Theory and Society

Papers
(The median citation count of Theory and Society is 0. 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
Rethinking medicalization: unequal relations, hegemonic medicalization, and the medicalizing dividend22
Simulating theory and society: How multi-agent artificial intelligence modeling contributes to renewal and critique in social theory17
“Toward a better public discourse about sex and gender”12
Comment on Redstone’s “Democracy and the problem of certainty”11
What makes a difference? Symmetry as a sociological concept11
The post-progressive condition: Meta-critical theory and the rebalancing of knowledge11
Interview with Rosemary Hopcroft for Theory and Society10
Risky businesses: economic crisis in Argentina and the generative power of generations9
Response to “Democracy and the problem of certainty”9
What is a social pattern? Rethinking a central social science term8
Encounters, separations, and incursions: Theorizing the Black Panther Party’s challenge to the War on Poverty8
Establishing an inverted U-shaped pattern of violence and war from prehistory to modernity: towards an interdisciplinary synthesis7
Distributive effervescence: emotional energy and social cohesion in secularizing societies7
Correction to: Establishing an inverted U-shaped pattern of violence and war from prehistory to modernity: towards an interdisciplinary synthesis7
Algorithmic Management and the Social Order of Digital Markets7
‘Trauma work’ as hindrance to political praxis during democratisation movements7
Class signature in schools: Field, habitus, and cultural capital intertwined to understand the reproduction of inequality at the organizational level6
Transcending the Capitalism and Slavery Debate: Slavery and World Geographies of Accumulation6
“Black people don’t love nature”: white environmentalist imaginations of cause, calling, and capacity6
Symbolic revolutions. Mobilizing a neglected Bourdieusian concept for historical sociology6
Theorizing democratic conflicts beyond agonism4
Who can lead the revolution?: Re-thinking anticolonial revolutionary consciousness through Frantz Fanon and Pierre Bourdieu4
A theory of core identities4
Correction: Discourse regimes and liberal vehemence4
Max Weber’s rationalization processes disenchantment, alienation, or anomie?4
The domestic violence victim as COVID crisis figure4
A Marxist-Humanist perspective on Stuart Hall’s communication theory4
Interview with Alan Fiske for Theory and Society4
Writers and politics: Gisèle Sapiro’s advances within the Bourdieusian sociology of the literary field4
The logic of quantification: institutionalizing numerical thinking4
Not theories but explanations? A methodological inquiry4
Arbitrage in Sociological Theorizing: the case of W. E. B. Du Bois3
Nationalizing accounts: everyday nationalism, Japanese scientists, and global policy3
Interview with Mark Moffett for theory and society3
Correction to: Religious change in Orthodox-majority Eastern Europe: from Nation-State to Global-Market3
Niche construction to social sciences: can it help?3
First impressions and the built environment: exploring zero acquaintance judgments in socio-spatial contexts2
Class-based differences in moral judgment: A bayesian approach2
What makes randomized controlled trials so successful—for now? Or, on the consonances, compromises, and contradictions of a global interstitial field2
The survival game: Impression management and strategies of survival under extreme conditions in a Soviet Gulag prison camp2
Does ‘social infrastructure’ curb drug addiction? The role of local institutional norms2
Pricing the priceless child 2.0: children as human capital investment2
Being engaged in the World (nhập thế) and the secular state in 20th century Vietnam. Approaching two notions through Hòa Hảo Buddhism history2
The future of interaction rituals: an interview with Randall Collins2
Between sacred gift and profane exchange: identity craft and relational work in asylum claims-making on religious grounds2
Clientelism in a broader frame2
From modern urban resident to sociable urban citizen: The making of spatial-political subjectivity through public housing in Singapore, 1972—20212
What counts as investment? Productive and unproductive expenditures1
Correction to: “Insurgent subjectivity: Hope and its interactant emotions in the Nicaraguan revolution”1
The micro-foundations of elite politics: conversation networks and elite conflict during China’s reform era1
Social media, meet old politics: preservation and innovation in Colombian presidential elections, 2010–20181
Policing The Lost: The Emergence of Missing Persons and the Classification of Deviant Absence1
Blinded by the facts: Unintended consequences of racial knowledge production in the Dillingham commission (1907–1911)1
