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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
‘Pandemia’: a reckoning of UK universities’ corporate response to COVID-19 and its academic fallout69
Social influence or selection? Peer effects on the development of adolescents’ educational expectations in Germany36
Confronting White privilege: the importance of intersectionality in the sociology of education31
Cosmopolitan nationalism in the cases of South Korea, Israel and the U.S27
On becoming a doctoral student: Chinese doctoral students’ socialization of capital and habitus in academia26
The fear of being singled out: pupils’ perspectives on victimisation and bystanding in bullying situations25
The impact of tracking by attainment on pupil self-confidence over time: demonstrating the accumulative impact of self-fulfilling prophecy24
The making of transnational distinction: an embodied cultural capital perspective on Chinese women students’ mobility23
The errors of redemptive sociology or giving up on hope and despair22
Conflicting logics of online higher education21
Challenging the skills fetish21
The academic precariat: understanding life and labour in the neoliberal academy18
Responsibilised parents and shadow education: managing the precarious environment in China18
Critiques of socio-economic school compositional effects: are they valid?17
Healthy meals, better learners? Debating the focus of school food policy in England17
Internships and the graduate labour market: how upper-middle-class students ‘get ahead’16
Casualised academic staff and the lecturer-student relationship: Shame, (Im)permanence and (Il)legitimacy16
Sociologising resilience through Bourdieu’s field analysis: misconceptualisation, conceptualisation, and reconceptualisation15
Diversity without integration? Racialization and spaces of exclusion in international higher education14
Back to zero? Precarious employment in academia amongst ‘older’ early career researchers, a life-course approach14
The student as an enterprising self: Neoliberalism, English and early study abroad13
A future of endless possibilities? Institutional habitus and international students’ post-study aspirations and transitions13
School admission in Chile, new rules of the game, and the devaluation of Middle-class capitals13
Narratives of single, black mothers using cultural capital to access autism interventions in schools13
Conferred cosmopolitanism: class-making strategies of elite schools across the world13
Cultural capital and elite university attendance in China12
‘They are bad seeds’: stereotyping habitus in Chinese VET colleges11
International education and the pursuit of ‘Western’ capitals: middle-class Nigerian fathers’ strategies of class reproduction11
‘More to prove and more to lose’: race, racism and precarious employment in higher education11
Sociology of education: a personal reflection on politics, power and pragmatism11
Intervention culture, grouping and triage: high-stakes tests and practices of division in English primary schools11
Navigating the neoliberal university: reflecting on teaching practice as a teacher-researcher-trade unionist10
Working with/in institutions: how policy enactment in widening participation is shaped through practitioners’ experience10
‘Real’ boys, sissies and tomboys: exploring the material-discursive intra-actions of football, bodies, and heteronormative discourses10
Recognition of boys as readers through a social justice lens9
Wasteland revisited: defining an agenda for a sociology of education and migration9
Critical thinking in the higher education classroom: knowledge, power, control and identities9
Racism, zero-hours contracts and complicity in higher education9
Concerted cultivation as a racial parenting strategy: race, ethnicity and middle-class Indian parents in Britain9
Understanding the complexity of Chinese rural parents’ roles in their children’s access to elite universities9
Everyday erosions: neoliberal political rationality, democratic decline and the Multi-Academy Trust9
Critically considering the ‘inclusive curriculum’ in higher education8
Digital technologies and parental involvement in education: the experiences of mothers of primary school-aged children8
Social reproduction theory revisited8
Academic Brexodus? Brexit and the dynamics of mobility and immobility among the precarious research workforce8
The practice of weak framing from teachers’ perceptions in China7
Revisiting educational advantage and social class: a Bourdieusian analysis of middle-class parents’ investment in private schooling and shadow education7
Reframing power relationships between undergraduates and academics in the current university climate7
Between ethnonational and international curricula: competing identity discourses in the Armenian school in Jerusalem7
Class, capital, and school culture: Parental involvement in public schools with specialised music programmes7
Who counts as socioeconomically disadvantaged for the purposes of widening access to higher education?7
