Sociology-The Journal of the British Sociological Association

Papers
(The median citation count of Sociology-The Journal of the British Sociological Association is 1. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
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Book Review: Paul Lichterman, How Civic Action Works: Fighting for Housing in Los Angeles37
Social Positioning and Pathways of Social Mobility of Intermarried Ukrainian Migrants in Poland34
Hospitality Work as Social Reproduction: Embodied and Emotional Labour during COVID-1929
Affective Intensities of Single Lives: An Alternative Account of Temporal Aspects of Couple Normativity29
Global Inequality, Mobility Regimes and Transnational Capital: The Post-Graduation Plans of African Student Migrants29
Crowds, Police and Provocations: Temporal Patterns of Rioting in Britain, 1800–193929
‘Proxy Parenting’ and Creating a ‘Golden Touch’: Practices and Discourses of Intensive Grandparenting25
Educational Differences in Cycling: Evidence from German Cities24
Book Review: Rebecca Elliott, Underwater: Loss, Flood Insurance, and the Moral Economy of Climate Change in the United States23
Shame, Anger and Hope: The Messy Relations of Charitable Help within the Welfare State22
Limited Tools for Emancipation? Human Rights and Border Abolition22
Homemade State: Motherhood, Citizenship and the Home in Child Welfare Encounters20
Book Review: Jonathan Purkis, Driving with Strangers: What Hitchhiking Tells Us about Humanity19
How and Why People Use Mobile Phones Near Bedtime and in Bed: Israelis’ Narratives of Digitally Enabled Sleepful Sociality19
Social Quarantining in the Construction and Maintenance of White Australia17
Are Right-Wing Attitudes and Voting Associated with Having Attended Private School? An Investigation Using the 1970 British Cohort Study17
No Substitute for In-Person Interaction: Changing Modes of Social Contact during the Coronavirus Pandemic and Effects on the Mental Health of Adults in the UK17
Promoting Diversity but Striving for Excellence: Opening the ‘Black Box’ of Academic Hiring16
Self-Tracking among Young People: Lived Experiences, Tensions and Bodily Outcomes16
Living and Dying in Shadow Times16
Bourdieu and Sociological Biography: The Case of Vincent van Gogh’s Choice of Profession15
From God to Technology: Multiple Ontologies of Reproductive Time15
Lying and Time: Moving beyond the Moral Question of Lying14
Understanding Disability and Cultural (Re)production: An Ethnography of Coaching Practice in High Performance Disability Sport14
Everyday Constructions of Class-Based Inequality: Field Effects in UK Museum Work14
Book Review: Gurminder Bhambra and John Holmwood, Colonialism and Modern Social Theory13
Dialectical Family Imaginaries: Navigating Relational Selfhood and Becoming a Parent through Assisted Reproduction in China13
Finding Moral Value through Maintaining a Working Class ‘Mentality’: Student Teachers from Working Class Backgrounds (Not) Becoming Middle Class13
Grudging Acts13
Book Review: Gargi Bhattacharya, Adam Elliot-Cooper, Sita Balani, Kerem Nişancıoğlu, Kojo Koram, Dalia Gebrial, Nadine El-Enany and Luke de Noronha Empire’s Endgame: Racism and the British State13
Amalgamated Masculinities: The Masculine Identity of Contemporary Marginalised Working-Class Young Men13
It Is My Turn Now: How and Why ‘Single’ Women Complain about Non-Reciprocal Gift-Giving13
The Fate of Being a ‘Distressed Asset’: Insights into Women Returners’ Experiences in the UK12
‘He is My Refuge’: Upward Mobility, Class Dislocation and Romantic Relationships12
Civility and Rejection: The Contextuality of Cosmopolitan and Racist Behaviours11
Cultural Models of Contention: How Do the Public Interpret the Repertoire of Contention?11
Anthropotropism: Searching for Recognition in the Scandinavian Gig Economy11
Conceptualising Black (Co-)Reflexive Feminist Methodologies: Collaboration, Process and Critical Friendship11
Moral Imperatives of Lockdown: Story Completion Tasks of Family Practices and Relationships in Australia during COVID-1910
Thank You to Referees10
CORRIGENDUM to ‘Social Space as a Theory of Society: Scientific Arguments Regarding the Figuration of the Social in Bourdieu’s Distinction’10
‘Decolonizing the Hindu Mind’: Authoritarian Populism and the Political Life of Decolonial Theory in India10
