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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Crowds, Police and Provocations: Temporal Patterns of Rioting in Britain, 1800–193952
Affective Intensities of Single Lives: An Alternative Account of Temporal Aspects of Couple Normativity42
Educational Differences in Cycling: Evidence from German Cities38
Hospitality Work as Social Reproduction: Embodied and Emotional Labour during COVID-1936
‘Proxy Parenting’ and Creating a ‘Golden Touch’: Practices and Discourses of Intensive Grandparenting33
Social Positioning and Pathways of Social Mobility of Intermarried Ukrainian Migrants in Poland31
Book Review: Rebecca Elliott, Underwater: Loss, Flood Insurance, and the Moral Economy of Climate Change in the United States29
Homemade State: Motherhood, Citizenship and the Home in Child Welfare Encounters28
Shame, Anger and Hope: The Messy Relations of Charitable Help within the Welfare State27
Limited Tools for Emancipation? Human Rights and Border Abolition25
Are Right-Wing Attitudes and Voting Associated with Having Attended Private School? An Investigation Using the 1970 British Cohort Study22
Social Quarantining in the Construction and Maintenance of White Australia18
From God to Technology: Multiple Ontologies of Reproductive Time18
Book Review: Jonathan Purkis, Driving with Strangers: What Hitchhiking Tells Us about Humanity18
How and Why People Use Mobile Phones Near Bedtime and in Bed: Israelis’ Narratives of Digitally Enabled Sleepful Sociality17
Living and Dying in Shadow Times17
Self-Tracking among Young People: Lived Experiences, Tensions and Bodily Outcomes17
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
Classification and Control: Purity and Danger in Britain’s Asylum Regime16
Street-Level Bureaucrats in the Irish Privatised Asylum Regime: Experiences and Professional Identity16
Bourdieu and Sociological Biography: The Case of Vincent van Gogh’s Choice of Profession16
Everyday Constructions of Class-Based Inequality: Field Effects in UK Museum Work15
Lying and Time: Moving beyond the Moral Question of Lying15
Understanding Disability and Cultural (Re)production: An Ethnography of Coaching Practice in High Performance Disability Sport14
Religion, Diversity and Outgroup Tolerance Across 79 Countries: The ‘Homogenizing’ Role of Heterogeneity13
It Is My Turn Now: How and Why ‘Single’ Women Complain about Non-Reciprocal Gift-Giving13
From Edgework to Edgeworking: The Interplay of Risk and the Life Course13
Book Review: Gurminder Bhambra and John Holmwood, Colonialism and Modern Social Theory13
Amalgamated Masculinities: The Masculine Identity of Contemporary Marginalised Working-Class Young Men12
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 State12
Grudging Acts12
Finding Moral Value through Maintaining a Working Class ‘Mentality’: Student Teachers from Working Class Backgrounds (Not) Becoming Middle Class11
The Reproduction of Wealth Inequality: How Middle- and Upper-Class Parents Instil Financial Orientations in Their Children11
Book Review: Alexandrina Vanke, The Urban Life of Workers in Post-Soviet Russia: Engaging in Everyday Struggles VankeAlexandrinaThe Urban Life of Workers in Post-Soviet 11
A ‘Self-Made’ Billionaire? Gender and the Myth of Meritocratic Wealth11
Anthropotropism: Searching for Recognition in the Scandinavian Gig Economy11
Conceptualising Black (Co-)Reflexive Feminist Methodologies: Collaboration, Process and Critical Friendship11
Dialectical Family Imaginaries: Navigating Relational Selfhood and Becoming a Parent through Assisted Reproduction in China11
‘He is My Refuge’: Upward Mobility, Class Dislocation and Romantic Relationships11
‘Decolonizing the Hindu Mind’: Authoritarian Populism and the Political Life of Decolonial Theory in India11
Moral Imperatives of Lockdown: Story Completion Tasks of Family Practices and Relationships in Australia during COVID-1910
The Fate of Being a ‘Distressed Asset’: Insights into Women Returners’ Experiences in the UK10
CORRIGENDUM to ‘Social Space as a Theory of Society: Scientific Arguments Regarding the Figuration of the Social in Bourdieu’s Distinction’10
Cultural Models of Contention: How Do the Public Interpret the Repertoire of Contention?10
