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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
‘Pandemia’: a reckoning of UK universities’ corporate response to COVID-19 and its academic fallout82
The academic precariat: understanding life and labour in the neoliberal academy34
Challenging the skills fetish30
Responsibilised parents and shadow education: managing the precarious environment in China23
The student as an enterprising self: Neoliberalism, English and early study abroad23
Internships and the graduate labour market: how upper-middle-class students ‘get ahead’22
International education and the pursuit of ‘Western’ capitals: middle-class Nigerian fathers’ strategies of class reproduction21
Diversity without integration? Racialization and spaces of exclusion in international higher education20
‘More to prove and more to lose’: race, racism and precarious employment in higher education19
Back to zero? Precarious employment in academia amongst ‘older’ early career researchers, a life-course approach19
A future of endless possibilities? Institutional habitus and international students’ post-study aspirations and transitions18
Everyday erosions: neoliberal political rationality, democratic decline and the Multi-Academy Trust18
Sociologising resilience through Bourdieu’s field analysis: misconceptualisation, conceptualisation, and reconceptualisation18
Conferred cosmopolitanism: class-making strategies of elite schools across the world16
Intervention culture, grouping and triage: high-stakes tests and practices of division in English primary schools15
Narratives of single, black mothers using cultural capital to access autism interventions in schools15
School admission in Chile, new rules of the game, and the devaluation of Middle-class capitals15
‘Real’ boys, sissies and tomboys: exploring the material-discursive intra-actions of football, bodies, and heteronormative discourses14
‘They are bad seeds’: stereotyping habitus in Chinese VET colleges14
Understanding the complexity of Chinese rural parents’ roles in their children’s access to elite universities14
Revisiting educational advantage and social class: a Bourdieusian analysis of middle-class parents’ investment in private schooling and shadow education14
Social reproduction theory revisited13
Do teacher and classroom characteristics affect the way in which girls and boys are graded?13
Academic Brexodus? Brexit and the dynamics of mobility and immobility among the precarious research workforce12
Racism, zero-hours contracts and complicity in higher education12
Cultural capital and elite university attendance in China12
Working with/in institutions: how policy enactment in widening participation is shaped through practitioners’ experience11
Reframing power relationships between undergraduates and academics in the current university climate10
‘They’d already made their minds up’: understanding the impact of stigma on parental engagement10
“Miss, can you speak English?”: raciolinguistic ideologies and language oppression in initial teacher education10
Critically considering the ‘inclusive curriculum’ in higher education10
Stigma and spoiled identities: rescripting career norms for precariously employed academic staff10
Class, education and parenting: cross-cultural perspectives10
Middle-class cultivation out of tune? Challenges to intensive parenting in Singapore10
Evoking hope in marginalised youth populations through non-formal education: critical pedagogy in sports-based interventions9
Critical thinking in the higher education classroom: knowledge, power, control and identities9
Educational purity and technological danger: understanding scepticism towards the use of telepresence robots in school9
Who counts as socioeconomically disadvantaged for the purposes of widening access to higher education?9
Concerted cultivation as a racial parenting strategy: race, ethnicity and middle-class Indian parents in Britain9
Multi-sited understandings: complicating the role of elite schools in transnational class formation9
Class, capital, and school culture: Parental involvement in public schools with specialised music programmes8
Parental social class and GCSE attainment: Re-reading the role of ‘cultural capital’8
Panopticism, teacher surveillance and the ‘unseen’8
No love found: how female students of colour negotiate and repurpose university spaces8
Ethno-nationalism in citizenship education in Israel: an analysis of the official civics textbook8
‘No fear’: privilege and the navigation of hierarchy at an elite boys’ school in England8
Between student voice-based assessment and teacher-student relationships: teachers’ responses to ‘techniques of power’ in schools7
Cosmopolitan Brands: graduate students navigating the social space of elite global universities7
Structural constraints and the school choice strategies of black American middle-class parents7
Between ethnonational and international curricula: competing identity discourses in the Armenian school in Jerusalem7
Exploring the relational nature of teachers’ agency negotiation through master- and counter-narratives7
A humanist university in a posthuman world: relations, responsibilities, and rights7
Bernstein and Vygotsky: how the outside comes in and the inside goes out7
Everyday consequences of selectiveness. Borderwork in the informal sphere of a lower secondary school in the metropolitan area of Helsinki, Finland6
An ‘unavoidable’ dynamic? Understanding the ‘traditional’ learner–teacher power relationship within a higher education context6
High-Stakes counselling: when career counselling may lead to continuing residence or deportation of asylum-seeking youths6
Learning to walk the wire: preparing students for precarious life6
How Capital generates capitals in English elite private schools: Charities, tax and accounting6
Beyond empowerment: student self-assessment as a form of resistance6
Gendered career expectations in context: the relevance of normative and comparative reference groups6
Restorative practices for preventing/countering violent extremism: an affective-discursive examination of extreme emotional incidents6
Parental choice, collective identity and neoliberalism in alternative education: new free democratic schools in Poland6
