Sociology-The Journal of the British Sociological Association

Papers
(The median citation count of Sociology-The Journal of the British Sociological Association 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Book Review: Paul Lichterman, How Civic Action Works: Fighting for Housing in Los Angeles36
‘Proxy Parenting’ and Creating a ‘Golden Touch’: Practices and Discourses of Intensive Grandparenting33
Social Positioning and Pathways of Social Mobility of Intermarried Ukrainian Migrants in Poland29
Crowds, Police and Provocations: Temporal Patterns of Rioting in Britain, 1800–193928
Affective Intensities of Single Lives: An Alternative Account of Temporal Aspects of Couple Normativity27
Global Inequality, Mobility Regimes and Transnational Capital: The Post-Graduation Plans of African Student Migrants27
Book Review: Ruth Milkman, Immigrant Labor and the New Precariat24
Educational Differences in Cycling: Evidence from German Cities22
Hospitality Work as Social Reproduction: Embodied and Emotional Labour during COVID-1921
Book Review: Rebecca Elliott, Underwater: Loss, Flood Insurance, and the Moral Economy of Climate Change in the United States21
From God to Technology: Multiple Ontologies of Reproductive Time20
Shame, Anger and Hope: The Messy Relations of Charitable Help within the Welfare State18
Limited Tools for Emancipation? Human Rights and Border Abolition18
How and Why People Use Mobile Phones Near Bedtime and in Bed: Israelis’ Narratives of Digitally Enabled Sleepful Sociality17
Homemade State: Motherhood, Citizenship and the Home in Child Welfare Encounters17
Self-Tracking among Young People: Lived Experiences, Tensions and Bodily Outcomes17
Are Right-Wing Attitudes and Voting Associated with Having Attended Private School? An Investigation Using the 1970 British Cohort Study16
Book Review: Jonathan Purkis, Driving with Strangers: What Hitchhiking Tells Us about Humanity16
Social Quarantining in the Construction and Maintenance of White Australia15
Promoting Diversity but Striving for Excellence: Opening the ‘Black Box’ of Academic Hiring15
Living and Dying in Shadow Times15
No Substitute for In-Person Interaction: Changing Modes of Social Contact during the Coronavirus Pandemic and Effects on the Mental Health of Adults in the UK15
Understanding Disability and Cultural (Re)production: An Ethnography of Coaching Practice in High Performance Disability Sport13
Bourdieu and Sociological Biography: The Case of Vincent van Gogh’s Choice of Profession13
Lying and Time: Moving beyond the Moral Question of Lying13
Everyday Constructions of Class-Based Inequality: Field Effects in UK Museum Work13
It Is My Turn Now: How and Why ‘Single’ Women Complain about Non-Reciprocal Gift-Giving13
Rethinking Social Roles: Conflict and Modern Life13
Finding Moral Value through Maintaining a Working Class ‘Mentality’: Student Teachers from Working Class Backgrounds (Not) Becoming Middle Class12
Book Review: Gurminder Bhambra and John Holmwood, Colonialism and Modern Social Theory12
Book Review: Partha Chatterjee, I Am the People: Reflections on Popular Sovereignty Today12
‘He is My Refuge’: Upward Mobility, Class Dislocation and Romantic Relationships11
Dialectical Family Imaginaries: Navigating Relational Selfhood and Becoming a Parent through Assisted Reproduction in China11
Grudging Acts11
Book Review: Gargi Bhattacharya, Adam Elliot-Cooper, Sita Balani, Kerem Nişancıoğlu, Kojo Koram, Dalia Gebrial, Nadine El-Enany and Luke de Noronha Empire’s Endgame: Racism and the British State11
Amalgamated Masculinities: The Masculine Identity of Contemporary Marginalised Working-Class Young Men11
The Fate of Being a ‘Distressed Asset’: Insights into Women Returners’ Experiences in the UK10
Book Review: Michael Mann, On Wars MannMichaelOn WarsNew Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2023, £30.00 hbk (ISBN: 9780300266818), 616 pp.10
Civility and Rejection: The Contextuality of Cosmopolitan and Racist Behaviours10
Cultural Models of Contention: How Do the Public Interpret the Repertoire of Contention?10
Conceptualising Black (Co-)Reflexive Feminist Methodologies: Collaboration, Process and Critical Friendship10
Anthropotropism: Searching for Recognition in the Scandinavian Gig Economy10
