OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Qualitative Sociology 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Collective Action, Democratization, and Violence: Dynamics of Anti-Kurdish Riots in Turkey	71
State Actors as Hard-to-Reach Populations	30
Getting In: Status Stratification and the Pursuit of the Good College Party	14
What Makes a Relationship Serious? Race, Religion, and Emotions in South Asian Muslim Immigrants’ Romantic Meaning-Making	13
Making a Market for NGOs: Chinese Neo-Corporatism and Its Divergent Patterns of Regulating Migrant Labor	13
How Place Matters for Migrants’ Socio-Legal Experiences: Local Reasoning about the Law and the Importance of Becoming a “Moral Insider”	11
Classmates or Colleagues? How Elite Students Learn to Manage One Another	10
“I don’t know what’s racist”: White Invisibility Among Explicitly Color-conscious Volunteers	9
What is “Qualitative” in Qualitative Research? Why the Answer Does not Matter but the Question is Important	9
“A Problem with the Person”: Class Blindness and the Reproduction of Social Class Inequality	8
Civic Opportunities and Democratic Practices in Yemen and Libya after the Arab Spring	8
Ideological Consolidation, Subject Formation, and the Discursive Creation of the “New Woman” in Revolutionary Cuba	7
Thick Construction as a Variant of Theory-Driven Ethnography	7
Correction to: Prompts, Not Questions: Four Techniques for Crafting Better Interview Protocols	7
Latency and Crisis: Mutual Aid Activism in the Covid-19 Pandemic	6
The Moral Work of Participation: Disillusio, Expertise, and Urban Planning Under Neoliberalism	6
How Social Media Use Mitigates Urban Violence: Communication Visibility and Third-Party Intervention Processes in Digital Urban Contexts	5
Normalizing Disreputable Exchanges in the Academy: Libertarian Scholars and the Stigma of Ideologically-Based Funding	5
Sociology from a Distance: Remote Interviews and Feminist Methods	4
Environmental Authenticity: Constructing Nature in Postindustrial Parks	4
Who Should be Considered Indigenous? Intrastate Bureaucratic Jurisdictional Struggles Over Indigeneity in Peru	4
A Sharp Ethnographer for Swedish Researchers	4
Privileged but not in Power: How Asian American Tech Workers use Racial Strategies to Deflect and Confront Race and Racism	4
‘It Isn't Charity because We've Paid into it’: Social Citizenship and the Moral Economy of Welfare Recipients in the Wake of 2012 UK Welfare Reform Act	4
The Work of Fantasy: A Study of Masculinizing Practices in Strip Clubs Across Three U.S. Midwestern Metropolitan Areas	4

Neighborhood as Theater: Building a Goffmanian Framework for Comparative Urban Ethnography	4
Is the Ethnographic Fact Conquered or Co-Constructed?	4
Sousveillance Work: Monitoring and Managing-Up in Patrimonial Hollywood	3
Digital Ethnography for Sociology: Craft, Rigor, and Creativity	3
Power, Positionality, and the Ethic of Care in Qualitative Research	3
Labor Borders: Recruitment of Central American Migrants in “Exodus” through Southern Mexico and Indigenous Mexican “Braceros” in the Californian Fields	3
Becoming Visible in the Public Sphere: Mobile Home Park Residents’ Political Engagement in City Council Hearings	3
Diagnosis as Subculture: Subversions of Health and Medical Knowledges in the Orthorexia Recovery Community on Instagram	3
Pathways to Mobility: Family and Education in the Lives of Latinx Youth	3
Environmental Sociology is Running Late: Catching Up in a Faltering World	3
Ethnography Upgraded	3
Reframing the Community: How and Why Member Participation Shifts in the Face of Change	2
The Genesis of Care: Knowledge-Emotion Connections, Extension of the Self, and Care for Nature at an Urban Nature Centre	2
Interview Location as Data	2
“Qualitative Research” Is a Moving Target	2
Hyping the Hypothetical: Talk and Temporality in US Supreme Court Oral Arguments	2
“I’m trying to create, not destroy”: Gendered Moralities and the Fate of IVF Embryos in Evangelical Women’s Narratives	2
Risk and Respectability: Reinventing Sexuality in State-NGO HIV Prevention Programs	2
Portrait of the Artist as a Non-Artist. Matryoshka Roles and the Heteronomization of the Italian Art Field	2
A Social Phenomenon of Risk Perception: Saskatchewan Firefighters on the Yarnell Hill Fire Fatalities	1
Better than My Father or Better than His Absence: Understanding How Variation in Patterns of Absence Influence Intentions for Fatherhood	1
A Source, a Detail, an Explanation	1
“I Want to Get on the Next Bus and Leave This City Now”: A Study of Violence and Deportation on the Texas-Tamaulipas Border	1
In Praise of “Thick Construction”	1
Isolation and Interaction in Temporary Agricultural Labor	1
Correction to: My Home Quarantine on an App: A Qualitative Visual Analysis of Changes in Family Routines During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Chile	1
“Our Childhood Was Happier”: Retrospective Moment in Elite Chinese Childrearing	1
Sensory Forms of Knowing in Body Pedagogics	1
Code Ethnography and the Materiality of Power in Internet Governance	1
The Microsociology of Aesthetic Evaluation: Selecting Runway Fashion Models	1
Focused, Exploratory, or Vigilant: Reproduction, Mobility, and the Self-Narratives of Second-Generation Immigrant Youth	1
Do I Know You? Managing Offline Interaction in Acquainted Stranger Relationships	1
Making a Martyr?: Scandal, Symbolic Power, and the Controversial Death of Evangelical Missionary John Chau	1
“Horrible Slime Stories” When Serving Victims: The Labor of Role-taking and Secondary Trauma Exposure	1
Designing Better Access to Education? Unified Enrollment, School Choice, and the Limits of Algorithmic Fairness in New Orleans School Admissions	1
Re-Thinking Demographic Engineering Practices: New Insights from the Case of the Indian Emergency State (1975–77)	1
Correction: “But Everything Else, I Learned Online”: School-Based and Internet-Based Sexual Learning Experiences of Heterosexual and LGBQ?+?Youth	1
Conflict and Co-Specialization on Calle Cuatro: How Placemakers Navigate Ethnic Branding	1
Hybrid Imbalance: Collaborative Fabrication of Digital Teaching and Learning Material	1
Career Success and Gender Occupational Minorities: Reconstructing Gendered Notions of Career Success	1
What is Qualitative in Research	1
The Micro-Foundations of Predictable Stability: How Multigenerational Achievement Informs Upper-Middle-Class Parenting	1
Norms or Knowledge? Unpacking Views on Maternal Employment among the College Educated in South Korea	1