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Papers

(The median citation count of Sociological Forum is 0. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Toward a middle‐range theory of environmental morality	37
Introduction to the Forum	35
COVID‐19 and U.S. Disputes Over Authority, 2020–2021: Implications for the Constructionist Analysis of Social Problems	35
About the Authors	35
Open‐Ended Analyses of the Sociopolitical Impact of Celebrity Change: Advantages, Operationalization, and an Illustration with Hong Kong Celebrity	25
More Than Metaphors: Will Sociology Search for the Soul of Du Bois?	21
Beyond The God Gap: Mapping Religiopolitical Heterogeneity in the United States¹	20
Racialized Organizations and the Interest Divergence Dilemma¹	18
Issue Information	17
Issue Information	16
Where’s the Global?	16
The Du Boisian Turn	15
The Role of Living Traditions in Decolonizing Indigenous Gender in an Urban Environment¹	14
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Decolonizing Migration Studies: A Brief Introduction	13
The Promise of Sociology of Television: Investigating the Potential of Phenomenological Approaches	12
“You can't really turn it off”: The police “sixth sense” as cultural schema	12
Immigrant selectivity at school entry	12
“I'm Saving Fuel to Buy More Guns”: The Electric Vehicle as Cultural Object and Climate Policy Solution¹	11
The reach of decentralized poverty governance: Race, politics, and framing poverty in community action agency mission statements	11
The “Jewish turn” in contemporary Poland: Philosemitism, civic nationalism, and the construction of a symbolic other	11
“Racial Heterosexual Habitus” and Management of Racial Education Discussions Within Black Female/White Male Romantic Relationships¹	11
Like if you Get a Hotel Bill: Consumer Logic, Pay‐to‐Stay, and the Production of Incarceration as a Public Commodity	11
Getting a Worker: Recruiters, Culture, and On‐the‐Job Skilling¹	9
A New Guide Offers Helpful Methodological Advice on Life History Interviewing	9

Be More Critical About Critical Sociological Thinking	9
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Foreign Direct Investment and the Environment: A Cross‐National Analysis of Carbon Dioxide Emissions Per Capita, 1980–2018¹	9
Cognitive Sociology after Relational Biology¹	8
Going Places: First‐Generation College Students Framing Higher Education¹	8
Collegiate Sports Participation, Academic Achievement, and Bachelor's Degree Completion¹	8
Masculine, independent, and “not acting”: Hegemonic masculinity and femmephobia within an online community of queer men	8
Navigating the City in Black and White	8
A Social Disorganizational Theory of Suicide¹	8
Governing Climate: How Science and Politics Have Shaped Our Environmental Future By ZekeBaker, Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2024. 368 pp. $29.95. ISBN: 978‐0520401303	8
Response to Vaisey¹	8
Carnival, charisma, and kayfabe: The delegation of intellectual labor through ludic layering in Donald Trump's rhetorical style	7
About the Authors	7
Navigating the institutional maze of undocumented life	7
Rating Prestige: Status‐Seeking and Creditworthiness on the Global Stage¹	7
Climate Solidarity: A Framework and Research Agenda for Low‐Carbon Behavior	6
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The promise of public sociology in India: Looking at Burawoy and beyond	6
Christian Religiosity, Religious Nostalgia, and Attitudes Toward Muslims in 20 Western Countries	6
Policy for People with the Fewest Choices: Ontology and Actorhood for Sex Trade Abolition	6
Muslim women's agency; getting past the binary trap	6
Introduction to the Special Issue Culture and Cognition: New Approaches and New Applications	6
Strategic Choices: How Conservative Women Activists Remained Active throughout Tunisia's Democratic Transition	6
Perfection and Humanity: Memories of Charles L. Bosk	6
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School Choice Among Latinx Families: How Experiential Knowledge Informs Choice Over Time	5
On Rupture: Establishing the Cognitive Bases of Social Change	5
Aesthetic Engagement*	5
Dreams of a Lifetime	5
In Medias Res: Using Sociology to Uncover the Harm of Arbitrary Deprivation of Nationality in Colombia. Reflections on Public Sociology as a Graduate Student¹	5
Doomed from the Let‐Go: Postincarceration Strategies for Managing Monetary Debt	5
About the Authors	5
The Enigma of an Emerging Pink Economy in China: Pain Points, Entrepreneurial Opportunities, and Organizational Legitimacy¹	5
Motherhood, Fatherhood, and the Gender Gap in Occupational Authority¹	5
