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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
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Standpoint theory and middle‐range theorizing in International Sociology78
Mapping out the interpersonal boundary stones in contemporary China: Guanxi network structure and its association with traditional culture endorsement66
Corrigendum41
The social infrastructure of online marketplaces: Trade, work and the interplay of decided and emergent orders36
Issue Information29
Politicians' high‐status signals make less‐educated citizens more supportive of aggression against government: A video‐vignette survey experiment23
Breaking good? Young people's mechanisms of resilience, resistance and control22
Searching for desirable bodies: How recruiters value physically exertive extracurricular activities for graduate hiring at elite professional firms in China21
On Medical Domination20
Artificial Intelligence as a Strategy in the British Economic Field19
Love Across Class. By RoseButler and EveVincent, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. 202419
Examining factors influencing Turkish Jewish attitudes towards the Armenian genocide19
Remarks on “relations of extraction, relations of redistribution: Empire, nation, and the construction of the British welfare state.” Gurminder K. Bhambra18
The Scylla State. A gendered understanding of the experiences of marginalised women in the United Kingdom17
The unclaimed: Abandonment and hope in the city of angels. By P.Prickett and S.Timmermans, London: Penguin Random House. 202416
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The Bigger Pictures of L’État Providence: On François Ewald’s Theorisation of the Insurantial Society15
Nation‐builders and market architects: How social origins mold the careers of law graduates over 200 years in Norway15
Unpolitical solutionism: Wealth elite sentiments against democracy and politics14
Cooling Out or Branching Out? Accounting for the Aspirations‐Attainment Paradox Among Immigrant Youth in Sweden14
Two Islamophobias? Racism and religion as distinct but mutually supportive dimensions of anti‐Muslim prejudice14
The Electoral Coalition of the Radical Right in Western Europe14
Caregiving fathers and the negotiation of crossroads: Journeys of continuity and change12
The Strength of Weak Ties? Understanding Educational Differences in Parents' Childcare Benefit Knowledge by Applying a Social Capital Approach12
Dependence and Precarity in the Gig Economy: A Longitudinal Analysis of Platform Work and Mental Distress12
Welfare brokers and European Union migrants' access to social protection11
Managing racism? Race equality and decolonial educational futures11
The social origins and schooling of a scientific elite: Fellows of the Royal Society born from 190011
The gender gap in fair earnings increases with age due to higher age premium for men11
The relational costs of crossing class lines11
Children picturing their own worlds: Using photovoice to amplify children’s voice in sociological research10
The Double Erosion of Liberal Citizenship: Economization and Moralization9
The Role of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Solutions in Transforming Educational and Employment Access for Individuals With Disabilities9
Sociology after the postcolonial: Response to Julian Go's ‘thinking against empire’9
Articulation, or the persistent problem with explanation9
Who you know: The classed structure of social capital9
Commercial Surrogacy Is not a Secret Handshake: It Is a High‐Five: Gay Fathers in China’s Changing Landscape9
Corrigendum8
The hidden majority/minority consensus: Minorities show similar preference patterns of immigrant support as the majority population8
Furthering racial liberalism in UK higher education: The populist construction of the ‘free speech crisis’8
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
Structure and social action: On constituting and connecting social worlds By JohnScott, Bingley: Emerald Publishing (Emerald Points), 2022, pp. 1038
Envisioning alternatives to capitalism: On recent debates from the great recession to the global pandemic8
Refuge: How the state shapes human potential. By HebaGowayed, Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2022. 195 pages. £22.00 (pbk)7
How kindness took a hold: A sociology of emotions, attachment and everyday enchantment7
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Understanding the Mediating Effect of Child Abuse and Poor Mental Health on the Use of Adolescent Family Violence: Findings From an Australian Study7
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
Time use surveys, social practice theory, and activity connections7
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The rainbow connection: Disrupting background affect, overcoming barriers and emergent emotional collectives at “Pride in London”7
What do stances on immigrants' welfare entitlement mean? Evidence from a correlational class analysis7
The Fall and Rise of the English Upper Class: Houses, Kinship and Capital Since 1945. By DanielSmith, Manchester: 20237
A counterexample to secularization theory? Assessing the Georgian religious revival7
Issue Information ‐ List Of Books Reviewed6
When the ‘Old’ Attend to the ‘Old’: Female Direct Care Workers Doing Gendered and Classed Age in the Chinese Elder Care Industry6
Asian Americans in an anti‐Black world. By Claire JeanKim, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2023. pp. 1–412. ISBN: 97810092222806
Variation in the social composition of the UK academic elite: The underlay of the two—or three—cultures?5
