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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Relations of extraction, relations of redistribution: Empire, nation, and the construction of the British welfare state49
“This is a political movement, friend”: Why “incels” support violence43
Ordinal citizenship37
Brahmin Left versus Merchant Right? Education, class, multiparty competition, and redistribution in Western Europe27
‘More options…less time’ in the ‘hustle culture’ of ‘generation sensible’: Individualization and drinking decline among twenty‐first century young adults24
Post‐industrial masculinities and gym culture: Graft, craft, and fraternity22
The absorption and multiplication of uncertainty in machine‐learning‐driven finance21
Habitus and climate change: Exploring support and resistance to sustainable welfare and social–ecological transformations in Sweden21
Primary and secondary effects of social origins on educational attainment: New findings for England19
Rethinking respectability politics17
“They don’t know what it’s like to be at the bottom”: Exploring the role of perceived cultural distance in less‐educated citizens’ discontent with politicians17
Participation in civil society organizations and ethnic minorities’ interethnic friendships in Britain17
A revolt of the deplored? The role of perceived cultural distance in the educational gradient in anti‐establishment politics14
Older Iranian Muslim women’s experiences of sex and sexuality: A biographical approach14
Unveiling everyday discrimination. Two field experiments on discrimination against religious minorities in day‐to‐day interactions13
A “Phoenix” rising from the ashes: China’s Tongqi, marriage fraud, and resistance13
The intergenerational transmission of language skill13
From parvenu to “highbrow” tastes: The rise of cultural capital in China’s intergenerational elites13
(Dis)Engagement with queer counterpublics: Exploring intimate and family lives in online and offline spaces in China13
Thinking against empire: Anticolonial thought as social theory12
Temporality in the social sciences: New directions for a political sociology of time12
Survival finance and the politics of equal pay12
Ethnic inequality in choice‐ and performance‐driven education systems: A longitudinal study of educational choices in England, Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden12
The adaptation of educational expectations in response to ability tracking: Variations by migration background11
Conceptualising informal institutions: Drawing on the case of guanxi11
Spatial and social mobility in England and Wales: A sub‐national analysis of differences and trends over time10
Terrorist attacks and minority perceived discrimination10
“It's hard to become mothers”: The moral economy of postponing motherhood in neoliberal Chile10
Data money makers: An ethnographic analysis of a global cryptocurrency community10
How (not) to feed young children: A class‐cultural analysis of food parenting practices10
Dynamics of wilful ignorance in organizations10
“How you keep going”: Voluntary sector practitioners' story‐lines as emotion work9
The social infrastructure of online marketplaces: Trade, work and the interplay of decided and emergent orders9
How happenings do (not) turn into events: A typology and an application to the case of 9/11 in the American and Dutch public spheres9
What cultural hierarchy? Cultural tastes, status and inequality9
Damaged hardmen: Organized crime and the half‐life of deindustrialization9
The dark side of onward migration: Experiences and strategies of Italian‐Bangladeshis in the UK at the time of the post‐Brexit referendum9
From integrated to fragmented elites. The core of Swiss elite networks 1910–20159
Demystifying the link between higher education and liberal values: A within‐sibship analysis of British individuals’ attitudes from 1994–20208
Social capital as a partial explanation for gender wage gaps8
From workers to capitalists in less than two generations: A study of Chinese urban top group transformation between 1988 and 20138
Who you know: The classed structure of social capital8
Contested ease: Negotiating contradictory modes of elite distinction in face‐to‐face interaction7
Piketty comes to South Africa7
Far‐right boundary construction towards the “other”: Visual communication of Danish People’s Party on social media7
Public support for social security in 66 countries: Prosperity, inequality, and household income as interactive causes7
“If no one grieves, no one will remember”: Cultural palimpsests and the creation of social ties through rituals7
How the past becomes the past: The temporal positioning of collective memory7
A divided kingdom? Variation in polarization, sorting, and dimensional alignment among the British public, 1986–20186
Narrating inequality, eliding empire6
Religious residue: The impact of childhood religious socialization on the religiosity of nones in France, Germany, Great Britain, and Sweden6
Just what is critical race theory, and what is it doing in British sociology? From “BritCrit” to the racialized social system approach6
Intersectionality on the go: The diffusion of Black feminist knowledge across disciplinary and geographical borders6
A counterexample to secularization theory? Assessing the Georgian religious revival6
Resilience as a multi‐directional movement process: A conceptual and empirical exploration6
From occupational to existential class: How to analyze class structure in hybrid societies (The case of Serbia)6
Income inequality, cultural capital, and high school students' academic achievement in OECD countries: A moderated mediation analysis6
The paradox of local inequality: Meritocratic beliefs in unequal localities6
Caregiving fathers and the negotiation of crossroads: Journeys of continuity and change6
