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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
A Marxist-Humanist perspective on Stuart Hall’s communication theory29
Encounters, separations, and incursions: Theorizing the Black Panther Party’s challenge to the War on Poverty25
“Black people don’t love nature”: white environmentalist imaginations of cause, calling, and capacity17
Simulating theory and society: How multi-agent artificial intelligence modeling contributes to renewal and critique in social theory16
Theorizing democratic conflicts beyond agonism14
Correction to: Religious change in Orthodox-majority Eastern Europe: from Nation-State to Global-Market13
Interview with Steve Brint for Theory and Society13
First impressions and the built environment: exploring zero acquaintance judgments in socio-spatial contexts13
Corruption: A situational action view11
The gates to the profession are open: the alternative institutionalization of data science10
The stratification of emotions as a driving force in human societies10
The multivocality of the nation: political imagination and transformation in the emergence of African Nationalism9
The structure of political conflict. The oligarchs and the bourgeoisie in the Chilean Congress, 1834–18949
Correction to: Reimagining modern politics in the European mountains: confronting the traditional commons with the neo‑rural conception of the common good8
Nuclear denial in Japan: the network power of an energy industrial complex7
Discourse regimes and liberal vehemence7
Frames and arguments on the admission of refugees: an empirically grounded typology5
Correction: Rethinking medicalization: unequal relations, hegemonic medicalization, and the medicalizing dividend5
The misruling elites: the state, local elites, and the social geography of the Chinese Revolution5
What is assimilation, how do we measure it, and how do we know if a group has assimilated?5
The theory and function of Marxian water rent in the United States5
Response to Commentaries4
Do social media platforms increase well-being? Three unresolved puzzles4
Dating in captivity: creativity, digital affordance, and the organization of interaction in online dating during quarantine4
Theorizing sex work: a sectoral approach4
Patterns of tolerance: how interaction culture and community relations explain political tolerance (and intolerance) in the American libertarian movement4
Agency as conversion process4
What makes randomized controlled trials so successful—for now? Or, on the consonances, compromises, and contradictions of a global interstitial field3
Between sacred gift and profane exchange: identity craft and relational work in asylum claims-making on religious grounds3
Institutional fiefdoms: the implementation of governance and new norms within an emerging strategic action field3
The methodological stagnation of sociology is related to its left-wing skew3
A strategy for developing explanatory theories in sociology3
Algorithmic Management and the Social Order of Digital Markets3
Distinguishing but not defining: How ambivalence affects contemporary identity disclosures3
The art of the impossible: Utopia and instrumentalism in contemporary electoral politics3
From modern urban resident to sociable urban citizen: The making of spatial-political subjectivity through public housing in Singapore, 1972—20213
Arbitrage in Sociological Theorizing: the case of W. E. B. Du Bois3
What counts as investment? Productive and unproductive expenditures3
Settler colonialism and sociological knowledge: insights and directions forward3
A theory of core identities3
The Morality of Birding: Aesthetic Engagement, Emotion, and Cognition2
Epistemic doubt and affective certainty: counting homotransphobia in Brazil2
The tempest within: the origins and outcomes of intense national emotions in times of national division2
Democracy underwater: public participation, technical expertise, and climate infrastructure planning in New York City2
The paradox of women’s marital freedom: nonlinear individualization in post-reform China2
Interview with Alan Fiske for Theory and Society2
Narratives we live by: sequentiality and timeliness in temporal structuring of action2
The means and ends of nature2
Correction to: Language, ethnicity, and the nation-state: on Max Weber’s conception of “imagined linguistic community”2
The genesis of Brexit in the UK: outline of a multi-field model2
School beyond stratification: Internal goods, alienation, and an expanded sociology of education2
Deweyan moral sociology: descriptive cultural history or critical Social Ethics?2
Moral entanglements with a changing climate2
What makes a good social science theory, and why the evolutionary model of the actor is one2
Value change and the pragmatist theory of morality: A response2
Does identity change matter? Everyday agency, moral authority and generational cascades in the transformation of groupness after conflict2
Risky businesses: economic crisis in Argentina and the generative power of generations2
A theory of concealment1
