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Papers

(The median citation count of Acta Sociologica 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Gender differences in child and adolescent daily activities: A cross-national time use study	14
Has the terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo fuelled resistance towards Muslim immigrants in Europe? Results from a natural experiment in six European countries	14
The welfare state criticism of the losers of modernization: How social experiences of resentment shape populist welfare critique	12
Too many immigrants: How does local diversity contribute to attitudes toward immigration?	12
Unemployment and political trust across 24 Western democracies: Evidence on a welfare state paradox	12
Narratives of the mystical among users of psychedelics	11
The opportunity structure of segregation: School choice and school segregation in Sweden	10
Understanding the immigrant-native gap in childcare use: An empirical exploration for 21 European countries	8
Constructing fatherhood in the North and South: Paid parental leave, work and care in Iceland and Spain	7
Science, religion, and nonreligion: Engaging subdisciplines to move further beyond mythbusting	6
Big data, big problems: Why scientists should refrain from using Google Trends	6
Employment among female immigrants to Europe	6
How does parental time relate to social class in a Nordic welfare state?	6
Gender differences and similarities in work preferences: Results from a factorial survey experiment	5
How material deprivation impacted economic stress across European countries during the great recession. A lesson on social comparisons	5
Career stability in turbulent times: A cross-cohort study of mid-careers in Finland	5
A downside to high aspirations: Immigrants’ (non-)success in tertiary education	5
Growing inequality during the Great Recession: Labour market institutions and the education gap in unemployment across Europe and in the United States	5
Ambivalent perceptions of the Other: Towards a dual-process sociology of intercultural relations	4
A diagnosis of society and Nordic sociology	3
The impact of having a child with special needs: Labour market adaptations of immigrant and majority mothers	3
The effects of parenting on early adolescents’ noncognitive skills: Evidence from a sample of twins in Germany	3
The unwilling foils of the political right: The cultural elite in Swedish and Norwegian newspapers	3
Need, competence and compliance: Selective empowering in the distribution of medical technologies in the Norwegian health care system	3
Divorce among exogamous couples: The role of language convergence	2

Biopolitical and juridical creations of the quarantine hotel: A discourse analysis of the Norwegian case	2
Partisanship and perceptions of the consequences of welfare service privatization from left to right (-wing populism)	2
The role of partnering and assortative mating for income inequality: The case of Finland, 1991–2014	2
Divorce and female labour force participation: Do women who expect an upcoming divorce increase their employment? Evidence from Flanders	2
Professional talk on cybervetting: Accounting for a contested practise	2
It's not all about the peers: Reintroducing school context to the school segregation literature	2
Dualisation versus targeting? Public transfers and poverty risks among the unemployed in Germany and Great Britain	2
Public support for affirmative action policies favouring women and migrants in recruitment processes: An international survey experiment	2
Formal commitments versus actual practices? Narratives as tools of epistemic governance in the debate over Finnish forestry	2
A need to be recognised: On the importance of shared semantics for young adults while not in education or employment	2
From artistic consecration to degradation: The case of Sven Hassel	2
The increasing educational divide in the life course development of subjective wellbeing across cohorts	2
Long-term scarring from institutional labelling: The risk of NEET of students from schools for learning disability in Germany	2
Resisting or maintaining gender inequality? Wedding traditions among Norwegian millennials	2
Searching for lasting biculturalism: An Imitation Game inquiry	2
Elites on Equality: Room for Gender Balance and Ethnic Diversity in Leadership Positions?	1
The natural dividend: An introduction to resource rents	1
Young people’s job-search strategies in the German apprenticeship market: Who relies on referrals by strong ties and why?	1
Social background and school track choice: An analysis informed by the rational choice framework	1
When Baehr met Steffen: Appraising classicality through the lens of neglect	1
Conflict narrative, stigmatisation and strategic behaviour of religious scientists in the Argentinean scientific field	1
