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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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
How to work with Niklas Luhmann? A practical guide	21
A downside to high aspirations: Immigrants’ (non-)success in tertiary education	12
Scientification of politics or politicisation of science? Parliamentary committee hearings on the Finnish alcohol policy reforms in 1994 and 2017 as epistemic work	12
Care for thy neighbour: A study of neighbours’ caregiving intentions by likelihood of reciprocity and previous caregiving experience	11
Transmission of child removal stories Among Norwegian Somalis: An interactionist analysis of ethnic minority parents’ fears of child welfare services	10
Book Review: Why We Worry: A Sociological Explanation by Roland Paulsen PaulsenRoland, Why We Worry: A Sociological Explanation. New York: Routledge, 202	9
Divorce among exogamous couples: The role of language convergence	9
Universalism in flux – Welfare profit-makers’ views towards the institution of welfare universalism	8
Book Review: Inside Digital Advertising: Platforms, Power, and Material Politics by Donald MacKenzie and Koray Caliskan MacKenzieDonaldCaliskanKoray, Ins	8
Political icon and role model: Dimensions of the perceived ‘Greta effect’ among climate activists as aspects of contemporary social movement leadership	7
Book Review: The Revolutionary City: Urbanization and the Global Transformation of Rebellion	7
Cultural dispositions and economic choice: How field-specific logics shape ‘rational’ economic behaviour	7
Feminist alliances against precarity or capitalism? A continuation of the Butler–Fraser debate	6
Emergent numeracy: How the crowd wisdom of non-rounding survey respondents generates accurate immigration estimates	6
Does the left still own social policies? The effect of incumbent partisanship on citizens’ perceptions of public spending in Spain	6
Adaptability versus resistance: Strategies for emergency remote education amid COVID-19 in Swedish higher education	6
Book Review: The Racialized Social System	6
Center-based formal childcare closes gaps, others may widen them: How childcare arrangements shape early educational inequality	6
Work–family conflict: A classed phenomenon?	5
Unraveling the role of material conditions in eco-habitus: Studying eco-friendly energy practices across social classes	5
Social investment in action: From policy vision to everyday realities	5
Social theory and the digital: The institutionalisation of digital sociology	5
Who deserves to be sanctioned? A vignette experiment of ethnic discrimination among street-level bureaucrats	5
Divorce risk and political distrust: Gendered consequences of couple instability	5
Are general skills important for vocationally educated?	4

From social democracy towards social neoliberalism: Agencing social investment in Finnish impact finance	4
Book Review: Intoxication: An Ethnography of Effervescent Revelry	4
Researching high-skilled migrants between social stratification and methodological nationalism	4
The neglected organisation of failure: Activities, infrastructures and subjectivities	4
Woke/anti-woke dynamics in Norway, 2014–2023	4
Gambling outlets as agents of local area disorganization: Crime and local institutions, the case of the UK	4
Private surveillance in public spaces: A new mode of policing and surveillance in Sweden	4
Planning for the future in the shadow of the polycrisis: Young women's uncertain transitions to adulthood	4
Radical right support and the deepened rural-urban and educational divides among younger generations	4
Book Review: Civilization, Modernity, and Critique: Engaging Jóhann P. Árnason’s Macro-Social Theory DunajĽubomír, SmithJeremy, and MertelKurt (eds.), Civilization, Modernity, a	3
A need to be recognised: On the importance of shared semantics for young adults while not in education or employment	3
Towards ‘augmented sociology’? A practice-oriented framework for using large language model-powered chatbots	3
Beyond rational choice: A neo-Bourdieusian gravity model of social practice	3
Rally around the flag? Explaining changes in Swedish public opinion toward NATO membership after Russia's invasion of Ukraine	3
Of babies, bathwater, and big data: Going beneath the surface of Franzén’s (2023) Google Trends recommendations	3
Balancing acts of kindness: Reassessing the relationship between informal helping and formal volunteering	3
Young people’s job-search strategies in the German apprenticeship market: Who relies on referrals by strong ties and why?	3
Book Review: Alfred Schutz, Phenomenology, and the Renewal of Interpretive Social Science Besnik Pula, Alfred Schutz, Phenomenology, and the Renewal of Interpretive Social Scien	3
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	3
Selective re-partnering? Mental health and life satisfaction among separated single mothers in Germany and the UK	3
