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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Deflecting Privilege: Class Identity and the Intergenerational Self	38
Left Behind in the Hungarian Rustbelt: The Cultural Political Economy of Working-Class Neo-Nationalism	29
Digital Technology and Older People: Towards a Sociological Approach to Technology Adoption in Later Life	27
Ethnic Penalties and Hiring Discrimination: Comparing Results from Observational Studies with Field Experiments in the UK	26
A Dependent Structure of Interdependence: Structure and Agency in Relational Perspective	25
Telling Reproductive Stories: Social Scripts, Relationality and Donor Conception	24
Are Poor Parents Poor Parents? The Relationship between Poverty and Parenting among Mothers in the UK	21
Alcohol and Flourishing for Australian Women in Midlife: A Qualitative Study of Negotiating (Un)Happiness	20
Disembedded or Deeply Embedded? A Multi-Level Network Analysis of Online Labour Platforms	20
Turning the Decolonial Gaze towards Ourselves: Decolonising the Curriculum and ‘Decolonial Reflexivity’ in Sociology and Social Theory	19
Protests and Policies: How Radical Social Movement Activists Engage with Climate Policy Dilemmas	19
Post-Truth Society? An Eliasian Sociological Analysis of Knowledge in the 21st Century	19
Promoting Diversity but Striving for Excellence: Opening the ‘Black Box’ of Academic Hiring	19
The Mobilisation of AI in Education: A Bourdieusean Field Analysis	18
Men’s Football Fandom and the Performance of Progressive and Misogynistic Masculinities in a ‘New Age’ of UK Women’s Sport	18
Everyday Nation in Times of Rising Nationalism	18
Mothering through and in Violence: Discourses of the ‘Good Mother’	17
No Time for a ‘Time Out’? Managing Time around (Non)Drinking	17
Sober Rebels or Good Consumer-Citizens? Anti-Consumption and the ‘Enterprising Self’ in Early Sobriety	15
Rethinking the Domestic Division of Labour: Exploring Change and Continuity in the Context of Redundancy	15
The Guardians of the Welfare State: Universal Credit, Welfare Control and the Moral Economy of Frontline Work in Austerity Britain	14
The Wageless Life of Creative Workers: Alternative Economic Practices, Commoning and Consumption Work in Cultural Labour	13
Coronavirus Conjuncture: Nationalism and Pandemic States	13
Sticking Together in ‘Divided Britain’: Talking Brexit in Everyday Family Relationships	13
‘It Gets Really Boring if You Stay at Home’: Women, Work and Temporalities in Urban India	12

Whose Lifestyle Matters at Johannesburg Pride? The Lifestylisation of LGBTQ+ Identities and the Gentrification of Activism	12
Understanding Lived Experiences of Food Insecurity through a Paraliminality Lens	12
The Sociology of Futurelessness	12
COVID-19, Nation-States and Fragile Transnationalism	12
The Christian Politics of Identity and the Making of Race in the German Welfare State	11
Writing Class In and Out: Constructions of Class in Elite Businesswomen’s Autobiographies	11
Disability, Social Class and Stigma: An Intersectional Analysis of Disabled Young People’s School Experiences	11
Platforms Disrupting Reputation: Precarity and Recognition Struggles in the Remote Gig Economy	10
From Me to You: Time Together and Subjective Well-Being in the UK	10
‘It Feels Like Life Is Narrowing’: Aspirational Lifestyles and Ambivalent Futures among Norwegian ‘Top Girls’	10
Anthropotropism: Searching for Recognition in the Scandinavian Gig Economy	10
Grudging Acts	10
Rethinking Institutional Habitus in Education: A Relational Approach for Studying Its Sources and Impacts	9
Social Polarisation at the Local Level: A Four-Town Comparative Study on the Challenges of Politicising Inequality in Britain	9
Between Post-Racial Ideology and Provincial Universalisms: Critical Race Theory, Decolonial Thought and COVID-19 in Britain	9
Making Sense of the Social, Making the ‘Social Sense’: The Development of Children’s Perception and Judgement of Social Class	9
Global Multiple Migration: Class-Based Mobility Capital of Elite Chinese Gay Men	9
Black Men’s Experiences of Colourism in the UK	9
Black Lives Matter: The Role of Emotions in Political Engagement	9
(Invisible) Displays of Survivalist Intensive Motherhood among UK Brexit Preppers	9
Developing the Concept of Belonging Work for Social Research	9
Truth, Proof, Sleuth: Trust in Direct-to-Consumer DNA Testing and Other Sources of Identity Information among Australian Donor-Conceived People	8
