British Journal of Sociology

Papers
(The median citation count of British Journal of Sociology 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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Standpoint theory and middle‐range theorizing in International Sociology43
Mapping out the interpersonal boundary stones in contemporary China: Guanxi network structure and its association with traditional culture endorsement43
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Politicians' high‐status signals make less‐educated citizens more supportive of aggression against government: A video‐vignette survey experiment25
Breaking good? Young people's mechanisms of resilience, resistance and control24
Corrigendum22
On Medical Domination22
Artificial Intelligence as a Strategy in the British Economic Field22
Searching for desirable bodies: How recruiters value physically exertive extracurricular activities for graduate hiring at elite professional firms in China22
The social infrastructure of online marketplaces: Trade, work and the interplay of decided and emergent orders21
Love Across Class. By RoseButler and EveVincent, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. 202418
Examining factors influencing Turkish Jewish attitudes towards the Armenian genocide17
The unclaimed: Abandonment and hope in the city of angels. By P.Prickett and S.Timmermans, London: Penguin Random House. 202416
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Nation‐builders and market architects: How social origins mold the careers of law graduates over 200 years in Norway15
The Electoral Coalition of the Radical Right in Western Europe14
Cooling Out or Branching Out? Accounting for the Aspirations‐Attainment Paradox Among Immigrant Youth in Sweden14
Caregiving fathers and the negotiation of crossroads: Journeys of continuity and change13
The Strength of Weak Ties? Understanding Educational Differences in Parents' Childcare Benefit Knowledge by Applying a Social Capital Approach13
Unpolitical solutionism: Wealth elite sentiments against democracy and politics13
The Scylla State. A gendered understanding of the experiences of marginalised women in the United Kingdom12
Managing racism? Race equality and decolonial educational futures12
The social origins and schooling of a scientific elite: Fellows of the Royal Society born from 190012
The Bigger Pictures of L’État Providence: On François Ewald’s Theorisation of the Insurantial Society11
The gender gap in fair earnings increases with age due to higher age premium for men11
The Role of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Solutions in Transforming Educational and Employment Access for Individuals With Disabilities10
Dependence and Precarity in the Gig Economy: A Longitudinal Analysis of Platform Work and Mental Distress10
Sociology after the postcolonial: Response to Julian Go's ‘thinking against empire’10
Welfare brokers and European Union migrants' access to social protection10
Commercial Surrogacy Is not a Secret Handshake: It Is a High‐Five: Gay Fathers in China’s Changing Landscape10
Two Islamophobias? Racism and religion as distinct but mutually supportive dimensions of anti‐Muslim prejudice10
The Double Erosion of Liberal Citizenship: Economization and Moralization9
Structure and social action: On constituting and connecting social worlds By JohnScott, Bingley: Emerald Publishing (Emerald Points), 2022, pp. 1039
The relational costs of crossing class lines9
Children picturing their own worlds: Using photovoice to amplify children’s voice in sociological research9
Articulation, or the persistent problem with explanation9
Who you know: The classed structure of social capital9
Gray areas: How the way we work perpetuates racism and what we can do to fix it. By Adia HarveyWingfield, New York: HarperCollins Amistad. 2023. 304 pages. ISBN: 97800630798168
Corrigendum8
The Fall and Rise of the English Upper Class: Houses, Kinship and Capital Since 1945. By DanielSmith, Manchester: 20238
Refuge: How the state shapes human potential. By HebaGowayed, Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2022. 195 pages. £22.00 (pbk)8
The rainbow connection: Disrupting background affect, overcoming barriers and emergent emotional collectives at “Pride in London”8
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What do stances on immigrants' welfare entitlement mean? Evidence from a correlational class analysis8
Furthering racial liberalism in UK higher education: The populist construction of the ‘free speech crisis’8
Agents of reform: Child labor and the origins of the welfare state. By ElisabethAnderson, Princeton (NJ), Oxford: Princeton University Press. 2021. pp. 384. $32.00/£28.00. ISBN: 978‐0‐691‐22089‐58
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How kindness took a hold: A sociology of emotions, attachment and everyday enchantment7
Time use surveys, social practice theory, and activity connections7
Issue Information ‐ List Of Books Reviewed7
