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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
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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).71
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).40
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 40
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).30
:Sun Ra’s Chicago: Afrofuturism and the City23
Revolution or Incursion? Academic Sociologists and Gender in the 21st Century21
What Makes a Decision Fair? Relative Earnings, Gender, and Justifications for Couples’ Decision-Making19
Book Reviewers for Volume 13018
We Need More Data17
“We’re Still Dying Quicker Than We Can Effect Change”: #BlackLivesMatter and the Limits of 21st-Century Policing Reform17
:The Power of Organizations: A New Approach to Organizational Theory17
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).16
Privilege and Punishment: How Race and Class Matter in Criminal Court. By Matthew Clair. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2020. Pp. ix+298. $29.95.16
When Truth Trumps Facts: Studies on Partisan Moral Flexibility in American Politics16
:Creative Control: The Ambivalence of Work in the Culture Industries16
Editor's Page15
Review Essay: Young, Gifted, and Black15
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).15
Immigrant Labor and the New Precariat. By Ruth Milkman. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2020. Pp. viii+196. $69.95 (cloth); $29.95 (paper).14
Divested: Inequality in the Age of Finance. By Ken-Hou Lin and Megan Tobias Neely. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. 240. $29.95.14
:Unsaid: Analyzing Harmful Silences14
:How Civic Action Works: Fighting for Housing in Los Angeles13
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. $97.5013
The Trouble with Snack Time: Children’s Food and the Politics of Parenting. By Jennifer Patico. New York: New York University Press. Pp. 230. $89.00 (cloth); $30.00 (paper).12
Stimulating (In)equality? The Earnings Penalty in Different-Sex and Female Same-Sex Couples Transitioning to Parenthood in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden12
:Moving the Needle: What Tight Labor Markets Do for the Poor12
:Making Women Pay: Microfinance in Urban India11
Intersectional Complexity in Stereotype Content11
Rearranging the Desk Chairs: A Large Randomized Field Experiment on the Effects of Close Contact on Interethnic Relations11
:The Immigration Law Death Penalty: Aggravated Felonies, Deportation, and Legal Resistance11
Editor’s Page11
:On Shifting Ground: Constructing Manhood on the Margins11
A Sociology of Discordance: Negotiating Schemas of Deservingness and Codified Law in U.S. Asylum Status Determinations10
Locally Ensconced and Globally Integrated: How Network Cohesion and Range Relate to a Language-Based Model of Organizational Identification10
:The Government of Emergency: Vital Systems, Expertise, and the Politics of Security10
Contributors9
Contents of Volume 1289
Between-Firm Inequality and Informal Social Relations9
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 (pap9
The Diverging Paths of Black-White Segregation in Urban America, 1970–19908
The Confounding Island: Jamaica and the Postcolonial Predicament. By Orlando Patterson. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2019. Pp. x+409. $35.00.8
:The Arab Spring Abroad: Diaspora Activism against Authoritarian Regimes8
:Indigenous Memory, Urban Reality: Stories of American Indian Relocation and Reclamation8
:The Holy Vote: Inequality and Anxiety among White Evangelicals8
Carceral Passages: Coming of Age in Prison America7
:The Tolls of Uncertainty: How Privilege and the Guilt Gap Shape Unemployment in America7
Disruptive Situations: Fractal Orientalism and Queer Strategies in Beirut. By Ghassan Moussawi. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2020. Pp. 210. $94.50 (cloth); $29.95 (paper).7
Rediscovering the 1%: Knowledge Infrastructures and the Stylized Facts of Inequality7
The Great Refusal: The West, the Rest, and the New Regulations on Homosexuality, 1970–20157
:The Channels of Student Activism: How the Left and Right Are Winning (and Losing) in Campus Politics Today7
Contents of Volume 1297
:Social Democratic Capitalism7
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).6
The Great Interstate Divergence: Partisan Bureaucracies in the Contemporary United States6
Postcolonial Reckonings and Arrival6
:Epidemic Orientalism: Race, Capital, and the Governance of Infectious Disease6
:Making a Scene: Urban Landscapes, Gentrification, and Social Movements in Sweden6
Making It at Any Cost: Aspirations and Politics in a Counterfeit Clothing Market. By Matías Dewey. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2020. Pp. x+276. $45.00.5
None of the Above: Nonreligious Identity in the US and Canada. By Joel Thiessen and Sarah Wilkins-Laflamme. New York: New York University Press, 2020. Pp. 258. $89.00 (cloth); $30.00 (paper).5
:Time for Things: Labor, Leisure, and the Rise of Mass Consumption5
:The Sympathetic Consumer: Moral Critique in Capitalist Culture5
