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Papers

(The TQCC of Sociological Forum is 3. 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
COVID‐19 and U.S. Disputes Over Authority, 2020–2021: Implications for the Constructionist Analysis of Social Problems	35
About the Authors	35
Introduction to the Forum	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
Where’s the Global?	16
Issue Information	16
The Du Boisian Turn	15
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The Role of Living Traditions in Decolonizing Indigenous Gender in an Urban Environment¹	14
Decolonizing Migration Studies: A Brief Introduction	13
Immigrant selectivity at school entry	12
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
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
“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
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
Getting a Worker: Recruiters, Culture, and On‐the‐Job Skilling¹	9
A New Guide Offers Helpful Methodological Advice on Life History Interviewing	9
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
Cognitive Sociology after Relational Biology¹	8
Going Places: First‐Generation College Students Framing Higher Education¹	8
Navigating the institutional maze of undocumented life	7
Rating Prestige: Status‐Seeking and Creditworthiness on the Global Stage¹	7
Carnival, charisma, and kayfabe: The delegation of intellectual labor through ludic layering in Donald Trump's rhetorical style	7
About the Authors	7
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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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
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
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
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
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

The Heterarchy of Occupational Status: Evidence for Diverse Logics of Prestige in the United States*	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
Talking Past Each Other: The Debate Over College‐Level Prison Education As Represented in New York Print Media, 2013–2020	3
Issue Information	3
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Issue Information	3
Dating at a Distance: Does It Take a Pandemic to Challenge Campus Sexual Culture?¹	3
Why Epistemic Believing Makes Us Better (Public) Sociologists	3
About the Authors	3
The Wealth–Health Relationship by Race/Ethnicity: Evidence from a Longitudinal Perspective	3
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What Should Sociologists Do?	3
Gender, Authoritarian Populisms, and the Attack on Democracy	3
Issue Information	3
Caregiving and Redemptive Love: a sociological memoir	3