Social Problems

Papers
(The median citation count of Social Problems 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Family Structure, Risks, and Racial Stratification in Poverty58
Reducing the Joy Deficit in Sociology: A Study of Transgender Joy38
Governing Marginality: Coercion and Care in Probation35
Risky Routes, Safe Suspicions: Gender, Class, and Cabs in Hyderabad, India30
How Information about Inequality Impacts Belief in Meritocracy: Evidence from a Randomized Survey Experiment in Australia, Indonesia and Mexico24
Populism and Carbon Tax Justice: The Yellow Vest Movement in France22
The “New Father” Between Ideals and Practices: New Masculinity Ideology, Gender Role Attitudes, and Fathers’ Involvement in Childcare22
“The Squeaky Wheel Gets the Grease”: Rental Assistance Applicants’ Quests for a Rationed and Scarce Resource20
Compounded Vulnerability: The Consequences of Immigration Detention for Institutional Attachment and System Avoidance in Mixed-Immigration-Status Families18
Toward a Du Boisian Framework of Immigrant Incorporation: Racialized Contexts, Relational Identities, and Muslim American Collective Action17
Contesting Commemorative Landscapes: Confederate Monuments and Trajectories of Change17
Alternative Organizational Survival: A Comparison of Two Worker-Recuperated Businesses in Buenos Aires, Argentina16
Criminalized or Medicalized? Examining the Role of Race in Responses to Drug Use15
The Contradictions of Liminal Legality: Economic Attainment and Civic Engagement of Central American Immigrants on Temporary Protected Status15
“Trans Enough”: Examining the Boundaries of Transgender-Identity Membership13
Disrupting Monolithic Thinking about Black Women and Their Mental Health: Does Stress Exposure Explain Intersectional Ethnic, Nativity, and Socioeconomic Differences?13
The Ideal Delegation: How Institutional Privilege Silences “Developing” Nations in the UN Climate Negotiations13
The Great Recession and Ethno-Racial Disparities in Access to Mortgage Credit12
Brexit, Terrorist Attacks, and Hate Crime: A Longitudinal Analysis12
Divergent Residential Pathways from Flood-Prone Areas: How Neighborhood Inequalities Are Shaping Urban Climate Adaptation11
Surviving Capitalism: Affordability as a Racial “Wage” in Contemporary Housing Markets11
Call-In, Call-Out, Care, and Cool Rationality: How Young Adults Respond to Racism and Sexism Online11
Training for War: Academy Socialization and Warrior Policing10
“Screaming, ‘No! No!’ It was Literally Like Being Raped”: Connecting Sexual Assault Trauma and Coerced Obstetric Procedures10
Beyond the Binary: Intraracial Diversity in Family Organization and Black Adolescents’ Educational Performance10
Discriminating Palates: Evaluation and Ethnoracial Inequality in American Fine Dining9
Classification and Coercion: The Gendered Punishment of Transgender Women in Immigration Detention9
Saving Face While (Not) Talking about Race: How Undergraduates Inhabit Racialized Structures at an Elite and Predominantly White College9
“Please Don’t Take This”: Rural Gentrification, Symbolic Capital, and Housing Insecurity9
Varieties of Sugar Dating in Sweden: Content, Compensation, Motivations9
House of Cards: Informal Housing Markets and Precarious Pathways to Homeownership in Baltimore9
Race-Conscious Racism: Alibis for Racial Harm in the Classroom8
Why LGBTQ Adults Keep Ambivalent Ties with Parents: Theorizing “Solidarity Rationales”8
The Theatre of Entrepreneurship: Learning to Perform the Speculative Self in University Entrepreneurship Programs8
Lifting the Veil on Campus Sexual Assault: Morehouse College, Hegemonic Masculinity, and Revealing Racialized Rape Culture through the Du Boisian Lens8
Best Laid Plans: How the Middle Class Make Residential Decisions Post-Disaster8
