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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Bridging Boundaries? The Effect of Genetic Ancestry Testing on Ties across Racial Groups58
Unwitting Accomplices: Equal Treatment and the Perpetuation of Racialized Information Inequality in School Choice44
Controlling Images of Neighborhoods in Gentrification Coverage30
“I Thought This Was a Ghost Neighborhood”: How Youth Respond to Neighborhood Change28
Is There an Idealized Target of Sexual Harassment in the MeToo Era?24
Young Black Women’s Perceptions of Otherfather Involvement20
Navigating Spatial Enclosures: Race, Place, and School Policing17
Letter from the New Editorial Team16
The Intensity of Local Immigration Conflict: Variations across Space and Time15
Retheorizing Intersectional Identities with the Study of Chinese LGBTQ+ Migrants13
Black Women as Superwomen? The Mental Health Effects of Superwoman Schema, Socioeconomic Status, and Financial Strain13
Race and Ideology in a Pandemic: White Privilege and Patterns of Risk Perception during COVID-1913
Thanks to Reviewers13
Borders, Politics, and Bounded Sympathy: How U.S. Television News Constructs Refugees, 1980–201612
Narratives of Rehabilitation in a South African Prison11
Persistent Inequalities in College Completion, 1980–201011
“The State is Coming”: The Emotional Content of State Formation through a Colombian Coca Substitution Program11
Beyond Biological Essentialism: White Nationalism, Health Disparities Data, and the Cultivation of Lay Agnotology10
The White View of Black America: Three Forms of Prejudice10
The Alien Citizen: Social Distance and the Economic Returns to Naturalization in the Southwest10
Authoritarian Populism and Social Discomfort in Everyday Life10
Risky Routes, Safe Suspicions: Gender, Class, and Cabs in Hyderabad, India10
Politics as a Vacation: Tourist Practices and the Building of the Nation-State9
Paved with Good Intentions: Moral Evaluation of Volunteer Tourism as Social Action9
America’s Most Divided Sport: Polarization and Inequality in Attitudes about Youth Football9
The Dynamic Racial Structure and Disparities in Neighborhood Crime Change9
How Intersectional Threat Shapes Views of Gun Policy: The John Wayne Solution8
Surveilling Sureties: How Privately Mediated Monetary Sanctions Enroll and Responsibilize Families8
The Effect of Community Organizing on Landlords’ Use of Eviction Filing: Evidence from U.S. Cities8
Mechanisms Linking High Residential Mobility to Decreased Contraceptive Use: The Importance of Method Availability8
Family Composition, Race, and Teachers’ Perceptions of Parent-Teacher Alliance8
The Micro-politics of Recognition and Care: How Adult Children in Urban China Negotiate Relationships with Emigrant Siblings8
“Addiction Doesn’t Discriminate”: Colorblind Racism in American Rehab7
The Long-Term Consequences of Imprisoning Our Youth: The Lasting Impact of Time Spent in Adult Jails and Prisons7
Comparing Confidence in Institutions among Latino and White Catholics and Evangelicals: Exploring Religious Differences7
Community-Engaged Scholarship and Its Implications for Public Sociology and the Discipline7
Fired and Evicted: Istanbul Doorkeepers’ Strategies of Navigating Employment and Housing Precarity7
Introduction to the Special Issue: The Lives (and Futures) of Black Children and Youth7
Saving Face While (Not) Talking about Race: How Undergraduates Inhabit Racialized Structures at an Elite and Predominantly White College7
Rooting Race in Place: Whites’ Racial Learning in Southern Kinds of Places6
Rhetorical and Organizational Typification of Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking as Discrete Forms of Violence6
Thanks to Reviewers6
Interpersonal Discrimination as a Potential Source of Individual-Level Anomie and its Consequences for Suicide Ideation6
The 2023 SSSP Presidential Address Recycled: The Emergence and Re-emergence of Social Problems6
Crafting Charismatic Cops: Community Policing and the Faulty Reputations Paradigm6