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, g5
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Comparing Transgender Identities in the Census of Scotland and the Census of England and Wales5
The more it changes the more it stays the same: The French social space of material consumption between 1985 and 20175
Gender inequalities in unpaid public work: Retention, stratification and segmentation in the volunteer leadership of charities in England and Wales5
The Body in Extremist White Supremacism5
Crunch Time: How Married Couples Confront UnemploymentAliya HamidRaoOakland, California: University of California Press. 2020. 308 pp. £66.00 (Hardcover). £24.00 (Paperback).5
After positivism: New approaches to comparison in historical sociology. By Nicholas HooverWilson, DamonMayrl (Eds.), New York: Columbia University Press. 20245
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).5
The paradoxical role of social class background in the educational and labour market outcomes of the children of immigrants in the UK5
Radicalisation studies: An emerging interdisciplinary field5
From where do legislators draw scientific knowledge? Organizations as scientific authorities in four countries' parliamentary debates5
Decolouring. The Racial Imprints of Upward Mobility in Lima's Dominant Class5
The resentful undergrowth of nostalgia: Ontological insecurity, relative deprivation and powerlessness5
Gender, Families, and Wealth Accumulation Among the One‐Child Generation5
Early‐life impairments, chronic health conditions, and income mobility4
Examining the recent strike wave in the UK: The problem with official statistics4
Do you like school? Social class, gender, ethnicity and pupils' educational enjoyment4
Transport digitalisation: Navigating futures of hypercognitive disablement4
Pursuing individualism without feminism: Leisure life and gender politics of young female bar‐goers in urban China4
Intellectual Solidarity and Reflexive Dislocation: Sociology in the Age of Global Authoritarianism4
Prestige Fetishism in the Academy: Comte's Mirror, the Magic Mirror or an Illusion of Reality?4
‘We need to start building up what's called herd immunity’: Scientific dissensus and public broadcasting in the Covid‐19 pandemic4
Issue Information4
What cultural hierarchy? Cultural tastes, status and inequality3
What is the Liberalizing Potential of Higher Education? An Analysis of Academic Fields and Anti‐Immigrant Sentiment Across 32 Countries3
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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Temporality in the social sciences: New directions for a political sociology of time3
Resilience in the context ofconflict‐relatedsexual violence and beyond: A “sentient ecology” framework3
Climate Moralities Offset: A Case of Formative Voluntary Carbon Markets3
Variations in media framing of movements in China, France, and the U.S.: An intersectional approach3
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Contesting individualization and individualism in marriage in East Asia: Dual‐income couples' monetary practices3
The temporality of memory politics: An analysis of Russian state media narratives on the war in Ukraine3
(Dis)trust in Digital Insurance: How Datafied Practices Shift Uncertainties and Reconfigure Trust Relations3
From Dyadic Distance to Space in Family Networks: Reciprocity of Family Support in Switzerland3
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
Normative Cumulation: Justifying the Production of Knowledge in American Family Demography3
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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
What Is Justice? Reflections on the Criminal Justice System in Brazil3
Renewal without replication: Expanding Durkheim's theory of disruptions via queer nightlife3
The Quantified Scholar: An introduction to the book2
Continuing complexity: The university careers of a scientific elite in relation to their class origins and schooling2
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
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Royal power in the market‐oriented society: The Swedish King's consecration of business and corporate elites2
Life funds, urban development, and the experimental practices of financial sociology2
How kin help with parental investments2
Dimensions of class identification? On the roots and effects of class identity2
Issue Information ‐ List Of Books Reviewed2
“Now we don't have that freedom to not work”: Childhood and parenting in insecurity culture2
Who's a good citizen? Status and power in minority and majority youths' conceptions of citizenship2
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In sight, in mind: Spatial proximity to protest sites and changes in peoples' political attitudes2
Risk, Reciprocity, and Academic Pursuit in India2
Dynastic cores and the borrowed time of newcomers. Wealth accumulation and the Norwegian one percent2
The social life of money for children2
Meritocratic beliefs in the United States, Finland, and China: A multidimensional approach using latent class analysis2
The neoliberal multicultural state and the urban Indigenous associative model in Santiago de Chile2
Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto. By KoheiSaito, New York, USA: Astra House. 2024. pp. 288. $18.00 (paperback). ISBN: 97816626027262
Review of the Book The Chile Project . By SebastiánEdwards, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2023. 376 pp. $32.00/£28.00. ISBN: 97806912
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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
