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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Learning to walk the wire: preparing students for precarious life82
Beyond bad behaviour? Towards a broader understanding of school student activism39
Hannah Arendt on educational thinking and practice in dark times: Education for a world in crisis34
Becoming and belonging: modern passages and transitions from childhood to adulthood24
Neoliberalism, globalization, and "elite" education in China by Shuning Liu, Routledge, 2020, 208 pp, £29.59 paperback, ISBN 978036778401023
Doctoral theses23
Empty Britain? Hegemony and ambiguity in British education policy22
Doctoral theses21
Doctoral theses19
Doctoral Theses18
Decolonial love as a pedagogy of care for Black immigrant post-secondary students16
Resilience, resistance and ‘giving back’: teachers from working class backgrounds and their journeys to teaching16
Private school entry to Oxbridge: how cultural capital counts in the making of elites15
Social stratifying Kazakhstan: A Bourdieusian social reproduction analysis of higher education internationalisation15
Compensation or reproduction? The implications of online learning for socio-economic equalisation in urban China14
Fighters, thinkers and bees: how racialized minority students experience learning about ethnic inequality in education14
A systematic literature review of intersectionality and disability in education14
The effect of parental education on the expectations of 15 year olds to complete higher education in the Netherlands14
Decolonising master’s supervision by queering/ enfletando the process: opening decolonial cracks through fleta reflexivity13
The story of women immigrants from FSU and their integration into Israeli academia13
Education and high-status occupations in the UK since the middle of the twentieth century12
Other sociologies of education: providing critical perspectives from the Global South and North12
Onwards and upwards? The educational and occupational expectations of Irish teens of migrant descent11
Allying and aligning: teachers’ extra-curricular work, meritocracy and state-sponsored scholarships in Singapore11
Sub-alterities: schooling in Southern Italy10
Doctoral theses10
Urban neighbourhoods and guidance counselling in basic education: a spatial justice approach10
Mathematics homework and the potential compounding of educational disadvantage10
The making of male reader identities across generations: assemblages of rural places in shaping life as a male reader in Australia and Sweden9
Class, education and parenting: cross-cultural perspectives9
Parental social class and GCSE attainment: Re-reading the role of ‘cultural capital’9
International education and the pursuit of ‘Western’ capitals: middle-class Nigerian fathers’ strategies of class reproduction9
No love found: how female students of colour negotiate and repurpose university spaces8
Pupils’ right to inclusion in an urban Finnish lower secondary school: a Bernsteinian analysis of pupils’ social relations8
LGBT+ representation higher education in England and Wales8
Distinction in higher education: educational strategies of upper milieu students in Germany8
Conceptualising the ‘education hustle’ as a case of Bourdieuian doxa and illusio8
‘No fear’: privilege and the navigation of hierarchy at an elite boys’ school in England8
Transforming oneself: delving into the processes of habitus transformation in the higher education field8
‘Pandemia’: a reckoning of UK universities’ corporate response to COVID-19 and its academic fallout7
‘You’re working, but you’re not working:’ academic precarity, ambivalence and the use of researchers as factotums7
African international students, work integrated learning and (im)possible selves in Chinese higher education7
Shadow education in shadow: parental education and children’s shadow education participation before and during COVID-197
Pre-modern epistemes inspiring a new Global Sociology of Education Imagination7
Roma students’ academic self-assessment and educational aspirations in Hungarian primary schools6
Social reproduction theory revisited6
Conserving liberalism within values education6
Early career primary teachers’ discursive negotiations of academisation6
Rethinking young people’s aspirations in times of crisis: stories of futures from a de-industrialising city6
Racism, zero-hours contracts and complicity in higher education6
Internships and the graduate labour market: how upper-middle-class students ‘get ahead’6
The relationship between class-based habitus and choice of university and field of study6
‘It’s a tiger instinct – that’s my baby! ’: affective practices of care in parents’ educational activism6
The impact of a school ability banding system on white, working-class males6
‘They’d already made their minds up’: understanding the impact of stigma on parental engagement6
Doctoral theses6
Doctoral theses6
Doctoral theses5
Comment on M.G. Sciffer, L.B. Perry, & A.M. McConney, “critiques of socio-economic school compositional effects: are they valid?”5
‘Labour class’ children in Indian classrooms: theorizing urban poverty and schooling5
The reproduction of deficit thinking in times of contestation: the case of higher education5
