British Journal of Sociology of Education

Papers
(The median citation count of British Journal of Sociology of Education 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
The story of women immigrants from FSU and their integration into Israeli academia93
Shadow education in shadow: parental education and children’s shadow education participation before and during COVID-1957
Rethinking young people’s aspirations in times of crisis: stories of futures from a de-industrialising city48
‘Survival mode’: navigating the first five years of teaching performing arts in neoliberal education assemblages33
The Left Hand of Data: Designing Education Data for Justice29
Home away from home?: Campus-based social capital for Hong Kong students in a Mainland university26
International education and the pursuit of ‘Western’ capitals: middle-class Nigerian fathers’ strategies of class reproduction25
Racism, zero-hours contracts and complicity in higher education23
Social reproduction theory revisited22
Comment on M.G. Sciffer, L.B. Perry, & A.M. McConney, “critiques of socio-economic school compositional effects: are they valid?”21
‘Labour class’ children in Indian classrooms: theorizing urban poverty and schooling20
The reproduction of deficit thinking in times of contestation: the case of higher education19
Data infrastructures and the governance of their accompanying narratives19
The obstacle race to educational improvement: governance, policies, and practices in disadvantaged schools18
How African Nova Scotians envision culturally relevant and sustaining pedagogy as civic repair15
Middle-class parental engagement in pandemic times: developing strategies and mobilizing capitals14
‘Real’ boys, sissies and tomboys: exploring the material-discursive intra-actions of football, bodies, and heteronormative discourses14
Network governance and new philanthropy in Latin America and the Caribbean: reconfiguration of the State14
Who counts as socioeconomically disadvantaged for the purposes of widening access to higher education?13
School and community relationships in Mexico. Researching inclusion in education from critical and decolonial perspectives13
Back to zero? Precarious employment in academia amongst ‘older’ early career researchers, a life-course approach13
Joy, pride, and shame: on working in the affective economy of edu-business13
Career development or career delay? Postdoctoral fellowships and the de-professionalizing of academic work in South African universities13
On reductions – examining a British-Bourdieusian sociology of education12
‘The more successful, the more apolitical’. Romani mentors’ mixed experiences with an intra-ethnic mentoring project12
‘On the frontline’: gangs, teachers, and the ethics of care11
Countering whiteness and the culture trap in education11
En/counters with disablist school violence: experiences of young people with dwarfism in the United Kingdom11
Doctoral theses11
Exploring conceptualisations of vocational education in China: how the hierarchical education system mirrors social hierarchy10
Cultural capitals matter, differentially: a Bourdieusian reading of perspectives from senior secondary students in England10
Mothers’ responsibility as transmitters of gendered moral rationalities: working-class Palestinian mothers living in Israel10
Navigating teachers’ perceptions and experiences of shadow education expansion and regulation in Kazakhstan: a mixed-methods study10
Bringing underprivileged middle-school students to the opera: cultural mobility or cultural compliance?10
What does a sociologist do? Norwegian, English, and Hungarian university students’ possible future selves9
Bucking the trend: high-achieving, working-class girls and their strategic university decision making9
The truly advantaged: racial inequalities of educational opportunities among the privileged in the United States9
‘I’m not sure where home is’: narratives of student mobilities into and through higher education9
Peer preferences and educational decisions: heterogeneous associations across student socioeconomic status8
From robots who teach to synthetic politics8
The impact of school space on primary education art teachers’ pedagogical practices: a Bernsteinian approach8
The sociopolitical liberalization of young adults: transforming a dominated habitus8
Investing in sons or daughters? The educational aspirations of rural parents in China8
The Left Hand of Data: designing Education Data for Justice7
Distinction in higher education: educational strategies of upper milieu students in Germany7
No love found: how female students of colour negotiate and repurpose university spaces7
Education and high-status occupations in the UK since the middle of the twentieth century7
Sub-alterities: schooling in Southern Italy7
Middling mobility and emerging cultural capital: a positional competition perspective on Chinese students studying in South Korea7
Learning to walk the wire: preparing students for precarious life7
Other sociologies of education: providing critical perspectives from the Global South and North7
Doctoral theses7
School socioeconomic-background effects are generally small: a response to Sciffer, Perry, and McConney7
Empty Britain? Hegemony and ambiguity in British education policy7
‘It’s a tiger instinct – that’s my baby! ’: affective practices of care in parents’ educational activism7
‘Look at your five fingers’: international students and reproduction of class inequalities at university7
Higher education and school history in Scotland in the second half of the twentieth century7
What higher education ministers talk about when they talk about innovation6
School differences on whether and where students apply to university6
The relationship between class-based habitus and choice of university and field of study6
High-Stakes counselling: when career counselling may lead to continuing residence or deportation of asylum-seeking youths6
