Social Forces

Papers
(The TQCC of Social Forces is 1. 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
Review of “Bankers in the Ivory Tower: The Troubling Rise of Financiers in US Higher Education”42
Review of “Death by Prison: The Emergence of Life Without Parole and Perpetual Confinement”37
Review of “The Making of Lawyers’ Careers: Inequality and Opportunity in the American Legal Profession”32
Review of “An Epidemic of Uncertainty: Navigating HIV and Young Adulthood in Malawi”28
Review of “Rules of the Road: The Automobile and the Transformation of American Criminal Justice”25
Review of: “Making Gender Salient: From Gender Quota Laws to Policy”23
Occupying Shops to Defend Spaces of Livelihoods: From Tenant Shopkeepers’ Fragmentation to Collective Consciousness in Urban Korea23
Review of “The Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought: French Sociology and the Overseas Empire”23
Review of “Challenging Inequality: Variation Across Postindustrial Societies”20
Review of “The Policing Machine: Enforcement Endorsements, and the Illusion of Public Input”20
Review of “Nursing the Spirit: Care, Public Life, and the Dignity of Vulnerable Strangers”20
Review of “The Invention of the “Underclass”: A Study in the Politics of Knowledge”19
The Social Forces that Shape Families: Reflections on 100 Years of Publications in Social Forces19
Dualization of corporate control: lifetimers, external appointees, and CEO succession in Japan17
Identification in Interaction: Racial Mirroring between Interviewers and Respondents17
Partisan identity, scientific and religious authority, and lawmaker support for science policy17
Review of “Chinese Social Networks in an Age of Digitalization: Liquid Guanxi”16
Religious rebound, political backlash, and the youngest cohort: understanding religious change in Turkey16
The Effects of Undergraduate Financing on Advanced Degree Attainment16
Double standards in status ascriptions? The role of gender, behaviors, and social networks in status orders among adolescents15
The political landscape of death: state policy polarization and mortality among Black and White Americans15
Policy Effects on Mixed-Citizenship, Same-Sex Unions: A Triple-Difference Analysis14
Confronting the past in a polarized present: holocaust representations motivate people for symbolic justice and against antisemitism14
Review of “The Making of Public Space: News, Events and Opinions in the Twenty-First Century”14
Does Globalization Reduce Personal Violence? The Impact of International Trade on Cross-National Homicide Rates14
Policy configurations and the elasticity of gendered patterns of paid and unpaid work—evidence from comparative conjoint analyses13
Confronting linked immobility: how Chinese migrants managed family crisis during a global catastrophe13
Review of “Madness in the Family: Women, Care, and Illness in Japan”12
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 “The Great Demographic Illusion: Majority, Minority, and the Expanding American Mainstream”12
Review of “Connecting After Chaos: Social Media and the Extended Aftermath of Disaster”11
Conflicting identities: cosmopolitan or anxious? Appreciating concerns of host country population improves attitudes towards immigrants11
Review of “The Rise of the Masses: Spontaneous Mobilization and Contentious Politics”11
Review of “Spaces on the Spectrum: How Autism Movements Resist Experts and Create Knowledge”11
Correction to review: Race After Technology Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code11
Review of “Urban Power: Democracy and Inequality in São Paulo and Johannesburg”10
Are women with disabilities more at risk of intimate partner violence?10
Review of “Dead Reckoning: Air Traffic Control, System Effects, and Risk”10
Review of “Conditional Belonging: The Racialization of Iranians in the Wake of Anti-Muslim Politics”10
Review of “We Are Each Other's Business: Black Women's Intersectional Political Consumerism During the Chicago Welfare Rights Movement”10
Review of “Yet Another Costume Party Debacle: Why Racial Ignorance Persists on Elite College Campuses”10
Skill Specificity on High-Skill Online Gig Platforms: Same as in Traditional Labour Markets?10
A Gendered and Racialized Educational Hierarchy: Disparities in Elementary School Teachers’ Perceptions of Student Behavior9
