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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
How do problematisations “materialise”? A neopragmatic perspective on the (in-)visibilisation of justice concerns in AIED84
‘Survival mode’: navigating the first five years of teaching performing arts in neoliberal education assemblages61
Rethinking young people’s aspirations in times of crisis: stories of futures from a de-industrialising city42
Racism, zero-hours contracts and complicity in higher education41
The left hand of data: Designing education data for justice40
The story of women immigrants from FSU and their integration into Israeli academia34
Home away from home?: Campus-based social capital for Hong Kong students in a Mainland university28
Shadow education in shadow: parental education and children’s shadow education participation before and during COVID-1925
The obstacle race to educational improvement: governance, policies, and practices in disadvantaged schools24
The Etons of the East End: the ambiguities of educational urgency and the neoliberal fantasy24
‘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 narratives18
Joy, pride, and shame: on working in the affective economy of edu-business17
School and community relationships in Mexico. Researching inclusion in education from critical and decolonial perspectives17
Middle-class parental engagement in pandemic times: developing strategies and mobilizing capitals16
Who counts as socioeconomically disadvantaged for the purposes of widening access to higher education?15
‘Real’ boys, sissies and tomboys: exploring the material-discursive intra-actions of football, bodies, and heteronormative discourses15
Back to zero? Precarious employment in academia amongst ‘older’ early career researchers, a life-course approach14
Doctoral theses13
Countering whiteness and the culture trap in education12
‘On the frontline’: gangs, teachers, and the ethics of care12
Exploring conceptualisations of vocational education in China: how the hierarchical education system mirrors social hierarchy11
Career development or career delay? Postdoctoral fellowships and the de-professionalizing of academic work in South African universities11
Navigating teachers’ perceptions and experiences of shadow education expansion and regulation in Kazakhstan: a mixed-methods study11
On reductions – examining a British-Bourdieusian sociology of education11
En/counters with disablist school violence: experiences of young people with dwarfism in the United Kingdom11
Bringing underprivileged middle-school students to the opera: cultural mobility or cultural compliance?11
Cultural capitals matter, differentially: a Bourdieusian reading of perspectives from senior secondary students in England11
Multi-faith in policy only? Religion and belief inequalities at UK universities since the Equality Act11
Bucking the trend: high-achieving, working-class girls and their strategic university decision making10
What does a sociologist do? Norwegian, English, and Hungarian university students’ possible future selves10
Investing in sons or daughters? The educational aspirations of rural parents in China10
The sociopolitical liberalization of young adults: transforming a dominated habitus10
From robots who teach to synthetic politics10
Peer preferences and educational decisions: heterogeneous associations across student socioeconomic status9
The impact of school space on primary education art teachers’ pedagogical practices: a Bernsteinian approach9
Distinction in higher education: educational strategies of upper milieu students in Germany9
The left hand of data: Designing education data for justice9
‘Look at your five fingers’: international students and reproduction of class inequalities at university9
AI in education influencers: Problematising, reproducing, or mediating the technological solutionism discourse in UK schools?9
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
‘It’s a tiger instinct – that’s my baby! ’: affective practices of care in parents’ educational activism9
When the halo of my overseas credentials disappeared: Chinese student returnees and their domestic employability9
Education and high-status occupations in the UK since the middle of the twentieth century8
Learning to walk the wire: preparing students for precarious life8
Doctoral theses8
Sub-alterities: schooling in Southern Italy8
Other sociologies of education: providing critical perspectives from the Global South and North8
Empty Britain? Hegemony and ambiguity in British education policy8
Talcott Parsons’s sociology of education: cognitive rationality and normative functionalism8
School differences on whether and where students apply to university7
A typology of bureaucratic education tools: uncovering the relational complexity of large language models7
Religious parents, ‘whiteness’, secularism and modern english values: dis/assembling ‘progressive’ relationships and sex education7
What higher education ministers talk about when they talk about innovation7
Early career primary teachers’ discursive negotiations of academisation7
Schools’ priority rules and ethnic school segregation6
Outsider status, and racialised habitus: the experiences of Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller students in higher education6
Decolonizing education in Latin America: critical environmental and intercultural education as an indigenous pluriversal alternative6
The relationship between class-based habitus and choice of university and field of study6
Doctoral theses6
Navigating agency and compliance: Chinese parents’ strategic messaging on WeChat for cultivating home–school relations6
Challenging the skills fetish6
The reception on campus: differences in students’ experiences deploying cultural capital in college6
Beyond spatial materiality, towards inter- and intra-subjectivity: conceptualizing exclusion in education as internalized ableism and psycho-emotional disablement6
Schooling inequality: aspirations, opportunities and the reproduction of social class5
Doctoral theses5
Social capital practices for the accomplishment of natural-growth: theoretical insights from low-income mothers’ support of remote-learning during COVID5
