OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC 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 [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-09-01 to 2024-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Deflecting Privilege: Class Identity and the Intergenerational Self	42
Digital Technology and Older People: Towards a Sociological Approach to Technology Adoption in Later Life	30
Left Behind in the Hungarian Rustbelt: The Cultural Political Economy of Working-Class Neo-Nationalism	29
A Dependent Structure of Interdependence: Structure and Agency in Relational Perspective	28
Telling Reproductive Stories: Social Scripts, Relationality and Donor Conception	27
Ethnic Penalties and Hiring Discrimination: Comparing Results from Observational Studies with Field Experiments in the UK	27
Alcohol and Flourishing for Australian Women in Midlife: A Qualitative Study of Negotiating (Un)Happiness	22
Turning the Decolonial Gaze towards Ourselves: Decolonising the Curriculum and ‘Decolonial Reflexivity’ in Sociology and Social Theory	22
Disembedded or Deeply Embedded? A Multi-Level Network Analysis of Online Labour Platforms	21
Men’s Football Fandom and the Performance of Progressive and Misogynistic Masculinities in a ‘New Age’ of UK Women’s Sport	20
The Mobilisation of AI in Education: A Bourdieusean Field Analysis	20
Promoting Diversity but Striving for Excellence: Opening the ‘Black Box’ of Academic Hiring	20
Post-Truth Society? An Eliasian Sociological Analysis of Knowledge in the 21st Century	20
Protests and Policies: How Radical Social Movement Activists Engage with Climate Policy Dilemmas	19
Mothering through and in Violence: Discourses of the ‘Good Mother’	19
The Wageless Life of Creative Workers: Alternative Economic Practices, Commoning and Consumption Work in Cultural Labour	18
Everyday Nation in Times of Rising Nationalism	18
No Time for a ‘Time Out’? Managing Time around (Non)Drinking	17
Rethinking the Domestic Division of Labour: Exploring Change and Continuity in the Context of Redundancy	16
The Sociology of Futurelessness	15
Sober Rebels or Good Consumer-Citizens? Anti-Consumption and the ‘Enterprising Self’ in Early Sobriety	15
Anthropotropism: Searching for Recognition in the Scandinavian Gig Economy	14
Coronavirus Conjuncture: Nationalism and Pandemic States	13
Developing the Concept of Belonging Work for Social Research	13
Understanding Lived Experiences of Food Insecurity through a Paraliminality Lens	13

Sticking Together in ‘Divided Britain’: Talking Brexit in Everyday Family Relationships	13
Whose Lifestyle Matters at Johannesburg Pride? The Lifestylisation of LGBTQ+ Identities and the Gentrification of Activism	12
Platforms Disrupting Reputation: Precarity and Recognition Struggles in the Remote Gig Economy	12
COVID-19, Nation-States and Fragile Transnationalism	12
Writing Class In and Out: Constructions of Class in Elite Businesswomen’s Autobiographies	12
Global Multiple Migration: Class-Based Mobility Capital of Elite Chinese Gay Men	11
The Christian Politics of Identity and the Making of Race in the German Welfare State	11
Disability, Social Class and Stigma: An Intersectional Analysis of Disabled Young People’s School Experiences	11
Black Lives Matter: The Role of Emotions in Political Engagement	11
From Me to You: Time Together and Subjective Well-Being in the UK	11
Making Sense of the Social, Making the ‘Social Sense’: The Development of Children’s Perception and Judgement of Social Class	10
Grudging Acts	10
Thwarted or Facilitated? The Entrepreneurial Aspirations and Capabilities of New Migrants in the UK	10
Rethinking Institutional Habitus in Education: A Relational Approach for Studying Its Sources and Impacts	10
Between Post-Racial Ideology and Provincial Universalisms: Critical Race Theory, Decolonial Thought and COVID-19 in Britain	10
Black Men’s Experiences of Colourism in the UK	10
‘It Feels Like Life Is Narrowing’: Aspirational Lifestyles and Ambivalent Futures among Norwegian ‘Top Girls’	10
Global Inequality, Mobility Regimes and Transnational Capital: The Post-Graduation Plans of African Student Migrants	10
The Greta Thunberg Effect: A Study of Norwegian Youth’s Reflexivity on Climate Change	9
Truth, Proof, Sleuth: Trust in Direct-to-Consumer DNA Testing and Other Sources of Identity Information among Australian Donor-Conceived People	9
(Invisible) Displays of Survivalist Intensive Motherhood among UK Brexit Preppers	9
Deindividualising Imposter Syndrome: Imposter Work among Marginalised STEMM Undergraduates in the UK	9
Social Polarisation at the Local Level: A Four-Town Comparative Study on the Challenges of Politicising Inequality in Britain	9
Austerity as Bureaucratic Violence: Understanding the Impact of (Neoliberal) Austerity on Disabled People in Sweden	9
Dialectical Family Imaginaries: Navigating Relational Selfhood and Becoming a Parent through Assisted Reproduction in China	8
Class Reimagined? Intersectionality and Industrial Action – the British Airways Dispute of 2009–2011	8
Educational Differences in Cycling: Evidence from German Cities	8
Future Building and Emotional Reflexivity: Gendered or Queered Navigations of Agency in Non-Normative Relationships?	8