Thank You to Referees10
You Need a Network ’: How Highly Skilled Refugees Build Social Networks to Convert Cultural Capital and Reclaim Professional Identities9
Bare Fridges and Burnt Tortillas: Conflictual Moments in the Making of Coupledom9
Do Western Sociological Concepts Apply Globally? Towards a Global Sociology9
The Way to Someone’s Mind Is through Their Stomach: Vegans and Culinary Activism9
Book Review: Michael Mann, On Wars MannMichaelOn WarsNew Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2023, £30.00 hbk (ISBN: 9780300266818), 616 pp.9
Using Natural Experiments to Uncover Effects of Anti-Refugee Riots on Attitudes of Refugees9
A Bourdieusian Latent Class Analysis of Cultural, Arts, Heritage and Sports Activities in the UK Representative Understanding Society Dataset9
‘I was just left to get on with the job’: Understanding grief and work through a relational lens8
Social Class Origin and Job Quality among Higher Managerial and Professional Occupations in the United Kingdom8
Recognition or Redistribution? How Mainstream Media Frames Charitable Responses to People Experiencing Poverty8
On Being Seen in Unseen Places: A Dramaturgical View of the Night8
Reproduction and the Expanding Border: Pregnant Migrants as a ‘Problem’ in the 2014 Immigration Act8
The Arab ‘Uncertain Body’ and Sojourner Passing in Israel8
Between Sustainability, Energy Practices and Class Dynamics: A Bourdieusian Analysis of Energy Consumption in Norway8
Thank You to Referees8
Teaching Sociology in Contemporary Hungary7
Submerged: Surfacing Deep Poverty during Permacrisis7
Austerity as Bureaucratic Violence: Understanding the Impact of (Neoliberal) Austerity on Disabled People in Sweden7
Futures Imperfect: A Reflection on Challenges7
The Rise and Fall of Sociology in Brazilian Schools: From Public Sociology to Public Attacks7
Social Movement Ruptures and Legacies: Unpacking the Early Sedimentation of the Anti-European Super League Movement in English Football7
Better Than the Markets: Mutual Fund Managers’ Perceptions of the Rich7
Autocratic Power and Older Citizens: The Political Subjectification of Retirees in Belarus7
Thwarted or Facilitated? The Entrepreneurial Aspirations and Capabilities of New Migrants in the UK7
The Aftermath of Death in the Continuing Lives of the Living: Extending ‘Bereavement’ Paradigms through Family and Relational Perspectives7
Book Review: Matthew Goodwin, Values, Voice and Virtue: The New British Politics7
‘The Green Areas Are Out of Our Reach’: Racialisation, Erasure and Resistance in UK Urban Greening Initiatives7
Can Work Time Fragmentation Influence Workers’ Subjective Time Pressure? The Roles of Gender and Parenthood6
Book Review: Anne Rogers and David Pilgrim, Living with Health Inequalities: Upstream–Downstream Connections RogersAnnePilgrimDavidLiving with Health Inequalities: Upstr6
University and the Pursuit of a ‘Career’ for Working-Class Youth in Deindustrial Rochdale6
Practices of Consumption: Cohesion and Distinction within a Globally Wealthy Group5
Communities of/for Interest: Revisiting the Role of Migrants’ Online Groups5
‘It’s a Small Little Pub, but Everybody Knew Everybody’: Pub Culture, Belonging and Social Change5
Me? A Hero? Gendered Work and Attributions of Heroism among Volunteers during the COVID-19 Pandemic5
The Consequentiality of Absences in Social Settings: A Sensemaking Perspective5
The Stateless Person, the Citizen and Human Rights: A Revised Neo-Hobbesian Theory of Human Rights for Sociology5
The Art of Navigating a White Upper-Class Gaze: Exploring Visible Minorities’ Negotiations of Belonging in the Norwegian Cultural Field5
Thank You to Referees 2023–20245
Historical Perspectives on British Sociology’s Future: An Interview with John Scott5
Solidarity with and against: Exploring Group Identification among Precarious Migrant Workers5
Maternal Occupation-Specific Skills and Children’s Cognitive Development5
Sociological Futures and the Importance of the Past5
From 100-Year-Old Women’s Motoring Masks to Contemporary PPE: A Socio-Political Study of Persistent Problems and Inventive Possibilities5
‘Without Papers I Can’t Do Anything’: The Neglected Role of Citizenship Status and ‘Illegality’ in Intersectional Analysis5
