Critical Sociology

Papers
(The median citation count of Critical Sociology 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Who Can Capitalize on Capitalism’s Dispossessions?34
Scholarship Denied: The Phelps Stokes Fund’s Use of the ‘Race Relations’ Paradigm to Silence Du Bois’ Critiques of Racial Capitalism33
Critical Theory and Universal Basic Income31
Book Review: Living Well at Others’ Expense: The Hidden Costs of Western Prosperity by Stephan Lessenich21
Trajectories and Legacies of Outsider Party-Building: The Rise and Fall of Spain’s Podemos17
About the Authors17
After a Global Platform Leaves: Understanding the Heterogeneity of Gig Workers through Capital Mobility17
New Wave of Thinking About Revolutions16
The Mobility–Immobility Dynamic and the ‘Fixing’ of Migrants’ Labour Power16
Gramsci in South Africa: On Postcolonial Sociology and Levenson’s Delivery as Dispossession15
On Digital Fetishism: A Critique of the Big Data Paradigm15
Book Review: Rentier Capitalism and Its Discontents: Power, Morality and Resistance in Central Asia by Balihar Sanghera and Elmira Satybaldieva14
‘The Fire This Time’: The Long Crisis of Neoliberal Capitalist Accumulation and Spectre of Neofascism14
Twisted Trajectories, Curious Chronologies: Revisiting the Unfree Labour Debate14
In Pursuit of the Sociological Imagination: Zygmunt Bauman as Reader13
When a House Explodes: Remarks on Emancipatory Politics in Times of Crises13
Media Visibility and Migrant Voices: Representational Segregation in the Nordic Platform Economy12
Decolonising Disability in Contexts of Illiberalism and Social Abandonment: The Case for a Double-Edged Critique from the Postsocialist Margins12
Eco-imperial Tensions: Decarbonization Strategies in Times of Geopolitical Upheaval11
Critical Sociology at 5010
Politics, Crisis, and the Canon: A Commentary on Michael Burawoy’s ‘Decolonizing Sociology: The Significance of W.E.B. Du Bois’10
Gazacide: Palestinians From Refugeehood to Ontological Obliteration10
About the Authors9
Turkey’s Rising Tide of Dissent: Charting the Wave of Non-Legal Strikes in the Mid-2010s9
Trusting by Numbers: An Analysis of a Chinese Social Credit System Governance Infrastructure9
Walking on Two Legs: Black Marxism and the Sociological Canon8
Sociology Faces the Question of Palestine8
Book Review: Tahrir’s Youth: Leaders of a Leaderless Revolution, by Rusha Latif8
Debating Equity through Integration: School Officials’ Decision-Making and Community Advocacy During a School Rezoning in Williamsburg, Virginia8
About the Authors7
Travelling Lite, or the History of (Almost) Everything7
Book Review: Epidemic Orientalism: Race, Capital, and the Governance of Infectious Disease by Alexandre I. R. White7
Book Review: The Voucher Promise: “Section 8” and the Fate of an American Neighborhood7
Importance of “the Social”: The Divergent Informal Careers of Chinese Internal Migrants7
The Fifth Generation of Revolution Studies. Part II: A Systematic Review of Substantive Findings (Revolution Causes, Forms, and Waves)7
One of the Good Ones: Rhetorical Maneuvers of Whiteness6
Review of Militarized Global Apartheid by Catherine Besteman6
About the Authors6
Culture in the Space of Late Capitalism: The Artist and the Market6
Framing the Immigrant in Labor Unions and the Military in the United States6
Is the Fifth Generation of Revolution Studies Still Coming?6
Demolition, Division and Displacement: Examining the Preservation of Whiteness in Rotterdam Municipal Housing Policy6
Europeanisation, Devolution and Popular Sovereignty: On the Politics of State Transformation in Scottish Nationalism5
On-Demand and Marketplace Platforms: Gig Care Work Conditions on Two Digital Labour Platform Care Models5
Capitalism, Class Struggle and/in Academia5
Passive Revolution in Japan: The Restoration of Hegemony under Abe?5
After the Foxconn Suicides in China: A Roundtable on Labor, the State and Civil Society in Global Electronics5
Frankfurt School Legacy and the Critical Sociology of Media: Lifeworld in Digital Capitalism5
American Ignorance: Covid Comes5
Book Review: The End of the End of History: Politics in the Twenty-First Century by Alex Hochuli, George Hoare and Philip Cunliffe5
Of Elephants and Scholars: From Criticism to Reconstruction in Sociology5
