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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Deflecting Privilege: Class Identity and the Intergenerational Self	45
Digital Technology and Older People: Towards a Sociological Approach to Technology Adoption in Later Life	31
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
Ethnic Penalties and Hiring Discrimination: Comparing Results from Observational Studies with Field Experiments in the UK	27
Telling Reproductive Stories: Social Scripts, Relationality and Donor Conception	27
Turning the Decolonial Gaze towards Ourselves: Decolonising the Curriculum and ‘Decolonial Reflexivity’ in Sociology and Social Theory	24
Alcohol and Flourishing for Australian Women in Midlife: A Qualitative Study of Negotiating (Un)Happiness	23
Disembedded or Deeply Embedded? A Multi-Level Network Analysis of Online Labour Platforms	23
Men’s Football Fandom and the Performance of Progressive and Misogynistic Masculinities in a ‘New Age’ of UK Women’s Sport	22
The Mobilisation of AI in Education: A Bourdieusean Field Analysis	21
Promoting Diversity but Striving for Excellence: Opening the ‘Black Box’ of Academic Hiring	21
The Wageless Life of Creative Workers: Alternative Economic Practices, Commoning and Consumption Work in Cultural Labour	20
Mothering through and in Violence: Discourses of the ‘Good Mother’	20
Post-Truth Society? An Eliasian Sociological Analysis of Knowledge in the 21st Century	20
Everyday Nation in Times of Rising Nationalism	18
No Time for a ‘Time Out’? Managing Time around (Non)Drinking	17
Sticking Together in ‘Divided Britain’: Talking Brexit in Everyday Family Relationships	15
Sober Rebels or Good Consumer-Citizens? Anti-Consumption and the ‘Enterprising Self’ in Early Sobriety	15
The Sociology of Futurelessness	15
Platforms Disrupting Reputation: Precarity and Recognition Struggles in the Remote Gig Economy	14
Anthropotropism: Searching for Recognition in the Scandinavian Gig Economy	14
Whose Lifestyle Matters at Johannesburg Pride? The Lifestylisation of LGBTQ+ Identities and the Gentrification of Activism	14
Coronavirus Conjuncture: Nationalism and Pandemic States	14
Developing the Concept of Belonging Work for Social Research	13

Understanding Lived Experiences of Food Insecurity through a Paraliminality Lens	13
Global Multiple Migration: Class-Based Mobility Capital of Elite Chinese Gay Men	12
From Me to You: Time Together and Subjective Well-Being in the UK	12
Writing Class In and Out: Constructions of Class in Elite Businesswomen’s Autobiographies	12
Between Post-Racial Ideology and Provincial Universalisms: Critical Race Theory, Decolonial Thought and COVID-19 in Britain	12
Black Lives Matter: The Role of Emotions in Political Engagement	12
COVID-19, Nation-States and Fragile Transnationalism	12
Global Inequality, Mobility Regimes and Transnational Capital: The Post-Graduation Plans of African Student Migrants	11
Disability, Social Class and Stigma: An Intersectional Analysis of Disabled Young People’s School Experiences	11
The Christian Politics of Identity and the Making of Race in the German Welfare State	11
Truth, Proof, Sleuth: Trust in Direct-to-Consumer DNA Testing and Other Sources of Identity Information among Australian Donor-Conceived People	10
Dialectical Family Imaginaries: Navigating Relational Selfhood and Becoming a Parent through Assisted Reproduction in China	10
Thwarted or Facilitated? The Entrepreneurial Aspirations and Capabilities of New Migrants in the UK	10
Making Sense of the Social, Making the ‘Social Sense’: The Development of Children’s Perception and Judgement of Social Class	10
‘It Feels Like Life Is Narrowing’: Aspirational Lifestyles and Ambivalent Futures among Norwegian ‘Top Girls’	10
Deindividualising Imposter Syndrome: Imposter Work among Marginalised STEMM Undergraduates in the UK	10
Rethinking Institutional Habitus in Education: A Relational Approach for Studying Its Sources and Impacts	10
Grudging Acts	10
Black Men’s Experiences of Colourism in the UK	10
What Future for the Sociology of Futures? Visions, Concepts and Methods	9
Futures in Action: Expectations, Imaginaries and Narratives of the Future	9
(Invisible) Displays of Survivalist Intensive Motherhood among UK Brexit Preppers	9
Social Polarisation at the Local Level: A Four-Town Comparative Study on the Challenges of Politicising Inequality in Britain	9
The Greta Thunberg Effect: A Study of Norwegian Youth’s Reflexivity on Climate Change	9
Austerity as Bureaucratic Violence: Understanding the Impact of (Neoliberal) Austerity on Disabled People in Sweden	9
Class Reimagined? Intersectionality and Industrial Action – the British Airways Dispute of 2009–2011	8
The Burden of Conviviality: British Bangladeshi Muslims Navigating Diversity in London, Luton and Birmingham	8
‘We Have Equal Opportunities – in Theory’: Lay Perceptions of Privilege, Meritocracy and Inequality in Denmark	8
Educational Differences in Cycling: Evidence from German Cities	8
