Sociological Review

Papers
(The median citation count of Sociological Review is 2. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
The familiar strange of sociological fiction39
Digital hate, health and safety, and the labour politics of public academia: ‘Universities don’t value this sort of work at all’39
The physicality of mindsports through elite bridge players’ sensorial experiences: Presence, confidence and bodies39
The ordinariness of life-making in displacement: Young Ukrainian workers’ care and work in Warsaw after 202238
Assembling consensual non-monogamy: Intimacies and multiplicities30
Owing the daughter-in-law: Bridewealth and the dynamics of intergenerational care in rural China27
Convivial narratives as agency: Middle-class Muslims evading racialisation in Copenhagen25
Turning over Stoke-on-Trent (pottery): Ritual, affect and haunting25
Revisiting young masculinities through a sound art installation: What really counts?22
Neoliberal multiculturalism and ethnic entrepreneurial self: A transnational perspective on ethnicity in China21
New forms of distinction: How contemporary cultural elites understand ‘good’ taste20
Framing optimism sociologically: Temporal complexity, collective affect, and cultures of optimism20
Revisiting Manufacturing Consent with Paul Thompson19
Women as subjects of risk in Bangladesh’s coastal riskscapes19
Sinners, saints, and racialized scapegoats: (Mis)interpellation and subject positions in the face of citizenship revocation in Norway18
Compassionate responsibilisation in a neoliberal paternalistic homelessness system: ‘They’re not just numbers to me, I do actually care’18
Rejecting resistance: Everyday resistance and harmony in Chinese hip-hop18
Who counts in poverty research?18
Translating ‘Understanding’/ understanding translation: A reflexive approach17
Deep listening, slow relationships, world-making: Indigenous and feminist ecological reflections on the Listening Guide and the Live Methods Manifesto16
Dystopian fiction, postcolonialism and non-human biography: Sociological speculatives and crisis complexity16
War frames and societal transformations in Ukraine: Reframing a wartime nation16
Freedom and unfreedom in au pairing: Probing unfree labour from the perspective of social reproduction15
You’ll never walk alone: Theorizing engaged walking with Doreen Massey15
Time with houseplants: A sociological analysis of temporalities, affective entanglements and practices of care15
Not coming out as affective care: LGBTQ+ individuals navigating the feeling landscape of intergenerational relationships14
Creating a safer space: Being safe and doing safety in queer and feminist punk scenes*14
Varieties of alternativeness: Relational practices in collaborative housing in Vienna14
From godkin to oddkin: Love, friendship and kin making beyond the human family14
The drinking at home woman: Between alcohol harms and domestic experiments14
Doing a favour or doing one’s job? A relational work perspective on precarious commitment in the digital games industry13
Navigating cultural intimacies: Long-lasting friendships in the Scottish South Asian diasporas13
Becoming ‘working’ women: Formations of gender, class and caste in urban India13
Higher education and social recognition: On the moral dimension of pupils’ aspirations and choices in Chile13
Apprehension of reproducing racialized stigmas in storytelling on street harassment in France: ‘I feel I’d just be adding to the stereotype’13
‘People just dae wit they can tae get by’: Exploring the half-life of deindustrialisation in a Scottish community13
An interventionist sociologist: Stuart Hall, public engagement and racism12
Foot notes: Retracing the steps towards diagnosis12
Introduction to Live Methods Revisited: The roots and conjuncture of Live Methods12
Cryptocurrencies and the promise of individual economic sovereignty in an age of digitalization: A critical appraisal12
Children’s food, care and the practices of da pei in urban China12
Racialised mobilities in China12
Nonsuicidal self-injury and intersubjective recognition: ‘You can’t argue with wounds’11
Spiral movement: Writing with fascism and urban violence11
Family strains, negative emotions and juvenile delinquency11
Some stories, more scenes11
From Chateau Latour to Chateau Bourdieu: The sociology of wine between empire, class, ethnicity and gender (or, the oenologic of practice )11
What’s love got to do with it? Live methods and researching with children who have experienced domestic abuse and social work intervention11
The private life approach to the rise of neo-familism in China11
Drugs, techno and the ecstasy of queer bodies10
Racialised terminologies and the BAME problematic: A perspective from football’s British South Asian senior leaders and executives10
The arrival of the Anthropocene in social theory: From modernism and Marxism towards a new materialism10