“Jocks Gone Wild”: Masculinity, Sexual Bullying, and the Legal Normalization of Boys’ Victimization6
Cultural Resistance to Policy Change: Welfare Privatization, Policy Feedback, and the Moral Economy of Welfare6
Making the Cut: Status, Credentials, and Hiring in Medicine6
Latinxs and Racial Frames: The Evolution of Settler Colonial Ideologies in New Mexico5
The 2021 SSSP Presidential Address: Revolutionary Sociology—Truth, Healing, Reparations, and Restructuring5
Black Boys’ Perceptions of Depression and Mental Health: Findings from the YBMen Project5
The High Cost of Doing Good: Earnings in Social Assistance Jobs in the United States5
Housing Market Appreciation and the White-Black Wealth Gap5
Diversity as Philanthropy: Diversity Ideology among Pastors, Professors, and Professionals of Color5
Boosting Your Enemies to Garner the Sympathy of Friends: Pro-Fracking Industry Communications and the Geography of Contention5
Shifting Cohort Patterns in the Use of Drugs with Elevated Overdose Risk in the United States5
Long after “People before Highways”: Social Movements and Expert Activism in Greater Boston, 1960–20164
Enforcing Hopelessness: Complicity, Dependence, and Organizing in Frontline Oil and Gas Communities4
How Discrimination Narratives Resolve Ambiguity: The Case of Islamophobia in Quebec4
“Dream like the Whites”: Disjunctures in Racial Experiences and Interpretations of Low-Income First-Generation Students of Color and Their Parents4
Persuasive Action and Ideological Polarization in Congress4
The Theatre of Entrepreneurship: Learning to Perform the Speculative Self in University Entrepreneurship Programs4
Does Racial Bias Explain the Black-White Sentencing Gap across U.S. Courts?4
The Framing of Minority Threat and Moralization to Criminalize Behavior: The Case of Cannabis in the Early 20th Century4
Strategic Citizenship in China: Birth Tourism and the “American Hukou4
I Know Why the White Lady Cries: Growing Pains of an Antiracist Cleft Habitus4
Penalizing Nonconformity: Gender Nonconformity at the Intersection of Gender and Sexual Identity in the Labor Market4
Gendering and Degendering: The Problem of Men’s Victimization in Intimate Partner Relations in Social and Crisis Workers’ Talk4
Chronic, Disruptive, or Resistant? Target Ecologies and the Medicalization of Homelessness in California4
A Moral Dilemma of “Selling Out”: Race, Class, and Career Considerations among Elite College Students4
Do College Social Justice Activists Stop When They Graduate? Explaining Volunteer Activist Participation in a Life Course Transition4
Religion, Race, and Perceptions of Police Harassment4
College Choices, Choice Dilemmas: Black Advantaged Parents’ Views of Their Children’s College Options3
Criminalized or Medicalized? Examining the Role of Race in Responses to Drug Use3
Intersecting Inequalities: Racial/Ethnic and Socioeconomic Differences in Math Achievement and School Contexts in California3
“Trans Enough”: Examining the Boundaries of Transgender-Identity Membership3
Grieving in the “Golden Cage”: How Unauthorized Immigrants Contend with Death and Mourn from Afar3
How “Ceremonial Openness” Prevents Organizational Change: An Analysis of Corporate Earnings Calls in the Oil and Gas Industry, 2007–20203
Introduction to the Special Issue: The Lives (and Futures) of Black Children and Youth3
“When They Hand You Your Uniform, They Forget to Say, ‘Hand Me Your Soul’”: Incidents and Impacts of Institutional Betrayal in Canadian Police Services3
Communication and Decision-Making Processes: Group-level Determinants of State Performance3
Unfit Stewards: The Role of the Intensive Pet Parenting Ideology in Constructing Racialized Narratives3
Bridging Divides or Reinforcing Distance? The Interplay of Individual and Organizational Factors in Shaping Volunteers’ Relationships with Criminalized Women3
Intensive Naming: Concerted Cultivation and Flexible Ethnicity among U.S. Middle-Class Mexican-Origin Parents3
