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Papers

(The median citation count of Acta Sociologica 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
Care for thy neighbour: A study of neighbours’ caregiving intentions by likelihood of reciprocity and previous caregiving experience	20
How to work with Niklas Luhmann? A practical guide	12
A downside to high aspirations: Immigrants’ (non-)success in tertiary education	11
Scientification of politics or politicisation of science? Parliamentary committee hearings on the Finnish alcohol policy reforms in 1994 and 2017 as epistemic work	10
Divorce among exogamous couples: The role of language convergence	9
Transmission of child removal stories Among Norwegian Somalis: An interactionist analysis of ethnic minority parents’ fears of child welfare services	9
Cultural dispositions and economic choice: How field-specific logics shape ‘rational’ economic behaviour	8
Book Review: Why We Worry: A Sociological Explanation by Roland Paulsen PaulsenRoland, Why We Worry: A Sociological Explanation. New York: Routledge, 202	7
Universalism in flux – Welfare profit-makers’ views towards the institution of welfare universalism	7
Book Review: The Revolutionary City: Urbanization and the Global Transformation of Rebellion	6
Book Review: Inside Digital Advertising: Platforms, Power, and Material Politics by Donald MacKenzie and Koray Caliskan MacKenzieDonaldCaliskanKoray, Ins	6
Center-based formal childcare closes gaps, others may widen them: How childcare arrangements shape early educational inequality	6
Political icon and role model: Dimensions of the perceived ‘Greta effect’ among climate activists as aspects of contemporary social movement leadership	6
Adaptability versus resistance: Strategies for emergency remote education amid COVID-19 in Swedish higher education	6
Emergent numeracy: How the crowd wisdom of non-rounding survey respondents generates accurate immigration estimates	6
Feminist alliances against precarity or capitalism? A continuation of the Butler–Fraser debate	5
Book Review: The Racialized Social System	5
Does the left still own social policies? The effect of incumbent partisanship on citizens’ perceptions of public spending in Spain	5
Who deserves to be sanctioned? A vignette experiment of ethnic discrimination among street-level bureaucrats	5
Work–family conflict: A classed phenomenon?	5
Social investment in action: From policy vision to everyday realities	5
Radical right support and the deepened rural-urban and educational divides among younger generations	4
Are general skills important for vocationally educated?	4
Unraveling the role of material conditions in eco-habitus: Studying eco-friendly energy practices across social classes	4
The neglected organisation of failure: Activities, infrastructures and subjectivities	4

