Social Problems

Article	Citations
Making racial demands: tracing the struggle over public safety in Minneapolis	26
Comparing Confidence in Institutions among Latino and White Catholics and Evangelicals: Exploring Religious Differences	24
Narratives of Rehabilitation in a South African Prison	22
The foundational role of legal status categories in stratifying job loss outcomes	20
Beyond Biological Essentialism: White Nationalism, Health Disparities Data, and the Cultivation of Lay Agnotology	20
How Discrimination Narratives Resolve Ambiguity: The Case of Islamophobia in Quebec	19
The 2021 SSSP Presidential Address: Revolutionary Sociology—Truth, Healing, Reparations, and Restructuring	18
Jurisdictional gerrymandering: The Authority of Problems without Solutions	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	15
Incels and gender inequality: changing tides in defining the far right	13
Temporal Autonomy: Schedule Instability as a Threat to Perceived Dignity in the U.S. Service Sector	13
Model Guardians: The Gendered Racialization of Asian American Police Officers	12
Predatory DEI: How Racialized Organizations Exacerbate Workplace Racial Stratification through Exploitative Diversity Work	12
Structural fire as a social problem: firehouse distribution disparities in New York City	12
Moral panic and the legislative attack on transgender rights: state-level pathways to anti-trans Lawmaking in the U.S	12
Banning of cockfighting in Puerto Rico: assessing public support and opposition	11
Stratified Private Safety Nets: How Legal Status Shapes Financial Contributions by Immigrant-Origin Young Adults	11
Workplace Climates, Workplace Structures, and LGBTQ People’s Identity Disclosure: A Longitudinal Qualitative Analysis	11
Christian nationalism and ableism in the United States	11
“Disconnected, Interrupted, Tied in Knots”: Communicative Capture in U.S. Prisons	10
Do transgender and non-binary workers in the U.S. retail and service sectors have lower quality jobs than their cisgender counterparts?	10
The making of an epidemic of pain	9
Homelessness and race: the impact of structural conditions on Black, White, and Latine homelessness	9
“I don’t want them investigating shit and taking my kids”: Controlling Images and Chicanas’ Decarceral Motherwork in Police Encounters	9
Social Triage and Exclusions in Community Services for the Criminalized	9

More than Teacher Bias: A QuantCrit Analysis of Teachers’ Perceptions of Young Black Boys’ Noncognitive Skills	9
The 2025 SSSP presidential address. Insurgent sociology: toward emancipatory theory and action under racial capitalism	9
Understanding Non-Participation in Armed Groups during the Sri Lankan Civil War	9
Shuffle Out, Shuffle In: Child Protective Services Contact and Institutional Shuffling among Middle-Class Black Mothers	8
Political Invisibility: Rescue Acts by Mothers during the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda	8
Handcrafted Careers: How Workers Navigate Racialized Career Pathways in the Craft Beer Industry	8
“People love playing the ‘what are you?’ game with me”: Street Racialization of American Indian and Alaska Native individuals	8
“He’s a Full-Blown Narcissist:” Tracing an Emerging Cultural Narrative in Action	7
A Matter of Time: The Life Course Implications of Deferred Action for Undocumented Latin American Immigrants in the United States	7
“I can’t tell you what freedom is ’cause I’ve never seen it”: Addressing the Omission of Liberation Narratives in Sociology	7
Tipping Regimes: Organizational Dynamics and Labor Control Mechanisms on Nashville’s Honky-Tonk Row	7
Creating food commons: successes and barriers to creating just sustainable food systems in ecological intentional communities	7
‘The system is engineered to do this’: Multilevel Disempowerment and Climate Injustice in Regulating Colorado’s Oil and Gas Development	7
Racial-Ethnic Poverty Gaps in Later Life: A Role for Late Career Employment Quality?	7
Double Citizenship as a Double-Edged Sword: Young Return Migrants’ Code-Switching for Belonging in Mexico	7
Liminal Punishment and the Specter of Jail	7
Can’t Just Send Our Children Out: Intensive Motherwork and Experiences of Black Motherhood	7
Making Gender Crises: State Newspapers and the Regulation of Gender Nonconformity in China	6
The Balancing Act of Family and College: Reciprocity and Its Consequences for Black Students	6
Bridging Divides or Reinforcing Distance? The Interplay of Individual and Organizational Factors in Shaping Volunteers’ Relationships with Criminalized Women	6
