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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Encounters, separations, and incursions: Theorizing the Black Panther Party’s challenge to the War on Poverty	25
“Black people don’t love nature”: white environmentalist imaginations of cause, calling, and capacity	20
Simulating theory and society: How multi-agent artificial intelligence modeling contributes to renewal and critique in social theory	15
A Marxist-Humanist perspective on Stuart Hall’s communication theory	15
Theorizing democratic conflicts beyond agonism	15
First impressions and the built environment: exploring zero acquaintance judgments in socio-spatial contexts	12
Correction to: Religious change in Orthodox-majority Eastern Europe: from Nation-State to Global-Market	11
Corruption: A situational action view	11
The gates to the profession are open: the alternative institutionalization of data science	11
The structure of political conflict. The oligarchs and the bourgeoisie in the Chilean Congress, 1834–1894	10
Correction to: Reimagining modern politics in the European mountains: confronting the traditional commons with the neo‑rural conception of the common good	9
The multivocality of the nation: political imagination and transformation in the emergence of African Nationalism	9
Discourse regimes and liberal vehemence	8
Frames and arguments on the admission of refugees: an empirically grounded typology	8
Correction: Rethinking medicalization: unequal relations, hegemonic medicalization, and the medicalizing dividend	7
The misruling elites: the state, local elites, and the social geography of the Chinese Revolution	7
Nuclear denial in Japan: the network power of an energy industrial complex	7
The theory and function of Marxian water rent in the United States	7
Theorizing sex work: a sectoral approach	6
Do social media platforms increase well-being? Three unresolved puzzles	6
Agency as conversion process	5
Patterns of tolerance: how interaction culture and community relations explain political tolerance (and intolerance) in the American libertarian movement	4
Writers and politics: Gisèle Sapiro’s advances within the Bourdieusian sociology of the literary field	4
A theory of core identities	4
Dating in captivity: creativity, digital affordance, and the organization of interaction in online dating during quarantine	4

What makes randomized controlled trials so successful—for now? Or, on the consonances, compromises, and contradictions of a global interstitial field	4
Between sacred gift and profane exchange: identity craft and relational work in asylum claims-making on religious grounds	4
Response to Commentaries	4
Algorithmic Management and the Social Order of Digital Markets	4
Arbitrage in Sociological Theorizing: the case of W. E. B. Du Bois	4
From modern urban resident to sociable urban citizen: The making of spatial-political subjectivity through public housing in Singapore, 1972—2021	4
Institutional fiefdoms: the implementation of governance and new norms within an emerging strategic action field	3
What counts as investment? Productive and unproductive expenditures	3
Epistemic doubt and affective certainty: counting homotransphobia in Brazil	3
The tempest within: the origins and outcomes of intense national emotions in times of national division	3
The art of the impossible: Utopia and instrumentalism in contemporary electoral politics	3
What makes a good social science theory, and why the evolutionary model of the actor is one	3
The means and ends of nature	3
Moral entanglements with a changing climate	3
Settler colonialism and sociological knowledge: insights and directions forward	3
Distinguishing but not defining: How ambivalence affects contemporary identity disclosures	3
Religious change in Orthodox-majority Eastern Europe: from Nation-State to Global-Market	3
School beyond stratification: Internal goods, alienation, and an expanded sociology of education	2
Interview with Alan Fiske for Theory and Society	2
Transcending the Capitalism and Slavery Debate: Slavery and World Geographies of Accumulation	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
The paradox of women’s marital freedom: nonlinear individualization in post-reform China	2
Risky businesses: economic crisis in Argentina and the generative power of generations	2
The Morality of Birding: Aesthetic Engagement, Emotion, and Cognition	2
The genesis of Brexit in the UK: outline of a multi-field model	2
Democracy underwater: public participation, technical expertise, and climate infrastructure planning in New York City	2
Does identity change matter? Everyday agency, moral authority and generational cascades in the transformation of groupness after conflict	2
Deweyan moral sociology: descriptive cultural history or critical Social Ethics?	2
Violence Regimes: A Useful Concept for Social Politics, Social Analysis, and Social Theory	1
Certainty, unity, tolerance	1
Credit rating agencies and the state: an inter-field regulated relationship	1
Class-based differences in moral judgment: A bayesian approach	1
If universal basic income is the answer, what is the question?	1
Nationalizing accounts: everyday nationalism, Japanese scientists, and global policy	1
Class signature in schools: Field, habitus, and cultural capital intertwined to understand the reproduction of inequality at the organizational level	1
Interview with Rosemary Hopcroft for Theory and Society	1
Decoupling social movements from modernity: a critical reappraisal of Charles Tilly’s theory on the origins of social movements	1
Embeddedness and cohesion: regimes of urban public goods distribution	1
High-leverage sociological concepts and the progress of theory, part one	1
The culture of official statistics. Symbolic domination and “bourgeois” assimilation in quantitative measurements of immigrant integration in Germany	1
This is a handcraft: valuation, morality, and the social meanings of payments for psychoanalysis	1
Critical reflections on Pollitt and Bouckaert’s construct of the neo-Weberian state (NWS) in their standard work on public management reform	1
The paradox of victory: social movement fields, adverse outcomes, and social movement success	1
The logic of quantification: institutionalizing numerical thinking	1
Deindustrialization, social disintegration, and health: a neoclassical sociological approach	1
Exponential expansions in social evolution: the case of per capita income averages in the U.S.	1
The domestic violence victim as COVID crisis figure	1
Defiant conformists: gender and resistance against genocide	1
Symbols and reasons in democratization: cultural sociology meets deliberative democracy	1

The post-progressive condition: Meta-critical theory and the rebalancing of knowledge	1
Certainty and explanation	1
Resignation without relief: democratic governance and the relinquishing of parental rights	1
Corporate political power and US foreign policy, 1981–2002: the role of the policy-planning network	1
Democratization, development, and inequality: the limits of redistributive models of democracy	1
Performative Certainty	1
Entanglements of experience: sketch for a sociological phenomenology of nature	1
The power of fragmented elites: the role of inadvertent robust action	1
Response to “Democracy and the problem of certainty”	1
Democracy and the problem of certainty	1
Planning as social practice: the formation and blockage of competitive futures in tournament chess, homebuying, and political organizing	1
A theory of concealment	1