British Journal of Sociology of Education

Papers
(The median citation count of British Journal of Sociology of Education 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Learning to walk the wire: preparing students for precarious life82
Beyond bad behaviour? Towards a broader understanding of school student activism51
The Left Hand of Data: Designing Education Data for Justice47
Neoliberalism, globalization, and "elite" education in China by Shuning Liu, Routledge, 2020, 208 pp, £29.59 paperback, ISBN 978036778401027
Doctoral theses25
Empty Britain? Hegemony and ambiguity in British education policy22
Doctoral theses21
Doctoral theses21
Decolonial love as a pedagogy of care for Black immigrant post-secondary students20
Resilience, resistance and ‘giving back’: teachers from working class backgrounds and their journeys to teaching18
Social stratifying Kazakhstan: A Bourdieusian social reproduction analysis of higher education internationalisation17
Private school entry to Oxbridge: how cultural capital counts in the making of elites16
Compensation or reproduction? The implications of online learning for socio-economic equalisation in urban China14
The effect of parental education on the expectations of 15 year olds to complete higher education in the Netherlands14
A systematic literature review of intersectionality and disability in education14
Fighters, thinkers and bees: how racialized minority students experience learning about ethnic inequality in education14
Decolonising master’s supervision by queering/ enfletando the process: opening decolonial cracks through fleta reflexivity13
Other sociologies of education: providing critical perspectives from the Global South and North13
The story of women immigrants from FSU and their integration into Israeli academia13
Education and high-status occupations in the UK since the middle of the twentieth century12
Onwards and upwards? The educational and occupational expectations of Irish teens of migrant descent11
Urban neighbourhoods and guidance counselling in basic education: a spatial justice approach11
Allying and aligning: teachers’ extra-curricular work, meritocracy and state-sponsored scholarships in Singapore11
Doctoral theses10
International education and the pursuit of ‘Western’ capitals: middle-class Nigerian fathers’ strategies of class reproduction10
Roughly in the middle. Variations in the subjective social status of teachers in France10
Sub-alterities: schooling in Southern Italy10
Class, education and parenting: cross-cultural perspectives10
Mathematics homework and the potential compounding of educational disadvantage10
Parental social class and school examinations: a longitudinal investigation using linked administrative and survey data9
Home away from home?: Campus-based social capital for Hong Kong students in a Mainland university9
‘Survival mode’: navigating the first five years of teaching performing arts in neoliberal education assemblages9
Pupils’ right to inclusion in an urban Finnish lower secondary school: a Bernsteinian analysis of pupils’ social relations8
Transforming oneself: delving into the processes of habitus transformation in the higher education field8
Roma students’ academic self-assessment and educational aspirations in Hungarian primary schools8
‘No fear’: privilege and the navigation of hierarchy at an elite boys’ school in England8
Parental social class and GCSE attainment: Re-reading the role of ‘cultural capital’8
Distinction in higher education: educational strategies of upper milieu students in Germany8
The making of male reader identities across generations: assemblages of rural places in shaping life as a male reader in Australia and Sweden8
‘You’re working, but you’re not working:’ academic precarity, ambivalence and the use of researchers as factotums8
Shadow education in shadow: parental education and children’s shadow education participation before and during COVID-197
LGBT+ representation higher education in England and Wales7
‘They’d already made their minds up’: understanding the impact of stigma on parental engagement7
Social reproduction theory revisited7
‘Pandemia’: a reckoning of UK universities’ corporate response to COVID-19 and its academic fallout7
Pre-modern epistemes inspiring a new Global Sociology of Education Imagination7
Conserving liberalism within values education7
The impact of a school ability banding system on white, working-class males7
African international students, work integrated learning and (im)possible selves in Chinese higher education7
Rethinking young people’s aspirations in times of crisis: stories of futures from a de-industrialising city7
‘It’s a tiger instinct – that’s my baby! ’: affective practices of care in parents’ educational activism7
Racism, zero-hours contracts and complicity in higher education6
The obstacle race to educational improvement: governance, policies, and practices in disadvantaged schools6
Internal migration, stepping into the academic field, and talking to Pierre Bourdieu: a critical autoethnography6
Conceptualising the ‘education hustle’ as a case of Bourdieuian doxa and illusio6
Higher education and school history in Scotland in the second half of the twentieth century6
Teacher activism: struggles over public education in Chile6
