OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Theory and Society 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Dependence and precarity in the platform economy	150
The ethnographer and the algorithm: beyond the black box	93
The case for an inhabited institutionalism in organizational research: interaction, coupling, and change reconsidered	37
Loops, ladders and links: the recursivity of social and machine learning	36
Digital hyperconnectivity and the self	34
Prisons as porous institutions	29
Seeing like a city: how tech became urban	24
Theorizing disaster communitas	23
The work-technology nexus and working-class environmentalism: Workerism versus capitalist noxiousness in Italy’s Long 1968	23
Agency in historical institutionalism: Coalitional work in the creation, maintenance, and change of institutions	18
Data orientalism: on the algorithmic construction of the non-Western other	17
Making platforms work: relationship labor and the management of publics	16
A history of post-communist remembrance: from memory politics to the emergence of a field of anticommunism	13
The person of the category: the pricing of risk and the politics of classification in insurance and credit	12
Tripartite guanxi: resolving kin and non-kin discontinuities in Chinese connections	10
Cultural citizenship without state: historical roots of the modern Polish citizenship model	10
Democracy underwater: public participation, technical expertise, and climate infrastructure planning in New York City	10
Gender and charismatic power	9
The logic of quantification: institutionalizing numerical thinking	9
Ambivalent economizations: the case of value added modeling in teacher evaluation	9
A story of nimble knowledge production in an era of academic capitalism	9
The racialization of privacy: racial formation as a family affair	7
Religious change in Orthodox-majority Eastern Europe: from Nation-State to Global-Market	7
Immigration, opportunity, and assimilation in a technology economy	6
Theorizing refugeedom: becoming young political subjects in Beirut	6

Distributive effervescence: emotional energy and social cohesion in secularizing societies	6
A sociological agenda for the tech age	6
Populism and the double liberalism: exploring the links	6
Embeddedness and cohesion: regimes of urban public goods distribution	6
Violence Regimes: A Useful Concept for Social Politics, Social Analysis, and Social Theory	6
The academic Trumpists: American professors who support the Trump presidency	6
Rereading Durkheim in light of Jewish law: how a traditional rabbinic thought-model shapes his scholarship	5
Toward a theory of alienation: futurelessness in financial capitalism	5
The paradox of victory: social movement fields, adverse outcomes, and social movement success	4
From industrial to digital citizenship: rethinking social rights in cyberspace	4
Settler colonialism and sociological knowledge: insights and directions forward	4
Getting real: heuristics in sociological knowledge	4
Agency as conversion process	4
What is the force of forced migration? Diagnosis and critique of a conceptual relativization	4
Towards a sociology of imagination	4
Toward a sociology of finitude: life, death, and the question of limits	4
Economics as symbolic capital: The consecration of elite business schools	4
The structure of political conflict. The oligarchs and the bourgeoisie in the Chilean Congress, 1834–1894	4
Moments of identity: dynamics of artist, persona, and audience in electronic music	3
For a probabilistic sociology: A history of concept formation with Pierre Bourdieu	3
Symbolic Capital of the Memory of communism. The quest for international recognition in Kazakhstan	3
The fourth stage of social democracy	3
Language and imagined Gesellschaft: Émile Durkheim’s civil-linguistic nationalism and the consequences of universal human ideals	3
Karl Polanyi: a theorist of mixed economies	3
Deweyan moral sociology: descriptive cultural history or critical Social Ethics?	3
Deindustrialization, social disintegration, and health: a neoclassical sociological approach	3
Policing The Lost: The Emergence of Missing Persons and the Classification of Deviant Absence	3
Between sacred gift and profane exchange: identity craft and relational work in asylum claims-making on religious grounds	3
Symbolic revolutions. Mobilizing a neglected Bourdieusian concept for historical sociology	3
Against Polanyian orthodoxy: a reply to Hannes Lacher	3
“When you’re here, you’re not a militant feminist”: volunteer professionalization in a rape crisis center	3
Religion, classification struggles, and the state’s exercise of symbolic power	3