Exponential expansions in social evolution: the case of per capita income averages in the U.S.1
Response to “Democracy and the problem of certainty”1
Democracy and the problem of certainty1
Planning as social practice: the formation and blockage of competitive futures in tournament chess, homebuying, and political organizing1
Certainty and explanation1
Certainty, unity, tolerance1
Critical reflections on Pollitt and Bouckaert’s construct of the neo-Weberian state (NWS) in their standard work on public management reform1
Transcending the Capitalism and Slavery Debate: Slavery and World Geographies of Accumulation1
The paradox of victory: social movement fields, adverse outcomes, and social movement success1
If universal basic income is the answer, what is the question?1
Class signature in schools: Field, habitus, and cultural capital intertwined to understand the reproduction of inequality at the organizational level1
Interview with Rosemary Hopcroft for Theory and Society1
Decoupling social movements from modernity: a critical reappraisal of Charles Tilly’s theory on the origins of social movements1
Entanglements of experience: sketch for a sociological phenomenology of nature1
High-leverage sociological concepts and the progress of theory, part one1
Violence Regimes: A Useful Concept for Social Politics, Social Analysis, and Social Theory1
Credit rating agencies and the state: an inter-field regulated relationship1
Democratization, development, and inequality: the limits of redistributive models of democracy1
Symbols and reasons in democratization: cultural sociology meets deliberative democracy1
The culture of official statistics. Symbolic domination and “bourgeois” assimilation in quantitative measurements of immigrant integration in Germany1
Nationalizing accounts: everyday nationalism, Japanese scientists, and global policy1
The domestic violence victim as COVID crisis figure1
The power of fragmented elites: the role of inadvertent robust action1
Defiant conformists: gender and resistance against genocide1
The post-progressive condition: Meta-critical theory and the rebalancing of knowledge1
Deindustrialization, social disintegration, and health: a neoclassical sociological approach1
Resignation without relief: democratic governance and the relinquishing of parental rights1
Corporate political power and US foreign policy, 1981–2002: the role of the policy-planning network1
Class-based differences in moral judgment: A bayesian approach1
Performative Certainty1
Theories of parenting and child development in different cultural contexts1
The policy-planning capacity of the American corporate community: corporations, policy-oriented nonprofits, and the inner circle in 1935–1936 and 2010–20110
Probabilistic justice against status defense: inequality, uncertainty, and the future of the welfare state0
Correction to “From secularization to religious resurgence: An endogenous account”0
Theorising, conceptualising and operationalising social cohesion: some innovations0
Moments of identity: dynamics of artist, persona, and audience in electronic music0
Towards a transregional history of secularism: Intellectual connectivity, social reform, and state-building in South and Southeast Asia, 1918–19600
It’s a theoretical, not an empirical, piece: reply to Babones0
What is a social pattern? Rethinking a central social science term0
Supervision, presence and knowledge: clarifying ‘parental monitoring’ concepts within a model of goal-directed parental action0
Certainty and Society0
Rethinking the “crisis of expertise”: a relational approach0
Correction to: What counts as investment? Productive and unproductive expenditures0
Being engaged in the World (nhập thế) and the secular state in 20th century Vietnam. Approaching two notions through Hòa Hảo Buddhism history0
Culture in transnational Interaction: how Organizational Partners Coproduce Sesame Street0
Civil society elites: managers of civic capital0
The survival game: Impression management and strategies of survival under extreme conditions in a Soviet Gulag prison camp0
Policing The Lost: The Emergence of Missing Persons and the Classification of Deviant Absence0
Self-negation0
Bureaucracy and the politics of time in state-business relations: Waiting to recruit migrant labour in Mauritius0
Scientificity before Scientism: The Invention of Cultural Research in German Studies of Antiquity 1800–18500
‘Trauma work’ as hindrance to political praxis during democratisation movements0
Reimagining modern politics in the European mountains: confronting the traditional commons with the neo-rural conception of the common good0
Sociology can have laws: the web-of-laws approach in the social sciences0
Pricing the priceless child 2.0: children as human capital investment0
Trump divide among American conservative professors0
Creating and maintaining an alternative public sphere: The struggles of social justice feminism, 1899–19250
Trying to make race science the “civil” science: charisma in the race and intelligence debates0
