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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Social representations of ‘social distancing’ in response to COVID-19 in the UK media34
Panic, pizza and mainstreaming the alt-right: A social media analysis of Pizzagate and the rise of the QAnon conspiracy29
Tackling COVID-19 risk in Hong Kong: Examining distrust, compliance and risk management29
Epistemic injustice and epistemic positioning: towards an intersectional political economy27
‘Save the children!’: Governing left-behind children through family in China’s Great Migration27
LGBT discrimination, harassment and violence in Germany, Portugal and the UK: A quantitative comparative approach25
The impossibility of gendered justice through surrogacy bans25
Introduction: Towards a sociology of pandemics24
Staying away, staying alive: Exploring risk and stigma of COVID-19 in the context of beliefs, actors and hierarchies in India23
Alternative media framing of COVID-19 risks22
Conclusions: Towards a sociology of pandemics and beyond21
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 Sweden19
Does live-in domestic help reduce unpaid household labor? The paradox of intensive parenting and domestic outsourcing18
Men’s and women’s changing attitudes towards fatherhood and working fathers in Australia15
Towards a theoretical synergy: Critical race theory and decolonial thought in Trumpamerica and Brexit Britain14
Children as a new climate precariat: A conceptual proposition14
Hong Kongers and the coloniality of British citizenship from decolonisation to ‘Global Britain’14
Childhood in urban China: A three-generation portrait14
Citizen experts in participatory governance: Democratic and epistemic assets of service user involvement, local knowledge and citizen science13
Wasta and its relationship to employment status and income in the Arab Middle East12
Criminalization of femicide in Latin America: Challenges of legal conceptualization12
Understanding less-educated citizens’ (non-)participation in citizens’ initiatives: Feelings of entitlement and a taste for politics12
Social class, intensive parenting norms and parental values for children12
How religion shapes immigrants’ integration: The case of Christian migrant churches in Italy12
Pandemic rage: Everyday frustrations in times of the COVID-19 crisis12
Motherhood and the contradictions of feminism: Appraising claims towards emancipation in the perspective of surrogacy11
Analysing homophobia, xenophobia and sexual nationalisms in Africa: Comparing quantitative attitudes data to reveal societal differences10
From global risk to global threat: State capabilities and modernity in times of coronavirus10
Road capitals: Reconceptualising street capital, value production and exchange in the context of road life in the UK9
Who counts? The invisibility of mothers as victims of femicide9
Gendered parenting and returns from children in contemporary India: A study of IIT students and their parents9
Superdiversity and social policies in a complex society: Social challenges in the 21st century9
Nonprofits as socially responsible actors: Neoliberalism, institutional structures, and empowerment in the United Nations Global Compact9
Self-casting and alter-casting: Healthcare professionals’ boundary work in response to peer workers8
Colonial management as a social field: The Palestinian remaking of Israel’s system of spatial control8
Holding back and hidden family displays: Reflections on aunthood as a morally charged category8
Beyond convergence and divergence: Towards a ‘both and’ approach to critical race and critical Indigenous studies in Australia8
Giving and receiving: Gendered service work in academia8
Spectacularising narratives on femicide in South Africa: A decolonial feminist analysis8
Political sociology in a time of protest8
An integral model of cultural reproduction: The case of China7
From rain as risk to rain as resource: Professional and organizational changes in urban rainwater management7
What is femicide? The United Nations and the measurement of progress in complex epistemic systems7
Scaled, citizen-led, and public qualitative research: A framework for citizen social science6
Youth and the consumption of credit6
Introduction: The case for a value turn in childhood sociology6
The politics of deferral: Denaturalizing the ‘economic value’ of children’s labor in India6
In search of the ‘best’ option: American private secondary education for upper-middle-class Chinese teenagers6
Warriors against the ‘War on Drugs’: Lay experts in Norwegian drug policy6
Same work, same value? Paid domestic workers’ and housewives’ struggles for rights in Uruguay and Paraguay6
Settler colonialism and the archives of apprehension6
Characteristics of pandemic work–life balance in Slovenian military families during the lockdown: Who has paid the highest price?6
Digital competences and skills as key factors between connectedness and tolerance to diversity on social networking sites: Case study of social work graduates on Facebook6
Commercial surrogacy in the age of intensive mothering5
Structured inequalities and authors’ positionalities in academic publishing: The case of Philippine international migration scholarship5
Neuroscience and the construction of a new child in early childhood education in Indonesia: A neoliberal legacy5