Between student voice-based assessment and teacher-student relationships: teachers’ responses to ‘techniques of power’ in schools7
The hateful other: neo-Nazis in school and teachers’ strategies for handling racism7
‘They’d already made their minds up’: understanding the impact of stigma on parental engagement7
Structural constraints and the school choice strategies of black American middle-class parents6
Stigma and spoiled identities: rescripting career norms for precariously employed academic staff6
Moving toward decoloniality in short-term study abroad under New Colombo: constructing global citizenship6
Bernstein and Vygotsky: how the outside comes in and the inside goes out6
Cosmopolitan Brands: graduate students navigating the social space of elite global universities6
Learning to walk the wire: preparing students for precarious life6
Moving beyond: narratives of higher educational aspirations among descendants of immigrants in vocational training6
The reproduction of deficit thinking in times of contestation: the case of higher education6
Class, education and parenting: cross-cultural perspectives6
Projects-of-self and projects-of-family: young people’s responsibilisation for their education and responsibility for care5
The complexity of educational elitism: moving beyond misrecognition5
Everyday consequences of selectiveness. Borderwork in the informal sphere of a lower secondary school in the metropolitan area of Helsinki, Finland5
Parental social class and GCSE attainment: Re-reading the role of ‘cultural capital’5
The social reproduction of science education outcomes for high school students in Israel5
Parental choice, collective identity and neoliberalism in alternative education: new free democratic schools in Poland5
Educational purity and technological danger: understanding scepticism towards the use of telepresence robots in school5
Panopticism, teacher surveillance and the ‘unseen’5
Gendered career expectations in context: the relevance of normative and comparative reference groups5
Restorative practices for preventing/countering violent extremism: an affective-discursive examination of extreme emotional incidents5
‘No fear’: privilege and the navigation of hierarchy at an elite boys’ school in England5
Classroom composition and language skills: the role of school class and friend characteristics5
Students’ experiences of the Cambridge supervision system: performance, pedagogy and power5
The professional role and identity of teachers in the private and state education sectors5
Teacher-targeted bullying and harassment in Australian schools: a challenge to teacher wellbeing5
Exploring the relational nature of teachers’ agency negotiation through master- and counter-narratives5
Do teacher and classroom characteristics affect the way in which girls and boys are graded?5
No love found: how female students of colour negotiate and repurpose university spaces5
Evoking hope in marginalised youth populations through non-formal education: critical pedagogy in sports-based interventions5
Middle-class cultivation out of tune? Challenges to intensive parenting in Singapore5
Multi-sited understandings: complicating the role of elite schools in transnational class formation5
Student estrangement in higher education: identity formation and the struggle against stigma4
The moral attitudes of UK youth: bringing morality back to the sociology of education4
Resisting the “academic circle jerk”: precarity and friendship at academic conferences in UK higher education4
The standard school-ready child: the social organization of ‘school-readiness’4
How African Nova Scotians envision culturally relevant and sustaining pedagogy as civic repair4
Comment on M.G. Sciffer, L.B. Perry, & A.M. McConney, “critiques of socio-economic school compositional effects: are they valid?”4
‘Race had never been an issue’: examining white supremacy in English language teaching4
For whom is mathematical success compatible with ‘physical’ masculinity? Social class, ethnicity, and imagined futures4
Classed trajectories in higher education and the graduate labour market: affective affinities in a ‘meritocracy’4
An ‘unavoidable’ dynamic? Understanding the ‘traditional’ learner–teacher power relationship within a higher education context4
High-Stakes counselling: when career counselling may lead to continuing residence or deportation of asylum-seeking youths4
‘Marginal’ student mobilities: Cruel promise, everyday mobile belonging and emotional geographies4
Explaining gender segregation in higher education: longitudinal evidence on the French case4
Ethno-nationalism in citizenship education in Israel: an analysis of the official civics textbook4
Parenting strategies in the context of South-South migration4
How do teachers enact assessment policies as they navigate critical ethical incidents in digital spaces?4
Oh, the education (you think) you’ll have! Relative deprivation and students’ academic expectations, aspirations, and attainment4
Data infrastructures and the governance of their accompanying narratives4