The hidden majority/minority consensus: Minorities show similar preference patterns of immigrant support as the majority population7
Understanding the Mediating Effect of Child Abuse and Poor Mental Health on the Use of Adolescent Family Violence: Findings From an Australian Study7
A counterexample to secularization theory? Assessing the Georgian religious revival7
Asian Americans in an anti‐Black world. By Claire JeanKim, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2023. pp. 1–412. ISBN: 97810092222807
Threatening dystopias: The global politics of climate change adaptation in Bangladesh. By KasiaPaprocki, Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press. 2021. p. 267 including front matter, appendices, g6
Taking Stock: Elite Studies and Social Change6
A Man Among Other Men: The Crisis of Black Masculinity in Racial Capitalism. By JordannaMatlon, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2022. 306 pp. $130.00 (hardcover); $32.95 (paperback). ISBN13: 97815016
Variation in the social composition of the UK academic elite: The underlay of the two—or three—cultures?6
When the ‘Old’ Attend to the ‘Old’: Female Direct Care Workers Doing Gendered and Classed Age in the Chinese Elder Care Industry6
Decolouring. The Racial Imprints of Upward Mobility in Lima's Dominant Class6
From where do legislators draw scientific knowledge? Organizations as scientific authorities in four countries' parliamentary debates6
The Body in Extremist White Supremacism6
Radicalisation studies: An emerging interdisciplinary field5
Emerging Global Cities: Origin, Structure, and Significance. By AlejandroPortes and Ariel C.Armony, New York: Columbia University Press, 2022. Pp. 368. $35.00 / £30.00 (paper).5
Gender inequalities in unpaid public work: Retention, stratification and segmentation in the volunteer leadership of charities in England and Wales5
Sociology and The Complexity of What Is Missing5
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Prestige Fetishism in the Academy: Comte's Mirror, the Magic Mirror or an Illusion of Reality?5
Comparing Transgender Identities in the Census of Scotland and the Census of England and Wales5
Pursuing individualism without feminism: Leisure life and gender politics of young female bar‐goers in urban China5
After positivism: New approaches to comparison in historical sociology. By Nicholas HooverWilson, DamonMayrl (Eds.), New York: Columbia University Press. 20245
Gender, Families, and Wealth Accumulation Among the One‐Child Generation5
Gateways, Funnels, and Stackers: How People Hide Property Ownership Through Offshore Structures5
The more it changes the more it stays the same: The French social space of material consumption between 1985 and 20175
To the Rescue of Cultural Capital: Seizing the Emotional Underpinnings of Contemporary Social Cleavages4
Intellectual Solidarity and Reflexive Dislocation: Sociology in the Age of Global Authoritarianism4
‘We need to start building up what's called herd immunity’: Scientific dissensus and public broadcasting in the Covid‐19 pandemic4
The resentful undergrowth of nostalgia: Ontological insecurity, relative deprivation and powerlessness4
Examining the recent strike wave in the UK: The problem with official statistics4
Early‐life impairments, chronic health conditions, and income mobility4
Renewal without replication: Expanding Durkheim's theory of disruptions via queer nightlife4
Gendered Attitudes or Structural Barriers? Men Front Line Workers' Perspectives on What Keeps Men out of Paid Care Work in Australia4
Transport digitalisation: Navigating futures of hypercognitive disablement4
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From Boardrooms to Platforms: Elite Brokerage and Digital Influence in Chilean Pro‐Market Think Tanks4
The paradoxical role of social class background in the educational and labour market outcomes of the children of immigrants in the UK4
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What is the Liberalizing Potential of Higher Education? An Analysis of Academic Fields and Anti‐Immigrant Sentiment Across 32 Countries3
Normative Cumulation: Justifying the Production of Knowledge in American Family Demography3
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Variations in media framing of movements in China, France, and the U.S.: An intersectional approach3
In sight, in mind: Spatial proximity to protest sites and changes in peoples' political attitudes3
Contesting individualization and individualism in marriage in East Asia: Dual‐income couples' monetary practices3
Does educational attainment matter for attitudes toward immigrants in Chile? Assessing the causality and generalizability of higher education's so‐called “liberalizing effect” on economic and cultural3
(Dis)trust in Digital Insurance: How Datafied Practices Shift Uncertainties and Reconfigure Trust Relations3
Side hustle safety net: How vulnerable workers survive precarious times. By AlexandreaRavenelle, Oakland: University of California Press. 2023. 344 pages. £25. ISBN: 97805203873003
