Social Forces

Papers
(The median citation count of Social Forces 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Review of “Bankers in the Ivory Tower: The Troubling Rise of Financiers in US Higher Education”35
Review of “Death by Prison: The Emergence of Life Without Parole and Perpetual Confinement”29
Review of “The Making of Lawyers’ Careers: Inequality and Opportunity in the American Legal Profession”26
Review of “An Epidemic of Uncertainty: Navigating HIV and Young Adulthood in Malawi”23
Review of “Rules of the Road: The Automobile and the Transformation of American Criminal Justice”22
Review of First-Class Passengers on a Sinking Ship: Elite Politics and the Decline of Great Powers22
Review of “The Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought: French Sociology and the Overseas Empire”21
Review of This Is Our School!: Race and Community Resistance to School21
Religious rebound, political backlash, and the youngest cohort: understanding religious change in Turkey20
Occupying Shops to Defend Spaces of Livelihoods: From Tenant Shopkeepers’ Fragmentation to Collective Consciousness in Urban Korea19
Policy Effects on Mixed-Citizenship, Same-Sex Unions: A Triple-Difference Analysis18
Review of “The Making of Public Space: News, Events and Opinions in the Twenty-First Century”18
Review of: “Making Gender Salient: From Gender Quota Laws to Policy”17
Review of “Nursing the Spirit: Care, Public Life, and the Dignity of Vulnerable Strangers”16
Identification in Interaction: Racial Mirroring between Interviewers and Respondents16
The Effects of Undergraduate Financing on Advanced Degree Attainment16
Review of “The Invention of the “Underclass”: A Study in the Politics of Knowledge”15
Confronting the past in a polarized present: holocaust representations motivate people for symbolic justice and against antisemitism15
Partisan identity, scientific and religious authority, and lawmaker support for science policy15
Confronting linked immobility: how Chinese migrants managed family crisis during a global catastrophe15
Review of “Chinese Social Networks in an Age of Digitalization: Liquid Guanxi”14
Policy Regulation of Precarious Work Schedules and Bottom-Up Enforcement: An Evaluation of State Reporting Pay Policies14
Review of “Challenging Inequality: Variation Across Postindustrial Societies”13
The political landscape of death: state policy polarization and mortality among Black and White Americans13
Double standards in status ascriptions? The role of gender, behaviors, and social networks in status orders among adolescents13
The Social Forces that Shape Families: Reflections on 100 Years of Publications in Social Forces12
Review of “Injustice, Inc. How America’s Justice System Commodifies Children and the Poor”12
Review of “Working Class Experiences of Social Inequalities in (Post-) Industrial Landscapes: Feelings of Class”12
Review of “Madness in the Family: Women, Care, and Illness in Japan”12
Review of “The Great Demographic Illusion: Majority, Minority, and the Expanding American Mainstream”12
Review of “The Policing Machine: Enforcement Endorsements, and the Illusion of Public Input”12
Does Globalization Reduce Personal Violence? The Impact of International Trade on Cross-National Homicide Rates12
The Challenge of Seeing Beyond our Differences: A Review of “Inventing the Ties that Bind: Imagined Relationships in Moral and Political Life”12
Skill Specificity on High-Skill Online Gig Platforms: Same as in Traditional Labour Markets?11
Correction to review: Race After Technology Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code11
Review of “The Rise of the Masses: Spontaneous Mobilization and Contentious Politics”10
A Gendered and Racialized Educational Hierarchy: Disparities in Elementary School Teachers’ Perceptions of Student Behavior10
Review of “Connecting After Chaos: Social Media and the Extended Aftermath of Disaster”10
Conflicting identities: cosmopolitan or anxious? Appreciating concerns of host country population improves attitudes towards immigrants10
Review of “Spaces on the Spectrum: How Autism Movements Resist Experts and Create Knowledge”10
Review of “We Are Each Other's Business: Black Women's Intersectional Political Consumerism During the Chicago Welfare Rights Movement”9
The religion of White identity politics: Christian nationalism and White racial solidarity9
Review of “Yet Another Costume Party Debacle: Why Racial Ignorance Persists on Elite College Campuses”9
Correction to: Review of “No God but Man: On Race, Knowledge, and Terrorism”9
