OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Social Problems is 2. 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.)

Article	Citations
“The State is Coming”: The Emotional Content of State Formation through a Colombian Coca Substitution Program	92
The Alien Citizen: Social Distance and the Economic Returns to Naturalization in the Southwest	46
“Addiction Doesn’t Discriminate”: Colorblind Racism in American Rehab	45
How Intersectional Threat Shapes Views of Gun Policy: The John Wayne Solution	26
Beyond Biological Essentialism: White Nationalism, Health Disparities Data, and the Cultivation of Lay Agnotology	24
America’s Most Divided Sport: Polarization and Inequality in Attitudes about Youth Football	23
Narratives of Rehabilitation in a South African Prison	23
Comparing Confidence in Institutions among Latino and White Catholics and Evangelicals: Exploring Religious Differences	21
“Dream like the Whites”: Disjunctures in Racial Experiences and Interpretations of Low-Income First-Generation Students of Color and Their Parents	18
“Trans Enough”: Examining the Boundaries of Transgender-Identity Membership	18
Crafting Charismatic Cops: Community Policing and the Faulty Reputations Paradigm	17
Enforcing Hopelessness: Complicity, Dependence, and Organizing in Frontline Oil and Gas Communities	17
The 2021 SSSP Presidential Address: Revolutionary Sociology—Truth, Healing, Reparations, and Restructuring	17
How Discrimination Narratives Resolve Ambiguity: The Case of Islamophobia in Quebec	16
Temporal Autonomy: Schedule Instability as a Threat to Perceived Dignity in the U.S. Service Sector	15
“They don’t have to make room for me because this is their space”: Black College Students’ Narratives of Racism, Whiteness, and Mental Health	14
Predatory DEI: How Racialized Organizations Exacerbate Workplace Racial Stratification through Exploitative Diversity Work	13
Slow Violence and theGas Peeditin Neoliberal India	13
Repertoire of Resilience: Black Women’s Social Resistance to Suicide	13
Colorism in Punishment among Hispanics in the Criminal Justice System	13
Model Guardians: The Gendered Racialization of Asian American Police Officers	12
Gentrified Discipline: The Impact of Gentrification on Exclusionary Punishment in Public Schools	12
Stratified Private Safety Nets: How Legal Status Shapes Financial Contributions by Immigrant-Origin Young Adults	12
“I Don’t Have Much Money, but I Have a Lot of Friends”: How Poor Older Latinxs Find Social Support in Peer Friendship Networks	12
Workplace Climates, Workplace Structures, and LGBTQ People’s Identity Disclosure: A Longitudinal Qualitative Analysis	11

Can’t Just Send Our Children Out: Intensive Motherwork and Experiences of Black Motherhood	11
Enduring Consequences of Dehumanizing Institutions: Slavery and Contemporary Minority Social Control in the U.S. Northeast and South	11
Social Triage and Exclusions in Community Services for the Criminalized	11
Policing a Pandemic in New York City: How Do Community Features Matter in the Location of Social Distancing Violations?	11
Classification and Coercion: The Gendered Punishment of Transgender Women in Immigration Detention	11
More than Teacher Bias: A QuantCrit Analysis of Teachers’ Perceptions of Young Black Boys’ Noncognitive Skills	11
“I can’t tell you what freedom is ’cause I’ve never seen it”: Addressing the Omission of Liberation Narratives in Sociology	10
Protective State Policies and the Employment of Fathers with Criminal Records	10
Handcrafted Careers: How Workers Navigate Racialized Career Pathways in the Craft Beer Industry	10
Understanding Non-Participation in Armed Groups during the Sri Lankan Civil War	9
Political Invisibility: Rescue Acts by Mothers during the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda	9
Racial-Ethnic Poverty Gaps in Later Life: A Role for Late Career Employment Quality?	9
On Our Own: Social Distance, Physical Loneliness, and Structural Isolation in the COVID-19 Pandemic	8
A Matter of Time: The Life Course Implications of Deferred Action for Undocumented Latin American Immigrants in the United States	8
Shuffle Out, Shuffle In: Child Protective Services Contact and Institutional Shuffling among Middle-Class Black Mothers	8
The Balancing Act of Family and College: Reciprocity and Its Consequences for Black Students	8
Making Gender Crises: State Newspapers and the Regulation of Gender Nonconformity in China	8
Politics as a Vacation: Tourist Practices and the Building of the Nation-State	7
Persistent Inequalities in College Completion, 1980–2010	7
Tipping Regimes: Organizational Dynamics and Labor Control Mechanisms on Nashville’s Honky-Tonk Row	7
Liminal Punishment and the Specter of Jail	7
Gender and Work: Online Job Platforms of the Chinese Ethnic Economy	7
‘The system is engineered to do this’: Multilevel Disempowerment and Climate Injustice in Regulating Colorado’s Oil and Gas Development	7
