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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
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Standpoint theory and middle‐range theorizing in International Sociology58
Breaking good? Young people's mechanisms of resilience, resistance and control30
Searching for desirable bodies: How recruiters value physically exertive extracurricular activities for graduate hiring at elite professional firms in China27
The social infrastructure of online marketplaces: Trade, work and the interplay of decided and emergent orders22
Politicians' high‐status signals make less‐educated citizens more supportive of aggression against government: A video‐vignette survey experiment22
Artificial Intelligence as a Strategy in the British Economic Field20
Mapping out the interpersonal boundary stones in contemporary China: Guanxi network structure and its association with traditional culture endorsement19
Two Islamophobias? Racism and religion as distinct but mutually supportive dimensions of anti‐Muslim prejudice18
Nation‐builders and market architects: How social origins mold the careers of law graduates over 200 years in Norway17
Data money makers: An ethnographic analysis of a global cryptocurrency community17
The Strength of Weak Ties? Understanding Educational Differences in Parents' Childcare Benefit Knowledge by Applying a Social Capital Approach17
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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
Felt deficits in time with children: Individual and contextual factors across 27 European countries16
Love Across Class. By RoseButler and EveVincent, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. 202415
Unpolitical solutionism: Wealth elite sentiments against democracy and politics14
Caregiving fathers and the negotiation of crossroads: Journeys of continuity and change14
Remarks on “relations of extraction, relations of redistribution: Empire, nation, and the construction of the British welfare state.” Gurminder K. Bhambra13
The social origins and schooling of a scientific elite: Fellows of the Royal Society born from 190013
The Scylla State. A gendered understanding of the experiences of marginalised women in the United Kingdom12
Managing racism? Race equality and decolonial educational futures12
Examining factors influencing Turkish Jewish attitudes towards the Armenian genocide12
(Dis)Engagement with queer counterpublics: Exploring intimate and family lives in online and offline spaces in China11
The Double Erosion of Liberal Citizenship: Economization and Moralization11
The Bigger Pictures of L’État Providence: On François Ewald’s Theorisation of the Insurantial Society11
The relational costs of crossing class lines11
Welfare brokers and European Union migrants' access to social protection11
Children picturing their own worlds: Using photovoice to amplify children’s voice in sociological research11
The Role of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Solutions in Transforming Educational and Employment Access for Individuals With Disabilities10
Articulation, or the persistent problem with explanation10
Commercial Surrogacy Is not a Secret Handshake: It Is a High‐Five: Gay Fathers in China’s Changing Landscape9
Sociology after the postcolonial: Response to Julian Go's ‘thinking against empire’9
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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The Fall and Rise of the English Upper Class: Houses, Kinship and Capital Since 1945. By DanielSmith, Manchester: 20238
Time use surveys, social practice theory, and activity connections8
How (not) to feed young children: A class‐cultural analysis of food parenting practices8
The hidden majority/minority consensus: Minorities show similar preference patterns of immigrant support as the majority population8
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
From public to commercial service: State‐market hybridization in the UK visa and immigration permit infrastructure, 1997–20218
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
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
How kindness took a hold: A sociology of emotions, attachment and everyday enchantment7
Furthering racial liberalism in UK higher education: The populist construction of the ‘free speech crisis’7
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
A counterexample to secularization theory? Assessing the Georgian religious revival7
Envisioning alternatives to capitalism: On recent debates from the great recession to the global pandemic7
Understanding the Mediating Effect of Child Abuse and Poor Mental Health on the Use of Adolescent Family Violence: Findings From an Australian Study6
From where do legislators draw scientific knowledge? Organizations as scientific authorities in four countries' parliamentary debates6
When the ‘Old’ Attend to the ‘Old’: Female Direct Care Workers Doing Gendered and Classed Age in the Chinese Elder Care Industry6
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The Body in Extremist White Supremacism6
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Asian Americans in an anti‐Black world. By Claire JeanKim, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2023. pp. 1–412. ISBN: 97810092222806
Decolouring. The Racial Imprints of Upward Mobility in Lima's Dominant Class6
Early‐life impairments, chronic health conditions, and income mobility5
Pursuing individualism without feminism: Leisure life and gender politics of young female bar‐goers in urban China5
Crunch Time: How Married Couples Confront UnemploymentAliya HamidRaoOakland, California: University of California Press. 2020. 308 pp. £66.00 (Hardcover). £24.00 (Paperback).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
Social mobilization and political change in countries governed by the left: The cases of Argentina and Brazil5
After positivism: New approaches to comparison in historical sociology. By Nicholas HooverWilson, DamonMayrl (Eds.), New York: Columbia University Press. 20245
Radicalisation studies: An emerging interdisciplinary field5
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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).5
Variation in the social composition of the UK academic elite: The underlay of the two—or three—cultures?5
The more it changes the more it stays the same: The French social space of material consumption between 1985 and 20174
The resentful undergrowth of nostalgia: Ontological insecurity, relative deprivation and powerlessness4