Selling a Resume and Buying a Job: Stratification of Gender and Occupation by States and Brokers in International Migration from Indonesia8
Embedding Racism: City Government Credit Ratings and the Institutionalization of Race in Markets8
Right-Wing Stewards: The Promoting Effect of Religiosity on Environmental Concern among Political Conservatives in a Global Context7
Assembling the Local Politics of Noncitizenship: Contesting Access to Healthcare in Toronto-Sanctuary City7
Belonging and Boundaries at an Elite University7
Ethnoracial Capitalism and the Limits of Ethnic Solidarity7
Colorism in Punishment among Hispanics in the Criminal Justice System7
“Whose streets? Our streets!”: Negotiations of Space and Violence in Protests7
Narrowing Racial Differences in Trust: How Discrimination Shapes Trust in a Racialized Society7
Persistent Inequalities in College Completion, 1980–20107
In the Shadow of the Schooled Society: Feelings of Misrecognition and the Education Ladder6
“Different Strolls, Different Worlds? Gentrification and its Impact on Outdoor Sex Work”6
Antiracism without Races: How Activists Produce Knowledge about Race and Policing in France6
More than Recruitment: How Social Ties Support Protest Participation6
Forced Out of Fatherhood: How Men Strive to Parent Post-Deportation6
Not Seeing Like a State: Mandated Reporting, State-Adjacent Actors and the Production of Illegible Subjects6
Race, Nation, and the Color-Line in the Twenty-First Century: A Du Boisian Analysis6
Protest Waves and Social Movement Fields: The Micro Foundations of Campaigning for Subaltern Political Parties6
Introduction to the Special Issue: The Sociology of W. E. B. Du Bois6
Do College Social Justice Activists Stop When They Graduate? Explaining Volunteer Activist Participation in a Life Course Transition6
Proliferation of Punishment: The Centrality of Legal Fines and Fees in the Landscape of Contemporary Penology6
What If They Were White? The Differential Arrest Consequences of Victim Characteristics for Black and White Co-offenders6
Historical Markers or Markers of White Supremacy? Confederate Memorialization, Racial Threat, and Hate Crime6
Slow Violence and theGas Peeditin Neoliberal India6
Race and Ideology in a Pandemic: White Privilege and Patterns of Risk Perception during COVID-196
On Our Own: Social Distance, Physical Loneliness, and Structural Isolation in the COVID-19 Pandemic5
Social Disharmony and Racial Injustice: W. E. B. Du Bois’s Theories on Crime5
“I Don’t Have Much Money, but I Have a Lot of Friends”: How Poor Older Latinxs Find Social Support in Peer Friendship Networks5
Enforcing Hopelessness: Complicity, Dependence, and Organizing in Frontline Oil and Gas Communities5
Destroying Democracy for the People: The Economic, Social, and Political Consequences of Populist Rule, 1990 to 20175
Explaining Refugee Employment Declines: Structural Shortcomings in Federal Resettlement Support5
“Addiction Doesn’t Discriminate”: Colorblind Racism in American Rehab5
Vaccine Hesitancy and the Accumulation of Distrust4
Rescaling Resettlement: Local Welcoming Policies and the Shaping of Refugee Belonging4
State Capacity and Opportunistic Governance: The Causes and Consequences of Regulatory Brokerage in Thailand’s Guestwork Formalization Process4
Surveillance, Social Control, and Managing Semi-Legality in U.S. Commercial Cannabis4
Gendering and Degendering: The Problem of Men’s Victimization in Intimate Partner Relations in Social and Crisis Workers’ Talk4
Bridging Boundaries? The Effect of Genetic Ancestry Testing on Ties across Racial Groups4
A Matter of Time: The Life Course Implications of Deferred Action for Undocumented Latin American Immigrants in the United States4
Enduring Consequences of Dehumanizing Institutions: Slavery and Contemporary Minority Social Control in the U.S. Northeast and South4