Oh, the education (you think) you’ll have! Relative deprivation and students’ academic expectations, aspirations, and attainment6
How African Nova Scotians envision culturally relevant and sustaining pedagogy as civic repair6
The reproduction of deficit thinking in times of contestation: the case of higher education6
It’s a diagnosis for the rich: disability, advocacy and the micro-practices of social reproduction6
(Un)Limited choice: analysing the strategic choices of first-in-generation students in neoliberal higher education5
Social class, COVID-19 and care: Schools on the front line in Ireland during the COVID-19 pandemic5
For whom is mathematical success compatible with ‘physical’ masculinity? Social class, ethnicity, and imagined futures5
Resisting the “academic circle jerk”: precarity and friendship at academic conferences in UK higher education5
Explaining gender segregation in higher education: longitudinal evidence on the French case5
Career development or career delay? Postdoctoral fellowships and the de-professionalizing of academic work in South African universities5
Outsider status, and racialised habitus: the experiences of Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller students in higher education5
The relationship between class-based habitus and choice of university and field of study5
‘So incredibly equal’: how polite exclusion becomes invisible in the classroom5
Projects-of-self and projects-of-family: young people’s responsibilisation for their education and responsibility for care5
How do teachers enact assessment policies as they navigate critical ethical incidents in digital spaces?5
‘Race had never been an issue’: examining white supremacy in English language teaching4
Classed trajectories in higher education and the graduate labour market: affective affinities in a ‘meritocracy’4
Qualifications, quality, and habitus: using Bourdieu to investigate inequality in policies for early childhood educators4
The doing of curriculum mathematics: the case of an Indigenous Māori school in Aotearoa/New Zealand4
Parenting strategies in the context of South-South migration4
From doxic breach to cleft habitus: affect, reflexivity and dispositional disjunctures4
On reductions – examining a British-Bourdieusian sociology of education4
Upskilling the workforce? A critical analysis of national skills policies in China’s Reform Era4
Academic career, gender and neoliberal university in Spain: the silent precariousness between publishing and care-giving4
Can teacher support reduce inequalities in education? Re-examining the relationship between cultural capital and achievement4
Structuring middle-class aspirations: the role of place-based habitus and higher education4
Comment on M.G. Sciffer, L.B. Perry, & A.M. McConney, “critiques of socio-economic school compositional effects: are they valid?”4
Aspiring to higher education: micro-practices, horizons and social class reproduction in Chile4
‘I’m not sure where home is’: narratives of student mobilities into and through higher education4
The standard school-ready child: the social organization of ‘school-readiness’4
Reproducing privilege through whiteness and beauty: an intersectional analysis of elite Chilean university students’ practices4
Data infrastructures and the governance of their accompanying narratives4
Education and high-status occupations in the UK since the middle of the twentieth century4
Complex reflexivity: practices of women full professors in neoliberalised academia3
Increasing understanding of the aspirations and expectations of Roma students3
School socioeconomic-background effects are generally small: a response to Sciffer, Perry, and McConney3
Teacher subjectivation in the quality dispositive: the example of VET in Austria3
Internalising externalisation: utilisation of international knowledge in education policymaking3
Exploring the role of community cultural wealth in university access for minority students3
Mothers’ responsibility as transmitters of gendered moral rationalities: working-class Palestinian mothers living in Israel3
Network governance and new philanthropy in Latin America and the Caribbean: reconfiguration of the State3
Representation in higher education3
Competing for privilege –aspirational youth at a Chinese high school entrepreneurship competition3
Post-panoptic accountability: making data visible through ‘data walls’ for schooling improvement3
The effects of managerialism in higher education on doctoral theorising: time to think?3
Is there an old girls’ network? Girls’ schools and recruitment to the British elite3
Sexual misconduct in UK higher education and the precarity of institutional knowledge3
‘I am the black duck’ affective aspects of working-class mothers’ involvement in parental communities3
Classroom as heterotopia: English lessons as a space to problematise war3
Appropriate modelling of school compositional effects: a response to Malatinszky and Armor, and Marks3
World, planet, territory: toward a geo-logic in the critical sociology of education3
The making of male reader identities across generations: assemblages of rural places in shaping life as a male reader in Australia and Sweden3
Undermining teachers’ social capital: a question of trust, professionalism, and empowerment3
Peer preferences and educational decisions: heterogeneous associations across student socioeconomic status3
Reconfiguring the relationship between ‘immigrant parents’ and schools in the post-welfare society. The case of Germany3
En/counters with disablist school violence: experiences of young people with dwarfism in the United Kingdom3
Spatialising careership: towards a spatio-relational model of career development3
Augmenting excellence, promoting diversity? Preliminary design of a foundation year for the University of Cambridge3
The symbolic gift of education in migrant families and compromises in school choice2
Schooling in Hong Kong, youth aspirations, and the contesting of Chinese identity2
Power and control in science: a case study of a syllabus for science and technology2
‘Labour class’ children in Indian classrooms: theorizing urban poverty and schooling2
Decolonial love as a pedagogy of care for Black immigrant post-secondary students2
Shaping personal worldviews when neo-liberalism meets Confucianism and patriotism: insights from Chinese postgraduate students2
