OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Cultural Sociology 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Cultural Intermediation and Civil Society: Towards a Hermeneutically Strong Conception	28
‘You Don’t go to These Kinds of Concerts for Fun’: The Fluid and Emergent Performance of Taste in Contemporary Art Music	24
Deciphering the Iconic: An Inquiry into how Architecture Impacts the Inclusiveness of Cultural Institutions	20
Book Review: Who Owns the Wind? Climate Crisis and the Hope of Renewable Energy	16
Book Review: Bauman’s Legacy: A Critical Analysis on the Crisis of Modernity BordoniCarloBauman’s Legacy: A Critical Analysis on the Crisis of ModernityA	14
Beyond the Clickbait: Analysing the Masculinist Ideology in Andrew Tate’s Online Written Discourses	13
Book Review: Art Work: Invisible Labour and the Legacy of Yugoslav Socialism	13
Book Review: The Sociology of Literature	12
Editorial Statement: Visions for Cultural Sociology in Uncertain Times	12
Adolescents’ Music Tastes in the Streaming Era: The Case of Belgium	12
The Body of a Performer as a Form of Capital: Age, Gender and Aesthetics in Theatre Work	11
Exemplary Directors, European Imports, and the Changing Valuation of Films in Hollywood, 1961–1980	11
Friendship, Intimacy, and the Contradictions of Therapy Culture	10
Reflections on The Culture Trap : On Doing Ethnographic Cultural Sociology Derron Wallace, The Culture Trap: Ethnic Expectation and Unequal Schooling for	10
Making Sense of Change: Emotive-Cognitive Reframing of Young People in Post-crisis Spain	10
Threading Influence: Fashion as a Medium for Chinese Soft Power	9
The Racialised ‘Second Existence’ of Class: Class Identification and (De-/Re-)construction across the British South Asian Middle Classes	9
Reactionary Exiles. How Conspiracy Theorists Deal with Socio-Technological Exclusion	8
The Material Dimension of Chinese Hip-Hop: From Tangible Forms to Online Consumption	8
Elite Reproduction and Power in the Neoliberal Era: The Image-Making of King Carl XVI Gustaf as ‘Sweden’s Leader’	8
Derron Wallace, The Culture Trap: Ethnic Expectations and Unequal Schooling for Black Youth	8
Roots of Distrust: Opposition to Science-Based Policy-Making during the Xylella Emergency in Salento	8
Accounting For the Limited Success of #MeToo in the Popular Music and Stand-Up Comedy Industries	7
When Kinship Becomes Tainted: Symbolic Classification in Chinese Kinship Estrangement	7
Persecution Capital: Legitimacy, Trauma, and Political Authority	7

Assembling Hyperpop: Genre Formation on Wikipedia	7
(Plat)formatted Creativity: Creating Music in the Age of Streaming	6
Narratives of Volunteering and Social Change in Wartime Ukraine	6
Rampant Abstraction as a Strategy of Singularization: Genre on Spotify	6
Voicing Omnivorousness, Assembling the Omnivorous Voice: The American Musical Explored	6
Book Review: Rancière’s Counter-Sociology: Politics, History, Education LaneJ.F.Rancière’s Counter-Sociology: Politics, History, EducationPalgrave Macmillan, Cham, Switzerland, 2024, (ISBN hbk: 978-3-	5
Book Review: The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet	5
Book Review: Dangerous Fun: The Social Lives of Big Wave Surfers	5
‘Eastern Europeanism’: A Rethinking of ‘Race and Racism’ by and Against White People from Central and Eastern Europe	5
Constructing a Social Reality of Luck in the Art World	5
Exploring Digital/Non-digital Entanglements Through Everyday Practice Connections in Young People’s Gaming	4
Repertoires of Comparison: How Common Comparisons Shape Social and Political Life	4
‘I am a Punk, I Don’t Give a Damn!’ Chez Narcisse: A Rural Place of Resistance	4
‘Oh you’re really good for a girl’: Sexism, Stereotypes and Subcultural Capital in Board Gaming	4
The Trouble with Diversity: The Cultural Sector and Ethnic Inequality	4
Shifting Artistic Identity on Canvas: From ‘Painter-Worker’ to ‘Painter-Artist’ in a Commercial Painting Community	4
Thank You to Referees	4
Communicative Legitimacy: The Supreme Court’s Hidden Cultural Binaries in the US Civil Sphere	3
‘Supertanker is a Hero, the Government a Villain’ : Politicization of Chile’s 2017 Forest Fires in the Media	3
Reading Agency in the Therapeutic Market: Sociological Insights into Russian Self-Help Literatures and Practices	3
Derron Wallace, The Culture Trap: Ethnic Expectations and Unequal Schooling for Black Youth	3
Photographer-Artist or Artist-Photographer? The Permanence of Contestations in the Field of Art Photography in Italy	3
Book Review: Matters of Revolution: Urban Spaces and Symbolic Politics in Berlin and Warsaw After 1989 by Dominik Bartmanski	3
Resonant Reviews: Experiencing Accurate Readings and Indicators of Literary Accomplishment Among Reviewed Novelists	3
Book Review: Love in the Time of Self-Publishing: How Romance Writers Changed the Rules of Writing and Success LarsonChristineLove in the Time of Self-Publishing: How Romance Writers Changed the Rules	3
