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Papers

(The median citation count of Sociological Perspectives 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Exploring the Impact of Women’s Representation on the Professional Careers of Women of Color	11
Facing Slavery as Saving Face: Racial Cynicism in Student Perceptions of Universities Studying Slavery	11
Fear and Stigma: How Undocumented Students Navigate Disclosure Amid Heightened Immigration Enforcement and Rising Anti-Immigrant Sentiment	11
Internal Migration and Cohabitation in China: A Mixed-method Study	11
Worth Less? Exploring the Effects of Subminimum Wages on Poverty among U.S. Hourly Workers	10
The Intersections between Sociology and STS: A Big Data Approach	10
Families and Financial Support: Comparing Black and Asian American College Students	10
Ideology of Athletic Merit: Transmission of Privilege in College Athlete Admissions	10
Where Do We Belong? Claiming Space in spite of . . .	8
Racial Structural Conditions and Anti-Asian Hate Crimes	8
Centering the Most Marginalized: Black Women Movement Actors and Misogynoir in the Movement for Black Lives	8
Controlling Defiance: An Examination of School Social Control in California School Districts	7
PSA Presidential Address: The New Normal and the Redefinition of Deviance	7
Connecting Spaces: Gender, Video Games and Computing in the Early Teens	7
Boundary-making in Conservation: The Configuration of Environmental Ontologies in the Andean Páramos	6
Are Networks Great Equalizers? Intergenerational Closure, Cultural Capital, and Capital Conversion in Elementary Schools	6
Intersectionality and Dependency Lenses in Neonatal Mortality: Evidence of Regional, Residential, and Socioeconomic Inequalities from Post-colonial Tanzania, 1991–2016	6
Toward Queer Anti-nationalist Belonging: LGBTQ+ Immigrants, Assimilation, and Transnational Attachments	6
Sociologists and the Clinic: The Advent of Racialized Gender in Intersex/Trans Medicine	6
Body Size and Well-being in Adolescents: The Roles of Bullying Victimization and Body Image	5
Protest Emergence: Socioeconomic Characteristics and the 1960s Sit-ins Predict the Black Lives Matter’s Formative Protest Period (2014–2017)	5
Polarization and Persuasion: Engaging Sociology in the Moral Universe of a Divided Democracy	5
Threat, Latinx Racialization, and Grassroots Leadership: Understanding Mobilization in Southern California’s Anti-Gang Injunction Movement	5
Mental Illness and the Resilience of Deviance	5
Disentangling Social Class–based Inequality: How Social Position Affects Evaluations of Economic and Cultural Markers of Social Class	5

Is the Past Present? Localized Effects of Memorializing Lynching Victims on Intra- and Intergroup Attitudes	5
“Because He’s My Baby”: The Role of Birth Order in How Mothers Explain Favoritism Toward Adult Children	5
Becoming a Survivor? Identity Creation Post-violence	4
What Is Anti-work All About? Exploring the Meanings Behind Hostility towards Work	4
Environing Innovation: Toward an Ecological Pragmatism of Scientific Practice	4
The Allure of Transactional Intimacy in Sugar Dating	4
Secrets as Storytelling: Family Histories and Interpersonal Intimacy	4
Racial Identity and Endorsements of Anti-Black and Anti-White Stereotypes	4
“He Was Able to Rely on Me”: Negotiating the Sibling Intragenerational Bargain among Latino First-generation College Student Families	4
Marginal Gentrification and Racial Capitalism in a Post-chocolate City	4
Hidden to Whom? Aspects of Visibility among People Who Died While Affected by Homelessness and Implications for Outreach	4
“They Provide the Illusion of Safety”: Police at Pride and the Politics of Belonging	4
Durkheim’s Failed Darwinian Encounter: Missed Opportunities on the Path to a Post-exemptionalist Environmental Sociology	3
The Asian American Unelectability Paradox: How Racialization Shapes Asian American Political Candidates’ and Organizers’ Experiences in a Minority Context	3
Moral Panic and Electric Micromobilities: Seeking Space for Mobility Justice	3
Cohort Differences in Occupational Retention among Computer Science Degree Holders: Reassessing the Role of Family	3
Long-term Consequences of Men’s Migration for Women’s Well-being in a Rural African Setting	3
“Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t”: Perceived Discrimination and the Paradoxes of Assimilation among U.S. Muslims	3
The Ongoing Process of HIV-Stigma (Re)Production	3
“We’re Not All Anti-Choices”: How Controlling Images Shape Latina/x Feminist Abortion Advocacy	3
Evolving Emotion, Situated Context, and Movement Activism: The Case of Bereaved Families in South Korea	3
The Myth of Personal Responsibility: Counter-stories of Black Girls’ Access to Achievement	3
“I Would Give Anything to Talk about Aliens Now”: QAnon Conspiracy Theories and the Creation of Cognitive Deviance	3
“There’s the Black Woman Thing, and There’s the Age Thing”: Professional Black Women on the Downsides of “Black Don’t Crack” and Strategies for Confronting Ageism at Work	3
Does Job Insecurity Motivate Protest Participation? A Multilevel Analysis of Working-Age People from 18 Developed Countries	3
“Business as Usual”? Human Rights NGOs’ Adaptation Strategies to Repressive Legislation	2
Shifting and Persisting Neighborhood Hierarchies: Immigrant Influx and the Gentrification of Black Neighborhoods in the Twenty-first Century	2
Climate Silence in Sociology? How Elite American Sociology, Environmental Sociology, and Science and Technology Studies Treat Climate Change	2
One and Many Asian America: Intra-Asian Ethnic Boundaries and Intermarriage	2
Who’s Eating Rice? Gay Vietnamese American Men’s Experiences With (Sexual) Racism	2
Caregiving, Gender, and Health: The Moderating Role of Age	2
Schooled Families: Higher Education and Family Virtue	2
Ghetto Girls, Cholas, and Hot Cheeto Girls: Aesthetics and Heteronormativity	2