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Papers

(The median citation count of Qualitative Sociology 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Collective Action, Democratization, and Violence: Dynamics of Anti-Kurdish Riots in Turkey	59
Afterword. Going Granular	42
Getting In: Status Stratification and the Pursuit of the Good College Party	27
What Makes a Relationship Serious? Race, Religion, and Emotions in South Asian Muslim Immigrants’ Romantic Meaning-Making	13
Making a Market for NGOs: Chinese Neo-Corporatism and Its Divergent Patterns of Regulating Migrant Labor	13
How Place Matters for Migrants’ Socio-Legal Experiences: Local Reasoning about the Law and the Importance of Becoming a “Moral Insider”	12
Promissory Capital: State Legitimacy among Women Community Health Workers in India	12
Classmates or Colleagues? How Elite Students Learn to Manage One Another	9
“I don’t know what’s racist”: White Invisibility Among Explicitly Color-conscious Volunteers	8
What is “Qualitative” in Qualitative Research? Why the Answer Does not Matter but the Question is Important	8
“A Problem with the Person”: Class Blindness and the Reproduction of Social Class Inequality	7
Civic Opportunities and Democratic Practices in Yemen and Libya after the Arab Spring	7
Thick Construction as a Variant of Theory-Driven Ethnography	7
Who Should be Considered Indigenous? Intrastate Bureaucratic Jurisdictional Struggles Over Indigeneity in Peru	6
Correction to: Prompts, Not Questions: Four Techniques for Crafting Better Interview Protocols	6
Normalizing Disreputable Exchanges in the Academy: Libertarian Scholars and the Stigma of Ideologically-Based Funding	6
Ideological Consolidation, Subject Formation, and the Discursive Creation of the “New Woman” in Revolutionary Cuba	6
The Moral Work of Participation: Disillusio, Expertise, and Urban Planning Under Neoliberalism	6
‘It Isn't Charity because We've Paid into it’: Social Citizenship and the Moral Economy of Welfare Recipients in the Wake of 2012 UK Welfare Reform Act	6
How Social Media Use Mitigates Urban Violence: Communication Visibility and Third-Party Intervention Processes in Digital Urban Contexts	5
Privileged but not in Power: How Asian American Tech Workers use Racial Strategies to Deflect and Confront Race and Racism	4
Is the Ethnographic Fact Conquered or Co-Constructed?	4
Pathways to Mobility: Family and Education in the Lives of Latinx Youth	4
Neighborhood as Theater: Building a Goffmanian Framework for Comparative Urban Ethnography	4
Latency and Crisis: Mutual Aid Activism in the Covid-19 Pandemic	4

Environmental Sociology is Running Late: Catching Up in a Faltering World	4
Environmental Authenticity: Constructing Nature in Postindustrial Parks	4
Sociology from a Distance: Remote Interviews and Feminist Methods	4
Labor Borders: Recruitment of Central American Migrants in “Exodus” through Southern Mexico and Indigenous Mexican “Braceros” in the Californian Fields	3
Diagnosis as Subculture: Subversions of Health and Medical Knowledges in the Orthorexia Recovery Community on Instagram	3
“Qualitative Research” Is a Moving Target	3
Disciplining Democracy: How the Upper and Middle Class in Manila Envision Democratic Order	3
Becoming Visible in the Public Sphere: Mobile Home Park Residents’ Political Engagement in City Council Hearings	3
Sousveillance Work: Monitoring and Managing-Up in Patrimonial Hollywood	3
“I’m trying to create, not destroy”: Gendered Moralities and the Fate of IVF Embryos in Evangelical Women’s Narratives	3
Digital Ethnography for Sociology: Craft, Rigor, and Creativity	3
Power, Positionality, and the Ethic of Care in Qualitative Research	3
Ethnography Upgraded	3
Prompts, Not Questions: Four Techniques for Crafting Better Interview Protocols	3
Risk and Respectability: Reinventing Sexuality in State-NGO HIV Prevention Programs	2
Hyping the Hypothetical: Talk and Temporality in US Supreme Court Oral Arguments	2
Better than My Father or Better than His Absence: Understanding How Variation in Patterns of Absence Influence Intentions for Fatherhood	2
The Social Life of the State: Relational Ethnography and Political Sociology	2
The Genesis of Care: Knowledge-Emotion Connections, Extension of the Self, and Care for Nature at an Urban Nature Centre	2
Portrait of the Artist as a Non-Artist. Matryoshka Roles and the Heteronomization of the Italian Art Field	2
Reframing the Community: How and Why Member Participation Shifts in the Face of Change	2
Interview Location as Data	2
A Source, a Detail, an Explanation	2
Conflict and Co-Specialization on Calle Cuatro: How Placemakers Navigate Ethnic Branding	1
Correction: “But Everything Else, I Learned Online”: School-Based and Internet-Based Sexual Learning Experiences of Heterosexual and LGBQ?+?Youth	1
Re-Thinking Demographic Engineering Practices: New Insights from the Case of the Indian Emergency State (1975–77)	1
“I Want to Get on the Next Bus and Leave This City Now”: A Study of Violence and Deportation on the Texas-Tamaulipas Border	1
Isolation and Interaction in Temporary Agricultural Labor	1
Correction to: My Home Quarantine on an App: A Qualitative Visual Analysis of Changes in Family Routines During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Chile	1
The Microsociology of Aesthetic Evaluation: Selecting Runway Fashion Models	1
A Social Phenomenon of Risk Perception: Saskatchewan Firefighters on the Yarnell Hill Fire Fatalities	1
Sensory Forms of Knowing in Body Pedagogics	1
Do I Know You? Managing Offline Interaction in Acquainted Stranger Relationships	1
“Horrible Slime Stories” When Serving Victims: The Labor of Role-taking and Secondary Trauma Exposure	1
Indirect Socialization in Preschool: How Teachers Harness Children’s Ability to Shape Peer Behavior	1
Hybrid Imbalance: Collaborative Fabrication of Digital Teaching and Learning Material	1
Code Ethnography and the Materiality of Power in Internet Governance	1
Focused, Exploratory, or Vigilant: Reproduction, Mobility, and the Self-Narratives of Second-Generation Immigrant Youth	1
What is Qualitative in Research	1
The Micro-Foundations of Predictable Stability: How Multigenerational Achievement Informs Upper-Middle-Class Parenting	1