| Race, media, and the crisis of civil society: From Watts to Rodney King RN Jacobs Cambridge University Press, 2000 | 506 | 2000 |
| Civil society and crisis: Culture, discourse, and the Rodney King beating RN Jacobs American Journal of Sociology 101 (5), 1238-1272, 1996 | 407 | 1996 |
| Mass communication, ritual and civil society JC Alexander, RN Jacobs Media, ritual and identity, 23-41, 2002 | 303 | 2002 |
| The space of opinion: Media intellectuals and the public sphere RN Jacobs, E Townsley OUP USA, 2011 | 267 | 2011 |
| The way the wind blew: a history of the Weather Underground R Jacobs Verso, 1997 | 225 | 1997 |
| Producing the news, producing the crisis: narrativity, television and news work RN Jacobs Media, Culture & Society 18 (3), 373-397, 1996 | 220 | 1996 |
| Romance, irony, and solidarity RN Jacobs, P Smith Sociological Theory 15 (1), 60-80, 1997 | 151 | 1997 |
| Cultural sociology: An introduction L Back, A Bennett, LD Edles, M Gibson, D Inglis, R Jacobs, I Woodward John Wiley & Sons, 2012 | 119 | 2012 |
| Narrative and legitimacy: US congressional debates about the nonprofit sector RN Jacobs, S Sobieraj Sociological theory 25 (1), 1-25, 2007 | 116 | 2007 |
| The narrative integration of personal and collective identity in social movements RN Jacobs Narrative Impact, 205-228, 2003 | 87 | 2003 |
| The Oxford handbook of cultural sociology JC Alexander, R Jacobs, P Smith Oxford University Press, 2010 | 82 | 2010 |
| Media publicity and the voluntary sector: The case of nonprofit organizations in New York City RN Jacobs, DJ Glass Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations 13 …, 2002 | 67 | 2002 |
| Entertainment media and the aesthetic public sphere RN Jacobs | 58 | 2012 |
| Narrative, civil society and public culture RN Jacobs Lines of narrative, 18-35, 2002 | 57 | 2002 |
| Introduction: Cultural sociology today JC Alexander, RN Jacobs, P Smith | 52 | 2012 |
| Culture, the public sphere, and media sociology: A search for a classical founder in the work of Robert Park RN Jacobs The American Sociologist 40, 149-166, 2009 | 45 | 2009 |
| The problem with tragic narratives: Lessons from the Los Angeles uprising RN Jacobs Qualitative Sociology 24, 221-243, 2001 | 37 | 2001 |
| Race, media and civil society RN Jacobs International Sociology 14 (3), 355-372, 1999 | 35 | 1999 |
| From mass to public: Rethinking the value of the culture industry RN Jacobs Culture, Society, and Democracy, 101-128, 2015 | 33 | 2015 |
| A cultural sociology of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report RN Jacobs, NM Wild American Journal of Cultural Sociology 1, 69-95, 2013 | 28 | 2013 |