The temporality of memory politics: An analysis of Russian state media narratives on the war in Ukraine3
Climate Moralities Offset: A Case of Formative Voluntary Carbon Markets3
From Dyadic Distance to Space in Family Networks: Reciprocity of Family Support in Switzerland3
Cruel optimism, affective governmentality and frontline poverty governance: ‘You can promise the world’3
What cultural hierarchy? Cultural tastes, status and inequality3
Job Insecurity and Life Courses. By SoniaBertolini, ValentinaGoglio, and DirkHofäcker, Bristol: Bristol University Press. 20243
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Rituals, Runaways, and the Haitian Revolution: Collective Action in the African Diaspora. By C. N.Eddins, 2021. 360 pp. £20.07 (paperback), open access (online)3
Entrepreneuring Legitimacy: A Case Study of the Cultural Codes and Boundary‐Makings of the Tech Elite3
Do you like school? Social class, gender, ethnicity and pupils' educational enjoyment3
What Is Justice? Reflections on the Criminal Justice System in Brazil3
The Quantified Scholar: An introduction to the book3
Dynamics of wilful ignorance in organizations3
Continuing complexity: The university careers of a scientific elite in relation to their class origins and schooling3
Royal power in the market‐oriented society: The Swedish King's consecration of business and corporate elites2
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A conceptual refinement of ritual: The case of guanxi2
The New Petty Bourgeoisie Versus the Lumpen PMC? A Nation of Shopkeepers: The Unstoppable Rise of the Petty Bourgeoisie by D. Evans, London: Repeater Books, 2023, 300 pp. £12.99 (paperback). ISBN-10: 2
Elite recruitment in US finance: How university prestige is used to secure top executive positions2
Religious residue: The impact of childhood religious socialization on the religiosity of nones in France, Germany, Great Britain, and Sweden2
Trolling is Not the Point: Ideological Violence and the Limits of Digital Safety2
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Lagging behind by doing good: How volunteering prolongs unemployment2
Regional variation in intergenerational social mobility in Britain2
Civic involvement in deprived communities: A longitudinal study of England2
Unnatural Wills: Inheritance Disputes and Inequality2
What's good for the gander is even better for the goose: Women buying commercial sex in China2
How Class Influences the Ethnic Identity of Chinese Immigrants in the UK: Citizenship, Work, and Solidarity2
Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto. By KoheiSaito, New York, USA: Astra House. 2024. pp. 288. $18.00 (paperback). ISBN: 97816626027262
Privileged Precarity: How the Mobile Middle Class Leverage Housing Insecurity as Labour Market Strategy2
Race, Class, Parenting and Children's Leisure: Children's Leisurescapes and Parenting Cultures in Middle‐Class British Indian Families. By UtsaMukherjee, Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2023. 169 p2
The government of emergency: Vital systems, expertise, and the politics of security. By Stephen J.Collier and AndrewLakoff, Princeton University Press. 20212
Risk, Reciprocity, and Academic Pursuit in India2
The big con. How the consulting industry weakens our businesses, infantilizes our governments and warps our economies. By MarianaMazzucato and RosieCollington. Penguin. 2023. pp. 352.2
The Politics of Knowledge: Race, Decolonial Knowledge, and Activist Research in Belgium and the UK2
Dimensions of class identification? On the roots and effects of class identity2
Life funds, urban development, and the experimental practices of financial sociology2
The Link Between Contextual Poverty and Academic Achievement: Evidence Using Panel Data From a Lower‐Middle‐Income Country2
The social life of money for children2
Reconsidering reparations. By Olúfẹ́mi O.Táíwò, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 20222
Urban Power: Democracy and Inequality in São Paulo and Johannesburg. By BenjaminBradlow, New York: Princeton University Press, 2024. 224 pp. $29.95/£25.00 (paper)2
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How kin help with parental investments2
Convertibility of Cultural Capital: A Longitudinal Study of University Students From 2017 to 20242
Review of the Book The Chile Project . By SebastiánEdwards, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2023. 376 pp. $32.00/£28.00. ISBN: 97806912
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The neoliberal multicultural state and the urban Indigenous associative model in Santiago de Chile2
“Now we don't have that freedom to not work”: Childhood and parenting in insecurity culture2
Meritocratic beliefs in the United States, Finland, and China: A multidimensional approach using latent class analysis2
Exploring normative frameworks of fairness through (relational) institutional habitus in Oxford's undergraduate admissions process2
Review of The Sound of Difference: Race, Class and the Politics of 'Diversity' in Classical Music By KristinaKolbe, 2024, Manchester University Press, vii + 281 pp., #85 (hardcover), ISBN 9781526165491