Armed Citizens on the Border: How Guns Fuel Anti-Immigration Politics in America3
Different Time Frames, Different Futures: How Disadvantaged Youth Project Realistic and Idealistic Futures3
To Align or Misalign?: Interpreting INGO-State Partnership in Cambodia3
Unequal Upsides? The Status-Based Inequalities in the Relationship Between Schedule Control and Job Pressure3
Environmental Inequality in the American Mind: The Problem of Color-Blind Environmental Racism3
Organizational Practice and Neighborhood Context of Racial Inequality in Police Use-of-Force3
Surviving Capitalism: Affordability as a Racial “Wage” in Contemporary Housing Markets3
A Culture of White Violence: The Enduring Impact of Slavery on Contemporary Interracial Killings3
Colorism in Punishment among Hispanics in the Criminal Justice System3
Populism and Carbon Tax Justice: The Yellow Vest Movement in France3
How Long Does Madness Take? Time and the Construction of Mental Illness in Community Mental Health Work3
Dispossessory Citizenship: The Settler Colonial State and the Bureau of Indian Affairs’ Relocation Program, 1952–19723
Racial Polarization in Attitudes towards the Criminal Legal System3
Can You Sing Your Way to Good Citizenship?: Recreational Association Structures and Member Political Participation2
The Journalistic Field in the Platform Economy: The New York Times and the Inverted Pyramid2
Emotions and Ambient Racism in America’s Whitest Big City2
Surveillance, Social Control, and Managing Semi-Legality in U.S. Commercial Cannabis2
Earning the Role: Father Role Institutionalization and the Achievement of Contemporary Fatherhood2
Divergent Residential Pathways from Flood-Prone Areas: How Neighborhood Inequalities Are Shaping Urban Climate Adaptation2
Predatory DEI: How Racialized Organizations Exacerbate Workplace Racial Stratification through Exploitative Diversity Work2
Slow Violence and theGas Peeditin Neoliberal India2
Antiracism without Races: How Activists Produce Knowledge about Race and Policing in France2
Ethnic and Religious Discrimination in the Wedding Venue Business: Evidence from Two Field Experiments in Germany and Austria2
More than Recruitment: How Social Ties Support Protest Participation2
Leaving the Pervasive Barrio: Gang Disengagement under Criminal Governance2
Ethnoracial Capitalism and the Limits of Ethnic Solidarity2
Asian Americans’ Racialized Incorporation into the Political Field2
Varieties of Sugar Dating in Sweden: Content, Compensation, Motivations2
Embedding Racism: City Government Credit Ratings and the Institutionalization of Race in Markets2
Banging while Believing: The Intersection of Religiosity, Gang Membership, and Violence2
The Ideal Delegation: How Institutional Privilege Silences “Developing” Nations in the UN Climate Negotiations2
Cooperation without Consensus: Midwives’ Collaborations across Political Distance2
“Reasonable” Force at the U.S.-Mexico Border2
Shared Satisfaction among Residents Living in Multiracial Neighborhoods2
Historical Markers or Markers of White Supremacy? Confederate Memorialization, Racial Threat, and Hate Crime2
The “Stuff” of Class: How Property Rules in Preschool Reproduce Class Inequality2
Women Who Break the Glass Ceiling Get a “Paper Cut”: Gender, Fame, and Media Sentiment2
Paired Double Consciousness: A Du Boisian Approach to Gender and Transnational Double Consciousness in Thai Kathoey Self-Formation2
Introduction to the Special Issue: The Sociology of W. E. B. Du Bois2
Rights vs. Lived Realities: Women’s Views of Gender Equality in Relationships in Rural South Africa2
On the Social Existence of Mental Health Categories: The Case of Sex Addiction2
Index to Volume 681
Correction to: Separate from Class? Toward a Theory of Race as Resource Signal1
Prisons and Pollution: A Nationwide Analysis of Carceral Environmental Inequality1
Poverty Governance in the Delegated Welfare State: Privatization, Commodification, and the U.S. Health Care Safety Net1
