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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
The left hand of data: Designing education data for justice46
The story of women immigrants from FSU and their integration into Israeli academia30
How do problematisations “materialise”? A neopragmatic perspective on the (in-)visibilisation of justice concerns in AIED27
Home away from home?: Campus-based social capital for Hong Kong students in a Mainland university22
‘Survival mode’: navigating the first five years of teaching performing arts in neoliberal education assemblages19
Rethinking young people’s aspirations in times of crisis: stories of futures from a de-industrialising city18
Shadow education in shadow: parental education and children’s shadow education participation before and during COVID-1918
The obstacle race to educational improvement: governance, policies, and practices in disadvantaged schools18
The Creative Art of Troublemaking in education,17
The Etons of the East End: the ambiguities of educational urgency and the neoliberal fantasy17
Against School: Thinking Education Differently17
Disillusions and paradoxes of the massification of education in France17
‘I won’t remain here’: socially advantaged students and vocational education in China’s institutional tracking context16
‘There actually aren’t enough hours in the week’: a constructivist grounded theory of defending inaction on the implementation of intercultural education in Irish schools15
School and community relationships in Mexico. Researching inclusion in education from critical and decolonial perspectives15
The reproduction of deficit thinking in times of contestation: the case of higher education15
Middle-class parental engagement in pandemic times: developing strategies and mobilizing capitals14
Countering whiteness and the culture trap in education13
Cultural capitals matter, differentially: a Bourdieusian reading of perspectives from senior secondary students in England13
Joy, pride, and shame: on working in the affective economy of edu-business13
Doctoral theses13
‘On the frontline’: gangs, teachers, and the ethics of care12
Multi-faith in policy only? Religion and belief inequalities at UK universities since the Equality Act12
Bringing underprivileged middle-school students to the opera: cultural mobility or cultural compliance?12
Governing the desire: power, paradox and professionalism in further education12
En/counters with disablist school violence: experiences of young people with dwarfism in the United Kingdom12
Navigating teachers’ perceptions and experiences of shadow education expansion and regulation in Kazakhstan: a mixed-methods study12
Exploring conceptualisations of vocational education in China: how the hierarchical education system mirrors social hierarchy11
The sociopolitical liberalization of young adults: transforming a dominated habitus11
Black student university access network project: lessons learned from Black first-year undergraduate students in Canada11
From robots who teach to synthetic politics11
Between reflexivity and habitus: transnational academic mobility among Chinese-trained postdoctoral researchers in the United States11
Relational care at work: educators’ practices and discourses of care across social inequalities10
Reconstructing GenAI in education: a social systems theory approach10
Admissibility for sale: judgment devices, merit, and the economy of self in global education10
Peer preferences and educational decisions: heterogeneous associations across student socioeconomic status10
Bucking the trend: high-achieving, working-class girls and their strategic university decision making9
Navigating structure and agency: disadvantaged Chinese students’ motivations for international education mobility9
Middling mobility and emerging cultural capital: a positional competition perspective on Chinese students studying in South Korea9
From cultural display to political subject: citizenship and museum education in contemporary China9
The ‘grammar’ of justice: how do governing boards advance social justice for racially minoritised learners?9
What does a sociologist do? Norwegian, English, and Hungarian university students’ possible future selves9
When the halo of my overseas credentials disappeared: Chinese student returnees and their domestic employability9
Investing in sons or daughters? The educational aspirations of rural parents in China9
Diluting exclusivity? The prevalence and distribution of bursaries and scholarships for Britain’s private schools9
The impact of school space on primary education art teachers’ pedagogical practices: a Bernsteinian approach9
The left hand of data: Designing education data for justice9
Symbolic haunting: first-generation university students’ limited sense of entitlement8
AI in education influencers: Problematising, reproducing, or mediating the technological solutionism discourse in UK schools?8
Distinction in higher education: educational strategies of upper milieu students in Germany8
‘It’s a tiger instinct – that’s my baby! ’: affective practices of care in parents’ educational activism8
‘Look at your five fingers’: international students and reproduction of class inequalities at university8