‘We’re not robots!’: the interaction of co-operativism and neoliberalism for students at a Co-op academy5
The future imaginaries and counter-politics of solidarity work: non-formal education for displaced Ukrainians in Hungary5
Critically considering the ‘inclusive curriculum’ in higher education5
Study gods – How the new Chinese elite prepare for global competition5
Exploring the relational nature of teachers’ agency negotiation through master- and counter-narratives5
Legitimising an unusual choice abroad for privileged students: Swiss hospitality management schools as ‘refuge schools’5
The symbolic gift of education in migrant families and compromises in school choice5
Critical thinking in the higher education classroom: knowledge, power, control and identities5
Announcement of doctoral theses5
Disproportionate identification of special needs for ethnic and language minority students in England–patterns and explanations5
Switching between oversight and support mode: the duality of care culture in Russian non-selective universities5
‘I am the black duck’ affective aspects of working-class mothers’ involvement in parental communities5
Girls’ education in Balochistan, Pakistan: exploring a postcolonial Islamic governmentality4
The loong has nine offspring: using reflexivity to understand Chinese middle-class parents’ heterogeneous educational aspirations4
Getting a head start: capital inheritance and the labour market entry of Finnish business graduates4
Doctoral theses4
‘I just get on with it’: narratives of women who become mothers during undergraduate study4
From optimism to disillusionment: meritocratic beliefs of working-class and lower-middle-class students in elite universities4
Challenges of working in undervalued technical schools. A continuum between discourses of deficit and trust4
Exploring student support, class solidarity and transformative pedagogy: insights from Working Class Academics4
Rethinking causality and inequality in students’ degree outcomes4
Reproducing privilege through whiteness and beauty: an intersectional analysis of elite Chilean university students’ practices4
Subject choice motivation and students’ conceptions of employability: thin and thick4
How secondary mathematics teachers describe and teach ‘ability’ groups: discursive and non-discursive practices4
Projects-of-self and projects-of-family: young people’s responsibilisation for their education and responsibility for care4
‘I was worried I’d sound stupid’: institutional interactions and the impact on marginalised students’ university experiences4
Doctoral theses3
Austerity, outsourcing and the state school workforce: trends from 20,000 English state schools3
‘You’re working, but you’re not working:’ academic precarity, ambivalence and the use of researchers as factotums3
Conserving liberalism within values education3
Enactment of moral education: Chinese teachers’ struggles and reflexivity in practice3
Revisiting educational advantage and social class: a Bourdieusian analysis of middle-class parents’ investment in private schooling and shadow education3
Before (e)valuating: student testing in History and Engineering3
‘You feel a bit lost’: a case study interpreting white, working-class mothers’ engagement through habitus3
Coaching for privilege: coaches, soccer, and education in professional sports clubs in high-SES cities in Israel3
Infantilising education through risk-averse educational technologies of calculability: a critical essay3
No trade-off between parent choice and democratic citizenship: a comparison of 9thgrade pupils in Danish Muslim and state schools3
Revisiting Foucault’s panopticon: how does AI surveillance transform educational norms?3
Onwards and upwards? The educational and occupational expectations of Irish teens of migrant descent3
Transforming oneself: delving into the processes of habitus transformation in the higher education field3
The class-related educational strategies and national capital of Polish migrants in the UK (England)3
How Capital generates capitals in English elite private schools: Charities, tax and accounting3
Decolonial love as a pedagogy of care for Black immigrant post-secondary students3
Tracking and educational inequality: a longitudinal analysis of two school reforms in Switzerland3
From segregation to non-incorporation: a study of a failed school desegregation process in Sweden3
Stepping-stone vs getting-gilded: the different use of escalator region among international students3
The (stereo)typical student: how European higher education students feel they are viewed by relevant others3
Community involvement and socioeconomic achievement gap in 14 sub-Saharan African countries3
“Miss, can you speak English?”: raciolinguistic ideologies and language oppression in initial teacher education3
Doctoral theses3
African international students, work integrated learning and (im)possible selves in Chinese higher education3
Shaping personal worldviews when neo-liberalism meets Confucianism and patriotism: insights from Chinese postgraduate students3
Roma students’ academic self-assessment and educational aspirations in Hungarian primary schools3
The ontology of personhood and a realist critique of the policy discourse based on skills3
Gender gaps in educational pathways in the Czech Republic3
Doctoral theses3
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
Primary homework through a relational mothering lens: spatio-temporal, embodied and linguistic features of homework interactions2
Empowered but afraid: do Saudi women have the capability to freely decide their university majors?2
The degree generation: the making of unequal graduate lives,2
Doctoral theses2
Classed trajectories in higher education and the graduate labour market: affective affinities in a ‘meritocracy’2
Doctoral theses2
Doctoral theses2
‘So incredibly equal’: how polite exclusion becomes invisible in the classroom2
‘The standard is the standard’: constructing meritocratic student selves through sense-making on academic writing2
Parenting approaches, parental involvement, and academic achievement in US elementary schools2
Nested coupling: a study on the operating mechanism of school organisation structure in China2
Education, opportunity and the future of work in the fourth industrial revolution2
