American Journal of Sociology

Papers
(The median citation count of American Journal of Sociology is 0. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
:Sun Ra’s Chicago: Afrofuturism and the City92
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 66
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).44
Book Reviewers for Volume 13033
Revolution or Incursion? Academic Sociologists and Gender in the 21st Century32
:The Power of Organizations: A New Approach to Organizational Theory28
When Truth Trumps Facts: Studies on Partisan Moral Flexibility in American Politics24
Ethnography’s Laborious Crossing24
We Need More Data22
Wealth Begins at Home: The Housing Benefits of the 1944 GI Bill and the Reproduction of Black-White Inequality in Homeownership and Home Value21
The Coupled Dynamics of Neighborhood and School Change21
What Makes a Decision Fair? Relative Earnings, Gender, and Justifications for Couples’ Decision-Making20
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).20
:Creative Control: The Ambivalence of Work in the Culture Industries18
Policing Iraq: Legitimacy, Democracy, and Empire in a Developing State. By Jessie S. G. Wozniak. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. Pp. ix+241. $85.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper).18
:Moving the Needle: What Tight Labor Markets Do for the Poor17
Rearranging the Desk Chairs: A Large Randomized Field Experiment on the Effects of Close Contact on Interethnic Relations17
The Problem with Feeding Cities: The Social Transformation of Infrastructure, Abundance, and Inequality in America. By Andrew Deener. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. Pp. 328. $97.5017
:How Civic Action Works: Fighting for Housing in Los Angeles17
Editor's Page17
Review Essay: Young, Gifted, and Black16
Intersectional Complexity in Stereotype Content16
:Unsaid: Analyzing Harmful Silences16
:Making Women Pay: Microfinance in Urban India15
:The Immigration Law Death Penalty: Aggravated Felonies, Deportation, and Legal Resistance14
Editor’s Page14
:On Shifting Ground: Constructing Manhood on the Margins13
Skill Diversification Beyond High-Paying Jobs13
: Play to Submission: Gaming Capitalism in a Tech Firm13
Contents of Volume 12812
:The Government of Emergency: Vital Systems, Expertise, and the Politics of Security12
Stimulating (In)equality? The Earnings Penalty in Different-Sex and Female Same-Sex Couples Transitioning to Parenthood in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden12
Locally Ensconced and Globally Integrated: How Network Cohesion and Range Relate to a Language-Based Model of Organizational Identification12
The Great Refusal: The West, the Rest, and the New Regulations on Homosexuality, 1970–201511
:The Holy Vote: Inequality and Anxiety among White Evangelicals11
:Indigenous Memory, Urban Reality: Stories of American Indian Relocation and Reclamation11
Black Privilege: Modern Middle-Class Blacks with Credentials and Cash to Spend. By Cassi Pittman Claytor. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2020. Pp. 217. $85.00 (cloth); $26.00 (pap11
Contributors List11
:The Arab Spring Abroad: Diaspora Activism against Authoritarian Regimes11
:The Channels of Student Activism: How the Left and Right Are Winning (and Losing) in Campus Politics Today10
:Social Democratic Capitalism10
Between-Firm Inequality and Informal Social Relations10
The Diverging Paths of Black-White Segregation in Urban America, 1970–199010
Carceral Passages: Coming of Age in Prison America10
Contents of Volume 12910
:Making a Scene: Urban Landscapes, Gentrification, and Social Movements in Sweden10
:The Tolls of Uncertainty: How Privilege and the Guilt Gap Shape Unemployment in America9
Migration and Hybrid Political Regimes: Navigating the Legal Landscape in Russia. By Rustamjon Urinboyev. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. Pp. xi+169. $34.95 (paper).9
Postcolonial Reckonings and Arrival9