Seeking meaning in US asylum adjudications: aspirations, affect, and morality on the frontlines of the state9
Correction to: Review of “No God but Man: On Race, Knowledge, and Terrorism”9
The religion of White identity politics: Christian nationalism and White racial solidarity9
Overstatement of GDP growth in autocracies and the recent decline in global inequality8
Review of “Civil War in Guangxi: The Cultural Revolution on China’s Southern Periphery”8
Review of “Tahrir’s Youth: Leaders of a Leaderless Revolution”8
Review of “I Don't Like the Blues: Race, Place, and the Backbeat of Black Life”8
Review of “The Spectacle of Expertise: Why Financial Analysts Perform in the Media”8
Review of “Thinking like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy”7
Promising or Predatory? Online Education in Non-Profit and For-Profit Universities7
Book Review of “School Zone: A Problem Analysis of Student Offending and Victimization”7
Job insecurity as a predictor of gray divorce: a gendered dyadic analysis7
Review of “The Habitation Society: Creating Sustainable Prosperity”7
Review of “Other People’s Colleges: The Origins of American Higher Education Reform”7
Demagogues in action: the reputational rise and demise of “Cotton” Tom Heflin6
100 Years of Social Forces as seen through Bibliometric Publication Patterns6
Review of “Rust Belt Union Blues: Why Working-Class Voters Are Turning Away from the Democratic Party”6
Bringing Family Demography Back In: A Life Course Approach to the Gender Gap in Caregiving in the United States6
Rental housing discrimination against Chinese minorities in Spain: a new instant messaging correspondence test6
Volunteering trajectories across crises: resilience, persistence and spill-over between ordinary and crisis volunteering6
Review of “The Secrets of Silence: The Everyday Policing of Black Women and Their Stories About Violence”6
Review of “The impact of college diversity: struggles and successes at age 30”5
The South, Southerners, and Social Forces5
Review of “Bordering on Indifference: Immigration Agents Negotiating Race and Morality.”5
Networks rewired: quota enforcement and the unintended mobilization of native place ties5
Contexts of Contestation: How Competing Logics of the State Enable and Constrain Immigrant Civic and Political Participation5
Review of “Guiding God’s Marriage: Faith and Social Change in Premarital Counseling”5
Review of “Orange-Collar Labor: Work and Inequality in Prison”5
The bases of propriety: instrumental, relational, moral, and collective5
Review of “Markets with Bureaucratic Characteristics: How Economic Bureaucrats Make Policies and Remake the Chinese State”5
Partisan animosity and protest participation in the United States5
Pathways of Peer Influence on Major Choice5
Correction to: Generational Dissonance or Cultural Persistence? European Immigration and the Intergenerational Transmission of Gender Beliefs5
The Variable Disadvantage of Nonstandard Employment for Entering Homeownership in Russia and Urban China: The Potential Role of Mortgage Prevalence5
Correction to: How liberalism accommodates far-right social movements: on “mainstreaming” and the need for critical theory in far-right studies5
Family background and life cycle earnings volatility: evidence from brother correlations in Denmark, Germany, and the United States5
Internal displacement and post-conflict gender attitudes: evidence from northwestern Pakistan5
Fear of a Black Neighborhood: Anti-Black Racism and the Health of White Americans5
Review of “Regression Inside Out”4
Review of “A Mouse in a Cage: Rethinking Humanitarianism and the Rights of Lab Animals”4
Review of “Replace the State: How to Change the World When Elections and Protests Fail”4
Review of “Mothering in the Time of Coronavirus”4
Review of “Original Sin?: The Reproduction of Racism in a Multiracial Church”4
Review of “Revolution and witchcraft: the code of ideology in unsettled times”4
Review of “Parks for Profit: Selling Nature in the City”4
Review of “Insurgent Communities: How Protests Create a Filipino Diaspora”4
Review of “Bad Nature: How Rat Control Shapes Human and Nonhuman Worlds”4
Review of “On the Frontlines of Crisis: Intensive Care and the Challenge of COVID-19.”4
The gender gap in political efficacy: the accelerating effect of classroom discussions4
Review of “Can We Unlearn Racism?: What South Africa Teaches Us about Whiteness”4