Changing Women in a Changing Society at 50: A Symposium5
:Trapped in a Maze: How Social Control Institutions Drive Family Poverty and Inequality5
Reproductive Rights as Human Rights: Women of Color and the Fight for Reproductive Justice. By Zakiya Luna. New York: New York University Press, 2020. Pp. 312. $99.00 (cloth); $35.00 (paper).5
:Dispossession and Dissent: Immigrants and the Struggle for Housing in Madrid5
Contributors5
Empires: A Historical and Political Sociology. By Krishan Kumar. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2021. Pp. xiii+204. $69.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).5
Front Matter4
:The Digital Departed: How We Face Death, Commemorate Life, and Chase Virtual Immortality4
Grassroots Environmentalism. By Suzanne Staggenborg. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. ix+244. $99.99 (cloth); $29.99 (paper).4
:Seeking Western Men: Email-Order Brides under China’s Global Rise4
:Unlivable Lives: Violence and Identity in Transgender Activism4
(Not) Feeling the Past: Boredom as a Racialized Emotion4
Slavery’s Carceral Legacy4
:Buried in the Red Dirt: Race, Reproduction, and Death in Modern Palestine4
:Normalized Financial Wrongdoing: How Re-regulating Markets Created Risks and Fostered Inequality4
:How Green Became Good: Urbanized Nature and the Making of Cities and Citizens4
Acknowledgment to Referees4
Editor's Page4
:Surviving Solitary: Living and Working in Restricted Housing Units4
No Differential Effects of Classroom Ethnic Composition on Native and Immigrant Friendship Segregation: Comment on Smith et al., 20164
The Paradox of Self-Help Expertise: How Unemployed Workers Become Professional Career Coaches3
Front Matter3
:The City and the Hospital: The Paradox of Medically Overserved Communities3
The Single Motherhood Penalty as a Gender Penalty: Comment on Brady, Finnigan, and Hübgen3
Market and Nonmarket Pathways to Home Ownership and Social Stratification in Hybrid Housing Regimes: Evidence from Four Post-Soviet Countries3
Front Matter3
:The Indebted Woman: Kinship, Sexuality, and Capitalism3
Organizing Penal-Welfare Hybridity: Trauma, Vulnerability, and State Recognition of Crime Victims3
Contributors3
Variation in the Relationship between School Spending and Achievement: Progressive Spending Is Efficient3
Front Matter3
:Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness3
:A Spark in the Smokestacks: Environmental Organizing in Beijing Middle-Class Communities3
Home Care Fault Lines: Understanding Tensions and Creating Alliances. By Cynthia J. Cranford. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2020. Pp. vii+220. $26.95 (paper).2
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).2
:The Souls of White Jokes: How Racist Humor Fuels White Supremacy2
:Democracy on the Ground: Local Politics in Latin America’s Left Turn2
Optics of the State: The Politics of Making Poverty Visible in Brazil and Mexico2
It’s a Setup: Fathering from the Social and Economic Margins. By Timothy Black and Sky Keyes. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. xviii+342. $99.00 (cloth); $27.95 (paper).2
Lesbian, Feminist, and Other Queer Roles: Fifty Years of Inclusion and Exclusion in Sociology2
:Soaking the Middle Class: Suburban Inequality and Recovery from Disaster2
Representational Hierarchies in Social Movements: A Case Study of the Undocumented Immigrant Youth Movement2
The Lives and Deaths of Shelter Animals. By Katja M. Guenther. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2020. Pp. vii+295. $90.00 (cloth); $28.00 (paper).2
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 (2
:Engaged and Evade: How Latino Immigrant Families Manage Surveillance in Everyday Life2
:Trade and Nation: How Companies and Politics Reshaped Economic Thought2
Shaping Science: Organizations, Decisions, and Culture on NASA’s Teams. By Janet Vertesi. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. Pp. xiv+320. $45.00.1
Symposium Introductory Images1
:Medicine at the Margins: EMS Workers in Urban America1
The Contradictions and Challenges of Feminist Mentoring1
Gendered Market Devices: The Persistence of Gender Discrimination in Insurance Markets1
Front Matter1
Digital Divisions: How Schools Create Inequality in the Tech Era. By Matthew H. Rafalow. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. Pp. xiv+210. $85.00 (cloth); $22.50 (paper).1
:Beyond Doubt: The Secularization of Society1
:Hurricane Harvey’s Aftermath: Place, Race, and Inequality in Disaster Recovery1
Metrics at Work: Journalism and the Contested Meaning of Algorithms. By Angèle Christin. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2020. Pp. xiii+251. $29.95 (cloth); $22.95 (paper).1
Balancing Categorical Conventionality in Music1
:You’re Paid What You’re Worth: And Other Myths of the Modern Economy1
:Indefinite: Doing Time in Jail1
Market Design as Organizational Problem: Explaining System Failures in Platform Markets1
The Contagion of Labor: Linking Workplace Copresence and Occupational Mobility Patterns1
:The Invention of the “Underclass”: A Study in the Politics of Knowledge0
:Urban Specters: The Everyday Harms of Racial Capitalism0
