Critical Sociology

Papers
(The TQCC of Critical Sociology 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
About the Authors31
The Broken Promise of Human Capital Theory: Social Embeddedness, Graduate Entrepreneurs and Youth Employment in China30
Trump’s Charisma27
The Dilemma of Foxconn Moms: Social Reproduction and the Rise of ‘Gig Manufacturing’ in China17
Demolition, Division and Displacement: Examining the Preservation of Whiteness in Rotterdam Municipal Housing Policy16
When a House Explodes: Remarks on Emancipatory Politics in Times of Crises16
After a Global Platform Leaves: Understanding the Heterogeneity of Gig Workers through Capital Mobility16
Twisted Trajectories, Curious Chronologies: Revisiting the Unfree Labour Debate15
The Hegemony Crisis, the Neoliberal Model, and the United States Power Structure15
Culture in the Space of Late Capitalism: The Artist and the Market14
The New Finance Capital: Corporate Governance, Financial Power, and the State14
Book Review: Epidemic Orientalism: Race, Capital, and the Governance of Infectious Disease by Alexandre I. R. White14
Eco-imperial Tensions: Decarbonization Strategies in Times of Geopolitical Upheaval13
‘The Fire This Time’: The Long Crisis of Neoliberal Capitalist Accumulation and Spectre of Neofascism13
Debating Equity through Integration: School Officials’ Decision-Making and Community Advocacy During a School Rezoning in Williamsburg, Virginia12
Decolonising Disability in Contexts of Illiberalism and Social Abandonment: The Case for a Double-Edged Critique from the Postsocialist Margins11
Walking on Two Legs: Black Marxism and the Sociological Canon11
Land, Body, Language: Corporeal Poetics of Reclaiming in Natalie Diaz’s Postcolonial Love10
Indigenous Knowledge and the Social Construction of Patriarchy: The Case of the Bukusu of Kenya10
Trusting by Numbers: An Analysis of a Chinese Social Credit System Governance Infrastructure9
Book Review: Tahrir’s Youth: Leaders of a Leaderless Revolution, by Rusha Latif9
Women’s Solidarity, Communicative Space, the Gig Economy’s Social Reproduction and Labour Process: The Case of Female Platform Drivers in China9
Who Can Capitalize on Capitalism’s Dispossessions?9
Capitalism, Class Struggle and/in Academia9
When Feminism Redefines National Liberation: How Tal’at Movement brought Feminism to the Core of the Palestinian National Liberation Struggle8
Passive Revolution in Japan: The Restoration of Hegemony under Abe?8
Frankfurt School Legacy and the Critical Sociology of Media: Lifeworld in Digital Capitalism8
One of the Good Ones: Rhetorical Maneuvers of Whiteness8
Book Reviews: Grandmothering While Black: A Twenty-First Century Story of Love, Coercion, and Survival by LaShawnDa Pittman8
About the Authors8
Old and New Organizational Forms in a Complex Society: A Systems-Theoretical Perspective7
On-Demand and Marketplace Platforms: Gig Care Work Conditions on Two Digital Labour Platform Care Models7
Travelling Lite, or the History of (Almost) Everything7
From Exceptionalism to Normalisation: How Narratives of Platform Companies Legitimise Precarious Work and Commodified Care7
About the Authors7
The Politics of Governance by Quantification Infrastructure7
Scholarship Denied: The Phelps Stokes Fund’s Use of the ‘Race Relations’ Paradigm to Silence Du Bois’ Critiques of Racial Capitalism6
Book Review: Passport Island: The Market for EU Citizenship in Cyprus by Theodoros Rakopoulos6
The Fifth Generation of Revolution Studies. Part II: A Systematic Review of Substantive Findings (Revolution Causes, Forms, and Waves)6
‘Stand Against the Wiles of the Devil’: Interpreting QAnon as a Pseudo-Christian Extremist Movement6
The Mobility–Immobility Dynamic and the ‘Fixing’ of Migrants’ Labour Power5
Book Review: The Voucher Promise: “Section 8” and the Fate of an American Neighborhood5
Gramsci in South Africa: On Postcolonial Sociology and Levenson’s Delivery as Dispossession5
Politics, Crisis, and the Canon: A Commentary on Michael Burawoy’s ‘Decolonizing Sociology: The Significance of W.E.B. Du Bois’5
On Digital Fetishism: A Critique of the Big Data Paradigm5
Decolonizing Sociology for Social Justice in Bangladesh: Delta Scholarship Matters5
Critical Theory and Universal Basic Income5
About the Authors5
Europeanisation, Devolution and Popular Sovereignty: On the Politics of State Transformation in Scottish Nationalism5