“We’re Better than Most”: Diversity Discourse in the San Francisco Bay Area Tech Industry4
Environmental Inequality in the American Mind: The Problem of Color-Blind Environmental Racism4
Religion, Race, and Perceptions of Police Harassment4
How Intersectional Threat Shapes Views of Gun Policy: The John Wayne Solution4
Public Religion and Gendered Attitudes4
Selling the Ability to “Have It All”: How Direct Selling Organizations Exploit Intensive Mothering Ideologies4
The Agency Myth: Persistence in Individual Explanations for Gender Inequality4
Repertoire of Resilience: Black Women’s Social Resistance to Suicide4
I Know Why the White Lady Cries: Growing Pains of an Antiracist Cleft Habitus4
Borders, Politics, and Bounded Sympathy: How U.S. Television News Constructs Refugees, 1980–20164
The Racial and Economic Foundations of Municipal Redistricting3
Ethnic and Religious Discrimination in the Wedding Venue Business: Evidence from Two Field Experiments in Germany and Austria3
Black Women as Superwomen? The Mental Health Effects of Superwoman Schema, Socioeconomic Status, and Financial Strain3
Persuasive Action and Ideological Polarization in Congress3
Carceral Liberalism: The Coloniality and Antiblackness of Coercive Benevolence3
“Positive discrimination doesn’t mean anything”: Understanding Black French Ambivalence toward Affirmative Action3
The Virtue of Opportunity: Moral Framing, Community, and Conditional Gentrification3
Contextualizing Educational Disparities and the Evaluation of Teacher Quality3
Gentrified Discipline: The Impact of Gentrification on Exclusionary Punishment in Public Schools3
Precarious Legal Patchworking: Detained Immigrants’ Access to Justice3
Leaving the Pervasive Barrio: Gang Disengagement under Criminal Governance3
The Long-Term Consequences of Imprisoning Our Youth: The Lasting Impact of Time Spent in Adult Jails and Prisons3
Cultural Sidelining: How Campus Cultures across University Contexts Shortchange Working-Class Hispanic Students3
City of Gauze: Medicine and the Governance of Urban Poverty3
“My Favorite One Is the One Who Is There Right Now”: Socioeconomic Differences in Support Exchanges within Stepfamilies3
The Bureaucratic Dissociation of Race in Policing: From State Racial Projects to Colorblind Ideologies3
Hispanic Threat and Police Strength in U.S. Municipalities: The Moderating Influences of Nativity and Region3
Hate as Backlash: A County-Level Analysis of White Supremacist Mobilization in Response to Racial and Gender “Threats”3
“When They Hand You Your Uniform, They Forget to Say, ‘Hand Me Your Soul’”: Incidents and Impacts of Institutional Betrayal in Canadian Police Services3
“My Baby Went Straight to Heaven”: Morality Work in Abortion Online Storytelling3
“You have to be grateful that they have eyes watching over us”: When Security Guards Protect and Serve People Experiencing Homelessness3
Can’t Just Send Our Children Out: Intensive Motherwork and Experiences of Black Motherhood3
Policing and Punishing Illegal Gun Behavior: An Examination of Jail Detainee Experiences with Gun Law Enforcement In Los Angeles3
“We Got Witnesses” Black Women’s Counter-Surveillance for Navigating Police Violence and Legal Estrangement2
Emotions and Ambient Racism in America’s Whitest Big City2
“Reasonable” Force at the U.S.-Mexico Border2
College Choices, Choice Dilemmas: Black Advantaged Parents’ Views of Their Children’s College Options2
Beyond Biological Essentialism: White Nationalism, Health Disparities Data, and the Cultivation of Lay Agnotology2
Buen Crédito y Buen Seguro: Legal Status and Restricted Access to Shelter among Low-Income Latina/o Renters in an Immigrant Gateway City2
The Micro-politics of Recognition and Care: How Adult Children in Urban China Negotiate Relationships with Emigrant Siblings2