Land, Body, Language: Corporeal Poetics of Reclaiming in Natalie Diaz’s Postcolonial Love5
Overextension and Globalization: The Dynamics of Hegemonic Decline4
Colonial Capitalist Heterochronicity: Socio-Ecological Rhythms of the Sugar Plantation and the Formal Subsumption of Historical and Cultural Difference4
Institutional and Ideational Forces of Contentious Politics in Chile (2006–2019)4
About the Authors4
Old and New Organizational Forms in a Complex Society: A Systems-Theoretical Perspective4
‘Stand Against the Wiles of the Devil’: Interpreting QAnon as a Pseudo-Christian Extremist Movement4
Running Democracy into the Ground?4
When Feminism Redefines National Liberation: How Tal’at Movement brought Feminism to the Core of the Palestinian National Liberation Struggle4
Revolutions and the World-System4
About the Authors4
The Politics of Governance by Quantification Infrastructure4
Indigenous Knowledge and the Social Construction of Patriarchy: The Case of the Bukusu of Kenya4
After the Arab Uprisings: Rejoinder to Reviewers4
Exodus, Nakba Denialism, and the Mobilization of Anti-Arab Racism4
Book Review: Pandemic! Covid-19 Shakes the World by Slavoj Zizek!4
The Fragmented Labor Power Composition of Gig Workers: Entrepreneurial Tendency and the Heterogeneous Production of Difference4
Book Reviews: Grandmothering While Black: A Twenty-First Century Story of Love, Coercion, and Survival by LaShawnDa Pittman4
Derailed and Denaturalized: The Case of East Palestine, Ohio3
The Hegemony Crisis, the Neoliberal Model, and the United States Power Structure3
Decolonizing Sociology for Social Justice in Bangladesh: Delta Scholarship Matters3
A ‘Romantic Public Tragedy’? COVID Pandemic and the Changes of Governance in Poland3
From Labour Process Theory to Organisational Political Economy: A Response to Benassi, Ikeler and Wood3
The Hispanic Outreach: Network Analysis of a Community-Based Policing Program in South Los Angeles3
The Dilemma of Foxconn Moms: Social Reproduction and the Rise of ‘Gig Manufacturing’ in China3
Towards a Postcolonial Critical Realism3
Women’s Solidarity, Communicative Space, the Gig Economy’s Social Reproduction and Labour Process: The Case of Female Platform Drivers in China3
Book Review: Passport Island: The Market for EU Citizenship in Cyprus by Theodoros Rakopoulos3
Book Review: Understanding the War Industry by Christian Sorensen3
Crisis Governance, (De)Mobilisation and New Inequalities: The Legacy of COVID-193
News Sources in the Sociology of the Media: A Critical Re-Examination3
The Ethics of Seeing Historically: Past, Present, and Future in Dark Times3
Trump’s Charisma3
Institutions, Occupations and Connectivity: The Embeddedness of Gig Work and Platform-Mediated Labour Market in Hong Kong3
The Broken Promise of Human Capital Theory: Social Embeddedness, Graduate Entrepreneurs and Youth Employment in China3
From Exceptionalism to Normalisation: How Narratives of Platform Companies Legitimise Precarious Work and Commodified Care3
Searching for the Ariadne Thread in Zygmunt Bauman’s Early Contributions to Social Analysis3
From Social Sphere to Intermediary Association: A Critical Analysis of Civil Society’s Neoliberal Transformation3
Exit-With-Autonomy or Autonomy-Without-Exit? Divergent Political Trajectories in Rojava and the Kurdish Regional Government3
Criticize and Construct! A Case for Emancipatory Social Theory3
Canon Fodder and the Intimacy of Dialogues3
Challenging Capitalism Begins in Everyday Lives: The Culture of Meci, the Gift and the Commons2
The Defamiliarization of Childcare in Uruguay: What Factors Contribute to the Use of Care Centers?2
About the Authors2
The Shock Doctrine Comes to Canada: Laurentian University’s Insolvency Claim and the Neoliberal Tide2
From Black Zionism to Black Nasserism: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Foundations of Black Anti-Zionist Discourse2
Changing, But Not in Decline: Globalization From a Sociometabolic Perspective2
Book Review: Service Workers in the Era of Monopoly Capital: A Marxist Analysis of Service and Retail Labour by Fabian van Onzen2
About the Authors2
Book Reviews: Marx’s Literary Style by Ludovica Silva2
Book Review: Marx, Women and Capitalist Social Reproduction: Marxist Feminist Essays2