Understanding diversification of strategies and tactics in Swedish mining resistance: the fanning-out effect of goals and contextual opportunities1
Reimagining modern politics in the European mountains: confronting the traditional commons with the neo-rural conception of the common good1
The art of the impossible: Utopia and instrumentalism in contemporary electoral politics1
The structure of political conflict. The oligarchs and the bourgeoisie in the Chilean Congress, 1834–18941
Credit rating agencies and the state: an inter-field regulated relationship1
Settler colonialism and sociological knowledge: insights and directions forward1
Work and play as moral categories1
Violence Regimes: A Useful Concept for Social Politics, Social Analysis, and Social Theory1
Institutional fiefdoms: the implementation of governance and new norms within an emerging strategic action field1
From secularization to religious resurgence: an endogenous account1
Democratization, development, and inequality: the limits of redistributive models of democracy1
Distinguishing but not defining: How ambivalence affects contemporary identity disclosures1
Creating and maintaining an alternative public sphere: The struggles of social justice feminism, 1899–19251
Zoning as a labor market regulation1
The gates to the profession are open: the alternative institutionalization of data science1
This is a handcraft: valuation, morality, and the social meanings of payments for psychoanalysis1
Time, ties, transactions: temporality and relational work in economic exchange1
Clients, double clients or brokers? The changing agency of intermediary tribal groups in the Ming empire (1368–1644)1
Corruption: A situational action view1
Ideational diffusion and the great witch hunt in Central Europe1
Probabilistic justice against status defense: inequality, uncertainty, and the future of the welfare state1
Critical reflections on Pollitt and Bouckaert’s construct of the neo-Weberian state (NWS) in their standard work on public management reform1
Bureaucracy and the politics of time in state-business relations: Waiting to recruit migrant labour in Mauritius1
Cognitive microfoundations and social interaction dynamics. The implications of complexity for institutional theory0
Correction to: Language, ethnicity, and the nation-state: on Max Weber’s conception of “imagined linguistic community”0
The multivocality of the nation: political imagination and transformation in the emergence of African Nationalism0
The paradox of victory: social movement fields, adverse outcomes, and social movement success0
Prerequisites and pathways: How social categorization helps administrators determine moral worth0
The tempest within: the origins and outcomes of intense national emotions in times of national division0
School beyond stratification: Internal goods, alienation, and an expanded sociology of education0
Correction to: What counts as investment? Productive and unproductive expenditures0
Value change and the pragmatist theory of morality: A response0
Certainty and Society0
Cultural citizenship without state: historical roots of the modern Polish citizenship model0
Moral entanglements with a changing climate0
“Insurgent subjectivity: Hope and its interactant emotions in the Nicaraguan revolution”0
The misruling elites: the state, local elites, and the social geography of the Chinese Revolution0
The culture of official statistics. Symbolic domination and “bourgeois” assimilation in quantitative measurements of immigrant integration in Germany0
Self-negation0
“What can the Chinese experience of empire tell us about the Belt and Road Initiative?”0
Epistemic doubt and affective certainty: counting homotransphobia in Brazil0
For a probabilistic sociology: A history of concept formation with Pierre Bourdieu0
Defiant conformists: gender and resistance against genocide0
Discourse regimes and liberal vehemence0
Does identity change matter? Everyday agency, moral authority and generational cascades in the transformation of groupness after conflict0
The person of the category: the pricing of risk and the politics of classification in insurance and credit0
Towards a sociology of curiosity: theoretical and empirical consideration of the epistemic drive notion0
Correction to: Reimagining modern politics in the European mountains: confronting the traditional commons with the neo‑rural conception of the common good0
The dramaturgy of listening0
Interrogating the “cargo cult science” metaphor0
What is educational entrepreneurship? Strategic action, temporality, and the expansion of US higher education0
Correction to “From secularization to religious resurgence: An endogenous account”0
Certainty, unity, tolerance0
Corporate political power and US foreign policy, 1981–2002: the role of the policy-planning network0
Agency as conversion process0
High-leverage sociological concepts and the progress of theory, part one0