Environment or Economy? Food Concerns and Sustainable Food Transitions in the UK9
Using Natural Experiments to Uncover Effects of Anti-Refugee Riots on Attitudes of Refugees9
Moral Imperatives of Lockdown: Story Completion Tasks of Family Practices and Relationships in Australia during COVID-199
Book Review: Alicia M Walker, Chasing Masculinity: Men, Validation, and Infidelity9
CORRIGENDUM to ‘Social Space as a Theory of Society: Scientific Arguments Regarding the Figuration of the Social in Bourdieu’s Distinction’9
Thank You to Referees9
The ‘Selfish Element’: How Sperm and Egg Donors Construct Plausibly Moral Accounts of the Decision to Donate8
Submerged: Surfacing Deep Poverty during Permacrisis8
‘My Memories of the Time We Had Together Are More Important’: Direct Cremation and the Privatisation of UK Funerals8
Do Western Sociological Concepts Apply Globally? Towards a Global Sociology8
Reproduction and the Expanding Border: Pregnant Migrants as a ‘Problem’ in the 2014 Immigration Act8
Recognition or Redistribution? How Mainstream Media Frames Charitable Responses to People Experiencing Poverty8
On Being Seen in Unseen Places: A Dramaturgical View of the Night8
A Bourdieusian Latent Class Analysis of Cultural, Arts, Heritage and Sports Activities in the UK Representative Understanding Society Dataset8
Thank You to Referees8
Love’s Labour’s Lost? Separation as a Constraint on Displays of Transnational Daughterhood8
Social Movement Ruptures and Legacies: Unpacking the Early Sedimentation of the Anti-European Super League Movement in English Football7
The Aftermath of Death in the Continuing Lives of the Living: Extending ‘Bereavement’ Paradigms through Family and Relational Perspectives7
Maximising Operational Effectiveness: Exploring Stigma, Militarism, and the Normative Connections to Military Partners’ Support-Seeking7
Futures Imperfect: A Reflection on Challenges7
‘I was just left to get on with the job’: Understanding grief and work through a relational lens7
Book Review: Matthew Goodwin, Values, Voice and Virtue: The New British Politics7
Autocratic Power and Older Citizens: The Political Subjectification of Retirees in Belarus7
Thwarted or Facilitated? The Entrepreneurial Aspirations and Capabilities of New Migrants in the UK7
The Arab ‘Uncertain Body’ and Sojourner Passing in Israel7
Better Than the Markets: Mutual Fund Managers’ Perceptions of the Rich7
University and the Pursuit of a ‘Career’ for Working-Class Youth in Deindustrial Rochdale6
Me? A Hero? Gendered Work and Attributions of Heroism among Volunteers during the COVID-19 Pandemic6
‘The Green Areas Are Out of Our Reach’: Racialisation, Erasure and Resistance in UK Urban Greening Initiatives6
Thank You to Referees 2023–20246
Can Work Time Fragmentation Influence Workers’ Subjective Time Pressure? The Roles of Gender and Parenthood6
Austerity as Bureaucratic Violence: Understanding the Impact of (Neoliberal) Austerity on Disabled People in Sweden6
Whose Lifestyle Matters at Johannesburg Pride? The Lifestylisation of LGBTQ+ Identities and the Gentrification of Activism5
The Consequentiality of Absences in Social Settings: A Sensemaking Perspective5
Maternal Occupation-Specific Skills and Children’s Cognitive Development5
The Art of Navigating a White Upper-Class Gaze: Exploring Visible Minorities’ Negotiations of Belonging in the Norwegian Cultural Field5
Sociological Futures and the Importance of the Past5
Trading Blame: Drawing Boundaries around the Righteous, Deserving and Vulnerable in Times of Crisis5
Communities of/for Interest: Revisiting the Role of Migrants’ Online Groups5
The Sociology of Futurelessness5
Book Review: Karen Patel, The Politics of Expertise in Cultural Labour: Arts, Work and Inequalities5
Muslim-Mancunian Women: Racial-Colonial Literacy, Counter-Knowledge and Epistemological Justice5
‘It’s a Small Little Pub, but Everybody Knew Everybody’: Pub Culture, Belonging and Social Change5
From 100-Year-Old Women’s Motoring Masks to Contemporary PPE: A Socio-Political Study of Persistent Problems and Inventive Possibilities5
Brexit Rebordering, Sticky Relationships and the Production of Mixed-Status Families5