Beyond Dietary Acculturation: How Latina Immigrants Navigate Exclusionary Systems to Feed Their Families	7
Loneliness Loves Company, Some More than Others: Social Ties, Form of Engagement, and Their Relation to Loneliness	7
A Vitapolitics Frame: How Trans Activists Make Sense of Trans Lives in Interactions with Allies	7
Double Citizenship as a Double-Edged Sword: Young Return Migrants’ Code-Switching for Belonging in Mexico	7
“He’s a Full-Blown Narcissist:” Tracing an Emerging Cultural Narrative in Action	7
Thanks to Reviewers	6
Black Boys’ Perceptions of Depression and Mental Health: Findings from the YBMen Project	6
Varieties of Sugar Dating in Sweden: Content, Compensation, Motivations	6
Banging while Believing: The Intersection of Religiosity, Gang Membership, and Violence	6
How Long Does Madness Take? Time and the Construction of Mental Illness in Community Mental Health Work	6
Bridging Divides or Reinforcing Distance? The Interplay of Individual and Organizational Factors in Shaping Volunteers’ Relationships with Criminalized Women	6
Historical Markers or Markers of White Supremacy? Confederate Memorialization, Racial Threat, and Hate Crime	6
Shared Satisfaction among Residents Living in Multiracial Neighborhoods	6
The Intensity of Local Immigration Conflict: Variations across Space and Time	6
Environmental Inequality in the American Mind: The Problem of Color-Blind Environmental Racism	6
Organizational Practice and Neighborhood Context of Racial Inequality in Police Use-of-Force	6
Women Who Break the Glass Ceiling Get a “Paper Cut”: Gender, Fame, and Media Sentiment	6
Embedding Racism: City Government Credit Ratings and the Institutionalization of Race in Markets	5
The Ideal Delegation: How Institutional Privilege Silences “Developing” Nations in the UN Climate Negotiations	5
“We Got Witnesses” Black Women’s Counter-Surveillance for Navigating Police Violence and Legal Estrangement	5
Feeling Carcerality: How Carceral Seepage Shapes Racialized Emotions	5
Mapping the Cultural Repertoires of Family Estrangement: A New Theory of Democratized Kinship	5
Vaccine Hesitancy and the Accumulation of Distrust	5
Race-Conscious Racism: Alibis for Racial Harm in the Classroom	5
Collusion and Violence in Underground Drug Markets	5
Index to Volume 68	5
Gender Differences in the Geographic Breadth of Job Search: Examining Job Applications	5

Correction to: Too “Full of Gender” How Activists Conceptualize the Promises and Pitfalls of Gender-Neutral Identity Documents	5
Masculinity Challenged: Emotional Responses to State Support for Women’s Employment in the United Arab Emirates	5
Incarceration Exposure during Pregnancy and Father’s Acknowledgment of Paternity	5
Ethnic-Racial Identity, Racial Discrimination and Support for Black Lives Matter among Black American Youth	5
The Boys in Blue Are Watching You: The Shifting Metropolitan Landscape and Big Data Police Surveillance in the United States	5
Status Threat, Meritocracy, and the Politics of Solidarity in the Seoul Subway	5
Rescaling Resettlement: Local Welcoming Policies and the Shaping of Refugee Belonging	5
Reducing the Joy Deficit in Sociology: A Study of Transgender Joy	5
Assessing the Risks of Risk Assessments: Institutional Tensions and Data Driven Judicial Decision-Making in U.S. Pretrial Hearings	5
Correction to: Communication and Decision-Making Processes: Group-level Determinants of State Performance	5
Belonging and Boundaries at an Elite University	5
Brokers and Boundary Managers: School Expulsions amid the Non-Punitive Turn	4
Navigating Spatial Enclosures: Race, Place, and School Policing	4
Race and Ideology in a Pandemic: White Privilege and Patterns of Risk Perception during COVID-19	4
Long after “People before Highways”: Social Movements and Expert Activism in Greater Boston, 1960–2016	4
Saving Face While (Not) Talking about Race: How Undergraduates Inhabit Racialized Structures at an Elite and Predominantly White College	4
The Way of Migrant Brokers: Power, Competition, and the Misconversion Capital	4
Paved with Good Intentions: Moral Evaluation of Volunteer Tourism as Social Action	4
Controlling Images of Neighborhoods in Gentrification Coverage	4
Race, Gender, and Police Violence in the Shadow of Controlling Images	4
The Sociology of Property Value in a Climate-Changed United States	4
Is There an Idealized Target of Sexual Harassment in the MeToo Era?	4
Dispossessory Citizenship: The Settler Colonial State and the Bureau of Indian Affairs’ Relocation Program, 1952–1972	4
Different Time Frames, Different Futures: How Disadvantaged Youth Project Realistic and Idealistic Futures	4
Live and (Let) Die – Shifting Legitimacies and Organizational Mortality in American Higher Education, 1944–2018	3
Why LGBTQ Adults Keep Ambivalent Ties with Parents: Theorizing “Solidarity Rationales”	3
Excluding Criminals or Mothers? How Vicarious Experiences Shape Legal Attitudes on Immigration Enforcement	3
Weaponized waiting: how an administrative burden harms families visiting loved ones in immigration detention	3