Muslim-Mancunian Women: Racial-Colonial Literacy, Counter-Knowledge and Epistemological Justice5
Immigrants’ Pathways to the Income Elite in Germany5
Forms of Capital, Social Change and the Weight of the Past: The Effective Agents of the Swiss Field of Power 1910–20155
Trading Blame: Drawing Boundaries around the Righteous, Deserving and Vulnerable in Times of Crisis5
Book Review: Jack Palmer and Dariusz Brzeziński (eds), Revisiting Modernity and the Holocaust: Heritage, Dilemmas, Extensions5
Book Review: Aaron Reeves and Sam Freidman, Born to Rule: The Making and Re-Making of the British Elite ReevesAaronFreidmanSamBorn to Rule: The Making and Re-Making of t4
Disability, Social Class and Stigma: An Intersectional Analysis of Disabled Young People’s School Experiences4
Friendship in Times of Crisis: How Social Bonds Buffered the Impact of Economic Precarity on Well-Being during COVID-194
Real Utopia as a Method? Utopian-Sociological Paths from Jameson’s Universal Army to a Postcapitalist Post Office4
The Sociology of Futurelessness4
Life-Cycle Economic Returns to Educational Mobility in Denmark4
Religious Conservatism versus Elite Professionalism: Contradictory Socialisation at an Elite Islamic School4
Towards a Relational Sociology of Retrofit4
Platforms Disrupting Reputation: Precarity and Recognition Struggles in the Remote Gig Economy4
Embodied Acting, Belonging and Gender Inequalities in Service Work4
Brexit Rebordering, Sticky Relationships and the Production of Mixed-Status Families4
Documenting Families: Paper-Work in Family Display among Planned Single Father Families4
Racial Biofutures: COVID-19 and Black Futurity Otherwise4
Inter-Risk Framing Contests: The Politics of Issue Attention among Scandinavian Climate NGOs during the Coronavirus Pandemic4
‘Letting It Slide’ and ‘Dropping’ Friends: Black Girls in Scotland Navigating Everyday Racism in Friendship4
Powerful or Disempowering Knowledge? The Teaching of Sociology in English Schools and Colleges4
Money, Debt and Finance: Reclaiming the Conditions of Possibility in Consumption Research4
Not Talking about Climate Change: Everyday Interactions, Relational Work and Climate Silences4
Gaming and Performance Metrics in Higher Education: The Consequences of Journal Lists4
A Sociological Conversation with ChatGPT about AI Ethics, Affect and Reflexivity4
On Teaching Sociology ‘Decolonially’ in Singapore: Notes on Possibilities and Challenges3
Book Review: Denys Gorbach, The Making and Unmaking of the Ukrainian Working Class: Everyday Politics and Moral Economy in a Post-Soviet City GorbachDenysThe Making and 3
Status Fixity and Dirty Workers’ Experiences of Recognition3
Book Review: J Michael Ryan (ed.), COVID-19: Individual Rights and Community Responsibilities RyanJ Michael (ed.) COVID-19: Individual Rights and Community Responsibilit3
Misgendering, Cisgenderism and the Reproduction of the Gender Order in Social Interaction3
Movement Texts as Anti-Colonial Theory3
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
Corrosive Solo Self-Employment: The Qualitative and Quantitative Impact of Neo-Villeiny in the Fitness Industry3
Book Review: Alana Lentin, Why Race Still Matters3
Gender Identity in the 2021 Census of England and Wales: How a Flawed Question Created Spurious Data3
Trajectories towards Political Engagement on Facebook around Brexit: Beyond Affordances for Understanding Racist and Right-Wing Populist Mobilisations Online3
The Wageless Life of Creative Workers: Alternative Economic Practices, Commoning and Consumption Work in Cultural Labour3
Hunger Bonds: Boundaries and Bridges in the Charitable Food Provision Field3
A Discomforting Pedagogy of Poverty: Discourses, Representations and Vulnerabilities3
Spatial Imaginaries and Geographic Division within the UK: Uneven Economic Development, Ethnicity and National Identity3
How Intellectuals Perform: Meaning Making and Community in the Czechoslovak Philosophical Underground3
Cultivating Collaboration: Reflections on Introducing Problem-Based Learning in the ‘Wicked World’ of Contemporary Higher Education3
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
Cautious Capitals: Parenting Autistic Children at Mainstream School3
‘Just a Simple Sausage Sandwich’: The Significance of Sensory Care Practices and Hidden Carers in the Hospice3
