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

Article	Citations
About the Authors	44
Introduction to the Forum	33
Open‐Ended Analyses of the Sociopolitical Impact of Celebrity Change: Advantages, Operationalization, and an Illustration with Hong Kong Celebrity	31
Toward a middle‐range theory of environmental morality	22
Racialized Organizations and the Interest Divergence Dilemma¹	17
More Than Metaphors: Will Sociology Search for the Soul of Du Bois?	17
Beyond The God Gap: Mapping Religiopolitical Heterogeneity in the United States¹	16
COVID‐19 and U.S. Disputes Over Authority, 2020–2021: Implications for the Constructionist Analysis of Social Problems	16
Issue Information	14
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The Du Boisian Turn	14
Immigrant selectivity at school entry	12
The Role of Living Traditions in Decolonizing Indigenous Gender in an Urban Environment¹	12
The “Jewish turn” in contemporary Poland: Philosemitism, civic nationalism, and the construction of a symbolic other	12
The reach of decentralized poverty governance: Race, politics, and framing poverty in community action agency mission statements	11
“You can't really turn it off”: The police “sixth sense” as cultural schema	11
Decolonizing Migration Studies: A Brief Introduction	10
Introduction: Special Issue on Social Constructionism	10
The Promise of Sociology of Television: Investigating the Potential of Phenomenological Approaches	10
Social Constructionism and Reality: The Case of Death by Execution	10
Be More Critical About Critical Sociological Thinking	9
Response to Vaisey¹	8
“Racial Heterosexual Habitus” and Management of Racial Education Discussions Within Black Female/White Male Romantic Relationships¹	8
“I'm Saving Fuel to Buy More Guns”: The Electric Vehicle as Cultural Object and Climate Policy Solution¹	8

Foreign Direct Investment and the Environment: A Cross‐National Analysis of Carbon Dioxide Emissions Per Capita, 1980–2018¹	8
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A Social Disorganizational Theory of Suicide¹	7
Collegiate Sports Participation, Academic Achievement, and Bachelor's Degree Completion¹	7
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	7
Getting a Worker: Recruiters, Culture, and On‐the‐Job Skilling¹	7
Masculine, independent, and “not acting”: Hegemonic masculinity and femmephobia within an online community of queer men	7
Going Places: First‐Generation College Students Framing Higher Education¹	7
Micropolitics in School‐Based Health Centers' Provision of Sexual Health Services	6
Rating Prestige: Status‐Seeking and Creditworthiness on the Global Stage¹	6
Christian Religiosity, Religious Nostalgia, and Attitudes Toward Muslims in 20 Western Countries	6
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Get It Out: On the Politics of Hysterectomy. by Becker, Andréa. New York, NY. NYU Press, 2025. 208 pp. $28.00. ISBN: 978‐1‐47‐982660‐5	6
Carnival, charisma, and kayfabe: The delegation of intellectual labor through ludic layering in Donald Trump's rhetorical style	6
Navigating the institutional maze of undocumented life	6
Climate Solidarity: A Framework and Research Agenda for Low‐Carbon Behavior	6
Navigating the City in Black and White	6
About the Authors	6
Strategic Choices: How Conservative Women Activists Remained Active throughout Tunisia's Democratic Transition	6
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
School Choice Among Latinx Families: How Experiential Knowledge Informs Choice Over Time	5
Policy for People with the Fewest Choices: Ontology and Actorhood for Sex Trade Abolition	5
Motherhood, Fatherhood, and the Gender Gap in Occupational Authority¹	5
The promise of public sociology in India: Looking at Burawoy and beyond	5
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Muslim women's agency; getting past the binary trap	5
Perfection and Humanity: Memories of Charles L. Bosk	5
Doomed from the Let‐Go: Postincarceration Strategies for Managing Monetary Debt	4
Gendered Economy: Sociality and the Lesbian Consumer Market in China¹	4
The Male Complaint: The Manosphere and Misogyny Online. By Simon JamesCopland (ed.), Cambridge, UK:Polity Press, 2025. 208 pp. $22.95. ISBN: 978‐1‐50‐956255‐8	4
The Stress of Expectation: The Significance of Gender on Concerns About Long‐Term Care Among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Older Adults	4
The Enigma of an Emerging Pink Economy in China: Pain Points, Entrepreneurial Opportunities, and Organizational Legitimacy¹	4
Collective Neoliberalism and Market Fundamentalism: Why Concerned People Acquiesce to the Oil and Gas Industry¹	4