Gendered Economy: Sociality and the Lesbian Consumer Market in China¹	5
The Stress of Expectation: The Significance of Gender on Concerns About Long‐Term Care Among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Older Adults	5
Meeting empowerment: How styles of discursive frames vary across participatory settings	5
A New Guide Offers Helpful Methodological Advice on Life History Interviewing	4
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Who Benefits from Migrant and Female Labor? Connecting Wages to Demographic Changes in French Workplaces¹	4
Exploring the Use of Exclusionary Practices Against African American Participation in Urban Nightlife	4
Correction to Last Words	4
Superdiversity a Concept or a Theory?	4
Collective Neoliberalism and Market Fundamentalism: Why Concerned People Acquiesce to the Oil and Gas Industry¹	4
Hidden in Plain Sight: “Neutral” Enclosures for High‐Skilled Immigrants During COVID‐19¹	4
About the Authors	4
Cultivated Participation: Looking Closer at the Relationship Between Education and Participation¹	4
Has Pandemic Threat Stoked Xenophobia? How COVID‐19 Influences California Voters’ Attitudes toward Diversity and Immigration*	4
Our “Zoological Connections” and Why They Matter	4
American Dreams and Urban Realities: The Latino Second Generation	4

The Wealth–Health Relationship by Race/Ethnicity: Evidence from a Longitudinal Perspective	3
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Why Epistemic Believing Makes Us Better (Public) Sociologists	3
What Should Sociologists Do?	3
Issue Information	3
Caregiving and Redemptive Love: a sociological memoir	3
The Heterarchy of Occupational Status: Evidence for Diverse Logics of Prestige in the United States*	3
Gender, Authoritarian Populisms, and the Attack on Democracy	3
Networks, Hierarchy, and “Stickiness”	3
Between space, relational sociology, and Lefebvre's critique of modernity: An understanding of relational spatiality in trans‐actional perspective	3
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Issue Information	3
Talking Past Each Other: The Debate Over College‐Level Prison Education As Represented in New York Print Media, 2013–2020	3
Dating at a Distance: Does It Take a Pandemic to Challenge Campus Sexual Culture?¹	3
About the Authors	3
What Makes Middle‐aged Ukrainian Women into “Soviet” Babushki?	2
The Enduring Impact of Hart‐Celler	2
About the Authors	2
Spaces on the Spectrum: How autism movements resist experts and create knowledge By CatherineTan, New York: Columbia University Press. 2024. 289 pages. £28.00 (paperback). ISBN: 0231206135	2
About the Authors	2
Unpacking Nuances in Mechanisms Linking Religion and Socioeconomic Standing: An Empirical, Mixed‐Effects, and Cross‐National Analysis	2
Why SLANTing Isn't Enough	2
Less Like Magic, More Like a Chore: How Sex for the Purpose of Pregnancy Becomes a Third Shift for Women in Heterosexual Couples*¹	2
Trapped in a Maze	2
The marvelous ones: Drugs, gang violence, and resistance in East Los Angeles	2
Drug Normalization and Conventional Social Institutions: The Unusual Case of Prescription Drug Misuse	2
Is Good Credit Good? State Credit Ratings and Economic Insecurity, 1996–2012¹	2
Have Schemas Been Good To Think With?*	2
The Narrative Construction of State (il)Legitimacy in Colombia's Peace Laboratory¹^,²	2
Issue Information	2
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Sociology and the climate crisis: A momentum surge and the roots run deep	2
Domain‐Dependent National Pride and Support for the Radical Right: Pride in the Nation's History	2
Issue Information	2
There's Research on That: Translating and Sharing Sociology for Public Audiences	2
“The Books Make You Feel Bad”: Expert Advice and Maternal Anxiety in the Early 21^st Century*	2
Norms and concealment	2
Good guys, bad guys: The perils of men's gender activism	2
When Economists Eat Sociologists' Lunch	2
Identity Politics, Political Ideology, and Well‐being: Is Identity Politics Good for Our Well‐being?	2
The language of “diversity” or “DEI”? Exploring job titles of diversity professionals in US institutions of higher education	2
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The specter of performance metrics	2
“We're gonna get you through it”: The role of bonding social capital in the development of bridging social capital	2
The Contrast‐Ridden World of the Migrant Entrepreneur in the Urban Margins	2
The stigma trap: College‐educated, experienced, and long‐term unemployed By OferSharone. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2024, 200 pp., Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2020, 186 pp.,	2
Following Transformative Projects As Pathways to Confronting Inequality	2