Review of “Urban Power: Democracy and Inequality in São Paulo and Johannesburg”9
Are women with disabilities more at risk of intimate partner violence?9
Review of “Dead Reckoning: Air Traffic Control, System Effects, and Risk”9
Uncovering Social Stratification: Intersectional Inequalities in Work and Family Life Courses by Gender and Race9
Review of “I Don't Like the Blues: Race, Place, and the Backbeat of Black Life”8
The South, Southerners, and Social Forces8
Review of “The Spectacle of Expertise: Why Financial Analysts Perform in the Media”8
Review of “Conditional Belonging: The Racialization of Iranians in the Wake of Anti-Muslim Politics”8
Review of “Civil War in Guangxi: The Cultural Revolution on China’s Southern Periphery”8
Review of “The Habitation Society: Creating Sustainable Prosperity”7
Review of “Tahrir’s Youth: Leaders of a Leaderless Revolution”7
Book Review of “School Zone: A Problem Analysis of Student Offending and Victimization”7
Tied Staying on the Rise? Declining Migration among Co-Breadwinner Couples in the United States, 1990s to 2010s7
Embedded Distress: Social Integration, Gender, and Adolescent Depression7
Overstatement of GDP growth in autocracies and the recent decline in global inequality7
Promising or Predatory? Online Education in Non-Profit and For-Profit Universities6
Demagogues in action: the reputational rise and demise of “Cotton” Tom Heflin6
Review of “Rust Belt Union Blues: Why Working-Class Voters Are Turning Away from the Democratic Party”6
Review of “Thinking like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy”6
Review of “Other People’s Colleges: The Origins of American Higher Education Reform”6
Review of “Bordering on Indifference: Immigration Agents Negotiating Race and Morality.”6
Job insecurity as a predictor of gray divorce: a gendered dyadic analysis6
100 Years of Social Forces as seen through Bibliometric Publication Patterns6
Bringing Family Demography Back In: A Life Course Approach to the Gender Gap in Caregiving in the United States6
Fear of a Black Neighborhood: Anti-Black Racism and the Health of White Americans5
Review of “Markets with Bureaucratic Characteristics: How Economic Bureaucrats Make Policies and Remake the Chinese State”5
Theorizing Potential Downstream Cultural Consequences of LGBT+ Activism5
The Variable Disadvantage of Nonstandard Employment for Entering Homeownership in Russia and Urban China: The Potential Role of Mortgage Prevalence5
Rental housing discrimination against Chinese minorities in Spain: a new instant messaging correspondence test5
Review of “The impact of college diversity: struggles and successes at age 30”5
Review of “Guiding God’s Marriage: Faith and Social Change in Premarital Counseling”5
Review of Wartime, Suffering and Survival. The Human Condition under Siege in the Blockade of Leningrad 1941–19445
Correction to: Generational Dissonance or Cultural Persistence? European Immigration and the Intergenerational Transmission of Gender Beliefs5
Correction to: How liberalism accommodates far-right social movements: on “mainstreaming” and the need for critical theory in far-right studies5
Networks rewired: quota enforcement and the unintended mobilization of native place ties5
Review of “Orange-Collar Labor: Work and Inequality in Prison”5
Partisan animosity and protest participation in the United States4
The gender gap in political efficacy: the accelerating effect of classroom discussions4
Correction to: Intergenerational family life courses and wealth accumulation in Norway4
Internal displacement and post-conflict gender attitudes: evidence from northwestern Pakistan4
Contexts of Contestation: How Competing Logics of the State Enable and Constrain Immigrant Civic and Political Participation4
Family background and life cycle earnings volatility: evidence from brother correlations in Denmark, Germany, and the United States4
Rethinking migrant reception in the age of color-blind racism: an experimental approach4
Pathways of Peer Influence on Major Choice4
Latent Cumulative Disadvantage: US Immigrants’ Reversed Economic Assimilation in Later Life3
Review of “The Making of White American Identity”3
Review of “Mothering in the Time of Coronavirus”3
Review of “Revolution and witchcraft: the code of ideology in unsettled times”3
Review of “Slow and Sudden Violence: Why and When Uprisings Occur”3
Review of “Contested Americans: Mixed-Status Families in Anti-Immigrant Times”3
Social Capital and Cultural Producers’ Copyright Ownership of Their Creations: Evidence from the Television Industry 1956–19963