Migration and partisan identification as British Unionists or Irish Nationalists in Northern Ireland	1
Sweden's ‘complicated’ relationship with genocide recognition	1
Is there a welfare trap? Duration dependence in social assistance recipiency among young Finns	1
Towards a renewed understanding of barriers to immigrant parents’ involvement in education	1
Special issue: ‘Social investment in action’	1
Contested European citizenship: Results from a 13 country survey	1
Are women from man-older unions economically disadvantaged following separation? Sweden 1997–2015	1
Effective subunits in ineffective systems: Simultaneous tight and loose coupling in higher education data use	1
Exploring sources of heterogeneity in immigrant crime: Evidence from Norway	1
Constellation research and sociology of philosophy	1
Politics with objects? On the affective materiality of contentious politics	1
Null effects of neighbourhood increases in visible minorities on radical right wing party mobilisation	1
Ritual pathways and dramaturgical efforts: Negotiating the meaning of organized play in Norwegian children's sports	1
Privatization of preschool education: The implications for educational inequalities in cross-national perspective	1
Mindset as a potential link between family background and high-school achievement	1
Political icon and role model: Dimensions of the perceived ‘Greta effect’ among climate activists as aspects of contemporary social movement leadership	1
Transmission of child removal stories Among Norwegian Somalis: An interactionist analysis of ethnic minority parents’ fears of child welfare services	1
The impact of the parental division of paid labour on depressive symptoms: The moderating role of social policies	1
The long reach of class origin on financial investments and net worth	1
Cultural reproduction in Finland: Symmetric intergenerational transmission of cultural orientations	1
Gendered ethnic discrimination and the role of recruiter gender. A field experiment	1
Labour market disadvantage or poor health upon arrival? An examination of the native–immigrant gap in early retirement on a disability pension	1
No substitute for the real thing? Physical and digital cultural participation in Denmark during the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Generational differences in attitudes to meritocracy: Sources of change in valuing education, innate abilities, and hard work in Poland	0
Book Review: Pioneers of Sociological Science: Statistical Foundations and the Theory of Action	0
Labour leaders as identity entrepreneurs: Identity formation in the Swedish trade union movement in the 1920s	0
Civil society ethos? Attitude differences between civil society elites and the population in Sweden	0
Of babies, bathwater, and big data: Going beneath the surface of Franzén’s (2023) Google Trends recommendations	0
Book Review: Pandemic Surveillance	0

Book Review: Creative Control: The Ambivalence of Work in the Culture Industries	0
The unequal conversion of intended redistribution into factual redistribution in Europe and its impact on social inequalities between families	0
Book Review: Capital and Ideology by Thomas Piketty	0
Book Review: Civilization, Modernity, and Critique: Engaging Jóhann P. Árnason’s Macro-Social Theory	0
Book Review: The New Patriarchs of Digital Capitalism: Celebrity Tech Founders and Networks of Power	0
Book Review: The Emotional Life of Populism: How Fear, Disgust, Resentment, and Love Undermine Democracy, Polity	0
Book Review: Intoxication: An Ethnography of Effervescent Revelry	0
Intergenerational social mobility of cohorts born from 1951 to 1980 in Finland	0
Who deserves to be sanctioned? A vignette experiment of ethnic discrimination among street-level bureaucrats	0
Book Review: Post-Democracy: After the Crises	0
Is there a rating bias of job candidates based on gender and parenthood? A laboratory experiment on hiring for an accounting job	0
Who thinks ideologically about welfare state reform? Partisanship and attitude consistency in politicians’ and mass public perceptions about the consequences of welfare service privatization in Sweden	0
The role of education and social background in the changing political involvement of adolescents – a comparative approach	0
A step up? Why taxi platform drivers in Oslo, Norway started to drive	0
Letter from the incoming editors	0
Book Review: The Scandinavian Prison Study by Stanton Wheeler, Hugh F Cline and David J Armor	0
Book Review: The New Handbook of Political Sociology	0
Book Review: The Calling of Social Thought: Rediscovering the Work of Edward Shils	0
Interlocking institutions and elite networks in democratic organizations. Social network analysis of elected representatives in massive membership organizations in the greater Helsinki region	0
Criminal justice involvement, transition to fatherhood, and the demographic foundation of the intergenerational transmission of crime	0
