OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of British Journal of Sociology is 2. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Standpoint theory and middle‐range theorizing in International Sociology	44
Mapping out the interpersonal boundary stones in contemporary China: Guanxi network structure and its association with traditional culture endorsement	43
Issue Information	27
Breaking good? Young people's mechanisms of resilience, resistance and control	25
Corrigendum	25
Searching for desirable bodies: How recruiters value physically exertive extracurricular activities for graduate hiring at elite professional firms in China	23
On Medical Domination	23
Artificial Intelligence as a Strategy in the British Economic Field	22
Politicians' high‐status signals make less‐educated citizens more supportive of aggression against government: A video‐vignette survey experiment	22
The social infrastructure of online marketplaces: Trade, work and the interplay of decided and emergent orders	21
Love Across Class. By RoseButler and EveVincent, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. 2024	20
Examining factors influencing Turkish Jewish attitudes towards the Armenian genocide	18
Nation‐builders and market architects: How social origins mold the careers of law graduates over 200 years in Norway	16
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The unclaimed: Abandonment and hope in the city of angels. By P.Prickett and S.Timmermans, London: Penguin Random House. 2024	16
The Strength of Weak Ties? Understanding Educational Differences in Parents' Childcare Benefit Knowledge by Applying a Social Capital Approach	15
Cooling Out or Branching Out? Accounting for the Aspirations‐Attainment Paradox Among Immigrant Youth in Sweden	15
The Electoral Coalition of the Radical Right in Western Europe	15
The social origins and schooling of a scientific elite: Fellows of the Royal Society born from 1900	14
Unpolitical solutionism: Wealth elite sentiments against democracy and politics	14
Dependence and Precarity in the Gig Economy: A Longitudinal Analysis of Platform Work and Mental Distress	13
Welfare brokers and European Union migrants' access to social protection	12
Managing racism? Race equality and decolonial educational futures	12
Caregiving fathers and the negotiation of crossroads: Journeys of continuity and change	12
The gender gap in fair earnings increases with age due to higher age premium for men	11

Two Islamophobias? Racism and religion as distinct but mutually supportive dimensions of anti‐Muslim prejudice	10
Commercial Surrogacy Is not a Secret Handshake: It Is a High‐Five: Gay Fathers in China’s Changing Landscape	10
Sociology after the postcolonial: Response to Julian Go's ‘thinking against empire’	10
The Bigger Pictures of L’État Providence: On François Ewald’s Theorisation of the Insurantial Society	10
Articulation, or the persistent problem with explanation	10
Children picturing their own worlds: Using photovoice to amplify children’s voice in sociological research	10
The relational costs of crossing class lines	10
The Scylla State. A gendered understanding of the experiences of marginalised women in the United Kingdom	10
The Double Erosion of Liberal Citizenship: Economization and Moralization	10
Who you know: The classed structure of social capital	10
Corrigendum	9
The rainbow connection: Disrupting background affect, overcoming barriers and emergent emotional collectives at “Pride in London”	9
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: 9780063079816	9
Refuge: How the state shapes human potential. By HebaGowayed, Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2022. 195 pages. £22.00 (pbk)	9
The Role of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Solutions in Transforming Educational and Employment Access for Individuals With Disabilities	9
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: 978‐0‐691‐22089‐5	9
Furthering racial liberalism in UK higher education: The populist construction of the ‘free speech crisis’	9
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The Fall and Rise of the English Upper Class: Houses, Kinship and Capital Since 1945. By DanielSmith, Manchester: 2023	8
What do stances on immigrants' welfare entitlement mean? Evidence from a correlational class analysis	8
Issue Information	8
The hidden majority/minority consensus: Minorities show similar preference patterns of immigrant support as the majority population	7
A counterexample to secularization theory? Assessing the Georgian religious revival	7