:Violent Affections: Queer Sexuality, Techniques of Power and Law in Russia0
The Decline of Global Inequality in the 21st Century: Reconsidering the Industrial Transformation Thesis0
Contributors0
:Revolutions in Cuba and Venezuela: One Hope, Two Realities0
Money and Meaning in the Climate Change Debate: Organizational Power, Cultural Resonance, and the Shaping of American Media Discourse0
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
:The Logic of Social Science0
:Violence of Democracy: Interparty Conflict in South India0
Racial Disparity in Leadership: Evidence of Valuative Bias in the Promotions of National Football League Coaches0
Heartland Blues: Labor Rights in the Industrial Midwest. By Marc Dixon. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. xi+167. $39.95.0
Communists and Community: Activism in Detroit’s Labor Movement, 1941–1956. By Ryan S. Pettengill. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2020. Pp. xi+235. $110.50 (cloth); $34.95 (paper).0
What Makes a Contact Valuable? Hiring, Organizational Networks and the Advantages of Network Closure0
Book Reviewers for Volume 1290
:Willful Defiance: The Movement to Dismantle the School-to-Prison Pipeline0
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Reproducing Inequality in a Formally Antiracist Organization: The Case of Racialized Career Pathways in the United Methodist Church0
:Brewing Resistance: Indian Coffee House and the Emergency in Postcolonial India0
Durable Ethnicity: Mexican Americans and the Ethnic Core. By Edward Telles and Christina A. Sue. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. xiii+316. $105.00 (cloth); $26.95 (paper).0
:Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley0
:Grandmothering While Black: A Twenty-First-Century Story of Love, Coercion, and Survival0
Walking the Moral Tightrope: Federal Civil Servants’ Loyalties, Caution, and Resistance under the Trump Administration0
:Banished Men: How Migrants Endure the Violence of Deportation0
:Punishing Places: The Geography of Mass Imprisonment0
How Parents Invest in Their Children’s Cultural Capital Throughout Schooling: Reply0
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
Title IX, Campus Sexual Misconduct, and the Criminalization of a US Civil Rights Law0
:Management Divided: Contradictions of Labor Management0
Equity in Science: Representation, Culture, and the Dynamics of Change in Graduate Education. By Julie R. Posselt. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2020. Pp. xiv+223. $90.00 (cloth)0
:Equal Partners? How Dual-Professional Couples Make Career, Relationship, and Family Decisions0
:The Punishment of Pirates: Interpretation and Institutional Order in the Early Modern British Empire0
Competition and Gender Inequality: A Comprehensive Analysis of Effects and Mechanisms0
Front Matter0
Changing China in Sociological Eyes0
Effort Traps: Socially Structured Striving and the Reproduction of Disadvantage0
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
Migrant Crossings: Witnessing Human Trafficking in the U.S. By Annie Isabel Fukushima. Palo Alto, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2019. Pp. viii+261. $90.00 (cloth); $28.00 (paper).0
:Green Card Soldier: Between Model Immigrant and Security Threat0
:Refashioning Race: How Global Cosmetic Surgery Crafts New Beauty Standards0
The Relationship between Single Motherhood, Employment, and Poverty: Reply to Moullin and Harkness0
US Dominant Achievement Ideology Fuels Inequality0
:Hope and Honor: Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust0
:The Urban Brain: Mental Health in the Vital City0
:Vehicles of Decolonization: Public Transit in the Palestinian West Bank0
:Good News for Common Goods: Multicultural Evangelicalism and Ethical Democracy in America0
Acknowledgments to Referees0
:The Spiritual Turn: The Religion of the Heart and the Making of Romantic Liberal Modernity0
:States of Belonging: Immigration Policies, Attitudes, and Inclusion0
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
Striking News: Discursive Power of the Press as Capitalist Resource in Gilded Age Strikes0
Contents of Volume 1300
The Shadow of Peasant Past: Seven Generations of Inequality Persistence in Northern Sweden0
:Revolution in Development: Mexico and the Governance of the Global Economy0
:Claiming Belonging: Muslim American Advocacy in an Era of Islamophobia0
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
Race after Technology. By Ruha Benjamin. Medford, Mass.: Polity Press, 2019. Pp. x+285. $74.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).0
:Building a Better Chicago: Race and Community Resistance to Urban Redevelopment0
Contributors0
:Eco-Types: Five Ways of Caring about the Environment0
Front Matter0
:Getting It, Having It, Keeping It Up: Straight Men’s Sexuality in Public and Private0
Migration Studies and Colonialism. By Lucy Mayblin and Joe Turner. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2021. Pp. vi+246. $29.95.0
Elaborating Embodied Boundaries: Medical Expertise and (Trans)Gender Classification0
Who’s Afraid of Sociology?0
Channeling Antipartisan Contention: Field Structures and Partisan Strategies in a Global Protest Wave, 2008–20160