Legitimising an unusual choice abroad for privileged students: Swiss hospitality management schools as ‘refuge schools’2
‘The more successful, the more apolitical’. Romani mentors’ mixed experiences with an intra-ethnic mentoring project2
Disproportionate identification of special needs for ethnic and language minority students in England–patterns and explanations2
Regional accessibility of higher education in Russia2
‘You feel a bit lost’: a case study interpreting white, working-class mothers’ engagement through habitus2
Teacher activism: struggles over public education in Chile2
Reproduction to transformation: disrupting teacher habitus through pedagogic work2
When downward mobility haunts: reproduction crisis and educational strategies of Turkish middle class under the AK Party rule2
Bringing underprivileged middle-school students to the opera: cultural mobility or cultural compliance?2
Cultural capitals matter, differentially: a Bourdieusian reading of perspectives from senior secondary students in England2
‘If you can’t beat them, join them’: utility, markets and the absent entrepreneur2
‘Not like me’: educational aspirations and mothering in an urban poor neighbourhood in India2
An unquiet mobilization. Working-class families and school in French contemporary society2
Roma students’ academic self-assessment and educational aspirations in Hungarian primary schools2
The class-related educational strategies and national capital of Polish migrants in the UK (England)2
Re-enchanting education: Bachilleratos Populares in Argentina as a commoning experience2
The distribution of ‘educational labour’ in families with equal or primary carer fathers2
Schools’ priority rules and ethnic school segregation1
Pedagogic practices and learner identities in two Norwegian primary school classrooms with contrasting social compositions1
Joy, pride, and shame: on working in the affective economy of edu-business1
Mindfulness in schools: issues of equality and diversity1
What higher education ministers talk about when they talk about innovation1
Mathematics homework and the potential compounding of educational disadvantage1
Get lucky? Luck and educational mobility in working-class young people’s lives from age 10–211
Decolonising master’s supervision by queering/ enfletando the process: opening decolonial cracks through fleta reflexivity1
Building resilience: young children from minority ethnic backgrounds starting school in a multi-ethnic society1
Rethinking causality and inequality in students’ degree outcomes1
Distinction in higher education: educational strategies of upper milieu students in Germany1
Giving space to the subject’s potential present: Zemelman’s contributions to Sociology of Education1
A matter of time: differential enactments of institutional time in diversity policy documents1
Participation as relational investment: thinking beyond social capital in culturally and linguistically diverse educational contexts1
“Living with solitude”: narrative of a female college student from rural China1
Education, opportunity and the future of work in the fourth industrial revolution1
Touching through the screen: embodied learning through on-line intercultural exchanges among primary school children1
Is it socioeconomic or academic? Disentangling sources of peer effects on student achievement1
In between distributive and evaluative rules: paradox of pedagogic (mis)governance1
The death of human capital? Its failed promise and how to renew it in an age of disruption,1
Siblings’ educational mobility and the educational stratification of families1
The (stereo)typical student: how European higher education students feel they are viewed by relevant others1
Sub-alterities: schooling in Southern Italy1
Young pupils’ articulations of time spent in school in the wake of a policy reform1
Empty Britain? Hegemony and ambiguity in British education policy1
The influence of teacher habitus on the university applications of moderately-attaining students1
Challenges of working in undervalued technical schools. A continuum between discourses of deficit and trust1
The homology between the private and the public fields in higher education1
‘I teach them what I can’: working-class mothers supporting their children’s relationship with schooling1
Gendered parenting and conjugal negotiation over children’s organised extracurricular activities1
‘We’re not robots!’: the interaction of co-operativism and neoliberalism for students at a Co-op academy1
Girls’ education in Balochistan, Pakistan: exploring a postcolonial Islamic governmentality1
Demystifying Oxbridge: a qualitative video analysis of information sharing strategies by student vloggers for prospective applicants1
Decolonizing education in Latin America: critical environmental and intercultural education as an indigenous pluriversal alternative1
Tracking and educational inequality: a longitudinal analysis of two school reforms in Switzerland1
The burden of student loan debt: differences in socioeconomic background and attitudes towards higher education1
No trade-off between parent choice and democratic citizenship: a comparison of 9thgrade pupils in Danish Muslim and state schools1
Higher education and school history in Scotland in the second half of the twentieth century1
Social stratifying Kazakhstan: A Bourdieusian social reproduction analysis of higher education internationalisation1
Parental perceptions of university cost, fear of debt, and choice of high school in Japan1
‘You’re working, but you’re not working:’ academic precarity, ambivalence and the use of researchers as factotums1
The production of social spaces for children with profound and multiple learning difficulties: a Lefebvrian analysis1
The institutionalised momentum of slow violence: Spatiotemporal contradictions in young people’s accounts of school bullying1
The weak position of reception education for newly arrived migrant students in the educational field1
Theorizing the professional habitus: operationalizing Bourdieu to explore the role of pedigree in Indonesian higher education1
Investing in sons or daughters? The educational aspirations of rural parents in China1
Trends in intergenerational educational mobility in Israel: 1983–20081
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