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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Encounters, separations, and incursions: Theorizing the Black Panther Party’s challenge to the War on Poverty	30
“Black people don’t love nature”: white environmentalist imaginations of cause, calling, and capacity	28
Theorizing democratic conflicts beyond agonism	17
A Marxist-Humanist perspective on Stuart Hall’s communication theory	16
Simulating theory and society: How multi-agent artificial intelligence modeling contributes to renewal and critique in social theory	16
Interview with Steve Brint for Theory and Society	16
First impressions and the built environment: exploring zero acquaintance judgments in socio-spatial contexts	15
The gates to the profession are open: the alternative institutionalization of data science	11
The stratification of emotions as a driving force in human societies	10
Corruption: A situational action view	8
The structure of political conflict. The oligarchs and the bourgeoisie in the Chilean Congress, 1834–1894	8
The multivocality of the nation: political imagination and transformation in the emergence of African Nationalism	7
Discourse regimes and liberal vehemence	7
What is assimilation, how do we measure it, and how do we know if a group has assimilated?	6
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
Nuclear denial in Japan: the network power of an energy industrial complex	4
Theorizing sex work: a sectoral approach	4
Collective learned helplessness: a conceptional framework	4
Dating in captivity: creativity, digital affordance, and the organization of interaction in online dating during quarantine	4
Agency as conversion process	4
The misruling elites: the state, local elites, and the social geography of the Chinese Revolution	4
Response to Commentaries	4
Patterns of tolerance: how interaction culture and community relations explain political tolerance (and intolerance) in the American libertarian movement	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
Distinguishing but not defining: How ambivalence affects contemporary identity disclosures	3
Narratives we live by: sequentiality and timeliness in temporal structuring of action	3
Between sacred gift and profane exchange: identity craft and relational work in asylum claims-making on religious grounds	3
From modern urban resident to sociable urban citizen: The making of spatial-political subjectivity through public housing in Singapore, 1972—2021	3
A theory of core identities	3
What counts as investment? Productive and unproductive expenditures	3
Arbitrage in Sociological Theorizing: the case of W. E. B. Du Bois	3
Diversity, conflict, and normative neutrality: the university as a critical institution	3
What makes randomized controlled trials so successful—for now? Or, on the consonances, compromises, and contradictions of a global interstitial field	3
The methodological stagnation of sociology is related to its left-wing skew	3
The means and ends of nature	3
The art of the impossible: Utopia and instrumentalism in contemporary electoral politics	3
A strategy for developing explanatory theories in sociology	3
Algorithmic Management and the Social Order of Digital Markets	3
Institutional fiefdoms: the implementation of governance and new norms within an emerging strategic action field	3
What makes a good social science theory, and why the evolutionary model of the actor is one	2
The tempest within: the origins and outcomes of intense national emotions in times of national division	2
School beyond stratification: Internal goods, alienation, and an expanded sociology of education	2
Democracy underwater: public participation, technical expertise, and climate infrastructure planning in New York City	2
Normative scientific conflict is unavoidable and should be welcomed	2
Class-based differences in moral judgment: A bayesian approach	2
Moral entanglements with a changing climate	2
Correction to: Language, ethnicity, and the nation-state: on Max Weber’s conception of “imagined linguistic community”	2
The paradox of women’s marital freedom: nonlinear individualization in post-reform China	2
Does identity change matter? Everyday agency, moral authority and generational cascades in the transformation of groupness after conflict	2
Interview with Alan Fiske for Theory and Society	2
Critical reflections on Pollitt and Bouckaert’s construct of the neo-Weberian state (NWS) in their standard work on public management reform	2
Value change and the pragmatist theory of morality: A response	2
Beyond conflict: recovering the sociology of social progress	2
The Morality of Birding: Aesthetic Engagement, Emotion, and Cognition	2
Deweyan moral sociology: descriptive cultural history or critical Social Ethics?	2
Transcending the Capitalism and Slavery Debate: Slavery and World Geographies of Accumulation	2
Risky businesses: economic crisis in Argentina and the generative power of generations	2
The genesis of Brexit in the UK: outline of a multi-field model	2