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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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Political changemakers in Norway: The strategies and political ideas of welfare providers	25
A downside to high aspirations: Immigrants’ (non-)success in tertiary education	19
Professional talk on cybervetting: Accounting for a contested practise	16
Care for thy neighbour: A study of neighbours’ caregiving intentions by likelihood of reciprocity and previous caregiving experience	15
How to work with Niklas Luhmann? A practical guide	11
Scientification of politics or politicisation of science? Parliamentary committee hearings on the Finnish alcohol policy reforms in 1994 and 2017 as epistemic work	10
Divorce among exogamous couples: The role of language convergence	8
Emergent numeracy: How the crowd wisdom of non-rounding survey respondents generates accurate immigration estimates	8
Transmission of child removal stories Among Norwegian Somalis: An interactionist analysis of ethnic minority parents’ fears of child welfare services	8
How does parental time relate to social class in a Nordic welfare state?	8
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
Book Review: Why We Worry: A Sociological Explanation by Roland Paulsen PaulsenRoland, Why We Worry: A Sociological Explanation. New York: Routledge, 202	8
Growing inequality during the Great Recession: Labour market institutions and the education gap in unemployment across Europe and in the United States	7
Political icon and role model: Dimensions of the perceived ‘Greta effect’ among climate activists as aspects of contemporary social movement leadership	6
Book Review: The Revolutionary City: Urbanization and the Global Transformation of Rebellion	6
Book Review: Civic Engagement in Scandinavia: Volunteering, Informal Help and Giving in Denmark, Norway and Sweden	5
Feminist alliances against precarity or capitalism? A continuation of the Butler–Fraser debate	5
Book Review: The Racialized Social System	5
Who deserves to be sanctioned? A vignette experiment of ethnic discrimination among street-level bureaucrats	5
Work–family conflict: A classed phenomenon?	4
Are general skills important for vocationally educated?	4
Book Review: The New Handbook of Political Sociology	4
Social investment in action: From policy vision to everyday realities	4
Unraveling the role of material conditions in eco-habitus: Studying eco-friendly energy practices across social classes	4

Social theory and the digital: The institutionalisation of digital sociology	4
Book Review: Intoxication: An Ethnography of Effervescent Revelry	3
Gambling outlets as agents of local area disorganization: Crime and local institutions, the case of the UK	3
Planning for the future in the shadow of the polycrisis: Young women's uncertain transitions to adulthood	3
The neglected organisation of failure: Activities, infrastructures and subjectivities	3
Book Review: COVID-19: Social Inequalities and Human Possibilities	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
From social democracy towards social neoliberalism: Agencing social investment in Finnish impact finance	3
Book Review: Post-Democracy: After the Crises	3
Researching high-skilled migrants between social stratification and methodological nationalism	3
Dark resonance: On the possibility of resonance with death	2
Multiple jeopardy, national wealth and perceived discrimination: Subjective health of intersecting minority groups across 28 countries	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: Muslim Fathers and Mistrusted Masculinity in Danish Schools	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
Book Review: Making a Scene: Urban Landscapes, Gentrification, and Social Movements in Sweden	2
Of babies, bathwater, and big data: Going beneath the surface of Franzén’s (2023) Google Trends recommendations	2
Group formation and social structure: On networks and identities	2
The effect of positive feedback on primary school students’ academic self-concept: Gender heterogeneity in a light-touch randomized intervention	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
Book Review: Nature-Made Economy. Cod, Capitalization, and the Great Economization of the Ocean by Kristin Asdal & Tone Huse AsdalKristinHuseTone, Na	2
Towards ‘augmented sociology’? A practice-oriented framework for using large language model-powered chatbots	2
Searching for lasting biculturalism: An Imitation Game inquiry	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: Alfred Schutz, Phenomenology, and the Renewal of Interpretive Social Science by Besnik Pula PulaBesnik, Alfred Schutz, Phenomenology, and the Renewal of Int	2
Rally around the flag? Explaining changes in Swedish public opinion toward NATO membership after Russia's invasion of Ukraine	2
Young people’s job-search strategies in the German apprenticeship market: Who relies on referrals by strong ties and why?	2
Social background and school track choice: An analysis informed by the rational choice framework	2
Balancing acts of kindness: Reassessing the relationship between informal helping and formal volunteering	2
Book Review: Diversity Regimes: Why Talk is Not Enough to Fix Racial Inequality at Universities	1
Towards a renewed understanding of barriers to immigrant parents’ involvement in education	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
Crime, culture or war? Justifying military responses to violence against civilians	1
Politics with objects? On the affective materiality of contentious politics	1
The unequal conversion of intended redistribution into factual redistribution in Europe and its impact on social inequalities between families	1
Elites and ordinariness in cross-status encounters: Adding Goffman's ritual interaction order to sociological interpretations	1
Intergenerational social mobility of cohorts born from 1951 to 1980 in Finland	1
Against underdog metaphysics: Alvin Gouldner and the Marxist critique of post-theory	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
What's so new about social investment? Evidence from the history of the Danish welfare state	1
Long-term scarring from institutional labelling: The risk of NEET of students from schools for learning disability in Germany	1
Gendered ethnic discrimination and the role of recruiter gender. A field experiment	1
Living on buffered time: Toward another sociology of storage	1

Book Review: Modern Folk Devils: Contemporary Constructions of Evil	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
Impact of family structure on the quality of life of older adults, its stability, and gender differences in the European context	1
Book Review: Exile: Chronicles of the Border by Anne-Claire Defossez & Didier Fassin DefossezAnne-ClaireFassinDidier, Exile: Chronicles of the Border. Cambridge, UK/	1
Special issue: ‘Authoritarianism and culture’	1
Effective subunits in ineffective systems: Simultaneous tight and loose coupling in higher education data use	1
The role of education and social background in the changing political involvement of adolescents – a comparative approach	1
Co-occurring occupations among siblings in Norway	1
Book Review: Affect, Alienation, and Politics in Therapeutic Culture: Capitalism on the Skin	1
Mindset as a potential link between family background and high-school achievement	1
The increasing educational divide in the life course development of subjective wellbeing across cohorts	1
Book Review: Families. (Key Concepts) VanessaMay, Families. (Key Concepts) , Cambridge, Hoboken: Polity Press, 2023, pp. 224.	1
A step up? Why taxi platform drivers in Oslo, Norway started to drive	1
Science, religion, and nonreligion: Engaging subdisciplines to move further beyond mythbusting	1
Generational differences in attitudes to meritocracy: Sources of change in valuing education, innate abilities, and hard work in Poland	1
The natural dividend: An introduction to resource rents	1
Book Review: Agents of Reform: Child Labor and the Origins of the Welfare State	1