British Journal of Sociology

Papers
(The median citation count of British Journal of Sociology is 0. 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)
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Mapping out the interpersonal boundary stones in contemporary China: Guanxi network structure and its association with traditional culture endorsement57
Artificial Intelligence as a Strategy in the British Economic Field28
Standpoint theory and middle‐range theorizing in International Sociology28
Politicians' high‐status signals make less‐educated citizens more supportive of aggression against government: A video‐vignette survey experiment26
Breaking good? Young people's mechanisms of resilience, resistance and control26
The social infrastructure of online marketplaces: Trade, work and the interplay of decided and emergent orders21
Searching for desirable bodies: How recruiters value physically exertive extracurricular activities for graduate hiring at elite professional firms in China21
The Bigger Pictures of L’État Providence: On François Ewald’s Theorisation of the Insurantial Society18
Felt deficits in time with children: Individual and contextual factors across 27 European countries17
The unclaimed: Abandonment and hope in the city of angels. By P.Prickett and S.Timmermans, London: Penguin Random House. 202416
The gender gap in fair earnings increases with age due to higher age premium for men16
Unpolitical solutionism: Wealth elite sentiments against democracy and politics16
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Love Across Class. By RoseButler and EveVincent, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. 202416
Data money makers: An ethnographic analysis of a global cryptocurrency community15
Caregiving fathers and the negotiation of crossroads: Journeys of continuity and change15
Performing the people: Review of Isaac Ariail Reed’s Power in modernity: Agency relations and the creative destruction of the king’s two bodies14
(Dis)Engagement with queer counterpublics: Exploring intimate and family lives in online and offline spaces in China14
Remarks on “relations of extraction, relations of redistribution: Empire, nation, and the construction of the British welfare state.” Gurminder K. Bhambra14
The Scylla State. A gendered understanding of the experiences of marginalised women in the United Kingdom13
The social origins and schooling of a scientific elite: Fellows of the Royal Society born from 190013
Examining factors influencing Turkish Jewish attitudes towards the Armenian genocide12
Two Islamophobias? Racism and religion as distinct but mutually supportive dimensions of anti‐Muslim prejudice12
Nation‐builders and market architects: How social origins mold the careers of law graduates over 200 years in Norway12
Managing racism? Race equality and decolonial educational futures12
Children picturing their own worlds: Using photovoice to amplify children’s voice in sociological research11
Welfare brokers and European Union migrants' access to social protection11
The relational costs of crossing class lines11
The Double Erosion of Liberal Citizenship: Economization and Moralization10
Who you know: The classed structure of social capital10
Commercial Surrogacy Is not a Secret Handshake: It Is a High‐Five: Gay Fathers in China’s Changing Landscape10
Sociology after the postcolonial: Response to Julian Go's ‘thinking against empire’9
Articulation, or the persistent problem with explanation9
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The Role of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Solutions in Transforming Educational and Employment Access for Individuals With Disabilities9
Webs of reciprocity: Colonial taxation and the need for reparations8
How (not) to feed young children: A class‐cultural analysis of food parenting practices8
Structure and social action: On constituting and connecting social worlds By JohnScott, Bingley: Emerald Publishing (Emerald Points), 2022, pp. 1038
Lives on the Line: How the Philippines Became the World’s Call Center Capital. Jeffrey J.Sallaz8
How kindness took a hold: A sociology of emotions, attachment and everyday enchantment8
Envisioning alternatives to capitalism: On recent debates from the great recession to the global pandemic8
From public to commercial service: State‐market hybridization in the UK visa and immigration permit infrastructure, 1997–20218
Gray areas: How the way we work perpetuates racism and what we can do to fix it. By Adia HarveyWingfield, New York: HarperCollins Amistad. 2023. 304 pages. ISBN: 97800630798168
The rainbow connection: Disrupting background affect, overcoming barriers and emergent emotional collectives at “Pride in London”7
The hidden majority/minority consensus: Minorities show similar preference patterns of immigrant support as the majority population7
Furthering racial liberalism in UK higher education: The populist construction of the ‘free speech crisis’7