Understanding Discrimination: Outcome-Relevant Information Does Not Mitigate Discrimination2
Loneliness Loves Company, Some More than Others: Social Ties, Form of Engagement, and Their Relation to Loneliness2
The Early-Life Origins of Later-Life Networks2
For Love of Money: Rewards of Care for India’s Women Community Health Workers2
The Promise of Property: Legal Optimism and Collective Efficacy in Chicago’s Urban Agriculture District2
The Boys in Blue Are Watching You: The Shifting Metropolitan Landscape and Big Data Police Surveillance in the United States2
Structural Stigma and 7-Year Improvement in Life Satisfaction among Diverse Groups of Sexual Minority Individuals: A Repeated Cross-Sectional Study across 28 Countries2
Shared Satisfaction among Residents Living in Multiracial Neighborhoods2
Strategic Citizenship in China: Birth Tourism and the “American Hukou2
Mechanisms Linking High Residential Mobility to Decreased Contraceptive Use: The Importance of Method Availability2
Beyond Dietary Acculturation: How Latina Immigrants Navigate Exclusionary Systems to Feed Their Families2
Narratives of Rehabilitation in a South African Prison2
Race, Gender, and Police Violence in the Shadow of Controlling Images2
Becoming a Man: A Duboisian Examination of the Experiences of Black Men Who Have Sex with Men2
Policing a Pandemic in New York City: How Do Community Features Matter in the Location of Social Distancing Violations?2
Cisgendered Workspaces: Outright and Categorical Exclusion in Cisgendered Organizations2
In the Name of Love: White Organizations and Racialized Emotions2
Unemployment and Opioid-Related Mortality Rates in U.S. Counties: Investigating Social Capital and Social Isolation-Smoking Pathways2
Paired Double Consciousness: A Du Boisian Approach to Gender and Transnational Double Consciousness in Thai Kathoey Self-Formation2
Grieving in the “Golden Cage”: How Unauthorized Immigrants Contend with Death and Mourn from Afar2
Making the Cut: Status, Credentials, and Hiring in Medicine2
The Dynamic Racial Structure and Disparities in Neighborhood Crime Change2
Queer Social Control and the Homonormative Bargain: Sexual Harassment in the Era of Open LGBT Military Service2
Politics as a Vacation: Tourist Practices and the Building of the Nation-State2
Threat and Emotions: Mobilizing and Attitudinal Outcomes of a Ballistic Missile Scare2
Marginalization or Incorporation? Welfare Receipt and Political Participation among Young Adults2
Protective State Policies and the Employment of Fathers with Criminal Records2
High-Hanging Fruit: How Gender Bias Remains Entrenched in Performance Evaluations2
Unfit Stewards: The Role of the Intensive Pet Parenting Ideology in Constructing Racialized Narratives1
Intersecting Inequalities: Racial/Ethnic and Socioeconomic Differences in Math Achievement and School Contexts in California1
Diversity as Philanthropy: Diversity Ideology among Pastors, Professors, and Professionals of Color1
The Creepy White Guy and the Helpless Asian: How Sexual Racism Persists in a Gay Interracial Friendship Group1
The Effect of Community Organizing on Landlords’ Use of Eviction Filing: Evidence from U.S. Cities1
Making Gender Crises: State Newspapers and the Regulation of Gender Nonconformity in China1
The White View of Black America: Three Forms of Prejudice1
Racial Exclusion by Bureaucratic Omission: Non-Enumeration, Documentary Dispossession, and the Rohingya Crisis in Myanmar1
The Effect of the 2020 Black Lives Matter Protests on Police Budgets: How “Defund the Police” Sparked Political Backlash1
The Color Line in Southeastern Europe: A Du Boisian Analysis of the Yugoslav Region1
Genetic Racialization: Ancestry Tests and the Reification of Race1