It's Not for the Faint of Heart : Empathy Socialization Among Birth Doulas	4
Dreams of a Lifetime	4
The Possible Form of an Interlocution: W.E.B. Du Bois and Max Weber in Correspondence. By Nahum DimitriChandler. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2025. 224 pp. $23.95. ISBN: 978‐1‐47‐803248‐9	4
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Superdiversity a Concept or a Theory?	3
Who Benefits from Migrant and Female Labor? Connecting Wages to Demographic Changes in French Workplaces¹	3
Textbook Propaganda: W. E. B. Du Bois, Helen Boardman, and Black Reconstruction in America	3
About the Authors	3
Between space, relational sociology, and Lefebvre's critique of modernity: An understanding of relational spatiality in trans‐actional perspective	3
Gender, Authoritarian Populisms, and the Attack on Democracy	3
Caregiving and Redemptive Love: a sociological memoir	3
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Hidden in Plain Sight: “Neutral” Enclosures for High‐Skilled Immigrants During COVID‐19¹	3
Dating at a Distance: Does It Take a Pandemic to Challenge Campus Sexual Culture?¹	3
About the Authors	3

The Co‐Construction and Co‐Deconstruction of Childhood and Sociology	3
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Following Transformative Projects As Pathways to Confronting Inequality	3
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Why Epistemic Believing Makes Us Better (Public) Sociologists	3
Meeting empowerment: How styles of discursive frames vary across participatory settings	3
Our “Zoological Connections” and Why They Matter	3
What Should Sociologists Do?	3
Correction to Last Words	3
Talking Past Each Other: The Debate Over College‐Level Prison Education As Represented in New York Print Media, 2013–2020	3
Trapped in a Maze	2
The marvelous ones: Drugs, gang violence, and resistance in East Los Angeles	2
Domain‐Dependent National Pride and Support for the Radical Right: Pride in the Nation's History	2
“We're gonna get you through it”: The role of bonding social capital in the development of bridging social capital	2
About the Authors	2
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Sociology and the climate crisis: A momentum surge and the roots run deep	2
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Issue Information	2
There's Research on That: Translating and Sharing Sociology for Public Audiences	2
Norms and concealment	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
The Narrative Construction of State (il)Legitimacy in Colombia's Peace Laboratory¹^,²	2
The specter of performance metrics	2
The language of “diversity” or “ DEI ”? Exploring job titles of diversity professionals in US inst	2
Unpacking Nuances in Mechanisms Linking Religion and Socioeconomic Standing: An Empirical, Mixed‐Effects, and Cross‐National Analysis	2
Emotions in Meaning‐Making: Toward a Sociological Theory of Cathexis	2
Good guys, bad guys: The perils of men's gender activism	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
Drug Normalization and Conventional Social Institutions: The Unusual Case of Prescription Drug Misuse	2
The Contrast‐Ridden World of the Migrant Entrepreneur in the Urban Margins	2
Defending Critical Epistemology: The Case of Christian Nationalism and Christofascism	2
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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
Black Reconstruction : W. E. B. Du Bois in Racial Capitalism Theory	2
Why SLANTing Isn't Enough	2
Critical Junctures and Path Dependence in Sentencing Policy: A Case Study¹	1
Identity Politics, Political Ideology, and Well‐being: Is Identity Politics Good for Our Well‐being?	1
Decentering Migration Studies: Toward a Southern Attitude	1
Reply to Steven Foertsch's “Defending Critical Epistemology: The Case of Christian Nationalism and Christofascism”	1
“It's (Not) Like the Flu”: Expert Narratives and the COVID ‐19 Pandemic in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and the United States	1
Deliver Us from Error: The Perils of Algorithmic Salvation in Medicine	1
Do environmental shocks create new coalitions? The development of a contingent coalition after Three Mile Island	1
Lifting Place and the Future of Black and Brown Coalitions	1
Divergent Pathways: How Pre‐Orientation Programs Can Shape the Transition to College for First‐Generation, Low‐Income Students¹	1
Emotions in Action: The Role of Emotions in Refugee Solidarity Activism¹^,²	1
Introduction to the Special Issue: Advancing Publicly Engaged Sociology	1
The Price of Perfection: The Cost of Error	1
