OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 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.)

Article	Citations
Networked lives	18
Heritage, the power of the past, and the politics of (mis)recognition	17
Why study turn‐taking sequences in interspecies interactions?	15
Recognising recognition: Self‐other dynamics in everyday encounters and experiences	12
Rule‐free regulation: Exploring regulation ‘without rules’ and apart from ‘deontic categories’	11
Rights and obligations in Cambridge social ontology	11
Masters of suspicion: A Bayesian decision model of motivated political reasoning	10
Habit and the explanation of action	10
Positioning theory, embodiment, and the moral orders of objects in social dynamics: How positioning theory has neglected the body and artifactual knowing	10
Experts, naturalism, and democracy	9
Hope, habitus and social recognition: A Bourdieusian proposal	9
A Motivational Theory of Roles, Rewards, and Institutions	9
Transforming everyday experience: Transformative learning, disorienting dilemmas and Honneth's theory of recognition	8
Powerless, Stupefied, and Repressed Actors Cannot Challenge Climate Change: Real Helplessness as a Barrier Between Environmental Concern and Action	7
Towards a re‐conceptualization of flow in social contexts	7
Generalizing across auxiliary, statistical, and inferential assumptions	7
Understanding and investigating relationality in the capability approach	6
Coordinating Behaviors: Is social interaction scripted?	6
The construction of social reality as a process of representational naturalization. The case of the social representation of drugs	6
Sensory experiences and social representation – Embodied multimodality of common‐sense thinking	6
De‐ideologization, liberation psychology, and the place of contradiction	6
A Simmelian theory of structural loneliness	5
Toward a sociological theory of social pain	5
Organizing cultural dimensions within and across six frameworks: A human development perspective	5
Social Representations Theory and young Africans' creative narratives about human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome, 1997–2014	5

Must cognitive sociology heed capitalism? Attention and marginal consciousness in political‐economic context	5
Cognitive and social strengths of people living with dementia: Discoveries through Harré’s method	5
Human agency and social structure: From the evolutionary perspective	5
Contingency and Social Change: Collective Engagement in Conditions of Radical Uncertainty	5
The taboo against contact with minorities: A folk‐anthropology approach to prejudices	4
The Concept of Function in Social Positioning Theory	4
Cultural orientations and their influence on social behaviour: Catalysation and suppression	4
Experience, Subjectivity, Selfhood: Beyond a Meadian Sociology of the Self	4
Vagueness and social ontology: Implications of inquiry resistant borderline cases for social ontological theorising	4
The emotions behind character friendship: From other‐oriented emotions to the ‘bonding feeling’	4
Shedding Some (More) Light in Bourdieu's Habitus and Doxa: A Socio‐Phenomenological Approach	4
Recognizability and recognition as human—Learning from Butler and Manne	4
Two traditions of cognitive sociology: An analysis and assessment of their cognitive and methodological assumptions	4
Tastes, emotions, and social cohesion: Toward a cultural theory of social exchange	3
Pragmatic competence, autistic language use and the basic properties of human language	3
Systemic abduction: Reconstructing towards concept clarity in management studies	3
The devil is in the categories: Metaphysics and social and political thought	3
Why Rickert? Regarding the dogma about Heinrich Rickert's influence on Max Weber	3
Peircean realism: A primer	3
Epoch‐Making Changes in the Cultural Evolution of Communication: Communication technologies seen as organized hubs of skillful human activities	3
From ambivalence to vulnerability: Recognition and the subject	3
Falling in and out of love: With and beyond Bourdieu on individual enchantment and disenchantment	3
The microbiome‐gut‐brain and social behavior	3
Towards the Spoken World Theory: The contribution of Rom Harré to advancing social theory	3
Contending philosophy of social science perspectives: A flexible typology	2
The power of directional predictions in psychology	2
Theoretical problems with oversimplifying autistic diversity into a single category	2
Nominalist visualities and classical social theory: An examination of Durkheim and Weber	2
Fallacy of methodologism and its theoretical implication	2
What is implicit culture?	2
The prediction of social catastrophes: Between necessity and contingency	2
The transformation of order in narrative as discordant concord: Using Paul Ricoeur to explore narrative realism as part of social morphogenesis	2
The psychology of ultimate values: A computational perspective	2
Concept and types of order position: Privilege and discrimination in an institutional conception	2
Theories as modern myths: Giving up the pursuit of good theory to focus on good theorizing	2
Eavesdropping: The craft of social inquiry	2
Realism and Complexity	1
RETRACTED: A critical review on the mimetic theory of René Girard: Politics, religion, and violence	1
The Minimal Model of Argumentation: Qualitative data analysis for epistemic speech, text and policy	1
Complexity theory for complexity reduction? Revisiting the ontological and epistemological basis of complexity science with Critical Realism	1
Connecting sleep, the neurocognitive memory system, and Bourdieu's habitus concept: Is sleep a generative force of the habitus?	1
Personality and public performance	1
Social positioning theory and quantum mechanics	1
Redefining emergence: Making the case for contextual emergence in critical realism	1
Sociological limits and prospects of contemporary cultural evolutionary theory	1
Everything, everywhere, but not all at once? Time, contingency and the open future	1
The nature of bank money, a case study of transformation in the Czech banking sector	1
Getting real about nominalism again: Special forum introduction	1
Institutional Violations, Costs and Attitudes	1
Storifying routines and routinising stories: A dualistic subject positioning analysis of controversies about constraints on patient autonomy	1

A sociology of existence for a late modern world. Basic assumptions and conceptual tools	1
Questioning Consilience and Autonomy in Self‐Determination Theory: A Critique and Hermeneutic‐Phenomenological Alternative	1
Borderline institution	1
Relationship course theory: An interdisciplinary integrative proposition to address the complexification of interpersonal relationships	1
The meanings of tolerance: Discursive usage in a case of ‘identity politics’	1
Cultures of listening, dark listening and a plea for theory	1
Materiality and Change in Social Fields	1
Why and how ontology matters: A cartography of neoliberalism(s) and neoliberalization(s)	1
Thinking about laws in political science (and beyond)	1
(When) should psychology be a science?	1
Representing personal and common futures: Insights and new connections between the theory of social representations and the pragmatic sociology of engagements	1
Homelessness, Public Space and Civil Disobedience	1
Calibrating the Conatus in Morphogenetic Régulation: Towards a Problématique of Perseverance	1
On the Uses of Phenomenology in Sociological Research: A Typology, some Criticisms and a Plea	1
Where does research design fall short? Mental health related‐stigma as example	1
The development of positioning theory as a process of theoretical positioning	1
Semiosis, thought and codes: A theoretical framework for social knowledge	1
Georg Simmel and the ontology of relational emergence	1