Book Review: Nature-Made Economy. Cod, Capitalization, and the Great Economization of the Ocean by Kristin Asdal & Tone Huse AsdalKristinHuseTone, Na	3
Searching for lasting biculturalism: An Imitation Game inquiry	3
Book Review: The Origins of Human Social Nature: Westermarckian Sociology and Social Anthropology by Otto Pipatti PipattiOtto, The Origins of Human Socia	3
Book Review: Making a Scene: Urban Landscapes, Gentrification, and Social Movements in Sweden	3
Book Review: Sandinista Narratives: Religion, Sandinismo, and Emotions in the Making of the Nicaraguan Insurrection and Revolution	3
Discrimination attributions in the workplace: A scoping review of experimental studies	2
Book Review: Agents of Reform: Child Labor and the Origins of the Welfare State	2
Big data, big problems: Why scientists should refrain from using Google Trends	2
Sociology beyond computation? Alternative ways of researching digital life	2
Multiple jeopardy, national wealth and perceived discrimination: Subjective health of intersecting minority groups across 28 countries	2
Group formation and social structure: On networks and identities	2
From worker investment to family investment: Shifting logics of child welfare in Denmark, 1920s–1970s	2
Crime, culture or war? Justifying military responses to violence against civilians	2
Effective subunits in ineffective systems: Simultaneous tight and loose coupling in higher education data use	2
The effect of positive feedback on primary school students’ academic self-concept: Gender heterogeneity in a light-touch randomized intervention	2
We the elite, they the people: Educational identity and perceived polarisation	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
What's so new about social investment? Evidence from the history of the Danish welfare state	2
The role of education and social background in the changing political involvement of adolescents – a comparative approach	2
Dark resonance: On the possibility of resonance with death	2
Book Review: Muslim Fathers and Mistrusted Masculinity in Danish Schools	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
The joy of intimability: Forms of intimacy and relationships among older couple-dancing adults	2
Impact of family structure on the quality of life of older adults, its stability, and gender differences in the European context	1
Book Review: Families. (Key Concepts) VanessaMay, Families. (Key Concepts) , Cambridge, Hoboken: Polity Press, 2023, pp. 224.	1
Countering conspiracy theories: A cultural sociological analysis of counter-conspiracy discourse in the case of Slovakia	1
Speaking of bots: Unpacking representations of political bots in news media discourse	1
Living on buffered time: Toward another sociology of storage	1

Book Review: Nordic Homicide in Deep Time; Lethal Violence in the Early Modern Era and Present Times	1
Book Review: Welcome to Soylandia: Transnational Farmers in the Brazilian Cerrado A. Ofstehage, Welcome to Soylandia: Transnational Farmers in the Brazilian Cerrado	1
Special issue: ‘Authoritarianism and culture’	1
Does moving young matter? Examining the relationship between childhood residential mobility and mathematics scores	1
The unequal conversion of intended redistribution into factual redistribution in Europe and its impact on social inequalities between families	1
Science, religion, and nonreligion: Engaging subdisciplines to move further beyond mythbusting	1
Generational differences in attitudes to meritocracy: Sources of change in valuing education, innate abilities, and hard work in Poland	1
A step up? Why taxi platform drivers in Oslo, Norway started to drive	1
Mindset as a potential link between family background and high-school achievement	1
Place and education: How socioeconomic similar rural communities shape dissimilar school communities	1
Against underdog metaphysics: Alvin Gouldner and the Marxist critique of post-theory	1
The legacy of Habermas	1
Politics with objects? On the affective materiality of contentious politics	1
The natural dividend: An introduction to resource rents	1
Migration and partisan identification as British Unionists or Irish Nationalists in Northern Ireland	1
Gendered ethnic discrimination and the role of recruiter gender. A field experiment	1
Book Review: Affect, Alienation, and Politics in Therapeutic Culture: Capitalism on the Skin	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
Conflict narrative, stigmatisation and strategic behaviour of religious scientists in the Argentinean scientific field	1
Book Review: Exile: Chronicles of the Border Anne-Claire Defossez & Didier Fassin, Exile: Chronicles of the Border . Cambridge, UK/Hoboken, USA: Poli	1
Special issue: Moral elites	1
Momentary symbols: Tracing the visual expressions of collectives	1
Beware of names: Validating name-based status and gender cues in Italy, Germany, and the United States	1
The economic style of reasoning is not value-neutral! An interview with Elizabeth Popp Berman	1
Intergenerational social mobility of cohorts born from 1951 to 1980 in Finland	1