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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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Toward a middle‐range theory of environmental morality	47
More Than Metaphors: Will Sociology Search for the Soul of Du Bois?	34
Racialized Organizations and the Interest Divergence Dilemma¹	28
COVID‐19 and U.S. Disputes Over Authority, 2020–2021: Implications for the Constructionist Analysis of Social Problems	23
Finding Joy in Artificial Experience	21
The Du Boisian Turn	20
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The reach of decentralized poverty governance: Race, politics, and framing poverty in community action agency mission statements	14
Immigrant selectivity at school entry	14
“You can't really turn it off”: The police “sixth sense” as cultural schema	14
The “Jewish turn” in contemporary Poland: Philosemitism, civic nationalism, and the construction of a symbolic other	14
Decolonizing Migration Studies: A Brief Introduction	13
Introduction: Special Issue on Social Constructionism	12
Social Constructionism and Reality: The Case of Death by Execution	11
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Going Places: First‐Generation College Students Framing Higher Education¹	10
Collegiate Sports Participation, Academic Achievement, and Bachelor's Degree Completion¹	10
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	10
“Racial Heterosexual Habitus” and Management of Racial Education Discussions Within Black Female/White Male Romantic Relationships¹	10
A Social Disorganizational Theory of Suicide¹	9
Be More Critical About Critical Sociological Thinking	9
Masculine, independent, and “not acting”: Hegemonic masculinity and femmephobia within an online community of queer men	9
“I'm Saving Fuel to Buy More Guns”: The Electric Vehicle as Cultural Object and Climate Policy Solution¹	9

Getting a Worker: Recruiters, Culture, and On‐the‐Job Skilling¹	8
About the Authors	8
Lessons From the Peripheries: Coloniality, Belonging, and Resistance Among U.S. Territorial Peoples	8
Navigating the City in Black and White	8
Foreign Direct Investment and the Environment: A Cross‐National Analysis of Carbon Dioxide Emissions Per Capita, 1980–2018¹	8
Strategic Choices: How Conservative Women Activists Remained Active throughout Tunisia's Democratic Transition	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
Micropolitics in School‐Based Health Centers' Provision of Sexual Health Services	6
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Carnival, charisma, and kayfabe: The delegation of intellectual labor through ludic layering in Donald Trump's rhetorical style	6
Identity in the Gig Economy: Aspiration, Deidentification, and Collective Solidarity Among Platform Couriers	6
Christian Religiosity, Religious Nostalgia, and Attitudes Toward Muslims in 20 Western Countries	6
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
Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves. By StuartSchrader, New York: Basic Books, 2026. 432 pp. $34.00. ISBN: 978‐1‐54‐160803‐0	6
Policy for People with the Fewest Choices: Ontology and Actorhood for Sex Trade Abolition	5
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The promise of public sociology in India: Looking at Burawoy and beyond	5
Perfection and Humanity: Memories of Charles L. Bosk	5
Motherhood, Fatherhood, and the Gender Gap in Occupational Authority¹	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
School Choice Among Latinx Families: How Experiential Knowledge Informs Choice Over Time	5
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
Is There a Sociology of Suicide?	4
Muslim women's agency; getting past the binary trap	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
Hidden in Plain Sight: “Neutral” Enclosures for High‐Skilled Immigrants During COVID‐19¹	4
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The Media Agenda‐Setting Role of Protests in Nondemocratic Regimes: A Case Study From Hungary	4
Doomed from the Let‐Go: Postincarceration Strategies for Managing Monetary Debt	4
Gendered Economy: Sociality and the Lesbian Consumer Market in China¹	4
The Stress of Expectation: The Significance of Gender on Concerns About Long‐Term Care Among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Older Adults	4
Meeting empowerment: How styles of discursive frames vary across participatory settings	4
Superdiversity a Concept or a Theory?	4
