OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of American Journal 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The sounds of executions: sonic flaws and the transformation of capital punishment	13
Protest Event, Political Culture, and Biography: Post-protest Local Activism in Russia	8
Culture and poverty from a lifeworld stance: rehabilitating a controversial conceptual pair	7
Theorizing the performance of (racialized) difference: the case studies of Asian artists in classical music	6
“We love martyrdom, but we also love life”: Coptic cultural trauma between martyrdom and rights	6
From reductive to generative crisis: businesspeople using polysemous justifications to make sense of COVID-19	6
Thanks to Reviewers	6
Transforming the sacred: a neo-Durkheimian analysis of the aesthetic modification and cultural resignification of Barcelona’s municipal crèche (1961–2021)	5
The music of the dying class: jazz as the impure sacred in Stalinist Czechoslovakia	5
From incorporation to emplacement in the cultural sociology of immigration	5
Ethical dilemmas of minority creative workers in the cultural industries: Palestinian actors in Israeli films and dramas	4
Social skills and audience agency in improvised social performance	4
When the political tail wags the religious dog, and vice versa. Religion, hegemony, and democracy in contemporary North America	4
Correction: When something is happening but you don’t know what it is: mood and agency after a stolen election	4
Rapport: affective cultural structures in sociological inquiry	3
Reading Hong Kong literarily across two generations: localism and translocality	3
Remembering the dreams, forgetting the war: commemoration and narrative in Japanese girls’ culture	3
The Performance and Reception of Race-Based Athletic Activism: Toward a Critical, Dramaturgical Theory of Sport	3
Living in the shadow of market competition: career commitment and orders of worth of social workers in Shanghai	2
Gliding on the edge of the iron cage: performing rationality and artistry in the sport of figure skating	2
Max Weber and China: a defense	2
Making sense of sibling economic gaps: racialized meritocratic frames, economic inequalities, and family relationships	2
Harry Potter and the ‘Death of the Actor’: reimagining fusion in cultural pragmatics	2
Gifting of Hagia Sophia: icon’s role in extractive sacralization	2
Bushwhacking: accounts as symbolic violence in the arts-based gentrification of Bushwick, Brooklyn	2

Popular transformations: the introduction of an Arab American superhero and negotiation of a popular iconic change in the civil sphere	2
From multiculturalism to antisemitism? Revisiting the Jewish question in America	2
The Winding Path, Smith, P. (2020) Durkheim and After: The Durkheimian Tradition, 1893-2020. Cambridge: Polity	2
A sociology of the “and one!”: the culture of charisma in pickup basketball	2
“Something other than real life:” digital life resistance in the civil sphere	1
Correction: “Something other than real life:” digital life resistance in the civil sphere	1
From disappointment to audience switch: Giorgio Agamben and the pandemic	1
Sociology, the common good, and the community of strong program cultural sociology	1
Why do states discriminate between refugee groups? Understanding how Syrian and Ukrainian refugees were framed in Germany and Poland	1
The resurgence of antisemitism: insights from cultural sociology	1
Correction: How to divide people with things: division entrepreneurs, wedges, and the Delta Smelt controversy	1
Discursive combat: the question of Palestine	1
Higher education and the transition to adulthood: socioeconomic inequality in college students’ self-narratives	1
Correction: The Performance and Reception of Race-Based Athletic Activism: Toward a Critical, Dramaturgical Theory of Sport	1
COVID-19 and cultural trauma in Korean civil society: the case of the epidemiological investigation information management system	1
‘Walking the talk’: transposition of religious culture in OWS	1
Appropriating the civil sphere: the construction of German collective identity by right-wing populist actors during the Covid-19 pandemic	1
Memories of Others for the Sake of Our Own: Imported Events in American Presidential Rhetoric (1945–2020)	1
Sonic double consciousness: public radio voices of color	1
Thanks to Reviewers	1
Rusty gardens: stigma and the making of a new place reputation in Buffalo, New York	1
The performative power of cinema: theorizing successful performances of realism in cinema	1
Nostalgia and rumors in the rural methamphetamine market	1
How to divide people with things: division entrepreneurs, wedges, and the Delta Smelt controversy	1
Bringing power down to earth: a multidimensional model of power	1
The mobilization of “a difficult past” in narrating the Russian invasion of Ukraine by the German and Italian backlash	1
Stigma management, group interaction, and cultural trauma: a Rwanda–Germany comparison	1
Capital and distinction or goods and traditions? Toward a post-Bourdieusian cultural theory	1
A new cultural sociological approach to social movements: cultural pragmatics, iconicity, and the transformation of the Hong Kong Palace Museum into a symbol of authoritarian power	1