OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Qualitative Sociology 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Collective Action, Democratization, and Violence: Dynamics of Anti-Kurdish Riots in Turkey	76
State Actors as Hard-to-Reach Populations	30
Getting In: Status Stratification and the Pursuit of the Good College Party	14
What Makes a Relationship Serious? Race, Religion, and Emotions in South Asian Muslim Immigrants’ Romantic Meaning-Making	13
Making a Market for NGOs: Chinese Neo-Corporatism and Its Divergent Patterns of Regulating Migrant Labor	13
How Place Matters for Migrants’ Socio-Legal Experiences: Local Reasoning about the Law and the Importance of Becoming a “Moral Insider”	11
Classmates or Colleagues? How Elite Students Learn to Manage One Another	10
What is “Qualitative” in Qualitative Research? Why the Answer Does not Matter but the Question is Important	9
“I don’t know what’s racist”: White Invisibility Among Explicitly Color-conscious Volunteers	9
Civic Opportunities and Democratic Practices in Yemen and Libya after the Arab Spring	8
In the Eye of the Beholder: Exploring Perceived Access in an Urban Resource Desert	8
Ideological Consolidation, Subject Formation, and the Discursive Creation of the “New Woman” in Revolutionary Cuba	7
Thick Construction as a Variant of Theory-Driven Ethnography	7
“A Problem with the Person”: Class Blindness and the Reproduction of Social Class Inequality	7
Correction to: Prompts, Not Questions: Four Techniques for Crafting Better Interview Protocols	6
The Moral Work of Participation: Disillusio, Expertise, and Urban Planning Under Neoliberalism	6
‘It Isn't Charity because We've Paid into it’: Social Citizenship and the Moral Economy of Welfare Recipients in the Wake of 2012 UK Welfare Reform Act	5
Normalizing Disreputable Exchanges in the Academy: Libertarian Scholars and the Stigma of Ideologically-Based Funding	5
Neighborhood as Theater: Building a Goffmanian Framework for Comparative Urban Ethnography	4
Latency and Crisis: Mutual Aid Activism in the Covid-19 Pandemic	4
Privileged but not in Power: How Asian American Tech Workers use Racial Strategies to Deflect and Confront Race and Racism	4
The Work of Fantasy: A Study of Masculinizing Practices in Strip Clubs Across Three U.S. Midwestern Metropolitan Areas	4
Who Should be Considered Indigenous? Intrastate Bureaucratic Jurisdictional Struggles Over Indigeneity in Peru	4
How Social Media Use Mitigates Urban Violence: Communication Visibility and Third-Party Intervention Processes in Digital Urban Contexts	4
Sociology from a Distance: Remote Interviews and Feminist Methods	4

A Sharp Ethnographer for Swedish Researchers	4
Is the Ethnographic Fact Conquered or Co-Constructed?	4
Environmental Authenticity: Constructing Nature in Postindustrial Parks	4
Diagnosis as Subculture: Subversions of Health and Medical Knowledges in the Orthorexia Recovery Community on Instagram	3
Labor Borders: Recruitment of Central American Migrants in “Exodus” through Southern Mexico and Indigenous Mexican “Braceros” in the Californian Fields	3
Environmental Sociology is Running Late: Catching Up in a Faltering World	3
Digital Ethnography for Sociology: Craft, Rigor, and Creativity	3
Sousveillance Work: Monitoring and Managing-Up in Patrimonial Hollywood	3
Power, Positionality, and the Ethic of Care in Qualitative Research	3
Pathways to Mobility: Family and Education in the Lives of Latinx Youth	3
Tribute to Robert M. Emerson	2
Reflections on the Power of Ethnography for Justice Research and Policy	2
Ethnography Upgraded	2
Reframing the Community: How and Why Member Participation Shifts in the Face of Change	2
Philanthropy’s Children: How Graduates of an Education Non-Profit in South India Experience Expectations of “Giving Back”	2
“I’m trying to create, not destroy”: Gendered Moralities and the Fate of IVF Embryos in Evangelical Women’s Narratives	2
“Qualitative Research” Is a Moving Target	2
Sensory Forms of Knowing in Body Pedagogics	1
Re-Thinking Demographic Engineering Practices: New Insights from the Case of the Indian Emergency State (1975–77)	1
What is Qualitative in Research	1
The Micro-Foundations of Predictable Stability: How Multigenerational Achievement Informs Upper-Middle-Class Parenting	1
The Microsociology of Aesthetic Evaluation: Selecting Runway Fashion Models	1
Interview Location as Data	1
Hyping the Hypothetical: Talk and Temporality in US Supreme Court Oral Arguments	1
A Social Phenomenon of Risk Perception: Saskatchewan Firefighters on the Yarnell Hill Fire Fatalities	1
“I Want to Get on the Next Bus and Leave This City Now”: A Study of Violence and Deportation on the Texas-Tamaulipas Border	1
Making a Martyr?: Scandal, Symbolic Power, and the Controversial Death of Evangelical Missionary John Chau	1
Isolation and Interaction in Temporary Agricultural Labor	1
Correction to: My Home Quarantine on an App: A Qualitative Visual Analysis of Changes in Family Routines During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Chile	1
Correction: “But Everything Else, I Learned Online”: School-Based and Internet-Based Sexual Learning Experiences of Heterosexual and LGBQ?+?Youth	1
Hybrid Imbalance: Collaborative Fabrication of Digital Teaching and Learning Material	1
Portrait of the Artist as a Non-Artist. Matryoshka Roles and the Heteronomization of the Italian Art Field	1
Code Ethnography and the Materiality of Power in Internet Governance	1
Career Success and Gender Occupational Minorities: Reconstructing Gendered Notions of Career Success	1
Do I Know You? Managing Offline Interaction in Acquainted Stranger Relationships	1
In Praise of “Thick Construction”	1
“Horrible Slime Stories” When Serving Victims: The Labor of Role-taking and Secondary Trauma Exposure	1
Conflict and Co-Specialization on Calle Cuatro: How Placemakers Navigate Ethnic Branding	1
Better than My Father or Better than His Absence: Understanding How Variation in Patterns of Absence Influence Intentions for Fatherhood	1
The Genesis of Care: Knowledge-Emotion Connections, Extension of the Self, and Care for Nature at an Urban Nature Centre	1
A Source, a Detail, an Explanation	1