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Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Ernst Lukas
Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Leipzig
2
Erin Twyford
University of Wollongong
3
Sevde Nur Unal
University of Virginia
4
Thomas Kestler
University of Würzburg
5
Alexandra Lianeri
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
6
Matteo Barbato
University of Milan
7
Ming Kit Wong
University of Oxford
8
Simon Butler
Royal Holloway University of London
9
Yongxuan Fu
Lanzhou University of Technology
10
Sebastián Raza
University of Cambridge

Rising Stars Papers

1
Bridging the gap: sustainable development goals as catalysts for change in accounting education and society
Meditari Accountancy Research|2024
37 cit.
2
On the Uses of Phenomenology in Sociological Research: A Typology, some Criticisms and a Plea
Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour|2024
14 cit.
3
Examining the contribution of diverse feedback perspectives during a work-integrated learning intervention
Journal of Accounting Education|2024
10 cit.
4
Financial gaslighting: The financialisation of care in later life
Critical Perspectives on Accounting|2025
8 cit.
5
Big Data and Ideational Institutionalism. Reconsidering the Possibilities and Limitations of Google Ngram in the Study of Ideas
Politische Vierteljahresschrift|2024
5 cit.
6
With and against Max Weber: A Conversation with Wendy Brown on Politics and Scholarship in Nihilistic Times
Theory Culture & Society|2024
3 cit.
7
Between space, relational sociology, and Lefebvre's critique of modernity: An understanding of relational spatiality in trans‐actional perspective
Sociological Forum|2025
3 cit.
8
Between Description and Evaluation: How Sociologists Do Normativity
The American Sociologist|2025
3 cit.
9
Space and Organizing on Spatial Agencing
Journal of Cultural Economy|2024
1 cit.
10
Reading Callon at Zuccotti Park
Journal of Cultural Economy|2025
1 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Thomas Nail
University of Denver
2
Carmen Baumeler
Swiss Federal University for Vocational Education and Training SFUVET
3
Ann-Christina Lange
Copenhagen Business School
4
Tyler J. Carrier
Kiel University
5
Alison Minkus
University of Alberta
6
Dustin S. Stoltz
University of Notre Dame
7
Luke Telford
University of York
8
Anna Hajdú
Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies
9
Marta Oom de Sousa
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
10
Aarthi Vadde
Duke University

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Passport to neoliberal normality? A critical exploration of COVID-19 vaccine passports.
Journal of Contemporary Crime Harm and Ethics|2022
26 cit.
2
Recognition of prior learning in professional education from an organisational perspective
International Journal of Lifelong Education|2023
15 cit.
3
Neoliberalism, left behind Middlesbrough and levelling up: an intractable policy task?
Contemporary Social Science|2024
13 cit.
4
Challenges to Levelling Up: Post-COVID precarity in “left behind” Stoke-on-Trent
Frontiers in Political Science|2022
12 cit.
5
‘Levelling Up? That’s never going to happen’: perceptions on Levelling Up in a ‘Red Wall’ locality
Contemporary Social Science|2023
12 cit.
6
What is COVID capitalism?
Distinktion Journal of Social Theory|2022
10 cit.
7
Critical Reflections on the COVID-19 Pandemic from the NHS Frontline
Sociological Research Online|2023
10 cit.
8
text2map: R Tools for Text Matrices
The Journal of Open Source Software|2022
9 cit.
9
COVID crisis, austerity and the ‘Left Behind’ city: Exploring poverty and destitution in Stoke-on-Trent
Local Economy The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit|2022
9 cit.
10
Rising Coauthorship in Sociology, 1895 to 2022
Socius Sociological Research for a Dynamic World|2023
8 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Brian Rowan
University of Michigan
2
Charles W. Mills
The Graduate Center, CUNY
3
W. E. Douglas Creed
University of Rhode Island
4
Hugh Willmott
University of London
5
Dan Kärreman
Copenhagen Business School
6
Mats Alvesson
Lund University
7
Max Weber
Heidelberg University
8
Amy C. Edmondson
Harvard University Press
9
Bryan S. Turner
Australian Catholic University
10
Randall Collins
California University of Pennsylvania

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony
American Journal of Sociology|1977
27.3k cit.
2
Psychological Safety and Learning Behavior in Work Teams
Administrative Science Quarterly|1999
10.7k cit.
3
The Sociological Imagination
The Mississippi Valley Historical Review|1959
8.2k cit.
4
Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex".
Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews|1995
5.6k cit.
5
From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology
The Yale Law Journal|1946
3.7k cit.
6
From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology
The Journal of Philosophy|1946
3.6k cit.
7
Methodological fit in management field research
Academy of Management Review|2007
3.2k cit.
8
Identity Regulation as Organizational Control: Producing the Appropriate Individual
Journal of Management Studies|2002
2.4k cit.
9
Psychological Safety: The History, Renaissance, and Future of an Interpersonal Construct
Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior|2014
2.4k cit.
10
Modernity and Self-Identity, Self and Society in the Late Modern Age
British Journal of Sociology|1992
2.3k cit.

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