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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
“Black people don’t love nature”: white environmentalist imaginations of cause, calling, and capacity	35
A Marxist-Humanist perspective on Stuart Hall’s communication theory	23
Interview with Steve Brint for Theory and Society	23
Correction: From heterodoxy to pluralism: the need for a conservative paradigm in social science	20
Encounters, separations, and incursions: Theorizing the Black Panther Party’s challenge to the War on Poverty	19
Simulating theory and society: How multi-agent artificial intelligence modeling contributes to renewal and critique in social theory	15
First impressions and the built environment: exploring zero acquaintance judgments in socio-spatial contexts	15
Theorizing democratic conflicts beyond agonism	15
Extending the reach of relational models theory: measurement, model mixing, null relations, and mere dominance	12
Corruption: A situational action view	9
The gates to the profession are open: the alternative institutionalization of data science	9
Retrospect & prospect: a post-progressive developmental evolutionary psychopathology	9
The stratification of emotions as a driving force in human societies	8
The structure of political conflict. The oligarchs and the bourgeoisie in the Chilean Congress, 1834–1894	8
Virtue, moral teleology, and practice: bringing Alasdair MacIntyre into the sociology of morality	8
Nuclear denial in Japan: the network power of an energy industrial complex	6
Correction to: Reimagining modern politics in the European mountains: confronting the traditional commons with the neo‑rural conception of the common good	6
Correction: Rethinking medicalization: unequal relations, hegemonic medicalization, and the medicalizing dividend	6
Collective learned helplessness: a conceptional framework	6
Frames and arguments on the admission of refugees: an empirically grounded typology	6
Discourse regimes and liberal vehemence	6
The multivocality of the nation: political imagination and transformation in the emergence of African Nationalism	6
Response to Commentaries	5
War by numbers: The sociology of counting in armed conflict	5
What is assimilation, how do we measure it, and how do we know if a group has assimilated?	5

Do social media platforms increase well-being? Three unresolved puzzles	5
Patterns of tolerance: how interaction culture and community relations explain political tolerance (and intolerance) in the American libertarian movement	5
Theorizing sex work: a sectoral approach	5
The theory and function of Marxian water rent in the United States	5
The misruling elites: the state, local elites, and the social geography of the Chinese Revolution	5
Dating in captivity: creativity, digital affordance, and the organization of interaction in online dating during quarantine	5
Agency as conversion process	5
Tangled motivations: pathways to costly careers	5
A strategy for developing explanatory theories in sociology	4
From modern urban resident to sociable urban citizen: The making of spatial-political subjectivity through public housing in Singapore, 1972—2021	4
A theory of core identities	4
Bridging the gap: human societies as adaptive knowledge ecologies	4
Identities, meaning, the social structure, and the life course: Developing identity theory in sociology	4
What makes randomized controlled trials so successful—for now? Or, on the consonances, compromises, and contradictions of a global interstitial field	4
The ideological orientation of academic social science research 1960–2024	4
Algorithmic Management and the Social Order of Digital Markets	4
Diversity, conflict, and normative neutrality: the university as a critical institution	4
Arbitrage in Sociological Theorizing: the case of W. E. B. Du Bois	4
Institutionalized Futurity Loss: How societies destroy future viability despite Adequacy and Capability	3
The art of the impossible: Utopia and instrumentalism in contemporary electoral politics	3
Beyond conflict: recovering the sociology of social progress	3
Computational structuralism: Toward a formal theory of meaning in the age of digital intelligence	3
The Morality of Birding: Aesthetic Engagement, Emotion, and Cognition	3
Moral entanglements with a changing climate	3
Institutional fiefdoms: the implementation of governance and new norms within an emerging strategic action field	3
What counts as investment? Productive and unproductive expenditures	3
Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose: how to reverse the closing of the sociological imagination	3
From civil society to populism. Mapping a typology of political activism in Europe	3