Refuge: How the state shapes human potential. By HebaGowayed, Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2022. 195 pages. £22.00 (pbk)7
What do stances on immigrants' welfare entitlement mean? Evidence from a correlational class analysis7
A counterexample to secularization theory? Assessing the Georgian religious revival7
Agents of reform: Child labor and the origins of the welfare state. By ElisabethAnderson, Princeton (NJ), Oxford: Princeton University Press. 2021. pp. 384. $32.00/£28.00. ISBN: 978‐0‐691‐22089‐57
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When the ‘Old’ Attend to the ‘Old’: Female Direct Care Workers Doing Gendered and Classed Age in the Chinese Elder Care Industry6
Variation in the social composition of the UK academic elite: The underlay of the two—or three—cultures?6
The Body in Extremist White Supremacism6
The Fall and Rise of the English Upper Class: Houses, Kinship and Capital Since 1945. By DanielSmith, Manchester: 20236
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Radicalisation studies: An emerging interdisciplinary field6
Threatening dystopias: The global politics of climate change adaptation in Bangladesh. By KasiaPaprocki, Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press. 2021. p. 267 including front matter, appendices, g6
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Time use surveys, social practice theory, and activity connections6
Asian Americans in an anti‐Black world. By Claire JeanKim, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2023. pp. 1–412. ISBN: 97810092222806
Crunch Time: How Married Couples Confront UnemploymentAliya HamidRaoOakland, California: University of California Press. 2020. 308 pp. £66.00 (Hardcover). £24.00 (Paperback).6
From where do legislators draw scientific knowledge? Organizations as scientific authorities in four countries' parliamentary debates6
Early‐life impairments, chronic health conditions, and income mobility6
Prestige Fetishism in the Academy: Comte's Mirror, the Magic Mirror or an Illusion of Reality?5
Race as technology and the carceral methodologies of molecular racialization5
The paradoxical role of social class background in the educational and labour market outcomes of the children of immigrants in the UK5
After positivism: New approaches to comparison in historical sociology. By Nicholas HooverWilson, DamonMayrl (Eds.), New York: Columbia University Press. 20245
Transport digitalisation: Navigating futures of hypercognitive disablement5
Examining the recent strike wave in the UK: The problem with official statistics5
The more it changes the more it stays the same: The French social space of material consumption between 1985 and 20175
Minding the curve: The influence of social origin on earnings inequality by education in Mexico4
Social mobilization and political change in countries governed by the left: The cases of Argentina and Brazil4
Pursuing individualism without feminism: Leisure life and gender politics of young female bar‐goers in urban China4
Temporality in the social sciences: New directions for a political sociology of time4
Social character, interdependence, and the dualities of other‐directedness4
The resentful undergrowth of nostalgia: Ontological insecurity, relative deprivation and powerlessness4
Gender inequalities in unpaid public work: Retention, stratification and segmentation in the volunteer leadership of charities in England and Wales4
‘We need to start building up what's called herd immunity’: Scientific dissensus and public broadcasting in the Covid‐19 pandemic4
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Emerging Global Cities: Origin, Structure, and Significance. By AlejandroPortes and Ariel C.Armony, New York: Columbia University Press, 2022. Pp. 368. $35.00 / £30.00 (paper).4
The temporality of memory politics: An analysis of Russian state media narratives on the war in Ukraine4
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Climate Moralities Offset: A Case of Formative Voluntary Carbon Markets3
Do you like school? Social class, gender, ethnicity and pupils' educational enjoyment3
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Resilience in the context ofconflict‐relatedsexual violence and beyond: A “sentient ecology” framework3
Dynamics of wilful ignorance in organizations3
Rituals, Runaways, and the Haitian Revolution: Collective Action in the African Diaspora. By C. N.Eddins, 2021. 360 pp. £20.07 (paperback), open access (online)3
Renewal without replication: Expanding Durkheim's theory of disruptions via queer nightlife3
Intellectual Solidarity and Reflexive Dislocation: Sociology in the Age of Global Authoritarianism3
In sight, in mind: Spatial proximity to protest sites and changes in peoples' political attitudes3
Continuing complexity: The university careers of a scientific elite in relation to their class origins and schooling3
What cultural hierarchy? Cultural tastes, status and inequality3
