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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Home away from home?: Campus-based social capital for Hong Kong students in a Mainland university109
Shadow education in shadow: parental education and children’s shadow education participation before and during COVID-1956
The left hand of data: Designing education data for justice51
The story of women immigrants from FSU and their integration into Israeli academia49
Racism, zero-hours contracts and complicity in higher education45
How do problematisations “materialise”? A neopragmatic perspective on the (in-)visibilisation of justice concerns in AIED29
Rethinking young people’s aspirations in times of crisis: stories of futures from a de-industrialising city24
‘Survival mode’: navigating the first five years of teaching performing arts in neoliberal education assemblages22
Disillusions and paradoxes of the massification of education in France20
The obstacle race to educational improvement: governance, policies, and practices in disadvantaged schools18
Against School: Thinking Education Differently18
The reproduction of deficit thinking in times of contestation: the case of higher education17
The Creative Art of Troublemaking in education,17
The Etons of the East End: the ambiguities of educational urgency and the neoliberal fantasy17
Middle-class parental engagement in pandemic times: developing strategies and mobilizing capitals16
School and community relationships in Mexico. Researching inclusion in education from critical and decolonial perspectives16
‘I won’t remain here’: socially advantaged students and vocational education in China’s institutional tracking context16
En/counters with disablist school violence: experiences of young people with dwarfism in the United Kingdom15
Joy, pride, and shame: on working in the affective economy of edu-business15
Countering whiteness and the culture trap in education15
Back to zero? Precarious employment in academia amongst ‘older’ early career researchers, a life-course approach15
Black student university access network project: lessons learned from Black first-year undergraduate students in Canada15
‘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
Doctoral theses14
Bringing underprivileged middle-school students to the opera: cultural mobility or cultural compliance?14
Navigating teachers’ perceptions and experiences of shadow education expansion and regulation in Kazakhstan: a mixed-methods study13
Governing the desire: power, paradox and professionalism in further education13
‘On the frontline’: gangs, teachers, and the ethics of care13
Cultural capitals matter, differentially: a Bourdieusian reading of perspectives from senior secondary students in England13
Multi-faith in policy only? Religion and belief inequalities at UK universities since the Equality Act12
From robots who teach to synthetic politics12
Career development or career delay? Postdoctoral fellowships and the de-professionalizing of academic work in South African universities12
Exploring conceptualisations of vocational education in China: how the hierarchical education system mirrors social hierarchy12
Investing in sons or daughters? The educational aspirations of rural parents in China11
The ‘grammar’ of justice: how do governing boards advance social justice for racially minoritised learners?11
Relational care at work: educators’ practices and discourses of care across social inequalities11
Admissibility for sale: judgment devices, merit, and the economy of self in global education11
The sociopolitical liberalization of young adults: transforming a dominated habitus11
Navigating structure and agency: disadvantaged Chinese students’ motivations for international education mobility11
What does a sociologist do? Norwegian, English, and Hungarian university students’ possible future selves11
Peer preferences and educational decisions: heterogeneous associations across student socioeconomic status10
Middling mobility and emerging cultural capital: a positional competition perspective on Chinese students studying in South Korea10
The left hand of data: Designing education data for justice10
The impact of school space on primary education art teachers’ pedagogical practices: a Bernsteinian approach10
Reconstructing GenAI in education: a social systems theory approach10
Bucking the trend: high-achieving, working-class girls and their strategic university decision making10
Symbolic haunting: first-generation university students’ limited sense of entitlement9
When the halo of my overseas credentials disappeared: Chinese student returnees and their domestic employability9
Success, belonging and identity work among care-experienced academics in the United Kingdom9
‘Look at your five fingers’: international students and reproduction of class inequalities at university9
From cultural display to political subject: citizenship and museum education in contemporary China9
Empty Britain? Hegemony and ambiguity in British education policy9
Distinction in higher education: educational strategies of upper milieu students in Germany9
AI in education influencers: Problematising, reproducing, or mediating the technological solutionism discourse in UK schools?8