Correction to: Language, ethnicity, and the nation-state: on Max Weber’s conception of “imagined linguistic community”	3
Narratives we live by: sequentiality and timeliness in temporal structuring of action	3
Distinguishing but not defining: How ambivalence affects contemporary identity disclosures	3
The methodological stagnation of sociology is related to its left-wing skew	3
What makes a good social science theory, and why the evolutionary model of the actor is one	3
The means and ends of nature	3
The tempest within: the origins and outcomes of intense national emotions in times of national division	3
Transcending the Capitalism and Slavery Debate: Slavery and World Geographies of Accumulation	2
Appropriate research conduct in an age of political polarization: an intervention	2
Value change and the pragmatist theory of morality: A response	2
Class-based differences in moral judgment: A bayesian approach	2
Naturalize the social sciences	2
Theories of parenting and child development in different cultural contexts	2
The revival of the social sciences – inoculation against parasitic ideas and suicidal empathy, and the quest for consilience via the evolutionary lens	2
The culture of official statistics. Symbolic domination and “bourgeois” assimilation in quantitative measurements of immigrant integration in Germany	2
Resignation without relief: democratic governance and the relinquishing of parental rights	2
Normative scientific conflict is unavoidable and should be welcomed	2
Deweyan moral sociology: descriptive cultural history or critical Social Ethics?	2
Does identity change matter? Everyday agency, moral authority and generational cascades in the transformation of groupness after conflict	2
The paradox of women’s marital freedom: nonlinear individualization in post-reform China	2
Critical reflections on Pollitt and Bouckaert’s construct of the neo-Weberian state (NWS) in their standard work on public management reform	2
Credit rating agencies and the state: an inter-field regulated relationship	2

Correction: Interview with Steve Brint for Theory and Society	2
Certainty, unity, tolerance	2
Meritorious disparities: AP exams and the academic pipeline to medicine	2
Interview with Alan Fiske for Theory and Society	2
Misperceiving inequality: the social science of trends, causes, and consequences of economic inequality	2
Experimentally falsifying ghost criminology: exercising rigor, exorcising residue	2
Democratization, development, and inequality: the limits of redistributive models of democracy	2
Symbols and reasons in democratization: cultural sociology meets deliberative democracy	2
Certainty and explanation	2
If universal basic income is the answer, what is the question?	2
Performative Certainty	2
How can freedom of expression on campus be defended?	1
Exponential expansions in social evolution: the case of per capita income averages in the U.S.	1
The post-progressive condition: Meta-critical theory and the rebalancing of knowledge	1
Institutional fragility at the boundary: reframing systemic decline as a crisis of recalibration	1
Democracy and the problem of certainty	1
Defiant conformists: gender and resistance against genocide	1
A theory of concealment	1
Relational complexity and conflict in psychotherapy	1
Multi-organizational couplings of societal domains: a typology of meta-organizations in a functionally differentiated society	1
Response to “Democracy and the problem of certainty”	1
The domestic violence victim as COVID crisis figure	1
The power of fragmented elites: the role of inadvertent robust action	1
Cognitive tools for the transition to anonymous societies	1
Planning as social practice: the formation and blockage of competitive futures in tournament chess, homebuying, and political organizing	1
The inner stage: resituating Hochschild’s surface/deep binary from action to interaction	1
Asymmetric information and open discourse: US and South Korea	1
A case for de-diagnosis of harms in the social and behavioral sciences	1
Entanglements of experience: sketch for a sociological phenomenology of nature	1
Class signature in schools: Field, habitus, and cultural capital intertwined to understand the reproduction of inequality at the organizational level	1
Clientelism in a broader frame	1
Nationalizing accounts: everyday nationalism, Japanese scientists, and global policy	1
A Criminology of Machines	1
The illusion of rigor: Why analytical sophistication cannot substitute for inferential coherence	1
Decoupling social movements from modernity: a critical reappraisal of Charles Tilly’s theory on the origins of social movements	1
Understanding sustainable cooperation	1
High-leverage sociological concepts and the progress of theory, part one	1
Interview with Rosemary Hopcroft for Theory and Society	1