:Epidemic Orientalism: Race, Capital, and the Governance of Infectious Disease8
Changing Women in a Changing Society at 50: A Symposium8
: Alt-Labor and the New Politics of Workers’ Rights8
Front Matter7
:The Sympathetic Consumer: Moral Critique in Capitalist Culture7
:Trapped in a Maze: How Social Control Institutions Drive Family Poverty and Inequality7
Empires: A Historical and Political Sociology. By Krishan Kumar. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2021. Pp. xiii+204. $69.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).7
Contributors7
:Dispossession and Dissent: Immigrants and the Struggle for Housing in Madrid7
:Time for Things: Labor, Leisure, and the Rise of Mass Consumption7
(Not) Feeling the Past: Boredom as a Racialized Emotion6
:The Digital Departed: How We Face Death, Commemorate Life, and Chase Virtual Immortality6
: Uncertainty: Individual Problems and Public Solutions6
Editor's Page6
Acknowledgment to Referees6
Exams, Meritocracy, and Disenchantment with the Chinese Dream6
Slavery’s Carceral Legacy6
:Buried in the Red Dirt: Race, Reproduction, and Death in Modern Palestine5
:Unlivable Lives: Violence and Identity in Transgender Activism5
:Normalized Financial Wrongdoing: How Re-regulating Markets Created Risks and Fostered Inequality5
:Seeking Western Men: Email-Order Brides under China’s Global Rise5
:Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness5
:How Green Became Good: Urbanized Nature and the Making of Cities and Citizens5
:Surviving Solitary: Living and Working in Restricted Housing Units5
Front Matter4
Front Matter4
:The City and the Hospital: The Paradox of Medically Overserved Communities4
No Differential Effects of Classroom Ethnic Composition on Native and Immigrant Friendship Segregation: Comment on Smith et al., 20164
:The Indebted Woman: Kinship, Sexuality, and Capitalism4
Contributors4
Front Matter4
:A Spark in the Smokestacks: Environmental Organizing in Beijing Middle-Class Communities4
Race by Law for Asian Americans4
How Schools Really Matter: Why Our Assumption about Schools and Inequality Is Mostly Wrong. By Douglas B. Downey. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. $95.00 (cloth); $16.00 (paper).3
Sustainable Cities in American Democracy: From Postwar Urbanism to a Civic Green New Deal. By Carmen Sirianni. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2020. Pp. xxii+464. $80.00 (cloth); $29.95 (3
:Engaged and Evade: How Latino Immigrant Families Manage Surveillance in Everyday Life3
Optics of the State: The Politics of Making Poverty Visible in Brazil and Mexico3
Market and Nonmarket Pathways to Home Ownership and Social Stratification in Hybrid Housing Regimes: Evidence from Four Post-Soviet Countries3
Lesbian, Feminist, and Other Queer Roles: Fifty Years of Inclusion and Exclusion in Sociology3
Organizing Penal-Welfare Hybridity: Trauma, Vulnerability, and State Recognition of Crime Victims3
Variation in the Relationship between School Spending and Achievement: Progressive Spending Is Efficient3
:Democracy on the Ground: Local Politics in Latin America’s Left Turn2
Representational Hierarchies in Social Movements: A Case Study of the Undocumented Immigrant Youth Movement2
The Contradictions and Challenges of Feminist Mentoring2
:Medicine at the Margins: EMS Workers in Urban America2
Gendered Market Devices: The Persistence of Gender Discrimination in Insurance Markets2
The Leniency of Low Expectations: Parental Incarceration, Race, and Teachers’ Evaluations of Student Writing2
:Soaking the Middle Class: Suburban Inequality and Recovery from Disaster2
The Contagion of Labor: Linking Workplace Copresence and Occupational Mobility Patterns2
:You’re Paid What You’re Worth: And Other Myths of the Modern Economy2
Symposium Introductory Images2
:Beyond Doubt: The Secularization of Society2
: Structured Luck: Downstream Effects of the U.S. Diversity Visa Program2
:Trade and Nation: How Companies and Politics Reshaped Economic Thought2
:The Souls of White Jokes: How Racist Humor Fuels White Supremacy2