Dynamics of wilful ignorance in organizations2
Cruel optimism, affective governmentality and frontline poverty governance: ‘You can promise the world’2
Elite recruitment in US finance: How university prestige is used to secure top executive positions2
Religious residue: The impact of childhood religious socialization on the religiosity of nones in France, Germany, Great Britain, and Sweden2
The Link Between Contextual Poverty and Academic Achievement: Evidence Using Panel Data From a Lower‐Middle‐Income Country2
Unnatural Wills: Inheritance Disputes and Inequality2
Social stratification in meaningful work: Occupational class disparities in the United Kingdom2
Reconsidering reparations. By Olúfẹ́mi O.Táíwò, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 20222
A conceptual refinement of ritual: The case of guanxi2
Regional variation in intergenerational social mobility in Britain2
Trolling is Not the Point: Ideological Violence and the Limits of Digital Safety2
Lagging behind by doing good: How volunteering prolongs unemployment2
The sustainability myth: Environmental gentrification and the politics of justice By MelissaChecker, NYU Press, 20201
How investors account for the quick and the dead1
Why Neoliberalism Doesn't Spell the Death of Society: Commonality, Regulation, and the Politics of Social Cohesion1
Review of running the family firm. By LauraClancy, Manchester: Manchester University Press. pp. 336. £15.991
Corrigendum to “Getting Ahead in the Social Sciences: How Parenthood and Publishing Contribute to Gender Gaps in Academic Career Advancement” [British Journal of Sociology, 2024 (March), Vol. 71
Elite Status‐Seeking and Class Reproduction in Civil Society: An Analysis of Corporate Elite Appointments to Charity Boards1
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
Fairness Evaluations of Higher Education Graduates’ Earnings: The Role of Female Preference for Equality and Self‐Interest1
Generations, events, and social movement legacies: Unpacking social change in English football (1980–2023)1
Private spanner in public works? The corrosive effects of private insurance on public life1
‘Levelling up’ social mobility? Comparing the social and spatial mobility for university graduates across districts of Britain1
Facing arrhythmia. Reconstructing time in the pandemic by the metropolitan creative classes in Poland1
Exploring normative frameworks of fairness through (relational) institutional habitus in Oxford's undergraduate admissions process1
What's good for the gander is even better for the goose: Women buying commercial sex in China1
The coloniality of age: Navigating the chronopolitics of Black childhood1
Seeking western men: Mail‐order brides under China’s global rise. By MonicaLiu, Stanford University Press. 20221
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What is social science if not critical?1
Political economy of colonial and post‐colonial India. By Aditya Mukherjee, Delhi: Primus Books. 2022. pp. 5751
Capital and the Family1
The education gap over immigration and socioeconomic security1
Family socioeconomic status and sibling correlations in upper secondary education. An empirical analysis of educational inequalities in Italy1
The social life of creative methods: Filmmaking, fabulation and recovery1
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
Thinking against empire: Anticolonial thought as social theory1
Therapy Culture for the Business Class: Exploring How CEO Peer Groups Make and Legitimate Elite Cohesion1
Civic involvement in deprived communities: A longitudinal study of England1
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
Income change and sympathy for right‐wing populist parties in the Netherlands: The role of gender and income inequality within households1
Karl Popper Versus Karl Mannheim on Sociology and Democratic Governance1
The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won’t Save the Planet. By BrettChristophers, London: Verso Books,2024. 442 pp. Hardback $29.95, Paperback $19.95, e‐book $9.991
Understanding the Role of Migration, Culture and Transnational Ties in Family Financial Assistance With Home Ownership1
Does Education Legitimise Inequality? Comparative Analysis of Income Inequality, Education, and Meritocratic Beliefs1
Family Life in the Time of COVID: International Perspectives. By TwamleyK., IqbalH., FairclothC., 2023. London: UCL Press. 328 pages, ISBN: 97818000817411
The lives of others: Class divisions, network segregation, and attachment to society in Chile1
The dispositif is alive! Recovering social agents in Foucauldian analysis1
Neighbourhood Effects Across Generations and the Reproduction of Inequality1
From integrated to fragmented elites. The core of Swiss elite networks 1910–20151
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
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The rise of central banks: State power in financial capitalism. By LeonWansleben, Harvard University Press. 20231
Distinctions in the making: A theoretical discussion of youth and cultural capital1
Life Course Social Mobility and Parenthood. Counterfactual Estimates of the Motherhood Class Penalty in Britain1
The socioeconomic dimensions of racial inequality in South Africa: A social space perspective1
From a national elite to the global elite: Possibilities and problems in scaling up1
Racial Health Equity and the Question of Black (Non?) Being: Exploring the Uses of Afropessimism in Approaches to Anti‐Racist Health Promotion1
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“Social science is explanation or it is nothing.” Introduction to a debate0