Custodians and Institutionalists: The Role of the Palestinian Cultural Elite in Israel	3
Book Review: The Cruel Optimism of Racial Justice	3
Numbers as Fact-Icons: The Public Power of ‘6402’ in Post-War Colombia	3
The ‘Not Quite’ as a Form of Relationality	2
‘I Need the White Pill!’ – A Creative Exploration of How Minority Flemish Youth Employ Ethnic Humour for Identity Construction	2
Book Review: Beyond the Revival: The Cassette Tape as Cultural Form and Meaning System MastersMHigh Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette TapeUniversity of North Carolina Press: Chapel Hill, NC,	2
Book Review: A Body of One’s Own: A Trans History of Argentina SimonettoPatricioA Body of One’s Own: A Trans History of ArgentinaUniversity of Texas Press, Austin, TX, 2024, $50 (hbk) (ISBN: 978-1-477	2
Recognition Gaps and COVID Inequality: The Case of Immigrants in Sweden	2
‘Class is Always a Matter of Morals’: Bourdieu and Dewey on Social Class, Morality, and Habit(us)	2
Tastes and Complex Tastes	2
Why Fans of the Evil Genius Remain Fans: The Case of Richard Wagner and the Bayreuth Festival	2
How do Conservative and Islamic Art Audiences Define Good Taste? Cultural Classifications at the Crossroads of Morality, Religion, and Politics in Turkey	2
Book Review: Transnational Musicians. Precariousness, Ethnicity and Gender in the Creative Industry	2
The Civil Sphere and Social Class	2
Rethinking Materiality of Music: The Transformative Practices of Music Streaming	2
Why Live Music Matters: Implications from Streaming Music Festivals in the Chinese Indie Music Scene	2
‘If You Move in the Same Circles as the Royals, then You’ll Get Stories About Them’: Royal Correspondents, Cultural Intermediaries and Class	2
Private View? The Organisational Performance of ‘Privateness’ and ‘Publicness’ at an Art Gallery	1
Book Review: Group Life: An Invitation to Local Sociology	1
Book Review: Sight Readings Photographers and American Jazz, 1900–1960	1
Performative Polarization: The Interactional and Cultural Drivers of Political Antagonism	1
Fighting for the Future: From Societalisation to Politicisation of Chile’s Dominga Mining Project	1
Where is the Black Town in American National Memory? The Case of Princeville, North Carolina	1
‘Types’ of Popular Musicians: From Musical to Professional Styles: Some Epistemological Reflections Based on the Case of French-Speaking Swiss Musicians	1
Music Worlds and Event Networks: An Exposition	1

Intellectual Interventions in Haifa Zangana’s Packaged Lives: Ten Stories and a Novella	1
Book Review: Perspectives on Music after Bourdieu: Contributions from Music Education and Sociology of Music Diaz-BoneRainerLehmann-WermserAndreas (eds) Perspectives on Music after Bourdieu: Contribut	1
Explaining the Elusion of Victim Hierarchies in Sierra Leone	1
Bourdieusian Boundary-Making, Social Networks, and Capital Conversion: Inequality among International Degree Holders in Hong Kong	1
Reading Heteropessimism: Painful Attachments in Contemporary Literary Fiction	1
Encountering the Civil Sphere Through Cinema: The Cinematic Gap as a Pathway to Civil Evaluation and Repair	1
Cultures of Cultural Globalization: How National Repertoires and Political Ideologies Affect Literary and Artistic Circulation	1
Educational Mobility and Cultural Omnivorousness in Germany	1
When, How, and in Relation to Whom is ‘Race’ at Play in Invocations of ‘Eastern Europe’?	1
Iconic Extensions and Memetic Audiences: The MAGA Hat as a Site of Conflict in the US Public Sphere	1
Performing Identity or Performing Relationships? Rethinking Performance Theory in Social Media Studies	1
“What’s Authentic to Me, Doesn’t Mean It’s Authentic to You”: Relational Authenticity Work in the American Culinary Field	1
From Public Culture to Personal Worth: A Sociological Inquiry into the Cultural Roots of Suicide	1
Book Review: The Social Organization of Arts. A Theoretical Compendium KirchbergVolkerZembylasTasosThe Social Organization of Arts. A Theoretical Compendiummdw Press: Vienna (open access), 2024, £41.9	1
Central European Populists and the Racialization of Various Others	1
White But Not Quite: Central Europe’s Illiberal Revolt: A Rejoinder	1
Fashion as ‘Force for Change’? How Ideologization Reshapes the Work of Intermediaries in the Legitimation of Culture	1
Book Review: Ghosting: On Disappearance PettmanDominicGhosting: On DisappearancePolity Press, Cambridge, 2025. £12.99 pbk, (ISBN 9781509569953), 144 pp.	1
Beginning at the Beginning: Towards a Trans-actional Music Sociology	1
Critical Appraisal and Masculine Authority: The Boys Clubs’ Derogatory Method of Reading Canadian Feminist Speculative Fiction	1
Desire and Modesty in Post-Soviet Expectation for the Western Standard of Life: Contrasting and Empowering Narratives of Latvian Emigrants and Latvians who Stayed at Home	1
Book Review: Scandal in Japan: Transgression, Performance and Ritual PrusaIgorScandal in Japan: Transgression, Performance and RitualRoutledge: Abingdon, 2024, £135 hbk (ISBN: 9781032472485), 119 pp.	1