Balancing Categorical Conventionality in Music2
:Indefinite: Doing Time in Jail2
:Hurricane Harvey’s Aftermath: Place, Race, and Inequality in Disaster Recovery2
Front Matter2
Atlantic Reconstruction: Democracy, Abolition, and the Making of Political Personhood1
Green American City: Civic Capacity and the Distributed Adoption of Urban Innovations1
Time Is Money? Wage Premiums and Penalties for Time-Related Occupational Demands1
Exceptions in the Algorithmic Age: Evidence from the Case of Tenant Screening1
The Historical Racial Regime and Racial Inequality in Poverty in the American South1
:Second-Class Daughters: Black Brazilian Women and Informal Adoption as Modern Slavery1
From Conflict to Cohesion: Structural Similarity Dampens Uncivil Discourse in Polarized Social Groups1
Market Design as Organizational Problem: Explaining System Failures in Platform Markets1
:Dreams of a Lifetime: How Who We Are Shapes How We Imagine Our Future1
: Imperial Policing: Weaponized Data in Carceral Chicago1
:Western Privilege: Work, Intimacy, and Postcolonial Hierarchies in Dubai1
Ruling Culture: Art Police, Tomb Robbers, and the Rise of Cultural Power in Italy. By Fiona Greenland. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. Pp. 257. $105.00 (cloth); $35.00 (paper).1
First-Class Passengers on a Sinking Ship: Elite Politics and the Decline of Great Powers. By Richard Lachmann. London: Verso, 2020. Pp. xix+477. $34.95.1
:Worldmaking in the Long Great War: How Local and Colonial Struggles Shaped the Modern Middle East1
:The Price of Freedom: Criminalization and the Management of Outsiders in Germany and the United States1
Exposure to Nearby Homicides and Young Women’s Reproductive Lives during the Transition to Adulthood1
Contributors1
The Shadow of Peasant Past: Seven Generations of Inequality Persistence in Northern Sweden0
:Genomic Citizenship: The Molecularization of Identity in the Contemporary Middle East0
:Before Gentrification: The Creation of DC’s Racial Wealth Gap0
:Green Card Soldier: Between Model Immigrant and Security Threat0
Book Reviewers for Volume 1270
You Are Worthy, Queen: Black Women and Women of Color’s Struggles in the Labor Market Continue0
Front Matter0
:Violent Affections: Queer Sexuality, Techniques of Power and Law in Russia0
:Getting It, Having It, Keeping It Up: Straight Men’s Sexuality in Public and Private0
: Late Modernity in Crisis: Why We Need a Theory of Society0
Competition and Gender Inequality: A Comprehensive Analysis of Effects and Mechanisms0
:Revolutions in Cuba and Venezuela: One Hope, Two Realities0
:Urban Specters: The Everyday Harms of Racial Capitalism0
Geographic Isolation, Compelled Mobility, and Everyday Exposure to Neighborhood Racial Composition among Urban Youth0
Front Matter0
What Makes a Contact Valuable? Hiring, Organizational Networks and the Advantages of Network Closure0
:Unbottled: The Fight against Plastic Water and for Water Justice0
:Revolution in Development: Mexico and the Governance of the Global Economy0
:Grandmothering While Black: A Twenty-First-Century Story of Love, Coercion, and Survival0
Panic City: Crime and the Fear Industries in Johannesburg. By Martin J. Murray. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2020. Pp. xxix+353. $90.00 (cloth); $30.00 (paper).0
Revolutions Are Back!0
Jim Crow Sociology: The Black and Southern Roots of American Sociology. By Earl Wright II. Cincinnati, Ohio: University of Cincinnati Press, 2020. Pp. ix+250. $50.00.0
Dying to Count: Post-Abortion Care and Global Reproductive Health Politics in Senegal. By Siri Suh. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2021. Pp. xi+204. $120.00 (cloth); $34.95 (pap0
Contributors0
Red and Blue Immigrants: Political (Mis)Alignment, Immigration Attitudes, and the Boundaries of American National Inclusion0
Contributors0
Noncitizen Justice: The Criminal Case Processing of Non-US Citizens in Texas and California0
Contributors0
