| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | The Strength of Weak Ties: A Network Theory Revisited | Sociological Theory | 1983 | 4,450 |
| 2 | Social Space and Symbolic Power | Sociological Theory | 1989 | 2,337 |
| 3 | Theory Construction in Qualitative Research | Sociological Theory | 2012 | 1,959 |
| 4 | The Extended Case Method | Sociological Theory | 1998 | 1,638 |
| 5 | Practicing Intersectionality in Sociological Research: A Critical Analysis of Inclusions, Interactions, and Institutions in the Study of Inequalities | Sociological Theory | 2010 | 1,176 |
| 6 | Social Skill and the Theory of Fields | Sociological Theory | 2001 | 1,120 |
| 7 | Cultural Capital: Allusions, Gaps and Glissandos in Recent Theoretical Developments | Sociological Theory | 1988 | 1,051 |
| 8 | The “Actors” of Modern Society: The Cultural Construction of Social Agency | Sociological Theory | 2000 | 913 |
| 9 | Toward a General Theory of Strategic Action Fields | Sociological Theory | 2011 | 904 |
| 10 | Rethinking the State: Genesis and Structure of the Bureaucratic Field | Sociological Theory | 1994 | 848 |
| 11 | Collective Memory: The Two Cultures | Sociological Theory | 1999 | 749 |
| 12 | Cultural Pragmatics: Social Performance between Ritual and Strategy | Sociological Theory | 2004 | 706 |
| 13 | Transcending General Linear Reality | Sociological Theory | 1988 | 497 |
| 14 | Towards a Reflexive Sociology: A Workshop with Pierre Bourdieu | Sociological Theory | 1989 | 488 |
| 15 | Linked Ecologies: States and Universities as Environments for Professions | Sociological Theory | 2005 | 463 |
| 16 | “What Group?” Studying Whites and Whiteness in the Era of “Color-Blindness” | Sociological Theory | 2004 | 453 |
| 17 | Culture, Power, and Institutions: A Multi-Institutional Politics Approach to Social Movements | Sociological Theory | 2008 | 425 |
| 18 | Thinking with Bourdieu against Bourdieu: A ‘Practical’ Critique of the Habitus | Sociological Theory | 2000 | 390 |
| 19 | Time, Self, and the Curiously Abstract Concept of Agency | Sociological Theory | 2007 | 390 |
| 20 | Shame and the Social Bond: A Sociological Theory | Sociological Theory | 2000 | 386 |
| 21 | Network Analysis: Some Basic Principles | Sociological Theory | 1983 | 374 |
| 22 | The Typical Tools for the Job: Research Strategies in Institutional Analysis | Sociological Theory | 2006 | 365 |
| 23 | Tanks, Tear Gas, and Taxes: Toward a Theory of Movement Repression | Sociological Theory | 2003 | 356 |
| 24 | Populist Mobilization: A New Theoretical Approach to Populism | Sociological Theory | 2011 | 346 |
| 25 | Structure and Agency and the Sticky Problem of Culture | Sociological Theory | 1994 | 333 |
| 26 | Bringing Identity Theory into Environmental Sociology | Sociological Theory | 2003 | 326 |
| 27 | Without Borders? Notes on Globalization as a Mobility Regime | Sociological Theory | 2005 | 308 |
| 28 | Gemeinschaft Revisited: A Critique and Reconstruction of the Community Concept | Sociological Theory | 2001 | 305 |
| 29 | The Meaning of ‘Theory’ | Sociological Theory | 2008 | 300 |
| 30 | Terror, Terrorism, Terrorists | Sociological Theory | 2004 | 290 |
| 31 | Theoretical Comparisons of Forms of Exchange | Sociological Theory | 2003 | 283 |
| 32 | The Interaction Order Sui Generis: Goffman's Contribution to Social Theory | Sociological Theory | 1987 | 277 |
| 33 | A Sociology of the Unmarked: Redirecting Our Focus | Sociological Theory | 1998 | 272 |
| 34 | The Meaning Structure of Social Networks | Sociological Theory | 2009 | 258 |
| 35 | Spiritual Capital: Theorizing Religion with Bourdieu against Bourdieu | Sociological Theory | 2003 | 256 |
| 36 | The Heterosexual Imaginary: Feminist Sociology and Theories of Gender | Sociological Theory | 1994 | 252 |
| 37 | What's Political or Cultural about Political Culture and the Public Sphere? Toward an Historical Sociology of Concept Formation | Sociological Theory | 1995 | 241 |
| 38 | Theory-Testing, Generalization, and the Problem of External Validity | Sociological Theory | 2003 | 241 |
| 39 | Institutional Isomorphism Revisited: Convergence and Divergence in Institutional Change | Sociological Theory | 2010 | 238 |
| 40 | Routine, Reflexivity, and Realism | Sociological Theory | 2010 | 237 |
| 41 | Rethinking Post-Fordism: The Meaning of Workplace Flexibility | Sociological Theory | 1999 | 236 |
| 42 | Coming and Going: On the State Monopolization of the Legitimate “Means of Movement” | Sociological Theory | 1998 | 231 |
| 43 | Ubiquity and Legitimacy: Disentangling Diffusion and Institutionalization | Sociological Theory | 2011 | 227 |
| 44 | Theorizing Globalization | Sociological Theory | 2002 | 225 |
| 45 | Gendering the Comparative Analysis of Welfare States: An Unfinished Agenda | Sociological Theory | 2009 | 223 |
| 46 | Sociology from Women's Experience: A Reaffirmation | Sociological Theory | 1992 | 216 |
| 47 | An Assessment of the New Political Economy: Its Potential for the Social Sciences and for Sociology in Particular | Sociological Theory | 1985 | 210 |
| 48 | Rethinking Globalization: Glocalization/Grobalization and Something/Nothing | Sociological Theory | 2003 | 208 |
| 49 | Multiple Levels of Analysis and the Limitations of Methodological Individualisms | Sociological Theory | 2011 | 208 |
| 50 | The Contribution of Rational Choice Theory to Macrosociological Research | Sociological Theory | 1988 | 200 |
