Current Sociology

Papers
(The median citation count of Current Sociology 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editing at the end of the Soviet empire40
Farewell to genre: Plot, meaning, and eudaemonic paths in social narratives39
Ticket inspectors use emotion displays of sympathy and dominance to manage status dynamics in passenger encounters26
Importation for comparison as apparatus: Israeli prime ministers and their political strategies of memorialization25
‘Being old’ and ‘feeling old’ in contemporary Italy: Active ageing and COVID-1921
Reconnecting to the social: Ontological foundations for a repurposed and rescaled SIA21
Spectacularising narratives on femicide in South Africa: A decolonial feminist analysis21
Digital home-lessness: Exploring the links between public Internet access, technological capital, and social inequality15
Ordinary consumption in extra-ordinarily small homes: Acquisition, storage and decluttering practices of micro-apartment residents15
Self-casting and alter-casting: Healthcare professionals’ boundary work in response to peer workers14
Navigating intimate practices under the spectre of familial dementia13
Guiding distinctions of social theory: Results from two online brainstormings and one quantitative analysis of the ISA Books of the XX Century corpus12
The dilemma of constitutional mobilization: The housing and the environmental social movements at the Chilean Constitutional Convention12
Class identity in times of social mobilization and labor union revitalization: Evidence from the case of Chile (2009–2019)11
Beyond Hamsters’ syndrome11
Enchanted realism: Representations of self-fulfilment among Italian youth after the pandemic11
Social-constructivist and figurational biographical research11
The power of a look: Tracing webs of power in intimate partner violence through an everyday act11
The mechanisms of trust formation under different conditions of political identity: An experiment among Taiwanese voters10
Education as care labor: Expanding our lens on the work-life balance problem10
Imaginative labor and embodied cognition: Economic sociology as a cognitive science10
Innovation in economic evolution: Reintroducing Schumpeterian thought to current advances in economic sociology10
Millennial femininity and the harmonious state of mind10
The social space of Italian leading sociology journals: A network and field-theoretic analysis of sociologists’ interlocking editorships10
On the cult of the individual: The Quantified Self public gatherings, self-tracking, and individualism9
LGBT+ ballroom dancers and their shoes: Fashioning the queer self into existence9
Caste, gender, race: Signposts of a feminist anti-caste approach9
Racial residential patterns in Singapore: What happens after the implementation of racial quotas in public housing?9
What is femicide? The United Nations and the measurement of progress in complex epistemic systems8
Race and/or caste: What is at stake?8
Interrogating parenting and intergenerational relationships within national and transnational contexts8
A value turn in sociology8
Citizen experts in participatory governance: Democratic and epistemic assets of service user involvement, local knowledge and citizen science7
Being a woman or being a mathematician: Self and external perceptions of female early career researchers in a mathematical cluster of excellence7
On the monopoly of violence: Ideal types of settler colonial violence and the habitus of sumud7
The single-mother ghost-father family: Perspectives of single women choosing posthumous reproduction, a preliminary study7
Durable despite tension: Adult sibling relationships within family figurations7
Public perceptions of climate change during the COVID-19 crisis: Evidence from social media data in China7
Femtech apps and quantification of the reproductive body in India: Issues and concerns7
Can a colonial flag become a banner for democracy? The Case of the Dragon and Lion flag and the 2019 Hong Kong protests6
Sociology of values or sociology of morality?6
Exploring equity in social impact assessment6
Social lens or inherently social phenomenon? The study of food in Swedish sociology6
The literature/science boundary in sociological articles: Using fiction to discover patterns in co-authorship, author gender, and citation rank6
Reflections of a Monographs editor6
Localization of social science research in selected academic disciplines in South Korea6
Diasporic multiculturalism5
Editors’ foreword to the 70th anniversary volume5
The impact of COVID 19 in Argentina and Chile’s informal settlement: Populous habitats and ways of living in times of crisis5
Mining disaster in the Doce River: Dilemma between governance and participation5
‘No way. You will not make [insert country here] home’: Anti-asylum discursive transfer from Australia to Europe5
