Sociology Compass

Papers
(The median citation count of Sociology Compass is 1. 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.)
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Disparate incarceration rates of foreign citizens in Europe compared to Anglo‐Saxon countries86
Everyday Conversations About Economic Inequality: A Research Agenda57
Negotiating civic identity across different political contexts: Immigrant participation in social movements and political incorporation34
Populist things. A study on the materiality of political ideas29
Knowledge, boundaries, and bodies: Social construction between medical sociology and science and technology studies28
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Ethical turn in the social sciences27
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Black feminist theory in maternal health research: A review of concepts and future directions25
Neither an offender nor a ‘free’ person: Drug supervision and desistance in Singapore24
Singled out no longer: The changing narratives and types of single‐parent families23
Motherhood Biographies and Health Over the Life Course22
Theorizing Sexuality Politics of Neoliberalism: A Queer Sociological Approach22
Corporate Educational Philanthropy for Racialized Latin America: A Provocation for More Critical Studies21
The personal is social: Four sociological approaches to nonsuicidal self‐injury20
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Manipulating diversity: How diversity regimes at US universities can reinforce whiteness19
Teaching & Learning Guide for: Siblings caring roles and responsibilities when a child suffers from a chronic illness18
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Evolving African American/White socioeconomic inequality in the public sector: A review essay18
From the Third World to the Global South: Definitions of Moral Geographies of Inequality in Anti‐Colonial Intellectual Traditions17
Marketing of self: Using tattoos to symbolize ownership and control of One's body. Narratives from Middle Eastern women17
A life course perspective on sexual minorities: Implications for the study of homophobic prejudice and discrimination16
Academic Air Travel: Debates, Tensions and the Need for a Sociology of Science Perspective16
Gender dynamics and marital bargaining in the Global South15
Artificial intelligence and the situational rationality of diagnosis: Human problem‐solving and the artifacts of health and medicine15
UK higher education, neoliberal meritocracy, and the culture of the new capitalism: A computational‐linguistics analysis15
Conspiracy theories and social movements studies: A research agenda14
An overview of coming out research: Introducing a three‐lens typology14
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Social movement organizing and the politics of emotion from HIV to Covid‐1913
Musical taste preferences in Chinese hip‐hop: Between cultural openness and the rejection of vulgarity13
Diversity initiatives in the US workplace: A brief history, their intended and unintended consequences13
Household Plastic Waste Management and Gender Dynamics in Circular Economies13
Socioeconomic, Migration, and Political Upheaval Factors in Crime: Applying the Social Disorganization Theory in Turkey13
Maternal activism in comparative perspective: Past, present, and future13
New Frontiers in the New Sociology of Morality: From AI and Inequality to Backgrounds and Material Enablers12
Genes and race in the era of genetic ancestry testing: The geneticization of identity and the social deconstruction of whiteness12
Education and Multidimensional Inequalities in Contemporary Japan and Beyond: A Call for Longitudinal and Comparative Studies12
Islamophobia in Everyday Racial Encounters in Barcelona: The Emotional Impact on Maghrebi Communities in Spain10
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Femicide: A Need for Orientation10
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The heart of whiteness: On the study of whiteness and White Americans9
Pentecostalism and the (de)construction of ‘Otherness’: Experiences of black African students at a South African University9
Artificial intelligence, algorithms, and social inequality: Sociological contributions to contemporary debates9
Another organization is possible: New directions in research on alternative enterprise9
The Evolution and Potential of Emotional Healing Design: A Systematic Review With Thematic Analysis9
What shapes tax morality in younger generations? A comparative analysis between Gen Y and Gen Z9
What shapes the internet? An overview of social science and interdisciplinary perspectives9
Can We Measure and Analyze Structural Racism in the Study of Health?9
Hacking age9
Introduction to the special issue: “Practicing privilege, subverting stigma: Men in women‐dominated spaces”8
Teaching & learning guide for cultural appropriation: What it is and why it matters8
Workers organizing in the platform economy: Local forms and global trends of collective action8
An invitation to bring animals into feminist and queer sociology8
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The gender of bruising: A critical literature review on gender in boxing8
