OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of British Journal of Sociology is 3. 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
Relations of extraction, relations of redistribution: Empire, nation, and the construction of the British welfare state	49
“This is a political movement, friend”: Why “incels” support violence	43
Ordinal citizenship	37
Brahmin Left versus Merchant Right? Education, class, multiparty competition, and redistribution in Western Europe	27
‘More options…less time’ in the ‘hustle culture’ of ‘generation sensible’: Individualization and drinking decline among twenty‐first century young adults	24
Post‐industrial masculinities and gym culture: Graft, craft, and fraternity	22
The absorption and multiplication of uncertainty in machine‐learning‐driven finance	21
Habitus and climate change: Exploring support and resistance to sustainable welfare and social–ecological transformations in Sweden	21
Primary and secondary effects of social origins on educational attainment: New findings for England	19
Rethinking respectability politics	17
“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 politicians	17
Participation in civil society organizations and ethnic minorities’ interethnic friendships in Britain	17
A revolt of the deplored? The role of perceived cultural distance in the educational gradient in anti‐establishment politics	14
Older Iranian Muslim women’s experiences of sex and sexuality: A biographical approach	14
Unveiling everyday discrimination. Two field experiments on discrimination against religious minorities in day‐to‐day interactions	13
A “Phoenix” rising from the ashes: China’s Tongqi, marriage fraud, and resistance	13
The intergenerational transmission of language skill	13
From parvenu to “highbrow” tastes: The rise of cultural capital in China’s intergenerational elites	13
(Dis)Engagement with queer counterpublics: Exploring intimate and family lives in online and offline spaces in China	13
Thinking against empire: Anticolonial thought as social theory	12
Temporality in the social sciences: New directions for a political sociology of time	12
Survival finance and the politics of equal pay	12
Ethnic inequality in choice‐ and performance‐driven education systems: A longitudinal study of educational choices in England, Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden	12
The adaptation of educational expectations in response to ability tracking: Variations by migration background	11
Conceptualising informal institutions: Drawing on the case of guanxi	11

Spatial and social mobility in England and Wales: A sub‐national analysis of differences and trends over time	10
Terrorist attacks and minority perceived discrimination	10
“It's hard to become mothers”: The moral economy of postponing motherhood in neoliberal Chile	10
Data money makers: An ethnographic analysis of a global cryptocurrency community	10
How (not) to feed young children: A class‐cultural analysis of food parenting practices	10
Dynamics of wilful ignorance in organizations	10
“How you keep going”: Voluntary sector practitioners' story‐lines as emotion work	9
The social infrastructure of online marketplaces: Trade, work and the interplay of decided and emergent orders	9
How happenings do (not) turn into events: A typology and an application to the case of 9/11 in the American and Dutch public spheres	9
What cultural hierarchy? Cultural tastes, status and inequality	9
Damaged hardmen: Organized crime and the half‐life of deindustrialization	9
The dark side of onward migration: Experiences and strategies of Italian‐Bangladeshis in the UK at the time of the post‐Brexit referendum	9
From integrated to fragmented elites. The core of Swiss elite networks 1910–2015	9
Demystifying the link between higher education and liberal values: A within‐sibship analysis of British individuals’ attitudes from 1994–2020	8
Social capital as a partial explanation for gender wage gaps	8
From workers to capitalists in less than two generations: A study of Chinese urban top group transformation between 1988 and 2013	8
Who you know: The classed structure of social capital	8
Contested ease: Negotiating contradictory modes of elite distinction in face‐to‐face interaction	7
Piketty comes to South Africa	7
Far‐right boundary construction towards the “other”: Visual communication of Danish People’s Party on social media	7
Public support for social security in 66 countries: Prosperity, inequality, and household income as interactive causes	7
“If no one grieves, no one will remember”: Cultural palimpsests and the creation of social ties through rituals	7
How the past becomes the past: The temporal positioning of collective memory	7
A divided kingdom? Variation in polarization, sorting, and dimensional alignment among the British public, 1986–2018	6
Narrating inequality, eliding empire	6
Religious residue: The impact of childhood religious socialization on the religiosity of nones in France, Germany, Great Britain, and Sweden	6
Just what is critical race theory, and what is it doing in British sociology? From “BritCrit” to the racialized social system approach	6
Intersectionality on the go: The diffusion of Black feminist knowledge across disciplinary and geographical borders	6
A counterexample to secularization theory? Assessing the Georgian religious revival	6
Resilience as a multi‐directional movement process: A conceptual and empirical exploration	6
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 analysis	6