Not Talking about Climate Change: Everyday Interactions, Relational Work and Climate Silences5
Immigrants’ Pathways to the Income Elite in Germany5
Forms of Capital, Social Change and the Weight of the Past: The Effective Agents of the Swiss Field of Power 1910–20155
Book Review: Jack Palmer and Dariusz Brzeziński (eds), Revisiting Modernity and the Holocaust: Heritage, Dilemmas, Extensions5
The Stateless Person, the Citizen and Human Rights: A Revised Neo-Hobbesian Theory of Human Rights for Sociology5
‘Without Papers I Can’t Do Anything’: The Neglected Role of Citizenship Status and ‘Illegality’ in Intersectional Analysis5
Practices of Consumption: Cohesion and Distinction within a Globally Wealthy Group5
Inter-Risk Framing Contests: The Politics of Issue Attention among Scandinavian Climate NGOs during the Coronavirus Pandemic5
Historical Perspectives on British Sociology’s Future: An Interview with John Scott4
Gaming and Performance Metrics in Higher Education: The Consequences of Journal Lists4
Real Utopia as a Method? Utopian-Sociological Paths from Jameson’s Universal Army to a Postcapitalist Post Office4
Disability, Social Class and Stigma: An Intersectional Analysis of Disabled Young People’s School Experiences4
Money, Debt and Finance: Reclaiming the Conditions of Possibility in Consumption Research4
Towards a Relational Sociology of Retrofit4
Life-Cycle Economic Returns to Educational Mobility in Denmark4
A Sociological Conversation with ChatGPT about AI Ethics, Affect and Reflexivity4
Documenting Families: Paper-Work in Family Display among Planned Single Father Families4
Spatial Imaginaries and Geographic Division within the UK: Uneven Economic Development, Ethnicity and National Identity4
Work-Time, Male-Breadwinning and the Division of Domestic Labour: Male Part-Time and Full-Time Workers in Unsettled Times4
Racial Biofutures: COVID-19 and Black Futurity Otherwise4
Powerful or Disempowering Knowledge? The Teaching of Sociology in English Schools and Colleges4
Platforms Disrupting Reputation: Precarity and Recognition Struggles in the Remote Gig Economy4
Corrosive Solo Self-Employment: The Qualitative and Quantitative Impact of Neo-Villeiny in the Fitness Industry4
The Wageless Life of Creative Workers: Alternative Economic Practices, Commoning and Consumption Work in Cultural Labour3
Virtues or Talent among Brotherless Daughters: A Study of How Patriarchal Gender Ideals Affect Gender Role Attitudes among Women from the One-Child Generation in China3
Book Review: Alana Lentin, Why Race Still Matters3
Trajectories towards Political Engagement on Facebook around Brexit: Beyond Affordances for Understanding Racist and Right-Wing Populist Mobilisations Online3
From the Home to the (Hand)bag: Negotiating Privacy in Personal Life when Living with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)3
The Legal Formation of Class in Migrant Care and Domestic Work3
Movement Texts as Anti-Colonial Theory3
CORRIGENDUM to ‘Youth, Reinventive Institutions and the Moral Politics of Future-Making in Postcolonial Africa’3
Carrying Europe’s ‘White Burden’, Sustaining Racial Capitalism: Young Post-Soviet Migrant Workers in Helsinki and Warsaw3
Book Review: Chris Bail, Breaking the Social Media Prism: How to Make Our Platforms Less Polarizing3
Towards Relational Spatiality: Space, Relation and Simmel’s Modernity3
Misgendering, Cisgenderism and the Reproduction of the Gender Order in Social Interaction3
‘Just a Simple Sausage Sandwich’: The Significance of Sensory Care Practices and Hidden Carers in the Hospice3
The English Workday Lunch: The Organisation, Understandings and Meaning of the Meal3
Book Review: Catherine Happer, The Construction of Public Opinion in a Digital Age HapperCatherineThe Construction of Public Opinion in a Digital AgeManchester: Manchest3
Gender Identity in the 2021 Census of England and Wales: How a Flawed Question Created Spurious Data3
How Intellectuals Perform: Meaning Making and Community in the Czechoslovak Philosophical Underground3
Feeling Time, Fashioning Age: Pre-teen Girls Negotiating Life Course and the Ageing Process Through Dress3
Book Review: J Michael Ryan (ed.), COVID-19: Individual Rights and Community Responsibilities3
