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Papers

(The TQCC of Sociological Forum 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 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
More Than Metaphors: Will Sociology Search for the Soul of Du Bois?	17
Racialized Organizations and the Interest Divergence Dilemma¹	17
COVID‐19 and U.S. Disputes Over Authority, 2020–2021: Implications for the Constructionist Analysis of Social Problems	16
Beyond The God Gap: Mapping Religiopolitical Heterogeneity in the United States¹	16
Issue Information	14
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The Du Boisian Turn	14
Issue Information	14
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
Immigrant selectivity at school entry	12
“You can't really turn it off”: The police “sixth sense” as cultural schema	11
The reach of decentralized poverty governance: Race, politics, and framing poverty in community action agency mission statements	11
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
Decolonizing Migration Studies: A Brief Introduction	10
Be More Critical About Critical Sociological Thinking	9
“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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Response to Vaisey¹	8
“Racial Heterosexual Habitus” and Management of Racial Education Discussions Within Black Female/White Male Romantic Relationships¹	8
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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
Issue Information	3
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

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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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The specter of performance metrics	2
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
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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
Issue Information	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
Black Reconstruction : W. E. B. Du Bois in Racial Capitalism Theory	2
Why SLANTing Isn't Enough	2
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