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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Exploring equity in social impact assessment38
Making moral and economic inferior others: Everyday racialization of Asian migrants in South Korea36
Reflections of a journal editor34
Farewell to genre: Plot, meaning, and eudaemonic paths in social narratives30
Sociology of values or sociology of morality?30
Is religion the ‘opiate of the masses’? Religion and political trust in China28
Hong Kongers and the coloniality of British citizenship from decolonisation to ‘Global Britain’24
Social representations of ‘social distancing’ in response to COVID-19 in the UK media24
Reflections of a Monographs editor22
The diverging gender inequality across households: The case of Palestinian-Arab families in Israel22
Political polarization and intimate distance: Negotiating family conflicts during a high-risk protest movement19
Colonial management as a social field: The Palestinian remaking of Israel’s system of spatial control19
Examining distrust of science and scientists: A study on ideology and scientific literacy in the European Union17
LGBT discrimination, harassment and violence in Germany, Portugal and the UK: A quantitative comparative approach17
Can a colonial flag become a banner for democracy? The Case of the Dragon and Lion flag and the 2019 Hong Kong protests17
Reconnecting to the social: Ontological foundations for a repurposed and rescaled SIA17
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”16
Afro-Belgian activist resistances to research procedures: Reflections on epistemic extractivism and decolonial interventions in sociological research15
Ideal types’ strategies related to handling early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic: A thematic analysis of comments from an international survey15
Superdiversity: New paths for social sciences in the upcoming future14
Current Sociology: a personal memoir12
Weaponized volunteering: Where and whither11
The effects of economic globalization on fertility in developing countries, 1990–201811
Risk, mourning, politics: Toward a transnational critical conception of grief for COVID-19 deaths in Iran11
Past and present currents of sociology: 70 years of Current Sociology11
Exploring biographical case reconstructions of women with housing instability experience in South Brazil9
‘Why give birth to many children when you cannot take care of them?’ Determinants of family size among dual-earner couples in Ghana9
Narrating the crisis: Moral regulation, overlapping responsibilities and COVID-19 in Canada9
Localization of social science research in selected academic disciplines in South Korea9
Nonprofits as socially responsible actors: Neoliberalism, institutional structures, and empowerment in the United Nations Global Compact8
‘I can do things that others can’t’: Civic policing as weaponized volunteering in eThekwini, South Africa8
Editing at the end of the Soviet empire8
Protective abandonment: Risk, data, and surveillance of nuclear workers post Fukushima8
Comments on Suraj Yengde’s lecture8
Importation for comparison as apparatus: Israeli prime ministers and their political strategies of memorialization8
How long-distance nationalism shapes ‘us’ preferences of first-generation Taiwanese Americans8
Men’s and women’s changing attitudes towards fatherhood and working fathers in Australia8
The weight of time and the unemployment experience: Daily life and future prospects8
The mutual constitution of illiberal civil society and neoauthoritarianism: Evidence from Turkey7
Ticket inspectors use emotion displays of sympathy and dominance to manage status dynamics in passenger encounters7
Spectacularising narratives on femicide in South Africa: A decolonial feminist analysis7
Moral regulation and a good moral panic: UK Polish migrant workers and the 2016 EU Referendum7
Identity regulation and aesthetic control: The affordances and restraints of uniforms in service work7
The literature/science boundary in sociological articles: Using fiction to discover patterns in co-authorship, author gender, and citation rank7
Beyond convergence and divergence: Towards a ‘both and’ approach to critical race and critical Indigenous studies in Australia6
The production of counter-space: Informal labour, social networks and the production of urban space in Dhaka6
Family formation trajectories and migration in the United States by the end of the 20th century6
Warriors against the ‘War on Drugs’: Lay experts in Norwegian drug policy6
‘Being old’ and ‘feeling old’ in contemporary Italy: Active ageing and COVID-196
Social networks as contexts for engagement and initiative: An empirical investigation6
Weaponizing people in environmental conflicts: Capturing ‘hearts’, ‘minds’, and manufacturing ‘volunteers’ for extractive development6