Victimhood dissociation and conflict resolution: evidence from the Colombian peace plebiscite	3
Writers and politics: Gisèle Sapiro’s advances within the Bourdieusian sociology of the literary field	3
What is educational entrepreneurship? Strategic action, temporality, and the expansion of US higher education	2
This is a handcraft: valuation, morality, and the social meanings of payments for psychoanalysis	2
Global connectedness of local NGOs: do different types of funding create barriers for cooperation?	2
Towards a sociology of curiosity: theoretical and empirical consideration of the epistemic drive notion	2
On the meaning and contemporary significance of fascism in the writings of Karl Polanyi	2
Political Competition and Two Modes of Taxing Private Homeownership: A Bourdieusian Analysis of the Contemporary Chinese State	2
Entanglements of experience: sketch for a sociological phenomenology of nature	2
Asserting disadvantaged communities’ deliberative agency in a media-saturated society	2
Trying to make race science the “civil” science: charisma in the race and intelligence debates	2
Editors’ introduction to the special issue on the sociology of digital technology	2
“What can the Chinese experience of empire tell us about the Belt and Road Initiative?”	2
“Burning the bridges”: escalation in the pursuit of authenticity	2
“Habit and creativity in judges’ definition and framing of legal questions”	1
Autonomy on the horizon: comparing institutional approaches to disability and elder care	1
Corporate political power and US foreign policy, 1981–2002: the role of the policy-planning network	1
Making Muslims illegible: recoupling as an obstacle to religious enumeration in Germany	1

When policy feedback fails: “collective cooling” in Detroit's municipal bankruptcy	1
Work and play as moral categories	1
The policy-planning capacity of the American corporate community: corporations, policy-oriented nonprofits, and the inner circle in 1935–1936 and 2010–2011	1
From modern urban resident to sociable urban citizen: The making of spatial-political subjectivity through public housing in Singapore, 1972—2021	1
What is a social pattern? Rethinking a central social science term	1
School beyond stratification: Internal goods, alienation, and an expanded sociology of education	1
Techno-sovereignism: the political rationality of contemporary Italian populism	1
Ambivalences of smallness: population statistics and narratives of scale among American Jewry	1
Rethinking the “crisis of expertise”: a relational approach	1
The Morality of Birding: Aesthetic Engagement, Emotion, and Cognition	1
The culture of official statistics. Symbolic domination and “bourgeois” assimilation in quantitative measurements of immigrant integration in Germany	1
Moral entanglements with a changing climate	1
Pragmatic justice in juvenile sentencing: agreeing what to do but not why	1
Confessions without guilt: public confessions of state violence in Turkey	1
Planning as social practice: the formation and blockage of competitive futures in tournament chess, homebuying, and political organizing	1
Kill me a mosquito and I will build a state: political economy and the socio-technicalities of Jewish colonization in Palestine, 1922–1940	1
Who can lead the revolution?: Re-thinking anticolonial revolutionary consciousness through Frantz Fanon and Pierre Bourdieu	1
A theory of intersubjectivity: experience, interaction and the anchoring of meaning	1
Memory for forgetfulness: Conceptualizing a memory practice of settler colonial disavowal	1
How algorithms are reshaping the exploitation of labour-power: insights into the process of labour invisibilization in the platform economy	1
Religion and its modifiers: making sense of the definition and subtypification of a contested concept	1
The means and ends of nature	1
The micro-foundations of elite politics: conversation networks and elite conflict during China’s reform era	1
Critical reflections on Pollitt and Bouckaert’s construct of the neo-Weberian state (NWS) in their standard work on public management reform	1
Defiant conformists: gender and resistance against genocide	1
Social media, meet old politics: preservation and innovation in Colombian presidential elections, 2010–2018	1
Value change and the pragmatist theory of morality: A response	1
Pricing the priceless child 2.0: children as human capital investment	1
The social life of academic articles: some reflections on the making and impact of “Social capital and economic development”	1
From local control to remote control: an excavation of international mobility constraints	1