No love found: how female students of colour negotiate and repurpose university spaces6
Do teacher and classroom characteristics affect the way in which girls and boys are graded?6
Austerity, outsourcing and the state school workforce: trends from 20,000 English state schools5
What higher education ministers talk about when they talk about innovation5
‘Labour class’ children in Indian classrooms: theorizing urban poverty and schooling5
Doctoral theses5
Doctoral theses5
Comment on M.G. Sciffer, L.B. Perry, & A.M. McConney, “critiques of socio-economic school compositional effects: are they valid?”5
Representation in higher education5
The (stereo)typical student: how European higher education students feel they are viewed by relevant others5
Doctoral theses5
Doctoral theses5
The relationship between class-based habitus and choice of university and field of study5
The Crisis of the Meritocracy: Britain’s transition to mass education since the Second World War5
World, planet, territory: toward a geo-logic in the critical sociology of education4
Slow violence in the micro-regimes of early childhood education4
A political sociology of education policy4
Siblings’ educational mobility and the educational stratification of families4
Structuring middle-class aspirations: the role of place-based habitus and higher education4
Adaptation in action: the rise and fall of academic publications from Korean high schoolers, 2001–20214
Data infrastructures and the governance of their accompanying narratives4
An unquiet mobilization. Working-class families and school in French contemporary society4
Correction4
Increasing understanding of the aspirations and expectations of Roma students4
Feeling rules and emotional capital in a student voice wellbeing initiative4
Complex reflexivity: practices of women full professors in neoliberalised academia4
No trade-off between parent choice and democratic citizenship: a comparison of 9thgrade pupils in Danish Muslim and state schools4
‘You feel a bit lost’: a case study interpreting white, working-class mothers’ engagement through habitus4
Early career primary teachers’ discursive negotiations of academisation3
How African Nova Scotians envision culturally relevant and sustaining pedagogy as civic repair3
Restorative practices for preventing/countering violent extremism: an affective-discursive examination of extreme emotional incidents3
The ontology of personhood and a realist critique of the policy discourse based on skills3
The reproduction of deficit thinking in times of contestation: the case of higher education3
Challenging the skills fetish3
Doctoral theses3
The moral economies of marketised higher education3
Coaching for privilege: coaches, soccer, and education in professional sports clubs in high-SES cities in Israel3
The burden of student loan debt: differences in socioeconomic background and attitudes towards higher education3
Mindfulness in schools: issues of equality and diversity3
High-Stakes counselling: when career counselling may lead to continuing residence or deportation of asylum-seeking youths3
Reshaped teachers’ careers? New patterns and the fragmentation of the teaching profession in England3
Appropriate modelling of school compositional effects: a response to Malatinszky and Armor, and Marks3
From segregation to non-incorporation: a study of a failed school desegregation process in Sweden3
From doxic breach to cleft habitus: affect, reflexivity and dispositional disjunctures3
School differences on whether and where students apply to university3
Doctoral theses3
Language learning in liminal spaces: low literate migrants’ narratives of formal requirements for legal integration3
Talcott Parsons’s sociology of education: cognitive rationality and normative functionalism3
Doctoral theses3
Critical thinking in the higher education classroom: knowledge, power, control and identities3
School and community relationships in Mexico. Researching inclusion in education from critical and decolonial perspectives3
Doctoral theses3
Outsider status, and racialised habitus: the experiences of Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller students in higher education2
‘Not like me’: educational aspirations and mothering in an urban poor neighbourhood in India2
Affective engagements with religion and citizenship in English primary schools2
Cosmopolitan Brands: graduate students navigating the social space of elite global universities2
Gendered career expectations in context: the relevance of normative and comparative reference groups2
Study gods – How the new Chinese elite prepare for global competition2
Resisting the “academic circle jerk”: precarity and friendship at academic conferences in UK higher education2
Decolonizing education in Latin America: critical environmental and intercultural education as an indigenous pluriversal alternative2
Network governance and new philanthropy in Latin America and the Caribbean: reconfiguration of the State2
Oh, the education (you think) you’ll have! Relative deprivation and students’ academic expectations, aspirations, and attainment2
Doctoral theses2
The death of human capital? Its failed promise and how to renew it in an age of disruption,2
Announcement of doctoral theses2
Understanding the complexity of Chinese rural parents’ roles in their children’s access to elite universities2