Selective Reciprocity: Children's Academic Achievement and Parent–Child Communication in China	4
Decolonizing Academia: Epistemic Gatekeeping and Revisiting “Womanhood” in Global South Studies	4
It's Not for the Faint of Heart : Empathy Socialization Among Birth Doulas	4
Dreams of a Lifetime	4
Our “Zoological Connections” and Why They Matter	4
The Scholar Imprisoned: Young‐Bok Shin's Decolonial Thought Against (Sub) Imperialisms in East Asia	3
What Should Sociologists Do?	3
Missing Binds: How Absent Ties Unleash Migrant Worker Activism Under an Authoritarian Regime	3
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.,	3
The Contrast‐Ridden World of the Migrant Entrepreneur in the Urban Margins	3
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Why Epistemic Believing Makes Us Better (Public) Sociologists	3
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About the Authors	3
Dating at a Distance: Does It Take a Pandemic to Challenge Campus Sexual Culture?¹	3

Post‐National Solidarity: Re‐Thinking an Essential Concept for the Age of Global Uncertainty	3
The Impact of Early Life Victimization and Prejudice on Adult Socioeconomic Well‐Being Among Sexual Minority Populations	3
Between space, relational sociology, and Lefebvre's critique of modernity: An understanding of relational spatiality in trans‐actional perspective	3
There's Research on That: Translating and Sharing Sociology for Public Audiences	3
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Talking Past Each Other: The Debate Over College‐Level Prison Education As Represented in New York Print Media, 2013–2020	3
About the Authors	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
Gender, Authoritarian Populisms, and the Attack on Democracy	3
Trapped in a Maze	3
The marvelous ones: Drugs, gang violence, and resistance in East Los Angeles	3
Following Transformative Projects As Pathways to Confronting Inequality	3
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The Co‐Construction and Co‐Deconstruction of Childhood and Sociology	3
Correction to Last Words	3
About the Authors	2
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The Enduring Impact of Hart‐Celler	2
The language of “diversity” or “ DEI ”? Exploring job titles of diversity professionals in US inst	2
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“We're gonna get you through it”: The role of bonding social capital in the development of bridging social capital	2
Norms and concealment	2
Good guys, bad guys: The perils of men's gender activism	2
We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Eliteby al‐Gharbi, Musa. Princeton, NJ. Princeton University Press, 2024. 421 pp. $35.00/£30.00 (hbk). ISBN: 978‐0‐69‐123260‐7	2
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Unmarked Emotional States and the Affective Anchoring of Continuity	2
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
Defending Critical Epistemology: The Case of Christian Nationalism and Christofascism	2
Why SLANTing Isn't Enough	2
Unpacking Nuances in Mechanisms Linking Religion and Socioeconomic Standing: An Empirical, Mixed‐Effects, and Cross‐National Analysis	2
The specter of performance metrics	2
The Narrative Construction of State (il)Legitimacy in Colombia's Peace Laboratory¹^,²	2
Identity Politics, Political Ideology, and Well‐being: Is Identity Politics Good for Our Well‐being?	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
Emotions in Meaning‐Making: Toward a Sociological Theory of Cathexis	2
Black Reconstruction : W. E. B. Du Bois in Racial Capitalism Theory	2
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Divergent Pathways: How Pre‐Orientation Programs Can Shape the Transition to College for First‐Generation, Low‐Income Students¹	1
Ambivalent Action: Recognizing Bothness in the Narratives of Blackout Tuesday¹	1
When Economists Eat Sociologists' Lunch	1
Individual‐Level Determinants of Religious Intergenerational Transmission: Evidence from Catholic Europe¹	1
Know your place: Fractured epistemic privilege among women in state organizations	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
A call for a sociology of adaptation	1
Tough Ties and Rough Networks: Inequality and Exploitation in African Slums	1
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Critical Junctures and Path Dependence in Sentencing Policy: A Case Study¹	1
Embracing a Radically Transformative Intellectual Approach	1