Norbert elias and the sociology of education5
Doctoral theses5
Austerity, outsourcing and the state school workforce: trends from 20,000 English state schools5
Teacher activism: struggles over public education in Chile5
Higher education and school history in Scotland in the second half of the twentieth century5
The Crisis of the Meritocracy: Britain’s transition to mass education since the Second World War5
Reshaped teachers’ careers? New patterns and the fragmentation of the teaching profession in England5
Doctoral theses4
Coaching for privilege: coaches, soccer, and education in professional sports clubs in high-SES cities in Israel4
World, planet, territory: toward a geo-logic in the critical sociology of education4
Siblings’ educational mobility and the educational stratification of families4
From doxic breach to cleft habitus: affect, reflexivity and dispositional disjunctures4
No trade-off between parent choice and democratic citizenship: a comparison of 9thgrade pupils in Danish Muslim and state schools4
The (stereo)typical student: how European higher education students feel they are viewed by relevant others4
School differences on whether and where students apply to university4
The obstacle race to educational improvement: governance, policies, and practices in disadvantaged schools4
Restorative practices for preventing/countering violent extremism: an affective-discursive examination of extreme emotional incidents4
‘You feel a bit lost’: a case study interpreting white, working-class mothers’ engagement through habitus4
An unquiet mobilization. Working-class families and school in French contemporary society4
Increasing understanding of the aspirations and expectations of Roma students4
What higher education ministers talk about when they talk about innovation4
Representation in higher education4
High-Stakes counselling: when career counselling may lead to continuing residence or deportation of asylum-seeking youths4
Adaptation in action: the rise and fall of academic publications from Korean high schoolers, 2001–20214
Data infrastructures and the governance of their accompanying narratives3
Doctoral theses3
Appropriate modelling of school compositional effects: a response to Malatinszky and Armor, and Marks3
Resisting the “academic circle jerk”: precarity and friendship at academic conferences in UK higher education3
The doing of curriculum mathematics: the case of an Indigenous Māori school in Aotearoa/New Zealand3
Structuring middle-class aspirations: the role of place-based habitus and higher education3
Do teacher and classroom characteristics affect the way in which girls and boys are graded?3
The burden of student loan debt: differences in socioeconomic background and attitudes towards higher education3
Feeling rules and emotional capital in a student voice wellbeing initiative3
A political sociology of education policy3
Gendered career expectations in context: the relevance of normative and comparative reference groups3
The death of human capital? Its failed promise and how to renew it in an age of disruption,3
Doctoral theses3
Joy, pride, and shame: on working in the affective economy of edu-business3
Talcott Parsons’s sociology of education: cognitive rationality and normative functionalism3
Slow violence in the micro-regimes of early childhood education3
How African Nova Scotians envision culturally relevant and sustaining pedagogy as civic repair3
Mindfulness in schools: issues of equality and diversity3
Doctoral theses3
Correction3
An ‘unavoidable’ dynamic? Understanding the ‘traditional’ learner–teacher power relationship within a higher education context3
Academic Brexodus? Brexit and the dynamics of mobility and immobility among the precarious research workforce3
Complex reflexivity: practices of women full professors in neoliberalised academia3
Challenging the skills fetish3
Internal migration, stepping into the academic field, and talking to Pierre Bourdieu: a critical autoethnography3
‘Real’ boys, sissies and tomboys: exploring the material-discursive intra-actions of football, bodies, and heteronormative discourses2
In between distributive and evaluative rules: paradox of pedagogic (mis)governance2
‘Creating a modern nursing workforce’: nursing education reform in the neoliberal social imaginary2
Chinese international students’ perspectives on Asian Americans in the U.S. racial hierarchy2
Gender gaps in educational pathways in the Czech Republic2
Pedagogic practices and learner identities in two Norwegian primary school classrooms with contrasting social compositions2
Aspiring to higher education: micro-practices, horizons and social class reproduction in Chile2
School and community relationships in Mexico. Researching inclusion in education from critical and decolonial perspectives2
Tracking and educational inequality: a longitudinal analysis of two school reforms in Switzerland2
The translation of cultural capital theory to English secondary schools: knuggets, wild words and pipelines2
Announcement of doctoral theses2
The moral economies of marketised higher education2
The emancipation continuum: analysing the role of ESOL in the settlement of immigrants2
Critically considering the ‘inclusive curriculum’ in higher education2