World, planet, territory: toward a geo-logic in the critical sociology of education6
Talcott Parsons’s sociology of education: cognitive rationality and normative functionalism6
The reception on campus: differences in students’ experiences deploying cultural capital in college5
Challenging the skills fetish5
Decolonizing education in Latin America: critical environmental and intercultural education as an indigenous pluriversal alternative5
Doctoral theses5
Study gods – How the new Chinese elite prepare for global competition5
Beyond spatial materiality, towards inter- and intra-subjectivity: conceptualizing exclusion in education as internalized ableism and psycho-emotional disablement5
Early career primary teachers’ discursive negotiations of academisation5
Schools’ priority rules and ethnic school segregation5
Beyond empowerment: student self-assessment as a form of resistance5
Exploring the relational nature of teachers’ agency negotiation through master- and counter-narratives5
Doctoral theses5
Announcement of doctoral theses5
Schooling inequality: aspirations, opportunities and the reproduction of social class5
Critical thinking in the higher education classroom: knowledge, power, control and identities4
‘I am the black duck’ affective aspects of working-class mothers’ involvement in parental communities4
Projects-of-self and projects-of-family: young people’s responsibilisation for their education and responsibility for care4
Rethinking causality and inequality in students’ degree outcomes4
Parental choice, collective identity and neoliberalism in alternative education: new free democratic schools in Poland4
Legitimising an unusual choice abroad for privileged students: Swiss hospitality management schools as ‘refuge schools’4
Disproportionate identification of special needs for ethnic and language minority students in England–patterns and explanations4
Critically considering the ‘inclusive curriculum’ in higher education4
Social capital practices for the accomplishment of natural-growth: theoretical insights from low-income mothers’ support of remote-learning during COVID4
Doctoral theses4
Subject choice motivation and students’ conceptions of employability: thin and thick4
Outsider status, and racialised habitus: the experiences of Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller students in higher education4
‘We’re not robots!’: the interaction of co-operativism and neoliberalism for students at a Co-op academy4
The symbolic gift of education in migrant families and compromises in school choice4
Challenges of working in undervalued technical schools. A continuum between discourses of deficit and trust4
Getting a head start: capital inheritance and the labour market entry of Finnish business graduates4
Exploring student support, class solidarity and transformative pedagogy: insights from Working Class Academics4
African international students, work integrated learning and (im)possible selves in Chinese higher education3
Doctoral theses3
Reproducing privilege through whiteness and beauty: an intersectional analysis of elite Chilean university students’ practices3
Revisiting educational advantage and social class: a Bourdieusian analysis of middle-class parents’ investment in private schooling and shadow education3
“Miss, can you speak English?”: raciolinguistic ideologies and language oppression in initial teacher education3
Before (e)valuating: student testing in History and Engineering3
The making of male reader identities across generations: assemblages of rural places in shaping life as a male reader in Australia and Sweden3
Austerity, outsourcing and the state school workforce: trends from 20,000 English state schools3
Transforming oneself: delving into the processes of habitus transformation in the higher education field3
Decolonial love as a pedagogy of care for Black immigrant post-secondary students3
The production of social spaces for children with profound and multiple learning difficulties: a Lefebvrian analysis3
How Capital generates capitals in English elite private schools: Charities, tax and accounting3
The effects of managerialism in higher education on doctoral theorising: time to think?3
The class-related educational strategies and national capital of Polish migrants in the UK (England)3
Conserving liberalism within values education3
‘No fear’: privilege and the navigation of hierarchy at an elite boys’ school in England3
Doctoral theses3
Roma students’ academic self-assessment and educational aspirations in Hungarian primary schools3
Girls’ education in Balochistan, Pakistan: exploring a postcolonial Islamic governmentality3
‘I was worried I’d sound stupid’: institutional interactions and the impact on marginalised students’ university experiences3
Shaping personal worldviews when neo-liberalism meets Confucianism and patriotism: insights from Chinese postgraduate students3
Onwards and upwards? The educational and occupational expectations of Irish teens of migrant descent3
‘You’re working, but you’re not working:’ academic precarity, ambivalence and the use of researchers as factotums3
Class, education and parenting: cross-cultural perspectives3
From segregation to non-incorporation: a study of a failed school desegregation process in Sweden2
‘I teach them what I can’: working-class mothers supporting their children’s relationship with schooling2
Shattering monolithic myths: gender gaps in STEM major selection across Asian American ethnic subgroups2
A matter of time: differential enactments of institutional time in diversity policy documents2
Tracking and educational inequality: a longitudinal analysis of two school reforms in Switzerland2
The (stereo)typical student: how European higher education students feel they are viewed by relevant others2
No trade-off between parent choice and democratic citizenship: a comparison of 9thgrade pupils in Danish Muslim and state schools2
