OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of British Journal of Sociology of Education is 5. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
‘Pandemia’: a reckoning of UK universities’ corporate response to COVID-19 and its academic fallout	72
Social influence or selection? Peer effects on the development of adolescents’ educational expectations in Germany	36
Confronting White privilege: the importance of intersectionality in the sociology of education	32
Cosmopolitan nationalism in the cases of South Korea, Israel and the U.S	27
The impact of tracking by attainment on pupil self-confidence over time: demonstrating the accumulative impact of self-fulfilling prophecy	26
On becoming a doctoral student: Chinese doctoral students’ socialization of capital and habitus in academia	26
The fear of being singled out: pupils’ perspectives on victimisation and bystanding in bullying situations	25
Challenging the skills fetish	24
The making of transnational distinction: an embodied cultural capital perspective on Chinese women students’ mobility	24
The errors of redemptive sociology or giving up on hope and despair	22
Conflicting logics of online higher education	21
Responsibilised parents and shadow education: managing the precarious environment in China	19
The academic precariat: understanding life and labour in the neoliberal academy	19
Sociologising resilience through Bourdieu’s field analysis: misconceptualisation, conceptualisation, and reconceptualisation	17
Internships and the graduate labour market: how upper-middle-class students ‘get ahead’	17
Critiques of socio-economic school compositional effects: are they valid?	17
Casualised academic staff and the lecturer-student relationship: Shame, (Im)permanence and (Il)legitimacy	16
Back to zero? Precarious employment in academia amongst ‘older’ early career researchers, a life-course approach	16
Conferred cosmopolitanism: class-making strategies of elite schools across the world	15
A future of endless possibilities? Institutional habitus and international students’ post-study aspirations and transitions	14
Diversity without integration? Racialization and spaces of exclusion in international higher education	14
School admission in Chile, new rules of the game, and the devaluation of Middle-class capitals	13
International education and the pursuit of ‘Western’ capitals: middle-class Nigerian fathers’ strategies of class reproduction	13
The student as an enterprising self: Neoliberalism, English and early study abroad	13
Narratives of single, black mothers using cultural capital to access autism interventions in schools	13

‘More to prove and more to lose’: race, racism and precarious employment in higher education	12
‘Real’ boys, sissies and tomboys: exploring the material-discursive intra-actions of football, bodies, and heteronormative discourses	12
Cultural capital and elite university attendance in China	12
Recognition of boys as readers through a social justice lens	11
Intervention culture, grouping and triage: high-stakes tests and practices of division in English primary schools	11
‘They are bad seeds’: stereotyping habitus in Chinese VET colleges	11
Sociology of education: a personal reflection on politics, power and pragmatism	11
Understanding the complexity of Chinese rural parents’ roles in their children’s access to elite universities	11
Racism, zero-hours contracts and complicity in higher education	10
Navigating the neoliberal university: reflecting on teaching practice as a teacher-researcher-trade unionist	10
Everyday erosions: neoliberal political rationality, democratic decline and the Multi-Academy Trust	10
Working with/in institutions: how policy enactment in widening participation is shaped through practitioners’ experience	10
Academic Brexodus? Brexit and the dynamics of mobility and immobility among the precarious research workforce	9
Social reproduction theory revisited	9
Concerted cultivation as a racial parenting strategy: race, ethnicity and middle-class Indian parents in Britain	9
Critical thinking in the higher education classroom: knowledge, power, control and identities	9
Revisiting educational advantage and social class: a Bourdieusian analysis of middle-class parents’ investment in private schooling and shadow education	9
Wasteland revisited: defining an agenda for a sociology of education and migration	9
Critically considering the ‘inclusive curriculum’ in higher education	8
Class, education and parenting: cross-cultural perspectives	8
Who counts as socioeconomically disadvantaged for the purposes of widening access to higher education?	8
Digital technologies and parental involvement in education: the experiences of mothers of primary school-aged children	8
Reframing power relationships between undergraduates and academics in the current university climate	8
The practice of weak framing from teachers’ perceptions in China	7
Between student voice-based assessment and teacher-student relationships: teachers’ responses to ‘techniques of power’ in schools	7
Do teacher and classroom characteristics affect the way in which girls and boys are graded?	7
Between ethnonational and international curricula: competing identity discourses in the Armenian school in Jerusalem	7
Class, capital, and school culture: Parental involvement in public schools with specialised music programmes	7
‘They’d already made their minds up’: understanding the impact of stigma on parental engagement	7
Structural constraints and the school choice strategies of black American middle-class parents	7
Bernstein and Vygotsky: how the outside comes in and the inside goes out	7
The hateful other: neo-Nazis in school and teachers’ strategies for handling racism	7
Stigma and spoiled identities: rescripting career norms for precariously employed academic staff	6
The complexity of educational elitism: moving beyond misrecognition	6
Learning to walk the wire: preparing students for precarious life	6
Moving beyond: narratives of higher educational aspirations among descendants of immigrants in vocational training	6
Moving toward decoloniality in short-term study abroad under New Colombo: constructing global citizenship	6
Parental social class and GCSE attainment: Re-reading the role of ‘cultural capital’	6
Cosmopolitan Brands: graduate students navigating the social space of elite global universities	6
The reproduction of deficit thinking in times of contestation: the case of higher education	6
Student estrangement in higher education: identity formation and the struggle against stigma	5
Evoking hope in marginalised youth populations through non-formal education: critical pedagogy in sports-based interventions	5
Middle-class cultivation out of tune? Challenges to intensive parenting in Singapore	5
The professional role and identity of teachers in the private and state education sectors	5
Teacher-targeted bullying and harassment in Australian schools: a challenge to teacher wellbeing	5
Gendered career expectations in context: the relevance of normative and comparative reference groups	5
‘No fear’: privilege and the navigation of hierarchy at an elite boys’ school in England	5
Classroom composition and language skills: the role of school class and friend characteristics	5
Multi-sited understandings: complicating the role of elite schools in transnational class formation	5
Parental choice, collective identity and neoliberalism in alternative education: new free democratic schools in Poland	5

Projects-of-self and projects-of-family: young people’s responsibilisation for their education and responsibility for care	5
Oh, the education (you think) you’ll have! Relative deprivation and students’ academic expectations, aspirations, and attainment	5
Everyday consequences of selectiveness. Borderwork in the informal sphere of a lower secondary school in the metropolitan area of Helsinki, Finland	5
No love found: how female students of colour negotiate and repurpose university spaces	5
Explaining gender segregation in higher education: longitudinal evidence on the French case	5
The social reproduction of science education outcomes for high school students in Israel	5
Students’ experiences of the Cambridge supervision system: performance, pedagogy and power	5
Educational purity and technological danger: understanding scepticism towards the use of telepresence robots in school	5
Panopticism, teacher surveillance and the ‘unseen’	5
Exploring the relational nature of teachers’ agency negotiation through master- and counter-narratives	5
Restorative practices for preventing/countering violent extremism: an affective-discursive examination of extreme emotional incidents	5