Bourdieu on love: A latent capital, a primary field and a new research agenda10
Regimes of motherhood: Social class, the word gap and the optimisation of mothers’ talk9
Troubling grief: Spectrality, temporality, refusal, catharsis9
The nation’s happiness, women’s altruism and the affective politics of self-blame: Generating a ‘mood of commitment’9
Infrastructuring exit migration: Social hope and migration decision-making in EU families who left the UK after the 2016 EU referendum9
The lines of descent of the present crisis9
Facemasks, material and metaphors: An analysis of socio-material dynamics of the COVID-19 pandemic9
Fiction in Goffman9
Contesting the universal claims of Western feminism: Black feminism and reproductive rights in France and the Overseas Departments (1960s–1980s)9
What matters in the queer archive? Technologies of memory and Queering the Map9
Following diversity through the university: On knowing and embodying a problem9
Home as a site of resistance/repression? The intersection of family, politics and the Hong Kong 2019 protest movement9
‘An incorporeal disease’: COVID-19, social trauma and health injustice in four Colombian Indigenous communities9
Amnesia and the erasure of structural racism in criminal justice professionals’ accounts of the 2011 English disturbances9
‘When we put our thoughts and ideas together, policy makers are listening to us’: Hope-work and the potential of participatory research9
The affective fields of working class among ‘Eastern European’ migrants in the UK8
The commodification of unaccompanied child migration: A double move of enclosure8
Sociologically unspeakable? The ethics of ethnography and live methods8
Organising for Change one year later – Response to the critics8
Dark waters, dark waters8
Performers as emotional artisans: Crafting displays in theatre and workload8
Feminist expertise and the political work of building alternative futures8
Race, rhetorical veneers and the virulence of colonial violence during COVID8
Intercorporeality in visually impaired running-together: Auditory attunement and somatic empathy8
Love, laughter and solidarity on the docks in Liverpool, c.1950s–1990s8
Emotion work, affect and intergenerational ties: Understanding children’s engagement with therapeutic culture8
Continuing personhood and the increasing bureaucratisation of death: ‘My dad doesn’t need electricity in heaven’8
Emotions and emotional reflexivity in undocumented migrant youth activism8
Countering anti-Asian violence in a Parisian banlieue: Defensive familism7
Theorizing autonomy in the platform economy: A study of food delivery gig workers in Latvia7
Living with Brexit: Families, relationships and the temporalities of everyday personal life in ‘Brexit Britain’7
Capitalist realism is dead. Long live utopian realism! A sociological exegesis of Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future7
War frames: Insights from Eastern Europe and East Asia7
Convertible, multiple and hidden: The inventive lives of women’s sport and activewear 1890–19407
The ambiguous lives of ‘the other whites’: Class and racialisation of Eastern European migrants in the UK7
The far right, banal nationalism and the reproduction of Islamophobia through the consumer activist campaign of Boycott Halal7
Queering Southern Italy: Towards a conceptualisation of ‘Meridian Sexualities’7
Rethinking elites in British sociology: Great Britain as a house-society7
Spectral labour in the Fens of Eastern England7
The material effects of Whiteness: Institutional racism in the German welfare state6
The affective infrastructure of a protest camp: Asylum seekers’ ‘Right to Live’ movement6
In search of unbordered homelands: Exploring the role of music in building affective internationalist politics of solidarity6
The ‘where’ of EU social science collaborations: How epistemic inequalities and geopolitical power asymmetries persist in research about Europe6
Citizenship and discomfort: Wearing (clothing) as an embodied act of citizenship6
Navigating ambiguity within neighbour-based organisations in Mexico City: From proximity to protest6
Afterword: Affective histories and class transmission6
Claiming deservingness: The durability of social security claimant discourses during the Covid-19 pandemic6
Exploring the generational ordering of kinship through decisions about DNA testing and gamete donor conception: What’s the right age to know your donor relatives?6
Vanguard fantasies: The wealthy upper classes as politically spirited wealth elite establishment6
Disjunctive writing in the urban skinscape: Bodies, borders and the physiology of attention in a Rio de Janeiro favela6
Green capitalism, climate change and the technological fix: A more-than-human assessment6
Non-binary embodiment and bodily discomfort: Body as social signum6
