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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)
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Mapping out the interpersonal boundary stones in contemporary China: Guanxi network structure and its association with traditional culture endorsement73
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Standpoint theory and middle‐range theorizing in International Sociology33
Politicians' high‐status signals make less‐educated citizens more supportive of aggression against government: A video‐vignette survey experiment31
Breaking good? Young people's mechanisms of resilience, resistance and control27
Searching for desirable bodies: How recruiters value physically exertive extracurricular activities for graduate hiring at elite professional firms in China22
Artificial Intelligence as a Strategy in the British Economic Field20
The social infrastructure of online marketplaces: Trade, work and the interplay of decided and emergent orders20
Nation‐builders and market architects: How social origins mold the careers of law graduates over 200 years in Norway19
The Strength of Weak Ties? Understanding Educational Differences in Parents' Childcare Benefit Knowledge by Applying a Social Capital Approach19
The gender gap in fair earnings increases with age due to higher age premium for men18
Two Islamophobias? Racism and religion as distinct but mutually supportive dimensions of anti‐Muslim prejudice18
Felt deficits in time with children: Individual and contextual factors across 27 European countries17
Welfare brokers and European Union migrants' access to social protection17
The unclaimed: Abandonment and hope in the city of angels. By P.Prickett and S.Timmermans, London: Penguin Random House. 202416
The Scylla State. A gendered understanding of the experiences of marginalised women in the United Kingdom15
Love Across Class. By RoseButler and EveVincent, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. 202415
Remarks on “relations of extraction, relations of redistribution: Empire, nation, and the construction of the British welfare state.” Gurminder K. Bhambra15
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Unpolitical solutionism: Wealth elite sentiments against democracy and politics15
Examining factors influencing Turkish Jewish attitudes towards the Armenian genocide13
The Bigger Pictures of L’État Providence: On François Ewald’s Theorisation of the Insurantial Society12
(Dis)Engagement with queer counterpublics: Exploring intimate and family lives in online and offline spaces in China12
The Double Erosion of Liberal Citizenship: Economization and Moralization11
Managing racism? Race equality and decolonial educational futures11
Data money makers: An ethnographic analysis of a global cryptocurrency community11
Caregiving fathers and the negotiation of crossroads: Journeys of continuity and change11
The social origins and schooling of a scientific elite: Fellows of the Royal Society born from 190011
Dependence and Precarity in the Gig Economy: A Longitudinal Analysis of Platform Work and Mental Distress11
The Role of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Solutions in Transforming Educational and Employment Access for Individuals With Disabilities10
Commercial Surrogacy Is not a Secret Handshake: It Is a High‐Five: Gay Fathers in China’s Changing Landscape10
The relational costs of crossing class lines10
Structure and social action: On constituting and connecting social worlds By JohnScott, Bingley: Emerald Publishing (Emerald Points), 2022, pp. 1039
Who you know: The classed structure of social capital9
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Articulation, or the persistent problem with explanation9
Children picturing their own worlds: Using photovoice to amplify children’s voice in sociological research9
Sociology after the postcolonial: Response to Julian Go's ‘thinking against empire’9
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 Fall and Rise of the English Upper Class: Houses, Kinship and Capital Since 1945. By DanielSmith, Manchester: 20238
Furthering racial liberalism in UK higher education: The populist construction of the ‘free speech crisis’8
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Time use surveys, social practice theory, and activity connections7
What do stances on immigrants' welfare entitlement mean? Evidence from a correlational class analysis7
The rainbow connection: Disrupting background affect, overcoming barriers and emergent emotional collectives at “Pride in London”7
From public to commercial service: State‐market hybridization in the UK visa and immigration permit infrastructure, 1997–20217
How kindness took a hold: A sociology of emotions, attachment and everyday enchantment7
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
Envisioning alternatives to capitalism: On recent debates from the great recession to the global pandemic7
A counterexample to secularization theory? Assessing the Georgian religious revival7
How (not) to feed young children: A class‐cultural analysis of food parenting practices7
Refuge: How the state shapes human potential. By HebaGowayed, Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2022. 195 pages. £22.00 (pbk)7