Drugs, Law Enforcement and Urban Marginalisation in Downtown Barcelona: The Challenges of Harm Reduction Policing3
Carrying Europe’s ‘White Burden’, Sustaining Racial Capitalism: Young Post-Soviet Migrant Workers in Helsinki and Warsaw3
Book Review: Catherine Happer, The Construction of Public Opinion in a Digital Age HapperCatherineThe Construction of Public Opinion in a Digital AgeManchester: Manchest3
Belief in Science and Beliefs about COVID-19: Educational Gradients2
Racial Capitalism and Entrepreneurship: An Intersectional Feminist Labour Market Perspective on UK Self-Employment2
Family Estrangement and the Unseen Work of Not Doing Family2
Resisting Neoliberalism’s War on the Sociological Imagination: Reflections on PhD Work as Anti-Racist Practice2
Temporalities of Friendship: Adults’ Friends in Everyday Family Life and Beyond2
‘If It’s All an Act, Then What’s the Point?’: Men’s and Women’s Views on Authenticity in Pornographic Videos2
The ‘Two’ Universities: Cross-Class Encounters and the Segregated Inclusion of Non-Elite Women at an Elite University2
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
Deindividualising Imposter Syndrome: Imposter Work among Marginalised STEMM Undergraduates in the UK2
Constructing a Mothers’ Culture : Affective Bargains in Branding Discourses2
Book Review: Avtar Brah, Decolonial Imaginings: Intersectional Conversations and Contestations2
Exploring the Role UK Grandfathers Play in Parenting Culture: Intermittent Intensive Grandfathering2
Book Review: Stephen Kalberg, Max Weber’s Sociology: From ‘the Protestant Ethic Thesis’ and the American Political Culture to a Sociology of Civilizations KalbergStephen2
Book Review: Robert Leroux, Thierry Martin and Stephen Turner (eds), The Future of Sociology: Ideology or Objective Social Science?2
Childcare Facility Closure and Exacerbated Gender Inequality in Parenting Time during the COVID-19 Pandemic2
Towards a Theory of Cis-Supremacy: Conceptualising Ongoing Barriers to Trans Equality2
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
Living Together through the Asylum Process: Affective Proximity in Home Accommodation of Asylum Seekers2
The Dis/appearing Sporting Body: The Complex Embodiment of Disabled Athletes2
The English Workday Lunch: The Organisation, Understandings and Meaning of the Meal2
From an Event to a Process: Reimagining ‘Modern Slavery’ Rescue2
Beyond ‘Imagined Meritocracy’: Distinguishing the Relative Power of Education and Skills in Intergenerational Inequality2
‘I’m Mum and Dad in One, Basically’: Doing and Displaying ‘Good Lone Motherhood’2
Value(s) in Community Food Work: The Dynamics of the Field, Funding and the Limits of Metrics2
Thank You to Referees2
Recalibrating Everyday Futures during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Futures Fissured, on Standby and Reset in Mass Observation Responses2
Creating a New Normal? Technosocial Relations, Mundane Governance and Pandemic-Related Disruption in Everyday Life2
Ethical Practices of the Family Child2
Negotiating Choice: Unpacking the Linkages between Women’s Relative Resources and Contraceptive Decision Making in India2
Book Review: David Yamane, Gun Curious: A Liberal Professor’s Surprising Journey Inside America’s Gun Culture1
Turning the Decolonial Gaze towards Ourselves: Decolonising the Curriculum and ‘Decolonial Reflexivity’ in Sociology and Social Theory1
Trapped between the Past and the Future: Temporal Orientations and the ‘Becoming’ of Post-Maternity Extended Career-Breaks among Women Professionals in the UK1
Book Review: Heidi A Campbell and Ruth Tsuria (eds), Digital Religion: Understanding Religious Practice in Digital Media1
Flourishing on the Stage: Embodied Reflexivity and the Effacing of Work Boundaries in Contemporary Performing Arts1
What Future for the Sociology of Futures? Visions, Concepts and Methods1
Examining ‘Good’ Mothering and Value Transmission: How British-Born South-Asian Mothers Seek Generational Change1
Hope and Creative Work in Conflict Zones: Theoretical Insights from Israel1
Co-Sleeping with Partners and Pets as a Family Practice of Intimacy: Israeli Couples’ Narratives of Creating Kinship1
Moving on up? How Social Origins Shape Geographic Mobility within Britain’s Higher Managerial and Professional Occupations1