:Good News for Common Goods: Multicultural Evangelicalism and Ethical Democracy in America0
:Resurrecting the Jew: Nationalism, Philosemitism, and Poland’s Jewish Revival0
Health Care off the Books: Poverty, Illness, and Strategies for Survival in Urban America. By Danielle T. Raudenbush. Oakland: University of California Press, 2020. Pp. xi+197. $85.00 (cloth); 0
:All the News That’s Fit to Click: How Metrics Are Transforming the Work of Journalists0
Contributors0
Title IX, Campus Sexual Misconduct, and the Criminalization of a US Civil Rights Law0
:States of Belonging: Immigration Policies, Attitudes, and Inclusion0
Contributors List0
Racial Disparity in Leadership: Evidence of Valuative Bias in the Promotions of National Football League Coaches0
: Handcrafted Careers: Working the Artisan Economy of Craft Beers0
:Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley0
Hostile Environments: State Infrastructural Power and the Exclusion of Unauthorized Migrants in Western Europe0
:The Urban Brain: Mental Health in the Vital City0
Front Matter0
:Polished: College, Class, and the Burdens of Social Mobility0
The Unintended Consequences of Quantifying Quality: Does Ranking School Performance Shape the Geographical Concentration of Advantage?0
Racial Discrimination in Context: The Role of Organizational Policies and Practices in Hiring Discrimination0
The Cost of Inclusion: How Student Conformity Leads to Inequality on College Campuses. By Blake R. Silver. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. Pp. 232. $82.50 (cloth); $27.50 (paper).0
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:Refashioning Race: How Global Cosmetic Surgery Crafts New Beauty Standards0
:From Chinatown to Every Town: How Chinese Immigrants Have Expanded the Restaurant Business in the United States0
US Dominant Achievement Ideology Fuels Inequality0
Crime Pays the Victim: Criminal Fines, the State, and Victim Compensation Law 1964–19840
:Dangerous Fun: The Social Lives of Big Wave Surfers0
:Whiteness Interrupted: White Teachers and Racial Identity in Predominantly Black Schools0
:Broke: The Racial Consequences of Underfunding Public Universities0
Elaborating Embodied Boundaries: Medical Expertise and (Trans)Gender Classification0
:The Spiritual Turn: The Religion of the Heart and the Making of Romantic Liberal Modernity0
The Decline of Global Inequality in the 21st Century: Reconsidering the Industrial Transformation Thesis0
:Willful Defiance: The Movement to Dismantle the School-to-Prison Pipeline0
Engineering Inequality: Informal Coaching, Glass Walls, and Social Closure in Silicon Valley0
:The Punishment of Pirates: Interpretation and Institutional Order in the Early Modern British Empire0
:Stacked Decks: Building Inspectors and the Reproduction of Urban Inequality0
Who’s Afraid of Sociology?0
:The Culture Trap: Ethnic Expectations and Unequal Schooling for Black Youth0
Changing China in Sociological Eyes0
Heartland Blues: Labor Rights in the Industrial Midwest. By Marc Dixon. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. xi+167. $39.95.0
Contributors0
Advancing Ethnography and Mechanisms of Misinheritance During the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration0
Viral Governance: How Unilateral U.S. Sanctions Changed the Rules of Financial Capitalism0
Walking the Moral Tightrope: Federal Civil Servants’ Loyalties, Caution, and Resistance under the Trump Administration0
:Claiming Belonging: Muslim American Advocacy in an Era of Islamophobia0
:Punishing Places: The Geography of Mass Imprisonment0
:Constructing Community: Urban Governance, Development, and Inequality in Boston0
Macro-Micro Interaction in Knowledge Construction: Structural and Communicative Memory in Rwanda and Sierra Leone0
:Building a Better Chicago: Race and Community Resistance to Urban Redevelopment0
Entrepreneurship as a Response to Labor Market Discrimination for Formerly Incarcerated People0
:How Social Movements (Sometimes) Matter0
Acknowledgments to Referees0
Contributors0
