OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of American Journal of Cultural Sociology is 2. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The sounds of executions: sonic flaws and the transformation of capital punishment	14
“We love martyrdom, but we also love life”: Coptic cultural trauma between martyrdom and rights	9
Culture and poverty from a lifeworld stance: rehabilitating a controversial conceptual pair	8
Theorizing the performance of (racialized) difference: the case studies of Asian artists in classical music	7
Protest Event, Political Culture, and Biography: Post-protest Local Activism in Russia	7
Thanks to Reviewers	7
From reductive to generative crisis: businesspeople using polysemous justifications to make sense of COVID-19	6
Reading Hong Kong literarily across two generations: localism and translocality	5
Transforming the sacred: a neo-Durkheimian analysis of the aesthetic modification and cultural resignification of Barcelona’s municipal crèche (1961–2021)	5
Correction: When something is happening but you don’t know what it is: mood and agency after a stolen election	5
From incorporation to emplacement in the cultural sociology of immigration	5
When the political tail wags the religious dog, and vice versa. Religion, hegemony, and democracy in contemporary North America	4
Ethical dilemmas of minority creative workers in the cultural industries: Palestinian actors in Israeli films and dramas	4
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	3
Gliding on the edge of the iron cage: performing rationality and artistry in the sport of figure skating	3
Rapport: affective cultural structures in sociological inquiry	3
Making sense of sibling economic gaps: racialized meritocratic frames, economic inequalities, and family relationships	3
Sonic double consciousness: public radio voices of color	2
Bushwhacking: accounts as symbolic violence in the arts-based gentrification of Bushwick, Brooklyn	2
The Winding Path, Smith, P. (2020) Durkheim and After: The Durkheimian Tradition, 1893-2020. Cambridge: Polity	2
Harry Potter and the ‘Death of the Actor’: reimagining fusion in cultural pragmatics	2
Max Weber and China: a defense	2
Capital and distinction or goods and traditions? Toward a post-Bourdieusian cultural theory	2

Stigma management, group interaction, and cultural trauma: a Rwanda–Germany comparison	2
Living in the shadow of market competition: career commitment and orders of worth of social workers in Shanghai	2
From multiculturalism to antisemitism? Revisiting the Jewish question in America	2
A sociology of the “and one!”: the culture of charisma in pickup basketball	2
Discursive combat: the question of Palestine	2
Correction: How to divide people with things: division entrepreneurs, wedges, and the Delta Smelt controversy	2
“We don’t fit at all”: the symbolic boundaries of libertarians connected to the academy	2
Gifting of Hagia Sophia: icon’s role in extractive sacralization	2
Bringing power down to earth: a multidimensional model of power	2