Stratifying Disaster: State Aid, Institutional Processes, and Inequality in American Communities3
Review of “Just Care: Messy Entanglements of Disability, Dependency, and Desire”3
The promise and limits of inclusive public policy: federal safety net clinics and immigrant access to health care in the U.S.3
Competing social influence in contested diffusion: contention and the spread of the early reformation3
Review of “The Manufacturing of Job Displacement: How Racial Capitalism Drives Immigrant and Gender Inequality in the Labor Market”3
Becoming a Father, Staying a Father: An Examination of the Cumulative Wage Premium for U.S. Residential Fathers3
Review of “Can We Unlearn Racism?: What South Africa Teaches Us about Whiteness”3
Review of “Before Gentrification: The Creation of DC’s Racial Wealth Gap.”3
Review of “Soaking the Middle Class: Suburban Inequality and Recovery from Disaster”3
The Past and Present of Crime Research inSocial Forces: How the Sociology of Crime Lost its Roots—And Found Them Again3
Review of “The Sympathetic Consumer: Moral Critique in Capitalist Culture”3
When are they insecure? Housing arrangements and residential mobility among families with children3
Review of “Parks for Profit: Selling Nature in the City”3
Review of Broke: The Racial Consequences of Underfunding Public Universities3
Review of “Regression Inside Out”3
Review of “A Mouse in a Cage: Rethinking Humanitarianism and the Rights of Lab Animals”3
100 Years of Book Reviews in Social Forces3
Review of “Faith Communities and the Fight for Racial Justice: What Has Worked, What Hasn’t, and Lessons We Can Learn”3
Review of “Brown and Gay in LA: The Lives of Immigrant Sons”3
The Differential Impacts of Contingent Employment on Fertility: Evidence from Australia3
Review of “The Politics of Unpaid Labour: How the Study of Unpaid Labour Can Help Address Inequality in Precarious Work”2
Ritualizing Nonreligion: Cultivating Rational Rituals in Secular Spaces2
How politics constrain the public’s understanding of terrorism2
State Nobility in the Field of International Criminal Justice: Divergent Elites and the Contest to Control Power over Capital2
How public benefits make citizens in Latino mixed-status families: self-efficacy, institutional engagement, and concerted citizenship cultivation2
Review of “God’s Resistance: Mobilizing Faith to Defend Immigrants”2
Review of “Cosmopolitan Scientists: How a Global Policy of Commercialization Became Japanese”2
Transmorphic organizations: racial segregation and discrimination against LGBTQ students at Christian colleges and universities2
Review of “Coal, Cages, Crisis: The Rise of the Prison Economy in Central Appalachia”2
Review of “Controlling Reproduction: Women, Society, and State Power”2
Review of “Canada at a Crossroads: Boundaries, Bridges, and Laissez-Faire Racism in Indigenous-Settler Relations”2
Review of “What Is Sexual Capital?”2
From Politics as Vocation to Politics as Business: Populist Social Performance and Narrative Fusion in Trump Rallies2
Review of “Denied: Women, Sports, and the Contradictions of Identity”2
Echoes of silence: how student migrants navigate political taboos across borders2
The Precarity of Self-Employment among Low- and Moderate-Income Households2
Review of “The Color of Homeschooling: How Inequality Shapes School Choice”2
Pay talk in contemporary workplaces2
Review of “Banished Men: How Migrants Endure the Violence of Deportation”2
Review of “Automation is a Myth”2
Review of “My Girls: The Power of Friendship in a Poor Neighborhood”2
Review of “Who Pays for Diversity?: Why Programs Fail at Racial Equity and What to Do about It”2
Review of the Homeschool Choice: Parents and the Privatization of Education2
A processual framework for understanding the rise of the populist right: the case of Brazil (2013–2018)2
Mother–Father Parity in Work–Family Conflict? The Importance of Selection Effects and Nonresponse Bias2
Parental Schooling, Educational Attainment, Skills, and Earnings: A Trend Analysis across Fifteen Countries2
Review of “Delivery as Dispossession: Land Occupation and Eviction in the Post-Apartheid City”2
Correction to: Review of “When Rape Goes Viral: Youth and Sexual Assault in the Digital Age”2
I have seen this before: imprinting experiences and bank CEO risk-taking in times of crisis2
Review of “Prisons and Health in the Age of Mass Incarceration”2
The View from Above and Below: Subjective Mobility and Explanations of Class, Race, and Gender Inequality2
Review of “Making It at Any Cost: Aspirations and Politics in a Counterfeit Clothing Marketplace”2