Guilt and Beyond: A Class Cultural Analysis of Evolving Emotional Responses to Maternal Foodwork1
The Front and the Back Stage of Power: Formal and Informal Social Capital among Business Elites in the Three Largest Swiss Cities, 1890–20001
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
‘I Hadn’t Realised That Change Is Not a Difficult Thing’: Mobilising Football Fans on Climate Change1
The Power of Diversity: Class, Networks and Attitudes Towards Inequality1
A Politics of One’s Own: Leisure, Belonging and Momentary Self-Exclusion among British Bangladeshi Women in East London1
The Promises and Perils of AI for Sociology1
‘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
Outside and Inside the Arena of Othering: Notions of ‘Intensive Mothering’ Revealed through Post-Abortion Narratives1
Becoming a Nationalist Activist: Exploring Biographical Paths of Polish Football Fans1
Till We Meet Again: Towards an Affective Sociology of Schedules1
Becoming an Activist: Individualisation and a Democratic Contentious Ethos in ‘How to’ Books1
Mothers Doing Friendship in a Hostile Environment: Navigating Dialectical Tensions and Sharing Support1
Knowledge Hierarchies and Gender Disparities in Social Science Funding1
Book Review: Vicki Dabrowski, Austerity, Women and the Role of the State: Lived Experiences of the Crisis1
Book Review: Michel Dobry, The Sociology of Political Crisis: A Theory of Fluid Conjunctures DobryMichelThe Sociology of Political Crisis: A Theory of Fluid Conjunctures1
Everyday Voices as Big Data: A Call for the Secondary Analysis of Large-Scale Qualitative Interview Data1
Changing Temporal Opportunity Structures? Two Cohorts of Young Women’s Thoughts about Future Work, Family and Education1
Book Review: Nancy Fraser, Cannibal Capitalism: How Our System Is Devouring Democracy, Care and the Planet – and What We Can Do about It1
Black Lives Matter: The Role of Emotions in Political Engagement1
Family Influences on Migration Intentions: The Role of Past Experience of Involuntary Immobility1
Bring Your Own Politics: Life Strategies and Mobilization in Response to Urban Redevelopment1
Anticipatory Regimes in Pregnancy: Cross-Fertilising Reproduction and Parenting Culture Studies1
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
Book Review: David S Meyer, How Social Movements (Sometimes) Matter1
Contradiction as Injustice: How Senses of Inequality Differ across National Contexts1
Book Review: Emanuel Deutschmann, Mapping the Transnational World: How We Move and Communicate across Borders, and Why It Matters1
Exploring Performances of (Hyper) Intensive Motherhood in the Setting of Manchester’s Christmas Markets1
The Sociology of Utopia, Modern Temporality and Black Visions of Liberation1
Neighbourliness and Situational Factors: Explaining Neighbour Behaviour in Attacks and Rescues of Sikhs in Delhi in 1984 and Muslims in Ahmedabad in 20021
What Is the Role of Imagined Futures in the Development of E-Cigarette Use among Young People?1
Social Space as a Theory of Society: Scientific Arguments Regarding the Figuration of the Social in Bourdieu’s Distinction1
Book Review: Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan, Tangled in Terror: Uprooting Islamophobia1
Managing Uncertainty and Risk in Access to the Solicitors’ Profession in England: Classed Pathways?1
Moral Subjects in White Spaces: Impossible Solidarities1
Siblings and the Bereaved Self: Identity (Re)Construction Following the Death of a Brother or Sister1
Researching Lay Perceptions of Inequality through Images of Society: Compliance, Inversion and Subversion of Power Hierarchies1
Gendered Consequences of Social Mobility: Second-Generation Immigrants’ Work–Care Considerations in High-Status Occupations in Norway1
Slower Sociologies for the Sociology of the Future1
Synthetic Involvement: Digital Co-Presence in the Flesh1
A Model of Cultural Reproduction in China: Tracing Consumption to Parental Social Origin1
Book Review: Anna Tarrant, Fathering and Poverty: Uncovering Men’s Participation in Low-Income Family Life1
Social Closure in the Youth Sport Field: The Pull of the Game on Class-Privileged Parents1
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