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Side hustle safety net: How vulnerable workers survive precarious times. By AlexandreaRavenelle, Oakland: University of California Press. 2023. 344 pages. £25. ISBN: 97805203873003
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Does educational attainment matter for attitudes toward immigrants in Chile? Assessing the causality and generalizability of higher education's so‐called “liberalizing effect” on economic and cultural3
Variations in media framing of movements in China, France, and the U.S.: An intersectional approach3
(Dis)trust in Digital Insurance: How Datafied Practices Shift Uncertainties and Reconfigure Trust Relations3
Contesting individualization and individualism in marriage in East Asia: Dual‐income couples' monetary practices3
Cruel optimism, affective governmentality and frontline poverty governance: ‘You can promise the world’3
Lagging behind by doing good: How volunteering prolongs unemployment2
Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto. By KoheiSaito, New York, USA: Astra House. 2024. pp. 288. $18.00 (paperback). ISBN: 97816626027262
The neoliberal multicultural state and the urban Indigenous associative model in Santiago de Chile2
The Quantified Scholar: An introduction to the book2
A conceptual refinement of ritual: The case of guanxi2
Who's a good citizen? Status and power in minority and majority youths' conceptions of citizenship2
Religious residue: The impact of childhood religious socialization on the religiosity of nones in France, Germany, Great Britain, and Sweden2
Regional variation in intergenerational social mobility in Britain2
Elite recruitment in US finance: How university prestige is used to secure top executive positions2
The big con. How the consulting industry weakens our businesses, infantilizes our governments and warps our economies. By MarianaMazzucato and RosieCollington. Penguin. 2023. pp. 352.2
Review of the Book The Chile Project. By SebastiánEdwards, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2023. 376 pp. $32.00/£28.00. ISBN: 97806912086262
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“Now we don't have that freedom to not work”: Childhood and parenting in insecurity culture2
Decolonization and the spectre of the nation‐state2
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The government of emergency: Vital systems, expertise, and the politics of security. By Stephen J.Collier and AndrewLakoff, Princeton University Press. 20212
Thinking against empire: Anticolonial thought as social theory1
Extraction, exploitation, expropriation and expulsion in the domestic colonial relations of the British welfare state in the twentieth and twenty‐first centuries1
The dispositif is alive! Recovering social agents in Foucauldian analysis1
Private spanner in public works? The corrosive effects of private insurance on public life1
Fairness Evaluations of Higher Education Graduates’ Earnings: The Role of Female Preference for Equality and Self‐Interest1
The social life of creative methods: Filmmaking, fabulation and recovery1
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Dynastic cores and the borrowed time of newcomers. Wealth accumulation and the Norwegian one percent1
Caught Between Ideology and Self‐Interest: Subjective Social Status and Meritocratic Beliefs Shape Whether People Perceive, Feel Anger About, and Want to Change Economic Conflict1
Civic involvement in deprived communities: A longitudinal study of England1
Income change and sympathy for right‐wing populist parties in the Netherlands: The role of gender and income inequality within households1
Royal power in the market‐oriented society: The Swedish King's consecration of business and corporate elites1
Social stratification in meaningful work: Occupational class disparities in the United Kingdom1
Reconsidering reparations. By Olúfẹ́mi O.Táíwò, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 20221
‘Levelling up’ social mobility? Comparing the social and spatial mobility for university graduates across districts of Britain1
The socioeconomic dimensions of racial inequality in South Africa: A social space perspective1
Political economy of colonial and post‐colonial India. By Aditya Mukherjee, Delhi: Primus Books. 2022. pp. 5751
The rise of central banks: State power in financial capitalism. By LeonWansleben, Harvard University Press. 20231
From a national elite to the global elite: Possibilities and problems in scaling up1
Family socioeconomic status and sibling correlations in upper secondary education. An empirical analysis of educational inequalities in Italy1
The sustainability myth: Environmental gentrification and the politics of justice By MelissaChecker, NYU Press, 20201
The social life of money for children1
Karl Popper Versus Karl Mannheim on Sociology and Democratic Governance1
Generations, events, and social movement legacies: Unpacking social change in English football (1980–2023)1
