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Theory, Culture & Society Template

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Theory, Culture & Society is a peer-reviewed journal published by SAGE, covering Social and Cultural Dynamics, Critical Theory and Philosophy, Geographies of human-animal interactions. Over its lifetime it has published 2,919 papers, which have received 134,386 citations.

PublisherSAGE
Reference styleAuthor–year (Harvard)
Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text
Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', Theory, Culture & Society, 12(3), pp. 45–58.

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Publishes research inSocial and Cultural Dynamics Critical Theory and Philosophy Geographies of human-animal interactions Foucault, Power, and Ethics Political Economy and Marxism
ISSN0263-2764
Citation impact (2-yr)1.46
h-index165
i10-index1,487
Top institutions publishing hereGoldsmiths University of London
Journal websitewww.sagepub.net
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Papers published in Theory, Culture & Society per year

85
2014
86
2015
70
2016
71
2017
62
2018
66
2019
80
2020
75
2021
63
2022
68
2023
60
2024
60
2025

Citation impact of Theory, Culture & Society by publication year

6.3K
2014
2.9K
2015
2.1K
2016
2.7K
2017
2.3K
2018
2.4K
2019
1.1K
2020
1.6K
2021
965
2022
327
2023
146
2024
74
2025

Citations each year’s papers have accumulated so far — the most recent years are still building up.

Most-cited papers in Theory, Culture & Society

Epistemic Disobedience, Independent Thought and Decolonial Freedom

Walter D. Mignolo · 1 Dec 2009

Once upon a time scholars assumed that the knowing subject in the disciplines is transparent, disincorporated from the known and untouched by the geo-political configuration of the world in which people are racially ranked and regions are racially configured. From a detached and neutral point of observation (that Colombian philosopher Santiago Castro-Gómez describes as the…

2,248 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Modernity and Ambivalence

Zygmunt Bauman · 1 Jun 1990

Introduction. 1. The Scandal of Ambivalence. 2. Social Construction of Ambivalence. 3. Self--Construction of Ambivalence. 4. A Case Study in the Sociology of Assimilation (I):. Trapped in Ambivalence. 5. A Case Study in the Sociology of Assimilation (II):. Revenge of Ambivalence. 6. Privatization of Ambivalence. 7. Postmodernity, or Living with Ambivalence.

2,103 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
Regime Resistance against Low-Carbon Transitions: Introducing Politics and Power into the Multi-Level Perspective

Frank W. Geels · 27 Jun 2014

While most studies of low-carbon transitions focus on green niche-innovations, this paper shifts attention to the resistance by incumbent regime actors to fundamental change. Drawing on insights from political economy, the paper introduces politics and power into the multi-level perspective. Instrumental, discursive, material and institutional forms of power and resistance are distinguished and illustrated with…

1,558 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →

Theory, Culture & Society template — frequently asked questions

How do I write a paper in the Theory, Culture & Society format?
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What reference style does Theory, Culture & Society use?
Theory, Culture & Society uses Author–year (Harvard) references, shown as author–year markers such as (Smith, 2023) in the text. DocuGuru formats every in-text citation and the reference list in this exact style automatically. A reference appears like this: Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', Theory, Culture & Society, 12(3), pp. 45–58.
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What is Theory, Culture & Society?
SAGE journal (sagej). It is a multidisciplinary journal, published by SAGE.
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