Review of “The Manufacturing of Job Displacement: How Racial Capitalism Drives Immigrant and Gender Inequality in the Labor Market”4
Review of “The Making of White American Identity”4
Rethinking migrant reception in the age of color-blind racism: an experimental approach4
Theorizing Potential Downstream Cultural Consequences of LGBT+ Activism4
Correction to: Intergenerational family life courses and wealth accumulation in Norway4
Becoming a Father, Staying a Father: An Examination of the Cumulative Wage Premium for U.S. Residential Fathers4
Review of “What Is Sexual Capital?”3
Echoes of silence: how student migrants navigate political taboos across borders3
Correction to: Review of “The Diversity of Morals”3
Review of “The Politics of Unpaid Labour: How the Study of Unpaid Labour Can Help Address Inequality in Precarious Work”3
Occupational gender segregation: what can we learn from computer use trends?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
I have seen this before: imprinting experiences and bank CEO risk-taking in times of crisis3
Review of “The Sympathetic Consumer: Moral Critique in Capitalist Culture”3
Does stringent climate policy decouple economic growth from greenhouse gas emissions?3
Competing social influence in contested diffusion: contention and the spread of the early reformation3
Stratifying Disaster: State Aid, Institutional Processes, and Inequality in American Communities3
Review of “Denied: Women, Sports, and the Contradictions of Identity”3
Review of “The Returned: Former U.S. Migrants’ Lives in Mexico City”3
The Differential Impacts of Contingent Employment on Fertility: Evidence from Australia3
Correction to: Federal place-based policy and the geography of inequality in the United States, 1990–20193
How public benefits make citizens in Latino mixed-status families: self-efficacy, institutional engagement, and concerted citizenship cultivation3
Review of “Before Gentrification: The Creation of DC’s Racial Wealth Gap.”3
Social Capital and Cultural Producers’ Copyright Ownership of Their Creations: Evidence from the Television Industry 1956–19963
How politics constrain the public’s understanding of terrorism3
The Past and Present of Crime Research inSocial Forces: How the Sociology of Crime Lost its Roots—And Found Them Again3
Correction to: Review of “When Rape Goes Viral: Youth and Sexual Assault in the Digital Age”3
Review of “Slow and Sudden Violence: Why and When Uprisings Occur”3
The promise and limits of inclusive public policy: federal safety net clinics and immigrant access to health care in the U.S.3
The bodily scars of legal violence: local immigration enforcement, state immigrant policy, and health inequality3
Review of “The Color of Homeschooling: How Inequality Shapes School Choice”3
State Nobility in the Field of International Criminal Justice: Divergent Elites and the Contest to Control Power over Capital3
Review of “Be Water: Collective Improvisation in Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Protests”3
Ritualizing Nonreligion: Cultivating Rational Rituals in Secular Spaces3
Managing motherhood: how “queen bee” managers in the US service sector reduce motherhood advantages in work scheduling3
Black–White inequality in earnings losses after job displacement, 1981–20203
Review of “Just Care: Messy Entanglements of Disability, Dependency, and Desire”3
Review of “Soaking the Middle Class: Suburban Inequality and Recovery from Disaster”3
Review of “Controlling Reproduction: Women, Society, and State Power”3
Review of “Brown and Gay in LA: The Lives of Immigrant Sons”3
When are they insecure? Housing arrangements and residential mobility among families with children3
Class origin closure: economic advantages of occupational elitism3
Review of “Contested Americans: Mixed-Status Families in Anti-Immigrant Times”3
Latent Cumulative Disadvantage: US Immigrants’ Reversed Economic Assimilation in Later Life3
Review of “The High School: Sports, Spirit, and Citizens, 1903–2024”2
Paws on the Street: Neighborhood-Level Concentration of Households with Dogs and Urban Crime2
Review of “Automation is a Myth”2
Review of “Banished Men: How Migrants Endure the Violence of Deportation”2
Review of “Canada at a Crossroads: Boundaries, Bridges, and Laissez-Faire Racism in Indigenous-Settler Relations”2
Environment and the racialization of space in US cities2