The Current Community Context of Overdose Deaths: Relations among Drug Types, Drug Markets, and Socioeconomic Neighborhood Characteristics¹	1
Issue Information	1
The Algorithm Will See You Now	1
When Marriage Means More: Cross‐Nativity Marriage and the Origins of Social Mobility Among Migrants in Japan	1
A call for a sociology of adaptation	1
Broker Wisdom: How Migrants Navigate a Broker‐Centric Migration System in Vietnam¹^,²	1
Know your place: Fractured epistemic privilege among women in state organizations	1
Violence and the Gray Zone of Politics: An Outline for a Relational Approach	1
Deliver Us from Error: The Perils of Algorithmic Salvation in Medicine	1
Ambivalent Action: Recognizing Bothness in the Narratives of Blackout Tuesday¹	1
Embracing a Radically Transformative Intellectual Approach	1
Tough Ties and Rough Networks: Inequality and Exploitation in African Slums	1
Individual‐Level Determinants of Religious Intergenerational Transmission: Evidence from Catholic Europe¹	1
Publishing in General Sociology Journals	1
Counter‐Clinical Spaces¹	1
Some Trade‐Offs of Publishing Trade Books as a Sociologist¹	1
I read banned books	1
I Know That I Know: Online Health Information Seeking, Self‐Care and the Overconfidence Effect¹^,²	1
Going for Broke	1
Children and Youth as “Sites of Resistance” in Armed Conflict. By Tamanna M.Shah (ed.), Bingley, UK: Emerald Publishing Limited, 2024. 155 pp. $124.00 (hardback). ISBN: 978‐1‐83‐549371‐7	1
“It's (Not) Like the Flu”: Expert Narratives and the COVID‐19 Pandemic in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and the United States	1
The Cultural Roots of January Sixth	1
Do environmental shocks create new coalitions? The development of a contingent coalition after Three Mile Island	1
Transgender Youth Are Under Attack: The Work of Response	1
Issue Information	1
Decentering Migration Studies: Toward a Southern Attitude	1
Emotions in Action: The Role of Emotions in Refugee Solidarity Activism¹^,²	1
To Follow the Prescribed Pathway? Aspiring Professional Women and Anticipations of Work–Family Conflict¹	1
The Social Construction of Moral Perceptions and Public Policies Concerning Organ Trafficking in Israel¹^,²	1
Understanding the shackles of opportunity: Dependent visas and the people tied to them	1
The unstable social networks of students: Where does dissimilarity drive tie dissolution?	1
Lifting Place and the Future of Black and Brown Coalitions	1

“I’m Trying to Give Them My Face.” Everyday Embodied Agency of the Muslim Other in Amsterdam	1
High‐Risk Transnationalism: Why Do Israeli‐Americans Volunteer in the Israeli Military?*	1
Paint it White: Segregationist Logics in Advertising and the Electric Guitar	1
Divergent Pathways: How Pre‐Orientation Programs Can Shape the Transition to College for First‐Generation, Low‐Income Students¹	1
About the Authors	1
Introduction to the Special Issue: Advancing Publicly Engaged Sociology	1
Critical Junctures and Path Dependence in Sentencing Policy: A Case Study¹	1
How sociology can help us save ourselves	1
The Price of Perfection: The Cost of Error	1
Civic Engagement and Latina Immigrant Mothers' Remote Learning Involvement DuringCOVID‐19¹	0
The Evolution of Nostalgia in Britain 1979–2019	0
Old wine in new wineskins: Christian nationalism, authoritarianism, and the problem of essentialism in explanations of religiopolitical conflict	0
Gay and Race Cognizant: Interstitial Storytelling and the Narrative Positioning of an Interracial Gay Organization in the 1980s¹	0
Abortion as a sociological case	0
Nostalgic Resignation:Working‐ClassCharacters in Neoliberal Film	0
Racial Microaggressions and Coping Mechanisms Among Latina/o College Students	0
Making the match: How Chinese food‐movement organizations develop consumers in the alternative market	0
The Movement Against Democratic Backsliding in Israel	0
Towards a Theory of Elsewhere	0
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Behind the Cultural Veil	0
Bourdieu in the city: Challenging urban theory	0
Assimilation in the Suburbs and the Endurance of Whiteness	0
The Legal Life of Property Relations	0
The Challenges and Joys of Publicly Engaged Sociology	0
Individuals and Institutions: An Appreciation of Robert L. Zussman	0
Nativism Redux	0
Paradoxical anonymity, power relations, and appearance policing on r/instagramreality	0
The Complexities of Commemorating Evil	0
Editors' introduction	0
The Formation and Consequences of Political Generations in Social Movements: Cases of Feminist Activism in Ecuador and Peru¹^,²	0
Siting Schools, Choosing Students? Protecting White Habitus Through Charter School Recruitment	0
