Theory and Society

Papers
(The median citation count of Theory and Society is 0. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Distributive effervescence: emotional energy and social cohesion in secularizing societies30
Risky businesses: economic crisis in Argentina and the generative power of generations27
Transcending the Capitalism and Slavery Debate: Slavery and World Geographies of Accumulation16
A Marxist-Humanist perspective on Stuart Hall’s communication theory15
Theorizing democratic conflicts beyond agonism12
Writers and politics: Gisèle Sapiro’s advances within the Bourdieusian sociology of the literary field11
‘Trauma work’ as hindrance to political praxis during democratisation movements10
What makes a difference? Symmetry as a sociological concept9
“Black people don’t love nature”: white environmentalist imaginations of cause, calling, and capacity8
The domestic violence victim as COVID crisis figure8
Max Weber’s rationalization processes disenchantment, alienation, or anomie?7
Who can lead the revolution?: Re-thinking anticolonial revolutionary consciousness through Frantz Fanon and Pierre Bourdieu7
Algorithmic Management and the Social Order of Digital Markets6
Symbolic revolutions. Mobilizing a neglected Bourdieusian concept for historical sociology6
Populism and the double liberalism: exploring the links6
What is a social pattern? Rethinking a central social science term6
Correction to: Establishing an inverted U-shaped pattern of violence and war from prehistory to modernity: towards an interdisciplinary synthesis5
Class signature in schools: Field, habitus, and cultural capital intertwined to understand the reproduction of inequality at the organizational level5
Interview with Rosemary Hopcroft for Theory and Society5
The logic of quantification: institutionalizing numerical thinking5
Establishing an inverted U-shaped pattern of violence and war from prehistory to modernity: towards an interdisciplinary synthesis5
Encounters, separations, and incursions: Theorizing the Black Panther Party’s challenge to the War on Poverty5
The survival game: Impression management and strategies of survival under extreme conditions in a Soviet Gulag prison camp4
Between sacred gift and profane exchange: identity craft and relational work in asylum claims-making on religious grounds4
Interview with Alan Fiske for Theory and Society4
Response to “Democracy and the problem of certainty”4
From modern urban resident to sociable urban citizen: The making of spatial-political subjectivity through public housing in Singapore, 1972—20214
Nationalizing accounts: everyday nationalism, Japanese scientists, and global policy3
What makes randomized controlled trials so successful—for now? Or, on the consonances, compromises, and contradictions of a global interstitial field3
Class-based differences in moral judgment: A bayesian approach3
Does ‘social infrastructure’ curb drug addiction? The role of local institutional norms3
Correction to: Religious change in Orthodox-majority Eastern Europe: from Nation-State to Global-Market3
First impressions and the built environment: exploring zero acquaintance judgments in socio-spatial contexts3
Being engaged in the World (nhập thế) and the secular state in 20th century Vietnam. Approaching two notions through Hòa Hảo Buddhism history3
Pricing the priceless child 2.0: children as human capital investment3
Clientelism in a broader frame3
The future of interaction rituals: an interview with Randall Collins2
Zoning as a labor market regulation2
Democratization, development, and inequality: the limits of redistributive models of democracy2
Critical reflections on Pollitt and Bouckaert’s construct of the neo-Weberian state (NWS) in their standard work on public management reform2
Creating and maintaining an alternative public sphere: The struggles of social justice feminism, 1899–19252
Credit rating agencies and the state: an inter-field regulated relationship2
Toward a theory of alienation: futurelessness in financial capitalism2
Understanding diversification of strategies and tactics in Swedish mining resistance: the fanning-out effect of goals and contextual opportunities2
Work and play as moral categories2
Ideational diffusion and the great witch hunt in Central Europe2
Bureaucracy and the politics of time in state-business relations: Waiting to recruit migrant labour in Mauritius2
The structure of political conflict. The oligarchs and the bourgeoisie in the Chilean Congress, 1834–18942
Distinguishing but not defining: How ambivalence affects contemporary identity disclosures2
Social media, meet old politics: preservation and innovation in Colombian presidential elections, 2010–20182
The micro-foundations of elite politics: conversation networks and elite conflict during China’s reform era1