School socioeconomic-background effects are generally small: a response to Sciffer, Perry, and McConney3
Qualifications, quality, and habitus: using Bourdieu to investigate inequality in policies for early childhood educators3
Learner agency in urban schools? A pragmatic transactional approach3
Spatialising careership: towards a spatio-relational model of career development3
What works? Academic integrity and the research-policy relationship3
Aspiring to higher education: micro-practices, horizons and social class reproduction in Chile3
Appropriate modelling of school compositional effects: a response to Malatinszky and Armor, and Marks3
Structuring middle-class aspirations: the role of place-based habitus and higher education3
From assisted places to free schools: subsidizing private schools for the Northern English middle classes3
A humanist university in a posthuman world: relations, responsibilities, and rights3
Sexual misconduct in UK higher education and the precarity of institutional knowledge3
Can teacher support reduce inequalities in education? Re-examining the relationship between cultural capital and achievement3
Is there an old girls’ network? Girls’ schools and recruitment to the British elite3
Exploring the role of community cultural wealth in university access for minority students3
Classroom as heterotopia: English lessons as a space to problematise war3
The diffusion of global discourses: the case of educating refugees3
Network governance and new philanthropy in Latin America and the Caribbean: reconfiguration of the State3
Increasing understanding of the aspirations and expectations of Roma students3
(Un)Limited choice: analysing the strategic choices of first-in-generation students in neoliberal higher education3
Teacher subjectivation in the quality dispositive: the example of VET in Austria3
“Miss, can you speak English?”: raciolinguistic ideologies and language oppression in initial teacher education3
‘I am the black duck’ affective aspects of working-class mothers’ involvement in parental communities3
Career development or career delay? Postdoctoral fellowships and the de-professionalizing of academic work in South African universities3
Augmenting excellence, promoting diversity? Preliminary design of a foundation year for the University of Cambridge3
Beyond empowerment: student self-assessment as a form of resistance3
The relationship between class-based habitus and choice of university and field of study3
Competing for privilege –aspirational youth at a Chinese high school entrepreneurship competition3
World, planet, territory: toward a geo-logic in the critical sociology of education2
Social topography of children’s play: focusing on the middle-class parenting practices in South Korea2
Reconfiguring the relationship between ‘immigrant parents’ and schools in the post-welfare society. The case of Germany2
‘I’m not sure where home is’: narratives of student mobilities into and through higher education2
Mothers’ responsibility as transmitters of gendered moral rationalities: working-class Palestinian mothers living in Israel2
Schooling in Hong Kong, youth aspirations, and the contesting of Chinese identity2
‘Not like me’: educational aspirations and mothering in an urban poor neighbourhood in India2
An unquiet mobilization. Working-class families and school in French contemporary society2
Education and high-status occupations in the UK since the middle of the twentieth century2
Internalising externalisation: utilisation of international knowledge in education policymaking2
En/counters with disablist school violence: experiences of young people with dwarfism in the United Kingdom2
40th anniversary special issue: the current and future shape of the sociology of education2
Academic career, gender and neoliberal university in Spain: the silent precariousness between publishing and care-giving2
Complex reflexivity: practices of women full professors in neoliberalised academia2
Social inequality in Catholic schools in Scotland in the second half of the twentieth century2
Pre-modern epistemes inspiring a new Global Sociology of Education Imagination2
Post-panoptic accountability: making data visible through ‘data walls’ for schooling improvement2
Social class, COVID-19 and care: Schools on the front line in Ireland during the COVID-19 pandemic2
Disproportionate identification of special needs for ethnic and language minority students in England–patterns and explanations2
On reductions – examining a British-Bourdieusian sociology of education2
The doing of curriculum mathematics: the case of an Indigenous Māori school in Aotearoa/New Zealand2
‘Labour class’ children in Indian classrooms: theorizing urban poverty and schooling2
When downward mobility haunts: reproduction crisis and educational strategies of Turkish middle class under the AK Party rule1
A multi-dimensional perspective on young people’s decisions not to go to university1
Girls’ education in Balochistan, Pakistan: exploring a postcolonial Islamic governmentality1
