OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Qualitative Sociology is 2. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Collective Action, Democratization, and Violence: Dynamics of Anti-Kurdish Riots in Turkey	21
Getting In: Status Stratification and the Pursuit of the Good College Party	17
State Actors as Hard-to-Reach Populations	15
Making a Market for NGOs: Chinese Neo-Corporatism and Its Divergent Patterns of Regulating Migrant Labor	14
In the Eye of the Beholder: Exploring Perceived Access in an Urban Resource Desert	11
Classmates or Colleagues? How Elite Students Learn to Manage One Another	11
What Makes a Relationship Serious? Race, Religion, and Emotions in South Asian Muslim Immigrants’ Romantic Meaning-Making	10
“A Problem with the Person”: Class Blindness and the Reproduction of Social Class Inequality	9
“I don’t know what’s racist”: White Invisibility Among Explicitly Color-conscious Volunteers	9
Thick Construction as a Variant of Theory-Driven Ethnography	8
Why Ethnography?	7
Cultural Discrepancies in Interaction: Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Men Encounter Popular Psychology	7
Unbecoming a Marijuana User	7
Civic Opportunities and Democratic Practices in Yemen and Libya after the Arab Spring	7
The Moral Work of Participation: Disillusio, Expertise, and Urban Planning Under Neoliberalism	6
Is the Ethnographic Fact Conquered or Co-Constructed?	6
How Social Media Use Mitigates Urban Violence: Communication Visibility and Third-Party Intervention Processes in Digital Urban Contexts	6
In Place of History: Preserving Land as Remembrance of War	5
Correction to: Prompts, Not Questions: Four Techniques for Crafting Better Interview Protocols	5
Normalizing Disreputable Exchanges in the Academy: Libertarian Scholars and the Stigma of Ideologically-Based Funding	5
Who Should be Considered Indigenous? Intrastate Bureaucratic Jurisdictional Struggles Over Indigeneity in Peru	5
Environmental Authenticity: Constructing Nature in Postindustrial Parks	4
Latency and Crisis: Mutual Aid Activism in the Covid-19 Pandemic	4
The Work of Fantasy: A Study of Masculinizing Practices in Strip Clubs Across Three U.S. Midwestern Metropolitan Areas	4
Ideological Consolidation, Subject Formation, and the Discursive Creation of the “New Woman” in Revolutionary Cuba	4

Neighborhood as Theater: Building a Goffmanian Framework for Comparative Urban Ethnography	3
Sociology from a Distance: Remote Interviews and Feminist Methods	3
Political Activism and the Experience of Adversity	3
Resisting Monoracialization: The Struggle for Multiraciality among Mixed-Race Asians in the U.S.	3
A Sharp Ethnographer for Swedish Researchers	3
Privileged but not in Power: How Asian American Tech Workers use Racial Strategies to Deflect and Confront Race and Racism	3
A Source, a Detail, an Explanation	2
Triadic Structures in Political Street Art: Insights from Vilnius, Lithuania, at the Dusk of the Cold War	2
Sousveillance Work: Monitoring and Managing-Up in Patrimonial Hollywood	2
Philanthropy’s Children: How Graduates of an Education Non-Profit in South India Experience Expectations of “Giving Back”	2
Palliative Emotion Work: Preserving Parent-LGB Child Relationships in an Age Of “Incomplete Acceptance”	2
Portrait of the Artist as a Non-Artist. Matryoshka Roles and the Heteronomization of the Italian Art Field	2
Reflections on the Power of Ethnography for Justice Research and Policy	2
Pathways to Mobility: Family and Education in the Lives of Latinx Youth	2
Environmental Sociology is Running Late: Catching Up in a Faltering World	2
Ethnography Upgraded	2
Reframing the Community: How and Why Member Participation Shifts in the Face of Change	2
Hyping the Hypothetical: Talk and Temporality in US Supreme Court Oral Arguments	2
“What Was my Catalyst?” Narratives and Biographical Connectivity in Public Education Activism	2
Labor Borders: Recruitment of Central American Migrants in “Exodus” through Southern Mexico and Indigenous Mexican “Braceros” in the Californian Fields	2
Tribute to Robert M. Emerson	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