Transmorphic organizations: racial segregation and discrimination against LGBTQ students at Christian colleges and universities2
Review of “Prisons and Health in the Age of Mass Incarceration”2
Review of “My Girls: The Power of Friendship in a Poor Neighborhood”2
Concealed exchanges: relational work in racially segregated housing markets2
Best for Whom? Heterogeneous Treatment Effects of Breastfeeding on Child Development2
Review of “The Punishment of Pirates: Interpretation and Institutional Order in the Early Modern British Empire”2
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
A processual framework for understanding the rise of the populist right: the case of Brazil (2013–2018)2
Review of “Who Pays for Diversity?: Why Programs Fail at Racial Equity and What to Do about It”2
Review of “Cosmopolitan Scientists: How a Global Policy of Commercialization Became Japanese”2
Review of “Delivery as Dispossession: Land Occupation and Eviction in the Post-Apartheid City”2
Pay talk in contemporary workplaces2
Gentrification in small cities: growth coalitions, civic engagement, and political participation2
Review of “The Loyalty Trap: Conflicting Loyalties of Civil Servants Under Increasing Autocracy”2
It’s Not the Message, It’s The Messenger: Organizational Identity and White Men’s Opposition to Women’s and African Americans’ Civic Participation2
Review of “Coal, Cages, Crisis: The Rise of the Prison Economy in Central Appalachia”2
Deporting children: case outcomes for unaccompanied minors facing removal proceedings in US immigration court2
Review of “Retail Inequality: Reframing the Food Desert Debate”2
Equality takes work: a process to understand why women still do most of the household labor2
Review of “God’s Resistance: Mobilizing Faith to Defend Immigrants”2
Review of “Joy and Pain: A Story of Black Life and Liberation in Five Albums”2
The View from Above and Below: Subjective Mobility and Explanations of Class, Race, and Gender Inequality2
Parental Schooling, Educational Attainment, Skills, and Earnings: A Trend Analysis across Fifteen Countries2
Review of “Clean Air and Good Jobs: U.S. Labor and the Struggle for Climate Justice”1
When elephants fight, it’s the grass that suffers: organized crime violence and risks for migrants at the U.S.–Mexico border1
Review of “Get It Out: On the Politics of Hysterectomy”1
Breathing unequal air: environmental disadvantage and residential sorting of immigrant minorities in England and Germany1
Review of “The Danger Zone is Everywhere: How Housing Discrimination Harms Health and Steals Wealth”1
Review of “The Faithful Scientist: Experiences of Anti-Religious Bias in Scientific Training”1
Review of “Emerging global cities: origin, structure and significance”1
Review of “The New Gender Paradox: Fragmentation and Persistence of the Binary”1
Review of “You’re Paid What You’re Worth And Other Myths of the Modern Economy”1
“Not one of us”: anti-immigrant sentiment spread to multiple immigrant groups in the wake of Islamic terrorism1
Review of “Academic Outsider: Stories of Exclusion and Hope”1
Not paying unto Caesar: Christian nationalism, politics, race, and opposition to taxation1
First- and Second-Generation Women’s Economic Assimilation: An Analysis of Longitudinal Earnings Records1
Gender and Parenthood Differences in Job Mobility and Pay Progression in the UK1
Review of “Come out, Come out, Whoever You Are”1
The racialized penalties of immigrant origin: meta-analytic evidence on hiring discrimination in twelve countries1
Review of “Framing Refugees: How the Admission of Refugees is Debated in Six Countries across the World”1
Differentiated Egalitarianism: The Impact of Paid Family Leave Policy on Women’s and Men’s Paid and Unpaid Work1
When expectations backfire: educational differences in declining destination attachment among recent immigrants1
“The Ties that Bind are those that Punish: Network Polarization and Federal Crime Policy Gridlock, 1979–2005”1
Correction to: Review of “Equal Partners? How Dual-Professional Couples Make Career, Relationship, and Family Decisions”1
Review of “Global Mega-Science: Universities, Research Collaborations, and Knowledge Production”1
Review of “Grandmothers on Guard: Gender, Aging, and the Minutemen at the U.S.-Mexico Border”1
Review of “The Culture Trap: Ethnic Expectations and Unequal Schooling for Black Youth”1