‘It’s a tiger instinct – that’s my baby! ’: affective practices of care in parents’ educational activism8
A typology of bureaucratic education tools: uncovering the relational complexity of large language models8
School differences on whether and where students apply to university8
Un/muting Muslim difference: anti-Muslim racism and secular whiteness in Dutch and Belgian academia8
Sub-alterities: schooling in Southern Italy8
The relationship between class-based habitus and choice of university and field of study8
Other sociologies of education: providing critical perspectives from the Global South and North8
Resisting or complying with neoliberal subjectification? Finnish and Portuguese non-traditional graduates and their educational ethoses8
Conservative peripheral societies and the acquisition of higher education: multidimensional marginality8
Whiteness in HE and the limitations of representational politics: racially minoritised student’s views and experiences7
Religious parents, ‘whiteness’, secularism and modern english values: dis/assembling ‘progressive’ relationships and sex education7
Navigating agency and compliance: Chinese parents’ strategic messaging on WeChat for cultivating home–school relations7
What higher education ministers talk about when they talk about innovation7
Schooling inequality: aspirations, opportunities and the reproduction of social class7
Doctoral theses7
Talcott Parsons’s sociology of education: cognitive rationality and normative functionalism7
The reception on campus: differences in students’ experiences deploying cultural capital in college6
Schools’ priority rules and ethnic school segregation6
Announcement of doctoral theses6
Study gods – How the new Chinese elite prepare for global competition6
Doctoral theses6
The role of institutional reputation in mediating post-PhD careers. The case of Chinese elite universities6
Switching between oversight and support mode: the duality of care culture in Russian non-selective universities5
Decolonizing education in Latin America: critical environmental and intercultural education as an indigenous pluriversal alternative5
Post-schooling the elite: spaceX, cognitive platforming and educational abstraction5
Exposure to exclusion: cultural capital and the reshaping of privileged-caste logics in Indian private schools5
‘I was worried I’d sound stupid’: institutional interactions and the impact on marginalised students’ university experiences5
Rethinking causality and inequality in students’ degree outcomes5
Legitimising an unusual choice abroad for privileged students: Swiss hospitality management schools as ‘refuge schools’5
Outsider status, and racialised habitus: the experiences of Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller students in higher education5
Beyond spatial materiality, towards inter- and intra-subjectivity: conceptualizing exclusion in education as internalized ableism and psycho-emotional disablement5
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
Exploring student support, class solidarity and transformative pedagogy: insights from Working Class Academics5
“Miss, can you speak English?”: raciolinguistic ideologies and language oppression in initial teacher education5
Challenges of working in undervalued technical schools. A continuum between discourses of deficit and trust5
Mapping overseas education through local lens: valuation, merit, and hierarchy in Chinese students’ college applications5
Critically considering the ‘inclusive curriculum’ in higher education5
The future imaginaries and counter-politics of solidarity work: non-formal education for displaced Ukrainians in Hungary5
Navigating Uncertainty: A Typology of Reflexive Self-Construction Among Generation Z Sophomores in China5
‘I just get on with it’: narratives of women who become mothers during undergraduate study5
Revisiting educational advantage and social class: a Bourdieusian analysis of middle-class parents’ investment in private schooling and shadow education5
Stratified support: shadow education and maths achievement in East Asia’s six top-performing jurisdictions5
The Time Inheritors – How Time Inequalities Shape Higher Education Mobility in China4
Shaping personal worldviews when neo-liberalism meets Confucianism and patriotism: insights from Chinese postgraduate students4
Getting a head start: capital inheritance and the labour market entry of Finnish business graduates4
The role of parents’ educational background in upper secondary students’ utilization of career guidance resources4
Diversity of religion and belief in education: inequality, citizenship and belonging4
Narratives of justifications: politics of privilege among Palestinian elite school principals in Israel4
Doctoral theses4
African international students, work integrated learning and (im)possible selves in Chinese higher education4
Exceptional and decent people: mothering and school choice in the reproduction of social inequality4
The loong has nine offspring: using reflexivity to understand Chinese middle-class parents’ heterogeneous educational aspirations4
Subject choice motivation and students’ conceptions of employability: thin and thick4
Exploring the role of students’ ethnic-minority and socio-economic status in entering open-admissions higher education4