Review of “Time for Things: Labor, Leisure, and the Rise of Mass Consumption”2
Gentrification in small cities: growth coalitions, civic engagement, and political participation2
Equality takes work: a process to understand why women still do most of the household labor2
Review of “Joy and Pain: A Story of Black Life and Liberation in Five Albums”2
Review of “Retail Inequality: Reframing the Food Desert Debate”2
Legislative processes, nonstate actors, and political repression: the case of human rights NGOs in Israel1
Review of “On Wars”1
Correction to: Career Compromises and Dropout from Vocational Education and Training in Germany1
Legal Cynicism and System Avoidance: Roma Marginality in Central and Eastern Europe1
Review of “The Channels of Student Activism: How the Left and Right Are Winning (and Losing) in Campus Politics Today”1
Fighting over the kids: gender roles, patrilineage, and child custody in Chinese courts1
Review of “Bourdieu and Sayad Against Empire: Forging Sociology in Anticolonial Struggle”1
Review of “Willful Defiance: The Movement to Dismantle the School-to-Prison Pipeline”1
Review of “Framing Refugees: How the Admission of Refugees is Debated in Six Countries across the World”1
Work Primacy and the Social Incorporation of Unaccompanied, Undocumented Latinx Youth in the United States1
Review of “Come out, Come out, Whoever You Are”1
Review of “On the Emergence of an Ecological Class: A Memo”1
Review of “Hear Our Stories: Campus Sexual Violence, Intersectionality, and How We Build a Better University”1
Breathing unequal air: environmental disadvantage and residential sorting of immigrant minorities in England and Germany1
Review of Mapping the Transnational World: How We Move and Communicate across Borders and Why It Matters1
Populism as Dog-Whistle Politics: Anti-Elite Discourse and Sentiments Toward Minority Groups1
Review of “Gaslighted: How the Oil and Gas Industry Shortchanges Women Scientists”1
Review of “The High School: Sports, Spirit, and Citizens, 1903–2024”1
Review of “Anonymous: The Performance of Hidden Identities”1
Review of “The Punishment of Pirates: Interpretation and Institutional Order in the Early Modern British Empire”1
Ideology, Legitimation and Collective Action: Evidence from Chile on the Mechanism of Ideological Inversion1
Review of “You’re Paid What You’re Worth And Other Myths of the Modern Economy”1
Review of Managing Medical Authority: How Doctors Compete for Status and Create Knowledge1
Review of “Ethnopolitical Entrepreneurs: Outsiders Inside Armenian Los Angeles”1
Beyond Gentrification: Housing Loss, Poverty, and the Geography of Displacement1
Review of “The New Gender Paradox: Fragmentation and Persistence of the Binary”1
Review of Racism on Campus: A Visual History of Prominent Virginia Colleges and Howard University1
Origins, belonging, and expectations: assessing resource compensation and reinforcement in academic educational trajectories1
Precarious Transitions: How Precarious Employment Shapes Parental Coresidence among Young Adults1
Review of “Machine Habitus: Toward a Sociology of Algorithms”1
World Society Corridors: Partnership Patterns in the Spread of Human Rights1
Examining the Effects of a Universal Cash Transfer on Fertility1
Review of “Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons”1
Concealed exchanges: relational work in racially segregated housing markets1
When the watchdogs look away: the role of engineers’ ideological commitments in their grappling with tech bias1
What Makes a Citizen? Contemporary Immigration and the Boundaries of Citizenry1
“The Ties that Bind are those that Punish: Network Polarization and Federal Crime Policy Gridlock, 1979–2005”1
Life course illegality: how the life course and aging shape the experience of illegality1
Why do partners often prefer the same political parties? Evidence from couples in Germany1
Paws on the Street: Neighborhood-Level Concentration of Households with Dogs and Urban Crime1
Communists and Black liberation movements: divergent trajectories in the United States and South Africa, 1939–19691
It’s Not the Message, It’s The Messenger: Organizational Identity and White Men’s Opposition to Women’s and African Americans’ Civic Participation1
Review of “The Faithful Scientist: Experiences of Anti-Religious Bias in Scientific Training”1
Review of “Refuge: How the State Shapes Human Potential”1
Gender and Parenthood Differences in Job Mobility and Pay Progression in the UK1
Continuity and Change in Methodology in Social Forces1
Review of “Get It Out: On the Politics of Hysterectomy”1