Reach and Retrenchment of the Environmental State: Global Climate Politics in the Amazon Rainforest0
:A New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere and Deliberative Politics0
:The Colors of Love: Multiracial People in Interracial Relationships0
: Counterrevolution: The Crusade to Roll Back the Gains of the Civil Rights Movement0
Front Matter0
Channeling Antipartisan Contention: Field Structures and Partisan Strategies in a Global Protest Wave, 2008–20160
:Believing in South Central: Everyday Islam in the City of Angels0
:The Accidental Equalizer: How Luck Determines Pay After College0
Book Reviewers for Volume 1290
Ascent to Glory: How “One Hundred Years of Solitude” Was Written and Became a Global Classic. By Álvaro Santana-Acuña. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. Pp. 370. $115.00 (cloth); $28.00
: When Schools Work: Pluralist Politics and Institutional Reform in Los Angeles0
:The Global Rules of Art: The Emergence and Divisions of a Cultural World Economy0
:Banished Men: How Migrants Endure the Violence of Deportation0
:The Invention of the “Underclass”: A Study in the Politics of Knowledge0
Cultural Heterogeneity in Americans’ Definitions of Racism, Sexism, and Classism: Results from a Mixed-Methods Study0
:The Biomedical Empire: Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic0
:Brewing Resistance: Indian Coffee House and the Emergency in Postcolonial India0
:Hope and Honor: Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust0
Contributors0
: Agents of God: Boundaries and Authority in Muslim and Christian Schools0
Two Primitive Accumulations Behind Party Articulation: Bolivia's MNR (1952–1964)0
(Dis)orderly Bodies: Gender Identification and Disability in Social Context0
The Influence of Extended Kin on Educational Achievement: An Examination of Cousin Order and Cousin Group Size0
:The Labor of Hope: Meritocracy and Precarity in Egypt0
Restitching Identities in Rural Sri Lanka: Gender, Neoliberalism, and the Politics of Contentment. By Sandya Hewamanne. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. Pp. xx+204. $55.00.0
:Eco-Types: Five Ways of Caring about the Environment0
:Thinking like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy0
Welfare Drug Bans and Criminal Legal Cycling0
Bureaucracy, Collegiality and Social Change: Redefining Organizations with Multilevel Relational Infrastructures. By Emmanuel Lazega. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2020. Pp. xi+341. $145.00.0
: Mobilizing at the Urban Margins: Citizenship and Patronage Politics in Post-Dictatorial Chile0
:Who Should Pay? Higher Education, Responsibility, and the Public0
:The Quest for Sexual Health: How an Elusive Ideal has Transformed Science, Politics, and Everyday Life0
The Changing Role of Managers0
Contributors0
Migration Studies and Colonialism. By Lucy Mayblin and Joe Turner. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2021. Pp. vi+246. $29.95.0
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:Equal Partners? How Dual-Professional Couples Make Career, Relationship, and Family Decisions0
Bound by Creativity: How Contemporary Art Is Created and Judged. By Hannah Wohl. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. Pp. 223. $90.00 (cloth); $30.00 (paper).0
:Management Divided: Contradictions of Labor Management0
Money and Meaning in the Climate Change Debate: Organizational Power, Cultural Resonance, and the Shaping of American Media Discourse0
Gender Bound: Making, Managing, and Navigating Prison Gender Boundaries, 1941–20180
:The Logic of Social Science0
To Build a Future for Social Theory—What Do We Have to Know about Its Past?0
Effort Traps: Socially Structured Striving and the Reproduction of Disadvantage0
:The Policing Machine: Enforcement, Endorsements, and the Illusion of Public Input0
How Parents Invest in Their Children’s Cultural Capital Throughout Schooling: Reply0
:Anonymous: The Performance of Hidden Identities0
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