Stephen Mennell

6.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
103 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Stephen Mennell is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations and Food Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephen Mennell has authored 103 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 52 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 8 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 8 papers in Food Science. Recurrent topics in Stephen Mennell's work include Sociology and Norbert Elias (42 papers), Social and Cultural Dynamics (12 papers) and Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice (12 papers). Stephen Mennell is often cited by papers focused on Sociology and Norbert Elias (42 papers), Social and Cultural Dynamics (12 papers) and Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice (12 papers). Stephen Mennell collaborates with scholars based in Ireland, United Kingdom and United States. Stephen Mennell's co-authors include Norbert Elias, Eric Dunning, Johan Goudsblom, Edmund Jephcott, Julia Twigg, Barbara Ketcham Wheaton, Anne Murcott, A.H. van Otterloo, Fernando Ampudía de Haro and Lewis A. Coser and has published in prestigious journals such as Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, American Journal of Sociology and Social Forces.

In The Last Decade

Stephen Mennell

83 papers receiving 2.3k citations

Hit Papers

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Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Stephen Mennell 1.6k 644 334 330 200 103 2.9k
Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson 1.3k 0.8× 213 0.3× 178 0.5× 366 1.1× 63 0.3× 32 2.4k
Nickie Charles 733 0.5× 356 0.6× 345 1.0× 144 0.4× 139 0.7× 68 1.9k
Sidney W. Mintz 2.1k 1.3× 1.0k 1.6× 95 0.3× 477 1.4× 408 2.0× 151 5.7k
Pat Caplan 807 0.5× 233 0.4× 355 1.1× 203 0.6× 91 0.5× 73 1.8k
Tom Gretton 1.3k 0.8× 125 0.2× 267 0.8× 246 0.7× 40 0.2× 13 2.4k
Lynne Brydon 632 0.4× 226 0.4× 224 0.7× 147 0.4× 71 0.4× 33 1.6k
William McCormack 1.5k 0.9× 182 0.3× 250 0.7× 364 1.1× 72 0.4× 10 3.5k
Edward M. Bruner 2.2k 1.4× 313 0.5× 189 0.6× 247 0.7× 13 0.1× 58 3.8k
Josée Johnston 1.0k 0.6× 1.1k 1.7× 365 1.1× 77 0.2× 864 4.3× 62 2.7k
Robyn Longhurst 1.6k 1.0× 146 0.2× 629 1.9× 163 0.5× 94 0.5× 66 2.9k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Baur, Nina, et al.. (2021). The The Refiguration of Spaces and Methodological Challenges of Cross-Cultural Comparison. Forum qualitative Sozialforschung. 22(2). 4 indexed citations
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Mennell, Stephen. (2017). Apologia pro vita sociologica sua: social character and historical process, and why I became an Eliasian sociologist. The Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association. 6(1). 1 indexed citations
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Law, Alex & Stephen Mennell. (2017). Guest Editors' Introduction: Comparative-Historical Sociology as Antidote to the ‘Crackpot Realism’ of the Twenty-First Century. The Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association. 6(2). 1 indexed citations
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Mennell, Stephen. (2017). The Social Bases of Democracy Revisited; or, Why Democracy Cannot Be Dropped in Bombs from B62s at 30,000 Feet. The Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association. 6(2).
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Mennell, Stephen. (2016). Why Democracy Cannot be Dropped in Bombs from B52s at 30,000 Feet: The Social Bases of Democracy Revisited. Dutch Crossing. 1 indexed citations
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Mennell, Stephen. (2015). Explaining American hypocrisy. The Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association. 4(2). 2 indexed citations
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Liston, Katie, et al.. (2015). Twenty-five years on: Norbert Elias’s intellectual legacy 1990–2015. The Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association. 4(3). 2 indexed citations
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Wouters, Cas & Stephen Mennell. (2015). Discussing theories and processes of civilisation and informalisation: criteriology. The Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association. 4(3). 4 indexed citations
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Mennell, Stephen. (2015). Civilising offensives and decivilising processes: between the emic and the etic. The Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association. 4(1).
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Mennell, Stephen. (2014). Globalisation and the ‘American dream’. The Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association. 3(2). 2 indexed citations
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Elias, Norbert, Stephen Mennell, Eric Dunning, et al.. (2012). On the process of civilisation : sociogenetic and psychogenetic investigations. 33 indexed citations
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Mennell, Stephen. (2012). Realism and Reality Congruence: Sociology and International Relations. The Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association. 1(2).
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Mennell, Stephen, et al.. (2011). Norbert Elias and figurational research : processual thinking in sociology. Wiley-Blackwell eBooks. 12 indexed citations
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Mennell, Stephen, et al.. (2010). History, National Character, and American Civilization. 143–159. 1 indexed citations
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Elias, Norbert, Stephen Mennell, & Johan Goudsblom. (1998). Norbert Elias on Civilization, Power, and Knowledge : Selected Writings. University of Chicago Press eBooks. 49 indexed citations
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Elias, Norbert, Johan Goudsblom, & Stephen Mennell. (1998). The Norbert Elias reader : a biographical selection. 24 indexed citations
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Goudsblom, Johan, et al.. (1996). The Course of Human History. Economic Growth, Social Process, and Civilization. UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam). 20 indexed citations
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Mennell, Stephen. (1988). Die Kultivierung des Appetits : die Geschichte des Essens vom Mittelalter bis heute. Athenäum eBooks. 6 indexed citations
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Mennell, Stephen. (1987). Français et anglais à table du moyen â nos jours. Flammarion eBooks. 1 indexed citations
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Mennell, Stephen. (1986). Prospects for the History of food.

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