OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Sociology-The Journal of the British Sociological Association is 5. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-06-01 to 2023-06-01.)

Article	Citations
A New Model of Social Class? Findings from the BBC’s Great British Class Survey Experiment	628
Power and Subjectivity at Work: From Degradation to Subjugation in Social Relations	430
The Nature of Trust: From Georg Simmel to a Theory of Expectation, Interpretation and Suspension	416
Gender Convergence in Domestic Work: Discerning the Effects of Interactional and Institutional Barriers from Large-scale Data	268
The Normalization of ‘Sensible’ Recreational Drug Use	262
The Disappearance of the Sick-Man from Medical Cosmology, 1770-1870	260
Young People's Time Perspectives: From Youth to Adulthood	198
Towards an Ethical Framework for Publishing Twitter Data in Social Research: Taking into Account Users’ Views, Online Context and Algorithmic Estimation	173
Bonding and Bridging Social Capital: Reflections from Belfast	148
Networked but Commodified: The (Dis)Embeddedness of Digital Labour in the Gig Economy	122
From Fatherhood to Fathering: Transmission and Change among British Fathers in Four-generation Families	111
The Uses of Whiteness: What Sociologists Working on Europe Can Draw from US Research on Whiteness	105
From Ethics to Analytics: Aspects of Participants' Orientations to the Presence and Relevance of Recording Devices	93
Exploring Complex Transitions: Looking Back at the ‘Golden Age’ of From School to Work	83
We Really Do Know What You Do: A Comparison of Reports from 11 Year Olds and their Parents in Respect of Parental Economic Activity and Occupation	74
Recovering Emotion from Emotion Management	64
Migrant Capitals: Proposing a Multi-Level Spatio-Temporal Analytical Framework	60
A New Age for Media Coverage of Women’s Sport? An Analysis of English Media Coverage of the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup	58
New Migrants’ Social Integration, Embedding and Emplacement in Superdiverse Contexts	58
Necropolitics and the Slow Violence of the Everyday: Asylum Seeker Welfare in the Postcolonial Present	55
Working Utopias and Social Movements: An Investigation Using Case Study Materials from Radical Mental Health Movements in Britain	49
Speed-Up Society? Evidence from the UK 2000 and 2015 Time Use Diary Surveys	48
The Nature of Trust: From Georg Simmel to a Theory of Expectation, Interpretation and Suspension	48
Community and Conviviality? Informal Social Life in Multicultural Places	44
From Ethnography to Theory: A Programme and Paradigm in the Sociology of Education	44

On the Class Mobility of Women: Results from Different Approaches to the Analysis of Recent British Data	42
Are Flexible Work Arrangements Associated with Lower Levels of Chronic Stress-Related Biomarkers? A Study of 6025 Employees in the UK Household Longitudinal Study	40
Research Ethics in the UK: What Can Sociology Learn from Health?	40
Does Unemployment Run in Families? Some Findings from the General Household Survey	38
The Right to Rights?	38
Are the Unemployed an Underclass? Some Evidence from the Social Change and Economic Life Initiative	36
Does Unequal Housework Lead to Divorce? Evidence from Sweden	36
From Banana Time to Just-in-Time: Power and Resistance at Work	34
Navigating the Central Mediterranean in a Time of ‘Crisis’: Disentangling Migration Governance and Migrant Journeys	33
Cultural Engagement and the Economic Performance of the Cultural and Creative Industries: An Occupational Critique	27
`Things are Getting Better all the Time'?	27
Ageing in a Gentrifying Neighbourhood: Experiences of Community Change in Later Life	27
Some Social and Physical Correlates of Intergenerational Social Mobility: Evidence from the West of Scotland Collaborative Study	26
Fear of Crime, Urban Fortunes and Suburban Social Movements: Some Reflections from Manchester	25
The Intergenerational Transmission of Islam in England and Wales: Evidence from the Citizenship Survey	24
The Methodological Divide of Sociology: Evidence from Two Decades of Journal Publications	24
AIDS: From Panic Stations to Power Relations Sociological Perspectives and Problems	24
Wealth Elite Moralities: Wealthy Entrepreneurs’ Moral Boundaries	24
Integrating Children’s Human Rights and Child Poverty Debates: Examples from Young Lives in Ethiopia and India	23
Technology, Affordances and Occupational Identity Amongst Older Telecommunications Engineers: From Living Machines to Black-Boxes	23
The `Project of Modernity' and the Parameters for a Critical Sociology: An Argument with Illustrations from Medical Sociology	23
Not Entitled to Talk: (Mis)recognition, Inequality and Social Activism of Young Muslims	22
From `Welfare Capitalism' to `Market Capitalism'; A Comparative Review of Trends towards Employment Flexibility in the Labour Markets of Three Major European Societies	21
