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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Social representations of ‘social distancing’ in response to COVID-19 in the UK media32
For a comparative sociology of home: Relationships, cultures, structures28
Thinking Europe Otherwise: Lessons from the Caribbean27
Tackling COVID-19 risk in Hong Kong: Examining distrust, compliance and risk management26
Identifying femicide locally and globally: Understanding the utility and accessibility of sex/gender-related motives and indicators26
Panic, pizza and mainstreaming the alt-right: A social media analysis of Pizzagate and the rise of the QAnon conspiracy23
Introduction: Towards a sociology of pandemics23
‘Save the children!’: Governing left-behind children through family in China’s Great Migration22
Conclusions: Towards a sociology of pandemics and beyond20
Alternative media framing of COVID-19 risks20
The impossibility of gendered justice through surrogacy bans20
Staying away, staying alive: Exploring risk and stigma of COVID-19 in the context of beliefs, actors and hierarchies in India18
Epistemic injustice and epistemic positioning: towards an intersectional political economy17
Architectures of asylum: Making home in a state of permanent temporariness17
Sociology’s encounter with the decolonial: The problematique of indigenous vs that of coloniality, extraversion and colonial modernity17
Home experiences and homemaking practices of single Syrian refugees in an innovative housing project in Amsterdam17
LGBT discrimination, harassment and violence in Germany, Portugal and the UK: A quantitative comparative approach15
Does live-in domestic help reduce unpaid household labor? The paradox of intensive parenting and domestic outsourcing15
Punctuated temporalities: Temporal borders in student-migrants’ everyday lives15
Swedish exceptionalism, herd immunity and the welfare state: A media analysis of struggles over the nature and legitimacy of the COVID-19 pandemic strategy in Sweden15
Researching identities through material possessions: The case of diasporic objects14
Gendered objects and gendered spaces: The invisibilities of ‘knife’ crime12
Hong Kongers and the coloniality of British citizenship from decolonisation to ‘Global Britain’11
Theorizing societalization across borders: Globality, transnationality, postcoloniality11
Towards a theoretical synergy: Critical race theory and decolonial thought in Trumpamerica and Brexit Britain11
Men’s and women’s changing attitudes towards fatherhood and working fathers in Australia11
Children as a new climate precariat: A conceptual proposition10
How religion shapes immigrants’ integration: The case of Christian migrant churches in Italy10
Analysing homophobia, xenophobia and sexual nationalisms in Africa: Comparing quantitative attitudes data to reveal societal differences9
Developing the concept of society: Institutional domains, regimes of inequalities and complex systems in a global era9
Colonial management of death: To be or not to be dead in Palestine9
Citizen experts in participatory governance: Democratic and epistemic assets of service user involvement, local knowledge and citizen science9
Wasta and its relationship to employment status and income in the Arab Middle East9
Motherhood and the contradictions of feminism: Appraising claims towards emancipation in the perspective of surrogacy9
Childhood in urban China: A three-generation portrait9
Social class, intensive parenting norms and parental values for children9
Nonprofits as socially responsible actors: Neoliberalism, institutional structures, and empowerment in the United Nations Global Compact9
Road capitals: Reconceptualising street capital, value production and exchange in the context of road life in the UK8
Who counts? The invisibility of mothers as victims of femicide8
Pandemic rage: Everyday frustrations in times of the COVID-19 crisis8
Understanding less-educated citizens’ (non-)participation in citizens’ initiatives: Feelings of entitlement and a taste for politics8
From global risk to global threat: State capabilities and modernity in times of coronavirus8
Superdiversity and social policies in a complex society: Social challenges in the 21st century7
Theorizing large-scale societal relations through the conceptual lens of cross-border assemblages7
Colonial management as a social field: The Palestinian remaking of Israel’s system of spatial control7
Political sociology in a time of protest7
Spectacularising narratives on femicide in South Africa: A decolonial feminist analysis7
Beyond convergence and divergence: Towards a ‘both and’ approach to critical race and critical Indigenous studies in Australia6
Holding back and hidden family displays: Reflections on aunthood as a morally charged category6
Self-casting and alter-casting: Healthcare professionals’ boundary work in response to peer workers6
Introduction: The case for a value turn in childhood sociology6
An integral model of cultural reproduction: The case of China6
Re-thinking society: How can sociological theories help us understand global and cross-border social contexts?6
Gendered parenting and returns from children in contemporary India: A study of IIT students and their parents6
Religion and everyday cosmopolitanism among religious and non-religious urban youth6
Clodomiro Almeyda and Roger Vekemans: The tension between autonomy and political commitment in the institutionalization of Chilean sociology, 1957–19736
Commercial surrogacy in the age of intensive mothering5
Criminalization of femicide in Latin America: Challenges of legal conceptualization5
The racial fix and environmental state formation5
The mutual constitution of illiberal civil society and neoauthoritarianism: Evidence from Turkey5