Webs of reciprocity: Colonial taxation and the need for reparations7
The hidden majority/minority consensus: Minorities show similar preference patterns of immigrant support as the majority population7
Issue Information ‐ List Of Books Reviewed6
Asian Americans in an anti‐Black world. By Claire JeanKim, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2023. pp. 1–412. ISBN: 97810092222806
Understanding the Mediating Effect of Child Abuse and Poor Mental Health on the Use of Adolescent Family Violence: Findings From an Australian Study6
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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 Industry5
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
After positivism: New approaches to comparison in historical sociology. By Nicholas HooverWilson, DamonMayrl (Eds.), New York: Columbia University Press. 20245
The Body in Extremist White Supremacism5
Decolouring. The Racial Imprints of Upward Mobility in Lima's Dominant Class5
Variation in the social composition of the UK academic elite: The underlay of the two—or three—cultures?5
Radicalisation studies: An emerging interdisciplinary field5
From where do legislators draw scientific knowledge? Organizations as scientific authorities in four countries' parliamentary debates5
Crunch Time: How Married Couples Confront UnemploymentAliya HamidRaoOakland, California: University of California Press. 2020. 308 pp. £66.00 (Hardcover). £24.00 (Paperback).5
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Comparing Transgender Identities in the Census of Scotland and the Census of England and Wales4
Early‐life impairments, chronic health conditions, and income mobility4
Pursuing individualism without feminism: Leisure life and gender politics of young female bar‐goers in urban China4
Gender inequalities in unpaid public work: Retention, stratification and segmentation in the volunteer leadership of charities in England and Wales4
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
Transport digitalisation: Navigating futures of hypercognitive disablement4
Examining the recent strike wave in the UK: The problem with official statistics4
The resentful undergrowth of nostalgia: Ontological insecurity, relative deprivation and powerlessness4
The more it changes the more it stays the same: The French social space of material consumption between 1985 and 20174
From Dyadic Distance to Space in Family Networks: Reciprocity of Family Support in Switzerland4
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 paradoxical role of social class background in the educational and labour market outcomes of the children of immigrants in the UK4
Race as technology and the carceral methodologies of molecular racialization4
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
Minding the curve: The influence of social origin on earnings inequality by education in Mexico3
What is the Liberalizing Potential of Higher Education? An Analysis of Academic Fields and Anti‐Immigrant Sentiment Across 32 Countries3
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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
Social character, interdependence, and the dualities of other‐directedness3
Intellectual Solidarity and Reflexive Dislocation: Sociology in the Age of Global Authoritarianism3
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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
Temporality in the social sciences: New directions for a political sociology of time3
Renewal without replication: Expanding Durkheim's theory of disruptions via queer nightlife3
Do you like school? Social class, gender, ethnicity and pupils' educational enjoyment3
The temporality of memory politics: An analysis of Russian state media narratives on the war in Ukraine3
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
(Dis)trust in Digital Insurance: How Datafied Practices Shift Uncertainties and Reconfigure Trust Relations2
Decolonization and the spectre of the nation‐state2
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Regional variation in intergenerational social mobility in Britain2
Religious residue: The impact of childhood religious socialization on the religiosity of nones in France, Germany, Great Britain, and Sweden2
Who's a good citizen? Status and power in minority and majority youths' conceptions of citizenship2
A conceptual refinement of ritual: The case of guanxi2
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
In sight, in mind: Spatial proximity to protest sites and changes in peoples' political attitudes2
What Is Justice? Reflections on the Criminal Justice System in Brazil2
What cultural hierarchy? Cultural tastes, status and inequality2
Contesting individualization and individualism in marriage in East Asia: Dual‐income couples' monetary practices2
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Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto. By KoheiSaito, New York, USA: Astra House. 2024. pp. 288. $18.00 (paperback). ISBN: 97816626027262
“Now we don't have that freedom to not work”: Childhood and parenting in insecurity culture2
