Ben Agger

2.8k total citations
61 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Ben Agger is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Communication. According to data from OpenAlex, Ben Agger has authored 61 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 5 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 2 papers in Communication. Recurrent topics in Ben Agger's work include Critical Theory and Philosophy (10 papers), Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice (4 papers) and Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy (3 papers). Ben Agger is often cited by papers focused on Critical Theory and Philosophy (10 papers), Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice (4 papers) and Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy (3 papers). Ben Agger collaborates with scholars based in United States and Canada. Ben Agger's co-authors include Norman K. Denzin, Ann Game, Bernd Baldus, Theodor W. Adorno, Edmund Jephcott, Clifford L. Staples, David Owen, John Bellamy Foster, Ellen Meiksins Wood and Robert W. McChesney and has published in prestigious journals such as Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, American Sociological Review and Social Forces.

In The Last Decade

Ben Agger

55 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ben Agger United States 17 746 227 165 124 121 61 1.4k
Nanette Funk United States 9 718 1.0× 213 0.9× 316 1.9× 157 1.3× 113 0.9× 16 1.5k
Ian Craib United Kingdom 17 686 0.9× 166 0.7× 150 0.9× 118 1.0× 164 1.4× 51 1.4k
Charles Lemert United States 17 837 1.1× 186 0.8× 157 1.0× 140 1.1× 93 0.8× 87 1.5k
Sylvère Lotringer United States 13 890 1.2× 158 0.7× 283 1.7× 178 1.4× 80 0.7× 37 1.7k
Mary F. Rogers United States 11 758 1.0× 252 1.1× 154 0.9× 162 1.3× 96 0.8× 27 1.4k
Richard Fardon United Kingdom 15 859 1.2× 194 0.9× 247 1.5× 59 0.5× 90 0.7× 83 2.0k
Susan Hekman United States 15 662 0.9× 167 0.7× 201 1.2× 251 2.0× 75 0.6× 53 1.4k
Roland Marchand United States 15 690 0.9× 104 0.5× 198 1.2× 276 2.2× 92 0.8× 29 1.7k
Ferdinand Tönnies 12 965 1.3× 160 0.7× 244 1.5× 64 0.5× 72 0.6× 29 1.7k
Hannah Goodall United States 16 543 0.7× 209 0.9× 69 0.4× 90 0.7× 212 1.8× 49 1.2k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ben Agger

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ben Agger

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ben Agger. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ben Agger based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Ben Agger. Ben Agger is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Agger, Ben & Beth Anne Shelton. (2016). Fast Families, Virtual Children.
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Agger, Ben. (2015). Speeding Up Fast Capitalism. 15 indexed citations
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Agger, Ben. (2010). Body Problems: Running and Living Long in a Fast-Food Society. 3 indexed citations
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Agger, Ben. (2008). Political Sentences: Anti‐Intellectualism, Obscurantism and Polymorphous Perversity. Sociological Inquiry. 78(3). 423–430.
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Agger, Ben. (2006). Critical Social Theories. 2nd Edition.. 1 indexed citations
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Agger, Ben. (2005). Keeping Good Time: Reflections on Knowledge, Power, and People. Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews. 34(6). 681–682. 18 indexed citations
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Agger, Ben. (2004). Speeding Up Fast Capitalism: Internet Culture, Work, Families, Food, Bodies. 5 indexed citations
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Agger, Ben. (2002). Postponing the Postmodern: Sociological Practices, Selves, and Theories. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 10 indexed citations
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Agger, Ben. (2002). Sociological Writing in the Wake of Postmodernism. Culture Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies. 2(4). 427–459. 5 indexed citations
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Agger, Ben, Robert W. McChesney, Ellen Meiksins Wood, & John Bellamy Foster. (1999). Capitalism and the Information Age: The Political Economy of the Global Information Revolution. Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews. 28(2). 184–184. 60 indexed citations
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Agger, Ben & Russell Jacoby. (1996). The Last Intellectuals: American Culture in the Age of Academe.. Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews. 25(4). 441–441. 5 indexed citations
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Staples, Clifford L. & Ben Agger. (1993). The Discourse of Domination: From the Frankfurt School to Postmodernism.. Social Forces. 72(1). 268–268. 45 indexed citations
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Schneider, Joseph W. & Ben Agger. (1990). Reading Science: A Literary, Political, and Sociological Analysis.. Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews. 19(5). 739–739. 27 indexed citations
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Agger, Ben. (1989). Do Books Write Authors? A Study of Disciplinary Hegemony. Teaching Sociology. 17(3). 365–365. 14 indexed citations
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Agger, Ben. (1988). Marcuse's ?one-dimensionality?: Socio-historical and ideological context. Dialectical Anthropology. 13(4). 315–329. 1 indexed citations
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Forcese, Dennis, Susan A. McDaniel, & Ben Agger. (1984). Social Problems through Conflict and Order. The Canadian Journal of Sociology. 9(3). 365–365. 2 indexed citations
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Agger, Ben. (1982). Marcuse's Freudian Marxism. Dialectical Anthropology. 6(4). 319–336. 2 indexed citations
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Agger, Ben. (1977). Dialectical Sensibility I: Critical Theory, Scientism and Empiricism. Ctheory. 1(1). 3–34. 3 indexed citations
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Agger, Ben. (1977). Dialectical Sensibility II: Towards a New Intellectuality. Ctheory. 1(2). 47–57. 1 indexed citations

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