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Critical Realism in Sociology

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Ali Aslan Gümüşay
LMU Klinikum
2
Anastasia Buyalskaya
HEC Paris
3
Kristina Stutchbury
The Open University
4
Andreas Brönnimann
University of Zurich
5
Amaya Querejazu
Universidad de Antioquia
6
Sabrina Coninx
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
7
Nele Fischer
Technische Universität Berlin
8
Tong Zhang
BI Norwegian Business School
9
Jessica Cockburn
Rhodes University
10
Olivia Mason
Newcastle University

Rising Stars Papers

1
Imagining Desirable Futures: A call for prospective theorizing with speculative rigour
Organization Theory|2024
96 cit.
2
Pain Philosophy: Recent Debates and Future Challenges
Philosophy Compass|2024
24 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
Animacy and the Agency of Spiritual Beings in Pluriversal Societies
International Political Sociology|2024
9 cit.
6
Are the International Tribunals of Rights of Nature pluriversal?
International Relations|2024
7 cit.
7
For environmental monitors, relationships matter in multiple ways: insights from a research collaboration in South Africa
Frontiers in Environmental Science|2024
6 cit.
8
The illusion of meritocracy
Social Science Information|2024
5 cit.
9
Transdisciplinary curriculum design for sustainability transitions: A reflective dialogue
South African Journal of Science|2024
3 cit.
10
A Cultural Geopolitics of Hosting: Domesticity, Violence and Hospitality in the Home
Geopolitics|2024
2 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Susann Wagenknecht
Technische Universität Dresden
2
Iana Nesterova
Roskilde University
3
Bryce Huebner
Tufts University
4
Milena D. Bister
Hanusch Hospital
5
Niccolò Tempini
University of Exeter
6
Greg William Misiaszek
Beijing Normal University
7
Andrea Ploder
Universität Innsbruck
8
Jean-Marie Buregeya
Université de Sherbrooke
9
Sascha Dannenberg
Freie Universität Berlin
10
René Wilke
Technische Universität Berlin

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Less and more: Conceptualising degrowth transformations
Ecological Economics|2022
86 cit.
2
Ecopedagogy: Freirean teaching to disrupt socio-environmental injustices, anthropocentric dominance, and unsustainability of the Anthropocene
Educational Philosophy and Theory|2022
60 cit.
3
Six critical questions for teaching justice-based environmental sustainability (JBES) in higher education
Teaching in Higher Education|2022
27 cit.
4
Four questions for teaching conflict for peace, justice, and sustainability: higher education roles and responsibilities
Teaching in Higher Education|2024
26 cit.
5
Degrowth and the circular economy: Reflecting on the depth of business circularity
Journal of Cleaner Production|2023
23 cit.
6
Degrowth Perspective for Sustainability in Built Environments
Encyclopedia|2022
16 cit.
7
Being in the World Locally: Degrowth Business, Critical Realism, and Humanistic Geography
Frontiers in Sustainability|2022
14 cit.
8
Outlaw epistemologies: Resisting the viciousness of country music's settler ignorance
Philosophical Issues|2022
14 cit.
9
Teaching justice-based environmental sustainability in higher education: generative dialogues
Teaching in Higher Education|2023
13 cit.
10
Being of deep transformations: A personal journey inspired by Clive L. Spash
Environmental Values|2023
12 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Ann Mische
University of Notre Dame
2
Andrew H. Van de Ven
University of Minnesota
3
Jeff Goodwin
New York University
4
Heather McKenzie
The University of Sydney
5
Dan Kärreman
Copenhagen Business School
6
Richard T. Serpe
Kent State University
7
John Law
Keele University
8
Michael Hechter
Arizona State University
9
Jonathan H. Turner
University of California, Riverside
10
John Heritage
University of California, Los Angeles

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
What Is Agency?
American Journal of Sociology|1998
5.8k cit.
2
Developmental Processes of Cooperative Interorganizational Relationships
Academy of Management Review|1994
4.4k cit.
3
Central Problems in the Management of Innovation
Management Science|1986
3.7k cit.
4
Notes on the theory of the actor-network: Ordering, strategy, and heterogeneity
Systemic Practice and Action Research|1992
3.2k cit.
5
In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies.
Administrative Science Quarterly|1983
3.1k cit.
6
Explaining Development and Change in Organizations
Academy of Management Review|1995
3k cit.
7
Structuring cooperative relationships between organizations
Strategic Management Journal|1992
2.8k cit.
8
The Modern World-System: Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century.
Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews|1975
2.6k cit.
9
Network Analysis, Culture, and the Problem of Agency
American Journal of Sociology|1994
2.3k cit.
10
Lectures on Conversation
British Journal of Sociology|1995
2.3k cit.

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