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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Collective Action, Democratization, and Violence: Dynamics of Anti-Kurdish Riots in Turkey	18
Getting In: Status Stratification and the Pursuit of the Good College Party	15
Making a Market for NGOs: Chinese Neo-Corporatism and Its Divergent Patterns of Regulating Migrant Labor	14
State Actors as Hard-to-Reach Populations	13
“I don’t know what’s racist”: White Invisibility Among Explicitly Color-conscious Volunteers	13
Classmates or Colleagues? How Elite Students Learn to Manage One Another	12
What Makes a Relationship Serious? Race, Religion, and Emotions in South Asian Muslim Immigrants’ Romantic Meaning-Making	10
In the Eye of the Beholder: Exploring Perceived Access in an Urban Resource Desert	9
“A Problem with the Person”: Class Blindness and the Reproduction of Social Class Inequality	9
Thick Construction as a Variant of Theory-Driven Ethnography	8
Ideological Consolidation, Subject Formation, and the Discursive Creation of the “New Woman” in Revolutionary Cuba	7
Cultural Discrepancies in Interaction: Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Men Encounter Popular Psychology	7
The Moral Work of Participation: Disillusio, Expertise, and Urban Planning Under Neoliberalism	7
Civic Opportunities and Democratic Practices in Yemen and Libya after the Arab Spring	7
Normalizing Disreputable Exchanges in the Academy: Libertarian Scholars and the Stigma of Ideologically-Based Funding	6
Is the Ethnographic Fact Conquered or Co-Constructed?	6
How Social Media Use Mitigates Urban Violence: Communication Visibility and Third-Party Intervention Processes in Digital Urban Contexts	6
Correction to: Prompts, Not Questions: Four Techniques for Crafting Better Interview Protocols	6
Latency and Crisis: Mutual Aid Activism in the Covid-19 Pandemic	5
Who Should be Considered Indigenous? Intrastate Bureaucratic Jurisdictional Struggles Over Indigeneity in Peru	5
Environmental Authenticity: Constructing Nature in Postindustrial Parks	5
A Sharp Ethnographer for Swedish Researchers	4
The Work of Fantasy: A Study of Masculinizing Practices in Strip Clubs Across Three U.S. Midwestern Metropolitan Areas	4
Privileged but not in Power: How Asian American Tech Workers use Racial Strategies to Deflect and Confront Race and Racism	4
Neighborhood as Theater: Building a Goffmanian Framework for Comparative Urban Ethnography	3

Political Activism and the Experience of Adversity	3
Environmental Sociology is Running Late: Catching Up in a Faltering World	3
Triadic Structures in Political Street Art: Insights from Vilnius, Lithuania, at the Dusk of the Cold War	3
Labor Borders: Recruitment of Central American Migrants in “Exodus” through Southern Mexico and Indigenous Mexican “Braceros” in the Californian Fields	3
Sociology from a Distance: Remote Interviews and Feminist Methods	3
Pathways to Mobility: Family and Education in the Lives of Latinx Youth	3
Diagnosis as Subculture: Subversions of Health and Medical Knowledges in the Orthorexia Recovery Community on Instagram	2
Tribute to Robert M. Emerson	2
Palliative Emotion Work: Preserving Parent-LGB Child Relationships in an Age Of “Incomplete Acceptance”	2
Interview Location as Data	2
Better than My Father or Better than His Absence: Understanding How Variation in Patterns of Absence Influence Intentions for Fatherhood	2
Ethnography Upgraded	2
The Genesis of Care: Knowledge-Emotion Connections, Extension of the Self, and Care for Nature at an Urban Nature Centre	2
Reflections on the Power of Ethnography for Justice Research and Policy	2
Portrait of the Artist as a Non-Artist. Matryoshka Roles and the Heteronomization of the Italian Art Field	2
Sousveillance Work: Monitoring and Managing-Up in Patrimonial Hollywood	2
Hybrid Imbalance: Collaborative Fabrication of Digital Teaching and Learning Material	2
“What Was my Catalyst?” Narratives and Biographical Connectivity in Public Education Activism	2
Philanthropy’s Children: How Graduates of an Education Non-Profit in South India Experience Expectations of “Giving Back”	2
Digital Ethnography for Sociology: Craft, Rigor, and Creativity	2
Hyping the Hypothetical: Talk and Temporality in US Supreme Court Oral Arguments	2
A Source, a Detail, an Explanation	2
Reframing the Community: How and Why Member Participation Shifts in the Face of Change	2
“Horrible Slime Stories” When Serving Victims: The Labor of Role-taking and Secondary Trauma Exposure	1
“Our Childhood Was Happier”: Retrospective Moment in Elite Chinese Childrearing	1
Making a Martyr?: Scandal, Symbolic Power, and the Controversial Death of Evangelical Missionary John Chau	1
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
A Social Phenomenon of Risk Perception: Saskatchewan Firefighters on the Yarnell Hill Fire Fatalities	1
Career Success and Gender Occupational Minorities: Reconstructing Gendered Notions of Career Success	1
The Micro-Foundations of Predictable Stability: How Multigenerational Achievement Informs Upper-Middle-Class Parenting	1
Civic Narratives: Political Exclusion, Agency, and Civic Participation Among Black Residents in San Francisco	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
“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
Conflict and Co-Specialization on Calle Cuatro: How Placemakers Navigate Ethnic Branding	1
The Problem with Rapport in Interview-Based Studies	1
In Praise of “Thick Construction”	1
Isolation and Interaction in Temporary Agricultural Labor	1
Norms or Knowledge? Unpacking Views on Maternal Employment among the College Educated in South Korea	1
Designing Better Access to Education? Unified Enrollment, School Choice, and the Limits of Algorithmic Fairness in New Orleans School Admissions	1
Moral Scripts in Prosecutorial Decision-Making: The Interplay Between Self and Others	1
Do I Know You? Managing Offline Interaction in Acquainted Stranger Relationships	1
Code Ethnography and the Materiality of Power in Internet Governance	1
Correction: “But Everything Else, I Learned Online”: School-Based and Internet-Based Sexual Learning Experiences of Heterosexual and LGBQ?+?Youth	1
The Limits of the Law: Women, Violence, and Legal Ambivalence in Nicaragua	1