Occupational Change Over Childbirth: Evidence from a National Survey	21
Qualitative Secondary Analysis: Building Longitudinal Samples to Understand Men’s Generational Identities in Low Income Contexts	20
European Identities: From Absent-Minded Citizens to Passionate Europeans	20
From Normal Baby to Handicapped Child: Unravelling the Idea of Subnormality in Families of Mentally Handicapped Children	20
How Persistent Is Generalised Trust?	20
Imagining a Gendered Future: Children’s Essays from the National Child Development Study in 1969	20
From Orientalism to Global Sociology	20
What Makes a Hero? Theorising the Social Structuring of Heroism	19
‘Brewing the Truth’: Craft Beer, Class and Place in Contemporary London	19
Rediscovering the Moral: The ‘Old’ and ‘New’ Sociology of Morality in the Context of the Behavioural Sciences	19
Modes of Eating and Phased Routinisation: Insect-Based Food Practices in the Netherlands	18
Social Networks and Subjective Wellbeing in Australia: New Evidence from a National Survey	18
Towards a Sociological Understanding of Sexting as a Social Practice: A Case Study of University Undergraduate Men	18
Identity Refusal: Distancing from Non-Drinking in a Drinking Culture	18
Brexit and the Classed Politics of Bordering: The British in France and European Belongings	18
Advantage ‘Finds Its Way’: How Privileged Families Exploit Opportunities in Different Systems of Secondary Education	17
From Passion to Compassion: A Caring Inquiry into Creative Work as Socially Engaged Art	17
Empathy Rituals: Small Conversations about Emotional Distress on Twitter	17
Using Quasi-variance to Communicate Sociological Results from Statistical Models	17
Material Affinities: ‘Doing’ Family through the Practices of Passing On	17
Social Isolation as Stigma-Management: Explaining Long-Term Unemployed People’s ‘Failure’ to Network	17
Chiefs in the City: Traditional Authority in the Modern State	16
Ownership and Control in a Satellite Economy: A Discussion from Scottish Data	16
The Sociological Role of Collective Singing during Intense Moments of Protest: The Disengagement from the Gaza Strip	16
Muslim Men, Racialised Masculinities and Personal Life	16
Hopes and Fears: Community Cohesion and the ‘White Working Class’ in One of the ‘Failed Spaces’ of Multiculturalism	16
Constructing Rights and Wrongs in Humanitarian Action: Contributions from a Sociology of Praxis	16

From Class Politics to Classed Politics	16
Trust, Cultural Health Capital, and Immigrants’ Health Care Integration in Norway	15
Imagining the ‘West’ in the Context of Global Coloniality: The Case of Post-Soviet Youth Migration to Finland	15
Inventions from R & D: Organizational Designs for Efficient Research Performance	15
Social Movements, Collective Action and Activism	15
The Rhetoric of Recessions: How British Newspapers Talk about the Poor When Unemployment Rises, 1896–2000	15
From `Post-Industrialism' to `Information Society': A New Social Transformation?	14
The Stickiness of Non-Religion? Intergenerational Transmission and the Formation of Non-Religious Identities in Childhood	14
Social Reproduction and Change in the Transition from Youth to Adulthood	14
Characterising Citizenship: Race, Criminalisation and the Extension of Internal Borders	14
Dangerous Education: The Occupational Hazards of Teaching Transgender	13
Does Affirmative Action Work? Evidence from the Operation of Fair Employment Legislation in Northern Ireland	13
Unequal Youth Migrations: Exploring the Synchrony between Social Ageing and Social Mobility among Post-Crisis European Migrants	13
Young Muslims, Stigma and the Work of Normality	13
Conceptualising Socio-Economic Formations of Labour and Workers’ Power in Global Production Networks	13
The Empirical Correlates of Action and Structure: The Transition from School to Work	12
‘We Don’t Want to Go and Be Idle Ducks’: Family Practices at the End of Life	12
Ethnic Penalties and Hiring Discrimination: Comparing Results from Observational Studies with Field Experiments in the UK	12
Strategies for Reflexive Ethnography in the Smart Home: Autoethnography of Silence and Emotion	12
Family Secrets and the Slow Violence of Social Stigma	12
Skateboarding and the ‘Tired Generation’: Ageing in Youth Cultures and Lifestyle Sports	12
Negative and Positive Freedom: Lessons from, and to, Sociology	12
The Role of Migration Policies in the Attraction and Retention of International Talent: The Case of Indian Researchers	11
Samples of Anonymized Records (SARs) from the UK Censuses	11
Living Alone Together: Individualized Collectivism in Swedish Communal Housing	11
‘Now She’s Just an Ordinary Baby’: The Birth of IVF in the British Press	11
Floating Downstream? Parental Support and Future Expectations of Young People from Less Privileged Backgrounds	11
Cuisine, Health and Table Manners: Food Boundaries and Forms of Distinction among Primary School Children	11