Public life as identity construction: A case study based on an SL square‐dancing group in Shanghai5
The structure of food taste in 21st century Britain5
Outward specific trust in the balancing of hierarchical government trust: Evidence from mainland China5
Breaking the silence on femicide: How women challenge epistemic injustice and male violence5
Epistemology of surveillance: Revealing unmarked forms of discipline and punishment in Israeli academia5
Profile of the super rich in China: A social space analysis5
School‐to‐work transition and subjective well‐being in Australia5
The role of patriarchal structure and gender stereotypes in cyber dating abuse: A qualitative examination of male perpetrators experiences5
Childhood disability, social class and social mobility: A neglected relationship5
Distinctions in the making: A theoretical discussion of youth and cultural capital5
Social stratification in meaningful work: Occupational class disparities in the United Kingdom5
Black lives matter, capital, and ideology: Spiraling out from India5
The self in selfies—Conceptualizing the selfie‐coordination of marginalized youth with sociology of engagements5
“The whole thing is really managing crisis”: Practice theory insights into interpreters' work experiences of success and failure5
“The media love the artificial versions of what’s going on”: Media (mis)representations of Down’s syndrome5
Dynastic cores and the borrowed time of newcomers. Wealth accumulation and the Norwegian one percent5
Lives on track? Long‐term earnings returns to selective school placement in England and Denmark5
The more it changes the more it stays the same: The French social space of material consumption between 1985 and 20174
Below the radar: A U.K. benefit fraud media coverage tsunami—Impact, ideology, and society4
Elite recruitment in US finance: How university prestige is used to secure top executive positions4
How moderates make boundaries after protracted conflict. Everyday universalists, agonists, transformists and cosmopolitans in contemporary Northern Ireland4
The social origins and schooling of a scientific elite: Fellows of the Royal Society born from 19004
Anywheres, Somewheres, local attachment, and civic participation4
Historical change in an elite profession—Class origins and grades among law graduates over 200 years4
Parenthood and dynamics of life satisfaction in times of COVID‐194
The relational costs of crossing class lines4
Trouble with autonomy in behavioral insurance4
Understanding autonomy and relationality in men's lives4
Legacies of civil wars: A 14‐year study of social conflicts and well‐being outcomes in farming economies4
“I don’t think anybody really knows”: Constructing reflexive ignorance in climate change adaptation4
Planning versus the market: The dispute between Hayek and Mannheim and its contemporary relevance4
Managing racism? Race equality and decolonial educational futures4
Felt deficits in time with children: Individual and contextual factors across 27 European countries4
After inclusion. Thinking with Julian Go's ‘Thinking against empire: Anticolonial thought as social theory’3
Revisiting the “Great Levelling”: The limits of Piketty’sCapital and Ideologyfor understanding the rise of late 20th century inequality3
Property, wealth, and social change: Piketty as a social science engineer3
Race as technology and the carceral methodologies of molecular racialization3
Navigating the nationalist landscape of exclusion: Armenian citizens of Turkey and the politics of naming3
Are economists overconfident? Ideology and uncertainty in expert opinion3
We were never cool: Investigating knowledge production and discourses of cool in the sociology of music3
Who's a good citizen? Status and power in minority and majority youths' conceptions of citizenship3
Embracing the nation: Strategic deployment of sexuality, nation, and citizenship in Singapore3
Consecration and meritocracy in elite business schools: The case of a Swedish student union3
Precarious bodies: The securitization of the “veiled” woman in European human rights3
The paradoxical role of social class background in the educational and labour market outcomes of the children of immigrants in the UK3
Assimilated or the boundary of Whiteness expanded? A boundary model of group belonging3
“Because we all love K‐Pop”: How young adults reshape symbolic boundaries in Paris, Manchester, and Philadelphia3
Dimensions of class identification? On the roots and effects of class identity3
Humanitarianism, securitization, and containment in Jordan's Za'atari Refugee Camp3
Pathways from origins to destinations: Stability and change in the roles of cognition, private schools and educational attainment3
“There's just too many”: The construction of immigration as a social problem3
Dissecting the “do good and do well” phenomenon: The case of the UK's market for social investment3
The resentful undergrowth of nostalgia: Ontological insecurity, relative deprivation and powerlessness3
Examining the recent strike wave in the UK: The problem with official statistics3
From liberal to neoliberal citizenship: A commentary on Marion Fourcade3
Capital and ideology: A global perspective on inequality regimes3
Webs of reciprocity: Colonial taxation and the need for reparations3
Gender balance in the workforce and abortion attitudes: A cross‐national time‐series analysis3
The rainbow connection: Disrupting background affect, overcoming barriers and emergent emotional collectives at “Pride in London”2
World society and field theory: The infiltration of development into humanitarianism2
Unpolitical solutionism: Wealth elite sentiments against democracy and politics2
One foot on shore: An analysis of global millionaires' demand for U.S. investor visas2