Hunger Bonds: Boundaries and Bridges in the Charitable Food Provision Field3
Embodying Daoist Internal Arts: Walking the Line between the Reification and the Instrumental Use of Cognition3
Creating a New Normal? Technosocial Relations, Mundane Governance and Pandemic-Related Disruption in Everyday Life2
Young Low-Income Mothers’ Identity Work around Infant Feeding in the UK2
Exploring Performances of (Hyper) Intensive Motherhood in the Setting of Manchester’s Christmas Markets2
Towards a Theory of Cis-Supremacy: Conceptualising Ongoing Barriers to Trans Equality2
Constructing a Mothers’ Culture : Affective Bargains in Branding Discourses2
Book Review: Diane M Rodgers, Children in Social Movements: Rethinking Agency, Mobilization, and Rights2
Negotiating Choice: Unpacking the Linkages between Women’s Relative Resources and Contraceptive Decision Making in India2
Family Estrangement and the Unseen Work of Not Doing Family2
No Time for a ‘Time Out’? Managing Time around (Non)Drinking2
Temporalities of Friendship: Adults’ Friends in Everyday Family Life and Beyond2
Deindividualising Imposter Syndrome: Imposter Work among Marginalised STEMM Undergraduates in the UK2
Contradiction as Injustice: How Senses of Inequality Differ across National Contexts2
Back to the Future: The Impact of Perceptions and Experiences of Time on the Lives of British Lifestyle Migrants in Spain2
Ethical Practices of the Family Child2
‘If It’s All an Act, Then What’s the Point?’: Men’s and Women’s Views on Authenticity in Pornographic Videos2
Between Post-Racial Ideology and Provincial Universalisms: Critical Race Theory, Decolonial Thought and COVID-19 in Britain2
Value(s) in Community Food Work: The Dynamics of the Field, Funding and the Limits of Metrics2
Exploring the Role UK Grandfathers Play in Parenting Culture: Intermittent Intensive Grandfathering2
‘I’m Mum and Dad in One, Basically’: Doing and Displaying ‘Good Lone Motherhood’2
Beyond ‘Imagined Meritocracy’: Distinguishing the Relative Power of Education and Skills in Intergenerational Inequality2
Sticking Together in ‘Divided Britain’: Talking Brexit in Everyday Family Relationships2
Belief in Science and Beliefs about COVID-19: Educational Gradients2
The Dis/appearing Sporting Body: The Complex Embodiment of Disabled Athletes2
Turning the Decolonial Gaze towards Ourselves: Decolonising the Curriculum and ‘Decolonial Reflexivity’ in Sociology and Social Theory2
How the “Commercialized Performance of Affiliative Race and Ethnicity” Disrupts Ethnoracial Hierarchy: Boundary Processes of Customers’ Encounter with South Asian Waitpersons in Hong Kong’s Restaurant2
The ‘Two’ Universities: Cross-Class Encounters and the Segregated Inclusion of Non-Elite Women at an Elite University2
Living Together through the Asylum Process: Affective Proximity in Home Accommodation of Asylum Seekers2
Book Review: Avtar Brah, Decolonial Imaginings: Intersectional Conversations and Contestations2
Recalibrating Everyday Futures during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Futures Fissured, on Standby and Reset in Mass Observation Responses2
Childcare Facility Closure and Exacerbated Gender Inequality in Parenting Time during the COVID-19 Pandemic2
Book Review: Robert Leroux, Thierry Martin and Stephen Turner (eds), The Future of Sociology: Ideology or Objective Social Science?2
Book Review: Tad Skotnicki, The Sympathetic Consumer: Moral Critique in Capitalist Culture2
Thank You to Referees2
Racial Capitalism and Entrepreneurship: An Intersectional Feminist Labour Market Perspective on UK Self-Employment2
Book Review: David S Meyer, How Social Movements (Sometimes) Matter2
Mothers Doing Friendship in a Hostile Environment: Navigating Dialectical Tensions and Sharing Support1
Book Review: Anna Tarrant, Fathering and Poverty: Uncovering Men’s Participation in Low-Income Family Life1
Book Review: Jürgen Martschukat, The Age of Fitness: How the Body Came to Symbolize Success and Achievement1
Uncanny Europe and Protective Europeanness: When European Identity Becomes a Queerly Viable Option1
Book Review: David Yamane, Gun Curious: A Liberal Professor’s Surprising Journey Inside America’s Gun Culture1