The sociology of white America: A teaching and learning guide8
Sociology Compass Editorial 20238
New tech, old exploitation: Gig economy, algorithmic control and migrant labour7
Not Just Against Overpopulation: White Supremacy in Population Control Initiatives7
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Workplace well‐being: Shifting from an individual to an organizational framework7
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The strength of a weak tie in the innovative performance of firms: A case of Korean high‐tech manufacturing small and medium‐sized enterprises7
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Scientists, censorship, and suppression: A combined comparative‐processual analysis of U.S. cases involving chemical and climate change expertise7
Explaining the diffusion of radical ideas7
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Contention, Cohesion, and Beyond: An Overview of Black‐Latinx Relations in the United States7
The circulation of knowledge beyond the academia: On scholarly couplers at porous borders7
Experiences of white‐collar job loss and job‐searching in the United States7
Social capital exchanges in voluntary associations and work organizations: A network perspective7
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Social science Eurocentrism in the land of universalism: An introduction to French blindness6
Spatial dynamics of protest: Themes and trajectories6
The sociological dimensions of multicultural education6
In the Shadows of Fields: Uncovering the Nexus of Modern Slavery in Agricultural Societies6
Historicizing black hair politics: A framework for contextualizing race politics6
The institution of medicine and transgender identity construction: Between a doc and a hard place6
Protect the land. Poison the sea. An environmental history of the Kirkcudbright Training Area and the firing of depleted uranium by the British Army (1982–2013)6
The Appropriation of Native American Culture for Sports Logos, Mascots, and Nicknames6
Toward a DuBoisian theorization of school curricula6
The sound of liminality: MHD's afro trap, affective listening, and the (re)invention of Afropean identities in France6
Gendered Contexts? The Effect of Neighbourhood Socio‐Economic Deprivation on Girls' and Boys' Cognitive and Non‐Cognitive Development6
The Age of World Leaders: A Comprehensive Discussion6
For a Du Boisian economic sociology5
The Borders Between US: The Effects of Deportation on Men's Romantic Relationships5
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Mutual Aid as Prefigurative Politics—Beyond Anarchism5
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Men and masculinities studies in Vietnam: A brief review5
Robert Park and Norbert Elias's contributions to ethnic and racial studies: A relational approach5
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Inside the ivory tower, the view from a “space invader”: An exploratory study into the ways racialized PhD students experience white ignorance in elite universities in the UK5
Union‐Cooperative Collaborations: Toward a Global Framework of Analysis5
A Graphic Double Consciousness: The Souls of Black Folk and Its Graphic Interpretation5
A regional approach to militarized riskscapes: An environmental justice analysis of military proximity and air pollution in United States Environmental Protection Agency's regions5
Labor‐capital relations on digital platforms: Organization, algorithmic discipline and the social factory again5
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A discussion on coloniality and global social theory5
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Intersectionality and feminist movements from a global perspective4
Art dealers as competitors and community builders: Understanding the overlapping social logics of the contemporary art world4
What's Wrong With Family Diversity? Five Cultural Assumptions About the Standard North American Family4
Predicting group consciousness among Asian Americans: Considering commonalities, shared interests, panethnic group identification, and linked fate4
Men in online eating disorder recovery spaces: Gendered barriers, content moderation, and narrative experimentation4
Devaluation of Work and Its Linkage With Worker Risks in the Recent Transformation of the Work Sphere4
Sexual and gender identity work on social media4
Racial disparities without racism: Some conceptual & analytical considerations4
Advancing a qualitative turn in news media trust research4
The equity turn in palliative and end of life care research: Lessons from the poverty literature4
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The Psychology of Offering Wasta: Inferences from Narratives4
The Potential for Changing Public Perceptions on Climate Change Through Narratives4
Antiracism amidst empire? Understanding the United States' relationship to whiteness4
Power, Control, and Exclusion: The Political Dynamics Behind Urban Spaces4
Class and class conflict: An objective‐subjective interactive approach4
Automated decision‐making: Toward a people‐centred approach4
Information security and journalism: Mapping a nascent research field4