Correction to: “Insurgent subjectivity: Hope and its interactant emotions in the Nicaraguan revolution”1
This is a handcraft: valuation, morality, and the social meanings of payments for psychoanalysis1
What is the force of forced migration? Diagnosis and critique of a conceptual relativization1
What is educational entrepreneurship? Strategic action, temporality, and the expansion of US higher education1
Clients, double clients or brokers? The changing agency of intermediary tribal groups in the Ming empire (1368–1644)1
Resignation without relief: democratic governance and the relinquishing of parental rights1
Economics as symbolic capital: The consecration of elite business schools1
The means and ends of nature1
Reimagining modern politics in the European mountains: confronting the traditional commons with the neo-rural conception of the common good1
Correction to: Language and imagined Gesellschaft: Émile Durkheim’s civil-linguistic nationalism and the consequences of universal human ideals1
The gates to the profession are open: the alternative institutionalization of data science1
Time, ties, transactions: temporality and relational work in economic exchange1
From secularization to religious resurgence: an endogenous account1
Policing The Lost: The Emergence of Missing Persons and the Classification of Deviant Absence1
Corporate political power and US foreign policy, 1981–2002: the role of the policy-planning network1
Trump divide among American conservative professors1
Blinded by the facts: Unintended consequences of racial knowledge production in the Dillingham commission (1907–1911)1
What counts as investment? Productive and unproductive expenditures1
Probabilistic justice against status defense: inequality, uncertainty, and the future of the welfare state1
The art of the impossible: Utopia and instrumentalism in contemporary electoral politics1
Settler colonialism and sociological knowledge: insights and directions forward1
Moral entanglements with a changing climate1
Violence Regimes: A Useful Concept for Social Politics, Social Analysis, and Social Theory1
Epistemic doubt and affective certainty: counting homotransphobia in Brazil1
Towards a transregional history of secularism: Intellectual connectivity, social reform, and state-building in South and Southeast Asia, 1918–19601
The work-technology nexus and working-class environmentalism: Workerism versus capitalist noxiousness in Italy’s Long 19680
Correction to “From secularization to religious resurgence: An endogenous account”0
Performative Certainty0
The dramaturgy of listening0
Correction to: What counts as investment? Productive and unproductive expenditures0
Toward a sociology of finitude: life, death, and the question of limits0
Culture in transnational Interaction: how Organizational Partners Coproduce Sesame Street0
Bringing aggression back into the study of sexual violence0
“Burning the bridges”: escalation in the pursuit of authenticity0
For a probabilistic sociology: A history of concept formation with Pierre Bourdieu0
Symbols and reasons in democratization: cultural sociology meets deliberative democracy0
Cultural citizenship without state: historical roots of the modern Polish citizenship model0
Rethinking the “crisis of expertise”: a relational approach0
Dating in captivity: creativity, digital affordance, and the organization of interaction in online dating during quarantine0
Commons and the nature of modernity: towards a cosmopolitical view on craft guilds0
The paradox of victory: social movement fields, adverse outcomes, and social movement success0
Patterns of tolerance: how interaction culture and community relations explain political tolerance (and intolerance) in the American libertarian movement0
Trying to make race science the “civil” science: charisma in the race and intelligence debates0
A consilient, multi-level model of corporal punishment0
Defiant conformists: gender and resistance against genocide0
Frames and arguments on the admission of refugees: an empirically grounded typology0
The paradox of women’s marital freedom: nonlinear individualization in post-reform China0
Does identity change matter? Everyday agency, moral authority and generational cascades in the transformation of groupness after conflict0
Correction to: Reimagining modern politics in the European mountains: confronting the traditional commons with the neo‑rural conception of the common good0
Moments of identity: dynamics of artist, persona, and audience in electronic music0
Religion and its modifiers: making sense of the definition and subtypification of a contested concept0
Global connectedness of local NGOs: do different types of funding create barriers for cooperation?0
Understanding solidarity in the European Union: an analytical framework0
“Insurgent subjectivity: Hope and its interactant emotions in the Nicaraguan revolution”0
