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Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Ali Aslan Gümüşay
LMU Klinikum
2
Fares Echtay
Unknown
3
Laura K. Nelson
Northeastern University
4
Andreas Brönnimann
University of Zurich
5
Arash Abizadeh
McGill University
6
Patrik Aspers
University of St.Gallen
7
Tong Zhang
BI Norwegian Business School
8
Netta Avnoon
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
9
Sarah Demart
Université Libre de Bruxelles
10
Sabzar Ahmad Peerzadah
Department of Commerce

Rising Stars Papers

1
Imagining Desirable Futures: A call for prospective theorizing with speculative rigour
Organization Theory|2024
96 cit.
2
The Engaged Scholar: Expanding the Impact of Academic Research in Today’s World
Academy of Management Learning and Education|2024
31 cit.
3
Committed Actors, Institutional Complexity, and Pathways to Compromise: The Emergence of Islamic Banking in Germany
Journal of Management Studies|2024
14 cit.
4
Self‐transcendent leadership: A meta‐perspective
European Management Review|2024
11 cit.
5
The illusion of meritocracy
Social Science Information|2024
5 cit.
6
Consumption and place: the phenomenology of relational economic geography
Geografiska Annaler Series B Human Geography|2024
5 cit.
7
Leadership, empowerment and innovation behavior linkages among knowledge workers: application of hierarchal component modeling approach
Global Knowledge Memory and Communication|2024
5 cit.
8
Handcrafted resilience: a qualitative study of drivers of continuity of artisan entrepreneurial activity in Kashmir
International journal of organizational analysis|2025
5 cit.
9
CREATIVITY IN R&D LABORATORIES: THE ROLE OF TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP AND PSYCHOLOGICAL EMPOWERMENT
International Journal of Innovation Management|2024
3 cit.
10
Leadership and Followers’ Innovative Work Behavior Relationship Research: Connecting the Dots Using Systematic Bibliometrics
Journal of Innovation Management|2024
3 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Elena Ayala‐Hurtado
Princeton University
2
Fleur Johns
UNSW Sydney
3
Ina Ganguli
University of Massachusetts Amherst
4
Jeffrey Guhin
University of California, Los Angeles
5
Dominique Garrett‐Scott
The University of Texas at Austin
6
Jimmy Snyder
University of Oregon
7
José A. Clavijo Michelangeli
North Carolina State University
8
Daniel Ginsberg
American Anthropological Association
9
Jessica L. Clark
University of Kentucky
10
Bryan Rooney
Government of Canada

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
When to Preach About Poverty: How Location, Race, and Ideology Shape White Evangelical Sermons
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion|2023
16 cit.
2
Chasing the academic dream: Biased beliefs and scientific labor markets
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization|2022
12 cit.
3
School beyond stratification: Internal goods, alienation, and an expanded sociology of education
Theory and Society|2022
8 cit.
4
Classifying Muslims: Contextualizing Religion and Race in the United Kingdom and Germany
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion|2023
8 cit.
5
Defining Du??�: A Study of Contested Meanings in Immigrant Muslim Schools in the New York City Area
The Journal of Education in Muslim Societies|2022
6 cit.
6
Leader similarity and international conflict
Journal of Peace Research|2023
5 cit.
7
War and Science in Ukraine
Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policy and the Economy|2024
5 cit.
8
The Expectational Liminality of Insecure College Graduates
Sociology of Education|2024
5 cit.
9
Traces of the Dead, Actions of the Not-Alive: A Prologue to a Theory of Agentification
American Behavioral Scientist|2022
4 cit.
10
State Changes: Prototypical Governance Figured and Prefigured
Law and Critique|2022
3 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Peter J. Burke
University of California, Riverside
2
Iddo Tavory
New York University
3
Roger Burrows
University of Bristol
4
Mitchell L. Stevens
Hamilton College
5
Mike Savage
London School of Economics and Political Science
6
Shamus Khan
Princeton University
7
Marc J. Ventresca
University of Oxford
8
Susan S. Silbey
IIT@MIT
9
Gary Alan Fine
University of Minnesota
10
Edward J. Zajac
Northwestern University

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Identity Theory and Social Identity Theory
Social Psychology Quarterly|2000
4.3k cit.
2
Theory Construction in Qualitative Research
Sociological Theory|2012
3.8k cit.
3
The Past, Present, and Future of an Identity Theory
Social Psychology Quarterly|2000
3.6k cit.
4
Commensuration as a Social Process
Annual Review of Sociology|1998
2k cit.
5
Identity Processes and Social Stress
American Sociological Review|1991
1.7k cit.
6
Yearning for Yesterday: A Sociology of Nostalgia.
Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews|1980
1.5k cit.
7
A New Model of Social Class? Findings from the BBC’s Great British Class Survey Experiment
Sociology|2013
1.3k cit.
8
Who Shall Govern? CEO/Board Power, Demographic Similarity, and New Director Selection
Administrative Science Quarterly|1995
1.2k cit.
9
FROM TRANSACTION COST TO TRANSACTIONAL VALUE ANALYSIS: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE STUDY OF INTERORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGIES*
Journal of Management Studies|1993
1.2k cit.
10
A Sociology of Quantification
European Journal of Sociology|2008
1.2k cit.

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