Woke/anti-woke dynamics in Norway, 2014–2023	4
From social democracy towards social neoliberalism: Agencing social investment in Finnish impact finance	4
Book Review: The New Handbook of Political Sociology	4
Private surveillance in public spaces: A new mode of policing and surveillance in Sweden	4
Divorce risk and political distrust: Gendered consequences of couple instability	4
Social theory and the digital: The institutionalisation of digital sociology	4
Planning for the future in the shadow of the polycrisis: Young women's uncertain transitions to adulthood	3
Gambling outlets as agents of local area disorganization: Crime and local institutions, the case of the UK	3
Book Review: Civilization, Modernity, and Critique: Engaging Jóhann P. Árnason’s Macro-Social Theory DunajĽubomír, SmithJeremy, and MertelKurt (eds.), Civilization, Modernity, a	3
Selective re-partnering? Mental health and life satisfaction among separated single mothers in Germany and the UK	3
Towards ‘augmented sociology’? A practice-oriented framework for using large language model-powered chatbots	3
Book Review: Post-Democracy: After the Crises	3
Book Review: Intoxication: An Ethnography of Effervescent Revelry	3
Searching for lasting biculturalism: An Imitation Game inquiry	3
Balancing acts of kindness: Reassessing the relationship between informal helping and formal volunteering	3
Book Review: Nature-Made Economy. Cod, Capitalization, and the Great Economization of the Ocean by Kristin Asdal & Tone Huse AsdalKristinHuseTone, Na	3
Researching high-skilled migrants between social stratification and methodological nationalism	3
Book Review: COVID-19: Social Inequalities and Human Possibilities	3
A need to be recognised: On the importance of shared semantics for young adults while not in education or employment	3
Of babies, bathwater, and big data: Going beneath the surface of Franzén’s (2023) Google Trends recommendations	3
Book Review: Making a Scene: Urban Landscapes, Gentrification, and Social Movements in Sweden	2
Book Review: Sandinista Narratives: Religion, Sandinismo, and Emotions in the Making of the Nicaraguan Insurrection and Revolution	2
Beyond rational choice: A neo-Bourdieusian gravity model of social practice	2
We the elite, they the people: Educational identity and perceived polarisation	2
Multiple jeopardy, national wealth and perceived discrimination: Subjective health of intersecting minority groups across 28 countries	2
The role of education and social background in the changing political involvement of adolescents – a comparative approach	2
Who thinks ideologically about welfare state reform? Partisanship and attitude consistency in politicians’ and mass public perceptions about the consequences of welfare service privatization in Sweden	2
Book Review: Alfred Schutz, Phenomenology, and the Renewal of Interpretive Social Science Besnik Pula, Alfred Schutz, Phenomenology, and the Renewal of Interpretive Social Scien	2
Young people’s job-search strategies in the German apprenticeship market: Who relies on referrals by strong ties and why?	2
The effect of positive feedback on primary school students’ academic self-concept: Gender heterogeneity in a light-touch randomized intervention	2
Sociology beyond computation? Alternative ways of researching digital life	2
Book Review: War, Survival Units and Citizenship: A Neo-Eliasian Process-Relational Perspective	2
After the organization: Symbolic capital and negative expert knowledge in post-whistleblowing careers	2
Rally around the flag? Explaining changes in Swedish public opinion toward NATO membership after Russia's invasion of Ukraine	2
Book Review: The Origins of Human Social Nature: Westermarckian Sociology and Social Anthropology by Otto Pipatti PipattiOtto, The Origins of Human Socia	2
Big data, big problems: Why scientists should refrain from using Google Trends	2
Group formation and social structure: On networks and identities	2
Entrenched and unequal at the top: Brazilian capitalism and the social space of its corporate elite	2
Corrigendum to “Book Review: On the Rural: Economy, Sociology, Geography”	2
Book Review: Muslim Fathers and Mistrusted Masculinity in Danish Schools	2
Dark resonance: On the possibility of resonance with death	2
Book Review: Agents of Reform: Child Labor and the Origins of the Welfare State	1
Countering conspiracy theories: A cultural sociological analysis of counter-conspiracy discourse in the case of Slovakia	1
Book Review: Families. (Key Concepts) VanessaMay, Families. (Key Concepts) , Cambridge, Hoboken: Polity Press, 2023, pp. 224.	1
Migration and partisan identification as British Unionists or Irish Nationalists in Northern Ireland	1
Beware of names: Validating name-based status and gender cues in Italy, Germany, and the United States	1
A step up? Why taxi platform drivers in Oslo, Norway started to drive	1
Against underdog metaphysics: Alvin Gouldner and the Marxist critique of post-theory	1
Book Review: Diversity Regimes: Why Talk is Not Enough to Fix Racial Inequality at Universities	1
Gendered ethnic discrimination and the role of recruiter gender. A field experiment	1

Impact of family structure on the quality of life of older adults, its stability, and gender differences in the European context	1
Science, religion, and nonreligion: Engaging subdisciplines to move further beyond mythbusting	1
Discrimination attributions in the workplace: A scoping review of experimental studies	1
Towards a renewed understanding of barriers to immigrant parents’ involvement in education	1
The economic style of reasoning is not value-neutral! An interview with Elizabeth Popp Berman	1
The natural dividend: An introduction to resource rents	1
Living on buffered time: Toward another sociology of storage	1
Special issue: ‘Authoritarianism and culture’	1
Crime, culture or war? Justifying military responses to violence against civilians	1
The unequal conversion of intended redistribution into factual redistribution in Europe and its impact on social inequalities between families	1
From worker investment to family investment: Shifting logics of child welfare in Denmark, 1920s–1970s	1
Speaking of bots: Unpacking representations of political bots in news media discourse	1
Generational differences in attitudes to meritocracy: Sources of change in valuing education, innate abilities, and hard work in Poland	1
Intergenerational social mobility of cohorts born from 1951 to 1980 in Finland	1
Effective subunits in ineffective systems: Simultaneous tight and loose coupling in higher education data use	1
The joy of intimability: Forms of intimacy and relationships among older couple-dancing adults	1
Book Review: Affect, Alienation, and Politics in Therapeutic Culture: Capitalism on the Skin	1
Mindset as a potential link between family background and high-school achievement	1
Politics with objects? On the affective materiality of contentious politics	1
Book Review: Exile: Chronicles of the Border by Anne-Claire Defossez & Didier Fassin DefossezAnne-ClaireFassinDidier, Exile: Chronicles of the Border	1
What's so new about social investment? Evidence from the history of the Danish welfare state	1
Book Review: Modern Folk Devils: Contemporary Constructions of Evil	1
Elites and ordinariness in cross-status encounters: Adding Goffman's ritual interaction order to sociological interpretations	1
Long-term scarring from institutional labelling: The risk of NEET of students from schools for learning disability in Germany	1