Roma students’ academic self-assessment and educational aspirations in Hungarian primary schools4
Transforming oneself: delving into the processes of habitus transformation in the higher education field4
The paradox of the ‘good teacher’: navigating power relations and subjectivity in China’s recorded courses4
Onwards and upwards? The educational and occupational expectations of Irish teens of migrant descent4
Time in education policy transfer: the seven temporalities of global school reform4
Before (e)valuating: student testing in History and Engineering4
Enactment of moral education: Chinese teachers’ struggles and reflexivity in practice4
A different kind of familiar: the insider-outsider paradox and negotiating teacher sense of belonging4
From optimism to disillusionment: meritocratic beliefs of working-class and lower-middle-class students in elite universities4
Track recommendations moderate socioeconomic differences during the transition from primary to secondary education4
‘You’re working, but you’re not working:’ academic precarity, ambivalence and the use of researchers as factotums4
Conserving liberalism within values education4
Classed trajectories in higher education and the graduate labour market: affective affinities in a ‘meritocracy’3
Demystifying Oxbridge: a qualitative video analysis of information sharing strategies by student vloggers for prospective applicants3
Age at arrival and gender differences in immigrant parents’ educational aspirations and engagement3
Infantilising education through risk-averse educational technologies of calculability: a critical essay3
No trade-off between parent choice and democratic citizenship: a comparison of 9 th grade pupils in Danish Muslim and state schools3
Community involvement and socioeconomic achievement gap in 14 sub-Saharan African countries3
Is it socioeconomic or academic? Disentangling sources of peer effects on student achievement3
From policy to practice: religious diversity and critical multicultural pedagogy in Norwegian early childhood education3
Tracking and educational inequality: a longitudinal analysis of two school reforms in Switzerland3
The translation of cultural capital theory to English secondary schools: knuggets, wild words and pipelines3
Vocational education as the “risky choice”: narratives of educational choice among students with immigrant background3
Revisiting Foucault’s panopticon: how does AI surveillance transform educational norms?3
Coaching for privilege: coaches, soccer, and education in professional sports clubs in high-SES cities in Israel3
The ontology of personhood and a realist critique of the policy discourse based on skills3
From segregation to non-incorporation: a study of a failed school desegregation process in Sweden3
Affective engagements with religion and citizenship in English primary schools3
Doctoral theses3
Doctoral theses3
Doctoral theses3
Decolonial love as a pedagogy of care for Black immigrant post-secondary students3
Stepping-stone vs getting-gilded: the different use of escalator region among international students3
Shattering monolithic myths: gender gaps in STEM major selection across Asian American ethnic subgroups2
Participation as relational investment: thinking beyond social capital in culturally and linguistically diverse educational contexts2
‘So incredibly equal’: how polite exclusion becomes invisible in the classroom2
Academic experience of temporal governance in an in-house online program manager2
The ethics of AI or techno-solutionism? UNESCO’s policy guidance on AI in education2
Publicly funded religious schools: for what purposes, and with what effects? Connecting normative and empirical debates2
Parent engagement in the achievement society: the intensification of parenting for the datafied student subject2
International capital and social class: a sociology of international certification in French urban school markets2
‘More to prove and more to lose’: race, racism and precarious employment in higher education2
When meritocracy breeds insecurity: moralized over-striving, temporal disciplining and resistance in China’s specialized college2
The distribution of ‘educational labour’ in families with equal or primary carer fathers2
The degree generation: the making of unequal graduate lives,2
Nested coupling: a study on the operating mechanism of school organisation structure in China2
Upskilling the workforce? A critical analysis of national skills policies in China’s Reform Era2
Girls’ education and the cultural capital of Pakistan’s urban middle class2
Stepping stones or trapdoors? Paid and unpaid graduate internships in the creative sector2
‘The standard is the standard’: constructing meritocratic student selves through sense-making on academic writing2
Education, opportunity and the future of work in the fourth industrial revolution2
Is there an old girls’ network? Girls’ schools and recruitment to the British elite2
Parents’ perspectives on special education in England: institutional disability discrimination and non-compliance with the law2
A matter of time: differential enactments of institutional time in diversity policy documents2
‘I teach them what I can’: working-class mothers supporting their children’s relationship with schooling2
Reconsidering and teaching sociologies in Zambian teacher education: seeking Mbuyi, Mulenga, and Munkombwe2