The Quantified Scholar: How Research Evaluations Transformed the British Social Sciences. By Juan PabloPardo‐Guerra, Columbia University Press. 2022. pp. 272. US$35.00 (paperback)1
Life Course Social Mobility and Parenthood. Counterfactual Estimates of the Motherhood Class Penalty in Britain1
Karl Popper Versus Karl Mannheim on Sociology and Democratic Governance1
The coloniality of age: Navigating the chronopolitics of Black childhood1
The sustainability myth: Environmental gentrification and the politics of justice By MelissaChecker, NYU Press, 20201
What is social science if not critical?1
From a national elite to the global elite: Possibilities and problems in scaling up1
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The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won’t Save the Planet. By BrettChristophers, London: Verso Books,2024. 442 pp. Hardback $29.95, Paperback $19.95, e‐book $9.991
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The lives of others: Class divisions, network segregation, and attachment to society in Chile1
Distinctions in the making: A theoretical discussion of youth and cultural capital1
The rise of central banks: State power in financial capitalism. By LeonWansleben, Harvard University Press. 20231
Family socioeconomic status and sibling correlations in upper secondary education. An empirical analysis of educational inequalities in Italy1
Private spanner in public works? The corrosive effects of private insurance on public life1
Marriage, Wealth, and the Spread of Cohabitation in Canada1
Generations, events, and social movement legacies: Unpacking social change in English football (1980–2023)1
“We Represent a Definite Social Class”: The Class Identities and Resources of American Religious Groups in the Roaring Twenties1
How investors account for the quick and the dead1
Seeking western men: Mail‐order brides under China’s global rise. By MonicaLiu, Stanford University Press. 20221
The Politics of Unpaid Labour: How the Study of Unpaid Labour Can Help Address Inequality in Precarious Work. By V.Pulignano and M.Domecka, Oxford University Press, 2025. 299 pp1
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Neighbourhood Effects Across Generations and the Reproduction of Inequality1
Caught Between Ideology and Self‐Interest: Subjective Social Status and Meritocratic Beliefs Shape Whether People Perceive, Feel Anger About, and Want to Change Economic Conflict1
Corrigendum to “Getting Ahead in the Social Sciences: How Parenthood and Publishing Contribute to Gender Gaps in Academic Career Advancement” [ British Journal of Sociology 1
Understanding the Role of Migration, Culture and Transnational Ties in Family Financial Assistance With Home Ownership1
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Facing arrhythmia. Reconstructing time in the pandemic by the metropolitan creative classes in Poland1
Thinking against empire: Anticolonial thought as social theory1
The dispositif is alive! Recovering social agents in Foucauldian analysis1
Therapy Culture for the Business Class: Exploring How CEO Peer Groups Make and Legitimate Elite Cohesion1
Income change and sympathy for right‐wing populist parties in the Netherlands: The role of gender and income inequality within households1
‘Levelling up’ social mobility? Comparing the social and spatial mobility for university graduates across districts of Britain1
Ficto‐Primitive Capital: What Wellness Seekers Gain From Practicing Shamanism and Other Healing Traditions1
Description, Articulation and Limitations in the Social Theory of Insurance1
Racial Health Equity and the Question of Black (Non?) Being: Exploring the Uses of Afropessimism in Approaches to Anti‐Racist Health Promotion1
The education gap over immigration and socioeconomic security1
Family Life in the Time of COVID: International Perspectives. By TwamleyK., IqbalH., FairclothC., 2023. London: UCL Press. 328 pages, ISBN: 97818000817411
Capital and the Family1
The culture trap: Ethnic expectations and unequal schooling for black youth, By DerronWallace, New York, NY: Oxford University Press. 2023. pp. 312. $30.99. ISBN: 97801975314711
The socioeconomic dimensions of racial inequality in South Africa: A social space perspective1
Political economy of colonial and post‐colonial India. By Aditya Mukherjee, Delhi: Primus Books. 2022. pp. 5751
The social life of creative methods: Filmmaking, fabulation and recovery1
Review of running the family firm. By LauraClancy, Manchester: Manchester University Press. pp. 336. £15.991
Fairness Evaluations of Higher Education Graduates’ Earnings: The Role of Female Preference for Equality and Self‐Interest1
Armed robbery and the meanings of money0
Blackstone vs BlackRock0
Elite mobility and continuity during a regime change0
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When Universities Turn Carceral: Between Academic Freedom and Elimination0
The Power Elite in Greenland0