The Role of Civil Society in Political Repression: The UK Prevent Counter-Terrorism Programme	8
Futures in Action: Expectations, Imaginaries and Narratives of the Future	8
What Future for the Sociology of Futures? Visions, Concepts and Methods	8
The Moral Boundary Drawing of Class: Social Inequality and Young Precarious Workers in Poland and Germany	8
‘I’m Mum and Dad in One, Basically’: Doing and Displaying ‘Good Lone Motherhood’	8
The ‘Selfish Element’: How Sperm and Egg Donors Construct Plausibly Moral Accounts of the Decision to Donate	7
‘We Have Equal Opportunities – in Theory’: Lay Perceptions of Privilege, Meritocracy and Inequality in Denmark	7
Bring Your Own Politics: Life Strategies and Mobilization in Response to Urban Redevelopment	7
Beyond the Nation? Or Back to It? Current Trends in the Sociology of Nations and Nationalism	7
Co-Sleeping with Partners and Pets as a Family Practice of Intimacy: Israeli Couples’ Narratives of Creating Kinship	7
Negotiating Novelty: Constructing the Novel within Scientific Accounts of Epigenetics	7
Intensive Grandmothering? Exploring the Changing Nature of Grandmothering in the Context of Changes to Parenting Culture	7
Distinctive or Professionalised? Understanding the Postsecular in Faith-Based Responses to Trafficking, Forced Labour and Slavery in the UK	7
The Burden of Conviviality: British Bangladeshi Muslims Navigating Diversity in London, Luton and Birmingham	7
Uncanny Europe and Protective Europeanness: When European Identity Becomes a Queerly Viable Option	7
Asset-Based Futures: A Sociology for the 21st Century	6
Maintaining the Status Quo through Repressed Silences: The Case of Paid Domestic Labour in Post-Apartheid South Africa	6
Mobile Nationalism: Parenting and Articulations of Belonging among Globally Mobile Professionals	6
Performing Trustworthiness: The ‘Credibility Work’ of Prominent Sociologists	6
The Aftermath of Death in the Continuing Lives of the Living: Extending ‘Bereavement’ Paradigms through Family and Relational Perspectives	6
Anticipatory Regimes in Pregnancy: Cross-Fertilising Reproduction and Parenting Culture Studies	6
Introduction: Nationalism’s Futures	6

Civility and Rejection: The Contextuality of Cosmopolitan and Racist Behaviours	6
Work-Time, Male-Breadwinning and the Division of Domestic Labour: Male Part-Time and Full-Time Workers in Unsettled Times	6
Gay Male Football Fans’ Experiences: Authenticity, Belonging and Conditional Acceptance	6
Do Western Sociological Concepts Apply Globally? Towards a Global Sociology	6
Body Pedagogics, Transactional Identities and Human–Animal Relations	6
The Foundations of Distributive Justice: A Morphogenetic Analysis of Gomberg and Fraser	6
Studying the Emotional Costs of Integration at Times of Change: The Case of EU Migrants in Brexit Britain	6
Higher Education Timescapes: Temporal Understandings of Students and Learning	6
Love’s Labour’s Lost? Separation as a Constraint on Displays of Transnational Daughterhood	6
Social Mobility and ‘Openness’ in Creative Occupations since the 1970s	6
Mobility for Me but Not for Others: The Contradictory Cosmopolitan Practices of Contemporary White British Youth	5
‘Without Papers I Can’t Do Anything’: The Neglected Role of Citizenship Status and ‘Illegality’ in Intersectional Analysis	5
Boundaries in the Making: Transformations in Erving Goffman’s Total Institution through the Case of a Female Benedictine Monastery	5
Feeling Time, Fashioning Age: Pre-teen Girls Negotiating Life Course and the Ageing Process Through Dress	5
Individualization and Individualism: Facets and Turning Points of the Entrepreneurial Self among Young People in Italy	5
‘My Memories of the Time We Had Together Are More Important’: Direct Cremation and the Privatisation of UK Funerals	5
Inequalities in Home Learning and Schools’ Remote Teaching Provision during the COVID-19 School Closure in the UK	5
The Responsibilised ‘Agent’ and Other Statuses	5
Minority Ethnic Staff in Universities: Organisational Commitments, Reputation and the (Re)structuring of the Staff Body	5
A Bourdieusian Latent Class Analysis of Cultural, Arts, Heritage and Sports Activities in the UK Representative Understanding Society Dataset	5
The Visibility of Digital Money: A Video Study of Mobile Payments Using WeChat Pay	5
Carrying Europe’s ‘White Burden’, Sustaining Racial Capitalism: Young Post-Soviet Migrant Workers in Helsinki and Warsaw	5
Re-examining Social Mobility: Migrants’ Relationally, Temporally, and Spatially Embedded Mobility Trajectories	5
Recalibrating Everyday Futures during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Futures Fissured, on Standby and Reset in Mass Observation Responses	5
Rethinking Social Roles: Conflict and Modern Life	5
Displaying Difference, Displaying Sameness: Mixed Couples’ Reflexivity and the Narrative-Making of the Family	5
Ambivalent Strategies: Student-Migrant-Workers’ Efforts at Challenging Administrative Bordering	5
Future-Making in an Uncertain World: The Presence of an Open Future in Danish Young Women’s Lives	5
Who Can Represent the Nation? Elite Athletes, Global Mega Events and the Contested Boundaries of National Belonging	5
A Sociological Conversation with ChatGPT about AI Ethics, Affect and Reflexivity	5