Siblings’ educational mobility and the educational stratification of families1
Cultural capitals matter, differentially: a Bourdieusian reading of perspectives from senior secondary students in England1
From science wars to transdisciplinarity: the inescapability of the neuroscience, biology and sociology of learning1
‘The more successful, the more apolitical’. Romani mentors’ mixed experiences with an intra-ethnic mentoring project1
Decolonial love as a pedagogy of care for Black immigrant post-secondary students1
‘We’re not robots!’: the interaction of co-operativism and neoliberalism for students at a Co-op academy1
Empty Britain? Hegemony and ambiguity in British education policy1
The production of social spaces for children with profound and multiple learning difficulties: a Lefebvrian analysis1
The distribution of ‘educational labour’ in families with equal or primary carer fathers1
Undermining teachers’ social capital: a question of trust, professionalism, and empowerment1
The class-related educational strategies and national capital of Polish migrants in the UK (England)1
In between distributive and evaluative rules: paradox of pedagogic (mis)governance1
Re-enchanting education: Bachilleratos Populares in Argentina as a commoning experience1
Leadership in non-white majority schools: the symbolic negation of distance1
It’s a diagnosis for the rich: disability, advocacy and the micro-practices of social reproduction1
Pedagogic practices and learner identities in two Norwegian primary school classrooms with contrasting social compositions1
Reproducing privilege through whiteness and beauty: an intersectional analysis of elite Chilean university students’ practices1
The death of human capital? Its failed promise and how to renew it in an age of disruption,1
How Capital generates capitals in English elite private schools: Charities, tax and accounting1
‘You feel a bit lost’: a case study interpreting white, working-class mothers’ engagement through habitus1
‘If you can’t beat them, join them’: utility, markets and the absent entrepreneur1
Higher education and school history in Scotland in the second half of the twentieth century1
Conceptualising the sociology of education: an analysis of contested intellectual trajectories1
Decolonising master’s supervision by queering/ enfletando the process: opening decolonial cracks through fleta reflexivity1
A matter of time: differential enactments of institutional time in diversity policy documents1
The making of male reader identities across generations: assemblages of rural places in shaping life as a male reader in Australia and Sweden1
Giving space to the subject’s potential present: Zemelman’s contributions to Sociology of Education1
The influence of teacher habitus on the university applications of moderately-attaining students1
Trends in intergenerational educational mobility in Israel: 1983–20081
Education, schooling and inclusive practice at a secondary free school in England1
‘So incredibly equal’: how polite exclusion becomes invisible in the classroom1
Decolonizing education in Latin America: critical environmental and intercultural education as an indigenous pluriversal alternative1
The institutionalised momentum of slow violence: Spatiotemporal contradictions in young people’s accounts of school bullying1
Schools’ priority rules and ethnic school segregation1
Peer preferences and educational decisions: heterogeneous associations across student socioeconomic status1
Regional accessibility of higher education in Russia1
Scripted schooling: determining when cultural retooling is worth the academic payoff1
Representation in higher education1
Correction1
The (stereo)typical student: how European higher education students feel they are viewed by relevant others1
Bringing underprivileged middle-school students to the opera: cultural mobility or cultural compliance?1
Roma students’ academic self-assessment and educational aspirations in Hungarian primary schools1
The symbolic gift of education in migrant families and compromises in school choice1
Sub-alterities: schooling in Southern Italy1
Anomalous beasts and the sociology of education1
Shaping personal worldviews when neo-liberalism meets Confucianism and patriotism: insights from Chinese postgraduate students1
Young pupils’ articulations of time spent in school in the wake of a policy reform1
Is it socioeconomic or academic? Disentangling sources of peer effects on student achievement1
The effects of managerialism in higher education on doctoral theorising: time to think?1
Gendered parenting and conjugal negotiation over children’s organised extracurricular activities1
Outsider status, and racialised habitus: the experiences of Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller students in higher education1
Upskilling the workforce? A critical analysis of national skills policies in China’s Reform Era1
Power and control in science: a case study of a syllabus for science and technology1
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