Introduction: The case for a value turn in childhood sociology6
Scapegoating queers: Pink-blocking as state strategy5
The network society in the ‘new normal times’: Crisis digitalization and adaption of cultural organizations in the COVID-195
Diasporic multiculturalism5
The dilemma of constitutional mobilization: The housing and the environmental social movements at the Chilean Constitutional Convention5
‘We are not sheep, I believe it is my choice’: Vaccine hesitancy and institutional agency among middle-class mothers in Russia5
The trading house: A relational and configurational insight into family businesses5
The currents of sociology: Redux5
Brexit and the stratified uses of national and European Union citizenship5
‘Save the children!’: Governing left-behind children through family in China’s Great Migration5
Supporting oneself: The tensions of navigating a prolonged crisis among Spanish youth4
Youth and the consumption of credit4
Becoming a young radical right activist: Biographical pathways of the members of radical right organisations in Poland and Germany4
Cultural wars and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) rights in Southeast Asia: ‘Asian values’, human rights, and the ‘homosexual turn’4
Mining disaster in the Doce River: Dilemma between governance and participation4
Promoting mindfulness in education: Scientisation, psychology and epistemic capital4
Children’s life in superdiversity contexts: Impacts on the construction of a children’s citizenship – the Portuguese case4
Fragile, limited, human4
Confinement risks and social inequality in Latin America: Evidence from Argentina4
Pandemic rage: Everyday frustrations in times of the COVID-19 crisis4
The semiosis and the market: Peirce’s semiotics for economic sociology4
Fiduciary relationships4
Police violence, corrupt cops, and the repudiation of stigma among underclass residents in Mexico City4
Alternative media framing of COVID-19 risks4
Together or apart? Doing biographical research and oral history in an interdisciplinary context3
Home care for profit: Intermediary agencies and digital platforms brokering migrant women’s labour in Spain3
Creativity and the collective Renaissance: A hermeneutic-imaginary approach3
Sentencing social psychology: Scientific deviance and the diffusion of statistical rules3
Editors’ foreword to the 70th anniversary volume3
Social lens or inherently social phenomenon? The study of food in Swedish sociology3
The intellectual biography of Syed Farid Alatas: Hegemonic orientations, epistemic decolonisation and the School of Autonomous Knowledge3
Race and caste in the making of US sociology3
Middle-class responses to climate change: An analysis of the ecological habitus of tech workers3
Reconstructing biographical knowledge: Biographical policy evaluation toward a structural understanding of transnational migration3
On the importance of taking risks3
Self-casting and alter-casting: Healthcare professionals’ boundary work in response to peer workers3
A Black feminist approach to antiracist qualitative research methods: Commemorating the legacy of bell hooks3
Cosmopolitan social infrastructure and immigrant cross-ethnic friendship3
‘Class and “Race”. . . the two antinomic poles of a permanent dialectic’: Racialization, racism and resistance in Japan3
Military social harm: An agenda for research3
The surviving power of Brahmin privilege3
Social order in the de-differentiated society: Deleuzian social theory and the penal institution3
Introduction: Towards a sociology of pandemics3
Look up rather than down: Karl Polanyi’s fascism and radical right-wing ‘populism’3
Gendered parenting and returns from children in contemporary India: A study of IIT students and their parents3
Digital home-lessness: Exploring the links between public Internet access, technological capital, and social inequality3
Social-constructivist and figurational biographical research2
How to make sense of citizen expertise in participatory projects?2
Transactional pathways: Institutional possibilities for status and wealth under racial/caste capitalism2
Giving and receiving: Gendered service work in academia2
In search of the ‘best’ option: American private secondary education for upper-middle-class Chinese teenagers2
Enchanted realism: Representations of self-fulfilment among Italian youth after the pandemic2
Invisible privilege in Asia: Introduction to special section2
Characteristics of pandemic work–life balance in Slovenian military families during the lockdown: Who has paid the highest price?2
From rain as risk to rain as resource: Professional and organizational changes in urban rainwater management2
Editors’ note: Keeping Sociology Current2
Constructions of the ideal elite employee: A content analysis of job advertisements for positions in the Norwegian upper class2