Review of “The Danger Zone is Everywhere: How Housing Discrimination Harms Health and Steals Wealth”1
Not paying unto Caesar: Christian nationalism, politics, race, and opposition to taxation1
Review of “Sons, Daughters & Sidewalk Psychotics: Mental Illness and Homelessness in Los Angeles”1
Review of Black Privilege: Modern Middle-Class Blacks with Credentials and Cash to Spend1
Review of “Grandmothers on Guard: Gender, Aging, and the Minutemen at the U.S.-Mexico Border”1
Differentiated Egalitarianism: The Impact of Paid Family Leave Policy on Women’s and Men’s Paid and Unpaid Work1
Review of “Academic Outsider: Stories of Exclusion and Hope”1
The Cumulative Effects of Colorism: Race, Wealth, and Skin Tone1
First- and Second-Generation Women’s Economic Assimilation: An Analysis of Longitudinal Earnings Records1
Review of “The Problem with Feeding Cities: The Social Transformation of Infrastructure, Abundance, and Inequality in America”1
Review of “The Loyalty Trap: Conflicting Loyalties of Civil Servants Under Increasing Autocracy”1
Review of “Best Laid Plans: Women Coming of Age in Uncertain Times.”1
Best for Whom? Heterogeneous Treatment Effects of Breastfeeding on Child Development1
Review of “The Battle Nearer to Home: The Persistence of School Segregation in New York City”1
Cross-National Social and Environmental Influences on Life Satisfaction1
School Shootings, Protests, and the Gun Culture in the United States1
Review of “Natural: Black Beauty and the Politics of Hair”1
The Asymmetry of Embeddedness: Illegal Trade Networks and Drug Purchasing Diversity on an Online Illegal Drug Market0
Intragenerational Social Mobility and Well-being in Great Britain: A Biomarker Approach0
Hiring the ideal remote worker: the gendered implications of the rise of remote work0
The Demographics of School District Secession0
Inequality and socio-economic divides in parental transfers to young adults in the United States0
Welfare benefit cuts in early childhood and future educational outcomes: a natural experiment0
Too Much of a Good Thing? Testing the Curvilinear Relationship between Parental Involvement and Student Outcomes in Elementary School0
Review of “The Deviant Prison: Philadelphia’s Eastern State Pentientiary and the Origins of America’s Modern Penal System, 1829–1913”0
Perpetual encounters: reconceptualizing police contact and measuring its relationship to black women’s mental health0
Correction to: Devaluation for whom? Feminization and wages in an economically polarized labor market, 2003–20190
Review of Unnerved: Anxiety, Social Change, and the Transformation of Modern Mental Health0
Review of “Racial Baggage: Mexican Immigrants and Race Across the Border”0
Work Hours Volatility and Child Poverty: The Potential Mitigating Role of Safety Net Programs0
Review of “Unbottled: The Fight against Plastic Water and for Water Justice”0
The politics of the Norwegian capitalist class: the inner circle and wealthy owners0
Review of “Unfree: Migrant Domestic Work in Arab States”0
Review of “What Work Means: Beyond the Puritan Work Ethic”0
Getting under the Skin: The Impact of Terrorist Attacks on Native and Immigrant Sentiment0
Review of “From Skepticism to Competence: How American Psychiatrists Learn Psychotherapy”0
Parental Death Across the Life Course, Social Isolation, and Health in Later Life: Racial/Ethnic Disadvantage in the U.S.0
Masculinity on the Margins: Boundary Work Among Immobile Fathers in Indonesia’s Transnational Families0
Review of “Moral Minefields: How Sociologists Debate Good Science”0
Review of “Post Society”0
Review of “The Paradox of Islamic Finance: How Shariah Scholars Reconcile Religion and Capitalism”0
Review of “Keeping Family Secrets: Shame and Silence in Memoirs from the 1950s”0
Stratified Entry into Illegality: How Immigration Policy Shapes Being Undocumented0
Review of “The Interloper: Lessons from Resistance in the Field”0
Exacerbating inequality over the life-course: examining race differences in the reciprocal effects between incarceration and income0
A room of one’s own? The consequences of living density on individual well-being and social anomie0
Review of “Distancing the Past: Racism as History in South African schools”0
One Hundred Years of Religion inSocial Forces0
Review of “The Last Plantation: Racism and Resistance in the Halls of Congress”0
Review of “Eco-Types: Five Ways of Caring About the Environment”0
Defining women’s incomes: household disruptions and gendered resolutions0
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