Les Back

4.9k citations
81 papers · 2.5k indexed · h-index 23

Les Back

77 papers receiving 2.0k citations

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Les Back
Comparison fields: 5 of 102
  • Sociology and Political Science 1.8k
  • Gender Studies 391
  • Music 111
  • Urban Studies 184
  • Communication 145
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Fields of papers citing papers by Les Back

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network

The 22 scholars most cited alongside Les Back, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
#Work
1 20230
2 20210
3 202020
4 201692
5 20159
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Are We Seeing the Closing of Sociology’s Mind?
20141
7 201351
8 201218
9 201294
10 201299
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Intellectual Life and the University of Commerce.
20114
12
Islam and the New Political Landscape
20091
13 20099
14 20081
15
Finding the way home : Young people's stories of gender, ethnicity, class and places in Hamburg and London
200823
16 200410
17 200298
18
New Ethnicities and Urban Culture: Racisms and Multiculture in Young Lives
1996295
19 19941
20 199114

About Les Back

Les Back is a scholar working on Music, Sociology and Political Science, Public Administration, Cultural Studies and Communication, having authored 81 papers that have together received 2.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Social and Cultural Dynamics (11 papers), Music History and Culture (9 papers), Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice (7 papers), Race, History, and American Society (6 papers), Migration, Refugees, and Integration (6 papers), Political and Economic history of UK and US (4 papers), Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (4 papers) and Labor Movements and Unions (3 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Sociology and Political Science (1.8k citations), Gender Studies (391 citations), Music (111 citations), Urban Studies (184 citations) and Communication (145 citations). Les Back has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Canada. Frequent co-authors include John Solomos, Shamser Sinha, Colleen D Greer, Michael Keith, Tim Crabbe, Nirmal Puwar, Kalbir Shukra, Vron Ware, Sarah Susannah Willie and Azra Khan. Their work appears in journals such as Sociological Research Online, The Sociological Review, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Sociology and Theory Culture & Society.

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