Unpacking State Production of Temporal Dispossession: The Intersections of Labour, Asylum and Informalization in Sweden2
Dependency Theory and Marxism in Latin America: Between Convergences and Contradictions2
Addiction2
Double the Tasks, Double the Control: An Analysis of Workers’ Practices to Increase Visibility in Cleaning, Care, and Accommodation Platforms in Spain2
Organised Violence, Inequality and Work: Violence Specialists as a Classed Occupation2
Expanding Sanctuary: The City of Sanctuary Movement in London2
Turning Theory to Practice: Palestine as a Sociological Question: ASA Resolution for Justice in Palestine2
Garrison Take this job2
Unpacking Social Order: Toward a Novel Framework That Goes Beyond Organizations, Institutions, and Networks2
Between (Conceptual) Crisis and Critique: Reclaiming the Critical Epistemic Value of Publicness2
Contradictions of Neoliberal Urbanism: The Case of Paid Domestic Workers in Indian Cities2
Neoliberalism and the Global Migrant Crisis: A World-Ecology Perspective2
Placing Mexican Ethnic Enclaves: Toward a Recursive Model of Place Attachment2
Constructing Conflict: The Politics of Job Creation Policy, Precarious Work, and Citizenship in South Africa’s Construction Industry2
Book Review: Sociology in Post-Normal Times by Charles Thorpe2
Degenerations of Democracy: Response to Comments2
Coming from México ‘for a Better Life Here’: Street Gangs, American Violence, and the Spatialized Contours and Historical Continuity of Racial Capitalism2
Professionalization from above in domestic work: Accessing work on marketplace platforms2
Governing Mobility Through Exemptions: Cross-National Dependencies, Immigration Policy, and Migrant Labour in South African Historical Perspective2
Making Sense of the Republic in Turkey at Its Centennial: A Jacobinist Route to Modernity?2
Walls, Cracks and Change: The Challenges and Opportunities of Critically Engaged Research Within Current Academic and Refugee Research Structures2
Precarity and the Predatory Inclusion of Black Women by For-Profit Colleges1
Gramsci, the Relativity of the Integral State-Society, and the COVID-19 Interregnum1
Review of Neoliberal Transformations of the Italian State: Understanding the Roots of the Crises by Adriano Cozzolino1
The Organization of Ignorance: The Australian ‘Robodebt’ Affair, Bureaucracy, Law and Politics1
‘I’m Not a Tenant They Can Just Run Over’: Low-Income Renters’ Experiences of and Resistance to Racialized Dispossessing1
Illusion and Non-Identity Thinking in Nietzsche’s Critical Theory1
About the Authors1
Victim or Perpetrator? Social Psychology of Racial Violence and Massacre in Philip Shultz’s Works1
CORRIGENDUM to “From Exceptionalism to Normalisation: How Narratives of Platform Companies Legitimise Precarious Work and Commodified Care”1
Michael Burawoy’s Path: From North to South, and Back Again1
Marxist Mosaic or Non-Marxist Kaleidoscope?1
Race and 21st Century Minority Pulitzer Poets1
Trauma and AIDS Metaphor in Peter Balakian’s Ozone Journal1
Reflections on Climate, Class, and Strategy1
Social Welfare Policy in Post-Transition Chile: Social Democratic or Neoliberal?1
From Africa to Amazon.com: Racialized Labor and Global Supply Chains1
From Grievance to Insurrection: Authoritarian Populism Today1
The OECD and Ritualized Isomorphism: Anti-Corruption Monitoring, the ‘Narrow View’ of Corruption and the Transnational Political Order1
Global Capitalism and Labour in the Age of Monopoly: Hong Kong and Mainland China1
The Royal Touch Under Neoliberalism: The Swedish King’s Consecration of ‘Leadership’ through World Scouting1
Nadir of the Dialectic: A Review of Descent and Nihilism1
Fictionalized Violence and Criminality: Re-evaluating the Burakumin of Japan1
Deconstructing the Blackface Minstrel Show, (Re)constructing African American Identity: the Case of Olio by Tyehimba Jess1
Berserk!: Anger and the Charismatic Populism of Donald Trump1
W.E.B. Du Bois (1906), ‘L’Ouvrier Negre en Amérique [The Negro Worker in America]’, Revue Économique Internationale, 3:298–3481
Defending Liberalism, Promoting Capitalism: Fukuyama’s Scylla and Charybdis1
Platforms Don’t Care – Qualified and Experienced Women Do: A Case Study on Self-Employment and On-Demand Platforms in Eldercare1
A Popular Backlash against Globalization?1