Variations of Gender Gaps in the Labour Market Outcomes of Graduates across Fields of Study: A (Combined) Test of Two Theories1
Hope and Creative Work in Conflict Zones: Theoretical Insights from Israel1
Neighbourliness and Situational Factors: Explaining Neighbour Behaviour in Attacks and Rescues of Sikhs in Delhi in 1984 and Muslims in Ahmedabad in 20021
Managing Uncertainty and Risk in Access to the Solicitors’ Profession in England: Classed Pathways?1
Changing Temporal Opportunity Structures? Two Cohorts of Young Women’s Thoughts about Future Work, Family and Education1
From Me to You: Time Together and Subjective Well-Being in the UK1
Black Lives Matter: The Role of Emotions in Political Engagement1
Book Review: Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan, Tangled in Terror: Uprooting Islamophobia1
Ambivalent Strategies: Student-Migrant-Workers’ Efforts at Challenging Administrative Bordering1
Individualization and Individualism: Facets and Turning Points of the Entrepreneurial Self among Young People in Italy1
Book Review: Emanuel Deutschmann, Mapping the Transnational World: How We Move and Communicate across Borders, and Why It Matters1
The Power of Diversity: Class, Networks and Attitudes Towards Inequality1
Book Review: Vicki Dabrowski, Austerity, Women and the Role of the State: Lived Experiences of the Crisis1
Book Review: Heidi A Campbell and Ruth Tsuria (eds), Digital Religion: Understanding Religious Practice in Digital Media1
Book Review: Nancy Fraser, Cannibal Capitalism: How Our System Is Devouring Democracy, Care and the Planet – and What We Can Do about It1
Becoming an Activist: Individualisation and a Democratic Contentious Ethos in ‘How to’ Books1
Slower Sociologies for the Sociology of the Future1
Siblings and the Bereaved Self: Identity (Re)Construction Following the Death of a Brother or Sister1
Peace, Temporality, and Generations: How Young People Make Sense of Northern Ireland’s Long Peace Process1
‘That Was Our Little Five Minutes of Shush . . . a Kiss and Cuddle and Have Our Books’: Sensory Affinities among Families during Shared Reading with Children1
Guilt and Beyond: A Class Cultural Analysis of Evolving Emotional Responses to Maternal Foodwork1
A Model of Cultural Reproduction in China: Tracing Consumption to Parental Social Origin1
Moral Subjects in White Spaces: Impossible Solidarities1
What Future for the Sociology of Futures? Visions, Concepts and Methods1
‘I Hadn’t Realised That Change Is Not a Difficult Thing’: Mobilising Football Fans on Climate Change1
A Politics of One’s Own: Leisure, Belonging and Momentary Self-Exclusion among British Bangladeshi Women in East London1
Outside and Inside the Arena of Othering: Notions of ‘Intensive Mothering’ Revealed through Post-Abortion Narratives1
Social Class, the Overlooked Element of Diversity within Higher Education: An Analysis of Policy Documents and Data Collection Practices by Russell Group Universities in the United Kingdom1
Researching Lay Perceptions of Inequality through Images of Society: Compliance, Inversion and Subversion of Power Hierarchies1
Bring Your Own Politics: Life Strategies and Mobilization in Response to Urban Redevelopment1
Social Space as a Theory of Society: Scientific Arguments Regarding the Figuration of the Social in Bourdieu’s Distinction1
More Than Making Do: Towards a Generative Account of Getting by on Welfare Benefits1
Family Influences on Migration Intentions: The Role of Past Experience of Involuntary Immobility1
Moving on up? How Social Origins Shape Geographic Mobility within Britain’s Higher Managerial and Professional Occupations1
Co-Sleeping with Partners and Pets as a Family Practice of Intimacy: Israeli Couples’ Narratives of Creating Kinship1
A Quest for Passion: Understanding Precarious Migration of Young Highly Qualified EU Citizens as Lived Neoliberal Subjectivity1
Anticipatory Regimes in Pregnancy: Cross-Fertilising Reproduction and Parenting Culture Studies1
Gendered Consequences of Social Mobility: Second-Generation Immigrants’ Work–Care Considerations in High-Status Occupations in Norway1
The Sociology of Utopia, Modern Temporality and Black Visions of Liberation1
Becoming a Nationalist Activist: Exploring Biographical Paths of Polish Football Fans1
0.044840097427368