Towards a sociology of curiosity: theoretical and empirical consideration of the epistemic drive notion0
Correction to: The misruling elites: the state, local elites, and the social geography of the Chinese Revolution0
The Morality of Birding: Aesthetic Engagement, Emotion, and Cognition0
A theory of concealment0
Religious change in Orthodox-majority Eastern Europe: from Nation-State to Global-Market0
The theory and function of Marxian water rent in the United States0
Certainty and explanation0
Discourse regimes and liberal vehemence0
Supervision, presence and knowledge: clarifying ‘parental monitoring’ concepts within a model of goal-directed parental action0
The genesis of Brexit in the UK: outline of a multi-field model0
Civil society elites: managers of civic capital0
School beyond stratification: Internal goods, alienation, and an expanded sociology of education0
The person of the category: the pricing of risk and the politics of classification in insurance and credit0
A theory of intersubjectivity: experience, interaction and the anchoring of meaning0
The tempest within: the origins and outcomes of intense national emotions in times of national division0
Agency as conversion process0
Democracy underwater: public participation, technical expertise, and climate infrastructure planning in New York City0
Much of developmental psychology is not worth doing0
Entanglements of experience: sketch for a sociological phenomenology of nature0
The policy-planning capacity of the American corporate community: corporations, policy-oriented nonprofits, and the inner circle in 1935–1936 and 2010–20110
From industrial to digital citizenship: rethinking social rights in cyberspace0
Democracy and the problem of certainty0
Embeddedness and cohesion: regimes of urban public goods distribution0
Autonomy on the horizon: comparing institutional approaches to disability and elder care0
Planning as social practice: the formation and blockage of competitive futures in tournament chess, homebuying, and political organizing0
If universal basic income is the answer, what is the question?0
Against Polanyian orthodoxy: a reply to Hannes Lacher0
Elements of a theory of certainty in society0
Cognitive microfoundations and social interaction dynamics. The implications of complexity for institutional theory0
The misruling elites: the state, local elites, and the social geography of the Chinese Revolution0
Decoupling social movements from modernity: a critical reappraisal of Charles Tilly’s theory on the origins of social movements0
Ambivalences of smallness: population statistics and narratives of scale among American Jewry0
Correction to: Language, ethnicity, and the nation-state: on Max Weber’s conception of “imagined linguistic community”0
Why did Trump call prayers politically correct? The coevolution of the PC notion, the authenticity ethic, and the role of the sacred in public life0
“Habit and creativity in judges’ definition and framing of legal questions”0
Theorizing sex work: a sectoral approach0
Parallel trajectories and theorizations of religion and family in modernity: Toward an institutional logics perspective0
Value change and the pragmatist theory of morality: A response0
How algorithms are reshaping the exploitation of labour-power: insights into the process of labour invisibilization in the platform economy0
Self-negation0
Deindustrialization, social disintegration, and health: a neoclassical sociological approach0
Deweyan moral sociology: descriptive cultural history or critical Social Ethics?0
Prerequisites and pathways: How social categorization helps administrators determine moral worth0
The culture of official statistics. Symbolic domination and “bourgeois” assimilation in quantitative measurements of immigrant integration in Germany0
Techno-sovereignism: the political rationality of contemporary Italian populism0
“What can the Chinese experience of empire tell us about the Belt and Road Initiative?”0
The multivocality of the nation: political imagination and transformation in the emergence of African Nationalism0
Making and transcending boundaries: the effect of ritual on nationalism0
The social structure of space and time: preliminary generalizations0
Scientificity before Scientism: The Invention of Cultural Research in German Studies of Antiquity 1800–18500
When all you have is a hammer: how social justice distorts what we know about racial disparities0
Theorizing disaster communitas0
Memory for forgetfulness: Conceptualizing a memory practice of settler colonial disavowal0
Nuclear denial in Japan: the network power of an energy industrial complex0
The social life of academic articles: some reflections on the making and impact of “Social capital and economic development”0
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