Conclusions: Towards a sociology of pandemics and beyond2
‘. . . 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 cri2
Southern theory, knowledge production and Russia’s war in Ukraine: An interview with Raewyn Connell2
Controlling precarious work through documents: The carteira de trabalho on the sugarcane plantations of Northeast Brazil2
The contribution of theories of personhood in the revaluation of children in African societies2
Staying away, staying alive: Exploring risk and stigma of COVID-19 in the context of beliefs, actors and hierarchies in India2
Class identity in times of social mobilization and labor union revitalization: Evidence from the case of Chile (2009–2019)2
Negotiating euthanasia: Civil society contesting ‘the completed life’2
Social class, intensive parenting norms and parental values for children2
Parental aspirations, schools, and the limits of flexible citizenship: Examining elite return migrants’ schooling decisions2
Neuroscience and the construction of a new child in early childhood education in Indonesia: A neoliberal legacy2
Beyond Hamsters’ syndrome2
Road capitals: Reconceptualising street capital, value production and exchange in the context of road life in the UK2
The financialization of non-financial firms: The case of South Korea, 1997–20152
Three shades of dismemberment anxiety about Armenians in Turkish politics1
Receptivity to different types of migrants in Taiwan: Civic behavior and support for same-sex marriage as novel correlates1
A cautionary tale: CVE policy actors managing risk in Australian schools1
Creativity, transcendence, and social constellations1
Generative processes of social vulnerability to flood risk: A proposal for the strategic management of social impacts1
Flexible masculinities: Negotiating gender, sexuality, and ethnicity in global Asia1
Settler colonialism and the archives of apprehension1
The power of a look: Tracing webs of power in intimate partner violence through an everyday act1
Scaled, citizen-led, and public qualitative research: A framework for citizen social science1
A method to analyze invisibility: Navigating the dissonance between woke and safe1
Planned meetings: Multiplicity, boxed-in dialogues, and deliberative bureaucracy as social form1
Why broker novel concepts into economic sociology? Transcending the New Economic Sociology1
Diversification of diversity: Migrations, cultural pluralism and urban transformations in Palermo (Italy): a case study1
Wasta and its relationship to employment status and income in the Arab Middle East1
Conflicting demands and emotional labour: Balancing and swapping at the front line of the welfare state1
Do we need a posthumanist sociology? Notes from the COVID-19 pandemic1
‘No way. You will not make [insert country here] home’: Anti-asylum discursive transfer from Australia to Europe1
The necessary confluence of sociology and social impact assessment in the era of global change1
Criminalization of femicide in Latin America: Challenges of legal conceptualization1
‘Put me on to a male agent’: Emotional labor and performing gender in call centers1
Family formation and health-related behavior: The case of meal skipping1
Understanding less-educated citizens’ (non-)participation in citizens’ initiatives: Feelings of entitlement and a taste for politics1
The constitution of political contention: The case of protests and riots at the turn of the 19th century1
‘Weaponized volunteering’ and re-considering the volunteering-weaponization divide1
Publisher’s Note1
From self-censorship to contention: Shame triggered participation in the 2013 Gezi Protests1
Re-imagining the measurement of femicide: From ‘thin’ counts to ‘thick’ counts1
Sustainability and the politics of the body in alternative food consumption: An embodied materialist perspective1
If unequal, don’t change it? The inequality-redistribution puzzle among political elites1
Racism and sexism during pandemic times: Experiences, narratives, and coping mechanisms among Chinese women in the Netherlands1
A sociological genealogy of transcendence1
Imagined futures in precarious working conditions: A gender matter?1
Making military conscription count? Converting competencies between the civilian and military spheres in a neoliberal Estonia1
Caste and its implications for sociologies of inequality1
The advent of the citizen expert: Democratising or pushing the boundaries of expertise?1
Live and let live? Morality in symbolic boundaries across different cultural areas1
Including animals in sociology1
Pandemic racism and sexism in Australia: Responses and reflections among Asian women1
Social media and social impact assessment: Evolving methods in a shifting context1
After 50 years of social impact assessment, is it still fit for purpose?1
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