‘Play’ing College Football: Campus Athletic Worker Experiences of Exploitation1
Book Reviews:Labour Conflicts in the Digital Age: A Comparative Perspectiveby Donatella Della Porta, Riccardo Emilio Chesta and Lorenzo Cini1
Not Going Back1
Ibn Khaldun and Critical Inquiry: A Response to Christian Fuchs1
To Kill and to Die: On the Joys and Sorrows of Juvenile Drug Dealers in Bahia, Brazil1
Critical Han Studies Through the Lens of Internal Colonialism: China, Guangdong, and Hong Kong1
Hong Kong’s Precarious Young Workers and Contradictions of Capital1
Epistemic and Social Diversity as Sociology’s Strengths1
Statistical Imaginaries, State Legitimacy: Grappling With the Arrangements Underpinning Quantification in the U.S. Census1
Migration, Informality, and Unequal Exchange in the Context of the Mexico–US Regional Integration Process1
Failing to Plan Is Planning to Fail: Toward an Expanded Notion of Democratically Planned Postcapitalism1
About the Authors1
Book Reviews: Social Security in the Balkans – Volume 1. An Overview of Social Policy in Croatia, Albania, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Greece, Romania and Bulgaria by Marzena Żakowska and Dorota Do1
Ten Theses of Racial Capitalism1
The Tribal Games: Tribalist Foundations of Trump Supporters1
Precarious Participants, Online Labour Platforms and the Academic Mode of Production: Examining Gigified Research Participation1
Before and After the Arab Uprisings1
Cybernetic Society and the Demise of Democracy1
IN MEMORIUM - Michael Burawoy1
Revisiting Marcuse’s Technological Rationality: Nuclear Fusion Advancement in the Age of Climate Change1
Navigating and Countering Everyday Antimuslim Racism: The Case of Muslim Women in Sweden1
Researching Care Platforms: Methodological and Ethical Considerations in the Broad Field of Domestic Platform Labour1
Navigating Marginality: Agency and Empowerment of Turk Women in Azerbaijan1
Lest We Forget: Politics of Multiculturalism in Canada Revisited during COVID-191
About the Authors1
Reconfiguration of the Capitalist World-System: From Oligarchy to Fascism1
War and the Left: Considerations on a Chequered History1
‘They Want Our Culture, Not Our Struggle’: Race and Gender Inequalities in Music, Sports, and Hollywood1
The Palestine Exception, Racialization and Invisibilization: From Israel (Palestine) to North America (Turtle Island)1
Normalizing and Resisting the New Precarity: A Case Study of the Indonesian Gig Economy1
Rethinking the Concept of a ‘Financial Elite’: A Critical Intervention1
The Post-Soviet School of Critical Marxism (PSSCM): Particular Characteristics, Main Tendencies, and Its Place in the System of Marxist Studies in Post-Soviet Russia1
After Trickle Down, Kicking Down: On Jordan Peterson, Naturalizing Inequality, and Neofascist Indirect Apologetics1
Review of Working Class Experiences of Social Inequalities in (Post-) Industrial Landscapes: Feelings of Class by Lars Meier1
Informalization and Temporary Labor Migration: Rethinking Japan’s Technical Intern Training Program From a Denationalized View1
Unfree Wage Labour1
On the Job, Off the Books: Organizing Against Worker Misclassification in the Neoliberal Era1
Book review: Sandinista Narratives: Religion, Sandinismo, and Emotions in the Making of the Nicaraguan Insurrection and Revolution1
Between De-Growth and Eco-Modernism: Theorizing a Green Transition1
Intersecting Precarities in Housing and Legal Status: No Residence Permit Without Permanent Residence1
About the Authors1
Emancipatory Politics in a Time of Climate Crisis1
Community and Japanese Developmental Capitalism: A Scaled and Sociological Political Economy1
Extractive Labor: A Lethal Legacy of Racialized Colonial Rule1
Socialisation vs the Market: The Peculiarities of Russian Capitalism1
Early Irish Immigrants as the Marginal Men in Moy Sand and Gravel1
How the Islamic Republic Has Responded to Everyday Resistance Against the Mandatory Hijab: Making Sense of Five Pro-Hijab Contentions in Iran (1988–2022)1
About the Authors1
Racial Capitalism and Subaltern Struggles in Neo-Apartheid Sweden1
Last Rites for Development Studies?1
About the Authors1
Book Review: Handbook of Revolutions in the 21st Century: The New Waves of Revolutions, and the Causes and Effects of Disruptive Political Change, by Jack A. Goldstone, Leonid Grinin and Andrey1