The government of emergency: Vital systems, expertise, and the politics of security. By Stephen J.Collier and AndrewLakoff, Princeton University Press. 20212
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
Dynamics of wilful ignorance in organizations2
Resilience in the context ofconflict‐relatedsexual violence and beyond: A “sentient ecology” framework2
Elite recruitment in US finance: How university prestige is used to secure top executive positions2
Dimensions of class identification? On the roots and effects of class identity2
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Lagging behind by doing good: How volunteering prolongs unemployment2
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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Cruel optimism, affective governmentality and frontline poverty governance: ‘You can promise the world’2
Distinctions in the making: A theoretical discussion of youth and cultural capital1
Political economy of colonial and post‐colonial India. By Aditya Mukherjee, Delhi: Primus Books. 2022. pp. 5751
The dispositif is alive! Recovering social agents in Foucauldian analysis1
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
Royal power in the market‐oriented society: The Swedish King's consecration of business and corporate elites1
Neighbourhood Effects Across Generations and the Reproduction of Inequality1
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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
How kin help with parental investments1
From a national elite to the global elite: Possibilities and problems in scaling up1
The social life of money for children1
Exploring normative frameworks of fairness through (relational) institutional habitus in Oxford's undergraduate admissions process1
The sustainability myth: Environmental gentrification and the politics of justice By MelissaChecker, NYU Press, 20201
What's good for the gander is even better for the goose: Women buying commercial sex in China1
The neoliberal multicultural state and the urban Indigenous associative model in Santiago de Chile1
‘Levelling up’ social mobility? Comparing the social and spatial mobility for university graduates across districts of Britain1
The education gap over immigration and socioeconomic security1
Facing arrhythmia. Reconstructing time in the pandemic by the metropolitan creative classes in Poland1
The lives of others: Class divisions, network segregation, and attachment to society in Chile1
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
Dynastic cores and the borrowed time of newcomers. Wealth accumulation and the Norwegian one percent1
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 socioeconomic dimensions of racial inequality in South Africa: A social space perspective1
Karl Popper Versus Karl Mannheim on Sociology and Democratic Governance1
Social stratification in meaningful work: Occupational class disparities in the United Kingdom1
How investors account for the quick and the dead1
Meritocratic beliefs in the United States, Finland, and China: A multidimensional approach using latent class analysis1
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Life funds, urban development, and the experimental practices of financial sociology1
Reconsidering reparations. By Olúfẹ́mi O.Táíwò, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 20221
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
Extraction, exploitation, expropriation and expulsion in the domestic colonial relations of the British welfare state in the twentieth and twenty‐first centuries1
Capital and the Family1
The rise of central banks: State power in financial capitalism. By LeonWansleben, Harvard University Press. 20231
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
The Link Between Contextual Poverty and Academic Achievement: Evidence Using Panel Data From a Lower‐Middle‐Income Country1
Fairness Evaluations of Higher Education Graduates’ Earnings: The Role of Female Preference for Equality and Self‐Interest1
The coloniality of age: Navigating the chronopolitics of Black childhood1
From integrated to fragmented elites. The core of Swiss elite networks 1910–20151
Thinking against empire: Anticolonial thought as social theory1
Unnatural Wills: Inheritance Disputes and Inequality1
Income change and sympathy for right‐wing populist parties in the Netherlands: The role of gender and income inequality within households1
Civic involvement in deprived communities: A longitudinal study of England1
Seeking western men: Mail‐order brides under China’s global rise. By MonicaLiu, Stanford University Press. 20221
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Racial Health Equity and the Question of Black (Non?) Being: Exploring the Uses of Afropessimism in Approaches to Anti‐Racist Health Promotion1
Cultural capital and perception of teacher‐student relationships: Uncovering inequalities at schools in China0
Elite mobility and continuity during a regime change0
Social inequality in completion rates in higher education: Heterogeneity in educational fields0
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
Racial discrimination in helping situations depends on the cost of help: A large field experiment in the streets of Paris0