Bare Fridges and Burnt Tortillas: Conflictual Moments in the Making of Coupledom9
A Bourdieusian Latent Class Analysis of Cultural, Arts, Heritage and Sports Activities in the UK Representative Understanding Society Dataset9
Environment or Economy? Food Concerns and Sustainable Food Transitions in the UK9
The ‘Selfish Element’: How Sperm and Egg Donors Construct Plausibly Moral Accounts of the Decision to Donate9
Using Natural Experiments to Uncover Effects of Anti-Refugee Riots on Attitudes of Refugees9
Reproduction and the Expanding Border: Pregnant Migrants as a ‘Problem’ in the 2014 Immigration Act9
Book Review: Michael Mann, On Wars MannMichaelOn WarsNew Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2023, £30.00 hbk (ISBN: 9780300266818), 616 pp.9
Do Western Sociological Concepts Apply Globally? Towards a Global Sociology9
Love’s Labour’s Lost? Separation as a Constraint on Displays of Transnational Daughterhood8
Recognition or Redistribution? How Mainstream Media Frames Charitable Responses to People Experiencing Poverty8
Submerged: Surfacing Deep Poverty during Permacrisis8
The Arab ‘Uncertain Body’ and Sojourner Passing in Israel8
‘I was just left to get on with the job’: Understanding grief and work through a relational lens8
Thwarted or Facilitated? The Entrepreneurial Aspirations and Capabilities of New Migrants in the UK8
The Aftermath of Death in the Continuing Lives of the Living: Extending ‘Bereavement’ Paradigms through Family and Relational Perspectives8
Thank You to Referees8
‘My Memories of the Time We Had Together Are More Important’: Direct Cremation and the Privatisation of UK Funerals8
On Being Seen in Unseen Places: A Dramaturgical View of the Night8
University and the Pursuit of a ‘Career’ for Working-Class Youth in Deindustrial Rochdale7
Book Review: Matthew Goodwin, Values, Voice and Virtue: The New British Politics7
Better Than the Markets: Mutual Fund Managers’ Perceptions of the Rich7
‘The Green Areas Are Out of Our Reach’: Racialisation, Erasure and Resistance in UK Urban Greening Initiatives7
Futures Imperfect: A Reflection on Challenges7
Autocratic Power and Older Citizens: The Political Subjectification of Retirees in Belarus7
Can Work Time Fragmentation Influence Workers’ Subjective Time Pressure? The Roles of Gender and Parenthood7
Social Movement Ruptures and Legacies: Unpacking the Early Sedimentation of the Anti-European Super League Movement in English Football7
Maximising Operational Effectiveness: Exploring Stigma, Militarism, and the Normative Connections to Military Partners’ Support-Seeking7
Austerity as Bureaucratic Violence: Understanding the Impact of (Neoliberal) Austerity on Disabled People in Sweden7
Thank You to Referees 2023–20246
The Art of Navigating a White Upper-Class Gaze: Exploring Visible Minorities’ Negotiations of Belonging in the Norwegian Cultural Field6
The Stateless Person, the Citizen and Human Rights: A Revised Neo-Hobbesian Theory of Human Rights for Sociology6
Me? A Hero? Gendered Work and Attributions of Heroism among Volunteers during the COVID-19 Pandemic6
Book Review: Anne Rogers and David Pilgrim, Living with Health Inequalities: Upstream–Downstream Connections RogersAnnePilgrimDavidLiving with Health Inequalities: Upstr6
From 100-Year-Old Women’s Motoring Masks to Contemporary PPE: A Socio-Political Study of Persistent Problems and Inventive Possibilities6
Maternal Occupation-Specific Skills and Children’s Cognitive Development6
‘Without Papers I Can’t Do Anything’: The Neglected Role of Citizenship Status and ‘Illegality’ in Intersectional Analysis6
The Consequentiality of Absences in Social Settings: A Sensemaking Perspective5
Immigrants’ Pathways to the Income Elite in Germany5
Work-Time, Male-Breadwinning and the Division of Domestic Labour: Male Part-Time and Full-Time Workers in Unsettled Times5
‘It’s a Small Little Pub, but Everybody Knew Everybody’: Pub Culture, Belonging and Social Change5
Practices of Consumption: Cohesion and Distinction within a Globally Wealthy Group5
Inter-Risk Framing Contests: The Politics of Issue Attention among Scandinavian Climate NGOs during the Coronavirus Pandemic5
The Sociology of Futurelessness5
Historical Perspectives on British Sociology’s Future: An Interview with John Scott5