The Intensity of Local Immigration Conflict: Variations across Space and Time	6
Beyond Dietary Acculturation: How Latina Immigrants Navigate Exclusionary Systems to Feed Their Families	6
Replacing dad? How extended family support shapes gendered allocation of time in middle-class North American families	6
How Long Does Madness Take? Time and the Construction of Mental Illness in Community Mental Health Work	6
On Our Own: Social Distance, Physical Loneliness, and Structural Isolation in the COVID-19 Pandemic	6
A Vitapolitics Frame: How Trans Activists Make Sense of Trans Lives in Interactions with Allies	6
In the face of adversity: healthcare navigation and strategies of resilience among transgender and nonbinary care-seekers	6
Gender and Work: Online Job Platforms of the Chinese Ethnic Economy	6
Policing homelessness: neighborhood predictors of clearing encampments and vehicle residences	5
Population for civilization: the aspiration for whiteness in (post)colonial Korea	5
Black Boys’ Perceptions of Depression and Mental Health: Findings from the YBMen Project	5
An immigrant paradox in the black box? Evaluating prison disciplinary infractions among foreign- and native-born persons	5
Opting in or opting out? Dilemmas for parents and administrators addressing racial inequality in urban schools	5
Negation claims: insights from elite philanthropists’ responses to moral devaluation	5
The Struggle over How to Help Incarcerated People: A Field Analysis of the Penal Voluntary Sector	4
The asset economy and its politics: homeownership and class in the United States, 1985–2022	4
Masculinity Challenged: Emotional Responses to State Support for Women’s Employment in the United Arab Emirates	4
Racial/ethnic neighborhood change and the distribution of health-related urban amenities over time	4
Status Threat, Meritocracy, and the Politics of Solidarity in the Seoul Subway	4
Feeling Carcerality: How Carceral Seepage Shapes Racialized Emotions	4
The enabling-helping dilemma: redefining behaviors and roles in the context of family, opioid addiction	4
Correction to: “Let them eat kale!”: Appeals to class-based resentment in American conservative opposition to climate change solutions	4
Assessing the Risks of Risk Assessments: Institutional Tensions and Data Driven Judicial Decision-Making in U.S. Pretrial Hearings	4
From the yellow vests to anti-Covid measures protests: rethinking movement Spillover through a processual and biographical approach	4
Transformative mothering on the inside: navigating the perils and possibilities of mothering while incarcerated	4
Ethnic-Racial Identity, Racial Discrimination and Support for Black Lives Matter among Black American Youth	4
Decriminalizing or reassembling schools? Implications of removing police from schools for racial and ethnic disparities in criminal justice system contact	4
“Let them eat kale!”: Appeals to class-based resentment in American conservative opposition to climate change solutions	4
Correction to: Too “Full of Gender” How Activists Conceptualize the Promises and Pitfalls of Gender-Neutral Identity Documents	4
Mapping the Cultural Repertoires of Family Estrangement: A New Theory of Democratized Kinship	4

Gender Differences in the Geographic Breadth of Job Search: Examining Job Applications	4
Collusion and Violence in Underground Drug Markets	4
The Boys in Blue Are Watching You: The Shifting Metropolitan Landscape and Big Data Police Surveillance in the United States	4
Controlling Images of Neighborhoods in Gentrification Coverage	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
They are “just words”, not harassment: Men’s perspectives on their involvement in sexual harassment against women in public space	3
Is There an Idealized Target of Sexual Harassment in the MeToo Era?	3
Brokers and Boundary Managers: School Expulsions amid the Non-Punitive Turn	3
The Sociology of Property Value in a Climate-Changed United States	3
Navigating Spatial Enclosures: Race, Place, and School Policing	3
Religion, republicans, and white racial boundaries: Christian nationalism and white republicans’ preference for same-race marriage	3
Bureaucratic Entrapment: Refugee Experiences of the European Union (EU) Migration Regime	3
The Framing of Minority Threat and Moralization to Criminalize Behavior: The Case of Cannabis in the Early 20th Century	3
Does Racial Bias Explain the Black-White Sentencing Gap across U.S. Courts?	3