Teaching Grenfell: The Role of Emotions in Teaching and Learning for Social Change	11
Anti-Abortion Clinic Activism, Civil Inattention and the Problem of Gendered Harassment	10
Egg Donation Imaginaries: Embodiment, Ethics and Future Family Formation	10
Kρίση and Μετανάστευση in Greece: From Illegal Migrants to Refugees	10
Mapping the Social Class Structure: From Occupational Mobility to Social Class Categories Using Network Analysis	10
Assembling Citizenship: Sexualities Education, Micropolitics and the Becoming-Citizen	10
Origin and Demise of Socio-cultural Presentations of Self from Birth to Death: Caregiver ‘Scaffolding’ Practices Necessary for Guiding and Sustaining Communal Social Structure Throughout the Life Cycl	9
Does Paternal Involvement in Childcare Influence Mothers’ Employment Trajectories during the Early Stages of Parenthood in the UK?	9
From Leonard Hobhouse to Tony Blair: A Sociological Connection?	9
Supported Home Ownership and Adult Independence in Milan: The Gilded Cage of Family Housing Gifts and Transfers	9
European Identity between Flows and Places	9
Keep a Stiff Upper Lip or Wear Your Heart on Your Sleeve? Ethnic Identity and Emotion Management among Arab/Palestinians in Israel	9
Improving Empirical Scrutiny of the Habitus: A Plea for Incorporating Implicit Association Tests in Sociological Research	9
Sociological Forensics: Illuminating the Whole from the Particular	8
Activating the Welfare Subject: The Problem of Agency	8
How Should We Study Relational Structure? Critically Comparing the Epistemological Positions of Social Network Analysis and Field Theory	8
Leaving the Past (Self) Behind: Non-Reporting Rape Survivors’ Narratives of Self and Action	8
When Borders Migrate: Reconstructing the Category of ‘International Migrant’	8
Differential Acculturation: A Study of Well-Being Differences in Intergenerational Social Mobility between Rural and Urban China	8
The Concept of Class in Closure Theory: Learning from Rather than Falling into the Problems Encountered by Neo-Marxism	8
The Rime of the Globalised Mariner: In Six Parts (with Bonus Tracks from a Chorus of Greek Shippers)	7
What Is Digital Society? Reflections on the Aims and Purpose of Digital Sociology	7
Everyday Cosmopolitanism in Representations of Europe among Young Romanians in Britain	7
The UK Citizenship Process: Political Integration or Marginalization?	7
Women from Muslim Communities: Autonomy and Capacity of Action	7
Gender Differences in Political Participation: Comparing Street Demonstrators in Sweden and the United Kingdom	7
Advocacy Research on Homophobia in Education: Claims-Making, Trauma Construction and the Politics of Evidence	7
From Feudal Honour to Bourgeois Reputation. Ideology, Law and the Rise of Industrial Capitalism	7
The Effect of After-School Classes on Private Tuition, Mental Health and Academic Outcomes: Evidence from Korea	6
The Involved Observer: A Simmelian Analysis of the Boundary Work of Aunthood	6
The Role of the Steelworker Occupational Community in the Internalization of Industrial Restructuring: The ‘Layering Up’ of Collective Proximal and Distal Experiences	6
Multiculturalism Under Confinement: Prisoner Race Relations Inside Western Canadian Prisons	6
Global Migration, Local Communities and the Absent State: Resentment and Resignation on the Italian Island of Lampedusa	6
The Incorporation of Workplace Trade Unionism? Some Evidence from the Mining Industry	6
Symbolic Class Struggles and the Intersection of Socioeconomic, Cultural and Moral Categorisations	6
Women, the Early Development of Sociological Research Methods in Britain and the London School of Economics: A (Partially) Retrieved History	6
Does Adolescent Affect Impact Adult Social Integration? Evidence from the British 1946 Birth Cohort	6
Gender and Class Mobility: Evidence from the Republic of Ireland	6
Valuing Care and Support in an Era of Celebrating Independence: Disabled Young People’s Reflections on Their Meaning and Role in Their Lives	5
Exploring Women’s Mutuality in Confronting Care-Precarity: ‘Care Accounts’ – a Conceptual Tool	5
Sociologies of Personal Relationships and the Challenge of Climate Change	5
‘You Can’t Just Stick with Those You Like’: Why Friendship Practices Threaten Fraternal Life in Cistercian Monasteries	5
Population Estimation without Censuses or Surveys: A Discussion of Mark-recapture Methods Illustrated by Results from Three Studies	5
From Methods to Practice: A Critical Note on the Teaching of Research Practice to Undergraduates	5
From Public Provision to Privatisation: The Crisis in Welfare Reassessed	5
The Social Structure of the Liquid Self: Exploratory Lessons from Israeli Flight Attendants	5
Youth, Reinventive Institutions and the Moral Politics of Future-Making in Postcolonial Africa	5
Educational Differences in Cycling: Evidence from German Cities	5