:Anonymous: The Performance of Hidden Identities0
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
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:Constructing Community: Urban Governance, Development, and Inequality in Boston0
:The Colors of Love: Multiracial People in Interracial Relationships0
To Build a Future for Social Theory—What Do We Have to Know about Its Past?0
Cultural Heterogeneity in Americans’ Definitions of Racism, Sexism, and Classism: Results from a Mixed-Methods Study0
Gender Bound: Making, Managing, and Navigating Prison Gender Boundaries, 1941–20180
:The Labor of Hope: Meritocracy and Precarity in Egypt0
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:Genomic Citizenship: The Molecularization of Identity in the Contemporary Middle East0
Viral Governance: How Unilateral U.S. Sanctions Changed the Rules of Financial Capitalism0
Powered Down: The Microfoundations of Organizational Attempts to Redistribute Power0
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
Adverse Events: Race, Inequality, and the Testing of New Pharmaceuticals. By Jill A. Fisher. New York: New York University Press, 2020. Pp. vii+317. $89.00 (cloth); $30.00 (paper).0
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:Saul Alinsky and the Dilemmas of Race: Community Organizing in the Postwar City0
:The Death of Affirmative Action? Racialized Framing and the Fight against Racial Preference in College Admissions0
:The Global Rules of Art: The Emergence and Divisions of a Cultural World Economy0
:The Accidental Equalizer: How Luck Determines Pay After College0
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:Dangerous Fun: The Social Lives of Big Wave Surfers0
Hostile Environments: State Infrastructural Power and the Exclusion of Unauthorized Migrants in Western Europe0
Geographic Isolation, Compelled Mobility, and Everyday Exposure to Neighborhood Racial Composition among Urban Youth0
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
Entrepreneurship as a Response to Labor Market Discrimination for Formerly Incarcerated People0
Deconstructed and Constructive Logics: Explaining Inclusive Language Change in Queer Nonprofits, 1998–20160
:Stacked Decks: Building Inspectors and the Reproduction of Urban Inequality0
Transnational Nationalism and Collective Identity among the American Irish. By Howard Lune. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2020. Pp. ix+224. $99.50 (cloth); 34.95 (paper).0
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Macro-Micro Interaction in Knowledge Construction: Structural and Communicative Memory in Rwanda and Sierra Leone0
:Believing in South Central: Everyday Islam in the City of Angels0
A Contest without Winners: How Students Experience Competitive School Choice. By Kate Phillippo. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019. Pp. xii+217. $100.00 (cloth); $25.00 (paper).0
Noncitizen Justice: The Criminal Case Processing of Non-US Citizens in Texas and California0
Book Reviewers for Volume 1270
The Ambivalent State: Police-Criminal Collusion at the Urban Margins. By Javier Auyero and Katherine Sobering. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. Pp. vii+233. $99.00 (cloth); $27.95 (pape0
:Before Gentrification: The Creation of DC’s Racial Wealth Gap0
Power in Modernity: Agency Relations and the Creative Destruction of the King’s Two Bodies. By Isaac Ariail Reed. Chicago: University of Chicago, 2020. Pp. 312. $97.50 (cloth); 32.50 (paper).0
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:From Chinatown to Every Town: How Chinese Immigrants Have Expanded the Restaurant Business in the United States0
:All the News That’s Fit to Click: How Metrics Are Transforming the Work of Journalists0
:Whiteness Interrupted: White Teachers and Racial Identity in Predominantly Black Schools0
Gendered Dignity at Work0
Being Modern in China. By Paul Willis. Medford, Mass.: Polity Press, 2020. Pp. xii+196. $69.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).0
:The Quest for Sexual Health: How an Elusive Ideal has Transformed Science, Politics, and Everyday Life0
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:A New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere and Deliberative Politics0
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Contributors List0
Crime Pays the Victim: Criminal Fines, the State, and Victim Compensation Law 1964–19840
:The Policing Machine: Enforcement, Endorsements, and the Illusion of Public Input0
Welfare Drug Bans and Criminal Legal Cycling0
:Refuge: How the State Shapes Human Potential0
You Are Worthy, Queen: Black Women and Women of Color’s Struggles in the Labor Market Continue0
:Who Should Pay? Higher Education, Responsibility, and the Public0
The Unintended Consequences of Quantifying Quality: Does Ranking School Performance Shape the Geographical Concentration of Advantage?0
:Resurrecting the Jew: Nationalism, Philosemitism, and Poland’s Jewish Revival0
:Broke: The Racial Consequences of Underfunding Public Universities0
:The Biomedical Empire: Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic0
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