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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Simulating theory and society: How multi-agent artificial intelligence modeling contributes to renewal and critique in social theory	32
Interview with Steve Brint for Theory and Society	19
“Black people don’t love nature”: white environmentalist imaginations of cause, calling, and capacity	18
Encounters, separations, and incursions: Theorizing the Black Panther Party’s challenge to the War on Poverty	17
Correction: From heterodoxy to pluralism: the need for a conservative paradigm in social science	16
A Marxist-Humanist perspective on Stuart Hall’s communication theory	16
Theorizing democratic conflicts beyond agonism	14
First impressions and the built environment: exploring zero acquaintance judgments in socio-spatial contexts	11
The gates to the profession are open: the alternative institutionalization of data science	8
The stratification of emotions as a driving force in human societies	8
The structure of political conflict. The oligarchs and the bourgeoisie in the Chilean Congress, 1834–1894	7
The multivocality of the nation: political imagination and transformation in the emergence of African Nationalism	7
Corruption: A situational action view	7
Discourse regimes and liberal vehemence	7
Correction to: Reimagining modern politics in the European mountains: confronting the traditional commons with the neo‑rural conception of the common good	6
Frames and arguments on the admission of refugees: an empirically grounded typology	5
Correction: Rethinking medicalization: unequal relations, hegemonic medicalization, and the medicalizing dividend	5
What is assimilation, how do we measure it, and how do we know if a group has assimilated?	5
Collective learned helplessness: a conceptional framework	5
Response to Commentaries	4
Theorizing sex work: a sectoral approach	4
Nuclear denial in Japan: the network power of an energy industrial complex	4
Agency as conversion process	4
The misruling elites: the state, local elites, and the social geography of the Chinese Revolution	4
Patterns of tolerance: how interaction culture and community relations explain political tolerance (and intolerance) in the American libertarian movement	4

Dating in captivity: creativity, digital affordance, and the organization of interaction in online dating during quarantine	4
Do social media platforms increase well-being? Three unresolved puzzles	4
The theory and function of Marxian water rent in the United States	4
A theory of core identities	3
The methodological stagnation of sociology is related to its left-wing skew	3
From modern urban resident to sociable urban citizen: The making of spatial-political subjectivity through public housing in Singapore, 1972—2021	3
Institutional fiefdoms: the implementation of governance and new norms within an emerging strategic action field	3
The means and ends of nature	3
Narratives we live by: sequentiality and timeliness in temporal structuring of action	3
What makes randomized controlled trials so successful—for now? Or, on the consonances, compromises, and contradictions of a global interstitial field	3
Diversity, conflict, and normative neutrality: the university as a critical institution	3
Arbitrage in Sociological Theorizing: the case of W. E. B. Du Bois	3
Moral entanglements with a changing climate	3
What counts as investment? Productive and unproductive expenditures	3
Algorithmic Management and the Social Order of Digital Markets	3
A strategy for developing explanatory theories in sociology	3
Distinguishing but not defining: How ambivalence affects contemporary identity disclosures	3
What makes a good social science theory, and why the evolutionary model of the actor is one	3
The art of the impossible: Utopia and instrumentalism in contemporary electoral politics	3
Risky businesses: economic crisis in Argentina and the generative power of generations	2
Class-based differences in moral judgment: A bayesian approach	2
Credit rating agencies and the state: an inter-field regulated relationship	2
Certainty, unity, tolerance	2
Correction: Interview with Steve Brint for Theory and Society	2
School beyond stratification: Internal goods, alienation, and an expanded sociology of education	2
Deweyan moral sociology: descriptive cultural history or critical Social Ethics?	2
Correction to: Language, ethnicity, and the nation-state: on Max Weber’s conception of “imagined linguistic community”	2
Value change and the pragmatist theory of morality: A response	2
Resignation without relief: democratic governance and the relinquishing of parental rights	2
Critical reflections on Pollitt and Bouckaert’s construct of the neo-Weberian state (NWS) in their standard work on public management reform	2
The culture of official statistics. Symbolic domination and “bourgeois” assimilation in quantitative measurements of immigrant integration in Germany	2
Normative scientific conflict is unavoidable and should be welcomed	2
The genesis of Brexit in the UK: outline of a multi-field model	2
The paradox of women’s marital freedom: nonlinear individualization in post-reform China	2
Beyond conflict: recovering the sociology of social progress	2
The tempest within: the origins and outcomes of intense national emotions in times of national division	2
Interview with Alan Fiske for Theory and Society	2
Democratization, development, and inequality: the limits of redistributive models of democracy	2
Performative Certainty	2
Corporate political power and US foreign policy, 1981–2002: the role of the policy-planning network	2
Violence Regimes: A Useful Concept for Social Politics, Social Analysis, and Social Theory	2
Transcending the Capitalism and Slavery Debate: Slavery and World Geographies of Accumulation	2
Does identity change matter? Everyday agency, moral authority and generational cascades in the transformation of groupness after conflict	2
The Morality of Birding: Aesthetic Engagement, Emotion, and Cognition	2
A theory of concealment	1
Certainty and explanation	1
Planning as social practice: the formation and blockage of competitive futures in tournament chess, homebuying, and political organizing	1
Multi-organizational couplings of societal domains: a typology of meta-organizations in a functionally differentiated society	1
The power of fragmented elites: the role of inadvertent robust action	1
Class signature in schools: Field, habitus, and cultural capital intertwined to understand the reproduction of inequality at the organizational level	1

Defiant conformists: gender and resistance against genocide	1
Exponential expansions in social evolution: the case of per capita income averages in the U.S.	1
Symbols and reasons in democratization: cultural sociology meets deliberative democracy	1
If universal basic income is the answer, what is the question?	1
Democracy and the problem of certainty	1
Nationalizing accounts: everyday nationalism, Japanese scientists, and global policy	1
Clientelism in a broader frame	1
The domestic violence victim as COVID crisis figure	1
Understanding sustainable cooperation	1
Response to “Democracy and the problem of certainty”	1
Entanglements of experience: sketch for a sociological phenomenology of nature	1
Theories of parenting and child development in different cultural contexts	1
High-leverage sociological concepts and the progress of theory, part one	1
The post-progressive condition: Meta-critical theory and the rebalancing of knowledge	1
Institutional fragility at the boundary: reframing systemic decline as a crisis of recalibration	1
The inner stage: resituating Hochschild’s surface/deep binary from action to interaction	1
Decoupling social movements from modernity: a critical reappraisal of Charles Tilly’s theory on the origins of social movements	1
Interview with Rosemary Hopcroft for Theory and Society	1
Deindustrialization, social disintegration, and health: a neoclassical sociological approach	1