Broker Wisdom: How Migrants Navigate a Broker‐Centric Migration System in Vietnam¹^,²	1
Emotions in Action: The Role of Emotions in Refugee Solidarity Activism¹^,²	1
How sociology can help us save ourselves	1
Going for Broke	1
Violence and the Gray Zone of Politics: An Outline for a Relational Approach	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	1
Decentering Migration Studies: Toward a Southern Attitude	1
Transgender Youth Are Under Attack: The Work of Response	1
The Price of Perfection: The Cost of Error	1
Reply to Steven Foertsch's “Defending Critical Epistemology: The Case of Christian Nationalism and Christofascism”	1
When Marriage Means More: Cross‐Nativity Marriage and the Origins of Social Mobility Among Migrants in Japan	1
Publishing in General Sociology Journals	1
The Social Constructions of Gender	1
Introduction to the Special Issue: Advancing Publicly Engaged Sociology	1
Introduction: Black Reconstruction After 90 Years	1
2023 Presidential Address: Dignity and Denigration in Economic Life	0
Why No One Can “Have It All” and Why That Matters for Everyone¹	0
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What is the Place for Megachurches? A Comparison of 22 American Cities Based on the Causes ofEffects Approach¹	0
The Formation and Consequences of Political Generations in Social Movements: Cases of Feminist Activism in Ecuador and Peru¹^,²	0
The Evolution of Nostalgia in Britain 1979–2019	0
Nationalism and the Politics of Nostalgia¹	0
The Diffusion of Culture and Cognition Within and Beyond Sociology, 1997–2021 ¹	0
About the Authors	0
Understanding “Friendship” Among Autistic Adults: Insights From Narratives of Everyday and Social Life	0
Civic Engagement and Latina Immigrant Mothers' Remote Learning Involvement DuringCOVID‐19¹	0
Individuals and Institutions: An Appreciation of Robert L. Zussman	0

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Resurrecting National Greatness: The Changing Faces of Golden Age in the Balkans	0
Dilemmas and Dimensions of Social Movement Escalation¹	0
From Expansion to Erosion: The Global Trajectory of Judicial Independence, 1960–2018	0
Abortion as a sociological case	0
Whiteness in America	0
Beyond “Making Poland Great Again.” Nostalgia in Polish Populist and Non‐populist Discourses¹	0
Two Pathways to Proletarianization: Understanding Professionals' Adaptation to the “Corporatization” of Chinese Law Firms	0
The Audiences of Climate Claims: How Interactional Settings Shaped New Yorkers' Comments on the State's Mitigation Plan	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
“General Interest” Group or “Special Interest” Group? Understanding Nonworker Support for Unions	0
No Face, No Race? Racial Politics of Voice Actor Casting in Popular Animated Films¹	0
Deepening the divide: The Dobbs decision and race, class, and gender inequality	0
Reading Du Bois: An Afrocentric Critique of the Color Line by Aaron X.Smith and Molefi KeteAsante, Albany, NY. SUNY Press, 2025. 165 pp. $34.95. ISBN: 979‐8‐85‐580243‐6	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
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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
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Kids in limbo: War, uncertainty, and the school experiences of Ukrainian refugee students in Poland	0
Why Fromm now? Envisioning a saner society	0
It depends: Platform dependence, schedule control, and satisfaction among gig workers on Amazon's Mechanical Turk platform	0
Red Schools, Blue Schools? Republican and Democratic Student Groups at U.S. Colleges and Universities¹	0
Why temporality matters in collective resistance: Shifting civic norms in a post‐traumatic society	0
Just transformations	0
Have Vaccines Really Been Undone by Their Own Success?	0
What's Hard Is Yet to Come: Critical Junctures and Changing Gender Beliefs at the Transition From College to Career	0
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Timeless Kills: Media Looping and the Cultural Production of Serial Killer Icons	0
Enacting Lived Sovereignty Amid Epistemic and Ontological Violence in the Settler‐Colonial Academy	0
Institutional, Ideological, and Interactional Constraints: The Case of Sexual Abuse in White Evangelical Settings¹	0
Decolonizing Migration Studies: A Du Boisian/Decolonial Perspective¹	0
Serendipity or strategy? The college housing search and inequality	0
Where did all the public intellectuals go? Reflections on The Last Intellectuals	0