Importance of “the Social”: The Divergent Informal Careers of Chinese Internal Migrants5
Trajectories and Legacies of Outsider Party-Building: The Rise and Fall of Spain’s Podemos5
Canon Fodder and the Intimacy of Dialogues5
Institutions, Occupations and Connectivity: The Embeddedness of Gig Work and Platform-Mediated Labour Market in Hong Kong5
Critical Sociology at 504
Towards a Postcolonial Critical Realism4
After the Foxconn Suicides in China: A Roundtable on Labor, the State and Civil Society in Global Electronics4
Is the Fifth Generation of Revolution Studies Still Coming?4
American Ignorance: Covid Comes4
Institutional and Ideational Forces of Contentious Politics in Chile (2006–2019)4
Sociology Faces the Question of Palestine4
About the Authors4
Revolutions and the World-System4
Colonial Capitalist Heterochronicity: Socio-Ecological Rhythms of the Sugar Plantation and the Formal Subsumption of Historical and Cultural Difference4
Of Elephants and Scholars: From Criticism to Reconstruction in Sociology4
Media Visibility and Migrant Voices: Representational Segregation in the Nordic Platform Economy4
The Fragmented Labor Power Composition of Gig Workers: Entrepreneurial Tendency and the Heterogeneous Production of Difference4
Exodus, Nakba Denialism, and the Mobilization of Anti-Arab Racism4
Unpacking State Production of Temporal Dispossession: The Intersections of Labour, Asylum and Informalization in Sweden3
Placing Mexican Ethnic Enclaves: Toward a Recursive Model of Place Attachment3
Book Review: Living Well at Others’ Expense: The Hidden Costs of Western Prosperity by Stephan Lessenich3
Running Democracy into the Ground?3
Framing the Immigrant in Labor Unions and the Military in the United States3
Book Review: Rentier Capitalism and Its Discontents: Power, Morality and Resistance in Central Asia by Balihar Sanghera and Elmira Satybaldieva3
Criticize and Construct! A Case for Emancipatory Social Theory3
Review of Militarized Global Apartheid by Catherine Besteman3
About the Authors3
The Anti-Capitalism of Pro-Slavery Discourse: Lessons Unlearned by Postmodernists3
Book Review: Pandemic! Covid-19 Shakes the World by Slavoj Zizek!3
New Wave of Thinking About Revolutions3
Book Review: The End of the End of History: Politics in the Twenty-First Century by Alex Hochuli, George Hoare and Philip Cunliffe3
In Pursuit of the Sociological Imagination: Zygmunt Bauman as Reader3
Constructing Conflict: The Politics of Job Creation Policy, Precarious Work, and Citizenship in South Africa’s Construction Industry3
Gramsci, the Relativity of the Integral State-Society, and the COVID-19 Interregnum3
About the Authors3
Gazacide: Palestinians From Refugeehood to Ontological Obliteration3
Overextension and Globalization: The Dynamics of Hegemonic Decline3
After the Arab Uprisings: Rejoinder to Reviewers3
The Indefatigable Worker: From Factory Floor to Zoom Avatar3
About the Authors3
Book Reviews:Labour Conflicts in the Digital Age: A Comparative Perspectiveby Donatella Della Porta, Riccardo Emilio Chesta and Lorenzo Cini2
Garrison Take this job2
The Post-Soviet School of Critical Marxism (PSSCM): Particular Characteristics, Main Tendencies, and Its Place in the System of Marxist Studies in Post-Soviet Russia2
News Sources in the Sociology of the Media: A Critical Re-Examination2
About the Authors2
The Alienation–Insulation Dynamic and the Low-Wage Migrant Work Ethic2
Book Review: Service Workers in the Era of Monopoly Capital: A Marxist Analysis of Service and Retail Labour by Fabian van Onzen2
Expanding Sanctuary: The City of Sanctuary Movement in London2
Review of Working Class Experiences of Social Inequalities in (Post-) Industrial Landscapes: Feelings of Class by Lars Meier2
Professionalization from above in domestic work: Accessing work on marketplace platforms2
Unpacking Social Order: Toward a Novel Framework That Goes Beyond Organizations, Institutions, and Networks2
Book Reviews: Marx’s Literary Style by Ludovica Silva2
Neoliberalism and the Global Migrant Crisis: A World-Ecology Perspective2
About the Authors2
Race and 21st Century Minority Pulitzer Poets2
Changing, But Not in Decline: Globalization From a Sociometabolic Perspective2
From Labour Process Theory to Organisational Political Economy: A Response to Benassi, Ikeler and Wood2