Sub-alterities: schooling in Southern Italy8
The relationship between class-based habitus and choice of university and field of study7
A typology of bureaucratic education tools: uncovering the relational complexity of large language models7
Other sociologies of education: providing critical perspectives from the Global South and North7
School differences on whether and where students apply to university7
Success, belonging and identity work among care-experienced academics in the United Kingdom7
Un/muting Muslim difference: anti-Muslim racism and secular whiteness in Dutch and Belgian academia7
Religious parents, ‘whiteness’, secularism and modern english values: dis/assembling ‘progressive’ relationships and sex education7
Resisting or complying with neoliberal subjectification? Finnish and Portuguese non-traditional graduates and their educational ethoses7
Empty Britain? Hegemony and ambiguity in British education policy7
What higher education ministers talk about when they talk about innovation6
Announcement of doctoral theses6
Study gods – How the new Chinese elite prepare for global competition6
Conservative peripheral societies and the acquisition of higher education: multidimensional marginality6
Schooling inequality: aspirations, opportunities and the reproduction of social class6
Navigating agency and compliance: Chinese parents’ strategic messaging on WeChat for cultivating home–school relations6
Talcott Parsons’s sociology of education: cognitive rationality and normative functionalism6
Doctoral theses6
Schools’ priority rules and ethnic school segregation6
Doctoral theses6
The reception on campus: differences in students’ experiences deploying cultural capital in college5
Revisiting educational advantage and social class: a Bourdieusian analysis of middle-class parents’ investment in private schooling and shadow education5
Critically considering the ‘inclusive curriculum’ in higher education5
Exploring student support, class solidarity and transformative pedagogy: insights from Working Class Academics5
Outsider status, and racialised habitus: the experiences of Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller students in higher education5
Decolonizing education in Latin America: critical environmental and intercultural education as an indigenous pluriversal alternative5
Whiteness in HE and the limitations of representational politics: racially minoritised student’s views and experiences5
How secondary mathematics teachers describe and teach ‘ability’ groups: discursive and non-discursive practices5
Social capital practices for the accomplishment of natural-growth: theoretical insights from low-income mothers’ support of remote-learning during COVID5
‘I just get on with it’: narratives of women who become mothers during undergraduate study5
Navigating Uncertainty: A Typology of Reflexive Self-Construction Among Generation Z Sophomores in China5
Legitimising an unusual choice abroad for privileged students: Swiss hospitality management schools as ‘refuge schools’5
Mapping overseas education through local lens: valuation, merit, and hierarchy in Chinese students’ college applications5
The role of institutional reputation in mediating post-PhD careers. The case of Chinese elite universities5
The future imaginaries and counter-politics of solidarity work: non-formal education for displaced Ukrainians in Hungary5
Switching between oversight and support mode: the duality of care culture in Russian non-selective universities5
Understanding racialised elements of habitus of working-class women on an access to higher education course5
Post-schooling the elite: spaceX, cognitive platforming and educational abstraction5
Beyond spatial materiality, towards inter- and intra-subjectivity: conceptualizing exclusion in education as internalized ableism and psycho-emotional disablement5
Exposure to exclusion: cultural capital and the reshaping of privileged-caste logics in Indian private schools5
From optimism to disillusionment: meritocratic beliefs of working-class and lower-middle-class students in elite universities4
“Miss, can you speak English?”: raciolinguistic ideologies and language oppression in initial teacher education4
Subject choice motivation and students’ conceptions of employability: thin and thick4
Time in education policy transfer: the seven temporalities of global school reform4
A different kind of familiar: the insider-outsider paradox and negotiating teacher sense of belonging4
Rethinking causality and inequality in students’ degree outcomes4
Getting a head start: capital inheritance and the labour market entry of Finnish business graduates4
The loong has nine offspring: using reflexivity to understand Chinese middle-class parents’ heterogeneous educational aspirations4
Shaping personal worldviews when neo-liberalism meets Confucianism and patriotism: insights from Chinese postgraduate students4
Exceptional and decent people: mothering and school choice in the reproduction of social inequality4
Before (e)valuating: student testing in History and Engineering4
‘I was worried I’d sound stupid’: institutional interactions and the impact on marginalised students’ university experiences4