The culture trap: Ethnic expectations and unequal schooling for black youth, By DerronWallace, New York, NY: Oxford University Press. 2023. pp. 312. $30.99. ISBN: 97801975314711
What's good for the gander is even better for the goose: Women buying commercial sex in China1
From integrated to fragmented elites. The core of Swiss elite networks 1910–20151
How kin help with parental investments1
The Link Between Contextual Poverty and Academic Achievement: Evidence Using Panel Data From a Lower‐Middle‐Income Country1
Dimensions of class identification? On the roots and effects of class identity1
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How investors account for the quick and the dead1
Neighbourhood Effects Across Generations and the Reproduction of Inequality1
The Quantified Scholar: How Research Evaluations Transformed the British Social Sciences. By Juan PabloPardo‐Guerra, Columbia University Press. 2022. pp. 272. US$35.00 (paperback)1
Seeking western men: Mail‐order brides under China’s global rise. By MonicaLiu, Stanford University Press. 20221
Life funds, urban development, and the experimental practices of financial sociology1
The education gap over immigration and socioeconomic security1
How the past becomes the past: The temporal positioning of collective memory1
Racial Health Equity and the Question of Black (Non?) Being: Exploring the Uses of Afropessimism in Approaches to Anti‐Racist Health Promotion1
Distinctions in the making: A theoretical discussion of youth and cultural capital1
Review of The Sound of Difference: Race, Class and the Politics of 'Diversity' in Classical Music By KristinaKolbe, 2024, Manchester University Press, vii + 281 pp., #85 (hardcover), ISBN 9781526165491
Exploring normative frameworks of fairness through (relational) institutional habitus in Oxford's undergraduate admissions process1
Meritocratic beliefs in the United States, Finland, and China: A multidimensional approach using latent class analysis1
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The coloniality of age: Navigating the chronopolitics of Black childhood1
“If no one grieves, no one will remember”: Cultural palimpsests and the creation of social ties through rituals0
Racial discrimination in helping situations depends on the cost of help: A large field experiment in the streets of Paris0
Elite mobility and continuity during a regime change0
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American Bonds: How Credit Markets Shaped a Nation by Sarah L.QuinnPrinceton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 20190
The Power Elite in Greenland0
Students' Interactional Cultural Capital and Academic Performance in Test‐ and Teacher‐Based Assessments0
Eco‐social divides in public policy preferences in Great Britain0
How moderates make boundaries after protracted conflict. Everyday universalists, agonists, transformists and cosmopolitans in contemporary Northern Ireland0
Positioning precarity: The contingent nature of precarious work in structure and practice0
Death and Nationalism's Moral Imperative: The Battle for Britain, Industry and the ‘Left Behind’0
Armed robbery and the meanings of money0
Russia's invasion of Ukraine and perceived intergenerational mobility in Europe0
Social inequality in completion rates in higher education: Heterogeneity in educational fields0
Trouble with autonomy in behavioral insurance0
The economics of ethnic marriages: Endogamy and the social status of minority groups0
Decolonizing the mind:0
Parenthood and dynamics of life satisfaction in times of COVID‐190
Is it time sociology started researching incompetence?0
Dwelling in epistemic disobedience: A reply to Go0
The self in selfies—Conceptualizing the selfie‐coordination of marginalized youth with sociology of engagements0
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What Is Antiracism? And Why It Means Anticapitalism By ArunKundnani, London: Verso. 2023. p. 304. £16.99. ISBN: 97818397627650
Dual nationality, anti‐citizenship, and xeno‐racism: Online tropes on migrant (in)gratitude, and (in)adequate Britishness of Nazanin Zaghari‐Ratcliffe0
Social Justice in Post‐Conflict Societies: Lessons From Northern Ireland0
The adaptation of educational expectations in response to ability tracking: Variations by migration background0
Race, risk, and American religious groups' views of Nazi Germany in 19350
From occupational to existential class: How to analyze class structure in hybrid societies (The case of Serbia)0
Superyachts: Luxury, Tranquillity, and Ecocide. By GregorySalle, Cambridge: Polity Press. 2024, pp. 122. ISBN: 987‐1‐5095‐5995‐40
Income inequality, cultural capital, and high school students' academic achievement in OECD countries: A moderated mediation analysis0
Far‐right boundary construction towards the “other”: Visual communication of Danish People’s Party on social media0
Epistemology of surveillance: Revealing unmarked forms of discipline and punishment in Israeli academia0