‘You fine an industry, then return the funding to them’: State‐facilitated corporate crime and Colorado's Suncor Oil Refinery	0
Gay and Race Cognizant: Interstitial Storytelling and the Narrative Positioning of an Interracial Gay Organization in the 1980s¹	0
Goodbye religion: The causes and consequences of secularization By RyanCragun, JesseSmith, New York, NY: NYU Press. 2024. 352 pages. $35.00. ISBN: 9781479825301	0
Dream Weavers	0
The Promise and Practice of Care in Prisoner Reentry¹^,²	0
A game of chutes and ladders: Gender and aspirational resources during the COVID‐19 pandemic	0
Old wine in new wineskins: Christian nationalism, authoritarianism, and the problem of essentialism in explanations of religiopolitical conflict	0
Mobilizing the Past in Revolutionary Times: Memory, Counter‐Memory, and Nostalgia During the Lebanese Uprising	0
Black Reconstruction as Decolonial Sociology	0
What Can We Learn about Migration and Migrants from Southern Scholars? A Brief Discussion	0
Last Words	0
Fight‐or‐Flight for America: The Affective Conditioning of Christian Nationalist Ideological Views During the Transition to Adulthood ¹ ^,	0
Inventing Latinos¹	0
Theory ex Ante and Theorizing ex Post: The Article Format and the Activity of Theorizing	0
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Behind the Cultural Veil	0
The inner struggle: Co‐optation and moral authenticity within social movements scholarship	0
Bourdieu in the city: Challenging urban theory	0
The Challenges and Joys of Publicly Engaged Sociology	0
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Paradoxical anonymity, power relations, and appearance policing on r/instagramreality	0
Editors' introduction	0
Debt‐based welfare: Debt‐to‐asset relationships across Black and White households in the United States	0
The Sociologist as Civil Theologian	0
Who Controls the Code, Controls the System: Algorithmically Amplified Bullshit, Social Inequality, and the Ubiquitous Surveillance of Everyday Life	0
Network position and academic achievement in middle school	0
Patterns of Fantasy	0
Situating Black Reconstruction in the Du Boisian Tradition	0
“Seeing her in pleasure gives me pleasure”: Pornography viewing and the sociology of pleasure	0
The Sociology of W.E.B. DuBois	0
Heterosexual women's pleasure trajectories: How aging helps undo gendered sexual scripts	0
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Making the match: How Chinese food‐movement organizations develop consumers in the alternative market	0
Return Migration Intentions Driven by Parental Concerns and the Value of Children	0
The Indoors/Outdoors Divide: Homelessness, Rat Infestation, and Spatial Management in Downtown Los Angeles	0
The elephant in the room? Considerations of politics among older adult daters	0
Denial and misinformation in defense of the tar sands: The case of a Canadian think tank	0
Why Fight? The Combatant Careers of the Anti‐Kyiv Fighters in the Donbas War¹	0
“A Rigged Process from the Beginning”: Power and Procedural Injustice Within the Colorado Oil and Gas Task Force¹	0
Religion in the one percent: A study of American elites	0
My Debt? Our Debt? Ambiguity and Advantage in Family Financial Assistance for Graduate School¹	0
About the Authors	0
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Reclaiming the Past to Transcend the Present: Nostalgic Appeals in U.S. Presidential Elections	0
Cross‐national governmental treatment toward atheists since 1816	0
Unpacking the Multispecies Family: Predicting Pets as Family Members Using the General Social Survey	0
The Movement Against Democratic Backsliding in Israel	0
Covert carcerality for “high‐income cheap labor”: Indian tech workers in the United States	0
Open to More: Queer Hookups, Temporalities, and Life Courses	0
Assimilation in the Suburbs and the Endurance of Whiteness	0
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Nostalgic Resignation:Working‐ClassCharacters in Neoliberal Film	0
Glitches in the Aspirational Discourse: Between Enterprise and Compromise¹	0
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The Legal Life of Property Relations	0
Eurowhiteness in Science: Privilege Escalation and Intentional Sludge	0
Which Side Are the Faculty on?: Professors, the 2019–2020 Democratic Presidential Primary, and the Politics of Redistribution in the United States	0
The Perfect Fit	0
Negotiating Unequal Exchange: Relational Work in Cross‐Class Sibling Relationships¹	0
Nativism Redux	0