Research on Social Stratification in Brazil4
The Racial Carcerality of Migration Governance4
Crimes against non‐human animals: Examining dog fighting in the UK and the USA through a green criminology perspective4
What makes a developmental network state durable?4
Equality for all? Support for equal opportunity among professors in Europe4
Precarious work: A global perspective4
Rationales for body camera implementation and outcome measures4
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How do you measure trust in social institutions and health professionals? A systematic review of the literature (2012–2021)3
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Political activation and social movements: Addressing non‐participation in Aotearoa New Zealand3
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Mapping Organizational Theory With SCRIPTS3
Special issue—Highly religious young Catholics3
Settler colonial origins of intimate partner violence in Indigenous communities3
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Resisting Intensive Motherhood? Women's Accounts on Infant Feeding in Spain3
Haunting details: A mixed‐methods study on predictors of details recalled from a victim narrative3
Sexuality, romantic orientation, and masculinity: Men as underrepresented in asexual and aromantic communities3
The limits of imperial incorporation: Alternative sociological frameworks to study Asian American subjects3
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Medicalization in Global Context: Current Insights, Pressing Questions, and Future Directions Through the Case of ADHD3
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Learning to labour in the gym: Training to fight to reimagine the self and work under neoliberalism3
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The intelligence concept and racial classification as sociological products of Western education3
Formal adult education and socioeconomic inequality: Second chances or Matthew Effects?3
A taxonomy of business models of digital care platforms in Spain3
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Ethnicity on the table: A content analysis of online reviews for Syracuse's cuisines3
Critique and expansion of conceptions of control3
The rise of market‐based “choice” programs: 100 years of social sorting in social welfare services3
Beyond Reverse Racism: A Research Note on How White College Students Construct the Myth of Silencing in the Classroom3
A sociology of counter‐revolution in Egypt3
Convivial and informal encounters with de‐radicalisation3
Violence against transgender people in the United States: Field growth, data dilemmas, and knowledge gaps2
“A male feminist walks into a bar, because it was set so low: The pedestal effect and the economy of gratitude in feminist spaces”2
Destructive creation, creative destruction, and the paradox of innovation science2
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Why Now? Thoughts on the Du Boisian Revolution2
Mixedness in conflict: The impact of Yugoslav wars on intermarriages in the Western Balkans2
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The Dynamics of Earnings Inequality between Israel's Sub‐Populations: A Longitudinal Perspective2
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“I'm going to do battle… I'm going to do some good”. Biographical trajectories, moral politics, and public engagement among highly religious young Catholics in Spain and Mexico2
Ideological foundations of capitalism and its organizational models: A study using popular management content on LinkedIn2
“We Are All Family”: Black Diasporic Solidarity Among Black Cuban Immigrants2
Space and Inequality in Precarious Work: Thinking With and Beyond Platforms2
Social network, Biden approval, and pediatric COVID‐19 vaccine uptake2
How collective demands strengthen sympathy for normative and non‐normative protest action: The example of Hong Kong's anti‐extradition law amendment bill protests2
Sociocultural perspectives on neurodiversity—An analysis, interpretation and synthesis of the basic terms, discourses and theoretical positions2
An intersectional approach to military sexual violence2
Teaching and Learning Guide for: Historicizing Black Hair Politics2
The sociology of global health: Inequality, disease‐related stigma, and the rise of nongovernmental organizations2
“The First Mark of Pain”: Toward a child‐centered methodological reorientation of social theory, race and corporal punishment in American life2
Criminology of Disasters: Natural Disaster Victim Identification Issues in the Philippines and Vietnam2
School racial‐ethnic socialization of multiracial K12 students: A systematic review of the literature using MultiCrit2
Neuroqueering sexuality: Learning from the life‐writings of queer neurodivergent women2
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Decolonising and decriminalising child marriage in Africa2
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Enchanted companionship of Korean Catholic youth amid compressed individualization2
Schools as racialized organizations in policy and practice2
The impact of partisanship and religiosity on conspiracy‐theory beliefs in Turkey2