‘More to prove and more to lose’: race, racism and precarious employment in higher education2
‘I teach them what I can’: working-class mothers supporting their children’s relationship with schooling2
Correction2
Demystifying Oxbridge: a qualitative video analysis of information sharing strategies by student vloggers for prospective applicants2
Is it socioeconomic or academic? Disentangling sources of peer effects on student achievement2
Participation as relational investment: thinking beyond social capital in culturally and linguistically diverse educational contexts2
Reconsidering and teaching sociologies in Zambian teacher education: seeking Mbuyi, Mulenga, and Munkombwe2
Stepping stones or trapdoors? Paid and unpaid graduate internships in the creative sector2
Girls’ education and the cultural capital of Pakistan’s urban middle class2
Social class, COVID-19 and care: Schools on the front line in Ireland during the COVID-19 pandemic2
Upskilling the workforce? A critical analysis of national skills policies in China’s Reform Era2
Shattering monolithic myths: gender gaps in STEM major selection across Asian American ethnic subgroups2
The distribution of ‘educational labour’ in families with equal or primary carer fathers2
The translation of cultural capital theory to English secondary schools: knuggets, wild words and pipelines2
Affective engagements with religion and citizenship in English primary schools2
A matter of time: differential enactments of institutional time in diversity policy documents2
Age at arrival and gender differences in immigrant parents’ educational aspirations and engagement2
International capital and social class: a sociology of international certification in French urban school markets2
The reproduction of social inequality among university graduates in Chile2
Emergency remote scholarship – publishing beyond the pandemic1
Language learning in liminal spaces: low literate migrants’ narratives of formal requirements for legal integration1
From hand holding to free time: how no-excuses charter alumni experience the transition to college1
Spatialising careership: towards a spatio-relational model of career development1
‘Not like me’: educational aspirations and mothering in an urban poor neighbourhood in India1
Gender inequalities in UK music higher education: the role of institutional stratification1
Urban neighbourhoods and guidance counselling in basic education: a spatial justice approach1
Responding to hysteresis: a Bourdieusian study of pedagogical change in the classrooms of music teachers1
(Un)Limited choice: analysing the strategic choices of first-in-generation students in neoliberal higher education1
Family background and the likelihood of pursuing a university degree abroad: heterogeneity in educational fields1
Resisting the “academic circle jerk”: precarity and friendship at academic conferences in UK higher education1
Can teacher support reduce inequalities in education? Re-examining the relationship between cultural capital and achievement1
The neutral order of things: race, faith and schooling in liberal democracy1
Building resilience: young children from minority ethnic backgrounds starting school in a multi-ethnic society1
Performing the norm in the Global North: migrant parents’ positions and participation within Icelandic schools1
Empowerment not racialised segregation1
Doctoral theses1
Aspiring to higher education: micro-practices, horizons and social class reproduction in Chile1
Latent profile analysis of participation in organised leisure activities across urban neighbourhoods: implications for educational equity1
Shaping shadows: influences of different forms of capital on private supplementary tutoring in Myanmar1
Feeling rules and emotional capital in a student voice wellbeing initiative1
Parental social class and GCSE attainment: Re-reading the role of ‘cultural capital’1
Decolonising master’s supervision by queering/ enfletando the process: opening decolonial cracks through fleta reflexivity1
Conceptualising school-level responses to sexual harassment of women teachers as institutional gaslighting1
The evolving nature of teacher–pupil relations with challenging, white, working-class pupils – A figurational perspective1
Roughly in the middle. Variations in the subjective social status of teachers in France1
Digital stratification: Comparing digital literacy practices among aboriginal and mainstream children in australian homes1
Pupils’ school mobility during elementary school: what motives and results?1
Reconfiguring the relationship between ‘immigrant parents’ and schools in the post-welfare society. The case of Germany1
Re-enchanting education: Bachilleratos Populares in Argentina as a commoning experience1
Aiming high or falling short? Longitudinal study on educational aspirations of Chinese adolescents1
Chinese international students’ perspectives on Asian Americans in the U.S. racial hierarchy1
What determines PhD graduates’ employability in Chinese academia? A graduate capital perspective1
Towards a Sociology of Educational ‘Ideal’: Powerful Knowledge, Knowledge of the Powerful, and Beyond1
Do you speak Français? The hidden social structures of bilingualism at an international boarding school1
The death of human capital? Its failed promise and how to renew it in an age of disruption,1
Doctoral theses1
Private school entry to Oxbridge: how cultural capital counts in the making of elites1
Compensation or reproduction? The implications of online learning for socio-economic equalisation in urban China1
The ethics of AI or techno-solutionism? UNESCO’s policy guidance on AI in education1
Forging more-than-Indian citizenship pathways: (inter)national education, religious values, and new frontiers of multicultural belonging in Singapore1
Theorizing the professional habitus: operationalizing Bourdieu to explore the role of pedigree in Indonesian higher education1
The institutionalised momentum of slow violence: Spatiotemporal contradictions in young people’s accounts of school bullying1
Giving space to the subject’s potential present: Zemelman’s contributions to Sociology of Education1
School choice, institutional environments and the precarisation of teachers’ working conditions in not-for-profit charter schools1
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