Co-Sleeping with Partners and Pets as a Family Practice of Intimacy: Israeli Couples’ Narratives of Creating Kinship	8
A Sociological Conversation with ChatGPT about AI Ethics, Affect and Reflexivity	8
The Role of Civil Society in Political Repression: The UK Prevent Counter-Terrorism Programme	8
The Aftermath of Death in the Continuing Lives of the Living: Extending ‘Bereavement’ Paradigms through Family and Relational Perspectives	8
Future Building and Emotional Reflexivity: Gendered or Queered Navigations of Agency in Non-Normative Relationships?	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
Bring Your Own Politics: Life Strategies and Mobilization in Response to Urban Redevelopment	8
Uncanny Europe and Protective Europeanness: When European Identity Becomes a Queerly Viable Option	7
Distinctive or Professionalised? Understanding the Postsecular in Faith-Based Responses to Trafficking, Forced Labour and Slavery in the UK	7
Social Mobility and ‘Openness’ in Creative Occupations since the 1970s	7
Negotiating Novelty: Constructing the Novel within Scientific Accounts of Epigenetics	7
The ‘Selfish Element’: How Sperm and Egg Donors Construct Plausibly Moral Accounts of the Decision to Donate	7
Beyond the Nation? Or Back to It? Current Trends in the Sociology of Nations and Nationalism	7
Intensive Grandmothering? Exploring the Changing Nature of Grandmothering in the Context of Changes to Parenting Culture	7
A Bourdieusian Latent Class Analysis of Cultural, Arts, Heritage and Sports Activities in the UK Representative Understanding Society Dataset	7
Gay Male Football Fans’ Experiences: Authenticity, Belonging and Conditional Acceptance	7
Asset-Based Futures: A Sociology for the 21st Century	6
Civility and Rejection: The Contextuality of Cosmopolitan and Racist Behaviours	6
Studying the Emotional Costs of Integration at Times of Change: The Case of EU Migrants in Brexit Britain	6
Inequalities in Home Learning and Schools’ Remote Teaching Provision during the COVID-19 School Closure in the UK	6

Minority Ethnic Staff in Universities: Organisational Commitments, Reputation and the (Re)structuring of the Staff Body	6
Towards Relational Spatiality: Space, Relation and Simmel’s Modernity	6
Do Western Sociological Concepts Apply Globally? Towards a Global Sociology	6
Knowing What You’ve Got Once It’s Gone: Identifying Familial Norms and Values through the Lens of (Sibling) Bereavement	6
Work-Time, Male-Breadwinning and the Division of Domestic Labour: Male Part-Time and Full-Time Workers in Unsettled Times	6
Performing Trustworthiness: The ‘Credibility Work’ of Prominent Sociologists	6
Displaying Difference, Displaying Sameness: Mixed Couples’ Reflexivity and the Narrative-Making of the Family	6
Ambivalent Strategies: Student-Migrant-Workers’ Efforts at Challenging Administrative Bordering	6
Anticipatory Regimes in Pregnancy: Cross-Fertilising Reproduction and Parenting Culture Studies	6
Introduction: Nationalism’s Futures	6
Individualization and Individualism: Facets and Turning Points of the Entrepreneurial Self among Young People in Italy	6
Mobile Nationalism: Parenting and Articulations of Belonging among Globally Mobile Professionals	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
Body Pedagogics, Transactional Identities and Human–Animal Relations	6
Environment or Economy? Food Concerns and Sustainable Food Transitions in the UK	5
Disciplinary Power and Impression Management in the Trials of the Stansted 15	5
Knowledge Hierarchies and Gender Disparities in Social Science Funding	5
Mobility for Me but Not for Others: The Contradictory Cosmopolitan Practices of Contemporary White British Youth	5
‘My Memories of the Time We Had Together Are More Important’: Direct Cremation and the Privatisation of UK Funerals	5
Who Can Represent the Nation? Elite Athletes, Global Mega Events and the Contested Boundaries of National Belonging	5
The Visibility of Digital Money: A Video Study of Mobile Payments Using WeChat Pay	5
Re-examining Social Mobility: Migrants’ Relationally, Temporally, and Spatially Embedded Mobility Trajectories	5
‘Without Papers I Can’t Do Anything’: The Neglected Role of Citizenship Status and ‘Illegality’ in Intersectional Analysis	5
Rethinking Social Roles: Conflict and Modern Life	5
Hunger Bonds: Boundaries and Bridges in the Charitable Food Provision Field	5
Feeling Time, Fashioning Age: Pre-teen Girls Negotiating Life Course and the Ageing Process Through Dress	5
Future-Making in an Uncertain World: The Presence of an Open Future in Danish Young Women’s Lives	5
Recalibrating Everyday Futures during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Futures Fissured, on Standby and Reset in Mass Observation Responses	5
The Responsibilised ‘Agent’ and Other Statuses	5
Boundaries in the Making: Transformations in Erving Goffman’s Total Institution through the Case of a Female Benedictine Monastery	5
Carrying Europe’s ‘White Burden’, Sustaining Racial Capitalism: Young Post-Soviet Migrant Workers in Helsinki and Warsaw	5