Neoliberal precarity and primalization: A biosocial perspective on the age of insecurity, injustice, and unreason2
The radical ambitions of counter‐radicalization2
All about ideology? Reading Piketty´s with Latin American lenses2
Different while being similar: The dual institutional process and differential organizational status2
Respectability and boundary making on a superdiverse housing estate: The cross‐racial deployment of intra‐ethnic stereotypes2
How educational systems respond to diversity, inclusion and social justice: Disability, power, discipline, territoriality and deterritorialization2
In sight, in mind: Spatial proximity to protest sites and changes in peoples' political attitudes2
Classified out of society? How educational classification induces political alienation through feelings of misrecognition2
Minding the curve: The influence of social origin on earnings inequality by education in Mexico2
Early‐life impairments, chronic health conditions, and income mobility2
Social inequality in completion rates in higher education: Heterogeneity in educational fields2
Professionalism in the era of accountability: Role discrepancy and responses among teachers in the Netherlands2
Charismatic authority and fractured polities: A cross‐national analysis2
Resilience in the context ofconflict‐relatedsexual violence and beyond: A “sentient ecology” framework2
Welfare brokers and European Union migrants' access to social protection2
‘We need to start building up what's called herd immunity’: Scientific dissensus and public broadcasting in the Covid‐19 pandemic2
Neither acquiescence nor defiance: Tuscan wineries' “flexible reactivity” to the Italian government's quality regulation system2
From where do legislators draw scientific knowledge? Organizations as scientific authorities in four countries' parliamentary debates2
Deepening the divide: Does globalization increase the polarization between winners and losers of globalization?1
The same everywhere? Exploring structural homologies of national social fields using the case of journalism1
Paradoxes of social mobility in London1
Individualism without full individualization? The compressed life trajectories of the Tibetan graduates of an English training program1
The lives of others: Class divisions, network segregation, and attachment to society in Chile1
Doubly disadvantaged: Unemployment, young age, and electoral participation in the United Kingdom1
Scalar properties of the transnational field of human rights: Field effects and human rights in Bahrain1
The aesthetics of hierarchy1
Social character, interdependence, and the dualities of other‐directedness1
Gender inequality in the one percent: A look under the hood of high incomes in Germany1
Inequality and the Chinese elite: Between international convergence and national divergence1
“If at First You don’t Succeed”: Why Žižek Failed in France but Succeeded in England1
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From public to commercial service: State‐market hybridization in the UK visa and immigration permit infrastructure, 1997–20211
Social class and approaches to shaping educational expectations1
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Race, risk, and American religious groups' views of Nazi Germany in 19351
Two Islamophobias? Racism and religion as distinct but mutually supportive dimensions of anti‐Muslim prejudice1
Continuing complexity: The university careers of a scientific elite in relation to their class origins and schooling1
Pursuing individualism without feminism: Leisure life and gender politics of young female bar‐goers in urban China1
The Scylla State. A gendered understanding of the experiences of marginalised women in the United Kingdom1
The education gap over immigration and socioeconomic security1
Politicians' high‐status signals make less‐educated citizens more supportive of aggression against government: A video‐vignette survey experiment1
The use of cultural repertoires of everyday nationhood and citizenship in national identity boundary‐drawing: The case of Syrian refugees in Turkey1
Who still needs the nation? Empire, identity and the British welfare state1
Cultural capital and perception of teacher‐student relationships: Uncovering inequalities at schools in China1
Institutional underpinnings, global reach, and the future of ordinal citizenship1
Furthering racial liberalism in UK higher education: The populist construction of the ‘free speech crisis’1
The hidden majority/minority consensus: Minorities show similar preference patterns of immigrant support as the majority population1
Sociology after the postcolonial: Response to Julian Go's ‘thinking against empire’1
Elite mobility and continuity during a regime change1
Liberal‐secular power and the traps of muslim integration in Western Europe1
Performing the people: Review of Isaac Ariail Reed’s Power in modernity: Agency relations and the creative destruction of the king’s two bodies1
The female payer: Gender differences in characteristics among child support payers1
Exploring the utility of eye tracking for sociological research on race1
Does belief in meritocracy increase with inequality? A reconsideration for European countries1
Debating Capital and Ideology: An introduction to the special issue1
“Relations of extraction”: Some issues for social policy1
Unveiling power, or why social science's task is explanation1
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Subculture wars: The struggle for the vape industry0
Facing arrhythmia. Reconstructing time in the pandemic by the metropolitan creative classes in Poland0
“Social science is explanation or it is nothing.” Introduction to a debate0
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)0