Challenges of working in undervalued technical schools. A continuum between discourses of deficit and trust4
Enactment of moral education: Chinese teachers’ struggles and reflexivity in practice4
The Time Inheritors – How Time Inequalities Shape Higher Education Mobility in China4
The role of parents’ educational background in upper secondary students’ utilization of career guidance resources4
Exploring the role of students’ ethnic-minority and socio-economic status in entering open-admissions higher education4
Stratified support: shadow education and maths achievement in East Asia’s six top-performing jurisdictions4
‘You’re working, but you’re not working:’ academic precarity, ambivalence and the use of researchers as factotums3
Onwards and upwards? The educational and occupational expectations of Irish teens of migrant descent3
Conserving liberalism within values education3
Making Sense of School Relations: Children’s Voices “so We Can Do Our Best.” Care in Children’s Relationships With Teachers, by Mary Darmanin, Malta University Press, 2024, 380 pp., €65, ISBN 978-99183
Education and the Politics of Interruption: Does the Right Always Win?3
Is it socioeconomic or academic? Disentangling sources of peer effects on student achievement3
Community involvement and socioeconomic achievement gap in 14 sub-Saharan African countries3
Coaching for privilege: coaches, soccer, and education in professional sports clubs in high-SES cities in Israel3
Roma students’ academic self-assessment and educational aspirations in Hungarian primary 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
Narratives of justifications: politics of privilege among Palestinian elite school principals in Israel3
Track recommendations moderate socioeconomic differences during the transition from primary to secondary education3
The translation of cultural capital theory to English secondary schools: knuggets, wild words and pipelines3
No trade-off between parent choice and democratic citizenship: a comparison of 9 th grade pupils in Danish Muslim and state schools3
Revisiting Foucault’s panopticon: how does AI surveillance transform educational norms?3
African international students, work integrated learning and (im)possible selves in Chinese higher education3
Diversity of religion and belief in education: inequality, citizenship and belonging3
The paradox of the ‘good teacher’: navigating power relations and subjectivity in China’s recorded courses3
Doctoral theses3
Doctoral theses3
Vocational education as the “risky choice”: narratives of educational choice among students with immigrant background3
Infantilising education through risk-averse educational technologies of calculability: a critical essay3
The ontology of personhood and a realist critique of the policy discourse based on skills3
Reconsidering and teaching sociologies in Zambian teacher education: seeking Mbuyi, Mulenga, and Munkombwe2
Evolving homophily in higher education: how university settings transform international student relationships2
Doctoral theses2
The degree generation: the making of unequal graduate lives,2
From policy to practice: religious diversity and critical multicultural pedagogy in Norwegian early childhood education2
Tracking and educational inequality: a longitudinal analysis of two school reforms in Switzerland2
Correction2
A matter of time: differential enactments of institutional time in diversity policy documents2
Is there an old girls’ network? Girls’ schools and recruitment to the British elite2
Taking Boys Seriously: a participatory action research initiative demonstrating the transformative potential of relational education2
Publicly funded religious schools: for what purposes, and with what effects? Connecting normative and empirical debates2
Doctoral theses2
Social class, COVID-19 and care: Schools on the front line in Ireland during the COVID-19 pandemic2
‘I teach them what I can’: working-class mothers supporting their children’s relationship with schooling2
Age at arrival and gender differences in immigrant parents’ educational aspirations and engagement2
From segregation to non-incorporation: a study of a failed school desegregation process in Sweden2
Demystifying Oxbridge: a qualitative video analysis of information sharing strategies by student vloggers for prospective applicants2
Classed trajectories in higher education and the graduate labour market: affective affinities in a ‘meritocracy’2
When meritocracy breeds insecurity: moralized over-striving, temporal disciplining and resistance in China’s specialized college2
Religion, agency, and choice in English state schools2
Participation as relational investment: thinking beyond social capital in culturally and linguistically diverse educational contexts2
Nested coupling: a study on the operating mechanism of school organisation structure in China2
Parent engagement in the achievement society: the intensification of parenting for the datafied student subject2
Empowered but afraid: do Saudi women have the capability to freely decide their university majors?2
The distribution of ‘educational labour’ in families with equal or primary carer fathers2