The temporality of memory politics: An analysis of Russian state media narratives on the war in Ukraine4
Minding the curve: The influence of social origin on earnings inequality by education in Mexico4
What is the Liberalizing Potential of Higher Education? An Analysis of Academic Fields and Anti‐Immigrant Sentiment Across 32 Countries4
Examining the recent strike wave in the UK: The problem with official statistics4
Transport digitalisation: Navigating futures of hypercognitive disablement4
The paradoxical role of social class background in the educational and labour market outcomes of the children of immigrants in the UK4
Social character, interdependence, and the dualities of other‐directedness4
Renewal without replication: Expanding Durkheim's theory of disruptions via queer nightlife4
Prestige Fetishism in the Academy: Comte's Mirror, the Magic Mirror or an Illusion of Reality?4
Race as technology and the carceral methodologies of molecular racialization4
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
Do you like school? Social class, gender, ethnicity and pupils' educational enjoyment4
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(Dis)trust in Digital Insurance: How Datafied Practices Shift Uncertainties and Reconfigure Trust Relations3
In sight, in mind: Spatial proximity to protest sites and changes in peoples' political attitudes3
From Dyadic Distance to Space in Family Networks: Reciprocity of Family Support in Switzerland3
Intellectual Solidarity and Reflexive Dislocation: Sociology in the Age of Global Authoritarianism3
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Variations in media framing of movements in China, France, and the U.S.: An intersectional approach3
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Temporality in the social sciences: New directions for a political sociology of time3
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
Contesting individualization and individualism in marriage in East Asia: Dual‐income couples' monetary practices3
Resilience in the context ofconflict‐relatedsexual violence and beyond: A “sentient ecology” framework3
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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
Climate Moralities Offset: A Case of Formative Voluntary Carbon Markets3
Side hustle safety net: How vulnerable workers survive precarious times. By AlexandreaRavenelle, Oakland: University of California Press. 2023. 344 pages. £25. ISBN: 97805203873003
What cultural hierarchy? Cultural tastes, status and inequality2
Cruel optimism, affective governmentality and frontline poverty governance: ‘You can promise the world’2
A conceptual refinement of ritual: The case of guanxi2
Lagging behind by doing good: How volunteering prolongs unemployment2
Elite recruitment in US finance: How university prestige is used to secure top executive positions2
Regional variation in intergenerational social mobility in Britain2
Reconsidering reparations. By Olúfẹ́mi O.Táíwò, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 20222
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The Quantified Scholar: An introduction to the book2
What Is Justice? Reflections on the Criminal Justice System in Brazil2
The government of emergency: Vital systems, expertise, and the politics of security. By Stephen J.Collier and AndrewLakoff, Princeton University Press. 20212
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
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“Now we don't have that freedom to not work”: Childhood and parenting in insecurity culture2
The neoliberal multicultural state and the urban Indigenous associative model in Santiago de Chile2
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Dynamics of wilful ignorance in organizations2
Continuing complexity: The university careers of a scientific elite in relation to their class origins and schooling2
Dimensions of class identification? On the roots and effects of class identity2
Decolonization and the spectre of the nation‐state2
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: 97806912086262
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
Social stratification in meaningful work: Occupational class disparities in the United Kingdom1
Unnatural Wills: Inheritance Disputes and Inequality1
Karl Popper Versus Karl Mannheim on Sociology and Democratic Governance1
Capital and the Family1
The rise of central banks: State power in financial capitalism. By LeonWansleben, Harvard University Press. 20231
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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
From a national elite to the global elite: Possibilities and problems in scaling up1
Seeking western men: Mail‐order brides under China’s global rise. By MonicaLiu, Stanford University Press. 20221
‘Levelling up’ social mobility? Comparing the social and spatial mobility for university graduates across districts of Britain1
Income change and sympathy for right‐wing populist parties in the Netherlands: The role of gender and income inequality within households1
Life funds, urban development, and the experimental practices of financial sociology1
How investors account for the quick and the dead1
Thinking against empire: Anticolonial thought as social theory1
Royal power in the market‐oriented society: The Swedish King's consecration of business and corporate elites1
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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
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
Facing arrhythmia. Reconstructing time in the pandemic by the metropolitan creative classes in Poland1
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
The coloniality of age: Navigating the chronopolitics of Black childhood1
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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How kin help with parental investments1
The socioeconomic dimensions of racial inequality in South Africa: A social space perspective1
Generations, events, and social movement legacies: Unpacking social change in English football (1980–2023)1
Racial Health Equity and the Question of Black (Non?) Being: Exploring the Uses of Afropessimism in Approaches to Anti‐Racist Health Promotion1
Civic involvement in deprived communities: A longitudinal study of England1
Exploring normative frameworks of fairness through (relational) institutional habitus in Oxford's undergraduate admissions process1
The education gap over immigration and socioeconomic security1