Paved with Good Intentions: Moral Evaluation of Volunteer Tourism as Social Action	3
Dispossessory Citizenship: The Settler Colonial State and the Bureau of Indian Affairs’ Relocation Program, 1952–1972	3
Vaccine Hesitancy and the Accumulation of Distrust	3
The politics of protection: regulatory responses to COVID-19 in the meatpacking sector	3
Belonging and Boundaries at an Elite University	3
Deportation in an era of devolved discretionary power: state-level variation in U.S. immigration enforcement	3
Mentoring as care: examining power and gender in faculty-undergraduate student relationships	3
Different Time Frames, Different Futures: How Disadvantaged Youth Project Realistic and Idealistic Futures	3
Long after “People before Highways”: Social Movements and Expert Activism in Greater Boston, 1960–2016	3
The Way of Migrant Brokers: Power, Competition, and the Misconversion Capital	3
Healthcare beyond the humanitarian niche: Syrian refugee-led organizations in Turkey	3
Correction to: Communication and Decision-Making Processes: Group-level Determinants of State Performance	3
“One More Thing on my Mental List”: Cognitive Labor During Family Member Incarceration	3
Separate from Class? Toward a Theory of Race as Resource Signal	2
Black Women as Superwomen? The Mental Health Effects of Superwoman Schema, Socioeconomic Status, and Financial Strain	2
Representations of informal caregiving of older adults in the Swedish news media	2
Creating undeserving citizens: an analysis of the “birth tourism” discourse in the Canadian context	2
Racial Exclusion by Bureaucratic Omission: Non-Enumeration, Documentary Dispossession, and the Rohingya Crisis in Myanmar	2
Correction to: No Room to Fall: Criminal Justice Contact and Neighborhood Disadvantage	2
Too “Full of Gender” How Activists Conceptualize the Promises and Pitfalls of Gender-Neutral Identity Documents	2
“Following Indigenous Leadership”: Addressing Power Inequalities between White and Indigenous Activists in the Movement to Stop Line 3	2
Live and (Let) Die – Shifting Legitimacies and Organizational Mortality in American Higher Education, 1944–2018	2
Weaponized waiting: how an administrative burden harms families visiting loved ones in immigration detention	2
Inter-minority Relations: Factors Shaping Cognitive and Affective Intergroup Attitudes between Asian and Black Americans	2
“If not us, then who?”: black faculty and staff experiencing racial equity trauma while doing diversity, equity and inclusion in the wake of the summer 2020 racial reckoning	2
Inequality and moral meaning-making in the admissions consulting profession	2
Introduction to the Special Issue: The Lives (and Futures) of Black Children and Youth	2
Public Religion and Gendered Attitudes	2
Young Black Women’s Perceptions of Otherfather Involvement	2
Community-Engaged Scholarship and Its Implications for Public Sociology and the Discipline	2
Gateway to Dignity: Legal Name Changes for Transgender People in the United States	2
Racialized Emotion Management among Asian Americans in the Professional Workplace	2
“It’s Complicated”: How Black and White Women Innovate with Situationships at Midlife	2
Correction to: Sexual Health and Multiple Forms of Discrimination Among Heterosexual Youth	2
Advising through Adversity: Urban High Schools’ Diverging Approaches to Postsecondary Planning	2
Skin color stratification in police contact among Asian-descent people	2
On the Social Existence of Mental Health Categories: The Case of Sex Addiction	2
“Don’t care, you gotta move”: homeless mobilities in the production of environmental inequality	2
Adolescent Cybervictimization in 31 Countries: The Gender Gap, Gendered Opportunity, and the Contextual Influence of Gender Stratification	2
Gangsters, hoochie mamas, and decent kids: academic taxonomies and teacher bias in a disciplinary alternative education program	2
How to Say “Black Lives Matter” in Chinese?: Race, Democracy, and Discourses of a Movement	2
Ethnicity, Imprisonment, and Confidence in Police and Courts: Evidence from an International Survey	2
Anti-Black and Blue: Neighborhood Identity and Local Racial Ideologies in Chicago’s Police Neighborhoods	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
Shuffling Within the System: The Pervasive Uncertainty of Prison Transfers	2
“Bureaucrats with Badges”: Bylaw Enforcement and the Invisibilization of Homelessness	2
Invisible Money and Gendered Dispossession: Relational Work in Matrimonial Disputes in India	2