Economizing the political: Workfare reform in strategic management mode5
Islamophobia and French academia5
From rain as risk to rain as resource: Professional and organizational changes in urban rainwater management5
Live and let live? Morality in symbolic boundaries across different cultural areas5
Neuroscience and the construction of a new child in early childhood education in Indonesia: A neoliberal legacy5
‘I wish I were a plumber!’: Transnational class reconstructions across migrant experiences among Hong Kong’s professionals and managers5
Nota home: Shelter families living in Canadian motels4
The Safe Standing movement in English football: Mobilizing across the political and discursive fields of contention4
Scaled, citizen-led, and public qualitative research: A framework for citizen social science4
Weaponizing people in environmental conflicts: Capturing ‘hearts’, ‘minds’, and manufacturing ‘volunteers’ for extractive development4
Deconstructing social anthropology discourses in their support of surrogacy: The case of France4
The German social space and its homologies: National variation on a basic structure4
Trust in the military in post-authoritarian societies4
The persistent protest cycle: A case study of contained political incorporation4
In search of the ‘best’ option: American private secondary education for upper-middle-class Chinese teenagers4
Digital competences and skills as key factors between connectedness and tolerance to diversity on social networking sites: Case study of social work graduates on Facebook4
Look up rather than down: Karl Polanyi’s fascism and radical right-wing ‘populism’4
Complex innovation, organizations, and fields: Toward the organized transformation of today’s innovation societies4
The politics of deferral: Denaturalizing the ‘economic value’ of children’s labor in India4
Settler colonialism and the archives of apprehension4
How to make sense of citizen expertise in participatory projects?4
Palestinian mothers in Israel: Can a welfare-to-work program enhance their social capital?4
Horizontal and vertical labour market movements in Austria: Do occupational transitions take women across gendered lines?4
Class in Iceland3
Forced returnee Bangladeshi female migrant domestic workers and their social reintegration experiences3
Structured inequalities and authors’ positionalities in academic publishing: The case of Philippine international migration scholarship3
Following Dutch healthcare professionals’ experiences during COVID-19: Tensions in everyday practices and policies amid shifting uncertainties3
Re-imagining the measurement of femicide: From ‘thin’ counts to ‘thick’ counts3
Naming oneself in the social mirror: A vignette-based survey3
Same work, same value? Paid domestic workers’ and housewives’ struggles for rights in Uruguay and Paraguay3
Youth and the consumption of credit3
Disabled youth participation within activism and social movement bases: An empirical investigation of the UK Disabled People’s Movement3
Patterns of support and conflict relationships in personal networks and perceived stress3
Contentious buildings: The struggle against eviction in NYC’s Lower East Side3
Self-optimisation: Conceptual, discursive and historical perspectives3
Cumulative domicide: The Sayisi Dene and destruction of home in mid-twentieth century Canada3
Social theory anew: From contesting modernity to revisiting our conceptual toolbox – the case of individualization3
The critique and its critical moments: The recent pragmatic turn in French sociology3
Risk, mourning, politics: Toward a transnational critical conception of grief for COVID-19 deaths in Iran3
Looking laterally: The literary utopia and the task of critical social theory3
What is femicide? The United Nations and the measurement of progress in complex epistemic systems3
The shift to cause framing in Egyptian LGBT advocacy after the January 25 revolution3
Not a mirror but a tool: User experience research and the production of useful social knowledge3
Education as care labor: Expanding our lens on the work-life balance problem3
Characteristics of pandemic work–life balance in Slovenian military families during the lockdown: Who has paid the highest price?3
Warriors against the ‘War on Drugs’: Lay experts in Norwegian drug policy3
A cautionary tale: CVE policy actors managing risk in Australian schools3
Cross-border reproductive care: Opinions and attitudes of society towards surrogate pregnancy3
Do we need a posthumanist sociology? Notes from the COVID-19 pandemic2
Supporting oneself: The tensions of navigating a prolonged crisis among Spanish youth2
The diverging gender inequality across households: The case of Palestinian-Arab families in Israel2
Proper recognition: Personhood and symbolic capital in contemporary sociology2
The superdiverse precariat of British higher education?Limpiadoresrevisited2
Isolation and immunity within the family: Commuter marriages in Southeast Asia2
Locating invisible privilege in Asia: Conceptual travel and contextual significance2
The constitution of political contention: The case of protests and riots at the turn of the 19th century2
Making military conscription count? Converting competencies between the civilian and military spheres in a neoliberal Estonia2
Including animals in sociology2
Social networks as contexts for engagement and initiative: An empirical investigation2
Confinement risks and social inequality in Latin America: Evidence from Argentina2
Localization of social science research in selected academic disciplines in South Korea2
Grandparenting, filial piety, and well-being of Chinese-American older adults2
Keeping it in the family: Cultural socialization among Haitian American families2