The Role of Civil Society in Political Repression: The UK Prevent Counter-Terrorism Programme	8
Class Reimagined? Intersectionality and Industrial Action – the British Airways Dispute of 2009–2011	8
Austerity as Bureaucratic Violence: Understanding the Impact of (Neoliberal) Austerity on Disabled People in Sweden	8
Deindividualising Imposter Syndrome: Imposter Work among Marginalised STEMM Undergraduates in the UK	8
The Purity of Dirt: Revisiting Mary Douglas in the Light of Contemporary Consumer Interpretations of Naturalness, Purity and Dirt	7
Global Inequality, Mobility Regimes and Transnational Capital: The Post-Graduation Plans of African Student Migrants	7
Beyond the Nation? Or Back to It? Current Trends in the Sociology of Nations and Nationalism	7
Future Building and Emotional Reflexivity: Gendered or Queered Navigations of Agency in Non-Normative Relationships?	7
Thwarted or Facilitated? The Entrepreneurial Aspirations and Capabilities of New Migrants in the UK	7
Bring Your Own Politics: Life Strategies and Mobilization in Response to Urban Redevelopment	7
Co-Sleeping with Partners and Pets as a Family Practice of Intimacy: Israeli Couples’ Narratives of Creating Kinship	7
‘I’m Mum and Dad in One, Basically’: Doing and Displaying ‘Good Lone Motherhood’	7
Uncanny Europe and Protective Europeanness: When European Identity Becomes a Queerly Viable Option	7
Intensive Grandmothering? Exploring the Changing Nature of Grandmothering in the Context of Changes to Parenting Culture	7
The Greta Thunberg Effect: A Study of Norwegian Youth’s Reflexivity on Climate Change	7
The Moral Boundary Drawing of Class: Social Inequality and Young Precarious Workers in Poland and Germany	7
The ‘Selfish Element’: How Sperm and Egg Donors Construct Plausibly Moral Accounts of the Decision to Donate	6
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
Educational Differences in Cycling: Evidence from German Cities	6
Anticipatory Regimes in Pregnancy: Cross-Fertilising Reproduction and Parenting Culture Studies	6
Distinctive or Professionalised? Understanding the Postsecular in Faith-Based Responses to Trafficking, Forced Labour and Slavery in the UK	6
Dialectical Family Imaginaries: Navigating Relational Selfhood and Becoming a Parent through Assisted Reproduction in China	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
Love’s Labour’s Lost? Separation as a Constraint on Displays of Transnational Daughterhood	6

Do Western Sociological Concepts Apply Globally? Towards a Global Sociology	6
Introduction: Nationalism’s Futures	6
The Burden of Conviviality: British Bangladeshi Muslims Navigating Diversity in London, Luton and Birmingham	6
Higher Education Timescapes: Temporal Understandings of Students and Learning	6
Futures in Action: Expectations, Imaginaries and Narratives of the Future	6
Boundaries in the Making: Transformations in Erving Goffman’s Total Institution through the Case of a Female Benedictine Monastery	5
What Future for the Sociology of Futures? Visions, Concepts and Methods	5
The Aftermath of Death in the Continuing Lives of the Living: Extending ‘Bereavement’ Paradigms through Family and Relational Perspectives	5
Civility and Rejection: The Contextuality of Cosmopolitan and Racist Behaviours	5
Studying the Emotional Costs of Integration at Times of Change: The Case of EU Migrants in Brexit Britain	5
The Responsibilised ‘Agent’ and Other Statuses	5
Body Pedagogics, Transactional Identities and Human–Animal Relations	5
Negotiating Novelty: Constructing the Novel within Scientific Accounts of Epigenetics	5
Individualization and Individualism: Facets and Turning Points of the Entrepreneurial Self among Young People in Italy	5
Carrying Europe’s ‘White Burden’, Sustaining Racial Capitalism: Young Post-Soviet Migrant Workers in Helsinki and Warsaw	5
Recalibrating Everyday Futures during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Futures Fissured, on Standby and Reset in Mass Observation Responses	5
Telling the Right Story at the Right Time: Women Seeking Asylum with Stories of Trafficking into the Sex Industry	5
Rethinking Social Roles: Conflict and Modern Life	5
Ambivalent Strategies: Student-Migrant-Workers’ Efforts at Challenging Administrative Bordering	5
‘We Have Equal Opportunities – in Theory’: Lay Perceptions of Privilege, Meritocracy and Inequality in Denmark	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
Inequalities in Home Learning and Schools’ Remote Teaching Provision during the COVID-19 School Closure in the UK	5