Passing and telling: Israeli Arabized soldiers5
Brexit and the stratified uses of national and European Union citizenship5
Re-imagining the measurement of femicide: From ‘thin’ counts to ‘thick’ counts5
Southern theory, knowledge production and Russia’s war in Ukraine: An interview with Raewyn Connell5
Creativity and the collective Renaissance: A hermeneutic-imaginary approach4
Everyday utopias and social reproduction4
Giving and receiving: Gendered service work in academia4
Paid domestic work and outsourcing in South Africa: Clients’ views on trust, control and power relations4
What is left unsaid: Omissions in biographical narratives4
‘Why give birth to many children when you cannot take care of them?’ Determinants of family size among dual-earner couples in Ghana4
An emerging military-industrial-nonprofit complex? Exploring conscripted volunteering in Israel4
Unpacking the global climate politics-to-local nexus: Renewables, community struggles, and social impacts4
After 50 years of social impact assessment, is it still fit for purpose?4
Reframing the social acceptance of mining projects: The contribution of social impact assessment in the Brazilian Amazon4
Analysing homophobia, xenophobia and sexual nationalisms in Africa: Comparing quantitative attitudes data to reveal societal differences4
Examining distrust of science and scientists: A study on ideology and scientific literacy in the European Union4
Is ethics a Utopia? Yes, when moral distinctions impair the ethical aim4
Home care for profit: Intermediary agencies and digital platforms brokering migrant women’s labour in Spain4
‘. . . You are a Muslim, and our village disapproves of this’: The objections of indigenous minority communities in Israel to women’s employment in the police on grounds of gender, nationality and cri4
Why broker novel concepts into economic sociology? Transcending the New Economic Sociology4
Complex innovation, organizations, and fields: Toward the organized transformation of today’s innovation societies4
Ideal types’ strategies related to handling early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic: A thematic analysis of comments from an international survey4
Promoting mindfulness in education: Scientisation, psychology and epistemic capital3
Negotiating euthanasia: Civil society contesting ‘the completed life’3
How to make sense of citizen expertise in participatory projects?3
On the importance of taking risks3
‘Put me on to a male agent’: Emotional labor and performing gender in call centers3
The production of counter-space: Informal labour, social networks and the production of urban space in Dhaka3
Receptivity to different types of migrants in Taiwan: Civic behavior and support for same-sex marriage as novel correlates3
Primitive social theory: On the history of the ‘primitive concept’ in sociology and its applications under post-digital modernity3
Scapegoating queers: Pink-blocking as state strategy3
The intellectual biography of Syed Farid Alatas: Hegemonic orientations, epistemic decolonisation and the School of Autonomous Knowledge3
Racism and sexism during pandemic times: Experiences, narratives, and coping mechanisms among Chinese women in the Netherlands3
The semiosis and the market: Peirce’s semiotics for economic sociology3
Challenging the protest paradigm and winning legitimacy. Analysis of the representation of the social movement against femicide in the mainstream media in Mexico3
Police violence, corrupt cops, and the repudiation of stigma among underclass residents in Mexico City3
Military social harm: An agenda for research3
In search of the ‘best’ option: American private secondary education for upper-middle-class Chinese teenagers3
Nonviolent youth activism and symbolic violence: Some problems in Bourdieu’s notion of victim complicity3
Race and caste in the making of US sociology3
Streamlining social impact assessment and disaster risk assessment for the 21st century – Perspectives from South Africa3
Structured inequalities and authors’ positionalities in academic publishing: The case of Philippine international migration scholarship2
Anti-consumerism as a class practice: Parental investment in a private kindergarten in Israel2
Voices of emergency: Imagined climate futures and forms of collective action2
Seven years passed2
Publisher’s Note2
The construction of dual ethnic identity among multi-ethnic adolescents2
Race, caste and colonialism2
Environmental anomie and the disruption of physical norms during disaster2
‘We do things that matter’: Humanitarian representations of health and welfare services for forced migrants2
Replace, absorb, serve: Data scientists talk about their aspired jurisdiction2
An integral model of cultural reproduction: The case of China2