Trauma and AIDS Metaphor in Peter Balakian’s Ozone Journal2
The Hispanic Outreach: Network Analysis of a Community-Based Policing Program in South Los Angeles2
A ‘Romantic Public Tragedy’? COVID Pandemic and the Changes of Governance in Poland2
Turning Theory to Practice: Palestine as a Sociological Question: ASA Resolution for Justice in Palestine2
The “Structurally Adjusted” School: A Case from New York2
Making Sense of the Republic in Turkey at Its Centennial: A Jacobinist Route to Modernity?2
Addiction2
From Black Zionism to Black Nasserism: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Foundations of Black Anti-Zionist Discourse2
The Defamiliarization of Childcare in Uruguay: What Factors Contribute to the Use of Care Centers?2
On the Job, Off the Books: Organizing Against Worker Misclassification in the Neoliberal Era2
Nadir of the Dialectic: A Review of Descent and Nihilism2
Statistical Imaginaries, State Legitimacy: Grappling With the Arrangements Underpinning Quantification in the U.S. Census2
Crisis Governance, (De)Mobilisation and New Inequalities: The Legacy of COVID-192
Neo-populist Fables: The Other World of A.V. Chayanov1
Researching Care Platforms: Methodological and Ethical Considerations in the Broad Field of Domestic Platform Labour1
Navigating and Countering Everyday Antimuslim Racism: The Case of Muslim Women in Sweden1
Rethinking the Concept of a ‘Financial Elite’: A Critical Intervention1
About the Authors1
Social Welfare Policy in Post-Transition Chile: Social Democratic or Neoliberal?1
The Tribal Games: Tribalist Foundations of Trump Supporters1
Historical Alternatives and the Future of the Mass Party1
Searching for the Ariadne Thread in Zygmunt Bauman’s Early Contributions to Social Analysis1
Hong Kong’s Precarious Young Workers and Contradictions of Capital1
Book Review: Sociology in Post-Normal Times by Charles Thorpe1
Extractive Labor: A Lethal Legacy of Racialized Colonial Rule1
Illusion and Non-Identity Thinking in Nietzsche’s Critical Theory1
Degenerations of Democracy: Response to Comments1
The Organization of Ignorance: The Australian ‘Robodebt’ Affair, Bureaucracy, Law and Politics1
News, Nations, and Power Relations: How Neoliberal Media Reproduce a Hierarchical World Order1
Platforms Don’t Care – Qualified and Experienced Women Do: A Case Study on Self-Employment and On-Demand Platforms in Eldercare1
Epistemic and Social Diversity as Sociology’s Strengths1
Berserk!: Anger and the Charismatic Populism of Donald Trump1
Book Review: Critical Reflections on Economy and Politics in India: A Class Theory Perspective1
Review of Neoliberal Transformations of the Italian State: Understanding the Roots of the Crises by Adriano Cozzolino1
Dependency Theory and Marxism in Latin America: Between Convergences and Contradictions1
Community and Japanese Developmental Capitalism: A Scaled and Sociological Political Economy1
‘They Want Our Culture, Not Our Struggle’: Race and Gender Inequalities in Music, Sports, and Hollywood1
From Social Sphere to Intermediary Association: A Critical Analysis of Civil Society’s Neoliberal Transformation1
Fictionalized Violence and Criminality: Re-evaluating the Burakumin of Japan1
A Class Analysis of the Expansion of COVID-19 in Peru: The Case of Metropolitan Lima1
Organised Violence, Inequality and Work: Violence Specialists as a Classed Occupation1
Mapping the Coercive Turn: Universal Credit, Social Crisis, and the Politics of Welfare in Austerity Britain, 2010–20191
The Peculiar Consensus and Racial Unconscious in Migration Scholarship on Korea1
About the Authors1
Not Going Back1
Ibn Khaldun and Critical Inquiry: A Response to Christian Fuchs1
Socio-Economic Inequality and Quality of Life in Russia1
The Ethics of Seeing Historically: Past, Present, and Future in Dark Times1
Book Review: Understanding the War Industry by Christian Sorensen1
Politicized Megaprojects and Public Sector Interventions: Mass Consent Under Neoliberal Statism1
Contradictions of Neoliberal Urbanism: The Case of Paid Domestic Workers in Indian Cities1
Book Reviews: Social Security in the Balkans – Volume 1. An Overview of Social Policy in Croatia, Albania, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Greece, Romania and Bulgaria by Marzena Żakowska and Dorota Do1
Last Rites for Development Studies?1