Review of “Hear Our Stories: Campus Sexual Violence, Intersectionality, and How We Build a Better University”1
The changing spatial pattern of metropolitan racial segregation, 1900–2020: the rise of macro-segregation1
Review of “Willful Defiance: The Movement to Dismantle the School-to-Prison Pipeline”1
Review of “Time and Migration: How Long-Term Taiwanese Migrants Negotiate Later Life”1
Populism as Dog-Whistle Politics: Anti-Elite Discourse and Sentiments Toward Minority Groups1
Review of “Polished: College, Class, and the Burdens of Social Mobility”1
Review of “On the Emergence of an Ecological Class: A Memo”1
Does outsourcing of domestic work reduce gender inequality in labor force participation within households?—a couple-level panel analysis1
100 Years ofSocial Forces1
Review of “Ethnopolitical Entrepreneurs: Outsiders Inside Armenian Los Angeles”1
Beyond Gentrification: Housing Loss, Poverty, and the Geography of Displacement1
Legislative processes, nonstate actors, and political repression: the case of human rights NGOs in Israel1
Cross-National Social and Environmental Influences on Life Satisfaction1
The Cumulative Effects of Colorism: Race, Wealth, and Skin Tone1
Review of “Machine Habitus: Toward a Sociology of Algorithms”1
Review of “On Wars”1
Why do partners often prefer the same political parties? Evidence from couples in Germany1
When the watchdogs look away: the role of engineers’ ideological commitments in their grappling with tech bias1
School Shootings, Protests, and the Gun Culture in the United States1
Review of “Anonymous: The Performance of Hidden Identities”1
Nativity Penalty and Legal Status Paradox: The Effects of Nativity and Legal Status Signals in the US Labor Market1
Review of “Who We Are is Where We Are: Making Home in the American Rust Belt”1
Review of “The Battle Nearer to Home: The Persistence of School Segregation in New York City”1
Review of “Charm: How Magnetic Personalities Shape Global Politics”1
World Society Corridors: Partnership Patterns in the Spread of Human Rights1
Review of “The Class Struggle and Welfare: Social Policy under Capitalism”1
What Makes a Citizen? Contemporary Immigration and the Boundaries of Citizenry1
Approaching or avoiding? Gender asymmetry in reactions to prior job search outcomes by gig workers in female- versus male-typed job domains1
Competing devotions in the postpandemic economy: the effect of remote working on perceptions of employees as “good workers” and “good parents” in Germany, South Korea, and the United States1
Precarious Transitions: How Precarious Employment Shapes Parental Coresidence among Young Adults1
Review of “Bourdieu and Sayad Against Empire: Forging Sociology in Anticolonial Struggle”1
Life course illegality: how the life course and aging shape the experience of illegality1
Review of “The Politics of Surviving: How Women Navigate Domestic Violence and Its Aftermath”1
Review of “Refuge: How the State Shapes Human Potential”1
Origins, belonging, and expectations: assessing resource compensation and reinforcement in academic educational trajectories1
Review of “Sons, Daughters & Sidewalk Psychotics: Mental Illness and Homelessness in Los Angeles”1
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 “Natural: Black Beauty and the Politics of Hair”1
Review of Racism on Campus: A Visual History of Prominent Virginia Colleges and Howard University1
Correction to: Career Compromises and Dropout from Vocational Education and Training in Germany1
Continuity and Change in Methodology in Social Forces1
Review of “Carceral Apartheid: How Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons”1
Review of “Kindergarten Panic: Parental Anxiety and School Choice Inequality”1
Review of “Science and Inequality: A Political Sociology”1
Review of “The Problem with Feeding Cities: The Social Transformation of Infrastructure, Abundance, and Inequality in America”1
Ethno-Racial and Credit Worthiness Disparities in Access to Mortgage Credit1
“Stuck” or still?: place attachment and residential mobility in an urban resource desert1
Communists and Black liberation movements: divergent trajectories in the United States and South Africa, 1939–19691
Review of “Covert Violence: The Secret Weapon of the Powerless”1
Review of “Best Laid Plans: Women Coming of Age in Uncertain Times.”1
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