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Papers

(The median citation count of Acta Sociologica 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Scientification of politics or politicisation of science? Parliamentary committee hearings on the Finnish alcohol policy reforms in 1994 and 2017 as epistemic work	27
Political changemakers in Norway: The strategies and political ideas of welfare providers	19
A downside to high aspirations: Immigrants’ (non-)success in tertiary education	17
Care for thy neighbour: A study of neighbours’ caregiving intentions by likelihood of reciprocity and previous caregiving experience	16
How to work with Niklas Luhmann? A practical guide	9
Professional talk on cybervetting: Accounting for a contested practise	9
Formal commitments versus actual practices? Narratives as tools of epistemic governance in the debate over Finnish forestry	8
The impact of the parental division of paid labour on depressive symptoms: The moderating role of social policies	8
Transmission of child removal stories Among Norwegian Somalis: An interactionist analysis of ethnic minority parents’ fears of child welfare services	8
Book Review: Why We Worry: A Sociological Explanation by Roland Paulsen PaulsenRoland, Why We Worry: A Sociological Explanation. New York: Routledge, 202	8
Divorce among exogamous couples: The role of language convergence	8
Political icon and role model: Dimensions of the perceived ‘Greta effect’ among climate activists as aspects of contemporary social movement leadership	6
Growing inequality during the Great Recession: Labour market institutions and the education gap in unemployment across Europe and in the United States	6
Book Review: The Revolutionary City: Urbanization and the Global Transformation of Rebellion	5
Emergent numeracy: How the crowd wisdom of non-rounding survey respondents generates accurate immigration estimates	5
Book Review: Civic Engagement in Scandinavia: Volunteering, Informal Help and Giving in Denmark, Norway and Sweden	5
Book Review: The Racialized Social System	5
Work–family conflict: A classed phenomenon?	4
Who deserves to be sanctioned? A vignette experiment of ethnic discrimination among street-level bureaucrats	4
Feminist alliances against precarity or capitalism? A continuation of the Butler–Fraser debate	4
Social theory and the digital: The institutionalisation of digital sociology	4
Center-based formal childcare closes gaps, others may widen them: How childcare arrangements shape early educational inequality	4
Book Review: The New Handbook of Political Sociology	4
Book Review: Intoxication: An Ethnography of Effervescent Revelry	3
The neglected organisation of failure: Activities, infrastructures and subjectivities	3