The mutual constitution of illiberal civil society and neoauthoritarianism: Evidence from Turkey5
Complex innovation, organizations, and fields: Toward the organized transformation of today’s innovation societies5
Voices of emergency: Imagined climate futures and forms of collective action5
Live and let live? Morality in symbolic boundaries across different cultural areas5
How to make sense of citizen expertise in participatory projects?5
Trust in the military in post-authoritarian societies5
Contentious buildings: The struggle against eviction in NYC’s Lower East Side5
Education as care labor: Expanding our lens on the work-life balance problem5
Deconstructing social anthropology discourses in their support of surrogacy: The case of France5
Narrating the crisis: Moral regulation, overlapping responsibilities and COVID-19 in Canada4
Horizontal and vertical labour market movements in Austria: Do occupational transitions take women across gendered lines?4
The Safe Standing movement in English football: Mobilizing across the political and discursive fields of contention4
Class identity in times of social mobilization and labor union revitalization: Evidence from the case of Chile (2009–2019)4
Do we need a posthumanist sociology? Notes from the COVID-19 pandemic4
Weaponizing people in environmental conflicts: Capturing ‘hearts’, ‘minds’, and manufacturing ‘volunteers’ for extractive development4
Moral regulation and a good moral panic: UK Polish migrant workers and the 2016 EU Referendum4
The German social space and its homologies: National variation on a basic structure4
Everyday utopias and social reproduction4
Re-imagining the measurement of femicide: From ‘thin’ counts to ‘thick’ counts4
Digital home-lessness: Exploring the links between public Internet access, technological capital, and social inequality4
Ideal types’ strategies related to handling early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic: A thematic analysis of comments from an international survey4
The diverging gender inequality across households: The case of Palestinian-Arab families in Israel4
Forced returnee Bangladeshi female migrant domestic workers and their social reintegration experiences4
Self-optimisation: Conceptual, discursive and historical perspectives4
A cautionary tale: CVE policy actors managing risk in Australian schools4
Look up rather than down: Karl Polanyi’s fascism and radical right-wing ‘populism’4
The shift to cause framing in Egyptian LGBT advocacy after the January 25 revolution3
Towards a Weberian sociology of intentional communities3
Not a mirror but a tool: User experience research and the production of useful social knowledge3
Afro-Belgian activist resistances to research procedures: Reflections on epistemic extractivism and decolonial interventions in sociological research3
Social media and social impact assessment: Evolving methods in a shifting context3
Risk, mourning, politics: Toward a transnational critical conception of grief for COVID-19 deaths in Iran3
Negotiating euthanasia: Civil society contesting ‘the completed life’3
Social networks as contexts for engagement and initiative: An empirical investigation3
Disabled youth participation within activism and social movement bases: An empirical investigation of the UK Disabled People’s Movement3
Following Dutch healthcare professionals’ experiences during COVID-19: Tensions in everyday practices and policies amid shifting uncertainties3
Looking laterally: The literary utopia and the task of critical social theory3
The advent of the citizen expert: Democratising or pushing the boundaries of expertise?3
Cross-border reproductive care: Opinions and attitudes of society towards surrogate pregnancy3
Pandemic racism and sexism in Australia: Responses and reflections among Asian women3
Brexit and the stratified uses of national and European Union citizenship3
Class in Iceland3
The anti-vaccination Robinsons – Isolated actors of the mainstream vaccination discourse in Poland3
Localization of social science research in selected academic disciplines in South Korea3
After 50 years of social impact assessment, is it still fit for purpose?3
The weight of time and the unemployment experience: Daily life and future prospects3
Parental aspirations, schools, and the limits of flexible citizenship: Examining elite return migrants’ schooling decisions3
Cosmopolitan social infrastructure and immigrant cross-ethnic friendship3
A Black feminist approach to antiracist qualitative research methods: Commemorating the legacy of bell hooks2
Cultural wars and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) rights in Southeast Asia: ‘Asian values’, human rights, and the ‘homosexual turn’2
Confinement risks and social inequality in Latin America: Evidence from Argentina2
The superdiverse precariat of British higher education? Limpiadores revisited2
Locating invisible privilege in Asia: Conceptual travel and contextual significance2
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
The constitution of political contention: The case of protests and riots at the turn of the 19th century2
‘No way. You will not make [insert country here] home’: Anti-asylum discursive transfer from Australia to Europe2
Promoting mindfulness in education: Scientisation, psychology and epistemic capital2
Scapegoating queers: Pink-blocking as state strategy2
