| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | ‘It's all becoming a habitus’: beyond the habitual use of habitus in educational research | British Journal of Sociology of Education | 2004 | 823 |
| 2 | Vertical and Horizontal Discourse: An essay | British Journal of Sociology of Education | 1999 | 720 |
| 3 | ‘The degree is not enough’: students’ perceptions of the role of higher education credentials for graduate work and employability | British Journal of Sociology of Education | 2008 | 495 |
| 4 | Careership: a sociological theory of career decision making | British Journal of Sociology of Education | 1997 | 432 |
| 5 | ’I Heard It on the Grapevine’: ‘hot’ knowledge and school choice | British Journal of Sociology of Education | 1998 | 423 |
| 6 | Education Markets, Choice and Social Class: the market as a class strategy in the UK and the USA | British Journal of Sociology of Education | 1993 | 399 |
| 7 | 'Classification' and 'Judgement': Social class and the 'cognitive structures' of choice of Higher Education | British Journal of Sociology of Education | 2002 | 389 |
| 8 | Global field and global imagining: Bourdieu and worldwide higher education | British Journal of Sociology of Education | 2008 | 290 |
| 9 | The assault on the professions and the restructuring of academic and professional identities: a Bernsteinian analysis | British Journal of Sociology of Education | 2005 | 288 |
| 10 | Higher education, social class and the mobilisation of capitals: recognising and playing the game | British Journal of Sociology of Education | 2013 | 288 |
| 11 | The ‘Third Wave’: education and the ideology of parentocracy | British Journal of Sociology of Education | 1990 | 282 |
| 12 | 'Cool Boys', 'Party Animals', 'Squids' and 'Poofters': Interrogating the dynamics and politics of adolescent masculinities in school | British Journal of Sociology of Education | 1999 | 268 |
| 13 | Fields and institutional strategy: Bourdieu on the relationship between higher education, inequality and society | British Journal of Sociology of Education | 2004 | 249 |
| 14 | Subjectification: the relevance of Butler’s analysis for education | British Journal of Sociology of Education | 2006 | 247 |
| 15 | Subjectivity as a site of struggle: refusing neoliberalism? | British Journal of Sociology of Education | 2016 | 229 |
| 16 | 'Bettering Yourself'? Discourses of risk, cost and benefit in ethnically diverse, young working-class non-participants' constructions of higher education | British Journal of Sociology of Education | 2000 | 228 |
| 17 | Education policy and the ‘ideal learner’: producing recognisable learner-subjects through early years assessment | British Journal of Sociology of Education | 2013 | 227 |
| 18 | Student perceptions of themselves as ‘consumers’ of higher education | British Journal of Sociology of Education | 2017 | 225 |
| 19 | The New American School: preparation for post‐industrial discipline | British Journal of Sociology of Education | 2006 | 216 |
| 20 | How competency‐based training locks the working class out of powerful knowledge: a modified Bernsteinian analysis | British Journal of Sociology of Education | 2007 | 208 |
| 21 | Education, opportunity and the prospects for social mobility | British Journal of Sociology of Education | 2013 | 205 |
| 22 | Pedagogising Knowledge: Bernstein's theory of the pedagogic device | British Journal of Sociology of Education | 2002 | 192 |
| 23 | The distribution of leadership and power in schools | British Journal of Sociology of Education | 2005 | 188 |
| 24 | University ranking as social exclusion | British Journal of Sociology of Education | 2012 | 187 |
| 25 | Repositioning Higher Education as a Global Commodity: Opportunities and challenges for future sociology of education work | British Journal of Sociology of Education | 2003 | 183 |
| 26 | Bourdieu on Education and Social and Cultural Reproduction | British Journal of Sociology of Education | 1990 | 174 |
| 27 | The Construction of Masculine Science | British Journal of Sociology of Education | 1985 | 169 |
| 28 | Reproduction and transformation of inequalities in schooling: the transformative potential of the theoretical constructs of Bourdieu | British Journal of Sociology of Education | 2008 | 164 |
| 29 | Subjectivation and performative politics—Butler thinking Althusser and Foucault: intelligibility, agency and the raced–nationed–religioned subjects of education | British Journal of Sociology of Education | 2006 | 163 |
| 30 | Identity Traps or How Black [1] Students Fail: The interactions between biographical, sub-cultural, and learner identities | British Journal of Sociology of Education | 2003 | 159 |
| 31 | Teacher Stress in the Low-Trust Society | British Journal of Sociology of Education | 2000 | 158 |
| 32 | Mobility as ‘becoming’: a Bourdieuian analysis of the factors shaping international student mobility | British Journal of Sociology of Education | 2016 | 152 |
| 33 | Evidence‐based practice in educational research: a critical realist critique of systematic review | British Journal of Sociology of Education | 2005 | 151 |
| 34 | Re-articulating social justice as equity in schooling policy: the effects of testing and data infrastructures | British Journal of Sociology of Education | 2014 | 151 |
| 35 | Aspiration for global cultural capital in the stratified realm of global higher education: why do Korean students go to US graduate schools? | British Journal of Sociology of Education | 2011 | 148 |
| 36 | The Discourse of 'Voice' and the Problem of Knowledge and Identity in the Sociology of Education | British Journal of Sociology of Education | 1999 | 147 |
| 37 | Disability studies, disabled people and the struggle for inclusion | British Journal of Sociology of Education | 2010 | 146 |
| 38 | The Gender Gap and Classroom Interactions: Reality and rhetoric? | British Journal of Sociology of Education | 1999 | 145 |
| 39 | 'The Money's Good, The Fame's Good, The Girls are Good': The role of playground football in the construction of young boys' masculinity in a junior school | British Journal of Sociology of Education | 2000 | 145 |
| 40 | Accidental achievers? International higher education, class reproduction and privilege in the experiences of UK students overseas | British Journal of Sociology of Education | 2010 | 145 |
| 41 | Becoming employable students and ‘ideal’ creative workers: exclusion and inequality in higher education work placements | British Journal of Sociology of Education | 2013 | 144 |
| 42 | Lads, Lasses and (New) Labour: 14-16-year-old students' responses to the 'laddish behaviour and boys' underachievement' debate | British Journal of Sociology of Education | 1999 | 143 |
| 43 | Attracting, recruiting and retaining male teachers: policy issues in the male teacher debate | British Journal of Sociology of Education | 2004 | 141 |
| 44 | Self, Space and Place: Youth identities and citizenship | British Journal of Sociology of Education | 1999 | 140 |
| 45 | Mobilising capitals? Migrant children's negotiation of their everyday lives in school | British Journal of Sociology of Education | 2009 | 138 |
| 46 | 'Pedagogy, Identity and the Construction of a Theory of Symbolic Control': Basil Bernstein questioned by Joseph Solomon | British Journal of Sociology of Education | 1999 | 137 |
| 47 | Understanding Participation in Learning for Non-traditional Adult Learners: Learning careers and the construction of learning identities | British Journal of Sociology of Education | 2003 | 137 |
| 48 | Physical capital and situated action:a new direction for corporeal sociology | British Journal of Sociology of Education | 2004 | 137 |
| 49 | Healthism and Physical Education | British Journal of Sociology of Education | 1989 | 135 |
| 50 | Learning the 'Hard' Way: Boys, hegemonic masculinity and the negotiation of learner identities in the primary school | British Journal of Sociology of Education | 2001 | 135 |