The digital writing of human rights narratives: Failure, recognition, and the unruly inscriptions of database infrastructures6
Cultivating cultural capital and transforming cultural fields: A study with arts and disability organisations in Europe6
Dirt, decency and the symbolic boundaries of caregiving in residential homes for older people5
By, for, with women? On the politics and potentialities of wellness entrepreneurship5
Research failure, crip temporalities and bipolar time in UK higher education5
Present feelings, feeling present: Liveness in research on time and feeling during the Covid-19 pandemic5
Towards an empirically robust theory of stigma resistance in the ‘new’ sociology of stigma: Everyday resistance in sheltered workshops5
Metaphors at work: The symbolic infrastructures of sociological theory5
Corrigendum5
Career coaching and the making of the neoliberal subject in Türkiye: Bringing docility back in5
Straying with the Trouble: Science fiction, utopia and the anti-carceral imagination5
Schools as public things: Parents and the affective relations of schooling5
‘We are forever traumatized’ – Aseel Baidoun interviewed by Cairsti Russell5
‘I do feel proud that almost everyone I know voted’: The emotional foundations of dutiful citizenship5
Time structures in ethnomethodological and conversation analysis studies of practical activity5
‘You are Danish, or you are not’: How migrants in Denmark experience class and otherness5
Expanding the ‘Third Space’ between Western and non-Western knowledge: Nakane Chie’s Japanese Society as anti-Eurocentric theory4
Frictional rhythms of climate work in city governance4
Sociography of a curious object: Descriptive research, the #OneLess refill pilot, and practices of hesitation4
The (in)visibility of sewage management and problematization as strategy for public awareness4
Cultivated invisibility and migrants’ experiences of homelessness during the COVID-19 pandemic4
Explosive legacies: Gaza and colonial aphasia4
Bordering through unchilding: The case of Britain’s child migrants4
Situating decolonial strategies within methodologies-in/as-practices: A critical appraisal4
The price of the ticket revised: Family members’ experiences of upward social mobility4
W. E. B. Du Bois’s forgotten sociology of morality: Contesting the foundations and informing the future of the sociology of morality4
A sociological approach to Japan’s war frames and security threats4
Grieving academic grant rejections: Examining funding failure and experiences of loss4
The Russian Revolution and photography: The tragic paradoxes of canonisation4
Introduction4
Fear and loathing in north London: Experiencing estate regeneration as psychosocial degeneration4
Ambivalent pleasures: Towards narcofeminist alterlife4
Doing community in social distancing times: Faith, sociality and new embodied practices during the Covid-19 pandemic4
Algorithmic control and resistance in the gig economy: A case of Uber drivers in Dhaka4
Entanglements of race and migration in the (open) city: Analytical and normative tensions of the sociological imagination4
De-communalising the hot pot: Chinese cuisine in Australia during COVID-194
Making the left behind as a subject of crisis3
Non-identity accounts: Personal myths, cultural scripts and narrative alignment3
Narcofeminism and its multiples: From activism to everyday minoritarian worldbuilding3
Towards a renewed conceptualization of the war–society nexus: From events to frames3
Intergenerational relations: Paradoxical integration of feelings, opportunities and issues3
‘Clean communication’: Felt-sense methodologies and the reflexive researcher in equine-assisted personal development3
Family and queer temporality among Chinese young gay men: Yes, but not yet3
Slick and smooth: The role of petro-products in making and maintaining ‘femininity’ in the beauty salon3
The uses of poetry3
Transgender trouble: The construction of an embodied enemy in anti-gender mobilizations in Belgium and Italy3
Doing youth participatory action research (YPAR) with Bourdieu: An invitation to reflexive (participatory) sociology3
Fly-tipping and the sociology of abandonment3
Sociography: Writing Differently3
An ontological turn in the sociology of personal life: Tracing facet methodology’s connective ontology3
Intergenerational living arrangements and older parents’ happiness in China: The role of family social capital3
Situating class in workplace and community environmentalism: Working-class environmentalism and deindustrialisation in Porto Marghera, Venice3
Fiscal environmentalism: Carbon arithmetic, objects of taxation, and the epistemic culture of economic expertise3
Scaffolding collective hope and agency in youth activist groups: ‘I get hope through action’3
Class Mistreatment in Elite Settings: Upward Mobility and Cross-class Interactions3
Figuring out fairness: The social construction of inheritance entitlements in close relationships3
