OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Theory and Society is 2. 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.)

Article	Citations
Rethinking medicalization: unequal relations, hegemonic medicalization, and the medicalizing dividend	22
Simulating theory and society: How multi-agent artificial intelligence modeling contributes to renewal and critique in social theory	17
“Toward a better public discourse about sex and gender”	12
The post-progressive condition: Meta-critical theory and the rebalancing of knowledge	11
Comment on Redstone’s “Democracy and the problem of certainty”	11
What makes a difference? Symmetry as a sociological concept	11
Interview with Rosemary Hopcroft for Theory and Society	10
Risky businesses: economic crisis in Argentina and the generative power of generations	9
Response to “Democracy and the problem of certainty”	9
Encounters, separations, and incursions: Theorizing the Black Panther Party’s challenge to the War on Poverty	8
What is a social pattern? Rethinking a central social science term	8
‘Trauma work’ as hindrance to political praxis during democratisation movements	7
Establishing an inverted U-shaped pattern of violence and war from prehistory to modernity: towards an interdisciplinary synthesis	7
Distributive effervescence: emotional energy and social cohesion in secularizing societies	7
Correction to: Establishing an inverted U-shaped pattern of violence and war from prehistory to modernity: towards an interdisciplinary synthesis	7
Algorithmic Management and the Social Order of Digital Markets	7
“Black people don’t love nature”: white environmentalist imaginations of cause, calling, and capacity	6
Symbolic revolutions. Mobilizing a neglected Bourdieusian concept for historical sociology	6
Class signature in schools: Field, habitus, and cultural capital intertwined to understand the reproduction of inequality at the organizational level	6
Transcending the Capitalism and Slavery Debate: Slavery and World Geographies of Accumulation	6
Writers and politics: Gisèle Sapiro’s advances within the Bourdieusian sociology of the literary field	4
The logic of quantification: institutionalizing numerical thinking	4
Not theories but explanations? A methodological inquiry	4
Theorizing democratic conflicts beyond agonism	4
Who can lead the revolution?: Re-thinking anticolonial revolutionary consciousness through Frantz Fanon and Pierre Bourdieu	4

A theory of core identities	4
Correction: Discourse regimes and liberal vehemence	4
Max Weber’s rationalization processes disenchantment, alienation, or anomie?	4
The domestic violence victim as COVID crisis figure	4
A Marxist-Humanist perspective on Stuart Hall’s communication theory	4
Interview with Alan Fiske for Theory and Society	4
Correction to: Religious change in Orthodox-majority Eastern Europe: from Nation-State to Global-Market	3
Niche construction to social sciences: can it help?	3
Arbitrage in Sociological Theorizing: the case of W. E. B. Du Bois	3
Nationalizing accounts: everyday nationalism, Japanese scientists, and global policy	3
Interview with Mark Moffett for theory and society	3
Being engaged in the World (nhập thế) and the secular state in 20th century Vietnam. Approaching two notions through Hòa Hảo Buddhism history	2
The future of interaction rituals: an interview with Randall Collins	2
Between sacred gift and profane exchange: identity craft and relational work in asylum claims-making on religious grounds	2
Clientelism in a broader frame	2
From modern urban resident to sociable urban citizen: The making of spatial-political subjectivity through public housing in Singapore, 1972—2021	2
First impressions and the built environment: exploring zero acquaintance judgments in socio-spatial contexts	2
Class-based differences in moral judgment: A bayesian approach	2
What makes randomized controlled trials so successful—for now? Or, on the consonances, compromises, and contradictions of a global interstitial field	2
The survival game: Impression management and strategies of survival under extreme conditions in a Soviet Gulag prison camp	2
Does ‘social infrastructure’ curb drug addiction? The role of local institutional norms	2
Pricing the priceless child 2.0: children as human capital investment	2