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Union booms and busts: The ongoing fight over the U.S. labor movement By JudithStepan‐Norris and JasmineKerrissey, Oxford University Press. 304 pages. ISBN: 01975398580
The economics of ethnic marriages: Endogamy and the social status of minority groups0
Symbolic boundary work: Jewish and Arab femicide in Israeli Hebrew newspapers0
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Standpoint theory and middle‐range theorizing in International Sociology0
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Family socioeconomic status and sibling correlations in upper secondary education. An empirical analysis of educational inequalities in Italy0
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Income change and sympathy for right‐wing populist parties in the Netherlands: The role of gender and income inequality within households0
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The trials and tribulations of research evaluation: Quantification to the rescue?0
Private spanner in public works? The corrosive effects of private insurance on public life0
Mapping out the interpersonal boundary stones in contemporary China: Guanxi network structure and its association with traditional culture endorsement0
Competing revolutionaries: Legitimacy and leadership in revolutionary situations0
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 cultural0
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At risk: Indian sexual politics and the global AIDS crisis. By Gowri Vijayakumar, Stanford University Press. 2021. pp. 258. $26 (pbk)0
Political economy of colonial and post‐colonial India. By Aditya Mukherjee, Delhi: Primus Books. 2022. pp. 5750
The unclaimed: Abandonment and hope in the city of angels. By P.Prickett and S.Timmermans, London: Penguin Random House. 20240
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Examining factors influencing Turkish Jewish attitudes towards the Armenian genocide0
Seeking western men: Mail‐order brides under China’s global rise. By MonicaLiu, Stanford University Press. 20220
Cruel optimism, affective governmentality and frontline poverty governance: ‘You can promise the world’0
Material conditions and ideas in global history0
Variations in media framing of movements in China, France, and the U.S.: An intersectional approach0
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Infant mortality and social causality: Lessons from the history of Britain’s public health movement, c. 1834–19140
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Extraction, exploitation, expropriation and expulsion in the domestic colonial relations of the British welfare state in the twentieth and twenty‐first centuries0
Is it time sociology started researching incompetence?0
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Renewal without replication: Expanding Durkheim's theory of disruptions via queer nightlife0
Low life: William Hogarth, visual culture and sociologies of art0
On the unity and dissonance of Critique and Praxis0
The sustainability myth: Environmental gentrification and the politics of justice By MelissaChecker, NYU Press, 20200
Critique & Praxis is nothing short of a colossal achievement, which will be discussed for years to come0
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)0
Do you like school? Social class, gender, ethnicity and pupils' educational enjoyment0
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Stressful life events and depressive symptoms during COVID‐19: A gender comparison0
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Side hustle safety net: How vulnerable workers survive precarious times. By AlexandreaRavenelle, Oakland: University of California Press. 2023. 344 pages. £25. ISBN: 97805203873000
The gender gap in fair earnings increases with age due to higher age premium for men0
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Social origins and educational attainment: The unique contributions of parental education, class, and financial resources over time0
Blackstone vs BlackRock0
Hospitality workers and gentrification processes: Elective belonging and reflexive complicity0
Economic returns to reproducing parents' field of study0
Dual nationality, anti‐citizenship, and xeno‐racism: Online tropes on migrant (in)gratitude, and (in)adequate Britishness of Nazanin Zaghari‐Ratcliffe0
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Remarks on “relations of extraction, relations of redistribution: Empire, nation, and the construction of the British welfare state.” Gurminder K. Bhambra0
Parental unemployment and children's educational attainment: How big is the role of aspirations?0
How Green Became Good: Urbanized Nature and the Making of Cities and CitizensH.AngeloChicago University Press, 20210
Searching for desirable bodies: How recruiters value physically exertive extracurricular activities for graduate hiring at elite professional firms in China0
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Perceived research productivity of women in higher education: An investigation of the impact of COVID‐190
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Upsold: Real estate agents, prices, and neighborhood inequality. By MaxBesbris, Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press. 2020. pp. 2210
An “illuminati” and its acolytes: Critical theory in the text and in the world0
The rise of central banks: State power in financial capitalism. By LeonWansleben, Harvard University Press. 20230
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Anticolonial thought, the sociological imagination, and social science: A reply to critics0
Nation‐builders and market architects: How social origins mold the careers of law graduates over 200 years in Norway0
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