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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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Facing Slavery as Saving Face: Racial Cynicism in Student Perceptions of Universities Studying Slavery	13
Internal Migration and Cohabitation in China: A Mixed-method Study	13
Exploring the Impact of Women’s Representation on the Professional Careers of Women of Color	12
The Intersections between Sociology and STS: A Big Data Approach	11
Ideology of Athletic Merit: Transmission of Privilege in College Athlete Admissions	10
Families and Financial Support: Comparing Black and Asian American College Students	10
Fear and Stigma: How Undocumented Students Navigate Disclosure Amid Heightened Immigration Enforcement and Rising Anti-Immigrant Sentiment	10
Where Do We Belong? Claiming Space in spite of . . .	9
Centering the Most Marginalized: Black Women Movement Actors and Misogynoir in the Movement for Black Lives	9
Racial Structural Conditions and Anti-Asian Hate Crimes	8
Connecting Spaces: Gender, Video Games and Computing in the Early Teens	8
Worth Less? Exploring the Effects of Subminimum Wages on Poverty among U.S. Hourly Workers	8
PSA Presidential Address: The New Normal and the Redefinition of Deviance	7
Sociologists and the Clinic: The Advent of Racialized Gender in Intersex/Trans Medicine	7
Intersectionality and Dependency Lenses in Neonatal Mortality: Evidence of Regional, Residential, and Socioeconomic Inequalities from Post-colonial Tanzania, 1991–2016	6
Are Networks Great Equalizers? Intergenerational Closure, Cultural Capital, and Capital Conversion in Elementary Schools	6
Boundary-making in Conservation: The Configuration of Environmental Ontologies in the Andean Páramos	6
Controlling Defiance: An Examination of School Social Control in California School Districts	6
Toward Queer Anti-nationalist Belonging: LGBTQ+ Immigrants, Assimilation, and Transnational Attachments	6
Body Size and Well-being in Adolescents: The Roles of Bullying Victimization and Body Image	6
Threat, Latinx Racialization, and Grassroots Leadership: Understanding Mobilization in Southern California’s Anti-Gang Injunction Movement	5
Disentangling Social Class–based Inequality: How Social Position Affects Evaluations of Economic and Cultural Markers of Social Class	5
The Allure of Transactional Intimacy in Sugar Dating	5
“Because He’s My Baby”: The Role of Birth Order in How Mothers Explain Favoritism Toward Adult Children	5
Polarization and Persuasion: Engaging Sociology in the Moral Universe of a Divided Democracy	5

Mental Illness and the Resilience of Deviance	5
Is the Past Present? Localized Effects of Memorializing Lynching Victims on Intra- and Intergroup Attitudes	5
Protest Emergence: Socioeconomic Characteristics and the 1960s Sit-ins Predict the Black Lives Matter’s Formative Protest Period (2014–2017)	5
Becoming a Survivor? Identity Creation Post-violence	4
Secrets as Storytelling: Family Histories and Interpersonal Intimacy	4
Marginal Gentrification and Racial Capitalism in a Post-chocolate City	4
The Asian American Unelectability Paradox: How Racialization Shapes Asian American Political Candidates’ and Organizers’ Experiences in a Minority Context	3
The Myth of Personal Responsibility: Counter-stories of Black Girls’ Access to Achievement	3
Hidden to Whom? Aspects of Visibility among People Who Died While Affected by Homelessness and Implications for Outreach	3
Unruly Curly Hair: The Role of Latina Hair Stylists in Disrupting Beauty Hierarchies	3
Environing Innovation: Toward an Ecological Pragmatism of Scientific Practice	3
Durkheim’s Failed Darwinian Encounter: Missed Opportunities on the Path to a Post-exemptionalist Environmental Sociology	3
Othersistering: A Feminist Praxis in Ethnography for Women of Color Researchers	3
“They Provide the Illusion of Safety”: Police at Pride and the Politics of Belonging	3
What Is Anti-work All About? Exploring the Meanings Behind Hostility towards Work	3
Racial Identity and Endorsements of Anti-Black and Anti-White Stereotypes	3
“I Would Give Anything to Talk about Aliens Now”: QAnon Conspiracy Theories and the Creation of Cognitive Deviance	3
Long-term Consequences of Men’s Migration for Women’s Well-being in a Rural African Setting	3
Moral Panic and Electric Micromobilities: Seeking Space for Mobility Justice	3
“He Was Able to Rely on Me”: Negotiating the Sibling Intragenerational Bargain among Latino First-generation College Student Families	3
“Not Like Super High Numbers”: Parents’ Evaluations of Diversity in the K–12 School Search	3
Evolving Emotion, Situated Context, and Movement Activism: The Case of Bereaved Families in South Korea	3
Does Job Insecurity Motivate Protest Participation? A Multilevel Analysis of Working-Age People from 18 Developed Countries	2
Schooled Families: Higher Education and Family Virtue	2
One and Many Asian America: Intra-Asian Ethnic Boundaries and Intermarriage	2
“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	2
The Ongoing Process of HIV-Stigma (Re)Production	2
“Business as Usual”? Human Rights NGOs’ Adaptation Strategies to Repressive Legislation	2
“Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t”: Perceived Discrimination and the Paradoxes of Assimilation among U.S. Muslims	2
Cohort Differences in Occupational Retention among Computer Science Degree Holders: Reassessing the Role of Family	2
Shifting and Persisting Neighborhood Hierarchies: Immigrant Influx and the Gentrification of Black Neighborhoods in the Twenty-first Century	2