Framing School Integration: A Computational Analysis of Newspaper Discourse, 1990–20201
Does Workplace Discrimination Contribute to Sex Work for Trans and Nonbinary Workers?1
Banging while Believing: The Intersection of Religiosity, Gang Membership, and Violence1
Prisons and Pollution: A Nationwide Analysis of Carceral Environmental Inequality1
On the Social Existence of Mental Health Categories: The Case of Sex Addiction1
The “Stuff” of Class: How Property Rules in Preschool Reproduce Class Inequality1
Racial Polarization in Attitudes towards the Criminal Legal System1
“Jocks Gone Wild”: Masculinity, Sexual Bullying, and the Legal Normalization of Boys’ Victimization1
“Dream like the Whites”: Disjunctures in Racial Experiences and Interpretations of Low-Income First-Generation Students of Color and Their Parents1
America’s Most Divided Sport: Polarization and Inequality in Attitudes about Youth Football1
Mothers’ Parenting in an Era ofProactive Policing1
“I Thought This Was a Ghost Neighborhood”: How Youth Respond to Neighborhood Change1
Polarized Support for Intimate Partner Violence Gun-Related Interventions1
“Sometimes you have to pop them”: Conflict and Meaning-Making in a Parenting Class1
Adolescent Cybervictimization in 31 Countries: The Gender Gap, Gendered Opportunity, and the Contextual Influence of Gender Stratification1
How Do Adolescent Social Determinants and Social Contexts Shape Adult Sexual Identification?1
The Racial Paradigm and Dalit Anti-Caste Activism in the United States1
Policing the California Outercity: Drivers of Police Spending in a Changing Metropolis1
No Room to Fall: Criminal Justice Contact and Neighborhood Disadvantage1
Social Triage and Exclusions in Community Services for the Criminalized1
Cooperation without Consensus: Midwives’ Collaborations across Political Distance1
Breaking Generational Curses: Success and Opportunity among Black Children of Incarcerated Parents1
Different Time Frames, Different Futures: How Disadvantaged Youth Project Realistic and Idealistic Futures1
Intensive Naming: Concerted Cultivation and Flexible Ethnicity among U.S. Middle-Class Mexican-Origin Parents1
Organizational Practice and Neighborhood Context of Racial Inequality in Police Use-of-Force1
Long after “People before Highways”: Social Movements and Expert Activism in Greater Boston, 1960–20161
Fired and Evicted: Istanbul Doorkeepers’ Strategies of Navigating Employment and Housing Precarity1
Blurring the Borders of Reentry: Socioeconomic Reintegration among Noncitizens Following Release from Immigration Detention1
The Alien Citizen: Social Distance and the Economic Returns to Naturalization in the Southwest1
Too “Full of Gender” How Activists Conceptualize the Promises and Pitfalls of Gender-Neutral Identity Documents1
Is There an Idealized Target of Sexual Harassment in the MeToo Era?1
The Racialized Glass Escalator and Safety Net: Wages and Job Quality in “Meds and Eds” among Working-Class Men1
Digital Platforms and the Maintenance of the Urban Order1
Inaction, Silence, Focus, and Power: Identifying and Assessing Folk Theories of the Racism of Omission1
Politics at the Gun Counter: Examining Partisanship and Masculinity among Conservative Gun Sellers during the 2020 Gun Purchasing Surge1
I Know How It Feels: Empathy and Reluctance to Mobilize Legal Authorities1
Excluding Criminals or Mothers? How Vicarious Experiences Shape Legal Attitudes on Immigration Enforcement1
Earning the Role: Father Role Institutionalization and the Achievement of Contemporary Fatherhood1
Women Who Break the Glass Ceiling Get a “Paper Cut”: Gender, Fame, and Media Sentiment1
Dispossessory Citizenship: The Settler Colonial State and the Bureau of Indian Affairs’ Relocation Program, 1952–19721
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