My Debt? Our Debt? Ambiguity and Advantage in Family Financial Assistance for Graduate School¹	0
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First‐Generation Inequalities, Adaptation, and Resilience	0
Religion in the one percent: A study of American elites	0
Spatiotemporal Variation in Armed Group Recruitment Among Former Members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam¹	0
Schemas, Interactions, and Objects in Meaning‐Making¹	0
Beyond “Making Poland Great Again.” Nostalgia in Polish Populist and Non‐populist Discourses¹	0
Disciplining Student Activism: Secondary Schools as Sites of Resistance and Control in Hong Kong*	0
About the Authors	0
Deepening the divide: The Dobbs decision and race, class, and gender inequality	0
No Face, No Race? Racial Politics of Voice Actor Casting in Popular Animated Films¹	0
Network position and academic achievement in middle school	0
What Can We Learn about Migration and Migrants from Southern Scholars? A Brief Discussion	0
Open to More: Queer Hookups, Temporalities, and Life Courses	0
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Reclaiming the Past to Transcend the Present: Nostalgic Appeals in U.S. Presidential Elections	0
Dividing paradise: Rural inequality and the diminishing American dream By JenniferSherman, Oakland, CA: University of California Press. 2021. pp. 288. $29.95 (pbk). ISBN: 9780520305137	0
The Sociology of W.E.B. DuBois	0
The inner struggle: Co‐optation and moral authenticity within social movements scholarship	0
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Goodbye religion: The causes and consequences of secularization By RyanCragun, JesseSmith, New York, NY: NYU Press. 2024. 352 pages. $35.00. ISBN: 9781479825301	0
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The Sociologist as Civil Theologian	0
The Diffusion of Culture and Cognition Within and Beyond Sociology, 1997–2021¹	0
The Perfect Fit	0
Patterns of Fantasy	0
Dark Fun: The Cruelties of Hedonic Communities¹	0
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The Promise and Practice of Care in Prisoner Reentry¹^,²	0
Decolonizing Migration Studies: A Du Boisian/Decolonial Perspective¹	0
Where did all the public intellectuals go? Reflections on The Last Intellectuals	0
Nationalism and the Politics of Nostalgia¹	0
Before Creativity: Inspiration as a Micro Foundation for Action*	0
Dilemmas and Dimensions of Social Movement Escalation¹	0
Institutional, Ideological, and Interactional Constraints: The Case of Sexual Abuse in White Evangelical Settings¹	0
Red Schools, Blue Schools? Republican and Democratic Student Groups at U.S. Colleges and Universities¹	0
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Changing Times, Shifting Attitudes: Explaining Americans’ Attitudes Toward Same‐Sex Relations From 1973 to 2018¹	0
Why Fromm now? Envisioning a saner society	0
Mobilizing the Past in Revolutionary Times: Memory, Counter‐Memory, and Nostalgia During the Lebanese Uprising	0
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Fight‐or‐Flight for America: The Affective Conditioning of Christian Nationalist Ideological Views During the Transition to Adulthood¹^,²	0
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Inventing Latinos¹	0
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Building Global Sociology in a Divided World (1949–1990)	0
Covert carcerality for “high‐income cheap labor”: Indian tech workers in the United States	0
Who Controls the Code, Controls the System: Algorithmically Amplified Bullshit, Social Inequality, and the Ubiquitous Surveillance of Everyday Life	0
Serendipity or strategy? The college housing search and inequality	0
Last Words	0
It depends: Platform dependence, schedule control, and satisfaction among gig workers on Amazon's Mechanical Turk platform	0
The elephant in the room? Considerations of politics among older adult daters	0
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Dream Weavers	0
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Community‐Engaged Sociology Within an University‐Based Research Center: Successes and Challenges in Doing the Work and Meeting Outcomes in an Institutional Context	0
Just transformations	0
A game of chutes and ladders: Gender and aspirational resources during the COVID‐19 pandemic	0
Denial and misinformation in defense of the tar sands: The case of a Canadian think tank	0
Moving Onward and Upward in a “Dead‐End” Job: Extrinsic Motivations and Rewards in Health Care Work	0
The Indoors/Outdoors Divide: Homelessness, Rat Infestation, and Spatial Management in Downtown Los Angeles	0
The “Yellow Spot” on Europe’s “Snow White Body”	0