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

Article	Citations
Issue Information	27
St. Clair Drake, the Chicago School, and the Emergence of a New Urban Black Perspective	24
Wild Lives	11
Forged in Heat: Craft, Body, and Knowledge in Fire Craft	10
Stories behind Shopping: The Social Dynamics of Multimodal Shopping Interactions	10
“It Was Really Sick:” Managing Moral Evaluations during Personality Disorder Interviews	9
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The Frames of Group Culture: Moments and Their Teams	9
The Staying Power of Analytical Distance: Lyn Lofland's Contribution to the Sociology of Death, Dying, and Bereavement	8
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
The Stories We're Told: Nation‐Specific Narratives of Race and Racism	6
On Drifting Apart: Temporality and Space in the Dissolution of Relationships	5
How the Impossible Remains Impossible: Mundane Reason Confronts Time Travel Images	5
The Social Construction of Sustainable Reality by Cultural Engagement with Climate Change	5
Beyond Subculture and Post‐Subculture: Embracing Sensitizing Concepts	5
“Do You Want to Continue?”—Coordinating the Closing of Conversations and Managing Face Concerns	5
Lyn H. Lofland: Exemplary Symbolic Interactionist	5
“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
The Everyday of Epistemic Tensions in U.S. Psychiatry	4
The Interactional Pathways of Mass Killings: Toward a Novel Understanding of Rampage School Shootings	4
Issue Information	4
Rethinking Face‐to‐Face Interaction: Lessons from Studies of “Autistic Sociality”	4
Keeping Us Safe in the Sky: Unpacking the Work of Air Traffic Controllers	4
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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
Corporeal Interactions inVRChat: Situational Intensity and Body Synchronization	3
Sex Lives of the Chaste: A Lesson in Sociological Ambivalence	3
Issue Information	3
Invoking (Dis)Likes at the Dinner Table	3
Nothing Personal: On the Making of Generic Social Identities	3
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Hard Work and Fun: Collective Online Interaction in a Case of Photo Fraud	2
Moral Entrepreneurs of the Mastodon Migration	2
The Frame Analysis of Participation: A Goffmanian Take on Democratic Interaction and its Ambiguities	2
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	2
Drowning in Debt? Exploring the Intersection of Flood Insurance and Social Inequality	2
Curricular Dreams in Medical Education	2
On the Ideals of Interaction and Why and How They Fail	2
Revisiting Medical Nemesis: Sociological Studies of Psychiatrization	2
Who Are the Real Team Players in the Sport Marriage?	2
There Will be Blood: Exploring Embodied Labor by Learning the Craft	2
Contemplating Phenomenology, Yoga, and the Embodied Sharing of Meaning	2
Issue Information	2
Restoring Social Theorists of Color to the Canon	2
Police Accounts of Body‐Worn Camera Footage In News Media	2
Issue Information	2
Conflict Over Conspiracy Theories: Face‐Work, Epistemic Identity, and the Structure of Interactions	2
The Functioning of the Self During the Interlinkage of Action: A Radical Interactionist Perspective	2
Navigating Omnirelevant Asymmetry: Encouraging Children to Exercise Their Deontic Rights in Videoconferencing Music Lessons	2
The Spirituality of Carceral Citizenship: “Making Your Test Your Testimony”	2
Dancing Their Hearts Out	2
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The Human Spectrum: A Critique of “Neurodiversity”	1
Religion, Environmental Concern, and the Importance of Race	1
Issue Information	1
Frame Analysis and Animal Studies: Erving Goffman's Overlooked Thesis on Animal Metacommunication and Mind	1
Revitalizing the Sociology of Suicide for the 21st Century	1
“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
Contemporary Japanese Women Migration to the United States: Shin Issei Community	1
Erving Goffman: The Visible Scholar	1
Anonymity, Deception, and Power	1
Tensions in a Book on Breakdowns	1
A View from the Margins: How Movements Outside the Mainstream Create and Mobilize Knowledge of Autism	1
The Self from a Radical Interactionist's Perspective: Its Basic Components, Phylogenesis, and Ontogenesis	1
Heroes, Victims, and Resisters: Agentic Vulnerability and Techniques of Identity Talk in Digitalized Job Centers	1
White Jests: Review of The Souls of White Jokes	1
Spectral Sociology	1
Group Styles of Justice or Service: How Ticket Inspectors Manage Contested Citizen Encounters	1
The Long Reach of the Law: Policing Black Athletes and Trans Bodies	1
Harvey Sacks and the Mirandum of Human Interaction	1
Gonzo Governance and the Media Logic of American Fascism	1
Symposium on Erving Goffman and the Cold War , by Gary D. Jaworski	1

The “Actual Site” of Robots in Care	1
Erving Goffman on Misinformation and Information Control: The Conduct of Contemporary Russian Information Operations	1
Intrapersonal Interactions on Social Media: Self‐Curatorship within the Museum of Self	1
Temporal and Spatial Organization in Collaborative Work by Nurses in an Emergency and Critical Care Center	1
A Note on Homelessness and the Moral Economy: How Thompson's Moral Economy Presents in Modern Day Homelessness	1