Issue Information ‐ List Of Books Reviewed	7
How kindness took a hold: A sociology of emotions, attachment and everyday enchantment	7
Asian Americans in an anti‐Black world. By Claire JeanKim, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2023. pp. 1–412. ISBN: 9781009222280	7
Time use surveys, social practice theory, and activity connections	7
Understanding the Mediating Effect of Child Abuse and Poor Mental Health on the Use of Adolescent Family Violence: Findings From an Australian Study	7
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, g	7
Decolouring. The Racial Imprints of Upward Mobility in Lima's Dominant Class	6
Taking Stock: Elite Studies and Social Change	6
Cultural and Human Capital Signals in Hiring—A Factorial Survey Experiment Across Contexts	6
The Body in Extremist White Supremacism	6
Insurance and Social Theory: An Introduction to the Special Issue	6
When the ‘Old’ Attend to the ‘Old’: Female Direct Care Workers Doing Gendered and Classed Age in the Chinese Elder Care Industry	6
Variation in the social composition of the UK academic elite: The underlay of the two—or three—cultures?	6
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: 9781501	6
Radicalisation studies: An emerging interdisciplinary field	6
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 Wales	5
To the Rescue of Cultural Capital: Seizing the Emotional Underpinnings of Contemporary Social Cleavages	5
After positivism: New approaches to comparison in historical sociology. By Nicholas HooverWilson, DamonMayrl (Eds.), New York: Columbia University Press. 2024	5
Gender, Families, and Wealth Accumulation Among the One‐Child Generation	5
Gateways, Funnels, and Stackers: How People Hide Property Ownership Through Offshore Structures	5
Pursuing individualism without feminism: Leisure life and gender politics of young female bar‐goers in urban China	5
From where do legislators draw scientific knowledge? Organizations as scientific authorities in four countries' parliamentary debates	5
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 Wales	5
Sociology and The Complexity of What Is Missing	5
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The resentful undergrowth of nostalgia: Ontological insecurity, relative deprivation and powerlessness	4
From Boardrooms to Platforms: Elite Brokerage and Digital Influence in Chilean Pro‐Market Think Tanks	4
‘We need to start building up what's called herd immunity’: Scientific dissensus and public broadcasting in the Covid‐19 pandemic	4
Climate Moralities Offset: A Case of Formative Voluntary Carbon Markets	4
Issue Information	4
Examining the recent strike wave in the UK: The problem with official statistics	4
The more it changes the more it stays the same: The French social space of material consumption between 1985 and 2017	4
Early‐life impairments, chronic health conditions, and income mobility	4
Do you like school? Social class, gender, ethnicity and pupils' educational enjoyment	4
Renewal without replication: Expanding Durkheim's theory of disruptions via queer nightlife	4
Gendered Attitudes or Structural Barriers? Men Front Line Workers' Perspectives on What Keeps Men out of Paid Care Work in Australia	4
Transport digitalisation: Navigating futures of hypercognitive disablement	4
The paradoxical role of social class background in the educational and labour market outcomes of the children of immigrants in the UK	4
Intellectual Solidarity and Reflexive Dislocation: Sociology in the Age of Global Authoritarianism	4
Entrepreneuring Legitimacy: A Case Study of the Cultural Codes and Boundary‐Makings of the Tech Elite	4
What cultural hierarchy? Cultural tastes, status and inequality	3
(Dis)trust in Digital Insurance: How Datafied Practices Shift Uncertainties and Reconfigure Trust Relations	3
Continuing complexity: The university careers of a scientific elite in relation to their class origins and schooling	3
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
From Dyadic Distance to Space in Family Networks: Reciprocity of Family Support in Switzerland	3
Issue Information	3
Cruel optimism, affective governmentality and frontline poverty governance: ‘You can promise the world’	3
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 cultural	3
Job Insecurity and Life Courses. By SoniaBertolini, ValentinaGoglio, and DirkHofäcker, Bristol: Bristol University Press. 2024	3
Reading Margaret Kennedy’s The Feast (1950) at the Same Time as Dan Evan’s A Nation of Shopkeepers: The Unstoppable Rise of the Petty Bourgeoisie (2023)	3
Normative Cumulation: Justifying the Production of Knowledge in American Family Demography	3
