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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Prisons as porous institutions	37
The work-technology nexus and working-class environmentalism: Workerism versus capitalist noxiousness in Italy’s Long 1968	27
Theorizing disaster communitas	27
Agency in historical institutionalism: Coalitional work in the creation, maintenance, and change of institutions	24
The person of the category: the pricing of risk and the politics of classification in insurance and credit	16
Democracy underwater: public participation, technical expertise, and climate infrastructure planning in New York City	15
A story of nimble knowledge production in an era of academic capitalism	12
Violence Regimes: A Useful Concept for Social Politics, Social Analysis, and Social Theory	11
Cultural citizenship without state: historical roots of the modern Polish citizenship model	10
The logic of quantification: institutionalizing numerical thinking	10
The paradox of victory: social movement fields, adverse outcomes, and social movement success	9
The racialization of privacy: racial formation as a family affair	9
Religious change in Orthodox-majority Eastern Europe: from Nation-State to Global-Market	8
What is the force of forced migration? Diagnosis and critique of a conceptual relativization	8
Embeddedness and cohesion: regimes of urban public goods distribution	7
Populism and the double liberalism: exploring the links	7
Deindustrialization, social disintegration, and health: a neoclassical sociological approach	6
Distributive effervescence: emotional energy and social cohesion in secularizing societies	6
Agency as conversion process	6
Toward a theory of alienation: futurelessness in financial capitalism	6
Pricing the priceless child 2.0: children as human capital investment	5
Economics as symbolic capital: The consecration of elite business schools	5
Victimhood dissociation and conflict resolution: evidence from the Colombian peace plebiscite	5
Toward a sociology of finitude: life, death, and the question of limits	5
The structure of political conflict. The oligarchs and the bourgeoisie in the Chilean Congress, 1834–1894	5

Symbolic revolutions. Mobilizing a neglected Bourdieusian concept for historical sociology	5
From industrial to digital citizenship: rethinking social rights in cyberspace	5
The fourth stage of social democracy	4
What is a social pattern? Rethinking a central social science term	4
Moments of identity: dynamics of artist, persona, and audience in electronic music	4
This is a handcraft: valuation, morality, and the social meanings of payments for psychoanalysis	4
School beyond stratification: Internal goods, alienation, and an expanded sociology of education	4
Settler colonialism and sociological knowledge: insights and directions forward	4
Deweyan moral sociology: descriptive cultural history or critical Social Ethics?	3
Asserting disadvantaged communities’ deliberative agency in a media-saturated society	3
Trying to make race science the “civil” science: charisma in the race and intelligence debates	3
Writers and politics: Gisèle Sapiro’s advances within the Bourdieusian sociology of the literary field	3
Against Polanyian orthodoxy: a reply to Hannes Lacher	3
Symbolic Capital of the Memory of communism. The quest for international recognition in Kazakhstan	3
From modern urban resident to sociable urban citizen: The making of spatial-political subjectivity through public housing in Singapore, 1972—2021	3
For a probabilistic sociology: A history of concept formation with Pierre Bourdieu	3
Entanglements of experience: sketch for a sociological phenomenology of nature	3
Policing The Lost: The Emergence of Missing Persons and the Classification of Deviant Absence	3
Between sacred gift and profane exchange: identity craft and relational work in asylum claims-making on religious grounds	3
“What can the Chinese experience of empire tell us about the Belt and Road Initiative?”	2
Towards a sociology of curiosity: theoretical and empirical consideration of the epistemic drive notion	2
On the meaning and contemporary significance of fascism in the writings of Karl Polanyi	2
The micro-foundations of elite politics: conversation networks and elite conflict during China’s reform era	2
Memory for forgetfulness: Conceptualizing a memory practice of settler colonial disavowal	2
Rethinking the “crisis of expertise”: a relational approach	2
“Burning the bridges”: escalation in the pursuit of authenticity	2
What is educational entrepreneurship? Strategic action, temporality, and the expansion of US higher education	2
Who can lead the revolution?: Re-thinking anticolonial revolutionary consciousness through Frantz Fanon and Pierre Bourdieu	2
Planning as social practice: the formation and blockage of competitive futures in tournament chess, homebuying, and political organizing	2
Global connectedness of local NGOs: do different types of funding create barriers for cooperation?	2
How algorithms are reshaping the exploitation of labour-power: insights into the process of labour invisibilization in the platform economy	2
Autonomy on the horizon: comparing institutional approaches to disability and elder care	2
Why did Trump call prayers politically correct? The coevolution of the PC notion, the authenticity ethic, and the role of the sacred in public life	2
Techno-sovereignism: the political rationality of contemporary Italian populism	2
Value change and the pragmatist theory of morality: A response	1
Prerequisites and pathways: How social categorization helps administrators determine moral worth	1
Religion and its modifiers: making sense of the definition and subtypification of a contested concept	1
Corporate political power and US foreign policy, 1981–2002: the role of the policy-planning network	1
Making Muslims illegible: recoupling as an obstacle to religious enumeration in Germany	1
Distinguishing but not defining: How ambivalence affects contemporary identity disclosures	1
Work and play as moral categories	1
The survival game: Impression management and strategies of survival under extreme conditions in a Soviet Gulag prison camp	1
A Marxist-Humanist perspective on Stuart Hall’s communication theory	1
A theory of intersubjectivity: experience, interaction and the anchoring of meaning	1
The policy-planning capacity of the American corporate community: corporations, policy-oriented nonprofits, and the inner circle in 1935–1936 and 2010–2011	1
Commons and the nature of modernity: towards a cosmopolitical view on craft guilds	1
Ambivalences of smallness: population statistics and narratives of scale among American Jewry	1
The culture of official statistics. Symbolic domination and “bourgeois” assimilation in quantitative measurements of immigrant integration in Germany	1
Moral entanglements with a changing climate	1
The gates to the profession are open: the alternative institutionalization of data science	1

Pragmatic justice in juvenile sentencing: agreeing what to do but not why	1
‘Trauma work’ as hindrance to political praxis during democratisation movements	1
The social life of academic articles: some reflections on the making and impact of “Social capital and economic development”	1
Defiant conformists: gender and resistance against genocide	1
“Habit and creativity in judges’ definition and framing of legal questions”	1
The Morality of Birding: Aesthetic Engagement, Emotion, and Cognition	1
The means and ends of nature	1
Trump divide among American conservative professors	1
Critical reflections on Pollitt and Bouckaert’s construct of the neo-Weberian state (NWS) in their standard work on public management reform	1
Social media, meet old politics: preservation and innovation in Colombian presidential elections, 2010–2018	1
Transcending the Capitalism and Slavery Debate: Slavery and World Geographies of Accumulation	1