OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Symbolic Interaction 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
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Stories behind Shopping: The Social Dynamics of Multimodal Shopping Interactions	12
Wild Lives	12
Forged in Heat: Craft, Body, and Knowledge in Fire Craft	11
Formation of Distance‐Based Orientation: Political Identity through Relational Positioning in Israel	10
Good Cameras and (No) Dirty Work (Anymore)? On a Mechanism of Hope	9
The Frames of Group Culture: Moments and Their Teams	9
Tools for Making Sense of Meaning‐Making in Complex Times	8
“It Was Really Sick:” Managing Moral Evaluations during Personality Disorder Interviews	7
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The Stories We're Told: Nation‐Specific Narratives of Race and Racism	7
Passing as Able‐Bodyminded, Disabled, or Supercrip: Rethinking Impression Management Strategies Through a Disability Lens	7
Resisting the Confines of Colonialism, within and with Walls	7
Beyond Subculture and Post‐Subculture: Embracing Sensitizing Concepts	6
The Staying Power of Analytical Distance: Lyn Lofland's Contribution to the Sociology of Death, Dying, and Bereavement	6
Rethinking Interpretive Social Science From a Schutzian Perspective	6
How the Impossible Remains Impossible: Mundane Reason Confronts Time Travel Images	5
Lyn H. Lofland: Exemplary Symbolic Interactionist	5
The Social Construction of Sustainable Reality by Cultural Engagement with Climate Change	5
Rethinking Face‐to‐Face Interaction: Lessons from Studies of “Autistic Sociality”	5
On Drifting Apart: Temporality and Space in the Dissolution of Relationships	5
“Do You Want to Continue?”—Coordinating the Closing of Conversations and Managing Face Concerns	5
Nothing Personal: On the Making of Generic Social Identities	4
Keeping Us Safe in the Sky: Unpacking the Work of Air Traffic Controllers	4
The Everyday of Epistemic Tensions in U.S. Psychiatry	4

“We Come Not Here to Talk”—Revisiting the Work of Anna Julia Cooper: An Analysis of Standpoint Theory and Her Placement in the Academic Canon	4
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The Interactional Pathways of Mass Killings: Toward a Novel Understanding of Rampage School Shootings	4
Sex Lives of the Chaste: A Lesson in Sociological Ambivalence	3
Performing Integrity: Managing Misalignment while Researching Transgressive Social Worlds	3
Moral Entrepreneurs of the Mastodon Migration	3
Navigating Omnirelevant Asymmetry: Encouraging Children to Exercise Their Deontic Rights in Videoconferencing Music Lessons	3
Revisiting Medical Nemesis: Sociological Studies of Psychiatrization	3
Violence, Volition, and Volatility: The Embodied Subjectivity of Women in Cults	3
“I'm a Good Guy Who Deserves Better, Yet Nobody Wants to Give me Better”: The Accounts of Nice Guys	3
Invoking (Dis)Likes at the Dinner Table	3
The Functioning of the Self During the Interlinkage of Action: A Radical Interactionist Perspective	3
Who Are the Real Team Players in the Sport Marriage?	3
Identity Impermanence as a Generic Social Process: The Malleability of Gender in Transgender and Nonbinary People's Lives	3
Corporeal Interactions inVRChat: Situational Intensity and Body Synchronization	3
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There Will be Blood: Exploring Embodied Labor by Learning the Craft	3
Black Ethnographic Activists: Exploring Robert Park, Scientific Racism, The Chicago School, and FBI Files Through the Black Sociological Experience of Charles S. Johnson and E. Franklin Frazier	3
Contemplating Phenomenology, Yoga, and the Embodied Sharing of Meaning	3
On the Ideals of Interaction and Why and How They Fail	2
The Frame Analysis of Participation: A Goffmanian Take on Democratic Interaction and its Ambiguities	2
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Drowning in Debt? Exploring the Intersection of Flood Insurance and Social Inequality	2
Dancing Their Hearts Out	2
The Spirituality of Carceral Citizenship: “Making Your Test Your Testimony”	2
Conflict Over Conspiracy Theories: Face‐Work, Epistemic Identity, and the Structure of Interactions	2
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Erving Goffman: The Visible Scholar	2
Curricular Dreams in Medical Education	2
Hard Work and Fun: Collective Online Interaction in a Case of Photo Fraud	2
Police Accounts of Body‐Worn Camera Footage In News Media	2
Restoring Social Theorists of Color to the Canon	2
Group Styles of Justice or Service: How Ticket Inspectors Manage Contested Citizen Encounters	2
Temporal and Spatial Organization in Collaborative Work by Nurses in an Emergency and Critical Care Center	1
Intrapersonal Interactions on Social Media: Self‐Curatorship within the Museum of Self	1
Anonymity, Deception, and Power	1
Symposium on Erving Goffman and the Cold War , by Gary D. Jaworski	1
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“The Poorer the Sicker, and Vice Versa?” Mapping the Sociological Research on Mental Health and Illness	1
Beyond Bodily Co‐Presence: A Micro‐Sociological Study of Online Interaction Rituals	1
Spectral Sociology	1
A Note on Homelessness and the Moral Economy: How Thompson's Moral Economy Presents in Modern Day Homelessness	1
Gonzo Governance and the Media Logic of American Fascism	1
A View from the Margins: How Movements Outside the Mainstream Create and Mobilize Knowledge of Autism	1
The “Actual Site” of Robots in Care	1
Education Denied Slow Violence in American Classrooms	1
Contemporary Japanese Women Migration to the United States: Shin Issei Community	1
Heroes, Victims, and Resisters: Agentic Vulnerability and Techniques of Identity Talk in Digitalized Job Centers	1

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The Self from a Radical Interactionist's Perspective: Its Basic Components, Phylogenesis, and Ontogenesis	1
Harvey Sacks and the Mirandum of Human Interaction	1
Hashtag ChristianGirl : The White Commodified Self on TikTok	1
The Human Spectrum: A Critique of “Neurodiversity”	1