OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Theory and Society 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
A Marxist-Humanist perspective on Stuart Hall’s communication theory	27
Encounters, separations, and incursions: Theorizing the Black Panther Party’s challenge to the War on Poverty	25
“Black people don’t love nature”: white environmentalist imaginations of cause, calling, and capacity	16
Theorizing democratic conflicts beyond agonism	15
Simulating theory and society: How multi-agent artificial intelligence modeling contributes to renewal and critique in social theory	14
First impressions and the built environment: exploring zero acquaintance judgments in socio-spatial contexts	13
Correction to: Religious change in Orthodox-majority Eastern Europe: from Nation-State to Global-Market	13
Corruption: A situational action view	13
The gates to the profession are open: the alternative institutionalization of data science	11
The stratification of emotions as a driving force in human societies	10
Correction to: Reimagining modern politics in the European mountains: confronting the traditional commons with the neo‑rural conception of the common good	9
The multivocality of the nation: political imagination and transformation in the emergence of African Nationalism	9
The structure of political conflict. The oligarchs and the bourgeoisie in the Chilean Congress, 1834–1894	9
Discourse regimes and liberal vehemence	8
Frames and arguments on the admission of refugees: an empirically grounded typology	7
Correction: Rethinking medicalization: unequal relations, hegemonic medicalization, and the medicalizing dividend	6
The theory and function of Marxian water rent in the United States	5
Nuclear denial in Japan: the network power of an energy industrial complex	5
Patterns of tolerance: how interaction culture and community relations explain political tolerance (and intolerance) in the American libertarian movement	4
Theorizing sex work: a sectoral approach	4
Algorithmic Management and the Social Order of Digital Markets	4
Response to Commentaries	4
Do social media platforms increase well-being? Three unresolved puzzles	4
Dating in captivity: creativity, digital affordance, and the organization of interaction in online dating during quarantine	4
Agency as conversion process	4

The misruling elites: the state, local elites, and the social geography of the Chinese Revolution	4
From modern urban resident to sociable urban citizen: The making of spatial-political subjectivity through public housing in Singapore, 1972—2021	3
A theory of core identities	3
Narratives we live by: sequentiality and timeliness in temporal structuring of action	3
The art of the impossible: Utopia and instrumentalism in contemporary electoral politics	3
Distinguishing but not defining: How ambivalence affects contemporary identity disclosures	3
What makes randomized controlled trials so successful—for now? Or, on the consonances, compromises, and contradictions of a global interstitial field	3
A strategy for developing explanatory theories in sociology	3
Institutional fiefdoms: the implementation of governance and new norms within an emerging strategic action field	3
Moral entanglements with a changing climate	3
Between sacred gift and profane exchange: identity craft and relational work in asylum claims-making on religious grounds	3
Arbitrage in Sociological Theorizing: the case of W. E. B. Du Bois	3
What counts as investment? Productive and unproductive expenditures	3
Settler colonialism and sociological knowledge: insights and directions forward	3
Epistemic doubt and affective certainty: counting homotransphobia in Brazil	3
Transcending the Capitalism and Slavery Debate: Slavery and World Geographies of Accumulation	2
Critical reflections on Pollitt and Bouckaert’s construct of the neo-Weberian state (NWS) in their standard work on public management reform	2
What makes a good social science theory, and why the evolutionary model of the actor is one	2
The Morality of Birding: Aesthetic Engagement, Emotion, and Cognition	2
Does identity change matter? Everyday agency, moral authority and generational cascades in the transformation of groupness after conflict	2
School beyond stratification: Internal goods, alienation, and an expanded sociology of education	2
Class-based differences in moral judgment: A bayesian approach	2
The paradox of women’s marital freedom: nonlinear individualization in post-reform China	2
The genesis of Brexit in the UK: outline of a multi-field model	2
The tempest within: the origins and outcomes of intense national emotions in times of national division	2
Value change and the pragmatist theory of morality: A response	2
Risky businesses: economic crisis in Argentina and the generative power of generations	2
Interview with Alan Fiske for Theory and Society	2
Democratization, development, and inequality: the limits of redistributive models of democracy	2
The means and ends of nature	2
Correction to: Language, ethnicity, and the nation-state: on Max Weber’s conception of “imagined linguistic community”	2
Deweyan moral sociology: descriptive cultural history or critical Social Ethics?	2
Democracy underwater: public participation, technical expertise, and climate infrastructure planning in New York City	2
Corporate political power and US foreign policy, 1981–2002: the role of the policy-planning network	1
Resignation without relief: democratic governance and the relinquishing of parental rights	1
Defiant conformists: gender and resistance against genocide	1
Exponential expansions in social evolution: the case of per capita income averages in the U.S.	1
The domestic violence victim as COVID crisis figure	1
The post-progressive condition: Meta-critical theory and the rebalancing of knowledge	1
Response to “Democracy and the problem of certainty”	1
Symbols and reasons in democratization: cultural sociology meets deliberative democracy	1
Certainty and explanation	1
The culture of official statistics. Symbolic domination and “bourgeois” assimilation in quantitative measurements of immigrant integration in Germany	1
Credit rating agencies and the state: an inter-field regulated relationship	1
Entanglements of experience: sketch for a sociological phenomenology of nature	1
Planning as social practice: the formation and blockage of competitive futures in tournament chess, homebuying, and political organizing	1
The power of fragmented elites: the role of inadvertent robust action	1
Nationalizing accounts: everyday nationalism, Japanese scientists, and global policy	1
Democracy and the problem of certainty	1
The paradox of victory: social movement fields, adverse outcomes, and social movement success	1

A theory of concealment	1
Violence Regimes: A Useful Concept for Social Politics, Social Analysis, and Social Theory	1
Performative Certainty	1
If universal basic income is the answer, what is the question?	1
Multi-organizational couplings of societal domains: a typology of meta-organizations in a functionally differentiated society	1
Clientelism in a broader frame	1
Class signature in schools: Field, habitus, and cultural capital intertwined to understand the reproduction of inequality at the organizational level	1
Interview with Rosemary Hopcroft for Theory and Society	1
Decoupling social movements from modernity: a critical reappraisal of Charles Tilly’s theory on the origins of social movements	1
Deindustrialization, social disintegration, and health: a neoclassical sociological approach	1
High-leverage sociological concepts and the progress of theory, part one	1
Certainty, unity, tolerance	1