Social class, COVID-19 and care: Schools on the front line in Ireland during the COVID-19 pandemic2
Conceptualising school-level responses to sexual harassment of women teachers as institutional gaslighting2
Parenting approaches, parental involvement, and academic achievement in US elementary schools2
The reproduction of social inequality among university graduates in Chile2
Primary homework through a relational mothering lens: spatio-temporal, embodied and linguistic features of homework interactions2
Religion, agency, and choice in English state schools2
Doctoral theses2
Taking Boys Seriously: a participatory action research initiative demonstrating the transformative potential of relational education2
Correction2
Empowered but afraid: do Saudi women have the capability to freely decide their university majors?2
The institutionalised momentum of slow violence: Spatiotemporal contradictions in young people’s accounts of school bullying1
Digital stratification: Comparing digital literacy practices among aboriginal and mainstream children in australian homes1
Can teacher support reduce inequalities in education? Re-examining the relationship between cultural capital and achievement1
Language learning in liminal spaces: low literate migrants’ narratives of formal requirements for legal integration1
Do you speak Français? The hidden social structures of bilingualism at an international boarding school1
Knowing when it’s ‘necessary’—academic parents’ strategic intervention and involvement1
Numerical diversity only? The case of academic preparatory programs for the Negev Bedouin in Israel1
Latent profile analysis of participation in organised leisure activities across urban neighbourhoods: implications for educational equity1
Decoding the behavioral imaginary: voluntarily submission to symbolic violence of Chinese Postgraduate Entrance Examination (PEE)1
Clean edtech and a dirty world: AIED as a waste mechanism1
Correction1
What determines PhD graduates’ employability in Chinese academia? A graduate capital perspective1
Private school entry to Oxbridge: how cultural capital counts in the making of elites1
Education as a ‘gift’: a qualitative study of Tibetan students in Neidi Ban1
Doctoral theses1
Pupils’ school mobility during elementary school: what motives and results?1
Performing the norm in the Global North: migrant parents’ positions and participation within Icelandic schools1
Panopticon in the classroom: unveiling the spatial semiotics and power dynamics in Chinese educational spaces1
Gender inequalities in UK music higher education: the role of institutional stratification1
Chinese international students’ perspectives on Asian Americans in the U.S. racial hierarchy1
The death of human capital? Its failed promise and how to renew it in an age of disruption,1
Shaping shadows: influences of different forms of capital on private supplementary tutoring in Myanmar1
The evolving nature of teacher–pupil relations with challenging, white, working-class pupils – A figurational perspective1
Towards a Sociology of Educational ‘Ideal’: Powerful Knowledge, Knowledge of the Powerful, and Beyond1
Forging more-than-Indian citizenship pathways: (inter)national education, religious values, and new frontiers of multicultural belonging in Singapore1
Responding to hysteresis: a Bourdieusian study of pedagogical change in the classrooms of music teachers1
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
Theorizing the professional habitus: operationalizing Bourdieu to explore the role of pedigree in Indonesian higher education1
The neutral order of things: race, faith and schooling in liberal democracy1
(Un)Limited choice: analysing the strategic choices of first-in-generation students in neoliberal higher education1
Academic statelessness: at-risk academics in the UK navigating the transition to post-fellowship positions1
Giving space to the subject’s potential present: Zemelman’s contributions to Sociology of Education1
Family background and the likelihood of pursuing a university degree abroad: heterogeneity in educational fields1
Re-enchanting education: Bachilleratos Populares in Argentina as a commoning experience1
Feeling rules and emotional capital in a student voice wellbeing initiative1
Empowerment not racialised segregation1
Aspiring to higher education: micro-practices, horizons and social class reproduction in Chile1
Eager, ambitious, and determined to ‘rise’ and ‘give back’: young Arab-Australian women’s higher education aspirations1
From hand holding to free time: how no-excuses charter alumni experience the transition to college1
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
Spatialising careership: towards a spatio-relational model of career development1
Exploring anxiety and behaviour. Agency, liminality and relational embodiment in a PRU1
Doctoral theses1
Urban neighbourhoods and guidance counselling in basic education: a spatial justice approach1
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
Resisting the “academic circle jerk”: precarity and friendship at academic conferences in UK higher education1
Compensation or reproduction? The implications of online learning for socio-economic equalisation in urban China1
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