“Burning the bridges”: escalation in the pursuit of authenticity0
Max Weber’s rationalization processes disenchantment, alienation, or anomie?0
Multi-organizational couplings of societal domains: a typology of meta-organizations in a functionally differentiated society0
Sociology in crisis0
Distributive effervescence: emotional energy and social cohesion in secularizing societies0
Work and play as moral categories0
“Insurgent subjectivity: Hope and its interactant emotions in the Nicaraguan revolution”0
The micro-foundations of elite politics: conversation networks and elite conflict during China’s reform era0
A theory of intersubjectivity: experience, interaction and the anchoring of meaning0
Execution and sacrifice: the geometry of martyrdom0
Defining diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) by the scientific (de)merits of its programming0
Symbolic revolutions. Mobilizing a neglected Bourdieusian concept for historical sociology0
Parallel trajectories and theorizations of religion and family in modernity: Toward an institutional logics perspective0
Bringing aggression back into the study of sexual violence0
Lying increases trust in science0
Interrogating the “cargo cult science” metaphor0
Not theories but explanations? A methodological inquiry0
Normativity is not a replacement for theory0
A consilient, multi-level model of corporal punishment0
Establishing an inverted U-shaped pattern of violence and war from prehistory to modernity: towards an interdisciplinary synthesis0
Clientelism in a broader frame0
Toward a better public discourse about sex and gender0
Understanding diversification of strategies and tactics in Swedish mining resistance: the fanning-out effect of goals and contextual opportunities0
From industrial to digital citizenship: rethinking social rights in cyberspace0
Towards a sociology of curiosity: theoretical and empirical consideration of the epistemic drive notion0
Fusing concept to theory: identity fusion’s potential role in crime research0
Correction: Discourse regimes and liberal vehemence0
Understanding solidarity in the European Union: an analytical framework0
Ambivalences of smallness: population statistics and narratives of scale among American Jewry0
The future of interaction rituals: an interview with Randall Collins0
Comment on Redstone’s “Democracy and the problem of certainty”0
When all you have is a hammer: how social justice distorts what we know about racial disparities0
Reflections on adversarial collaboration from the adversaries: was it worth it?0
Correction to: “Insurgent subjectivity: Hope and its interactant emotions in the Nicaraguan revolution”0
Comment on "The power of fragmented elites"0
Correction to: Establishing an inverted U-shaped pattern of violence and war from prehistory to modernity: towards an interdisciplinary synthesis0
Social media, meet old politics: preservation and innovation in Colombian presidential elections, 2010–20180
Making and transcending boundaries: the effect of ritual on nationalism0
Elements of a theory of certainty in society0
Memory for forgetfulness: Conceptualizing a memory practice of settler colonial disavowal0
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
Correction to: The misruling elites: the state, local elites, and the social geography of the Chinese Revolution0
How algorithms are reshaping the exploitation of labour-power: insights into the process of labour invisibilization in the platform economy0
Zoning as a labor market regulation0
Rethinking medicalization: unequal relations, hegemonic medicalization, and the medicalizing dividend0
Cognitive microfoundations and social interaction dynamics. The implications of complexity for institutional theory0
Blinded by the facts: Unintended consequences of racial knowledge production in the Dillingham commission (1907–1911)0
Terminological confusion in theories of social, structural, or functional differentiation: some notes and some suggestions0
The social structure of space and time: preliminary generalizations0
“What can the Chinese experience of empire tell us about the Belt and Road Initiative?”0
Interview with Mark Moffett for theory and society0
The dramaturgy of listening0
What makes a difference? Symmetry as a sociological concept0
Ideational diffusion and the great witch hunt in Central Europe0
Should PhD students drink more?0
Does ‘social infrastructure’ curb drug addiction? The role of local institutional norms0
Much of developmental psychology is not worth doing0
From secularization to religious resurgence: an endogenous account0
Niche construction to social sciences: can it help?0
Prerequisites and pathways: How social categorization helps administrators determine moral worth0
Time, ties, transactions: temporality and relational work in economic exchange0
Cultural citizenship without state: historical roots of the modern Polish citizenship model0
The person of the category: the pricing of risk and the politics of classification in insurance and credit0
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