Are economists overconfident? Ideology and uncertainty in expert opinion0
Doubly disadvantaged: Unemployment, young age, and electoral participation in the United Kingdom0
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Global Fields and Migration Regimes: Citizenship by Investment0
At risk: Indian sexual politics and the global AIDS crisis. By Gowri Vijayakumar, Stanford University Press. 2021. pp. 258. $26 (pbk)0
Global Inequality of Opportunity in Education Decreased During the 20th Century0
Niklas Luhmann's Unknown Class Theory and Its Explanatory Potential for the Clustering of Inequalities0
Exploring the utility of eye tracking for sociological research on race0
The role of patriarchal structure and gender stereotypes in cyber dating abuse: A qualitative examination of male perpetrators experiences0
Positioning precarity: The contingent nature of precarious work in structure and practice0
Race, risk, and American religious groups' views of Nazi Germany in 19350
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Social diversity and social cohesion in Britain0
Social Justice in Post‐Conflict Societies: Lessons From Northern Ireland0
Colonial Legacies, Racialised Identities and Urban Spaces0
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Review of social mobility, social inequality, and the role of higher education. By Elena G.Popkova, Bruno S.Sergi, Konstantin V.Vodenko, Boston: Koninklijke Brill NV. 2023. pp. 388. €163.00 (paperback0
Social inequality in completion rates in higher education: Heterogeneity in educational fields0
Does Inequality Blur Class Lines? Meritocratic Attitudes in Comparative Perspective0
Unbottled: The fight Against Plastic Water and for Water Justice. By Jaffee, D, The University of California Press, 2023. 384 pp. £80.00 (hardback), £24.00 (paperback). ISBN: 97805203066220
Students' Interactional Cultural Capital and Academic Performance in Test‐ and Teacher‐Based Assessments0
More Than the Sum of Multiple Care: Ambivalence in Sandwich Care0
Perceived research productivity of women in higher education: An investigation of the impact of COVID‐190
The self in selfies—Conceptualizing the selfie‐coordination of marginalized youth with sociology of engagements0
Upsold: Real estate agents, prices, and neighborhood inequality. By MaxBesbris, Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press. 2020. pp. 2210
Is it time sociology started researching incompetence?0
Capital of Life in Death: How Bereaved Individuals Mobilise Cultural and Social Capital in UK Death Administration0
Parenthood and dynamics of life satisfaction in times of COVID‐190
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Far‐right boundary construction towards the “other”: Visual communication of Danish People’s Party on social media0
Student Socioeconomic Status and Teacher‐Student Perceptual Discrepancies of School Effort and Enjoyment0
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‘We Hear About it All the Time’: Norwegian Muslims' Merging Stories of Racialisation and Recognition0
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Superyachts: Luxury, Tranquillity, and Ecocide. By GregorySalle, Cambridge: Polity Press. 2024, pp. 122. ISBN: 987‐1‐5095‐5995‐40
How Should We Speed the Green Transition—By Promoting Profit, or Circumventing It? London, 397 pp. £22.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978‐1‐80429‐230‐30
Different while being similar: The dual institutional process and differential organizational status0
How moderates make boundaries after protracted conflict. Everyday universalists, agonists, transformists and cosmopolitans in contemporary Northern Ireland0
“Because we all love K‐Pop”: How young adults reshape symbolic boundaries in Paris, Manchester, and Philadelphia0
Excavating Early Burawoy: Toward a Third Position in the Race‐Class Debates0
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Demystifying the link between higher education and liberal values: A within‐sibship analysis of British individuals’ attitudes from 1994–20200
Conceptualising informal institutions: Drawing on the case of guanxi0
Anticolonial thought, the sociological imagination, and social science: A reply to critics0
Class, gender and the work of working‐class women amid turbulent times0
The Compensatory Role of Diverse Workplaces: Parental Workplace Educational Composition and Children's Higher Education Enrolment0
The same everywhere? Exploring structural homologies of national social fields using the case of journalism0
Breaking the silence on femicide: How women challenge epistemic injustice and male violence0
Review of race brokers0
Social Mobility, Self‐Selection, and the Persistence of Class Inequality in Electoral Participation0
The Ties That Rhyme: Duality in Symbolic and Structural Networks of Grime Music0
Bankruptcy, Bubbles and Bailouts: The Inside History of The Treasury Since 1976. By AeronDavis, Manchester University Press, April 2024. 309 pp (paperback edition). ISBN: 978‐1‐5261‐7746‐90
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