The Link Between Contextual Poverty and Academic Achievement: Evidence Using Panel Data From a Lower‐Middle‐Income Country1
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
Private spanner in public works? The corrosive effects of private insurance on public life1
Distinctions in the making: A theoretical discussion of youth and cultural capital1
Neighbourhood Effects Across Generations and the Reproduction of Inequality1
Meritocratic beliefs in the United States, Finland, and China: A multidimensional approach using latent class analysis1
The sustainability myth: Environmental gentrification and the politics of justice By MelissaChecker, NYU Press, 20201
The social life of money for children1
From integrated to fragmented elites. The core of Swiss elite networks 1910–20151
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
What's good for the gander is even better for the goose: Women buying commercial sex in China1
The same everywhere? Exploring structural homologies of national social fields using the case of journalism0
Social Mobility, Self‐Selection, and the Persistence of Class Inequality in Electoral Participation0
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
Equally Bad, Unevenly Distributed: Gender and the ‘Black Box’ of Student Employment0
Race, risk, and American religious groups' views of Nazi Germany in 19350
Breaking the silence on femicide: How women challenge epistemic injustice and male violence0
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
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“Because we all love K‐Pop”: How young adults reshape symbolic boundaries in Paris, Manchester, and Philadelphia0
Ida B. Wells‐Barnett as an anticolonial theorist on crime and punishment0
Are economists overconfident? Ideology and uncertainty in expert opinion0
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Unveiling power, or why social science's task is explanation0
Elite mobility and continuity during a regime change0
Gender inequality in the one percent: A look under the hood of high incomes in Germany0
The Power Elite in Greenland0
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
2020: One city, seven people, and the year everything changed. By EricKlinenberg, New York: Knopf. 2024. pp. 464. $32 (Hard cover). ISBN: 97805933194820
Demystifying the link between higher education and liberal values: A within‐sibship analysis of British individuals’ attitudes from 1994–20200
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Different while being similar: The dual institutional process and differential organizational status0
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The Compensatory Role of Diverse Workplaces: Parental Workplace Educational Composition and Children's Higher Education Enrolment0
The role of patriarchal structure and gender stereotypes in cyber dating abuse: A qualitative examination of male perpetrators experiences0
Blackstone vs BlackRock0
The self in selfies—Conceptualizing the selfie‐coordination of marginalized youth with sociology of engagements0
“If no one grieves, no one will remember”: Cultural palimpsests and the creation of social ties through rituals0
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Social Justice in Post‐Conflict Societies: Lessons From Northern Ireland0
What Is Antiracism? And Why It Means Anticapitalism By ArunKundnani, London: Verso. 2023. p. 304. £16.99. ISBN: 97818397627650
Social diversity and social cohesion in Britain0
“There's just too many”: The construction of immigration as a social problem0
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
Capital of Life in Death: How Bereaved Individuals Mobilise Cultural and Social Capital in UK Death Administration0
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Decolonizing the mind:0
Epistemology of surveillance: Revealing unmarked forms of discipline and punishment in Israeli academia0
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The dark side of onward migration: Experiences and strategies of Italian‐Bangladeshis in the UK at the time of the post‐Brexit referendum0
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
Income inequality, cultural capital, and high school students' academic achievement in OECD countries: A moderated mediation analysis0
More Than the Sum of Multiple Care: Ambivalence in Sandwich Care0
The revolution next door0
Economic returns to reproducing parents' field of study0
Varieties of Economic Elites? Preliminary Results From the World Elite Database (WED)0
Anticolonial thought, the sociological imagination, and social science: A reply to critics0
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Exploring the utility of eye tracking for sociological research on race0
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
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Becoming and unbecoming academics: Classed resources and strategies for navigating risky careers0
Far‐right boundary construction towards the “other”: Visual communication of Danish People’s Party on social media0
Does belief in meritocracy increase with inequality? A reconsideration for European countries0
Armed robbery and the meanings of money0
Positioning precarity: The contingent nature of precarious work in structure and practice0
Anywheres, Somewheres, local attachment, and civic participation0
Students' Interactional Cultural Capital and Academic Performance in Test‐ and Teacher‐Based Assessments0
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Death and Nationalism's Moral Imperative: The Battle for Britain, Industry and the ‘Left Behind’0
Superyachts: Luxury, Tranquillity, and Ecocide. By GregorySalle, Cambridge: Polity Press. 2024, pp. 122. ISBN: 987‐1‐5095‐5995‐40
Social inequality in completion rates in higher education: Heterogeneity in educational fields0
Russia's invasion of Ukraine and perceived intergenerational mobility in Europe0
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
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
Becoming Buddhists: The emergence of a prestigious temple0
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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
Racial discrimination in helping situations depends on the cost of help: A large field experiment in the streets of Paris0
Parenthood and dynamics of life satisfaction in times of COVID‐190
Is it time sociology started researching incompetence?0
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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