How liminality enhances conviviality through multilingual co-creations: Young refugees in the Netherlands2
Millennial femininity and the harmonious state of mind2
Not transaction but service? Interrogating the multiple surrogacy narratives in India2
Everyday utopias and social reproduction2
‘No way. You will not make [insert country here] home’: Anti-asylum discursive transfer from Australia to Europe2
Globalization, place and the life course: Local economies and middle-class transition to adulthood in two Israeli cities2
Administrative mediation data as naturally-occurring records of disputes with neighbours and the unmaking of home2
Narrating the crisis: Moral regulation, overlapping responsibilities and COVID-19 in Canada2
Superdiversity re-imagined: Applying superdiversity theory to research beyond migration studies2
Contested futures: The ‘humanitarian value’ of childhood in rural Sierra Leone2
The anti-vaccination Robinsons – Isolated actors of the mainstream vaccination discourse in Poland2
Nonviolent youth activism and symbolic violence: Some problems in Bourdieu’s notion of victim complicity2
From self-censorship to contention: Shame triggered participation in the 2013 Gezi Protests2
The advent of the citizen expert: Democratising or pushing the boundaries of expertise?2
A Black feminist approach to antiracist qualitative research methods: Commemorating the legacy of bell hooks1
Ideal types’ strategies related to handling early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic: A thematic analysis of comments from an international survey1
Re-imagining what counts as femicide1
Afro-Belgian activist resistances to research procedures: Reflections on epistemic extractivism and decolonial interventions in sociological research1
Personal social networks as a superdiversity dimension: A qualitative approach with second-generation Americans1
Towards a Weberian sociology of intentional communities1
Ticket inspectors use emotion displays of sympathy and dominance to manage status dynamics in passenger encounters1
Voices of emergency: Imagined climate futures and forms of collective action1
Three shades of dismemberment anxiety about Armenians in Turkish politics1
Gestational surrogacy: Transnational procreative practice and work for women in contemporary society1
Pandemic racism and sexism in Australia: Responses and reflections among Asian women1
Constructions of the ideal elite employee: A content analysis of job advertisements for positions in the Norwegian upper class1
Imagined futures in precarious working conditions: A gender matter?1
Digital home-lessness: Exploring the links between public Internet access, technological capital, and social inequality1
The production of counter-space: Informal labour, social networks and the production of urban space in Dhaka1
Brexit and the stratified uses of national and European Union citizenship1
CORRIGENDUM to “Swedish exceptionalism, herd immunity and the welfare state: A media analysis of struggles over the nature and legitimacy of the COVID-19 pandemic strategy in Sweden”1
The weight of time and the unemployment experience: Daily life and future prospects1
Friends against capitalism: Constructive resistance and friendship compliance in worker cooperatives1
Valuation on financial markets: Calculations of emotions and emotional calculations1
Securitized volunteerism and neo-nationalism in Israel’s rural periphery1
Mother Nature and the nature of motherhood: Gestational surrogacy and ecospirituality as two postmodern forms of sacralization1
How long-distance nationalism shapes ‘us’ preferences of first-generation Taiwanese Americans1
Replace, absorb, serve: Data scientists talk about their aspired jurisdiction1
Social media and social impact assessment: Evolving methods in a shifting context1
A method to analyze invisibility: Navigating the dissonance between woke and safe1
A sociological genealogy of transcendence1
Class identity in times of social mobilization and labor union revitalization: Evidence from the case of Chile (2009–2019)1
Mining disaster in the Doce River: Dilemma between governance and participation1
The surviving power of Brahmin privilege1
Fragile, limited, human1
‘Why give birth to many children when you cannot take care of them?’ Determinants of family size among dual-earner couples in Ghana1
Complicating ideas of the political: Examining subaltern performativity as gendered resistance1
Constructing the refugee: Comparison between newspaper coverage of the Syrian refugee crisis in Canada and the UK1
Paid domestic work and outsourcing in South Africa: Clients’ views on trust, control and power relations1
The practice of surrogacy as a phenomenon of ‘bare life’: An analysis of the Japanese case applying Agamben’s theory1
‘I do not trust any of them anymore’: Institutional distrust and corrective practices in pro-asylum activism in Finland1
After 50 years of social impact assessment, is it still fit for purpose?1
Moral regulation and a good moral panic: UK Polish migrant workers and the 2016 EU Referendum1
Children out of place? Negotiating children’s places from the margins1
Afterword: The value of children in the Global South: Current contributions and future directions1
The contribution of theories of personhood in the revaluation of children in African societies1
Negotiating euthanasia: Civil society contesting ‘the completed life’1
‘Class and “Race”. . . the two antinomic poles of a permanent dialectic’: Racialization, racism and resistance in Japan1
Scapegoating queers: Pink-blocking as state strategy1
Cosmopolitan social infrastructure and immigrant cross-ethnic friendship1
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