OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of American Journal of Cultural 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Protest Event, Political Culture, and Biography: Post-protest Local Activism in Russia	18
Thanks to Reviewers	11
Culture and poverty from a lifeworld stance: rehabilitating a controversial conceptual pair	10
Theorizing the performance of (racialized) difference: the case studies of Asian artists in classical music	8
“We love martyrdom, but we also love life”: Coptic cultural trauma between martyrdom and rights	8
Thanks to Reviewers	7
From incorporation to emplacement in the cultural sociology of immigration	6
Transforming the sacred: a neo-Durkheimian analysis of the aesthetic modification and cultural resignification of Barcelona’s municipal crèche (1961–2021)	6
Ethical dilemmas of minority creative workers in the cultural industries: Palestinian actors in Israeli films and dramas	5
When the political tail wags the religious dog, and vice versa. Religion, hegemony, and democracy in contemporary North America	5
Social skills and audience agency in improvised social performance	4
The Performance and Reception of Race-Based Athletic Activism: Toward a Critical, Dramaturgical Theory of Sport	4
Popular transformations: the introduction of an Arab American superhero and negotiation of a popular iconic change in the civil sphere	4
Correction: When something is happening but you don’t know what it is: mood and agency after a stolen election	4
Rapport: affective cultural structures in sociological inquiry	4
Reading Hong Kong literarily across two generations: localism and translocality	4
Making sense of sibling economic gaps: racialized meritocratic frames, economic inequalities, and family relationships	4
Harry Potter and the ‘Death of the Actor’: reimagining fusion in cultural pragmatics	3
Living in the shadow of market competition: career commitment and orders of worth of social workers in Shanghai	3
“We don’t fit at all”: the symbolic boundaries of libertarians connected to the academy	3
Gliding on the edge of the iron cage: performing rationality and artistry in the sport of figure skating	3
Why do states discriminate between refugee groups? Understanding how Syrian and Ukrainian refugees were framed in Germany and Poland	2
From multiculturalism to antisemitism? Revisiting the Jewish question in America	2
Capital and distinction or goods and traditions? Toward a post-Bourdieusian cultural theory	2
Sonic double consciousness: public radio voices of color	2

Stigma management, group interaction, and cultural trauma: a Rwanda–Germany comparison	2
The mobilization of “a difficult past” in narrating the Russian invasion of Ukraine by the German and Italian backlash	2
Discursive combat: the question of Palestine	2
Gifting of Hagia Sophia: icon’s role in extractive sacralization	2
Bringing power down to earth: a multidimensional model of power	2
Max Weber and China: a defense	2
The resurgence of antisemitism: insights from cultural sociology	2
Appropriating the civil sphere: the construction of German collective identity by right-wing populist actors during the Covid-19 pandemic	2
The many faces of race: toward a global cultural sociology of co-descent	2
The Winding Path, Smith, P. (2020) Durkheim and After: The Durkheimian Tradition, 1893-2020. Cambridge: Polity	2
A sociology of the “and one!”: the culture of charisma in pickup basketball	2
Correction: How to divide people with things: division entrepreneurs, wedges, and the Delta Smelt controversy	2
Write it out loud? Civil engagement through reading fiction	2
Sociology, the common good, and the community of strong program cultural sociology	1
“Something other than real life:” digital life resistance in the civil sphere	1
Gendered embodiment and bodily change: how mastectomy and pregnancy bloggers perceive and resolve physical disruptions	1
“Remember, reclaim, heal”: commemorating anti-Muslim violence in Canada	1
Book Review of P. Smith’s Durkheim and After	1
The American Journal of Cultural Sociology, Volume 10 (2022)	1
Correction: “Something other than real life:” digital life resistance in the civil sphere	1
The performative power of cinema: theorizing successful performances of realism in cinema	1
Higher education and the transition to adulthood: socioeconomic inequality in college students’ self-narratives	1
A new cultural sociological approach to social movements: cultural pragmatics, iconicity, and the transformation of the Hong Kong Palace Museum into a symbol of authoritarian power	1
‘Walking the talk’: transposition of religious culture in OWS	1
How to divide people with things: division entrepreneurs, wedges, and the Delta Smelt controversy	1
Hegel contra celebrity: the reconciliation of subject and object	1
When societalization stalls: the semantics of code switching and the work of the soft legal realm	1
Militarizing politics of recognition through the Invictus Games: post-heroic exalting of the armed forces	1
Talk of failure as critique: rethinking meaning and method in the interview	1
From disappointment to audience switch: Giorgio Agamben and the pandemic	1
Movement texts: materiality, social practice, and discursive genre	1
Correction: The Performance and Reception of Race-Based Athletic Activism: Toward a Critical, Dramaturgical Theory of Sport	1
Gender conflict and cultural trauma: a violent incident in China	1
Whose voice matters? The gaming sphere and the Blitzchung controversy in eSports	1
Literary fiction as art and activism: Colson Whitehead, Post-blackness, and the Trumpian novel	1
Intimate Utopias: anti-politics in Chinese civil society	1
COVID-19 and cultural trauma in Korean civil society: the case of the epidemiological investigation information management system	1
Theorizing Cultural Friction: How the Relationship between Cultural Products and Local Environments Shapes Localization Processes	1