The standard school-ready child: the social organization of ‘school-readiness’2
Doctoral theses2
Understanding the complexity of Chinese rural parents’ roles in their children’s access to elite universities2
Doctoral theses2
Who counts as socioeconomically disadvantaged for the purposes of widening access to higher education?2
Network governance and new philanthropy in Latin America and the Caribbean: reconfiguration of the State2
Demystifying Oxbridge: a qualitative video analysis of information sharing strategies by student vloggers for prospective applicants2
Academic career, gender and neoliberal university in Spain: the silent precariousness between publishing and care-giving2
Is it socioeconomic or academic? Disentangling sources of peer effects on student achievement1
Augmenting excellence, promoting diversity? Preliminary design of a foundation year for the University of Cambridge1
Cosmopolitan Brands: graduate students navigating the social space of elite global universities1
Reconceptualising graduate resilience – an integrated multi-level framework for future research1
‘They think it’s trendy to have a disability/mental-illness’: disability, capital and desire in elite education1
Doctoral theses1
Legitimising an unusual choice abroad for privileged students: Swiss hospitality management schools as ‘refuge schools’1
A matter of time: differential enactments of institutional time in diversity policy documents1
Beyond spatial materiality, towards inter- and intra-subjectivity: conceptualizing exclusion in education as internalized ableism and psycho-emotional disablement1
The reception on campus: differences in students’ experiences deploying cultural capital in college1
Intervention culture, grouping and triage: high-stakes tests and practices of division in English primary schools1
Touching through the screen: embodied learning through on-line intercultural exchanges among primary school children1
Critical thinking in the higher education classroom: knowledge, power, control and identities1
From segregation to non-incorporation: a study of a failed school desegregation process in Sweden1
Exploring the relational nature of teachers’ agency negotiation through master- and counter-narratives1
Wrestling with the ghost of deficit: exploring the experiences of trainee English further education teachers1
Decolonizing education in Latin America: critical environmental and intercultural education as an indigenous pluriversal alternative1
‘Not like me’: educational aspirations and mothering in an urban poor neighbourhood in India1
Reshaping school discipline with metrics: an examination of teachers’ disciplinary practices with ClassDojo1
Shaping shadows: influences of different forms of capital on private supplementary tutoring in Myanmar1
Doctoral theses1
En/counters with disablist school violence: experiences of young people with dwarfism in the United Kingdom1
Panopticism, teacher surveillance and the ‘unseen’1
Regional accessibility of higher education in Russia1
Schooling in Hong Kong, youth aspirations, and the contesting of Chinese identity1
Governing through time(s): temporal modes of governance in digital education policy1
Study gods – How the new Chinese elite prepare for global competition1
Outsider status, and racialised habitus: the experiences of Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller students in higher education1
A future of endless possibilities? Institutional habitus and international students’ post-study aspirations and transitions1
Beyond empowerment: student self-assessment as a form of resistance1
Care experienced students’ transitions to university: learning identities, prior educational experiences and socio-cultural contexts1
Schools’ priority rules and ethnic school segregation1
Classed trajectories in higher education and the graduate labour market: affective affinities in a ‘meritocracy’1
Towards a Sociology of Educational ‘Ideal’: Powerful Knowledge, Knowledge of the Powerful, and Beyond1
Doctoral theses1
Pupils’ school mobility during elementary school: what motives and results?1
‘I am the black duck’ affective aspects of working-class mothers’ involvement in parental communities1
On reductions – examining a British-Bourdieusian sociology of education1
Career development or career delay? Postdoctoral fellowships and the de-professionalizing of academic work in South African universities1
How do teachers enact assessment policies as they navigate critical ethical incidents in digital spaces?1
A designed ‘lack of design’: how autonomy enables the mobilisation of capital at elite schools1
Back to zero? Precarious employment in academia amongst ‘older’ early career researchers, a life-course approach1
Middle-class parental engagement in pandemic times: developing strategies and mobilizing capitals1
Responsibilised parents and shadow education: managing the precarious environment in China1
Schooling inequality: aspirations, opportunities and the reproduction of social class1
Oh, the education (you think) you’ll have! Relative deprivation and students’ academic expectations, aspirations, and attainment1
Trends in intergenerational educational mobility in Israel: 1983–20081
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