Social media and social impact assessment: Evolving methods in a shifting context2
Family formation and health-related behavior: The case of meal skipping2
Looking at human-centered artificial intelligence as a problem and prospect for sociology: An analytic review2
Social media as a means of visual biographical performance and biographical work2
Extended family collaboration in childcare during the coronavirus disease-19 pandemic2
On the emergence and changing positions of old-established groupings in migration contexts: A process perspective on group formation in Jordan2
Remitting amid autocracy: Venezuelan migrant remittances to relatives enduring widespread structural violence2
Reciprocity, trust and conflict: Volunteers and refugees in rural Germany2
The necessary confluence of sociology and social impact assessment in the era of global change2
Friends against capitalism: Constructive resistance and friendship compliance in worker cooperatives2
Who counts? The invisibility of mothers as victims of femicide1
Introduction: Reconstructive biographical research1
The constitution of political contention: The case of protests and riots at the turn of the 19th century1
Weaponized volunteering: Where and whither1
Planned meetings: Multiplicity, boxed-in dialogues, and deliberative bureaucracy as social form1
Together or apart? Doing biographical research and oral history in an interdisciplinary context1
Creativity, transcendence, and social constellations1
A sociological genealogy of transcendence1
Excluding themselves from development? Carework as a discursive resource for women farmers in Ethiopia1
Political polarization and intimate distance: Negotiating family conflicts during a high-risk protest movement1
Conflicting demands and emotional labour: Balancing and swapping at the front line of the welfare state1
Reflections of a journal editor1
Aggravated commodification as a new dimension of precarity in platform economy1
Parental aspirations, schools, and the limits of flexible citizenship: Examining elite return migrants’ schooling decisions1
The surviving power of Brahmin privilege1
Distinguishing next society1
From project-based to community-based social impact assessment: New social impact assessment pathways to build community resilience and enhance disaster risk reduction and climate action1
Live and let live? Morality in symbolic boundaries across different cultural areas1
If unequal, don’t change it? The inequality-redistribution puzzle among political elites1
Not a mirror but a tool: User experience research and the production of useful social knowledge1
Becoming a young radical right activist: Biographical pathways of the members of radical right organisations in Poland and Germany1
The winners of marketisation: Welfare profit-makers legitimising private profits in publicly funded welfare services1
Mastering political time: China’s graduates in the quest for temporal sovereignty through civil service exam battles1
Do we need a posthumanist sociology? Notes from the COVID-19 pandemic1
Comments on Suraj Yengde’s lecture1
Settler colonialism and the archives of apprehension1
Justifying contentious social and political claims using mundane language: An analysis of Canadian right-wing extremism1
‘Very unsure of what’s to come’: Salon worker experiences of COVID-19 in Australia during 20201
Is religion the ‘opiate of the masses’? Religion and political trust in China1
Generative processes of social vulnerability to flood risk: A proposal for the strategic management of social impacts1
Interpenetration and the town and gown divide: A systems theoretical reading of Porterhouse Blue1
Scaled, citizen-led, and public qualitative research: A framework for citizen social science1
‘Weaponized volunteering’ and re-considering the volunteering-weaponization divide1
Transactional pathways: Institutional possibilities for status and wealth under racial/caste capitalism1
Empathy in research process: Study of women in sex work in India1
Youth and the consumption of credit1
Controlling precarious work through documents: The carteira de trabalho on the sugarcane plantations of Northeast Brazil1
The diverging gender inequality across households: The case of Palestinian-Arab families in Israel1
Privilege and discrimination in identity politics: ‘Guiding Distinctions’ as a tool for analyzing social inequality1
Exploring biographical case reconstructions of women with housing instability experience in South Brazil1
Who recounts the Stalinist past? Mnemonic roles, acts of remembering and life-scripts in Russian families1
Disabled youth participation within activism and social movement bases: An empirical investigation of the UK Disabled People’s Movement1
Imagined futures in precarious working conditions: A gender matter?1
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