Appropriate modelling of school compositional effects: a response to Malatinszky and Armor, and Marks2
Classed trajectories in higher education and the graduate labour market: affective affinities in a ‘meritocracy’2
Correction2
The degree generation: the making of unequal graduate lives,2
Demystifying Oxbridge: a qualitative video analysis of information sharing strategies by student vloggers for prospective applicants2
The translation of cultural capital theory to English secondary schools: knuggets, wild words and pipelines2
Doctoral theses2
‘You feel a bit lost’: a case study interpreting white, working-class mothers’ engagement through habitus2
Affective engagements with religion and citizenship in English primary schools2
Gender gaps in educational pathways in the Czech Republic2
Empowered but afraid: do Saudi women have the capability to freely decide their university majors?2
Parenting strategies in the context of South-South migration2
Doctoral theses2
Doctoral theses2
Is it socioeconomic or academic? Disentangling sources of peer effects on student achievement2
An unquiet mobilization. Working-class families and school in French contemporary society2
Coaching for privilege: coaches, soccer, and education in professional sports clubs in high-SES cities in Israel2
The ontology of personhood and a realist critique of the policy discourse based on skills2
Conceptualising school-level responses to sexual harassment of women teachers as institutional gaslighting1
Doctoral theses1
Roughly in the middle. Variations in the subjective social status of teachers in France1
Pupils’ school mobility during elementary school: what motives and results?1
(Un)Limited choice: analysing the strategic choices of first-in-generation students in neoliberal higher education1
Understanding the complexity of Chinese rural parents’ roles in their children’s access to elite universities1
Is there an old girls’ network? Girls’ schools and recruitment to the British elite1
Shaping shadows: influences of different forms of capital on private supplementary tutoring in Myanmar1
The death of human capital? Its failed promise and how to renew it in an age of disruption,1
Language learning in liminal spaces: low literate migrants’ narratives of formal requirements for legal integration1
Participation as relational investment: thinking beyond social capital in culturally and linguistically diverse educational contexts1
Aspiring to higher education: micro-practices, horizons and social class reproduction in Chile1
Education, opportunity and the future of work in the fourth industrial revolution1
Parental social class and GCSE attainment: Re-reading the role of ‘cultural capital’1
Urban neighbourhoods and guidance counselling in basic education: a spatial justice approach1
International capital and social class: a sociology of international certification in French urban school markets1
Emergency remote scholarship – publishing beyond the pandemic1
Structural constraints and the school choice strategies of black American middle-class parents1
“Living with solitude”: narrative of a female college student from rural China1
Parenting approaches, parental involvement, and academic achievement in US elementary schools1
Chinese international students’ perspectives on Asian Americans in the U.S. racial hierarchy1
‘The standard is the standard’: constructing meritocratic student selves through sense-making on academic writing1
‘Not like me’: educational aspirations and mothering in an urban poor neighbourhood in India1
Social class, COVID-19 and care: Schools on the front line in Ireland during the COVID-19 pandemic1
Resisting the “academic circle jerk”: precarity and friendship at academic conferences in UK higher education1
Doctoral theses1
Restorative practices for preventing/countering violent extremism: an affective-discursive examination of extreme emotional incidents1
Doctoral theses1
The distribution of ‘educational labour’ in families with equal or primary carer fathers1
Girls’ education and the cultural capital of Pakistan’s urban middle class1
Feeling rules and emotional capital in a student voice wellbeing initiative1
Stepping stones or trapdoors? Paid and unpaid graduate internships in the creative sector1
Theorizing the professional habitus: operationalizing Bourdieu to explore the role of pedigree in Indonesian higher education1
Compensation or reproduction? The implications of online learning for socio-economic equalisation in urban China1
Aiming high or falling short? Longitudinal study on educational aspirations of Chinese adolescents1
Decolonising master’s supervision by queering/ enfletando the process: opening decolonial cracks through fleta reflexivity1
The doing of curriculum mathematics: the case of an Indigenous Māori school in Aotearoa/New Zealand1
Taking Boys Seriously: a participatory action research initiative demonstrating the transformative potential of relational education1
Forging more-than-Indian citizenship pathways: (inter)national education, religious values, and new frontiers of multicultural belonging in Singapore1
Towards a Sociology of Educational ‘Ideal’: Powerful Knowledge, Knowledge of the Powerful, and Beyond1
Increasing understanding of the aspirations and expectations of Roma students1
Reconsidering and teaching sociologies in Zambian teacher education: seeking Mbuyi, Mulenga, and Munkombwe1
Doctoral theses1
Upskilling the workforce? A critical analysis of national skills policies in China’s Reform Era1
‘More to prove and more to lose’: race, racism and precarious employment in higher education1
Private school entry to Oxbridge: how cultural capital counts in the making of elites1
‘So incredibly equal’: how polite exclusion becomes invisible in the classroom1
Panopticism, teacher surveillance and the ‘unseen’1
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