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

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
“We love martyrdom, but we also love life”: Coptic cultural trauma between martyrdom and rights	8
Theorizing the performance of (racialized) difference: the case studies of Asian artists in classical music	8
Thanks to Reviewers	7
Ethical dilemmas of minority creative workers in the cultural industries: Palestinian actors in Israeli films and dramas	6
Transforming the sacred: a neo-Durkheimian analysis of the aesthetic modification and cultural resignification of Barcelona’s municipal crèche (1961–2021)	6
When the political tail wags the religious dog, and vice versa. Religion, hegemony, and democracy in contemporary North America	6
From incorporation to emplacement in the cultural sociology of immigration	6
Reading Hong Kong literarily across two generations: localism and translocality	5
Correction: When something is happening but you don’t know what it is: mood and agency after a stolen election	5
Social skills and audience agency in improvised social performance	5
The Performance and Reception of Race-Based Athletic Activism: Toward a Critical, Dramaturgical Theory of Sport	4
Living in the shadow of market competition: career commitment and orders of worth of social workers in Shanghai	4
Rapport: affective cultural structures in sociological inquiry	4
Making sense of sibling economic gaps: racialized meritocratic frames, economic inequalities, and family relationships	4
Popular transformations: the introduction of an Arab American superhero and negotiation of a popular iconic change in the civil sphere	4
Gliding on the edge of the iron cage: performing rationality and artistry in the sport of figure skating	3
Gifting of Hagia Sophia: icon’s role in extractive sacralization	3
“We don’t fit at all”: the symbolic boundaries of libertarians connected to the academy	3
From multiculturalism to antisemitism? Revisiting the Jewish question in America	3
Harry Potter and the ‘Death of the Actor’: reimagining fusion in cultural pragmatics	3
Max Weber and China: a defense	2
Capital and distinction or goods and traditions? Toward a post-Bourdieusian cultural theory	2

Bringing power down to earth: a multidimensional model of power	2
The resurgence of antisemitism: insights from cultural sociology	2
The mobilization of “a difficult past” in narrating the Russian invasion of Ukraine by the German and Italian backlash	2
Stigma management, group interaction, and cultural trauma: a Rwanda–Germany comparison	2
Sonic double consciousness: public radio voices of color	2
Discursive combat: the question of Palestine	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
Why do states discriminate between refugee groups? Understanding how Syrian and Ukrainian refugees were framed in Germany and Poland	2
A sociology of the “and one!”: the culture of charisma in pickup basketball	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
Appropriating the civil sphere: the construction of German collective identity by right-wing populist actors during the Covid-19 pandemic	2
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	2
Hegel contra celebrity: the reconciliation of subject and object	1
How to divide people with things: division entrepreneurs, wedges, and the Delta Smelt controversy	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
Theorizing Cultural Friction: How the Relationship between Cultural Products and Local Environments Shapes Localization Processes	1
Militarizing politics of recognition through the Invictus Games: post-heroic exalting of the armed forces	1
Intimate Utopias: anti-politics in Chinese civil society	1
“Remember, reclaim, heal”: commemorating anti-Muslim violence in Canada	1
Individualized nationalism: national belonging in virtual memorial ceremonies during COVID-19 lockdown in Israel	1
COVID-19 and cultural trauma in Korean civil society: the case of the epidemiological investigation information management system	1
Higher education and the transition to adulthood: socioeconomic inequality in college students’ self-narratives	1
Sociology, the common good, and the community of strong program cultural sociology	1
‘Walking the talk’: transposition of religious culture in OWS	1
Gendered embodiment and bodily change: how mastectomy and pregnancy bloggers perceive and resolve physical disruptions	1
Literary fiction as art and activism: Colson Whitehead, Post-blackness, and the Trumpian novel	1
The American Journal of Cultural Sociology, Volume 10 (2022)	1
Gender conflict and cultural trauma: a violent incident in China	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
“Something other than real life:” digital life resistance in the civil sphere	1
Correction: The Performance and Reception of Race-Based Athletic Activism: Toward a Critical, Dramaturgical Theory of Sport	1
When societalization stalls: the semantics of code switching and the work of the soft legal realm	1
Book Review of P. Smith’s Durkheim and After	1