War and the Left: Considerations on a Chequered History1
Challenging Capitalism Begins in Everyday Lives: The Culture of Meci, the Gift and the Commons1
The Shock Doctrine Comes to Canada: Laurentian University’s Insolvency Claim and the Neoliberal Tide1
Pushed to the Margins: The Crisis Among Tribal Youth in India During COVID-191
A Popular Backlash against Globalization?1
Critical Han Studies Through the Lens of Internal Colonialism: China, Guangdong, and Hong Kong1
Organization for Liquid-Modern Times? An Introduction1
Varieties of Digital Capitalism and the US–China Rivalry: The Rise of Competing Technological Spheres1
How the Islamic Republic Has Responded to Everyday Resistance Against the Mandatory Hijab: Making Sense of Five Pro-Hijab Contentions in Iran (1988–2022)1
Revisiting Marcuse’s Technological Rationality: Nuclear Fusion Advancement in the Age of Climate Change1
COVID-19 Emergency Governance in Croatia: The Case of Perpetual Exception and Securitized Disenfranchisement1
Precarious Participants, Online Labour Platforms and the Academic Mode of Production: Examining Gigified Research Participation1
Legacy1
After Trickle Down, Kicking Down: On Jordan Peterson, Naturalizing Inequality, and Neofascist Indirect Apologetics1
The OECD and Ritualized Isomorphism: Anti-Corruption Monitoring, the ‘Narrow View’ of Corruption and the Transnational Political Order1
Are Services Post-Capitalist? A Marxian Interrogation1
Normalizing and Resisting the New Precarity: A Case Study of the Indonesian Gig Economy1
Book review: Sandinista Narratives: Religion, Sandinismo, and Emotions in the Making of the Nicaraguan Insurrection and Revolution1
Scapegoating Queerness: Associating Egyptian LGBTQIA Advocacy to Western Conspiracy as a Strategy for Aborting Democratization1
About the Authors1
‘I’m Not a Tenant They Can Just Run Over’: Low-Income Renters’ Experiences of and Resistance to Racialized Dispossessing1
Neoliberal Fatigue: The Effects of Private Refugee Sponsorship on Canadians’ Political Consciousness1
The Palestine Exception, Racialization and Invisibilization: From Israel (Palestine) to North America (Turtle Island)1
Double the Tasks, Double the Control: An Analysis of Workers’ Practices to Increase Visibility in Cleaning, Care, and Accommodation Platforms in Spain1
The Great Neoliberal War: Conflict in Contemporary Mexico1
‘Play’ing College Football: Campus Athletic Worker Experiences of Exploitation1
Book Review: Marx, Women and Capitalist Social Reproduction: Marxist Feminist Essays1
Book Reviews: The Routledge Handbook of the Gig Economy edited by Immanuel Ness1
Governing Mobility Through Exemptions: Cross-National Dependencies, Immigration Policy, and Migrant Labour in South African Historical Perspective1
Migration, Informality, and Unequal Exchange in the Context of the Mexico–US Regional Integration Process1
Redistributive Solidarity? Exploring the Utopian Potential of Unconditional Basic Income1
Michael Burawoy’s Path: From North to South, and Back Again1
Coming from México ‘for a Better Life Here’: Street Gangs, American Violence, and the Spatialized Contours and Historical Continuity of Racial Capitalism1
Informalization and Temporary Labor Migration: Rethinking Japan’s Technical Intern Training Program From a Denationalized View1
About the Authors1
Unfree Wage Labour1
Between (Conceptual) Crisis and Critique: Reclaiming the Critical Epistemic Value of Publicness1
Walls, Cracks and Change: The Challenges and Opportunities of Critically Engaged Research Within Current Academic and Refugee Research Structures1
Socialisation vs the Market: The Peculiarities of Russian Capitalism1
Reading Burawoy’s The Politics of Production Now: On the Political after Post-Politics1
‘Knowing’ Palestinian Women: Interrogating Western International Feminist Assumptions, Governance, and Social Science Discourses1
Exit-With-Autonomy or Autonomy-Without-Exit? Divergent Political Trajectories in Rojava and the Kurdish Regional Government1
Averting Catastrophe: Crisis, Class and Climate Change1
Book Review: Rethinking Alternatives With Marx: Economy, Ecology and Migration by Marcello Musto1
From Grievance to Insurrection: Authoritarian Populism Today1
Marxist Mosaic or Non-Marxist Kaleidoscope?1
Is the Mass Party-Form Still Possible?1
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