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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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Exploring the Impact of Women’s Representation on the Professional Careers of Women of Color	72
Internal Migration and Cohabitation in China: A Mixed-method Study	60
Ideology of Athletic Merit: Transmission of Privilege in College Athlete Admissions	34
“You Start with the Youth”: Narratives of Deservingness and Dissent at a Homeless Service Organization	20
The Intersections between Sociology and STS: A Big Data Approach	20
Fear and Stigma: How Undocumented Students Navigate Disclosure Amid Heightened Immigration Enforcement and Rising Anti-Immigrant Sentiment	16
The Side Hustle Safety Net: Precarious Workers and Gig Work during COVID-19	14
Families and Financial Support: Comparing Black and Asian American College Students	14
The U.S. Space of Lifestyles and Its Homologies	13
Racial Structural Conditions and Anti-Asian Hate Crimes	13
Centering the Most Marginalized: Black Women Movement Actors and Misogynoir in the Movement for Black Lives	10
PSA Presidential Address: The New Normal and the Redefinition of Deviance	10
Worth Less? Exploring the Effects of Subminimum Wages on Poverty among U.S. Hourly Workers	10
Connecting Spaces: Gender, Video Games and Computing in the Early Teens	9
Spillover Effects of Restrictive Immigration Policy on Latinx Citizens: Raising or Lowering Earnings?	9
“Longer than I Would’ve Originally Liked and Originally Thought”: Postsecondary Debt and Marriage Plans for Young Adults Coming of Age in the Great Recession	9
Controlling Defiance: An Examination of School Social Control in California School Districts	9
Body Size and Well-being in Adolescents: The Roles of Bullying Victimization and Body Image	8
Boundary-making in Conservation: The Configuration of Environmental Ontologies in the Andean Páramos	8
Intersectionality and Dependency Lenses in Neonatal Mortality: Evidence of Regional, Residential, and Socioeconomic Inequalities from Post-colonial Tanzania, 1991–2016	7
American Medical Sociology and Health Problems in the Global South	6
Disentangling Social Class–based Inequality: How Social Position Affects Evaluations of Economic and Cultural Markers of Social Class	6
Mental Illness and the Resilience of Deviance	6
Threat, Latinx Racialization, and Grassroots Leadership: Understanding Mobilization in Southern California’s Anti-Gang Injunction Movement	6
The Language of Immigration Coverage: The Arizona Republic and Media’s Role in the Production of Social Illegality	6

Elite Cues and the Rapid Decline in Trust in Science Agencies on COVID-19	5
Democracy and Health in Developing Countries: New Cross-National Evidence, 1990–2016	5
“Because He’s My Baby”: The Role of Birth Order in How Mothers Explain Favoritism Toward Adult Children	5
Marginal Gentrification and Racial Capitalism in a Post-chocolate City	5
The Allure of Transactional Intimacy in Sugar Dating	5
Polarization and Persuasion: Engaging Sociology in the Moral Universe of a Divided Democracy	5
Secrets as Storytelling: Family Histories and Interpersonal Intimacy	5
“He Was Able to Rely on Me”: Negotiating the Sibling Intragenerational Bargain among Latino First-generation College Student Families	4
How Cultural Capital Shapes Mental Health Care Seeking in College	4
Sources of Mattering for Women and Men: Gender Differences and Similarities in Feelings of Social Significance	4
“I Would Give Anything to Talk about Aliens Now”: QAnon Conspiracy Theories and the Creation of Cognitive Deviance	4
Hidden to Whom? Aspects of Visibility among People Who Died While Affected by Homelessness and Implications for Outreach	4
Becoming a Survivor? Identity Creation Post-violence	4
Conspicuously Concealed: Federal Funding, Knowledge Production, and the Criminalization of Gun Research	4
Gender Differences in Academic Efficacy across STEM Fields	4
Who Are Gun Owners in the United States? A Latent Class Analysis of the 2019 National Lawful Use of Guns Survey	3
Long-term Consequences of Men’s Migration for Women’s Well-being in a Rural African Setting	3
Racial/Ethnic Residential Segregation and the First Wave of SARS-CoV-2 Infection Rates: A Spatial Analysis of Four U.S. Cities	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
Does Job Insecurity Motivate Protest Participation? A Multilevel Analysis of Working-Age People from 18 Developed Countries	3
The Ongoing Process of HIV-Stigma (Re)Production	3
Evolving Emotion, Situated Context, and Movement Activism: The Case of Bereaved Families in South Korea	3
Moral Panic and Electric Micromobilities: Seeking Space for Mobility Justice	3
Gun Ownership, Threat, and Gun Attitudes in an Experiment	3
“Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t”: Perceived Discrimination and the Paradoxes of Assimilation among U.S. Muslims	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	2
Forms of Group Involvement: Alternatives to the Standard Question	2
Reciprocal Support within Intimate Relationships: Examining the Association with Depression and Anxiety	2
Development Channelization, Partisanship, and Populism: Possibilities for Rural Renewal in the Death Throes of Coal	2
Climate Silence in Sociology? How Elite American Sociology, Environmental Sociology, and Science and Technology Studies Treat Climate Change	2
Caregiving, Gender, and Health: The Moderating Role of Age	2
Schooled Families: Higher Education and Family Virtue	2
How Does Actual Inequality Shape People’s Perceptions of Inequality? A Class Perspective	2
Transmitting Desire: An Experiment on a Novel Measure of Gun Desirability in a Pandemic	2
“Business as Usual”? Human Rights NGOs’ Adaptation Strategies to Repressive Legislation	2
Queers with Guns? Against the LGBT Grain	2
Corporate Responses to COVID-19: A Nonmarket Strategy Approach	2
Family Socioeconomic Status in Adolescence and Gender Identification in Emerging Adulthood	2
Cohort Differences in Occupational Retention among Computer Science Degree Holders: Reassessing the Role of Family	2
One and Many Asian America: Intra-Asian Ethnic Boundaries and Intermarriage	2
“We’re Not All Anti-Choices”: How Controlling Images Shape Latina/x Feminist Abortion Advocacy	2
The Correlates of Panethnic Identification: Assessing Similarities and Differences among Latinos and Asians in the United States	2
Who’s Eating Rice? Gay Vietnamese American Men’s Experiences With (Sexual) Racism	2
Article Reviewers, January 1, 2021 – December 31, 2021	2
Making the Grade during Pandemic: Early-stage and Late-stage Provisional Institutions	2