths, cultural scripts and narrative alignment3
Making the left behind as a subject of crisis3
Deconstructing giftedness: A relational analysis of the make-up of talent in theatrical dance3
Intergenerational living arrangements and older parents’ happiness in China: The role of family social capital3
De-communalising the hot pot: Chinese cuisine in Australia during COVID-193
Expanding the ‘Third Space’ between Western and non-Western knowledge: Nakane Chie’s Japanese Society as anti-Eurocentric theory3
State containment and closure of gendered possibilities among a millennial generation: On not knowing Muslim young men3
Fly-tipping and the sociology of abandonment3
Feminisation, governance and Roma on the urban margins3
Hospitality work and the sociality of affective labour3
An ontological turn in the sociology of personal life: Tracing facet methodology’s connective ontology3
Narcofeminism and its multiples: From activism to everyday minoritarian worldbuilding3
Grieving academic grant rejections: Examining funding failure and experiences of loss3
Explosive legacies: Gaza and colonial aphasia3
Cultural repertoires of school choice: Intersections of class, race and culture in Pretoria and Amsterdam3
Situating class in workplace and community environmentalism: Working-class environmentalism and deindustrialisation in Porto Marghera, Venice3
The Russian Revolution and photography: The tragic paradoxes of canonisation3
Cooking up change: Food practices and class trajectories across the life course3
Power relations and persistent low fertility among domestic workers in Latin America3
‘Clean communication’: Felt-sense methodologies and the reflexive researcher in equine-assisted personal development3
The value of the serious leisure perspective in understanding cultural capital embodiment in festival settings3
Technologies of abjection: The possessive logics and performative sovereignty of drug dog operations in New South Wales, Australia3
Cultivated invisibility and migrants’ experiences of homelessness during the COVID-19 pandemic3
The price of the ticket revised: Family members’ experiences of upward social mobility3
Algorithmic control and resistance in the gig economy: A case of Uber drivers in Dhaka3
Entanglements of race and migration in the (open) city: Analytical and normative tensions of the sociological imagination3
Figuring out fairness: The social construction of inheritance entitlements in close relationships2
Budgets and biologicals: The bio-economization of HIV governance2
Movement meaning of money: Monetary mobilization in Hong Kong’s prodemocracy movement2
Framing stigma as an avoidable social harm that widens inequality2
Aurality of images in graphic ethnographies: Sexual violence during wars and memories of the feelings of fear2
Difference and diversity: Combining multiculturalist and interculturalist approaches to integration2
The uses of poetry2
Feminised concern or feminist care? Reclaiming gender normativities in zero waste living2
Doing youth participatory action research (YPAR) with Bourdieu: An invitation to reflexive (participatory) sociology2
Implicated by scale: Anthropochemicals and the experience of ecology2
Live methods and live things: Cultivating attentiveness to dormant things to develop a vital sociology of the everyday2
Indigenous urbanisation and the decolonial possibilities of internal diasporas2
Epidemiological plots and the national syndrome2
Of parvenus, priests and prophets: An exploration of transformations of (some) economists and their subject2
Beyond recognition: Identification and disidentification in visual resistance to stigma2
The social connectedness of digital practices in later life: It’s not just about learning, it’s all about relationships2
Dissonant intimacies: Coloniality and the failures of South–South collaboration2
The ‘good story’ and kindness Twitter: Tales of hope and fears of dupery during Covid-192
Class Mistreatment in Elite Settings: Upward Mobility and Cross-class Interactions2
Slick and smooth: The role of petro-products in making and maintaining ‘femininity’ in the beauty salon2
Asymmetrical understandings of the value of time between Taiwanese Working Holiday Makers and the Australian government: Cultural exchange or serving time?2
Therapeutic politics and the institutionalisation of dignity: ‘Treated like the Queen’2
The spiritual turn and the disenchantment of the world: Max Weber, Peter Berger and the religion–science conflict2
(Re)connecting anti-racisms: Islamophobia and the politics of police/prison abolition in contemporary Britain2
Towards a complex conception of progress2
Cultivating shenti in everyday life: Self, relationality and embodied masculinity in China2
The lonely activist: On being haunted2
Why and how should sociologists speak out on Palestine?2
Family and queer temporality among Chinese young gay men: Yes, but not yet2
The neuropsychiatric biopolitics of dementia and its ethnicity problem2
Knowledge, progress and the knowledge of progress2
Bureaucracy and patrimonialism on Wall Street: How organizational forms contribute to elite reproduction2
Scaffolding collective hope and agency in youth activist groups: ‘I get hope through action’2
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