Affective engagements with religion and citizenship in English primary schools2
Stepping-stone vs getting-gilded: the different use of escalator region among international students2
Shattering monolithic myths: gender gaps in STEM major selection across Asian American ethnic subgroups2
Parents’ perspectives on special education in England: institutional disability discrimination and non-compliance with the law2
Primary homework through a relational mothering lens: spatio-temporal, embodied and linguistic features of homework interactions2
Upskilling the workforce? A critical analysis of national skills policies in China’s Reform Era2
Private school entry to Oxbridge: how cultural capital counts in the making of elites1
Gender inequalities in UK music higher education: the role of institutional stratification1
Aiming high or falling short? Longitudinal study on educational aspirations of Chinese adolescents1
Education as a ‘gift’: a qualitative study of Tibetan students in Neidi Ban1
Eager, ambitious, and determined to ‘rise’ and ‘give back’: young Arab-Australian women’s higher education aspirations1
The reproduction of social inequality among university graduates in Chile1
Conceptualising school-level responses to sexual harassment of women teachers as institutional gaslighting1
International capital and social class: a sociology of international certification in French urban school markets1
Education, opportunity and the future of work in the fourth industrial revolution1
Decoding the behavioral imaginary: voluntarily submission to symbolic violence of Chinese Postgraduate Entrance Examination (PEE)1
Spatialising careership: towards a spatio-relational model of career development1
What determines PhD graduates’ employability in Chinese academia? A graduate capital perspective1
Doctoral theses1
Fighting for funding, working-class women’s transitions to sociology doctoral education: ‘significant academic others’, economic and social capital1
Emergency remote scholarship – publishing beyond the pandemic1
Responding to hysteresis: a Bourdieusian study of pedagogical change in the classrooms of music teachers1
The death of human capital? Its failed promise and how to renew it in an age of disruption,1
Pre-service teachers’ constructions of national identity in Turkey: ethnic, secular, exclusionary, neoliberal, but not Islamist1
Roughly in the middle. Variations in the subjective social status of teachers in France1
Chinese international students’ perspectives on Asian Americans in the U.S. racial hierarchy1
Compensation or reproduction? The implications of online learning for socio-economic equalisation in urban China1
Aspiring to higher education: micro-practices, horizons and social class reproduction in Chile1
Stepping stones or trapdoors? Paid and unpaid graduate internships in the creative sector1
(Un)Limited choice: analysing the strategic choices of first-in-generation students in neoliberal higher education1
Parenting approaches, parental involvement, and academic achievement in US elementary schools1
Feeling rules and emotional capital in a student voice wellbeing initiative1
The neutral order of things: race, faith and schooling in liberal democracy1
Being a ‘good’ citizen: white collegiality and academic citizenship1
Theorizing the professional habitus: operationalizing Bourdieu to explore the role of pedigree in Indonesian higher education1
Exploring anxiety and behaviour. Agency, liminality and relational embodiment in a PRU1
Shaping shadows: influences of different forms of capital on private supplementary tutoring in Myanmar1
Forging more-than-Indian citizenship pathways: (inter)national education, religious values, and new frontiers of multicultural belonging in Singapore1
Decolonising master’s supervision by queering/ enfletando the process: opening decolonial cracks through fleta reflexivity1
Knowing when it’s ‘necessary’—academic parents’ strategic intervention and involvement1
Pupils’ school mobility during elementary school: what motives and results?1
Correction1
Towards a Sociology of Educational ‘Ideal’: Powerful Knowledge, Knowledge of the Powerful, and Beyond1
The ethics of AI or techno-solutionism? UNESCO’s policy guidance on AI in education1
Academic statelessness: at-risk academics in the UK navigating the transition to post-fellowship positions1
Academic experience of temporal governance in an in-house online program manager1
Girls’ education and the cultural capital of Pakistan’s urban middle class1
‘The standard is the standard’: constructing meritocratic student selves through sense-making on academic writing1
‘So incredibly equal’: how polite exclusion becomes invisible in the classroom1
Language learning in liminal spaces: low literate migrants’ narratives of formal requirements for legal integration1
‘Do you want to be a bully?’ Critical school textbook analysis on friendship and bullying1
Doctoral theses1
Urban neighbourhoods and guidance counselling in basic education: a spatial justice approach1
Numerical diversity only? The case of academic preparatory programs for the Negev Bedouin in Israel1
Clean edtech and a dirty world: AIED as a waste mechanism1
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