The paradox of local inequality: Meritocratic beliefs in unequal localities	6
Caregiving fathers and the negotiation of crossroads: Journeys of continuity and change	6
Public life as identity construction: A case study based on an SL square‐dancing group in Shanghai	5
The structure of food taste in 21^st century Britain	5
Outward specific trust in the balancing of hierarchical government trust: Evidence from mainland China	5
Breaking the silence on femicide: How women challenge epistemic injustice and male violence	5
Epistemology of surveillance: Revealing unmarked forms of discipline and punishment in Israeli academia	5
Profile of the super rich in China: A social space analysis	5
School‐to‐work transition and subjective well‐being in Australia	5
The role of patriarchal structure and gender stereotypes in cyber dating abuse: A qualitative examination of male perpetrators experiences	5
Childhood disability, social class and social mobility: A neglected relationship	5
Distinctions in the making: A theoretical discussion of youth and cultural capital	5
Social stratification in meaningful work: Occupational class disparities in the United Kingdom	5
Black lives matter, capital, and ideology: Spiraling out from India	5
The self in selfies—Conceptualizing the selfie‐coordination of marginalized youth with sociology of engagements	5
“The whole thing is really managing crisis”: Practice theory insights into interpreters' work experiences of success and failure	5
“The media love the artificial versions of what’s going on”: Media (mis)representations of Down’s syndrome	5
Dynastic cores and the borrowed time of newcomers. Wealth accumulation and the Norwegian one percent	5

Lives on track? Long‐term earnings returns to selective school placement in England and Denmark	5
Below the radar: A U.K. benefit fraud media coverage tsunami—Impact, ideology, and society	4
Legacies of civil wars: A 14‐year study of social conflicts and well‐being outcomes in farming economies	4
Elite recruitment in US finance: How university prestige is used to secure top executive positions	4
How moderates make boundaries after protracted conflict. Everyday universalists, agonists, transformists and cosmopolitans in contemporary Northern Ireland	4
The social origins and schooling of a scientific elite: Fellows of the Royal Society born from 1900	4
Parenthood and dynamics of life satisfaction in times of COVID‐19	4
The more it changes the more it stays the same: The French social space of material consumption between 1985 and 2017	4
The relational costs of crossing class lines	4
Trouble with autonomy in behavioral insurance	4
Understanding autonomy and relationality in men's lives	4
“I don’t think anybody really knows”: Constructing reflexive ignorance in climate change adaptation	4
Anywheres, Somewheres, local attachment, and civic participation	4
Planning versus the market: The dispute between Hayek and Mannheim and its contemporary relevance	4
Historical change in an elite profession—Class origins and grades among law graduates over 200 years	4
Managing racism? Race equality and decolonial educational futures	4
Felt deficits in time with children: Individual and contextual factors across 27 European countries	4
Humanitarianism, securitization, and containment in Jordan's Za'atari Refugee Camp	3
Pathways from origins to destinations: Stability and change in the roles of cognition, private schools and educational attainment	3
“There's just too many”: The construction of immigration as a social problem	3
Dissecting the “do good and do well” phenomenon: The case of the UK's market for social investment	3
The resentful undergrowth of nostalgia: Ontological insecurity, relative deprivation and powerlessness	3
Examining the recent strike wave in the UK: The problem with official statistics	3
From liberal to neoliberal citizenship: A commentary on Marion Fourcade	3
Capital and ideology: A global perspective on inequality regimes	3
Webs of reciprocity: Colonial taxation and the need for reparations	3
Gender balance in the workforce and abortion attitudes: A cross‐national time‐series analysis	3
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 inequality	3
Property, wealth, and social change: Piketty as a social science engineer	3
Race as technology and the carceral methodologies of molecular racialization	3
Navigating the nationalist landscape of exclusion: Armenian citizens of Turkey and the politics of naming	3
Are economists overconfident? Ideology and uncertainty in expert opinion	3
We were never cool: Investigating knowledge production and discourses of cool in the sociology of music	3
Who's a good citizen? Status and power in minority and majority youths' conceptions of citizenship	3
Embracing the nation: Strategic deployment of sexuality, nation, and citizenship in Singapore	3
Consecration and meritocracy in elite business schools: The case of a Swedish student union	3
Precarious bodies: The securitization of the “veiled” woman in European human rights	3
The paradoxical role of social class background in the educational and labour market outcomes of the children of immigrants in the UK	3
Assimilated or the boundary of Whiteness expanded? A boundary model of group belonging	3
“Because we all love K‐Pop”: How young adults reshape symbolic boundaries in Paris, Manchester, and Philadelphia	3
Dimensions of class identification? On the roots and effects of class identity	3