When Economists Eat Sociologists' Lunch	1
Introduction: Black Reconstruction After 90 Years	1
High‐Risk Transnationalism: Why Do Israeli‐Americans Volunteer in the Israeli Military?*	1
Morals, Markets, and Medicine	1
Know your place: Fractured epistemic privilege among women in state organizations	1
Publishing in General Sociology Journals	1
How sociology can help us save ourselves	1
The Social Constructions of Gender	1
Going for Broke	1
Tough Ties and Rough Networks: Inequality and Exploitation in African Slums	1
Embracing a Radically Transformative Intellectual Approach	1
Ambivalent Action: Recognizing Bothness in the Narratives of Blackout Tuesday¹	1
The Enduring Impact of Hart‐Celler	1
Transgender Youth Are Under Attack: The Work of Response	1
A call for a sociology of adaptation	1
A Du Boisian Theory of Memory: Truth‐Telling Legacies of Du Bois's Black Reconstruction as Decolonized Theory, Method, and Praxis	1
Paint it White: Segregationist Logics in Advertising and the Electric Guitar	1
When Marriage Means More: Cross‐Nativity Marriage and the Origins of Social Mobility Among Migrants in Japan	1
Violence and the Gray Zone of Politics: An Outline for a Relational Approach	1
Broker Wisdom: How Migrants Navigate a Broker‐Centric Migration System in Vietnam¹^,²	1
Individual‐Level Determinants of Religious Intergenerational Transmission: Evidence from Catholic Europe¹	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
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“Seeing her in pleasure gives me pleasure”: Pornography viewing and the sociology of pleasure	0
First‐Generation Inequalities, Adaptation, and Resilience	0
Assimilation in the Suburbs and the Endurance of Whiteness	0
Making the match: How Chinese food‐movement organizations develop consumers in the alternative market	0
The Promise and Practice of Care in Prisoner Reentry¹^,²	0
Dilemmas and Dimensions of Social Movement Escalation¹	0
The Sociologist as Civil Theologian	0
About the Authors	0

Colonialism, Racism, and Eastern Europe: Revisiting Whiteness and the Black Radical Tradition¹	0
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Just transformations	0
Before Creativity: Inspiration as a Micro Foundation for Action*	0
Covert carcerality for “high‐income cheap labor”: Indian tech workers in the United States	0
No Face, No Race? Racial Politics of Voice Actor Casting in Popular Animated Films¹	0
The elephant in the room? Considerations of politics among older adult daters	0
“General Interest” Group or “Special Interest” Group? Understanding Nonworker Support for Unions	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
Red Schools, Blue Schools? Republican and Democratic Student Groups at U.S. Colleges and Universities¹	0
Reply: Special Issue on Social Constructionism	0
Community‐Engaged Sociology Within an University‐Based Research Center: Successes and Challenges in Doing the Work and Meeting Outcomes in an Institutional Context	0
Reclaiming the Past to Transcend the Present: Nostalgic Appeals in U.S. Presidential Elections	0
The Challenges and Joys of Publicly Engaged Sociology	0
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Which Side Are the Faculty on?: Professors, the 2019–2020 Democratic Presidential Primary, and the Politics of Redistribution in the United States	0
It depends: Platform dependence, schedule control, and satisfaction among gig workers on Amazon's Mechanical Turk platform	0
Moving Onward and Upward in a “Dead‐End” Job: Extrinsic Motivations and Rewards in Health Care Work	0
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Religion in the one percent: A study of American elites	0
Last Words	0
Kids in limbo: War, uncertainty, and the school experiences of Ukrainian refugee students in Poland	0
Patterns of Fantasy	0
Abortion as a sociological case	0
Behind the Cultural Veil	0
The Evolution of Nostalgia in Britain 1979–2019	0
Debt‐based welfare: Debt‐to‐asset relationships across Black and White households in the United States	0
“A Rigged Process from the Beginning”: Power and Procedural Injustice Within the Colorado Oil and Gas Task Force¹	0
Eurowhiteness in Science: Privilege Escalation and Intentional Sludge	0
The Indoors/Outdoors Divide: Homelessness, Rat Infestation, and Spatial Management in Downtown Los Angeles	0
2023 Presidential Address: Dignity and Denigration in Economic Life	0
Where did all the public intellectuals go? Reflections on The Last Intellectuals	0
About the Authors	0
Spatiotemporal Variation in Armed Group Recruitment Among Former Members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam¹	0
