American Journal of Sociology

Papers
(The H4-Index of American Journal of Sociology is 14. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Death of Idealism: Development and Anti-Politics in the Peace Corps. By Meghan Elizabeth Kallman. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. Pp. 320. $110.00 (cloth); $28.00 (paper).62
Patchwork Leviathan: Pockets of Bureaucratic Effectiveness in Developing Countries. By Erin Metz McDonnell. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2020. Pp. xvii+290. $29.95 (paper).56
The Retreat of Liberal Democracy: Authoritarian Capitalism and the Accumulative State in Hungary. By Gábor Scheiring. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. Pp. xxvii+367. $119.99 (cloth); $79.99 35
Fruteros: Street Vending, Illegality, and Ethnic Community in Los Angeles. By Rocío Rosales. Oakland: University of California Press, 2020. Pp. ix+197. $85.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper).30
Social Science for What?: Battles over Public Funding for the “Other Sciences” at the National Science Foundation. By Mark Solovey. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2020. Pp. x+398. $50.00 (paper).28
:Sun Ra’s Chicago: Afrofuturism and the City25
What Makes a Decision Fair? Relative Earnings, Gender, and Justifications for Couples’ Decision-Making21
Revolution or Incursion? Academic Sociologists and Gender in the 21st Century21
:The Power of Organizations: A New Approach to Organizational Theory19
“We’re Still Dying Quicker Than We Can Effect Change”: #BlackLivesMatter and the Limits of 21st-Century Policing Reform17
When Truth Trumps Facts: Studies on Partisan Moral Flexibility in American Politics17
Locally Ensconced and Globally Integrated: How Network Cohesion and Range Relate to a Language-Based Model of Organizational Identification15
Queer Stepfamilies: The Path to Social and Legal Recognition. By Katie L. Acosta. New York: New York University Press, 2021. Pp. x+258. $30.00 (paper).15
Review Essay: Young, Gifted, and Black14
Privilege and Punishment: How Race and Class Matter in Criminal Court. By Matthew Clair. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2020. Pp. ix+298. $29.95.14
Editor's Page14
:Creative Control: The Ambivalence of Work in the Culture Industries14
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