The Alienation–Insulation Dynamic and the Low-Wage Migrant Work Ethic1
Beyond the Hegemony of Neoliberal Ideas: Ideational Diversity and Policy Variegation in the Neoliberal State0
Digital Intermediation in Paid Domestic Work in Argentina: An Analysis of Ambivalent Effects on Working Conditions0
Transparent Informality: The Ma(s)king of Professionals in Childcare Service Platforms0
Elite Communities and Polarization in Neoliberal Society: Consecration in Australia’s and Sweden’s Wealthy Neighbourhoods0
Book review: Rethinking Alternatives with Marx: Economy, Ecology and Migration0
Unionization and Autocratization: Class Organization Strategies Under the Authoritarian Transformation in Turkey0
Place Attachment and Alienation from Place: Cultural Displacement in Gentrifying Ethnic Enclaves0
Epistemic media and critical knowledge about the self: Thinking about algorithms with Habermas0
Max Weber and Carl Schmitt on Legitimate Domination: Belief in Legitimacy or Acknowledgement of Legitimacy?0
Certainty in an Uncertain World: Toward A Critical Theory of Opinion0
Arab Autocrats as Jacobin Progeny: Kemalism Meets Ibn Khaldun in the Fertile Crescent0
Donald Trump in Power: Discourse, Performativity, Identification0
Suicidal Economy of Turkey in Times of Crisis: 2018 Crisis and Beyond0
Political Imaginations of Community Kitchens in Sweden0
Delivery as Dispossession: Land Occupation and Eviction in the Postapartheid City0
Imagining Crises of Neoliberalism: Covid-19 Pandemic and (Im)Possibilities of Change in Turkey’s Labour Regime0
The Fifth Generation of Revolution Studies. Part I: When, Why, and How Did It Emerge0
Cooperation, Black Populism, and the Dilemma of Du Bois’s Racial Theory0
Stratification in a Neoliberal Society: The Making of Elites and Occupationally Disabled in Contemporary Sweden0
The Agitator Supplies What the Base Demands: Trumpism Before and After Donald Trump0
Racialized and Geopolitically Charged Contexts of Reception in New Immigrant Destinations0
Burawoy in Africa: The Influence of Southern Africa on the Sociology of Michael Burawoy0
Critical Marxism in Post-Soviet Russia0
The Fifth Generation of Revolution Studies. Part III: A Systematic Review of Substantive Findings (Repression, Success, and Outcomes of Revolutions)0
Society of Trauma as a Third Modality of Development (Debatable Problems of Russia’s Present and Future From the Standpoint of Critical Marxism)0
The January 6 Insurrection: Historical and Global Contexts0
The Politics of Identity, the Identity of Politics: Thinking with Badiou and Táíwò0
Back to the Future: Placing the Florida Decision in Historical Context0
New Challenges in a Changing World0
Everyday Acts of Resistance in Teachers’ Work: Leaders Making Distinctions Between Responsibility and Accountability0
Spatial Competition and Unevenness in Global Capitalism: Labor, Nature, and the Seesaw of Capital0
Still Informal? Care Platforms in a Loosely Regulated Context, the Italian Case0
Mediations of the Super-Exploitation of Labor in the Thought of Ruy Mauro Marini0
Book Review: Corporate Capitalism and the Integral State: General Electric and a Century of American Power Corporate Capitalism and the Integral State: General Electric and a Century of American Power0
About the Authors0
Platform Organizations and Fields: Exploring the Influence of Field Conditions on Platformization Processes0
A Scream for Gaza0
Decolonizing Voices From Rojhelat: Gender-Othering, Ethnic Erasure, and the Politics of Intersectionality in Iran0
While We Wait0
(In)visible by Design: An Analysis of a Domestic Labor Platform0
The Nexus of QAnon and COVID-19: Legitimation Crisis and Epistemic Crisis0
The White Right: A Gendered Look at the Links Between “Victim” Ideology and Anti-Black Lives Matter Sentiments in the Era of Trump0
Universal Basic Income as a Response to Automation? Attitudes of Human Translators Facing Neural Machine Translation0
The US Census, the MENA Campaign, and Classification Struggles: Neoliberal Distribution of Pride, Fear, and Deception0
About the Authors0
Work Faster, Harder, Cheaper? Global, Local and Sectoral Co-Configurations of Job Insecurities Among Hong Kong Creative Workers0
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