Deepening the divide: The Dobbs decision and race, class, and gender inequality	0
Institutional, Ideological, and Interactional Constraints: The Case of Sexual Abuse in White Evangelical Settings¹	0
Unpacking the Multispecies Family: Predicting Pets as Family Members Using the General Social Survey	0
Open to More: Queer Hookups, Temporalities, and Life Courses	0
Serendipity or strategy? The college housing search and inequality	0
Glitches in the Aspirational Discourse: Between Enterprise and Compromise¹	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
Have Vaccines Really Been Undone by Their Own Success?	0
Bourdieu in the city: Challenging urban theory	0
The Movement Against Democratic Backsliding in Israel	0
Black Reconstruction as Decolonial Sociology	0
Fight‐or‐Flight for America: The Affective Conditioning of Christian Nationalist Ideological Views During the Transition to Adulthood ¹ ^,	0
Beyond “Making Poland Great Again.” Nostalgia in Polish Populist and Non‐populist Discourses¹	0
Situating Black Reconstruction in the Du Boisian Tradition	0
People, Places, and Belonging: Deepening Our Sense of Community and IdentityBy WilliamMarsiglio, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2025. 369 pp. $36.95 (hardcover). ISBN: 978‐1‐48‐755146‐9	0
The Legal Life of Property Relations	0
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Editors' introduction	0
Negotiating Unequal Exchange: Relational Work in Cross‐Class Sibling Relationships¹	0
The Perfect Fit	0
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Why temporality matters in collective resistance: Shifting civic norms in a post‐traumatic society	0
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Nationalism and the Politics of Nostalgia¹	0
Nostalgic Resignation:Working‐ClassCharacters in Neoliberal Film	0
The social life of climate projects	0
Gay and Race Cognizant: Interstitial Storytelling and the Narrative Positioning of an Interracial Gay Organization in the 1980s¹	0
Dream Weavers	0
Make It Till You Break It: Toward a Typology of De‐Commemoration	0
A game of chutes and ladders: Gender and aspirational resources during the COVID‐19 pandemic	0
Who Controls the Code, Controls the System: Algorithmically Amplified Bullshit, Social Inequality, and the Ubiquitous Surveillance of Everyday Life	0
Denial and misinformation in defense of the tar sands: The case of a Canadian think tank	0
Whiteness in America	0
The Audiences of Climate Claims: How Interactional Settings Shaped New Yorkers' Comments on the State's Mitigation Plan	0
The Sociology of W.E.B. DuBois	0
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Two Pathways to Proletarianization: Understanding Professionals' Adaptation to the “Corporatization” of Chinese Law Firms	0
Why Fromm now? Envisioning a saner society	0
Individuals and Institutions: An Appreciation of Robert L. Zussman	0
What is the Place for Megachurches? A Comparison of 22 American Cities Based on the Causes ofEffects Approach¹	0
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The Diffusion of Culture and Cognition Within and Beyond Sociology, 1997–2021¹	0
Embodied Othering Encounters with Muslim(‐Looking) Passengers: Riding across Amsterdam, Tallinn, Leipzig, and Turku¹	0
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Old wine in new wineskins: Christian nationalism, authoritarianism, and the problem of essentialism in explanations of religiopolitical conflict	0
The inner struggle: Co‐optation and moral authenticity within social movements scholarship	0
Nativism Redux	0
What Can We Learn about Migration and Migrants from Southern Scholars? A Brief Discussion	0
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Inventing Latinos¹	0
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Paradoxical anonymity, power relations, and appearance policing on r/instagramreality	0
Theory ex Ante and Theorizing ex Post: The Article Format and the Activity of Theorizing	0
Mobilizing the Past in Revolutionary Times: Memory, Counter‐Memory, and Nostalgia During the Lebanese Uprising	0
The Formation and Consequences of Political Generations in Social Movements: Cases of Feminist Activism in Ecuador and Peru¹^,²	0
Timeless Kills: Media Looping and the Cultural Production of Serial Killer Icons	0
The “Yellow Spot” on Europe’s “Snow White Body”	0
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City of men: Masculinities and everyday morality on public transport By RomitChowdhury, Rutgers University Press, 2023	0
Civic Engagement and Latina Immigrant Mothers' Remote Learning Involvement DuringCOVID‐19¹	0