Ethnoracial Capitalism and the Limits of Ethnic Solidarity	3
Does Racial Bias Explain the Black-White Sentencing Gap across U.S. Courts?	3
Inter-minority Relations: Factors Shaping Cognitive and Affective Intergroup Attitudes between Asian and Black Americans	3
Antiracism without Races: How Activists Produce Knowledge about Race and Policing in France	3
“Following Indigenous Leadership”: Addressing Power Inequalities between White and Indigenous Activists in the Movement to Stop Line 3	3
Explaining Refugee Employment Declines: Structural Shortcomings in Federal Resettlement Support	3
Racialized Emotion Management among Asian Americans in the Professional Workplace	3
Navigating the Situation: Family Experiences of Jail Incarceration in Rural America	3
I Know How It Feels: Empathy and Reluctance to Mobilize Legal Authorities	3
The Journalistic Field in the Platform Economy: The New York Times and the Inverted Pyramid	3
The High Cost of Doing Good: Earnings in Social Assistance Jobs in the United States	3
Whose Neighborhood Now? Gentrification and Community Life in Low-Income Urban Neighborhoods	3
Unemployment and Opioid-Related Mortality Rates in U.S. Counties: Investigating Social Capital and Social Isolation-Smoking Pathways	3
Politics at the Gun Counter: Examining Partisanship and Masculinity among Conservative Gun Sellers during the 2020 Gun Purchasing Surge	3
Advising through Adversity: Urban High Schools’ Diverging Approaches to Postsecondary Planning	3
Gentrifiers Evading Stigma: Social Integrationists in the Neighborhood of the Future	3
Divergent Residential Pathways from Flood-Prone Areas: How Neighborhood Inequalities Are Shaping Urban Climate Adaptation	3
Surveillance, Social Control, and Managing Semi-Legality in U.S. Commercial Cannabis	3
The Framing of Minority Threat and Moralization to Criminalize Behavior: The Case of Cannabis in the Early 20th Century	3
“Jocks Gone Wild”: Masculinity, Sexual Bullying, and the Legal Normalization of Boys’ Victimization	3
On the Social Existence of Mental Health Categories: The Case of Sex Addiction	3
Invisible Money and Gendered Dispossession: Relational Work in Matrimonial Disputes in India	3
The White View of Black America: Three Forms of Prejudice	2
Diversity as Philanthropy: Diversity Ideology among Pastors, Professors, and Professionals of Color	2
To Align or Misalign?: Interpreting INGO-State Partnership in Cambodia	2
How to Say “Black Lives Matter” in Chinese?: Race, Democracy, and Discourses of a Movement	2
Bridging Boundaries? The Effect of Genetic Ancestry Testing on Ties across Racial Groups	2
Anti-Black and Blue: Neighborhood Identity and Local Racial Ideologies in Chicago’s Police Neighborhoods	2
Too “Full of Gender” How Activists Conceptualize the Promises and Pitfalls of Gender-Neutral Identity Documents	2
Cultural Sidelining: How Campus Cultures across University Contexts Shortchange Working-Class Hispanic Students	2
For Love of Money: Rewards of Care for India’s Women Community Health Workers	2
Separate from Class? Toward a Theory of Race as Resource Signal	2
Rooting Race in Place: Whites’ Racial Learning in Southern Kinds of Places	2
Racial Polarization in Attitudes towards the Criminal Legal System	2
Housing Market Appreciation and the White-Black Wealth Gap	2
Gangsters, hoochie mamas, and decent kids: academic taxonomies and teacher bias in a disciplinary alternative education program	2
Introduction to the Special Issue: The Lives (and Futures) of Black Children and Youth	2
Buen Crédito y Buen Seguro: Legal Status and Restricted Access to Shelter among Low-Income Latina/o Renters in an Immigrant Gateway City	2
“Bureaucrats with Badges”: Bylaw Enforcement and the Invisibilization of Homelessness	2
Adolescent Cybervictimization in 31 Countries: The Gender Gap, Gendered Opportunity, and the Contextual Influence of Gender Stratification	2
Ethnicity, Imprisonment, and Confidence in Police and Courts: Evidence from an International Survey	2
“It’s Complicated”: How Black and White Women Innovate with Situationships at Midlife	2
Community-Engaged Scholarship and Its Implications for Public Sociology and the Discipline	2
A Culture of White Violence: The Enduring Impact of Slavery on Contemporary Interracial Killings	2
Religion, Race, and Perceptions of Police Harassment	2
Young Black Women’s Perceptions of Otherfather Involvement	2
Black Women as Superwomen? The Mental Health Effects of Superwoman Schema, Socioeconomic Status, and Financial Strain	2
Gateway to Dignity: Legal Name Changes for Transgender People in the United States	2
Understanding Discrimination: Outcome-Relevant Information Does Not Mitigate Discrimination	2
Public Religion and Gendered Attitudes	2
Selling the Ability to “Have It All”: How Direct Selling Organizations Exploit Intensive Mothering Ideologies	2
Racial Exclusion by Bureaucratic Omission: Non-Enumeration, Documentary Dispossession, and the Rohingya Crisis in Myanmar	2