‘Real’ boys, sissies and tomboys: exploring the material-discursive intra-actions of football, bodies, and heteronormative discourses2
Exploring the relational nature of teachers’ agency negotiation through master- and counter-narratives2
Academic Brexodus? Brexit and the dynamics of mobility and immobility among the precarious research workforce2
How do teachers enact assessment policies as they navigate critical ethical incidents in digital spaces?2
Demystifying Oxbridge: a qualitative video analysis of information sharing strategies by student vloggers for prospective applicants2
Pedagogic practices and learner identities in two Norwegian primary school classrooms with contrasting social compositions2
Doctoral theses2
Joy, pride, and shame: on working in the affective economy of edu-business2
Schooling inequality: aspirations, opportunities and the reproduction of social class2
Decoding the educational illusio: self-assurance, anxiety, and adaptive strategies in Chinese middle-class parental investment2
Touching through the screen: embodied learning through on-line intercultural exchanges among primary school children2
Gender gaps in educational pathways in the Czech Republic1
The doing of curriculum mathematics: the case of an Indigenous Māori school in Aotearoa/New Zealand1
Aspiring to higher education: micro-practices, horizons and social class reproduction in Chile1
The emancipation continuum: analysing the role of ESOL in the settlement of immigrants1
Shaping shadows: influences of different forms of capital on private supplementary tutoring in Myanmar1
Classed trajectories in higher education and the graduate labour market: affective affinities in a ‘meritocracy’1
The translation of cultural capital theory to English secondary schools: knuggets, wild words and pipelines1
Beyond spatial materiality, towards inter- and intra-subjectivity: conceptualizing exclusion in education as internalized ableism and psycho-emotional disablement1
The standard school-ready child: the social organization of ‘school-readiness’1
Critically considering the ‘inclusive curriculum’ in higher education1
Disproportionate identification of special needs for ethnic and language minority students in England–patterns and explanations1
An ‘unavoidable’ dynamic? Understanding the ‘traditional’ learner–teacher power relationship within a higher education context1
Teachers’ narratives about the possibility to teach controversial history of the 1965 affair in Indonesia1
Doctoral theses1
Reconceptualising graduate resilience – an integrated multi-level framework for future research1
Trends in intergenerational educational mobility in Israel: 1983–20081
Care experienced students’ transitions to university: learning identities, prior educational experiences and socio-cultural contexts1
Back to zero? Precarious employment in academia amongst ‘older’ early career researchers, a life-course approach1
Responsibilised parents and shadow education: managing the precarious environment in China1
Beyond empowerment: student self-assessment as a form of resistance1
Reshaping school discipline with metrics: an examination of teachers’ disciplinary practices with ClassDojo1
Chinese international students’ perspectives on Asian Americans in the U.S. racial hierarchy1
Governing through time(s): temporal modes of governance in digital education policy1
Regional accessibility of higher education in Russia1
Tracking and educational inequality: a longitudinal analysis of two school reforms in Switzerland1
Spatialising careership: towards a spatio-relational model of career development1
Classroom as heterotopia: English lessons as a space to problematise war1
‘If you can’t beat them, join them’: utility, markets and the absent entrepreneur1
Schools’ priority rules and ethnic school segregation1
On reductions – examining a British-Bourdieusian sociology of education1
The reception on campus: differences in students’ experiences deploying cultural capital in college1
Who counts as socioeconomically disadvantaged for the purposes of widening access to higher education?1
Towards a Sociology of Educational ‘Ideal’: Powerful Knowledge, Knowledge of the Powerful, and Beyond1
Mothers’ responsibility as transmitters of gendered moral rationalities: working-class Palestinian mothers living in Israel1
Wrestling with the ghost of deficit: exploring the experiences of trainee English further education teachers1
Middle-class parental engagement in pandemic times: developing strategies and mobilizing capitals1
Academic career, gender and neoliberal university in Spain: the silent precariousness between publishing and care-giving1
Doctoral theses1
Cultural capitals matter, differentially: a Bourdieusian reading of perspectives from senior secondary students in England1
A designed ‘lack of design’: how autonomy enables the mobilisation of capital at elite schools1
‘We’re not robots!’: the interaction of co-operativism and neoliberalism for students at a Co-op academy1
Pupils’ school mobility during elementary school: what motives and results?1
Is it socioeconomic or academic? Disentangling sources of peer effects on student achievement1
Doctoral theses1
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