Book Review: Affect, Alienation, and Politics in Therapeutic Culture: Capitalism on the Skin	0
Book Review: The Revolutionary City: Urbanization and the Global Transformation of Rebellion	0
Social theory and the digital: The institutionalisation of digital sociology	0
Book Review: Nordic Homicide in Deep Time; Lethal Violence in the Early Modern Era and Present Times	0
Book Review: The Performance Complex: Competition and Competitions in Social Life	0
Shackled by double disadvantage? Gender, segregation and immigrants’ occupational attainments	0
Book Review: Diversity Regimes: Why Talk is Not Enough to Fix Racial Inequality at Universities	0
Dark resonance: On the possibility of resonance with death	0
Book Review: Agents of Reform: Child Labor and the Origins of the Welfare State	0
“Unless I could be like the typical dad”: Exploring parenthood through the perspective of the voluntarily childfree	0
Book Review: Charisma and Disenchantment: The Vocation Lectures by Max Weber	0
Balancing acts of kindness: Reassessing the relationship between informal helping and formal volunteering	0
Book Review: War, Survival Units and Citizenship: A Neo-Eliasian Process-Relational Perspective	0
Feminist alliances against precarity or capitalism? A continuation of the Butler–Fraser debate	0
Political changemakers in Norway: The strategies and political ideas of welfare providers	0
Multiple jeopardy, national wealth and perceived discrimination: Subjective health of intersecting minority groups across 28 countries	0
Book Review: The Racialized Social System	0
Book Review: COVID-19: Social Inequalities and Human Possibilities	0
Book Review: Modern Folk Devils: Contemporary Constructions of Evil	0
Book Review: What Is Cultural Sociology?	0
Researching high-skilled migrants between social stratification and methodological nationalism	0
Book Review: The Sociology of Identity: Authenticity, Multidimensionality, and Mobility	0
Parental unemployment and children's well-being at school: The role of duration, reemployment, and socioeconomic status	0
Elites and ordinariness in cross-status encounters: Adding Goffman's ritual interaction order to sociological interpretations	0
Automation risks of vocational training programs and early careers in the Netherlands	0
Impact of family structure on the quality of life of older adults, its stability, and gender differences in the European context	0
Special issue: ‘Authoritarianism and culture’	0
Book Review: Made to Work: Mobilising Contemporary Worklives	0
New publication formats, call for special issues, and a new transparency and research data policy	0
Book Review: The Rise and Fall of Generation Now by Tim Ingold	0
Towards ‘augmented sociology’? A practice-oriented framework for using large language model-powered chatbots	0
Her class and his class: Does social class matter for fertility?	0
Book Review: Horizontal Europeanisation: The Transnationalisation of Daily Life and Social Fields in Europe	0
Book Review: Social Capital	0
Book Review: Making a Scene: Urban Landscapes, Gentrification, and Social Movements in Sweden	0
Book Review: Globalizing Issues: How Claims, Frames, and Problems Cross Borders	0
Early home-leaving (HL) and educational attainment: The moderating role of HL in the intergenerational transmission of education	0
Book Review: Russian Modernization: A New Paradigm	0
Book Review: Social Class in Europe: New Inequalities in the Old World	0
Book Review: Revolutionary Social Democracy: Working-Class Politics Across the Russian Empire (1882–1917)	0
Rally around the flag? Explaining changes in Swedish public opinion toward NATO membership after Russia's invasion of Ukraine	0
Not all men, nor all women: Strength of gender identification and social spending preferences in Sweden	0
Are general skills important for vocationally educated?	0
Book Review: Civic Engagement in Scandinavia: Volunteering, Informal Help and Giving in Denmark, Norway and Sweden	0
Book Review: Social Avalanche: Crowds, Cities and Financial Markets	0
Book Review: Interactional Justice: The Role of Emotions in the Performance of Loyalty	0
Book Review: Poverty Propaganda: Exploring the Myths	0
After the organization: Symbolic capital and negative expert knowledge in post-whistleblowing careers	0
Book Review: The Bourdieu Paradigm: The Origins and Evolution of an Intellectual Social Project	0
Crime, culture or war? Justifying military responses to violence against civilians	0
Co-occurring occupations among siblings in Norway	0
Book Review: Accidental Feminism: Gender Parity and Selective Mobility Among India’s Professional Elite	0
Book Review: Territory and democratic politics. A critical introduction	0
Book Review: Sandinista Narratives: Religion, Sandinismo, and Emotions in the Making of the Nicaraguan Insurrection and Revolution	0