Book Review: Karen Patel, The Politics of Expertise in Cultural Labour: Arts, Work and Inequalities5
Muslim-Mancunian Women: Racial-Colonial Literacy, Counter-Knowledge and Epistemological Justice5
Trading Blame: Drawing Boundaries around the Righteous, Deserving and Vulnerable in Times of Crisis5
Communities of/for Interest: Revisiting the Role of Migrants’ Online Groups5
A Sociological Conversation with ChatGPT about AI Ethics, Affect and Reflexivity5
Book Review: Jack Palmer and Dariusz Brzeziński (eds), Revisiting Modernity and the Holocaust: Heritage, Dilemmas, Extensions5
Not Talking about Climate Change: Everyday Interactions, Relational Work and Climate Silences5
Sociological Futures and the Importance of the Past5
Forms of Capital, Social Change and the Weight of the Past: The Effective Agents of the Swiss Field of Power 1910–20155
Racial Biofutures: COVID-19 and Black Futurity Otherwise4
Whose Lifestyle Matters at Johannesburg Pride? The Lifestylisation of LGBTQ+ Identities and the Gentrification of Activism4
Brexit Rebordering, Sticky Relationships and the Production of Mixed-Status Families4
Platforms Disrupting Reputation: Precarity and Recognition Struggles in the Remote Gig Economy4
Towards Relational Spatiality: Space, Relation and Simmel’s Modernity4
Gaming and Performance Metrics in Higher Education: The Consequences of Journal Lists4
Towards a Relational Sociology of Retrofit4
Documenting Families: Paper-Work in Family Display among Planned Single Father Families4
Embodied Acting, Belonging and Gender Inequalities in Service Work4
Real Utopia as a Method? Utopian-Sociological Paths from Jameson’s Universal Army to a Postcapitalist Post Office4
Powerful or Disempowering Knowledge? The Teaching of Sociology in English Schools and Colleges4
Life-Cycle Economic Returns to Educational Mobility in Denmark4
Money, Debt and Finance: Reclaiming the Conditions of Possibility in Consumption Research4
Disability, Social Class and Stigma: An Intersectional Analysis of Disabled Young People’s School Experiences4
Spatial Imaginaries and Geographic Division within the UK: Uneven Economic Development, Ethnicity and National Identity4
Trajectories towards Political Engagement on Facebook around Brexit: Beyond Affordances for Understanding Racist and Right-Wing Populist Mobilisations Online3
Corrosive Solo Self-Employment: The Qualitative and Quantitative Impact of Neo-Villeiny in the Fitness Industry3
Feeling Time, Fashioning Age: Pre-teen Girls Negotiating Life Course and the Ageing Process Through Dress3
How Intellectuals Perform: Meaning Making and Community in the Czechoslovak Philosophical Underground3
Movement Texts as Anti-Colonial Theory3
The English Workday Lunch: The Organisation, Understandings and Meaning of the Meal3
The Wageless Life of Creative Workers: Alternative Economic Practices, Commoning and Consumption Work in Cultural Labour3
Carrying Europe’s ‘White Burden’, Sustaining Racial Capitalism: Young Post-Soviet Migrant Workers in Helsinki and Warsaw3
Virtues or Talent among Brotherless Daughters: A Study of How Patriarchal Gender Ideals Affect Gender Role Attitudes among Women from the One-Child Generation in China3
Gender Identity in the 2021 Census of England and Wales: How a Flawed Question Created Spurious Data3
Book Review: Chris Bail, Breaking the Social Media Prism: How to Make Our Platforms Less Polarizing3
CORRIGENDUM to ‘Youth, Reinventive Institutions and the Moral Politics of Future-Making in Postcolonial Africa’3
Embodying Daoist Internal Arts: Walking the Line between the Reification and the Instrumental Use of Cognition3
‘Just a Simple Sausage Sandwich’: The Significance of Sensory Care Practices and Hidden Carers in the Hospice3
The Legal Formation of Class in Migrant Care and Domestic Work3
From the Home to the (Hand)bag: Negotiating Privacy in Personal Life when Living with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)3
Misgendering, Cisgenderism and the Reproduction of the Gender Order in Social Interaction3
Book Review: Alana Lentin, Why Race Still Matters3
Book Review: J Michael Ryan (ed.), COVID-19: Individual Rights and Community Responsibilities3
Book Review: Catherine Happer, The Construction of Public Opinion in a Digital Age HapperCatherineThe Construction of Public Opinion in a Digital AgeManchester: Manchest3