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A Smile is Worth a Thousand Words: Individual Versus Structural Explanations of Poor Oral Health2
The mental health of migrant people: Western medical systems facing a globalized society2
From the “Republic of Cousins” to foreign spouses: Transnational marriages in Türkiye2
Globally aspired, locally constrained; how national education test regime in Turkey shapes middle‐class parenting2
Hiding in plain sight: Dehumanization as a foundation of white racial prejudice2
Brexit and precarity: Polish female workers in the UK as second‐class citizens?2
Coloniality, Socio‐Epistemic Vices and the Question of Knowledge in Iran2
“Why would we take men? This is an OB/GYN”: Gender, hysterectomy, and the patriarchal dividend2
Whiteness, contact, gentrification, and critical diversity: A new racial ideology of gentrifying whites?2
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Youth underemployment: A review of research on young people and the problems of less(er) employment in an era of mass education2
The donation method: A new behavioral measure for white collar crime?2
The Importance of Qualitative Methods for Understanding Racialized Injustice and Health2
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Family formation under the law: How immigration laws construct contemporary Latino/a immigrant families in the U.S.2
The child welfare system as a social determinant of health1
Ethnic‐racial socialization in mono‐racial Asian American and Pacific Islander families: A 21‐year systematic literature review1
Health literacy and uptake of annual physical checkups among emerging adults in the United States: Findings from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System1
“That's funny but…!”: University students, humor, and critical consciousness about anti‐black racism1
Sharing economy as a field: Revisiting debates and introducing new research avenues1
“Plants Don’t Have a Culture to Appropriate”: Accounting for Accusations of Cultural Appropriation of Peyote Ceremonies1
Teaching and Learning Guide for “What is algorithmic governance?”1
Being black and non‐citizen in South Africa: Intersecting race, white privilege and afrophobic violence in contemporary South Africa1
A milestone in the pursuit of gender equality: Predicting first women presidents in U.S. higher education institutions, 1980–20181
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Glued on for the grandkids: The gendered politics of care in the global environmental movement1
The persistence of gendered dating1
The Influence of Collective Action: A Relational Perspective on the Consequences of Social Movements and Grassroots Politics1
A Sacred Symbol for Modern Warriors: Social Construction of the Fire Helmet1
Crime and deviance during the COVID‐19 pandemic1
Theorizing theory: Invitation to a broader conversation about ‘theory’ in sociology1
Alt‐right gangs and far‐right extremists: From the margins to the mainstream1
Negotiating class, religion, and residential segregation: Aspirations of Muslim middle‐class women in Delhi1
Disclosure as family practice: Changing family dynamics in Hong Kong after a gay son comes out1
Going beyond poles of power to examine the poles: A review of racism/anti‐blackness in Poland1
White people's activism in US‐ based social movements for racial justice1
A Comparative Historical Sociology of Corruption1
Confronting the Philippines' war on drugs: A literature review1
Toward a sociology of family movements: Lessons from the Global South1
Black women’s mental health matters: Theoretical perspectives and future directions1
Housing affordability, market interventions, and policy platforms in the 2022 Ontario provincial election1
“Marriage fraud” or social constraint? Reasons for understanding tongzhi and tongqi in mixed‐orientation marriages in China1
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The rise in cross‐national marriages and the emergent inequalities in East and Southeast Asia1
On place and privilege: Varieties of affluence in cities and neighborhoods1
Inequalities and interrelations: The sociology of disasters at a new crossroads1
From Prefiguration to Prefigurative Political Forms: The Tradition and Ethics in Prefigurative Politics1
Critical Challenges to the Sociology of Work: From a Perspective of Russian Labor Studies1
From Runaway Wives to Regretting Motherhood: Understanding Mothers Who Choose to Live Apart From Their Children1
“Teachers think the kids around here, don't really want to learn”: Street‐identified black men and women's attitudes toward teachers and schooling1
Highly religious young Catholics in Northern Ireland: Renewing the Catholic landscape?1
Organizational perspectives on digital labor market intermediaries1
Unveiling Disadvantages Faced by Refugee Professionals: A Review of Intersecting Challenges in Professional Reintegration1
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Financial literacy education: An opportunity for colleges and sociology1
Unequal foodwork: Situating the sociology of feeding within diet and nutrition disparities1
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