Politics at the Gun Counter: Examining Partisanship and Masculinity among Conservative Gun Sellers during the 2020 Gun Purchasing Surge	2
Displacing refugees: resettlement and the reconstitution of families	2
The Journalistic Field in the Platform Economy: The New York Times and the Inverted Pyramid	2
Navigating the Situation: Family Experiences of Jail Incarceration in Rural America	2
Constructing inclusivity: how state laws and local community contexts shape LGBTQ+ student inclusion and belonging in schools	1
The Status of the Surveilled: Hyper Surveillance and Status Attainment among Gangs	1
The medicalization of loneliness: Addressing social ills through healthcare	1
Does local context matter? Unemployment rates and the labor market consequences of incarceration	1
“Scum (of the Earth)”: Incarcerated Mothers’ Experiences of Slow Violence	1
A Culture of White Violence: The Enduring Impact of Slavery on Contemporary Interracial Killings	1
Housing Market Appreciation and the White-Black Wealth Gap	1
High-Hanging Fruit: How Gender Bias Remains Entrenched in Performance Evaluations	1
Rooting Race in Place: Whites’ Racial Learning in Southern Kinds of Places	1
To Align or Misalign?: Interpreting INGO-State Partnership in Cambodia	1
Black women and sex work: gender, respectability, and sensual critiques of power	1
The Meaning of Success: Ethno-Gendered Reactions to Discrimination at Work	1
Militarizing the Climate Crisis: An Analysis of the Short-Run and Long-Run Effects of Militarization on Nations’ Carbon Emissions, 1990–2020	1
Correction to: The 1619 Project Moral Panic: The Role of Cable News	1

Destroying Democracy for the People: The Economic, Social, and Political Consequences of Populist Rule, 1990 to 2017	1
Progressive disability and shifting employment opportunities: conceptualizing the disability detour	1
Social disorganization or defended Neighborhoods? New evidence from area-identified National Crime Victimization Survey Data	1
Armed Citizens on the Border: How Guns Fuel Anti-Immigration Politics in America	1
Poverty Governance in the Delegated Welfare State: Privatization, Commodification, and the U.S. Health Care Safety Net	1
Loving in the time of George Floyd: how cultural models shape interracial couples’ responses to racialized policing	1
Chronic, Disruptive, or Resistant? Target Ecologies and the Medicalization of Homelessness in California	1
Pretrial detention and mass incarceration: catalyst, correlate, or coincidence?	1
When do Anti-Immigrant Attitudes Matter? Examining Country-Level Variation in the Association between Anti-Immigrant Attitudes and Support for Capital Punishment	1
A Moral Dilemma of “Selling Out”: Race, Class, and Career Considerations among Elite College Students	1
When the house finds you: unanticipated opportunities in the housing “search”	1
No Room to Fall: Criminal Justice Contact and Neighborhood Disadvantage	1
Latinxs and Racial Frames: The Evolution of Settler Colonial Ideologies in New Mexico	1
Making health disparities from socioeconomic status: situating internalized classism and experiences of deprivation	1
Wealth and the Transition to Motherhood	1
The Lives and Futures of Late Adolescent Black Members of the LGBTQIA Population	1
“He was socialized to believe that it’s normal”: Gendered racism in interracial relationships between Black women and white men	1
Racial Polarization in Attitudes towards the Criminal Legal System	1
Earning the Role: Father Role Institutionalization and the Achievement of Contemporary Fatherhood	1
In the Name of Love: White Organizations and Racialized Emotions	1
Breaking Generational Curses: Success and Opportunity among Black Children of Incarcerated Parents	1
Cruel and unusual punishment: assessing public perceptions of suffering in toxic prisons	1
Boosting Your Enemies to Garner the Sympathy of Friends: Pro-Fracking Industry Communications and the Geography of Contention	1
The Effect of the 2020 Black Lives Matter Protests on Police Budgets: How “Defund the Police” Sparked Political Backlash	1
Diversity as Philanthropy: Diversity Ideology among Pastors, Professors, and Professionals of Color	1
College Choices, Choice Dilemmas: Black Advantaged Parents’ Views of Their Children’s College Options	1
The hate industry: mass media, moral panic, and the mobilization of anti transgender prejudice	1
Punitive Inertia: Anti-Blackness and the Policing of Motion	1
Serv/eillance: Cops, Queers, and Clinics in Segregated Chicago	1
Caring labour and domestic violence shelter work in the COVID-19 pandemic	1