No Time for a ‘Time Out’? Managing Time around (Non)Drinking3
Book Review: Tad Skotnicki, The Sympathetic Consumer: Moral Critique in Capitalist Culture3
Hunger Bonds: Boundaries and Bridges in the Charitable Food Provision Field3
Book Review: Emanuel Deutschmann, Mapping the Transnational World: How We Move and Communicate across Borders, and Why It Matters2
How the “Commercialized Performance of Affiliative Race and Ethnicity” Disrupts Ethnoracial Hierarchy: Boundary Processes of Customers’ Encounter with South Asian Waitpersons in Hong Kong’s Restaurant2
Living Together through the Asylum Process: Affective Proximity in Home Accommodation of Asylum Seekers2
Exploring Performances of (Hyper) Intensive Motherhood in the Setting of Manchester’s Christmas Markets2
Belief in Science and Beliefs about COVID-19: Educational Gradients2
‘I’m Mum and Dad in One, Basically’: Doing and Displaying ‘Good Lone Motherhood’2
Beyond ‘Imagined Meritocracy’: Distinguishing the Relative Power of Education and Skills in Intergenerational Inequality2
Book Review: Robert Leroux, Thierry Martin and Stephen Turner (eds), The Future of Sociology: Ideology or Objective Social Science?2
Value(s) in Community Food Work: The Dynamics of the Field, Funding and the Limits of Metrics2
The Dis/appearing Sporting Body: The Complex Embodiment of Disabled Athletes2
Outside and Inside the Arena of Othering: Notions of ‘Intensive Mothering’ Revealed through Post-Abortion Narratives2
Turning the Decolonial Gaze towards Ourselves: Decolonising the Curriculum and ‘Decolonial Reflexivity’ in Sociology and Social Theory2
Creating a New Normal? Technosocial Relations, Mundane Governance and Pandemic-Related Disruption in Everyday Life2
Childcare Facility Closure and Exacerbated Gender Inequality in Parenting Time during the COVID-19 Pandemic2
Recalibrating Everyday Futures during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Futures Fissured, on Standby and Reset in Mass Observation Responses2
Negotiating Choice: Unpacking the Linkages between Women’s Relative Resources and Contraceptive Decision Making in India2
Ethical Practices of the Family Child2
Thank You to Referees2
Sticking Together in ‘Divided Britain’: Talking Brexit in Everyday Family Relationships2
Temporalities of Friendship: Adults’ Friends in Everyday Family Life and Beyond2
Constructing a Mothers’ Culture : Affective Bargains in Branding Discourses2
Exploring the Role UK Grandfathers Play in Parenting Culture: Intermittent Intensive Grandfathering2
The Sociology of Utopia, Modern Temporality and Black Visions of Liberation2
Book Review: David S Meyer, How Social Movements (Sometimes) Matter2
Young Low-Income Mothers’ Identity Work around Infant Feeding in the UK2
Back to the Future: The Impact of Perceptions and Experiences of Time on the Lives of British Lifestyle Migrants in Spain2
Towards a Theory of Cis-Supremacy: Conceptualising Ongoing Barriers to Trans Equality2
The ‘Two’ Universities: Cross-Class Encounters and the Segregated Inclusion of Non-Elite Women at an Elite University2
‘If It’s All an Act, Then What’s the Point?’: Men’s and Women’s Views on Authenticity in Pornographic Videos2
Book Review: Avtar Brah, Decolonial Imaginings: Intersectional Conversations and Contestations2
Family Estrangement and the Unseen Work of Not Doing Family2
Racial Capitalism and Entrepreneurship: An Intersectional Feminist Labour Market Perspective on UK Self-Employment2
Book Review: Diane M Rodgers, Children in Social Movements: Rethinking Agency, Mobilization, and Rights2
Deindividualising Imposter Syndrome: Imposter Work among Marginalised STEMM Undergraduates in the UK2
Mothers Doing Friendship in a Hostile Environment: Navigating Dialectical Tensions and Sharing Support2
Contradiction as Injustice: How Senses of Inequality Differ across National Contexts2
Becoming an Activist: Individualisation and a Democratic Contentious Ethos in ‘How to’ Books1
Becoming a Nationalist Activist: Exploring Biographical Paths of Polish Football Fans1
Synthetic Involvement: Digital Co-Presence in the Flesh1
Book Review: Orian Brook, Dave O’Brien and Mark Taylor, Culture Is Bad for You: Inequality in the Cultural and Creative Industries1