Symbols and reasons in democratization: cultural sociology meets deliberative democracy0
Deindustrialization, social disintegration, and health: a neoclassical sociological approach0
Culture in transnational Interaction: how Organizational Partners Coproduce Sesame Street0
Bringing aggression back into the study of sexual violence0
The genesis of Brexit in the UK: outline of a multi-field model0
Ambivalences of smallness: population statistics and narratives of scale among American Jewry0
Deweyan moral sociology: descriptive cultural history or critical Social Ethics?0
Why did Trump call prayers politically correct? The coevolution of the PC notion, the authenticity ethic, and the role of the sacred in public life0
Democracy underwater: public participation, technical expertise, and climate infrastructure planning in New York City0
The theory and function of Marxian water rent in the United States0
The means and ends of nature0
Embeddedness and cohesion: regimes of urban public goods distribution0
Rethinking the “crisis of expertise”: a relational approach0
What is the force of forced migration? Diagnosis and critique of a conceptual relativization0
Response to Commentaries0
Correction to: The misruling elites: the state, local elites, and the social geography of the Chinese Revolution0
Elements of a theory of certainty in society0
Democracy and the problem of certainty0
Making and transcending boundaries: the effect of ritual on nationalism0
Trying to make race science the “civil” science: charisma in the race and intelligence debates0
The policy-planning capacity of the American corporate community: corporations, policy-oriented nonprofits, and the inner circle in 1935–1936 and 2010–20110
The social structure of space and time: preliminary generalizations0
Scientificity before Scientism: The Invention of Cultural Research in German Studies of Antiquity 1800–18500
Parallel trajectories and theorizations of religion and family in modernity: Toward an institutional logics perspective0
How algorithms are reshaping the exploitation of labour-power: insights into the process of labour invisibilization in the platform economy0
Nuclear denial in Japan: the network power of an energy industrial complex0
When all you have is a hammer: how social justice distorts what we know about racial disparities0
Civil society elites: managers of civic capital0
Frames and arguments on the admission of refugees: an empirically grounded typology0
Toward a sociology of finitude: life, death, and the question of limits0
Religion and its modifiers: making sense of the definition and subtypification of a contested concept0
Economics as symbolic capital: The consecration of elite business schools0
If universal basic income is the answer, what is the question?0
Moments of identity: dynamics of artist, persona, and audience in electronic music0
Religious change in Orthodox-majority Eastern Europe: from Nation-State to Global-Market0
Theorizing sex work: a sectoral approach0
Performative Certainty0
A theory of intersubjectivity: experience, interaction and the anchoring of meaning0
Trump divide among American conservative professors0
Entanglements of experience: sketch for a sociological phenomenology of nature0
“Burning the bridges”: escalation in the pursuit of authenticity0
Resignation without relief: democratic governance and the relinquishing of parental rights0
Memory for forgetfulness: Conceptualizing a memory practice of settler colonial disavowal0
Do social media platforms increase well-being? Three unresolved puzzles0
Towards a transregional history of secularism: Intellectual connectivity, social reform, and state-building in South and Southeast Asia, 1918–19600
The paradox of women’s marital freedom: nonlinear individualization in post-reform China0
A consilient, multi-level model of corporal punishment0
Dating in captivity: creativity, digital affordance, and the organization of interaction in online dating during quarantine0
Patterns of tolerance: how interaction culture and community relations explain political tolerance (and intolerance) in the American libertarian movement0
Decoupling social movements from modernity: a critical reappraisal of Charles Tilly’s theory on the origins of social movements0
The Morality of Birding: Aesthetic Engagement, Emotion, and Cognition0
From industrial to digital citizenship: rethinking social rights in cyberspace0
Planning as social practice: the formation and blockage of competitive futures in tournament chess, homebuying, and political organizing0
Certainty and explanation0
Understanding solidarity in the European Union: an analytical framework0
Supervision, presence and knowledge: clarifying ‘parental monitoring’ concepts within a model of goal-directed parental action0
A theory of concealment0
Much of developmental psychology is not worth doing0
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