Unbottled: The fight Against Plastic Water and for Water Justice. By Jaffee, D, The University of California Press, 2023. 384 pp. £80.00 (hardback), £24.00 (paperback). ISBN: 97805203066220
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Model Cases: On Canonical Research Objects and Sites. M.KrauseUniversity of Chicago Press, 2021. 224 pp. £71.00 (hardback) 21.00 (paperback)0
Review of social mobility, social inequality, and the role of higher education. By Elena G.Popkova, Bruno S.Sergi, Konstantin V.Vodenko, Boston: Koninklijke Brill NV. 2023. pp. 388. €163.00 (paperback0
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Becoming Buddhists: The emergence of a prestigious temple0
The dark side of onward migration: Experiences and strategies of Italian‐Bangladeshis in the UK at the time of the post‐Brexit referendum0
2020: One city, seven people, and the year everything changed. By EricKlinenberg, New York: Knopf. 2024. pp. 464. $32 (Hard cover). ISBN: 97805933194820
Are economists overconfident? Ideology and uncertainty in expert opinion0
Disruptive diversity: Exploring racial commodification in the Norwegian cultural field0
“Social science is explanation or it is nothing.” Introduction to a debate0
Beneath the China Boom: Labor, Citizenship, and the Making of a Rural Land MarketJuliaChuangUniversity of California Press, 2020.0
Niklas Luhmann's Unknown Class Theory and Its Explanatory Potential for the Clustering of Inequalities0
“There's just too many”: The construction of immigration as a social problem0
The same everywhere? Exploring structural homologies of national social fields using the case of journalism0
Exploring the utility of eye tracking for sociological research on race0
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Class, gender and the work of working‐class women amid turbulent times0
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Does belief in meritocracy increase with inequality? A reconsideration for European countries0
Anticolonial thought, the sociological imagination, and social science: A reply to critics0
Governing the urban in China and India: Land grabs, slum clearance, and the war on air pollutionXuefeiRenPrinceton University Press,2020. 188 pp. $29.95/£25.000
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Equally Bad, Unevenly Distributed: Gender and the ‘Black Box’ of Student Employment0
Upsold: Real estate agents, prices, and neighborhood inequality. By MaxBesbris, Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press. 2020. pp. 2210
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At risk: Indian sexual politics and the global AIDS crisis. By Gowri Vijayakumar, Stanford University Press. 2021. pp. 258. $26 (pbk)0
“Because we all love K‐Pop”: How young adults reshape symbolic boundaries in Paris, Manchester, and Philadelphia0
Gender inequality in the one percent: A look under the hood of high incomes in Germany0
More Than the Sum of Multiple Care: Ambivalence in Sandwich Care0
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Family background consistently affects economic success across the life cycle: A research note on how brother correlations overlap over the life course0
Doubly disadvantaged: Unemployment, young age, and electoral participation in the United Kingdom0
Breaking the silence on femicide: How women challenge epistemic injustice and male violence0
Unveiling power, or why social science's task is explanation0
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The revolution next door0
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Alloparenting the investment child: A reply to responses0
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‘More options…less time’ in the ‘hustle culture’ of ‘generation sensible’: Individualization and drinking decline among twenty‐first century young adults0
Different while being similar: The dual institutional process and differential organizational status0
Becoming and unbecoming academics: Classed resources and strategies for navigating risky careers0
The role of patriarchal structure and gender stereotypes in cyber dating abuse: A qualitative examination of male perpetrators experiences0
Blackstone vs BlackRock0
Dissecting the “do good and do well” phenomenon: The case of the UK's market for social investment0
Review of race brokers0
Bankruptcy, Bubbles and Bailouts: The Inside History of The Treasury Since 1976. By AeronDavis, Manchester University Press, April 2024. 309 pp (paperback edition). ISBN: 978‐1‐5261‐7746‐90
The promise of access: Technology, inequality, and the political economy of hopeD.GreeneCambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2021. 272 pp. $30.00 (paperback)0
“This is a political movement, friend”: Why “incels” support violence0
Anywheres, Somewheres, local attachment, and civic participation0
Social diversity and social cohesion in Britain0
Ida B. Wells‐Barnett as an anticolonial theorist on crime and punishment0
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