Social Space as a Theory of Society: Scientific Arguments Regarding the Figuration of the Social in Bourdieu’s Distinction1
Siblings and the Bereaved Self: Identity (Re)Construction Following the Death of a Brother or Sister1
The Power of Diversity: Class, Networks and Attitudes Towards Inequality1
Examining ‘Good’ Mothering and Value Transmission: How British-Born South-Asian Mothers Seek Generational Change1
Researching Lay Perceptions of Inequality through Images of Society: Compliance, Inversion and Subversion of Power Hierarchies1
Changing Temporal Opportunity Structures? Two Cohorts of Young Women’s Thoughts about Future Work, Family and Education1
Anticipatory Regimes in Pregnancy: Cross-Fertilising Reproduction and Parenting Culture Studies1
Co-Sleeping with Partners and Pets as a Family Practice of Intimacy: Israeli Couples’ Narratives of Creating Kinship1
Individualization and Individualism: Facets and Turning Points of the Entrepreneurial Self among Young People in Italy1
A Politics of One’s Own: Leisure, Belonging and Momentary Self-Exclusion among British Bangladeshi Women in East London1
Guilt and Beyond: A Class Cultural Analysis of Evolving Emotional Responses to Maternal Foodwork1
Book Review: Anna Tarrant, Fathering and Poverty: Uncovering Men’s Participation in Low-Income Family Life1
More Than Making Do: Towards a Generative Account of Getting by on Welfare Benefits1
Uncanny Europe and Protective Europeanness: When European Identity Becomes a Queerly Viable Option1
Hope and Creative Work in Conflict Zones: Theoretical Insights from Israel1
Book Review: Heidi A Campbell and Ruth Tsuria (eds), Digital Religion: Understanding Religious Practice in Digital Media1
Moving on up? How Social Origins Shape Geographic Mobility within Britain’s Higher Managerial and Professional Occupations1
Book Review: Nancy Fraser, Cannibal Capitalism: How Our System Is Devouring Democracy, Care and the Planet – and What We Can Do about It1
‘That Was Our Little Five Minutes of Shush . . . a Kiss and Cuddle and Have Our Books’: Sensory Affinities among Families during Shared Reading with Children1
Black Lives Matter: The Role of Emotions in Political Engagement1
Ambivalent Strategies: Student-Migrant-Workers’ Efforts at Challenging Administrative Bordering1
Gendered Consequences of Social Mobility: Second-Generation Immigrants’ Work–Care Considerations in High-Status Occupations in Norway1
Book Review: Vicki Dabrowski, Austerity, Women and the Role of the State: Lived Experiences of the Crisis1
Book Review: David Yamane, Gun Curious: A Liberal Professor’s Surprising Journey Inside America’s Gun Culture1
Peace, Temporality, and Generations: How Young People Make Sense of Northern Ireland’s Long Peace Process1
Variations of Gender Gaps in the Labour Market Outcomes of Graduates across Fields of Study: A (Combined) Test of Two Theories1
A Quest for Passion: Understanding Precarious Migration of Young Highly Qualified EU Citizens as Lived Neoliberal Subjectivity1
Developing the Concept of Belonging Work for Social Research1
Flourishing on the Stage: Embodied Reflexivity and the Effacing of Work Boundaries in Contemporary Performing Arts1
Family Influences on Migration Intentions: The Role of Past Experience of Involuntary Immobility1
Moral Subjects in White Spaces: Impossible Solidarities1
Slower Sociologies for the Sociology of the Future1
Neighbourliness and Situational Factors: Explaining Neighbour Behaviour in Attacks and Rescues of Sikhs in Delhi in 1984 and Muslims in Ahmedabad in 20021
Managing Uncertainty and Risk in Access to the Solicitors’ Profession in England: Classed Pathways?1
A Model of Cultural Reproduction in China: Tracing Consumption to Parental Social Origin1
What Future for the Sociology of Futures? Visions, Concepts and Methods1
Book Review: Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan, Tangled in Terror: Uprooting Islamophobia1
‘I Hadn’t Realised That Change Is Not a Difficult Thing’: Mobilising Football Fans on Climate Change1
Bring Your Own Politics: Life Strategies and Mobilization in Response to Urban Redevelopment1
Social Class, the Overlooked Element of Diversity within Higher Education: An Analysis of Policy Documents and Data Collection Practices by Russell Group Universities in the United Kingdom1
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