More Than the Sum of Multiple Care: Ambivalence in Sandwich Care0
Family background consistently affects economic success across the life cycle: A research note on how brother correlations overlap over the life course0
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The revolution next door0
“There's just too many”: The construction of immigration as a social problem0
Unveiling power, or why social science's task is explanation0
Becoming and unbecoming academics: Classed resources and strategies for navigating risky careers0
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The role of patriarchal structure and gender stereotypes in cyber dating abuse: A qualitative examination of male perpetrators experiences0
Upsold: Real estate agents, prices, and neighborhood inequality. By MaxBesbris, Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press. 2020. pp. 2210
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
The economics of ethnic marriages: Endogamy and the social status of minority groups0
Exploring the utility of eye tracking for sociological research on race0
‘Cubs of Wall Street’: Cocaine Use in Top‐Boy Culture0
Parenthood and dynamics of life satisfaction in times of COVID‐190
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Becoming Buddhists: The emergence of a prestigious temple0
Superyachts: Luxury, Tranquillity, and Ecocide. By GregorySalle, Cambridge: Polity Press. 2024, pp. 122. ISBN: 987‐1‐5095‐5995‐40
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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
Decolonizing the mind:0
Doubly disadvantaged: Unemployment, young age, and electoral participation in the United Kingdom0
Gender inequality in the one percent: A look under the hood of high incomes in Germany0
Conceptualising informal institutions: Drawing on the case of guanxi0
Eco‐social divides in public policy preferences in Great Britain0
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Students' Interactional Cultural Capital and Academic Performance in Test‐ and Teacher‐Based Assessments0
Dual nationality, anti‐citizenship, and xeno‐racism: Online tropes on migrant (in)gratitude, and (in)adequate Britishness of Nazanin Zaghari‐Ratcliffe0
Different while being similar: The dual institutional process and differential organizational status0
Is it time sociology started researching incompetence?0
Niklas Luhmann's Unknown Class Theory and Its Explanatory Potential for the Clustering of Inequalities0
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Class, gender and the work of working‐class women amid turbulent times0
Social Mobility, Self‐Selection, and the Persistence of Class Inequality in Electoral Participation0
Anywheres, Somewheres, local attachment, and civic participation0
Anticolonial thought, the sociological imagination, and social science: A reply to critics0
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
Ida B. Wells‐Barnett as an anticolonial theorist on crime and punishment0
Race, risk, and American religious groups' views of Nazi Germany in 19350
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
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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The Power Elite in Greenland0
Are economists overconfident? Ideology and uncertainty in expert opinion0
Russia's invasion of Ukraine and perceived intergenerational mobility in Europe0
How moderates make boundaries after protracted conflict. Everyday universalists, agonists, transformists and cosmopolitans in contemporary Northern Ireland0
Model Cases: On Canonical Research Objects and Sites. M.KrauseUniversity of Chicago Press, 2021. 224 pp. £71.00 (hardback) 21.00 (paperback)0
Social diversity and social cohesion in Britain0
2020: One city, seven people, and the year everything changed. By EricKlinenberg, New York: Knopf. 2024. pp. 464. $32 (Hard cover). ISBN: 97805933194820
“Because we all love K‐Pop”: How young adults reshape symbolic boundaries in Paris, Manchester, and Philadelphia0
Action‐based explanations as a basis for the analysis and design of the social world0
The Compensatory Role of Diverse Workplaces: Parental Workplace Educational Composition and Children's Higher Education Enrolment0
Emotion in and through crisis0
Capital of Life in Death: How Bereaved Individuals Mobilise Cultural and Social Capital in UK Death Administration0
Blackstone vs BlackRock0
The same everywhere? Exploring structural homologies of national social fields using the case of journalism0
“If no one grieves, no one will remember”: Cultural palimpsests and the creation of social ties through rituals0
Review of race brokers0
Breaking the silence on femicide: How women challenge epistemic injustice and male violence0
Equally Bad, Unevenly Distributed: Gender and the ‘Black Box’ of Student Employment0
“This is a political movement, friend”: Why “incels” support violence0
Social Justice in Post‐Conflict Societies: Lessons From Northern Ireland0
Income inequality, cultural capital, and high school students' academic achievement in OECD countries: A moderated mediation analysis0
Armed robbery and the meanings of money0
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