‘Why give birth to many children when you cannot take care of them?’ Determinants of family size among dual-earner couples in Ghana2
Superdiversity re-imagined: Applying superdiversity theory to research beyond migration studies2
Looking at human-centered artificial intelligence as a problem and prospect for sociology: An analytic review2
Contested futures: The ‘humanitarian value’ of childhood in rural Sierra Leone2
Making military conscription count? Converting competencies between the civilian and military spheres in a neoliberal Estonia2
Three shades of dismemberment anxiety about Armenians in Turkish politics2
From self-censorship to contention: Shame triggered participation in the 2013 Gezi Protests2
Including animals in sociology2
Mining disaster in the Doce River: Dilemma between governance and participation2
Supporting oneself: The tensions of navigating a prolonged crisis among Spanish youth2
Ticket inspectors use emotion displays of sympathy and dominance to manage status dynamics in passenger encounters2
Securitized volunteerism and neo-nationalism in Israel’s rural periphery2
Grandparenting, filial piety, and well-being of Chinese-American older adults2
Isolation and immunity within the family: Commuter marriages in Southeast Asia2
Keeping it in the family: Cultural socialization among Haitian American families2
A method to analyze invisibility: Navigating the dissonance between woke and safe2
Nonviolent youth activism and symbolic violence: Some problems in Bourdieu’s notion of victim complicity2
‘Class and “Race”. . . the two antinomic poles of a permanent dialectic’: Racialization, racism and resistance in Japan2
The financialization of non-financial firms: The case of South Korea, 1997–20151
Fragile, limited, human1
An emerging military-industrial-nonprofit complex? Exploring conscripted volunteering in Israel1
Together or apart? Doing biographical research and oral history in an interdisciplinary context1
‘I do not trust any of them anymore’: Institutional distrust and corrective practices in pro-asylum activism in Finland1
How long-distance nationalism shapes ‘us’ preferences of first-generation Taiwanese Americans1
Racial residential patterns in Singapore: What happens after the implementation of racial quotas in public housing?1
Replace, absorb, serve: Data scientists talk about their aspired jurisdiction1
Exploring biographies in a rapidly changing labor world1
Friends against capitalism: Constructive resistance and friendship compliance in worker cooperatives1
Afterword: The value of children in the Global South: Current contributions and future directions1
Imagined futures in precarious working conditions: A gender matter?1
Generative processes of social vulnerability to flood risk: A proposal for the strategic management of social impacts1
Constructions of the ideal elite employee: A content analysis of job advertisements for positions in the Norwegian upper class1
The network society in the ‘new normal times’: Crisis digitalization and adaption of cultural organizations in the COVID-191
From ascetic individualism to the dissolution of the self: A sociological approach to the religious symbolism of Chicago and New York skyscrapers1
Weaponized volunteering in schools: The discourse of volunteering and pre-military education in Israeli high schools1
Reconstructing biographical knowledge: Biographical policy evaluation toward a structural understanding of transnational migration1
Environmental anomie and the disruption of physical norms during disaster1
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
Affectionate remittances: Materialism and care in Filipino transnational families in Japan1
Gestational surrogacy: Transnational procreative practice and work for women in contemporary society1
Children out of place? Negotiating children’s places from the margins1
What is just and unjust in education? Role of inter-ethnic tensions in defining justice in education through the prism of media debates1
Challenging the protest paradigm and winning legitimacy. Analysis of the representation of the social movement against femicide in the mainstream media in Mexico1
The contribution of theories of personhood in the revaluation of children in African societies1
A sociological genealogy of transcendence1
The surviving power of Brahmin privilege1
The production of counter-space: Informal labour, social networks and the production of urban space in Dhaka1
LGBT+ ballroom dancers and their shoes: Fashioning the queer self into existence1
‘Very unsure of what’s to come’: Salon worker experiences of COVID-19 in Australia during 20201
The practice of surrogacy as a phenomenon of ‘bare life’: An analysis of the Japanese case applying Agamben’s theory1
Personal social networks as a superdiversity dimension: A qualitative approach with second-generation Americans1
Complicating ideas of the political: Examining subaltern performativity as gendered resistance1
Mother Nature and the nature of motherhood: Gestational surrogacy and ecospirituality as two postmodern forms of sacralization1
Paid domestic work and outsourcing in South Africa: Clients’ views on trust, control and power relations1
Re-imagining what counts as femicide1
‘Put me on to a male agent’: Emotional labor and performing gender in call centers1
Trustee professionalism transformed: Recruiting committed professionals1
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