Cooking up change: Food practices and class trajectories across the life course3
Feminisation, governance and Roma on the urban margins3
Deconstructing giftedness: A relational analysis of the make-up of talent in theatrical dance3
The value of the serious leisure perspective in understanding cultural capital embodiment in festival settings3
Technologies of abjection: The possessive logics and performative sovereignty of drug dog operations in New South Wales, Australia3
Returning to Manufacturing Consent 45 years on3
Power relations and persistent low fertility among domestic workers in Latin America3
Affective labour, blurred work–leisure boundaries, and intensity of exploitation in the hospitality sector3
Live methods and live things: Cultivating attentiveness to dormant things to develop a vital sociology of the everyday3
Bureaucracy and patrimonialism on Wall Street: How organizational forms contribute to elite reproduction3
The ‘good story’ and kindness Twitter: Tales of hope and fears of dupery during Covid-193
Hospitality work and the sociality of affective labour3
Beyond recognition: Identification and disidentification in visual resistance to stigma2
The crisis of social reproduction and therapeutic self-care2
Aurality of images in graphic ethnographies: Sexual violence during wars and memories of the feelings of fear2
Re-learning hope: On alienation, theory and the ‘death’ of universities2
Schooling citizenship and character in a therapeutic society2
Love in the space–time of inequality: Attachment and detachment across unequal lives2
The endurance of whiteness in a museum2
Movement meaning of money: Monetary mobilization in Hong Kong’s prodemocracy movement2
Higher education and nation-building after Empire: Migrant students in post-war Britain2
A new middle-class fraction with a distinct subjectivity: Tech workers and the transformation of the entrepreneurial self2
Paradoxes of mindfulness: The specious promises of a contemporary practice2
In search of a Tawney Moment: Income inequality, financial crisis and the mass media in the UK and the USA2
Contested delegation: Understanding critical public responses to algorithmic decision-making in the UK and Australia2
Queer milestones: Intergenerational relations and youth transitions of Chinese queer female students residing overseas2
Dissonant intimacies: Coloniality and the failures of South–South collaboration2
Why and how should sociologists speak out on Palestine?2
Difference and diversity: Combining multiculturalist and interculturalist approaches to integration2
Strategic naturalizing in the Anthropocene: Managing cells, bodies and ecosystems2
Monitoring care, curating suffering: Law, bureaucracy and veterinary expertise in contemporary animal politics2
An intimacy field framework: Class, habitus and capital in gay relationships2
Co-existing structures of feeling: Senses and imaginaries of industrial neighbourhoods2
South Korean society and the lasting legacy of the Korean War: Ideology, economy and militarization2
Individualism and reproductive choices among highly educated young women in present-day China: ‘Putting the self at the centre’2
Homing desires: Transnational queer migrants negotiating homes and homelands in Scotland2
(Re)connecting anti-racisms: Islamophobia and the politics of police/prison abolition in contemporary Britain2
Budgets and biologicals: The bio-economization of HIV governance2
Narcofeminist ‘chemsex’: Rethinking sexualised drug use in a shifting queer landscape marked by public health emergency2
Masculinity, humour and the making of maritime infrastructure: An ethnography aboard an icebreaker2
The lonely activist: On being haunted2
The social connectedness of digital practices in later life: It’s not just about learning, it’s all about relationships2
Sociological writing as resonant writing2
Totalitarian influence and war support in China: Shaping public opinion on Ukraine and Taiwan2
What happens after ‘modern slavery’ rescues? A case of rescued bonded labourers in ‘waiting’ in India2
Rendering, waste disposal and the production of value2
Holding ourselves to account: The precarity dividend and the ethics of researching academic precarity2
‘Methods was always a place where sociology happens’: Revisiting Live Methods with Les Back and Nirmal Puwar2
Framing stigma as an avoidable social harm that widens inequality2
Of parvenus, priests and prophets: An exploration of transformations of (some) economists and their subject2
Cards against gamification: Using a role-playing game to tell alternative futures in the gig economy2
Cultural capital, standardised testing and East Asian education: The transposition of disposition of Taiwanese elite students2
Indigenous urbanisation and the decolonial possibilities of internal diasporas2
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