Social investment in action: From policy vision to everyday realities	3
Researching high-skilled migrants between social stratification and methodological nationalism	3
Gambling outlets as agents of local area disorganization: Crime and local institutions, the case of the UK	3
Unraveling the role of material conditions in eco-habitus: Studying eco-friendly energy practices across social classes	3
From social democracy towards social neoliberalism: Agencing social investment in Finnish impact finance	3
Planning for the future in the shadow of the polycrisis: Young women's uncertain transitions to adulthood	3
Book Review: COVID-19: Social Inequalities and Human Possibilities	3
Are general skills important for vocationally educated?	3
Book Review: Post-Democracy: After the Crises	3
Radical right support and the deepened rural-urban and educational divides among younger generations	3
Book Review: Civilization, Modernity, and Critique: Engaging Jóhann P. Árnason’s Macro-Social Theory DunajĽubomír, SmithJeremy, and MertelKurt (eds.), Civilization, Modernity, and Criti	3
Of babies, bathwater, and big data: Going beneath the surface of Franzén’s (2023) Google Trends recommendations	2
Searching for lasting biculturalism: An Imitation Game inquiry	2
Entrenched and unequal at the top: Brazilian capitalism and the social space of its corporate elite	2
Book Review: Interactional Justice: The Role of Emotions in the Performance of Loyalty	2
Big data, big problems: Why scientists should refrain from using Google Trends	2
Book Review: Making a Scene: Urban Landscapes, Gentrification, and Social Movements in Sweden	2
Book Review: Sandinista Narratives: Religion, Sandinismo, and Emotions in the Making of the Nicaraguan Insurrection and Revolution	2
A need to be recognised: On the importance of shared semantics for young adults while not in education or employment	2
Towards ‘augmented sociology’? A practice-oriented framework for using large language model-powered chatbots	2
Rally around the flag? Explaining changes in Swedish public opinion toward NATO membership after Russia's invasion of Ukraine	2
Group formation and social structure: On networks and identities	2
Multiple jeopardy, national wealth and perceived discrimination: Subjective health of intersecting minority groups across 28 countries	2
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	2
Selective re-partnering? Mental health and life satisfaction among separated single mothers in Germany and the UK	2
Balancing acts of kindness: Reassessing the relationship between informal helping and formal volunteering	2
Dark resonance: On the possibility of resonance with death	2
Book Review: Alfred Schutz, Phenomenology, and the Renewal of Interpretive Social Science by Besnik Pula PulaBesnik, Alfred Schutz, Phenomenology, and the Renewal of Int	2
Beyond rational choice: A neo-Bourdieusian gravity model of social practice	2
Book Review: War, Survival Units and Citizenship: A Neo-Eliasian Process-Relational Perspective	2
Book Review: Muslim Fathers and Mistrusted Masculinity in Danish Schools	2
The effect of positive feedback on primary school students’ academic self-concept: Gender heterogeneity in a light-touch randomized intervention	2
Young people’s job-search strategies in the German apprenticeship market: Who relies on referrals by strong ties and why?	2
Book Review: Nature-Made Economy. Cod, Capitalization, and the Great Economization of the Ocean by Kristin Asdal & Tone Huse AsdalKristinHuseTone, Na	2
Book Review: Agents of Reform: Child Labor and the Origins of the Welfare State	1
The role of education and social background in the changing political involvement of adolescents – a comparative approach	1
Towards a renewed understanding of barriers to immigrant parents’ involvement in education	1
Co-occurring occupations among siblings in Norway	1
Book Review: Affect, Alienation, and Politics in Therapeutic Culture: Capitalism on the Skin	1
Book Review: Exile: Chronicles of the Border by Anne-Claire Defossez & Didier Fassin DefossezAnne-ClaireFassinDidier, Exile: Chronicles of the Border. Cambridge, UK/	1
The unequal conversion of intended redistribution into factual redistribution in Europe and its impact on social inequalities between families	1
Gendered ethnic discrimination and the role of recruiter gender. A field experiment	1
Science, religion, and nonreligion: Engaging subdisciplines to move further beyond mythbusting	1
Impact of family structure on the quality of life of older adults, its stability, and gender differences in the European context	1
Against underdog metaphysics: Alvin Gouldner and the Marxist critique of post-theory	1
What's so new about social investment? Evidence from the history of the Danish welfare state	1
Book Review: Diversity Regimes: Why Talk is Not Enough to Fix Racial Inequality at Universities	1
Mindset as a potential link between family background and high-school achievement	1
Living on buffered time: Toward another sociology of storage	1
Intergenerational social mobility of cohorts born from 1951 to 1980 in Finland	1

Momentary symbols: Tracing the visual expressions of collectives	1
The natural dividend: An introduction to resource rents	1
Politics with objects? On the affective materiality of contentious politics	1
Migration and partisan identification as British Unionists or Irish Nationalists in Northern Ireland	1
Has the terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo fuelled resistance towards Muslim immigrants in Europe? Results from a natural experiment in six European countries	1
Generational differences in attitudes to meritocracy: Sources of change in valuing education, innate abilities, and hard work in Poland	1
Crime, culture or war? Justifying military responses to violence against civilians	1
From worker investment to family investment: Shifting logics of child welfare in Denmark, 1920s–1970s	1
After the organization: Symbolic capital and negative expert knowledge in post-whistleblowing careers	1
Effective subunits in ineffective systems: Simultaneous tight and loose coupling in higher education data use	1
Long-term scarring from institutional labelling: The risk of NEET of students from schools for learning disability in Germany	1
Book Review: Families. (Key Concepts) VanessaMay, Families. (Key Concepts) , Cambridge, Hoboken: Polity Press, 2023, pp. 224.	1
Conflict narrative, stigmatisation and strategic behaviour of religious scientists in the Argentinean scientific field	1
The increasing educational divide in the life course development of subjective wellbeing across cohorts	1
A step up? Why taxi platform drivers in Oslo, Norway started to drive	1
Elites and ordinariness in cross-status encounters: Adding Goffman's ritual interaction order to sociological interpretations	1
Book Review: Modern Folk Devils: Contemporary Constructions of Evil	1
Special issue: ‘Authoritarianism and culture’	1