The temporality of memory politics: An analysis of Russian state media narratives on the war in Ukraine	3
What Is Justice? Reflections on the Criminal Justice System in Brazil	3
Contesting individualization and individualism in marriage in East Asia: Dual‐income couples' monetary practices	3
In sight, in mind: Spatial proximity to protest sites and changes in peoples' political attitudes	3
Side hustle safety net: How vulnerable workers survive precarious times. By AlexandreaRavenelle, Oakland: University of California Press. 2023. 344 pages. £25. ISBN: 9780520387300	3
More Productive Bodies Faster! Human Capital and Anti‐Intellectualism in Danish University Reform	3
What is the Liberalizing Potential of Higher Education? An Analysis of Academic Fields and Anti‐Immigrant Sentiment Across 32 Countries	3
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How Class Influences the Ethnic Identity of Chinese Immigrants in the UK: Citizenship, Work, and Solidarity	2
Unnatural Wills: Inheritance Disputes and Inequality	2
The social life of money for children	2
Religious residue: The impact of childhood religious socialization on the religiosity of nones in France, Germany, Great Britain, and Sweden	2
What's good for the gander is even better for the goose: Women buying commercial sex in China	2
Laying Grounds for Dialogue: Exploring Anti‐Racist Activists' Negotiations of Emotions When Challenging Colour‐Blindness in Norway	2
The Negotiation of Intergenerational Support for Housing: Diverging Patterns Among Renters and Homeowners	2
Review of the Book The Chile Project . By SebastiánEdwards, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2023. 376 pp. $32.00/£28.00. ISBN: 9780691	2
Regional variation in intergenerational social mobility in Britain	2
Variations in media framing of movements in China, France, and the U.S.: An intersectional approach	2
The neoliberal multicultural state and the urban Indigenous associative model in Santiago de Chile	2
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Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto. By KoheiSaito, New York, USA: Astra House. 2024. pp. 288. $18.00 (paperback). ISBN: 9781662602726	2
“Now we don't have that freedom to not work”: Childhood and parenting in insecurity culture	2
Life funds, urban development, and the experimental practices of financial sociology	2
The Link Between Contextual Poverty and Academic Achievement: Evidence Using Panel Data From a Lower‐Middle‐Income Country	2
‘Levelling up’ social mobility? Comparing the social and spatial mobility for university graduates across districts of Britain	2
A conceptual refinement of ritual: The case of guanxi	2
How kin help with parental investments	2
Elite recruitment in US finance: How university prestige is used to secure top executive positions	2
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
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 p	2
Dimensions of class identification? On the roots and effects of class identity	2
The government of emergency: Vital systems, expertise, and the politics of security. By Stephen J.Collier and AndrewLakoff, Princeton University Press. 2021	2
Distinctions in the making: A theoretical discussion of youth and cultural capital	2
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
De(‐)Meaning Anti‐Racism	2
Risk, Reciprocity, and Academic Pursuit in India	2
Reconsidering reparations. By Olúfẹ́mi O.Táíwò, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2022	2
Exploring normative frameworks of fairness through (relational) institutional habitus in Oxford's undergraduate admissions process	2
Royal power in the market‐oriented society: The Swedish King's consecration of business and corporate elites	2
Lagging behind by doing good: How volunteering prolongs unemployment	2
Thinking against empire: Anticolonial thought as social theory	2
Convertibility of Cultural Capital: A Longitudinal Study of University Students From 2017 to 2024	2
Issue Information	2
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Privileged Precarity: How the Mobile Middle Class Leverage Housing Insecurity as Labour Market Strategy	2
Trolling is Not the Point: Ideological Violence and the Limits of Digital Safety	2
The Politics of Knowledge: Race, Decolonial Knowledge, and Activist Research in Belgium and the UK	2
Issue Information ‐ List Of Books Reviewed	2
The Quantified Scholar: An introduction to the book	2
Dynamics of wilful ignorance in organizations	2
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