No Room to Fall: Criminal Justice Contact and Neighborhood Disadvantage1
Repertoire of Resilience: Black Women’s Social Resistance to Suicide1
Analyzing the Military’s Role in Producing Air Toxics Disparities in the United States: A Critical Environmental Justice Approach1
Gentrifiers Evading Stigma: Social Integrationists in the Neighborhood of the Future1
Gentrified Discipline: The Impact of Gentrification on Exclusionary Punishment in Public Schools1
Enduring Consequences of Dehumanizing Institutions: Slavery and Contemporary Minority Social Control in the U.S. Northeast and South1
Precarious Legal Patchworking: Detained Immigrants’ Access to Justice1
“I Don’t Have Much Money, but I Have a Lot of Friends”: How Poor Older Latinxs Find Social Support in Peer Friendship Networks1
INDEX TO VOLUME 691
Breaking Generational Curses: Success and Opportunity among Black Children of Incarcerated Parents1
Hispanic Threat and Police Strength in U.S. Municipalities: The Moderating Influences of Nativity and Region1
Inaction, Silence, Focus, and Power: Identifying and Assessing Folk Theories of the Racism of Omission1
Alternative Organizational Survival: A Comparison of Two Worker-Recuperated Businesses in Buenos Aires, Argentina1
Narrowing Racial Differences in Trust: How Discrimination Shapes Trust in a Racialized Society1
Collusion and Violence in Underground Drug Markets1
Feeling Carcerality: How Carceral Seepage Shapes Racialized Emotions1
Gender Differences in the Geographic Breadth of Job Search: Examining Job Applications1
Rescaling Resettlement: Local Welcoming Policies and the Shaping of Refugee Belonging1
Resisting and Reclaiming: Squatting as Contentious Urban Politics in the U.S.1
Social Disharmony and Racial Injustice: W. E. B. Du Bois’s Theories on Crime1
Explaining Refugee Employment Declines: Structural Shortcomings in Federal Resettlement Support1
Call-In, Call-Out, Care, and Cool Rationality: How Young Adults Respond to Racism and Sexism Online1
“Whose streets? Our streets!”: Negotiations of Space and Violence in Protests1
“We’re Better than Most”: Diversity Discourse in the San Francisco Bay Area Tech Industry1
“I don’t believe that I have been wanted”: Processes of Overinclusion and Exclusion in Racialized and Gendered Organizations1
Psychiatric Gaslighting: The Surveillance of Mental Illness during Pregnancy1
In the Name of Love: White Organizations and Racialized Emotions1
Status Threat, Meritocracy, and the Politics of Solidarity in the Seoul Subway1
The Meaning of Success: Ethno-Gendered Reactions to Discrimination at Work1
Framing School Integration: A Computational Analysis of Newspaper Discourse, 1990–20201
Model Guardians: The Gendered Racialization of Asian American Police Officers1
I Know How It Feels: Empathy and Reluctance to Mobilize Legal Authorities1
Hate as Backlash: A County-Level Analysis of White Supremacist Mobilization in Response to Racial and Gender “Threats”1
Unemployment and Opioid-Related Mortality Rates in U.S. Counties: Investigating Social Capital and Social Isolation-Smoking Pathways1
Policing and Punishing Illegal Gun Behavior: An Examination of Jail Detainee Experiences with Gun Law Enforcement In Los Angeles1
Trajectories of Public Islam: Public Religious Expressions among American Muslim Advocates1
Stratified Private Safety Nets: How Legal Status Shapes Financial Contributions by Immigrant-Origin Young Adults1
Advising through Adversity: Urban High Schools’ Diverging Approaches to Postsecondary Planning1
No Place Like Home? Local Crime and Older Adults’ Time at Home1
The 2024 SSSP Presidential Address “Every Damn Day in America”: Racism and the Politics of Gun Violence1
“Nobody Becomes a Criminal to Work 9 to 5”: Unpaid Labor, Stigma, and Hegemony in Addiction Treatment1
Structural Stigma and 7-Year Improvement in Life Satisfaction among Diverse Groups of Sexual Minority Individuals: A Repeated Cross-Sectional Study across 28 Countries1
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