Exploring the utility of eye tracking for sociological research on race0
Parenthood and dynamics of life satisfaction in times of COVID‐190
Becoming and unbecoming academics: Classed resources and strategies for navigating risky careers0
The same everywhere? Exploring structural homologies of national social fields using the case of journalism0
Class, gender and the work of working‐class women amid turbulent times0
“If no one grieves, no one will remember”: Cultural palimpsests and the creation of social ties through rituals0
Review of race brokers0
Social Mobility, Self‐Selection, and the Persistence of Class Inequality in Electoral Participation0
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Breaking the silence on femicide: How women challenge epistemic injustice and male violence0
Superyachts: Luxury, Tranquillity, and Ecocide. By GregorySalle, Cambridge: Polity Press. 2024, pp. 122. ISBN: 987‐1‐5095‐5995‐40
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Elite mobility and continuity during a regime change0
Social Justice in Post‐Conflict Societies: Lessons From Northern Ireland0
Family background consistently affects economic success across the life cycle: A research note on how brother correlations overlap over the life course0
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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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
2020: One city, seven people, and the year everything changed. By EricKlinenberg, New York: Knopf. 2024. pp. 464. $32 (Hard cover). ISBN: 97805933194820
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Varieties of Economic Elites? Preliminary Results From the World Elite Database (WED)0
“There's just too many”: The construction of immigration as a social problem0
Alloparenting the investment child: A reply to responses0
Student Socioeconomic Status and Teacher‐Student Perceptual Discrepancies of School Effort and Enjoyment0
Niklas Luhmann's Unknown Class Theory and Its Explanatory Potential for the Clustering of Inequalities0
Upsold: Real estate agents, prices, and neighborhood inequality. By MaxBesbris, Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press. 2020. pp. 2210
Different while being similar: The dual institutional process and differential organizational status0
The self in selfies—Conceptualizing the selfie‐coordination of marginalized youth with sociology of engagements0
Far‐right boundary construction towards the “other”: Visual communication of Danish People’s Party on social media0
Anticolonial thought, the sociological imagination, and social science: A reply to critics0
The Compensatory Role of Diverse Workplaces: Parental Workplace Educational Composition and Children's Higher Education Enrolment0
‘We Hear About it All the Time’: Norwegian Muslims' Merging Stories of Racialisation and Recognition0
Are economists overconfident? Ideology and uncertainty in expert opinion0
At risk: Indian sexual politics and the global AIDS crisis. By Gowri Vijayakumar, Stanford University Press. 2021. pp. 258. $26 (pbk)0
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How moderates make boundaries after protracted conflict. Everyday universalists, agonists, transformists and cosmopolitans in contemporary Northern Ireland0
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
Eco‐social divides in public policy preferences in Great Britain0
Doubly disadvantaged: Unemployment, young age, and electoral participation in the United Kingdom0
Social diversity and social cohesion in Britain0
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How Should We Speed the Green Transition—By Promoting Profit, or Circumventing It? London, 397 pp. £22.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978‐1‐80429‐230‐30
The Cost of Love: Emotional Labour and Moral Tensions in the Lives of Chinese Young Carers0
Decolonizing the mind:0
Dual nationality, anti‐citizenship, and xeno‐racism: Online tropes on migrant (in)gratitude, and (in)adequate Britishness of Nazanin Zaghari‐Ratcliffe0
Is it time sociology started researching incompetence?0
Capital of Life in Death: How Bereaved Individuals Mobilise Cultural and Social Capital in UK Death Administration0
The role of patriarchal structure and gender stereotypes in cyber dating abuse: A qualitative examination of male perpetrators experiences0
Blackstone vs BlackRock0
The economics of ethnic marriages: Endogamy and the social status of minority groups0
Positioning precarity: The contingent nature of precarious work in structure and practice0
“This is a political movement, friend”: Why “incels” support violence0
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Armed robbery and the meanings of money0
“Because we all love K‐Pop”: How young adults reshape symbolic boundaries in Paris, Manchester, and Philadelphia0
Race, risk, and American religious groups' views of Nazi Germany in 19350
Social inequality in completion rates in higher education: Heterogeneity in educational fields0
Model Cases: On Canonical Research Objects and Sites. M.KrauseUniversity of Chicago Press, 2021. 224 pp. £71.00 (hardback) 21.00 (paperback)0
The Power Elite in Greenland0
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More Than the Sum of Multiple Care: Ambivalence in Sandwich Care0
Unveiling power, or why social science's task is explanation0
Students' Interactional Cultural Capital and Academic Performance in Test‐ and Teacher‐Based Assessments0
Christophers, Brett. 2024. The Price Is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won't Save the Planet. London, UK: Verso Books0
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